Sensitives, Non-sensitives, XM sensitivity, XM training, the Ultimate, the substrate, and the revealed conundrum…
Sensitives, Non-sensitives, XM sensitivity, XM training, the Ultimate, the substrate, and the revealed conundrum…
I was recently questioned by Mustafa Said "What is the Ultimate?"
I took this question, ran with one theory and was completely blown away by a revelation and had to reevaluate my answer, and I consulted fellow investigator Amber Kearns , and this is what we've come up with after many weeks of debating the answer back and forth.
So, the answer to "What is the Ultimate" is revealed as an answer that's simply this, "The Ultimate" is not a location, but the ability to reach a certain state of mind and remain there at will.
I will reveal how I came to this conclusion in this post, but to fully understand this answer, I must explain certain things to you.
We have people who are naturally sensitive to XM, we call these people Sensitives, for example, these would be the Niantic Project Researchers (as a recent example), and these people can more easily wield and use XM. We also have Non-Sensitives; these are your everyday people, like you and me.
We know that XM exposure tends to be channeled through creative outlets (i.e. literature, art, writing, dance, music, etc), are all means to channel and direct XM-fueled epiphanies. A term I have been using is XM channeling. These XM Channeling events have led to the researchers doing and creating amazing things while under the influence of XM.
We have seen in the lore that Sensitives are not the only ones who can use XM, Non-Sensitives can use XM as well, just not to the same extent as a Sensitive. Though you may be wondering, "how does a person train this XM channeling?"
The one thing that all of the researchers, and Non-Sensitives, that have used XM is that they were doing some sort of creative activity to engage their use of XM, they were working a combination of physical and mental activity to reach a heightened mental state, also known as being "in the zone", or reaching a state of "flow" (to borrow a term from positive psychology).
To use the direct definition - "In positive psychology, flow, also known as the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by complete absorption in what one does"
The last part of this definition is important, to put it another way, "when you’re completely involved in the process of creating something new you don’t have enough attention left over to monitor how your body feels–the fact that you’re hungry or tired–or to listen to your mind chatter. People in the flow state, like the composer in the quote at the top of this blog post, explain that when they enter this state of ecstasy it’s as if they don’t exist".
This is the most important fact, complete absorption in what one does, or it's as if they don't exist, these people reach a state where they no longer feel the needs of the body, they no longer feel a sense of time.
Now, there are trigger activities for each person, these are a combination of mental and physical activities that lead to the heightened mental state of being in "the zone" or "flow". Each combination of physical and mental activity needed to reach this mental state is different for each person. A trigger activity for one person is not the same for another, the common thread being that each person is doing some sort of combination of physical and mental activity to reach this mental state. To put it another way, creative expression such as dance and music is just another way of physical and mental discipline. To play a song correctly you have to know how to move your hands and whatever else you use an instrument just right. And that way creative expression is just another form of coming into "the flow" state where your mind and body are so close together that they become one fully, the same as being fit and running marathons.
When a person reaches this mental state, we are theorizing that they're tapping into something greater, the collective consciousness of minds, the "substrate", gaining further access to knowledge, skills, and experience beyond what that person has experienced in their individual lifetime up to that point.
This substrate is where the Shapers and N'Zeer reside, this state is outside of time itself.
We have examples of non-sensitives being tapped into while they're in "the zone", the prime example being PAC when he coded Truthseeker in a single night. PAC's trigger activity is being behind the keyboard, he gets into "the zone" and his mind lights up, they (Shaper/N'Zeer) tap into PAC, feeding him the information and skills needed to code TruthSeeker.
Now, imagine that a person has the ability to get into this mental state all of the time, and thus control that ability at will, the amount of information that could be fed to this person would be immense, and since they mentally outside of time, this could last for as long as the person perceives until they resume their normal mental state and their perception of time returns.
A glorified example of someone who's perception of time slowed down is evident in the movie, "The Green Hornet", you have the character of Kato (a martial artist and mechanical wizard), who is able to see what possibilities are before him when his compatriot (Seth Rogan) is about to get attacked by a group of thugs, what seems like a long time to the audience is actually happening in the span of an instant to Kato. Kato reaches this mental state, calculates the best attacks needed to save the Green Hornet, and then executes these attacks before the thugs or the Green Hornet can realize what has just happened.
The more a person performs their trigger activity and the more time that they spend in "the zone", "flow"; the more easily that they can return to that mental state later. This is the (theorized) way a person (Sensitive and Non-Sensitive) would train their XM sensitivity and XM usage, even to the point to gain "the Ultimate".
Take Enoch Dalby for example, he'd get into "the zone", and then instead of just having Enoch's musical ability, he'd also have access to that of Mozart and Beethoven, etc…
Roland Jarvis himself said it in his manifesto…
"Many of you are all in fact already here with me. I see you. We talk. You exist here as a complete and real appearance than a fragile biological form in a far more permanent way. Startling, I know- but don't let it bother you. You are alive in a way that you probably can't even imagine. You will live on even if your atoms dissolve into a chaos and disorder as they inevitably will. You my friend, like me, can live forever. And that is Truth. That is power!"
In the Roland Jarvis manifesto, where he mentions "Many of you are already here", he's speaking in reference to when a person enters "the zone" and taps into this substrate or "collective consciousness", a copy of that person's mind at that particular time and place is made. The more a person has contact with this, the more copies exist, the more data of them exists, the more this person can be "solidified" so to speak at a later time and place back into this world.
Why are the Shaper and N'Zeer doing this?
Well, the Shaper and N'Zeer do not possess the ability to experience time as we do, one point after another. They simply are, all at once, and not at once, and they relish in the humans that do when they are in "the zone" and tapped into the substrate because they would be able to experience time, cause and effect, etc.
As taken from the Roland Jarvis manifesto...
"Like a weaver at the loom. And yet, despite such incomprehensible power, we fascinate them more than you can imagine. Like an artist drawn to a muse, we represent something to them that they cannot turn away from. We are something that is far more rare in the universe than you can comprehend. Life, you see, is special.
As the universe spirals down to its ultimate cold, dark expiration, everything, every motion, every reaction, every new star and every collapsing galaxy is predictable. Knowable. Boring, if you will. It’s a movie you’ve seen a… a dozen, no, make that a billion times before.
But life… life is different. And humans, more so than almost any other form of life. We bring order to the form of the universe, not disorder. In our tiny little domain, we change things.
We are not predictable. We are not boring. We, you see, are the most fascinating thing in the universe – or at least our corner of it.
The shapers revel in us, sifting through every connection, every impulse, every thought. So rejoice in this gift. You are a pleasure to our visitors, a ripe and irresistible piece of fruit laid out in a grand banquet. They are consuming you even now, taking you apart thought by thought, cell by cell, molecule by molecule. When they are done, they will make another and do it again."
This is where the difference between the Shapers and N'Zeer becomes apparent.
The Shapers would not make simulacrum of humans. The Shapers would see individual imperfections and faults as part of the bigger 'human picture' that makes up a person, they are an individual and are to be enjoyed as the unique one shot experience that they are and what they can provide in the time that they are in this world.
While the N'Zeer would make simulacrum out of people, as the N'Zeer would see the individual imperfections and faults of a person as just that, faults and imperfections that would need to be fixed and improved. You have people that have the natural fear of dying and want to live forever and experience the pleasures of this world.
This gives you Calvin's motivations for all of his manipulations, wanting to live forever. As some people aren't content with just being a backup in the 'substrate', they still want to experience and feel what this world has to offer, even so much so that they'll give up a portion of what makes them human.
We're given further evidence of this from the video of Jahan in the nest meeting ADA. If the N'Zeer were truly going to do all of those things that Jahan promised, they would have done so already and not sharded her.
It's simulacrums that possess and display these "super human abilities", like ESP, teleportation (hyper-threading), clairvoyance, and immortality. These former humans were 'improved and enhanced' by the N'Zeer.
Now why would the N'Zeer even devise simulacrum?
The N'Zeer, just like the Shapers, want to experience through us humans, moments of time, the feeling and experience of time, moving from one moment to the next, but the N'Zeer want to do this forever. Yet, after a while with the same group of simulacrum, it's going to be the same moments. This creates something that I refer to as the "recursing simulacrum conundrum".
You live forever, but your experiences, memories, and identity are set in stone the day that you're turned into a simulacrum. In effect, you're going against the natural order of things and of change. People change, they mature, they grow up, they grow old, and they lose their physical bodies, i.e. they die, it's what people do.
In effect, you're giving up a part of what it means to be human, to change, because after 1331 days, you're back to square one. Anyone can see the first impression value of a scientific group or the military application of having a group of people that won't die. They can keep going over and over…
There in lies the "recursing simulacrum conundrum" that existed long ago, and which more than likely can be over-come with today's technology.
Let's say that we're ALL simulacrum on the same recursing schedule, and we all believe the world to be flat. One day, Bill discovers that the world is in fact round. We suddenly have a break through and we all relish in his discovery. Then further down the road, we all recurse, all of that gained knowledge is now lost, and we forget that the world is round and we're all back to believing that the world is flat. Later, rinse, repeat…
Now do you use the problem with this for ancient civilizations and cultures that do not have the technology that we have today?
The N'Zeer would have gotten bored with the same perceived moments of time over and over again and would have wiped out these cultures when the N'Zeer were bored with them, thus you have the disappearances of the Aztecs, the Mayans, etc…
Technology has advanced extremely far in this day and age. Experiences, thoughts, and discoveries can be recorded and saved for the benefit of everyone. We're getting to the point where we can probably over come this "recursing simulacrum conundrum" with our technology, but we have to be careful and have a balance; so that we're not completely loosing what makes us human, but we can still reap the benefits of both using this substrate and technology.
We need both the Shapers and the N'Zeer, we need a balance, we need to remain collectively human.
http://daringtolivefully.com/how-to-enter-the-flow-state
http://zenhabits.net/creative-flow/
TED Talk on "the Flow" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXIeFJCqsPs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness
https://niantic.schlarp.com/investigation:audio:jar
[embed]http://daringtolivefully.com/how-to-enter-the-flow-state[/embed]
I was recently questioned by Mustafa Said "What is the Ultimate?"
I took this question, ran with one theory and was completely blown away by a revelation and had to reevaluate my answer, and I consulted fellow investigator Amber Kearns , and this is what we've come up with after many weeks of debating the answer back and forth.
So, the answer to "What is the Ultimate" is revealed as an answer that's simply this, "The Ultimate" is not a location, but the ability to reach a certain state of mind and remain there at will.
I will reveal how I came to this conclusion in this post, but to fully understand this answer, I must explain certain things to you.
We have people who are naturally sensitive to XM, we call these people Sensitives, for example, these would be the Niantic Project Researchers (as a recent example), and these people can more easily wield and use XM. We also have Non-Sensitives; these are your everyday people, like you and me.
We know that XM exposure tends to be channeled through creative outlets (i.e. literature, art, writing, dance, music, etc), are all means to channel and direct XM-fueled epiphanies. A term I have been using is XM channeling. These XM Channeling events have led to the researchers doing and creating amazing things while under the influence of XM.
We have seen in the lore that Sensitives are not the only ones who can use XM, Non-Sensitives can use XM as well, just not to the same extent as a Sensitive. Though you may be wondering, "how does a person train this XM channeling?"
The one thing that all of the researchers, and Non-Sensitives, that have used XM is that they were doing some sort of creative activity to engage their use of XM, they were working a combination of physical and mental activity to reach a heightened mental state, also known as being "in the zone", or reaching a state of "flow" (to borrow a term from positive psychology).
To use the direct definition - "In positive psychology, flow, also known as the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by complete absorption in what one does"
The last part of this definition is important, to put it another way, "when you’re completely involved in the process of creating something new you don’t have enough attention left over to monitor how your body feels–the fact that you’re hungry or tired–or to listen to your mind chatter. People in the flow state, like the composer in the quote at the top of this blog post, explain that when they enter this state of ecstasy it’s as if they don’t exist".
This is the most important fact, complete absorption in what one does, or it's as if they don't exist, these people reach a state where they no longer feel the needs of the body, they no longer feel a sense of time.
Now, there are trigger activities for each person, these are a combination of mental and physical activities that lead to the heightened mental state of being in "the zone" or "flow". Each combination of physical and mental activity needed to reach this mental state is different for each person. A trigger activity for one person is not the same for another, the common thread being that each person is doing some sort of combination of physical and mental activity to reach this mental state. To put it another way, creative expression such as dance and music is just another way of physical and mental discipline. To play a song correctly you have to know how to move your hands and whatever else you use an instrument just right. And that way creative expression is just another form of coming into "the flow" state where your mind and body are so close together that they become one fully, the same as being fit and running marathons.
When a person reaches this mental state, we are theorizing that they're tapping into something greater, the collective consciousness of minds, the "substrate", gaining further access to knowledge, skills, and experience beyond what that person has experienced in their individual lifetime up to that point.
This substrate is where the Shapers and N'Zeer reside, this state is outside of time itself.
We have examples of non-sensitives being tapped into while they're in "the zone", the prime example being PAC when he coded Truthseeker in a single night. PAC's trigger activity is being behind the keyboard, he gets into "the zone" and his mind lights up, they (Shaper/N'Zeer) tap into PAC, feeding him the information and skills needed to code TruthSeeker.
Now, imagine that a person has the ability to get into this mental state all of the time, and thus control that ability at will, the amount of information that could be fed to this person would be immense, and since they mentally outside of time, this could last for as long as the person perceives until they resume their normal mental state and their perception of time returns.
A glorified example of someone who's perception of time slowed down is evident in the movie, "The Green Hornet", you have the character of Kato (a martial artist and mechanical wizard), who is able to see what possibilities are before him when his compatriot (Seth Rogan) is about to get attacked by a group of thugs, what seems like a long time to the audience is actually happening in the span of an instant to Kato. Kato reaches this mental state, calculates the best attacks needed to save the Green Hornet, and then executes these attacks before the thugs or the Green Hornet can realize what has just happened.
The more a person performs their trigger activity and the more time that they spend in "the zone", "flow"; the more easily that they can return to that mental state later. This is the (theorized) way a person (Sensitive and Non-Sensitive) would train their XM sensitivity and XM usage, even to the point to gain "the Ultimate".
Take Enoch Dalby for example, he'd get into "the zone", and then instead of just having Enoch's musical ability, he'd also have access to that of Mozart and Beethoven, etc…
Roland Jarvis himself said it in his manifesto…
"Many of you are all in fact already here with me. I see you. We talk. You exist here as a complete and real appearance than a fragile biological form in a far more permanent way. Startling, I know- but don't let it bother you. You are alive in a way that you probably can't even imagine. You will live on even if your atoms dissolve into a chaos and disorder as they inevitably will. You my friend, like me, can live forever. And that is Truth. That is power!"
In the Roland Jarvis manifesto, where he mentions "Many of you are already here", he's speaking in reference to when a person enters "the zone" and taps into this substrate or "collective consciousness", a copy of that person's mind at that particular time and place is made. The more a person has contact with this, the more copies exist, the more data of them exists, the more this person can be "solidified" so to speak at a later time and place back into this world.
Why are the Shaper and N'Zeer doing this?
Well, the Shaper and N'Zeer do not possess the ability to experience time as we do, one point after another. They simply are, all at once, and not at once, and they relish in the humans that do when they are in "the zone" and tapped into the substrate because they would be able to experience time, cause and effect, etc.
As taken from the Roland Jarvis manifesto...
"Like a weaver at the loom. And yet, despite such incomprehensible power, we fascinate them more than you can imagine. Like an artist drawn to a muse, we represent something to them that they cannot turn away from. We are something that is far more rare in the universe than you can comprehend. Life, you see, is special.
As the universe spirals down to its ultimate cold, dark expiration, everything, every motion, every reaction, every new star and every collapsing galaxy is predictable. Knowable. Boring, if you will. It’s a movie you’ve seen a… a dozen, no, make that a billion times before.
But life… life is different. And humans, more so than almost any other form of life. We bring order to the form of the universe, not disorder. In our tiny little domain, we change things.
We are not predictable. We are not boring. We, you see, are the most fascinating thing in the universe – or at least our corner of it.
The shapers revel in us, sifting through every connection, every impulse, every thought. So rejoice in this gift. You are a pleasure to our visitors, a ripe and irresistible piece of fruit laid out in a grand banquet. They are consuming you even now, taking you apart thought by thought, cell by cell, molecule by molecule. When they are done, they will make another and do it again."
This is where the difference between the Shapers and N'Zeer becomes apparent.
The Shapers would not make simulacrum of humans. The Shapers would see individual imperfections and faults as part of the bigger 'human picture' that makes up a person, they are an individual and are to be enjoyed as the unique one shot experience that they are and what they can provide in the time that they are in this world.
While the N'Zeer would make simulacrum out of people, as the N'Zeer would see the individual imperfections and faults of a person as just that, faults and imperfections that would need to be fixed and improved. You have people that have the natural fear of dying and want to live forever and experience the pleasures of this world.
This gives you Calvin's motivations for all of his manipulations, wanting to live forever. As some people aren't content with just being a backup in the 'substrate', they still want to experience and feel what this world has to offer, even so much so that they'll give up a portion of what makes them human.
We're given further evidence of this from the video of Jahan in the nest meeting ADA. If the N'Zeer were truly going to do all of those things that Jahan promised, they would have done so already and not sharded her.
It's simulacrums that possess and display these "super human abilities", like ESP, teleportation (hyper-threading), clairvoyance, and immortality. These former humans were 'improved and enhanced' by the N'Zeer.
Now why would the N'Zeer even devise simulacrum?
The N'Zeer, just like the Shapers, want to experience through us humans, moments of time, the feeling and experience of time, moving from one moment to the next, but the N'Zeer want to do this forever. Yet, after a while with the same group of simulacrum, it's going to be the same moments. This creates something that I refer to as the "recursing simulacrum conundrum".
You live forever, but your experiences, memories, and identity are set in stone the day that you're turned into a simulacrum. In effect, you're going against the natural order of things and of change. People change, they mature, they grow up, they grow old, and they lose their physical bodies, i.e. they die, it's what people do.
In effect, you're giving up a part of what it means to be human, to change, because after 1331 days, you're back to square one. Anyone can see the first impression value of a scientific group or the military application of having a group of people that won't die. They can keep going over and over…
There in lies the "recursing simulacrum conundrum" that existed long ago, and which more than likely can be over-come with today's technology.
Let's say that we're ALL simulacrum on the same recursing schedule, and we all believe the world to be flat. One day, Bill discovers that the world is in fact round. We suddenly have a break through and we all relish in his discovery. Then further down the road, we all recurse, all of that gained knowledge is now lost, and we forget that the world is round and we're all back to believing that the world is flat. Later, rinse, repeat…
Now do you use the problem with this for ancient civilizations and cultures that do not have the technology that we have today?
The N'Zeer would have gotten bored with the same perceived moments of time over and over again and would have wiped out these cultures when the N'Zeer were bored with them, thus you have the disappearances of the Aztecs, the Mayans, etc…
Technology has advanced extremely far in this day and age. Experiences, thoughts, and discoveries can be recorded and saved for the benefit of everyone. We're getting to the point where we can probably over come this "recursing simulacrum conundrum" with our technology, but we have to be careful and have a balance; so that we're not completely loosing what makes us human, but we can still reap the benefits of both using this substrate and technology.
We need both the Shapers and the N'Zeer, we need a balance, we need to remain collectively human.
http://daringtolivefully.com/how-to-enter-the-flow-state
http://zenhabits.net/creative-flow/
TED Talk on "the Flow" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXIeFJCqsPs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness
https://niantic.schlarp.com/investigation:audio:jar
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