How To <whatever> Without Breaking A Sweat
Vol.4: Mental
  by Ric Carter

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. —WarMunkey

Using TELEKINESIS / PSYCHOKINESIS (TK/PK) To Bend Steel With Your Mind While Your Hands Are Tied Behind Your Back With Duct Tape


Yeah, right.

Hey, have you ever watched what Uri Geller is doing with his hands? Would you let him wash your tablewear? Hey, let's just cuff his hands (in front, not in back) and let him unlock the handcuffs mentally, eh? Escape or starve, guy. Put up or shut up. Sure.

OK, so I'm cynical. Skeptical. That's just how I am. But if you really want to do some TK/PK, here's how. Warning: don't try this while in a moving vehicle, especially an airplane. Unless you're all alone...

  1. Place yourself in a comfortable position. Sitting, standing, squatting, lying, head up your ass, whatever works for you.
  2. Relax.
  3. Concentrate.
  4. Concentrate some more.
  5. Visualize the object of interest.
  6. Visualize lines of force coming out of your head.
  7. Visualize the lines of force as arms, with hands at the end.
  8. If you have maritime affinities, visualize octopus tentacles instead of hands.
  9. Visualize manipulating the object. Bend the focker. Bend harder. Harder! HARDER!!
  10. If you don't see the actual physical object being manipulated, then you've worked on its counterpart in an alternate universe. SUCCESS!

As always, it's all a matter of attitude. Cop the right cocky attitude, convince yourself that you CAN and MUST and WILL succeed, and you will indeed succeed, sometime, somewhere. You too can be a legend in your own mind. Have fun, and don't forget to tip the waitress.

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Using MENTAL RADIO To Broadcast And Receive Your Thoughts

A howling radio for our paraclete. —Louis MacNeice

Mental Radio is really neat! I mean, just think about it! YOUR thoughts, going elsewhere. THEIR thoughts, coming straight to you. And you don't even need a wire! Think about the prospects for career advancement, for power enhancement, for getting laid!

Perhaps you can already broadcast and receive signals mentally. Perhaps you require telepathy assistance, such as with psionic devices or telepathy mandalas. You may need different assistance / devices if you wish to communicate telepathically with humans, with animals, with plants, with aliens, with angels, with demons, with robots, with deities, with bacteria, etc. This is understandable. Everything communicates differently. Try talking to a fish, and you'll see.

    TYPES OF TELEPATHY

  •   Thinking really loud. With practice or talent or luck, you can generate significant psionic waves from your inner cortex. Certain drugs may assist the process. Try some and see.
  •   Listening really hard. Similarly, you can learn to detect psionic waves with your medial cortex. Hypnosis, drugs, fever, crystals, magnets or surgery may also assist the process. Sneezing tends to interfere.
  •   Electromagnetic devices. You can surgically splice a standard cellphone or other EMF transceiver into your brain, and link into Earth-based voice / data nets. Coverage may be spotty in areas.
  •   Non-EMF psi devices. You can surgically interface a psionic transceiver with your nervous system, and link into the instantaneous universal psi network. Access fees may vary in certain galaxies.
  •   Mandalas, amulets, talismans. You can employ psychically-charged artifacts to facilitate your psi linkages. Coverage may vary, depending on the amount and competence of the charge.
  •   Externally controlled. Various normal or paranormal entities may initiate telepathic communications with you at their discretion. You may have little or no control over this process. Enjoy it.
  •   Internally controlled. You're indiscreet in what you eat, and you swallow radioactive telepathic tapeworm segments. They grow within you, suck up your vital nutrition, and send gloating messages to their counterparts inside others. You are only being used..

Of course, for telepathic broadcasting to be meaningful, you must have a message, something worth saying. If you can't be meaningful, be surrealistic. If you can't be entertaining or informative, shut up. Turn off your mind. Relax. Float downstream. Bother someone else.

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How To Enhance Your MENTAL POWERS Without Taking Cocaine

'A mental carminative,' said Mr Scogan reflectively, 'That's what you need.' —Aldous Huxley

Most of wish our brains worked better. Most of us don't do anything about it. We'll wish and dream, but won't take any action. Most of us don't even bother thinking about what our mental powers are, what's wrong with them, why they're so pathetic, etc. And because we've never seen either, most of us even confuse our brains with our minds.

There's a difference. MIND is software, BRAIN is hardware (or wetware). MIND is the operating system in the BRAIN computer. MENTAL POWERS are the meta-sub-routines of the MIND software. And like any software, they can be tweaked. But first you have to figure out just what mental powers you may have.

    Mental Powers

  • ORDINARY MENTAL POWERS:   Thought-logic; memory; imagin­ation-fantasy (conscious and uncon­scious); language (spoken, written, signed, etc); discrim­ination; pattern-recog­nition; inven­tion; misdi­rection; will­power; charisma;
  • EXTRA-ORDINARY POWERS:   Telepathy; tele­kinesis-psycho­kinesis; precog­nition; clair­voyance; dream and luck control; levita­tion; astral projec­tion and detec­tion; illusion projec­tion and detec­tion; mind control and shiel­ding;
  • If you possess or know of other powers, please let us know.

Many well-known techniques for increasing computa­tional (soft­ware) effic­iency exist. Other techniques exist that are used to increase the efficiency of biological systems. We'll look at these, and see how they can be applied to your own mental system.

    Techniques

  • OVERCLOCKING:   Increase the number of opera­tions per second - in hard­ware, by changing the crystal - in wetware, by adding stimu­lants. Cocaine or amphet­amines ain't optimal, but popular substi­tutes include Caffiene, Gotu Kola, Gingko Biloba, Ephedrine, Inositol, etc.   Cf. BrainPower
  • OPTIMIZATION:   Reduce the number of useless opera­tions - in soft­ware, by clipping code - in wetware, by focusing thoughts on desired subjects and ignoring the irrelvant. Don't think about ele­phants unless you need to.
  • REPROGRAMMING:   Change the code to be executed - in hard­ware, load a new program - in wetware, it's the educa­tion-learning process. Studying, reading, appren­ticing, that sort of thing. Sort of what you're doing right now.
  • AUGMENTATION:   Append-attach computational modules - in hardware, add new circuits - in wetware, surgically transplant selected cerebral lobes, and/or implant enhanced bioelectric-bionic components.   Cf. CybOrg
  • EVOLVED DESIGN:   Breed a strain of evolving nanobots that will, by Darwinian processes, naturally develop optimal neuro-cerebral processing. The little buggers may need some encouragement, so keep them well-supplied with endolphins.

THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT - STAY TUNED

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How To Master Or Suppress Or Ignore ORIGINAL SIN (Whatever That Is) Without Sweating The Details

Xian theology holds that because the supposedly first Man (Adam) and Woman (Eve) sinned by disobeying {JHWH} on some important point, all humans are forever damned and must be redeemed — hence, the need for a redeemer, and for church infrasturctures and heirarchies devoted to the business of redemption.

Some questions may be raised about the validity of the 'original sin' argement. I myself raised a few in an online dialogue some time back:


 From: RIC CARTER
 To: DARRYL GONZALEZ 
 -=> Quoting Darryl Gonzalez to All <=- 

DG> All too frequently, on this echo and in many other
DG> places, I see "Original Sin" referred to as sex. 
DG> This is not correct. I know that that was the
DG> teaching of many church leaders of various churches
DG> for centuries, but it is simply not correct. 

"Original sin" was an invention of 'Saint' Augustine, ca. CE 450. It has no basis in biblical texts, canonical or apocryphal.

DG> In Genesis 3, we have the commission of the original
DG> sin: Adam and Eve's eating of the fruit of the tree
DG> of knowledge of good and evil. And it was not because
DG> of any special property of the fruit of the tree that
DG> Adam and Eve were punished---it was because Adam and
DG> Eve disobeyed God. God said, "Don't eat this", and
DG> they ate it. Which of you would not punish your own
DG> children for eating something you told them not to?

The woman didn't exist when {JHWH} told the man not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil [most likely a date palm]. Re-read Gen.2:16-18. Was she bound to follow an order that wasn't given to her?

When the serpent told the woman to eat of the tree, the only creatures she had ever seen in her life were some creations of {JHWH}: the man, animals, and presumably angels. As far as she knew, the serpent, which was just another creation of {JHWH}, was relaying a message from {JHWH}. Was she responsible for being misled by what seemed to be a divine messenger?

Remember that {JHWH} told Moses that no human could look upon {JHWH}'s face and live. Thus ALL communications from {JHWH} were through divine messengers. As no other humans existed then but the man and the woman, and no anthropoid angels are explicitly mentioned, wouldn't those messages have been delivered by animals? Wasn't the serpent just another such?

The man and the woman were created as innocent beings. They only fell from this innocence through the agency of a divine creation. By thus creating the serpent to mis­lead the man and woman, {JHWH} is revealed as a deciever, a trickster, a being of arbitrary and capricious malevo­lence. Only fools and fiends and masochists would willingly worship such an being.


I'll admit that discussion approaches theology rather than self-help, so let's think instead about the ramifications. First, see my article If SIN (SIN?) Is A Game Then Here Are The Rules. Then think about this: 'Original Sin' (OS) is only meaningful if you believe in it. Thus, OS is a Game Rule of predominately Xian Games. (See Knowledge Or Belief? for a discussion of Game Rules.) This suggests a number of strategies for successfully overcoming OS.

  • Don't play a Xian Game. Drop all Games, or shift to a Game that doesn't incorporate OS.
  • Start a new Game that either dispenses with OS or turns it into something fun or useful.
  • Either don't be original or do something very original. Either way, you displace the OS.
  • Devise some new sin that's more original than OS, such as a Sin Against The Holy Ghost, or a Sin Against Nature, or a Sin Against Reality, or a Sin Against Stupidity.
  • Ignore the (untestable) dogmas and go on with your life.

Again, the consequence of believing in OS is that your soul requires redemption. That'll be for after you die, of course. So another way to bypass OS is, DON'T DIE. Humans are at this very moment developing technologies that can render us effectively immortal, absent severe trauma. When the nanobots can work on us to keep us alive forever, we need only avoid war and motorcycles and other risks to make OS and redemption moot. So support your local nanotechnologist and save your soul, eh? Do what you want, and don't sweat the details.



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