PROJECT MIND
The Conscious Conquest of Man & Matter
Through Accelerated Thought
by David S. Devor (T. Kun)

Summary of CHAPTER 11:
Dynamics of Thought, Feeling & Action

By now it also should be evident that the more tightly integrated intellect, feeling and bodily sensation (through increasingly compact and finely enmeshed feedback loops), the more coherent the individual is likely to be in his thought, the more fluid in his feeling and the more concerted in action. [page 141]

This general clarity of perception and response to the world, suggesting a coordinated, balanced and yet dynamically changing relationship to reality, implies a state of heightened awareness. [page 141]

It also implies that there are different levels, grades or strata of reality to which one can become attuned, provided one has the corresponding inner integration and balance. [page 141]

I have chosen the way of truth; I have set my heart on your laws. (Psalms 119:30)

Energy is released to the organism from a higher dimension when it passes from a less integrated, less efficient mode of functioning, to one that is more economical of the life energies generated by the various human metabolic processes. [page 142]

How does one become a new kind of receptacle for receiving higher energies - a new kind of creature requiring a new kind of food? [page 142]

Feeling is our inner psychic-equilibrium testing-tool. [page 142]

A new idea, perhaps a new perspective on reality, represents a challenge to these feelings of stability, suggesting that the old reality and the old equilibrium are inadequate and ought to be modified. [page 142]

Thus, in adapting a new idea or perception, the individual is obliged to alter his world view along with his feelings about the world and about himself. These are the kinds of change that lead to transformation. [page 143]

Even should he succeed in producing the conciliatory evidence necessary for inner harmony, our subject will still have to face the challenge of the socially generated dissonance that comes from skepticism, if his theory or the material embodiment of his theory are insufficiently convincing. [page 143]

Meanwhile it continues, in its higher layers to scan the "environment" for notions that could represent solid challenges to the status quo in the future - if indeed the individual can maintain a belief in the possibility of real change long enough for feeling to lend the energy necessary for such scanning. [page 143]

This will be the case only to the extent the individual is a seeker of truth. [page 143]

The same continuum, "exploration - evaluation - commitment," that exists from intellect through feeling down to bodily action exists also within the layers of each of these sentient centers. [page 144]

If by some miracle we could suddenly feel, with all our Being, the full meaning and implication of every thought and perception passing through the "higher," more flexible layers of mind, we would undoubtedly go mad. [page 144]

Feeling needs the reassurance that it will be able to "sell" to the body some new slant on reality and the action that this implies. [page 144]

As conventions, fashions and other aspects of the external environment change, they are first assimilated by the more nimble outer layers of mind and communicated downward (and inward) with concomitant and progressively larger modifications in our sense of reality as the lower, less flexible and more grounded levels are reached. [page 145]

Any resistance felt by the individual (and some people do tend to adjust to life's pressures more slowly than others) causes inner dissonance and tensions to build up. This is outer reality's or, in most cases, society's way of dictating terms to the individual, who is largely defined by his inner sense of things. How we feel inside - our physical, emotional and intellectual perception of our situation - defines our sense of reality. [page 145]

Roughly speaking, it is through this mechanism and the pressures that outer or social reality exert on our psyche, that we are made to conform to our environment. [page 145]

...we have in principle, the freedom - each according to his virtue - to decide what will constitute our environmental reality - fashion and the opinions of others, or our truth (what we perceive through our own independent thought and vision). [page 146]

Under the surface, he already begins to have a certain single-mindedness - a degree of interest and commitment - that sets him apart and that significantly deviates from the norm, among even the most dedicated of his colleagues. He still retains "social acceptability," and yet his prolonged and intensive preoccupation with his work - and probably some rather esoteric aspect of his work at that - begins to raise eyebrows among his colleagues, not to mention his friends and family, who for him, in his preoccupation, have almost ceased to exist. [page 148]

To his professional subgroup, for instance, he will be seen to be deviating from an unwritten work code that requires members of a given profession or team to respect certain limits to competition and, generally, not to rock the professional boat. [page 148]

Custom, for the sake of harmony, allows deviant individuals some leeway - a kind of grace - that acts as a buffer to dampen the shocks that ruffle and even threaten the collective, in the sagacious expectation that the pressure to conformity will usually prevail over the determination of the individual. [page 148]

Objectively speaking - to the degree one can be objective - our subject, by focusing on the specifics of his choosing (to the actual neglect of routine and group maintenance concerns), has begun, if ever so slightly, to answer to the description of the revolutionary. Once he passes a certain point, group members will suspect that whatever he wishes to accomplish will necessarily prove to be more disruptive than integrative. [page 149]

At this first stage on the path to Accelerated Thought, our subject has begun to "march to a different drummer" and his entourage, to some extent, has begun to take notice. [page 149]

Sanctions are likely to include the denial of routine expressions of tacit approval implied, for example, in simple salutations, signs of solidarity and recognition, etc. - in short, the "cold shoulder." [page 149]

Once consensus labels him "deviant" and he accepts the challenge of this new role, social pressure is no longer an impediment. On the contrary, once he reconciles himself to being socially beyond the pale, society has unwittingly forced him into full commitment to his new direction and into the second stage of Accelerated Thought - objective consciousness. [page 150]

Thus what was, until now, a strongly held theory, representing anything from a powerful preoccupation to a mild obsession, has become, thanks to social isolation, his new staff of life. Any corners of his psyche that have not yet yielded to the new way of thinking (the new psychic order imposed by his new conceptual framework) must now of necessity admit this mental "virus." This is the secret of binding commitment. [page 150]

Few of us ever get very close to this kind of autonomy. [age 151]

Feeling must now accept, to an unanticipated extent, ideas that have become the new and only mechanism through which any reassurance concerning future possible survival might flow into it. [page 151]

Assuming a balanced psyche, our subject is on the way to being transformed into another kind of being. [page 151]

Well worth considering is the idea that man's nature can change - that he can become a different kind of being, one sustained differently, who experiences life completely differently from conventional man (an idea contained in the esoteric roots of many traditions). [page 152]

Our subject has now arrived at and is totally committed to a tightly integrated inner functioning whereby he has considerably elaborated a personal hypothesis into a functional ideology. [page 152]

The subject's ideology will unavoidably carry disagreeable and unflattering implications for that is the nature of innovation and revolutionary thinking. [page 152]

What in conscious appreciation he felt to be true, he now, with fewer and fewer reservations, "knows" to be true. The feeling function begins to be integrated within thought. [page 153]

This state of affairs - this increasingly absolute confidence - is incomprehensible to ordinary mind. Just as ordinary mind (what we normally call "thought" or "intellect") and ordinary feeling (what we normally call "feeling" or "emotion") are manifestations of restricted mind, so higher feeling (what we call subjective consciousness) is a restriction of higher thought (objective consciousness). [page 153]

To do anything of significance - to extend a well-defined influence in the world - requires will. This is "will," taken in the strong or esoteric sense, implying the implementation of a plan towards a given aim whereby results are foreseen completely from beginning to end. [page 153]

I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me. (Proverbs 8:17)

Once internal integration goes as far as it can, the subject's mind will be ripe to touch a new frontier of uncertainty - the unknown. [page 154]

Seeing the inevitability of the fulfillment of one's inner potential - one could even say destiny - and all this attributable to the development and newly-found efficacy of one's own mind, one's confidence tends to soar. [page 154]

The process of Accelerated Thought is firmly established. Even in the absence of enduring tangible rewards such as broad social recognition or some physical embodiment of his vision - say an invention - the vision itself, including the modest but consistent confirmation he gets from his environment validating this vision, is the promissory note he gets on a life about to be materially transformed. [page 154-155]

Everything our subject encounters now - everything that comes into his purview - is reprocessed, divested of its old conventional meaning and incorporated as fuel into the fusion reaction of our subject's burning new reality. [page 155]

Time ... becomes less a succession of random events and more a lawfully ordered pattern of cause and effect as he gradually begins to perceive how everything is connected. [page 154]

They are instantaneously modified, accepted or rejected, generating still more energy with each successful matching of patterns. At this rhythm and energy level, repeated success is virtually guaranteed. [page 154]

He can now contrive more in moments than he could before in years. He has only to concentrate on some aspect of the world that seems to have promising possibilities in connection with his central truth - aspects with which he has some connection or insight - and the process of Accelerated Thought locks in. [page 155-156]

It becomes infused with meaning, causing it in turn to reveal its relationship to those aspects with which it is associated in reality. [page 156]

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law and obey it with all my heart. (Psalms 119:34)

Every possible idea, thought, association, etc., belongs to some idea universe or cluster of ideas that have shared meanings and certain correspondences with reality. [page 156]

In other words, instead of manipulating many ideas in the hope of extracting a little meaning (i.e., connectedness) here and there, we now are increasingly confronted by a wealth of connectedness[ wherever we look. [page 157]

In doing all this simultaneously, not only do we become innerly integrated, but our view of the world does so as well. [page 157]

This is the true expression of intelligence - the immediate and direct perception of meaning. This whole idea-universe is "handled" with the agility of the embedded skill it has become, and with manipulative virtuosity evocative of that which is quickly attained in virtual reality (cyberspace) simulators. But by placing virtual reality within the mind, simulation will come as close to reality as it ever will. [page 157]

Accelerated Thought will indisputably prove the enormous advantage conscious thought has over mechanical and mechanically enhanced thought. And if "the image of G-d" within us is a machine design, it is without doubt the design of the ultimate machine. [page 157-158]

When connections are made structure appears, allowing energy to flow where before there was only an inert potential. Between two parts in ourselves where there was formerly the obscurity of opaque but living flesh, emerges Mind. "Mind" implies order, coherence, lucidity, and bodily sensations of vibrancy and well-being. [page 158]

The pathways thus created must conform to cosmic law which dictates the requirements of life. Otherwise, through the adoption of illusory meanings, we will be creating distorted connections only partially supported by truth. [page 158]

We begin to see that things are the way they are simply because they could not possibly be any other way - that things are ordered by the very nature of the matters and energies of which reality is made, according to Truth. [page 158]

More important, having discovered that interconnectedness bestows meaning and that meaning renders networks of true relationship conscious, we tentatively begin to experience the ultimate and inevitable realization that the cosmos itself is conscious, and that we as individuals, through the reactivation of the unique cosmic imprint upon our essence, have our role to play in completing conscious cosmic manifestation. ... There are even those who say that it is for this role we choose, in a higher world, to be born into the obscurity of this one. [page 159]

Unlocking all of nature's secrets - the multi-dimensional secrets of matter and energy - will not only bring unlimited, universal prosperity and peace, but will assuredly lead to physical and ultimately to spiritual immortality. [page 160]

So that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the LORD swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth. (Deuteronomy 11:21)

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