don’t worry i don’t think i’m telepathic but i do believe my mind is back into exploratory mode and i might have an explanation for the many and varied reports of telepathic abilities.
this is pretty common among meditators and is listed as one of the superpowers you can get through contemplative practices; it’s less outlandish than things like flying but still pretty out-there. probably best called empathy.
so i can feel emotions and thoughts being processed in my face as ‘facial sankhara’. what i think this is, is data being funnelled through the mind-body system. it is a micro-version of how trauma lives in the body, but can be described as learnings and cognition passing through the mind-body system.
this results in facial micro-tensions and micro-expressions, which are a proven way that human beings communicate on the pre-cognitive level.
when i spoke with DMI he also said that he can pick up on what people are thinking, and when they are ‘knotted’ and tight with suffering. when someone has looped thoughts and neuroses it’s pretty obvious in their face and their ‘aura’.
what i think this might be is people reading the algorithms being processed in someone else’s mind-body system as though they were reading their emotions or reading their mind in real time.
i have always been an empath and would absorb the emotions of people i walked past in the street. it sucks, most off the time. you are going about your day nice and happy and then oomph - hit with anxiety or dread or whatever when you walk past someone in a supermarket. it’s why i was so terrible with the ladies; i would just reflect their emotions at them realtime. it was also why i was called unempathetic, since i would embody the emotion of my speaking partner more than them.
i also speculated that the reason why finding a suicide victim is so hard on us is that the face passed information in the form of a social contagion. this was in my final scaffold and i do not think it is literal, but maybe it is; i am in exploratory mode right now so i will entertain all ideas.
so i view the body as the storage medium not just for trauma but for all learnings. why would it only be trauma? surely it would be all. the brain is a processor and the body is the storage; the hard-drive in my scaffold of simulations.
this explains why the Buddhist tradition talks of sankhara and formations, and being aware of bodily sensations in the realtime. you let them play out by flowing through your mind. you let the 500TB storage of your body play through the 8GB RAM of your mind and you bleed it off, working out the answers to your problems. this is why people jerk as they transition to and from sleep and why we have facial expressions in our sleep while we are dreaming despite the rest of our body being paralysed.
data goes from the mind into the body, it is compiled (as i did with my scaffold dancing), and then it is funnelled back into the mind, compressed, and then back into the body, compiled, compressed, compiled, compressed. i went through many hundreds of these cycles over each scaffold period and i called them [compiling] and [propagating]: the data would come from the body to the brain when compiling and it would go from the brain to the body when propagating; i could feel the transition as waves of piti in the system moving in both directions.
again - exploratory mode (see the timestamp) but not reality-decoupled. just thinking. this is also why i have always woken at weird times when the mind is reconfiguring.
when i was initially deconditioning myself i would jerk and move and witch-doctor dance. even by the 3rd encounter with nibbana (just before it) my facial sankhara would feel like someone wal literally trying to break my nose from the side, slowly. this is why i know that Elon suffers; i can see it in his cheek muscles. he might not know it himself yet, but hey ho. Zuck doesn’t have this issue.
and is this telepathy or is it empathy? why can you tell in an instant whether someone is the kind of person you’ll get along with, and maybe whether they are suffering? why do we read micro-expressions in a pre-cognitive manner? why are there social contagions at all?
maybe this is the inner workings of someone’s minds literally being compiled through contractions in their facial muscles before being fed back into the brain to be compiled into speech.
maybe this is why the vipassana traditions will train you to observe the body and notice that the bodily sensations come before the mental formations? maybe this is why the body keeps the score, and part of why the dopaminergic potentiation of muscles and mind is so closely linked?
maybe this is an embryonic explanation for what people call telepathy?
anyway i’m going back to bed. it’s cold in this room ha. but i used to fight these impulses to get up and write, and i’d toss and i’d turn and these ideas and thoughts would get trapped in my mind-body system as traumatic deep-learnings and i would suffer.
the buddha often slept very little; maybe he was the same. exploration, validation, repeated. maybe this is why meditators cycle faster and faster and need less sleep; maybe their cache is just empty and emptied on a regular basis so that they don’t reintroduce suffering.
my version is to wake and write, not to wake and meditate. potato potaaaahto.
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[0235 = bowl of cereal eaten and heading back to bed; i can feel another exploratory blogpost forming around how this passes into societal karma and a group processing idea; that the entire world including animals is an algorithm; this would track with a lot of what the buddha said. why was there only one final buddha? did he actually see those things? don't worry - exploratory mode. you have to entertain all highpotheses before you arrive at your hypothesis. the tower is built backwards]