The Objectivist Soul

At the core of the objectivist mind is the objectivist soul. Stripping away every external force (fear of pain), corrupt motivation (pity, pride), mistaken assumption (altruism, selflessness), and physical compulsion (hunger, pain) there exists the Objectivist Soul.

This soul is something that I've been developing a theory on for about 7 years, as of the time of this writing. It represents the current state of a single conscious thought process unfolding slowly over those 7 years and continuing to unfold. Although this theory is not complete, it has advanced far enough that I am able to manifest physical benefits from the understanding it gives me, and I feel that now is the time to begin sharing it.

The simplest way to describe something complex and new, is to give names to it's elements. To simplify these concepts, the names will seem frivolous, but I have given these names to these things for unimportant, yet actual reasons. For instance, my name for the human body, the human animal, everything that is not the soul, is "Pablo". When I refer to "Pablo", imagine that I am talking about a gorilla. The original Pablo was a person that I shared a hospital room with one time. He'd had a stroke.

Observing Pablo helped me to advance my theory of the objectivist soul one more baby step.

Rather than waste any more of your time, I am going to come right out and declare the conclusions of my theory in it's current state, and you can then choose to remain interested or not.

Critical to this theory are several important structures within the mind. The most influential of which, for better and worse, is the "Future Stage".

The Future Stage is a capacity that your mind has, like being able to throw a ball or form sentences. The Future Stage is where you act-out scenarios, conversations, and situations that may or not (and usually don't) take place in the future. It is also used to a lesser extent to replay the past.

The Future Stage is an amazing tool, unfortunately it is more often than not, used to torture Pablo.

(Other structures, which I will not describe in detail here but will in separate posts, include the "Master Thread", "Commander Threads", "Threads", "Memes", ("Threads" and "Memes" produce the "Cacophony"), the "Aperture of Consciousness", and a dream-making entity called "Hector".)

The most important take-aways from this theory are

1. You and the Animal that contains you are two different things.

2. You must stop torturing this animal, and stop taking it seriously too.

3. You cannot really feel pain, only joy

You are riding around inside an animal, thinking that his instincts are your feelings. The only true feeling is accomplishment, or joy. Everything else is an instinctual reaction spewing from the animal in which you are contained.

Pablo is an animal, like a gorilla or a baboon, that has instinctual reactions to all situations, desires, boredom, hunger, and pleasures and pains of its own. You are driving this animal around like a go-cart, unaware that there is any separation between the being that is yourself and the being that is this animal. You have intertwined the purity of spirit, soul, and intellect with the mindlessness of a wild animal.

You have to unlink from that, and stop frightening and provoking the animal by acting out situations on the future-stage before it. Stop including the feelings and reactions of this animal in your thought processes. The future is none of it's business, so stop asking it's opinion about things. Think to yourself in language, not acting-out scenes on the Future Stage. The animal, believe it or not, does not understand language and cannot react to anything that you think strictly in language and don't act-out on the future-stage.

If you are experiencing a confrontation, there are stages of escalation within your mind, but they may start with a sensation of threat to Pablo. Even if they don't, you immediately begin translating the situation to Pablo by reproducing what is happening onto the Stage in a way that Pablo can understand, and Pablo gets angry, and starts to burn inside, and wants to growl.

Later, when you replay that event for Pablo, he can't tell the difference between reality and what kind of presentation you are torturing him with on the Stage. So he gets angry all over again. And, in anticipation of a showdown, you postulate scenarios by acting out the showdown, over and over again, in many different ways on the Future Stage in front of the animal mind's eye of Pablo, who starts freaking out because he doesn't understand that it's just your imagination.

First of all, stop torturing Pablo by including him (or her) in your inner monologue.

Second, things will hurt Pablo, and there is nothing you can do about that, but realize that it is not you who is being hurt, but the animal in which you reside.

Comfort it, but don't accept it's pain as your own, because you are incapable of experiencing pain.

Also, it is your responsibility to feed it and entertain it. You don't need to do anything else to keep it happy. Stop hurting it from the inside, and stop being effected by the things that hurt it.

You can't stop things from hurting the animal but stop making them worse by including yourself in it's pain. That makes it hurt more.

Just let the animal have it's own reactions and don't let it kill anyone.

You know, steer it around, act normal. Feed and entertain it. It will be happy.

As for you, what are you doing? You're riding this animal around like a carnival ride. Stop that. Stop shirking your responsibilities to use the animal as a vehicle of accomplishment. What is the matter with you? When it gets bored, do you just get it drunk?. You are supposed to be watching it, feeding and entertaining it, but you act like an irresponsible baby sitter and instead of working you just get it drunk, which, by the way, makes you artificially feel the one true emotion, accomplishment. You get it drunk so you don't have to watch it, and at the same time you revel in a spirit of accomplishment that you got via the drug.

Don't include Pablo in the decision-making process.

You may think that your wife, husband, or boss is the single biggest cause of stress in your life but worse than that, your mental threads are the single biggest cause of torture to Pablo. You can impart all kinds of pain to Pablo. You can torture by forcing him to watch the Future Stage, by making him responsible for decisions that you should be making, and by making him take responsibility for your mistakes.

Meanwhile, Pablo has no clue what's happening. Pablo is just an animal being driven around by a force he does not understand (you) and being presented with situations, both real and imagined, that he can't deal with emotionally, which he translates into physical pain, anxiety, and all of the other emotions that are of the animal, but not the Objectivist Soul.

You cannot feel pain. Joy is the only emotion you are capable of. Anything else is Pablo, being hurt by the outside world and by you.

These are the conclusions resulting from a train of thought, a line of reasoning, that has been going on for about 7 years, that I can specifically point to, however, like all mental activity, it probably has roots going all the way back to the beginning. But it was 7 years ago that I starting wondering how people in your dreams could act so independently, how visual images could unfold so vividly without any apparent attempt on the part of the conscious mind to create or direct them.

This was when I discovered the independent concurrent threads of consciousness that are constantly crowding into the aperture of the mind.

I also discovered how to listen to them while unasleep, how to allow dreams to start in my mind at will, while awake and alert. I learned how to fall asleep on demand, which wasn't my goal but it was an interesting and useful side effect. And I also learned that sleep is not nearly as important as dreaming, and that dreaming could replace sleep any time, no matter how briefly experienced.

But all of this was fun and games until I discovered something I called Tangles. This was when I learned that I was not Pablo, and that Pablo was just this poor creature being tortured by the world and by my own mental behavior. By thinking that there was no difference between myself and Pablo I included Pablo in all of my thought processes, and my thought processes were in turn directly effected by stupid Pablo. This was because of the Tangles.

Most of the time, a new discovery of the mind (like the Future Stage or the Threads) takes weeks, even years to fully explore and understand, but much to my astonishment the discovery of the Tangles was like suddenly achieving sight after a life of blindness. I was shocked, actually.

I untangled Pablo and let myself accept that I was me, and Pablo was Pablo, that my thoughts and joy were my own and that Pablo's world sucked, but poor Pablo, he's an animal; but at least I could now stop torturing it and stop accepting his torture as a property of me.

I didn't think it was true, I thought. It had to be fake. There had to be proof. It was like thinking I could fly, and there was only one way to prove that this was real.

IF the totality of the theory was real, then I should never feel pain, suffering, anger, contempt, bitterness, jealousy, dread, fear, or anything but gladness and joy from that point on. That's impossible, there's no way, I thought, but it's true.

Now, I see Pablo getting hurt, I feel slings and arrows driving into him, but knowing that it's not me feeling the pain, only the physical body of Pablo, and knowing that sadness or rage welling up from the gut and into a flushing face of Pablo is just his instinct, his animal reaction, I am powerful and free to mitigate and navigate Pablo, to hold his reigns and drive him around the trouble, and to comfort him like a dog. That kind of trouble is not my trouble, it's two animals barking at each other.

There is no fear of future events because it is Pablo who reacts with fear to the Future Stage. The only purpose of the Future Stage is to present hypotheticals to Pablo and see how he reacts. You don't need to do that. His opinion is not important. It is when you are all tangled up with him, but untangled, you don't need that.

(Incidentally, it is very hard to train yourself to stop using the Future Stage, but it's possible, and even easier when you realize fully that you do not need it, and that it only hurts Pablo. This requires practice, self training, and conditioning some "Guardian Threads" to detect when it's happening and shut it down.)

But what about other people? What about another person who shows up and starts to torture Pablo?

You put a stop to it. You take Pablo out of that situation as fast as you can. You are not capable of malice, anger, or even sadness, so this becomes very easy to do, but will be probably very confusing to the other person. Suddenly you're Jesus? Granted, inside that other animal is a soul, but I can also now see that the other animal/soul is in a horrible tangle, and my vision and my process is crystal clear.

Until I can figure out how to present this theory in a not-crazy form, and find kindred souls to untangle, I'm an objectivist soul living alone in a world of howling mad beasts.

And now there's an App for that!

 

 

Update: Conscience

After the smoke and confusion had begin to clear I noticed that there was still a commander thread deliberately hurting Pablo. It took me a few minutes of meditation to figure out what he was, and to my surprise it was something I should have already discovered just from having watched Disney Movies alone: My Conscience!

It seems that this little thread has only one way to get the attention of the other threads, and that is to take random stabs at Pablo, causing him physical pain.

Using the same techniques I employed to keep random threads from jumping onto the Future Stage (including this one, which I had not recognized as any one more special than the others), that being a combination of training and active guardian threads to watch him, I was able to get him to join the rest of us in the Aperture like decent beings who can discuss things without resorting to violence. He was actually extremely relieved, because he had never been able to get our attention any other way before.

I think I'll name him "Jim".