Om

Do something with me now, it will be nice.

Go into the bathroom and look in the mirror- we will do a trance, and you will see its effect on you immediately.

Simpley breathe and do a little yoga stretching if you know how.

Now look into the mirror and close your eyes, count to 5, and look again.

Now breathe out and look down, and then very slowly raise your head and vision, until you are looking at a 65º angle upward. Hold this for 15-25 seconds.

Now let your gaze down, breathe and relax, stretch more and do this again, this time closing your eyes when your head is back, and raising your eyes so they are looking up against the lids, as far up as you can.

Hold this for 15-30 seconds, and then slowly release it, breathe in and out a few times, and count to 5 or 10. Now close your eyes and relax, now look at yourself in the mirror.

This is trance. :)


"[B]TRANCE AND ARIADNE'S THREAD[/B]

Now what are we but calculating beings? I do not mean calculating as something distinct from intuiting, because our calculating is based off many millions of intuitions, of which we are not always aware.

When we ask what we are, we always find we can never pin it down. I posit we could think of ourselves as a network, of energy, thought, and a nexus of information. In our brains there billions of connections being made all the time. -This is how we know the world.

We can use our brains to navigate in this space-time we call reality. We are always calculating possibilities and futures-- for instance if I am on a street and separated from everyone for 50 yards, and it's mostly empty other than that, then this gives me more time to calculate events, and less variables, so that I can predict with more accuracy.

Ariadne's thread is a logic term. The thread is a record of our progress, it goes infinitely far back, and there are billions of these threads. The thread is used as a way to solve a problem; we lay the thread down as a record, and it shows all of our decisions-- the method of the thread is to make a decision at random, and follow it until there's a conctradiction, and at every contradiction turn around and go back to the decision-- the false routes are then labelled as such and not done again. In other words the thread is our record of our progression, and since a thread is cut off or goes back at any false road, the only threads that exist are those which have been successful at all their forks.

So there are millions of these threads, and they don't need tending to. We group them and categorize them, and interpret them as intuition. Still we can use active calculation to see into the future, and we can think only of the important decisions. Then we don't have to worry about the threads, we let them run by themselves, and so we are in trance about certain things. Then we can see down into the future of our lives, and by anticipating the future we can use what we know will happen to us, what we'll experience, to our advantage. We have knowledge of the future by prediction.