Consciousness unconscious mind

The AIM state-space model describes the canonical alterations in consciousness quite well. But it also shows how little of the state space we actually use in our daily lives. Most of the zones of the state space are, in fact, forbidden. No trespassing signs are posted on domains such as hallucination, coma (irreversible sleep), and hypnotic trance (dissociations of the conscious-unconscious minds), and these limits are respected unless one tampers with one of the three dimensions of the space bound-... 

Using our model of clairvoyance and precognition, let us now consider four major possible routes of information flow from the psi receptor to its eventual manifestation in the percipient s behavior receptor to brain, receptor to conscious mind, receptor to unconscious mind, and receptor to unconscious mind to conscious mind. 

In our ordinary state of consciousness, we infer the existence of the unconscious mind because people behave in ways that do not make sense in terms of what they can describe about their conscious processes but that do fit a theory that they are being influenced by certain kinds of mental processes going on outside their awareness. For example, a psychoanalytic patient might be talking about how much he loves his brother, but the analyst notices that the patient s hands make strangling movements,... 

The basic model that we have been using for clairvoyance (Figure 2-1) can be used for the PMIR if one change is made. The clairvoyance model assumed that our conscious minds activate psi by desiring or otherwise informing unconscious processes or the psi receptor processes to search for and retrieve the desired psi information. In the PMIR model, we must assume that the psi receptor and the unconscious mind are active (at least sometimes, perhaps all the time) whether or not the conscious mind desires this. The scanning of the environment by psi activates unconscious mental processes, which may, in turn, call for more psi, and so on. Finally, this affects conscious mental processes or directly affects behavior and results in need-satisfying action. 

We can ask numerous questions that we don t have answers to yet about this information flow, not only general psychological ones as to how information passes from the unconscious mind to the conscious mind and what sort of transformations our unconscious processes work on information, but even more specific ones about whether psi information is processed in the same or a different way as sensory and memory information is in the unconscious mind. In the telepathic dream reported in Chapter 6, for example, there was a different feeling quality associated with this dream than with ordinary dreams. We also need to know what sort of conditions in the conscious mind can facilitate the flow of information from the unconscious, i.e., how do we draw out information from this normally inaccessible part of the mind What sorts of conscious conditions or actions minimize the distortion that seems to occur in the process Given that our direct, conscious use of psi is so poor, these are very important questions. 

The third route takes this mysterious something that intervenes into account the route seems to be from brain to conscious mind to unconscious mind to power generator. There is very little that we can say about this route in terms of present knowledge. It simply reflects the fact that occasionally our conscious wishes do activate some unconscious part(s) of our minds and PK occurs. We would expect to see the same sort of personality flavoring as when ESP passes through the unconscious mind. 

Like our other models of psi processes, the model of telepathy has been chosen to fit in with commonsense assumptions about the nature of the universe, particularly about the identity of brain and nervous system functions and mental processes. And like the other models, this may not reflect reality so much as it reflects our attachment to our conceptions. Thus, the information-flow route that seems most likely (from external target stimulus via the sense organs to the brain to the transmitting process to the percipient, possibly with representation in the conscious or unconscious mind) may not be the case. The information-flow... 

Now we are ready to return to our model of psi reception and stop taking the block labels conscious mind and unconscious mind for granted. Now we can look at some of the complexities that can occur and some of the possibilities produced by work with d-ASCs. We will consider only the case of clairvoyance. but the extension to other kinds of psi phenomena will be obvious because this section elaborates on our discussions in Chapters 3 and 4. 

Route to the Unconscious mind and then to direct effects on the rest of consciousness, can also be greatly affected by d-ASCs. One way of describing some of the phenomena of d-ASCs is to say that what was unconscious in an ordinary state may become conscious in the d-ASC. That is, people may directly experience certain aspects of their minds and personalities that they or others could only infer in their ordinary state. This could mean that some of the psi information that reaches the Unconscious might be directly experienceable, possibly in a less distorted form, because although some of the distortion may... 

There is considerable controversy among experts as to what causes LSD psychosis. Various theories are that the LSD itself somehow damages the brain (although there are no physical signs of brain damage in people who have taken LSD) that a bad trip (like any traumatic experience) brings out mental illness in people who were already susceptible and/or that LSD breaks down the barriers between the conscious and unconscious mind at the same time that it blocks people s normal inhibitions, thus creating a very vulnerable state. 

The above process must be balanced with periods of inactivity so that both the conscious and subconscious sides of the human brain will contribute to the final solution. The inquiry should also be infused with a poetic language and the use of metaphors that will stimulate human creativity and provide the necessary sfumato (see Section 2.4.4). As we give time to the logical investigation of solutions to our career problem, we must also let our right brain, or unconscious mind, simply sit with it for a while. Creative problems are often eventually solved by allowing all the information we have gathered to soak in to our reality. 

The consequence of all these (conscious and unconscious) simplifications and eliminations might be that some information not present in the process will be included in the model. Conversely, some phenomena occurring in reality are not accounted for in the model. The adjustable parameters in such simplified models will compensate for inadequacy of the model and will not be the true physical coefficients. Accordingly, the usefulness of the model will be limited and risk at scale-up will not be completely eliminated. In general, in mathematical modelling of chemical processes two principles should always be kept in mind. The first was formulated by G.E.P. Box of Wisconsin All models are wrong, some of them are useful . As far as the choice of the best of wrong models is concerned, words of S.M. Wheeler of New York are worthwhile to keep in mind The best model is the simplest one that works . This is usually the model that fits the experimental data well in the statistical sense and contains the smallest number of parameters. The problem at scale-up, however, is that we do not know which of the models works in a full-scale unit until a plant is on stream. 

Symbolism is the language of the subconscious mind, used in dream and vision. We have access to the entire store of symbols held in the collective unconscious. In Qabalah, this is attributed to the astral realm of Yetzirah on Jacob s Ladder, and to the Sephira of Yesod on the simple Tree. It is called the treasure house of images. As conscious beings, we... 

This chapter will review the behavioural changes in PD in terms of conscious and unconscious functions. It is based on the assumption of Delacourt (1995), that consciousness is not a separate faculty of mind, but rather depends on a certain activity mode of basic cognitive functions—attention, memory, perception, action planning and motivation. Changes in these domains of consciousness in PD patients are reviewed and in addition, since consciousness is closely associated with wakefulness, disturbances of sleep and dreaming in PD are also discussed. 

But what exactly is the theory What constitutes the identity of the deceiving subject,, and the identity of the object of deception, O And how are they related to one another At first sight, it seems that the distinction between them must be based squarely on the line dividing consciousness from unconsciousness. From the problem that the dichotomy of the mind has to solve is formulated in a way that seems to make that solution, such as it is, almost inevitable. When there is no latitude, how can anyone consciously persist in an irrational belief It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he must be unconscious of its irrationality, and similarly that in many cases where there is latitude he must be unconscious of the fact that his belief is caused by a wish. This was Freud s main idea and it seems that it must be a large part of the truth. 

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