Secret Self - Finding the Power of You

By Paul Chaplin

Matrixial Logic: Forms of Inequality provided a revolutionary new analysis of how we actually think. How the logic of reality, and the logic of the mind actually work.
Secret Self: Finding the Power of You, is the companion volume. In Secret Self, there is presented a radical new Systems Architecture of the human Self. Making sense at last of how it is that we think and feel.
The Systems Architecture of Secret Self reveals the hidden processes which allow us to function as, to be, individual selves. Whilst many paradoxes are revealed, the Self is not so secret any more.
With dozens of dramatic Experiences for the reader to undertake, this is not only a book of theory and analysis. The reader can, through their own directed Experiences, really come to understand:
Mentation
The way that we can think governs what we can think
Emotion
What we can emote governs how we emote
Secret Self also introduces the new sciences of Biomorphics and Psychotectics, founded in the scientific discoveries of matrixial Self Systems Architecture. These are the new sciences which allow astonishing therapeutic interventions. Techniques which work instantly.
Including for example:

- Anxiety
- Autism
- Fibromyalgia
- Neurological Disorders
- Obsessions
- Panic Attacks
- Rapid Healing
- Sleep Disorders
- Sports Injuries
- Stress
- Traumatic Memory Disorders By unlocking the secrets of the Self, we uncover dramatic new ways of helping ourselves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: G2 Rights
• Release date: Feb 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781782814740

Book preview

PREFACE

Just be your Self. It’s not like You have a choice.

The Path to Power

This book has its twin in Matrixial Logic: Forms of Inequality.1

You can think of this book as being Matrixial Logic applied to the realm of Emotion, and completing an understanding of the Self.

Secret Self follows the journey opened by the pathways of Matrixial Logic. Through the ideas, arguments and particularly the Experiences presented there and here, the Reader can come to perceive a new state of connection between the Self and the world.

What I hope the Reader will take away from this book, and its predecessor, is a sense of liberation.

To understand how we are is to comprehend who we are.

It is the combination of that understanding and comprehension which vests the Self with real power. That’s the power I would like this book to help You to find.

This is a power which enables You:2

•to use the architecture of your mind to achieve otherwise impossible things

•to revolutionise your ways of communicating with others

•to heal emotional traumas

•to banish stress, fear, and phobias

•to achieve meditative states instantly 3

•to cure disorders in sleep, digestion and other functions

•permanently to wipe traumatic memories.

These powers are already within you: whatever your age,4 whatever your education.

The groves of academe jealously guard their chambers of secrets. So it’s necessary to some degree to couch what’s written in this book in the obscurantist language of grove guardians. In my Vlog and YouTube videos, I provide a more user-friendly interface for these ideas.

Origins and Outcomes

You can watch lots of videos about Matrixial Logic, CBT theory and practice, and other matters, on my Vlog.5 And on my YouTube Channel.6

In working with people, I came to notice that the Experiences which I show in my CBT videos, and discuss in I Want To Love But: Realising The Power Of You,7 really do change how people are able to feel their own power. All these Experiences are based on the insights and analysis which I first presented in I Want To Love But.

Investigating the scientific basis of these Experiences and the analysis and insights which created them, resulted in a surprising conclusion:

The architecture of the way that we think and feel about ourselves and the world mirrors the architecture of the world, of reality, itself.

The book, Matrixial Logic: Forms of Inequality, analyses that mirroring process. I show there how the way that we think about matters is not an open landscape. There is an architecture to that landscape. However hard we try, we just can’t operate outside that architecture.

The way that we can think governs what we can think.

This is a conclusion which, for many, is deeply counter-intuitive. It appears to contradict that view of the Self, which has become the cultural inheritance of the Enlightenment: the idea that our thoughts are both sovereign and limitless in principle.

These presumed attributes of human thought are then considered to be the foundations of free will: because our capacity to think is in principle limitless,8 this is the ultimate domain of freedom.

There have been arguments counter to free will, for as long as free will has had currency as an idea. Usually, such arguments rely on reasoning from Determinism: exclusionary arguments which rebut the sovereignty element of the free will foundation.

In Chapter 9 of Matrixial Logic, I demonstrated the attributes of circularity and arbitrariness which inform the deterministic rejection of free will. I explained how these attributes arise from the Singularity of determinism.

I argue that it is a mistake to seek justification for the idea of free will in a presumed state where the mind has distance, or alienation, from reality. We need not be bound in a nutshell of mentative exclusivity in order to count ourselves sovereigns of infinite space.

Instead, we can come to understand the modes of our connection to the world. We can comprehend the way that our Mentation mirrors the architecture of the world, of reality, itself. To be a mirror of limitless reality is to enjoy truly liberated power: both in ourselves and in the world. It is not for me, or this book, to dictate to You how such power should be exercised. Still, you come to see how that power is vested in You, as a process, not an event. Any process in infinity is always bounded by an arising of being. Thus power in process generates its own consequences: what we like to call morals or ethics.

Out mentative interaction with the world, of course, a two-way process: our mental architecture is a product of our being in the world, and we change the world in its becoming by application of the products of our mental architecture.

Cause and effect is not a useful way of analysing symbiosis. It’s not that the world causes us, and we cause it back: like some anthropomorphic snowball fight. We are entangled in the world. It is that very entanglement which fuels the power of You.

The twin book, Matrixial Logic, had as its principal concern, analysis of how we think: our Mentation. This book is more concerned with how we feel: our Emotion.

This book will have things to say about Emotion which may be surprising. The element of surprise gives way to intuition, as the relationship between Emotion and Mentation becomes clarified.

Just as our thinking, our Mentation, has an architecture, so does our feeling: our Emotion. Our Emotive architecture generates the opposite rule to Mentation:

Mentation

The way that we can think governs what we can think

Emotion

What we emote governs how we can emote

We will be spending a significant part of Secret Self in examining developmental issues in early life. Although interesting in itself, these issues provide key foundations for all of life.

The architectures which govern Mentation and Emotion are products of genetics and neurobiology, interacting with early years socialisation. It is these together which produce personality homeostasis by around the age of 7. That is the time when the core You, who will be your Self, is fixed. For the rest of your life.

Matrixial Logic explained principles of human engineering. The architectural logic of all human minds.

This book is the engineering manual for the Self. A Manual for understanding how the Self operates. The wiring diagrams which provide that understanding which allows finding the power of You.

A manual for the Self only explains how the Self operates. It doesn’t dictate where to go. That’s always a matter for You.

If you’ve picked this volume off a CBT, or self-help bookshelf, then the central message goes: the Power of You is found in understanding your engagement with your Self, in reality.

The central message from a philosophy or logic bookshelf is that: conscious existence is the reality of the world in human Selfs.

On a psychology turntable,9 the take-home message would be: there are no states,10 only functions.

In a video library, attention would inevitably turn to The Matrix sci-fi trilogy.11 In that Matrix, the model is of two life forms sharing the same reality: human Zion (with its exploration vehicles), and the machine Source.

Then, there is the matrix, a digital unreality which interfaces between these two antithetical life forms. The A.I. machines created the matrix, but humans can jack in. The gist is that, while the matrix is not real, it has real influences and effects.

It may or may not 12 help in grounding your view of ML, to try and locate ML analogously in that martrix. So, we could say that the computer matrix is similar in function (though not operation) to human consciousness. That conscious awareness is an interface between our organic selves (the community of Zion) and the rest of reality.

The take-home from that analogy is that the matrix, in that analogy, is real. It is the architecture of reality.

A Secret

I called this book Secret Self, because understanding our Selfs has always seemed to be the biggest mystery of all.

In one perspective: viewing the whole of our human history, our civilisation, religion and science. They all seem to grow out of the collective efforts of Selfs to understand the Self, to direct and shape it in the world.

Philosophy is the history of seeking to understand how the Self understands the world: a world in which there are Selfs. Psychology is the world’s attempt to understand what a Self is and how it works, and malfunctions.

Yet, in all the undoubted progress that these disciplines have made, it seems that the essential problems of understanding are reborn with each new human life that enters the world.

Each new Self emerges from the collective history of Selfs, yet is individually different.

The analytic light with which all these disciplines of thought have illuminated collective humanity, yet appears to dim, the moment it turns individually inwards.

Even neuroscience, which can observe the brain’s electrical activity and oxygen use, during actual brain functions, can only give us an aggregate observer view.

The Self retains its mystery. It seems that we each live out our lives in the world as the sole bearer of a secret which none of us can understand.

Using Matrixial Logic

You don’t have to read Matrixial Logic: Forms of Inequality, in order to read and understand most of Secret Self.

Matrixial Logic is sophisticated and complicated, because it is dealing with the interface between the whole of reality, and our mental architecture.

In Secret Self, you will get more out of the text if you’re familiar with Matrixial Logic (ML) analysis: the equations, the rules of thinking.

In much of Secret Self, you’ll be presented with analyses and explanations, but without rigorous logical proofs by means of equations and so on. At some points, there will be cross-references.

Also, some parts of Secret Self do deploy ML equations. This is so that you can fit the jigsaw pieces together, to make a logically consistent matrix. But you don’t have to do that. You can, if you prefer, skip the equations-based text and just take the explanations at face value.

Experiences

All the way through the book, you’ll find Experiences that I ask you to undertake. It is really important that you follow them.

Through the Experiences, you will gain an understanding of the ideas, not just in your intellect, but in your emotion. You also get to remember those ideas, in a way that no amount of blackboard repetition would.

These are experiments, in the ordinary scientific sense:

•we have a theory

•we invent tests of that theory: operations with pre-defined outcomes, derived from the theory

•we test the outcomes against the theory

By doing the experiments, you the reader gain important knowledge. The way you look at the world will change. Sometimes a little: sometimes a lot.

Lines of arguments in this book are challenging to many precepts: in logic, philosophy, psychology and science. Sceptical response is understandable.

The Experiences provoke significant difficulties for scepticism. As we say, following an Experience:

whatever is going on here, something is going on.

Matrixial Logic provides an explanation. Now, you can seek to refuse the explanation. But you can’t deny the Experience. Refuting the ML explanation poses some difficulty: because you only got to do the Experience by reason of the practical operation of ML.

If there were only Experiences limited in some dimension, then they might be capable of being disregarded as just an artefact of something odd. But you will undergo Experiences in many different areas of your interaction with yourself, and the world.

The Experiences are not tricks: you can see every element of them. There are no hidden wires. You just get a simple set of written instructions: you follow them, and you decide what the result is.

The Experiences do not operate under hypnosis. There is no induction such as would precipitate a hypnotic state. There’s just a few lines of written instructions. Indeed, you will find that you experience a widening of awareness.

Some of the Experiences from Matrixial Logic are repeated or varied here. That’s either because the Experience usefully gets a technical point of ML across, without the underlying pages of explanation; or because the Experience illuminates some aspect of the Matrix, which is relevant to Emotion, and its interactions in the Self.

The Matrixial Logic Experiments

In conjunction with the publication of Matrixial Logic, the Experiences were digested into 3 Sets. The Sets were distributed to 90 volunteer Subjects, selected at random from a data base compiled by an independent research company.

The results are spectacular in their significance.

It’s one thing for subjects to self report subjective experiences: they could be mistaken, or inaccurately reporting.

The Experiments I-Pen and Noming, involve objectively verifiable interactions between the Subject and the world.

These Experiments demonstrated a +50% to +70% positive result. This is undeniable empirical validation.

As the Matrixial saying goes:

whatever is going on here, something is going on.

It’s difficult to assign probabilities to the novel. If even 5% of Subjects reported a positive change interaction in these Experiments, that would be significant.

This book explores and explains the secret Systems Architecture and Processes of the Self: using Matrixial Logic methods.

That understanding has generated ways of communicating simple directions, which have effect radically to change motor and time functions of individuals: which we can measure against the objective world.

Results from +50% to +70% constitute compelling empirical evidence that this understanding of the Matrixial Self has firm scientific foundation in observable reality.

Matrixial Logic works: and we can prove it.

The experiments will be fully written up, with commentary, in The Matrixial Experiments.

Matrixial Healing

Unlike Matrixial Logic, this book is not merely a tool for understanding. Experiences in this book can be used therapeutically.

Matrixial Healing: the therapeutic uses of the scientific principles of ML, have acquired the labels Psychotectics and Biomorphics.

The name Psychotectics derives from the psychological architecture of the Self. It concerns techniques for using that architecture to effect alterations in Self Systems dynamics.

The name Biomorphics derives from the elements of the discipline:

(1) human biology: its functions and malfunctions, essentially the landscape of traditional medicine;

(2) the forms of biological interaction with Mentation and Emotion.

There is a logic to the forms of interaction between our biological processes and how we think and feel about them.

In Secret Self, you’ll be introduced to Psychotectic and Biomorphic Experiences. You’ll learn how you can overcome stress.13 To deal with panic attacks and phobias. To overcome traumatic memories. To en-tune with others in ways that provide you with entire new insights on human relationships.

These Experiences are not practices: as in, do X a day for Y days and you may achieve Z. Each Experience takes a few minutes. Once your Self has learned from that process, it doesn’t need to be repeated.

That’s because the learning realised by the Self automatically becomes integrated into the Matrix of the Self.

These short words can’t really convey the largeness of the responses you can have to these Experiences. So, turn the following pages, and see for your Self.

These Experiences will show you that logic is not the opposite of Emotion. They reveal the logic of Emotion. The most logical process in our Self.

Reading this book is an inverted iceberg experience. The vast majority of the book is taken up with explanation of the components of the secret Architecture of Self, and the Systems which that Architecture reveals. We then deal with Processes under those Systems.

The remaining elements of the book are quite short. That’s because once we understand the Self Systems Architecture and Processes, there are revealed many paradoxes, but nothing is secret any longer.

So, we don’t labour over long analyses of relationships or the Self in life.

The task here is to set out the architectural and engineering manual of the Self. The journey You each undertake: well that’s entirely yours. But at least You can travel with understanding of the vehicle which allows your journey.

Paul Chaplin

2020

______________

1 The Author (2020)

2 providing a non-exhaustive list

3 that is, in around 1 minute

4 of such age as able to understand the ideas communicated, that is

5 www.paulchaplin.life

6 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2h9wOLXwNNwHU9XAHhlN3w/

7 The Author (2019)

8 contingent only on accidents of culture, knowledge and circumstance

9 we always have to be different

10 conscious, unconscious, memory

11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)

12 especially if you’ve never seen The Matrix

13 what is often mistakenly referred to as anxiety

PART (1)

THE MAP IS NOT THE JOURNEY

CHAPTER 1

COMPASS

The book, Matrixial Logic, provided a new explanation of how our mental life is naturally organised in an architecture.

That architecture is what allows our mental life to occur at all. It shapes the dynamic of our thinking. It is the architecture which both mirrors reality and allows each of us to commune with reality.

•The Matrixial architecture of our mind is what makes reality of our mentation.

•The methods of Matrixial Logic now seek to explain Emotion.

That may seem counter-intutive. Surely logic and emotion are opposites. Or at least so different to each other, that one can’t shine any light on the other.

It’s understandable how this view has come about. We consider that we can see one thought with another thought. That we can hold our thoughts up to a mirror or structure of instropection. Which allows us to gain insights and to order our thoughts.

It seems, by contrast, that we can’t use one emotion to think about another. Our emotions just happen. We can try to think about the causes and about the effects, but what happens in between is a landscape which is thoughtless.

The take home message of this book, is that these things seems like they are, just because they aren’t. What seems to each of us to be how our Selfs work, is real. But that reality is available to us only because of the Systems Architecture of Self.

The Matrixial Logic Compass

So as to avoid the Reader having to trog through 600 pages of Matrixial Logic, we do need to cover a basic summary of that ground.

We are not going to present the Reader with a repetition of the rules-based learning of how ML equations work. For that, the Reader should consult Chapters 2-4 of Matrixial Logic.

The Fundamental ML Equations

There are 2 key equations in ML:

1. (A) ≠(nA) = [E]: the equation of Being

2. (A) ≠(-A) = [I]: the equation of Becoming

There exists a third category, that of Chaos. The equations of being and becoming are equations of order: which contrast with the inequations of Chaos.

That category of Chaos [C] is important to understand in itself. It also has a derivative significance: [C] produces bridges of Singularity [Si]. Those [Si] bridges are critical in understanding how we, as Self, come from birth to understand the world. But to keep prelimary exposition as uncluttered as possible, we’ll reserve detailed discussion to a later Chapter.

The first is the equation of being: [E]:

(A) ≠(nA) = [E]

This [E] is a frame of reference (FoR). It shows how we are looking at something.

The [E] FoR concerns things which exist in spacetime. To exist is to be extended in spacetime. That is, we could in principle assign a set of 4 dimensional spacetime coordinates to the thing.

We denote that thing as (A). The brackets don’t have a function: they are simply there to keep matters tidy.

The second is the equation of becoming: [I]

(A) ≠(-A) = [I]

This [I] is a frame of reference (FoR). It shows how we are looking at something.

The [I] FoR concerns things which are becoming: the water flow in a river; the growth of a tree. An equivalent way of stating:

(A) ≠(-A) = [I]

is to write:

Δn Σ∞

by which we mean: moments aggregated in infinity.

Technically, [Δn Σ∞] is the Nodal form of the [I] equation. That’s something we will certainly get to later.

Let’s undertake our first Experiences in Secret Self, so we can gain more prespective on these concepts.

Experience: Suspended

Setup:

Open your eyes and visualise in your room

A ball (about basketball size)

Suspended from the ceiling by a stiff rod (say about 6 feet long).

Something like this:

illustration

Step 1:

Now:

•move the ball (vertically) up and down the rod

Discussion:

(1) Easy.

Step 2:

Do not use the picture for this: use your visualisation in your room.

Now, without moving the rod:

•move the ball (horizontally) off the rod sideways

Discussion:

(1) The ball just won’t move.

To use the catchphrase of ML Experiences:

Whatever is going on here, Something is going on

The ball is Substance in an FoR. The ball is defined by and so captivated by, its form of inequality [E].

(A) ≠(nA) = [E]

>

(Ball on Rod) ≠ (nBall) = Rod [E]

>

(Ball on Rod) ≠ (Space on Rod) = Rod [E]

That is why the ball won’t move off the rod. In the architecture of your Mentation, you have created an inequality equation: a relationship of things in which the contents [(Ball on Rod) ≠ (Space on Rod)] cannot exist for you, in your mind, without the form = Rod [E].

This is the first, and fundamental rubric of the Self:

How we can think governs what we can think.

Experience: Rods

Setup:

As in Suspended:

Open your eyes and visualise in your room

A ball (about basketball size)

Suspended from the ceiling by a stiff rod (say about 6 feet long).

And now:

Visualise another rod suspended vertically from the ceiling (say about 6 feet long)

About 6 feet away from the 1st rod.

Something like this:

illustration

Step 1:

Now:

•move the ball (horizontally) from one rod to another

•and back again

Discussion:

(1) Easy.

Step 2:

Now, without moving the rod:

•move the ball in any direction away from both the rods

Discussion:

(1) The ball can move a little.

(2) But it’s like there’s a magnetic attraction, pulling the balls back to one of the rods.

The ball is Substance in an FoR. The ball is defined by and so captivated by, its form of inequality [E].

If you think about the relationships created here, the Rods have been defined as Ball carriers, and the Ball as that which activates a Rod: but has no existence apart from a Rod.

(A) ≠(nA) = [E]

>

(Rod 1) ≠ (Rod 2) = [E]

>

(Rod 1) ≠ (Rod 2) = Ball [E]

That is why the ball feesl stuck to the rods. In the architecture of your Mentation, you have created an inequality equation: a relationship of things in which the contents [(Rod 1) ≠ (Rod 2)] cannot exist for you, in your mind, without the form = Ball [E].

Later in this Chapter, we’re going to see how the same thing can function in different Plenums, as Substance, and then as Form, depending upon the context.

But, that alteration of FoR completely changes the nature of the thing. It’s something we may not notice. After all, the Ball image looks exactly the same in the Experiences of Suspension, and Rods. It just looks like, well, a ball.

Yet the function of that entity in the architecture fo your mind is completely different in those two Experiences: you’ve just felt it.

How we can think governs what we can think.

This is the Aristotelian problem of changing a Subject into a Predicate:

•In Suspension , the Ball functions as a Substance: a Subject.

(Ball on Rod) ≠ (Space on Rod) = Rod [E]

•In Rods , the Ball functions completely differently, as a Form: a Predicate.

(Rod 1) ≠ (Rod 2) = Ball [E]

These are not the same function. The architecture of your mind treats them completely differently. Yet the Ball appears as exactly the same:

•graphically: as an image

•in vocabulary.

We all know that looks can be deceiving. Matrixial Logic tells us that:

Appearance is not equivalent to Form

This is a useful rule in thinking about thought. It’s a vital rule in thinking about Emotion.

We’ve run a couple of Experiences to demonstrate the reality, in the architecture of your mind, of:

1. (A) ≠(nA) = [E]: the equation of Being

Now, let’s visit the other realm of Order:

2. (A) ≠(-A) = [I]: the equation of Becoming

Experience: Droplet

Setup:

With your eyes open or closed -

Visualise a single droplet of water

Dripping down a tile

Something like this:

illustration

You need to make sure that you see the droplet as having movement; that it’s dripping, and moving; not static.

Do not use the picture for this: use your visualisation.

Step 1:

Now:

•make the droplet change course

Discussion:

(1) Perhaps after a brief hesitation, you can change the course of the droplet, so it starts to run left, or right

Step 2:

Again: do not use the picture for this: use your visualisation.

Now:

•make the droplet create loops

Discussion:

(1) Now that you’ve taken control of the droplet in the architecture of your mind, you can move the droplet freely.

You can do this because the [I] FoR concerns things which are becoming: the water flow in a river; the growth of a tree.

Following the [I] equation:

(A) ≠(-A) = [I]

>

(Droplet Place) ≠(Droplet Place n) = Tile [I]

Remember that the function of the operator (-A) is to denote change in (A).

An equivalent way of stating:

(A) ≠(-A) = [I]

is to write:

Δn Σ∞

by which we mean: moments aggregated in infinity.

If the tile was infinite, we could say:

(ΔDroplet Placesn) ΣTile∞

You will have felt that Infinity ∞ function. In Step 2, when you started manipulating the dropley freely, you will have felt that notion: this could go on forever.

Experience: Pane

Setup:

With your eyes open or closed -

Visualise a single droplet of water

Dripping down a tile

Something like this:

illustration

You need to make sure that you see the droplet as having movement; that it’s dripping, and moving; not static.

Do not use the picture for this: use your visualisation.

Step 1:

Take the tile away. Disappear it. Make it gone.

Now:

•move the droplet

Discussion:

(1) The droplet won’t move

(2) It’s like the droplet is suddenly frozen

(3) It won’t even run like it did at the start of Droplet Experience .

Here we go again, with ML Experiences:14

Whatever is going on here, Something is going on

You created the droplet and tile. You disappeared the tile. It’s all in your head. Surely, you control the contents of your own head, at least those which you deliberately create?

What’s going on is you experiencing, for yourself, in your own reality:

How we can think governs what we can think.

Following the [I] equation:

(A) ≠(-A) = [I]

>

(Droplet Place) ≠(Droplet Place n) = Tile [I]

But we removed: = Tile [I]

illustration

Without a context of tile Infinity ∞, the droplet lost its quality as Δn. The droplet became an isolate, suspended and frozen in its being. It could no longer participate in a process of becoming.

Yet the Droplet appears as exactly the same:

•graphically: as an image

•in vocabulary.

As Matrixial Logic tells us:

Appearance is not equivalent to Form

This may seem crazily complicated. That thinking just about one ball, or one drop of water, can be so multilayered, so complicated. How do we ever get any productive thinking done?

The short answer to that is: by taking short-cuts. By abstracting so that the different architectural functions of Ball (as a Substance, or as Form) don’t matter to the reasoning computation.

That’s achieved by the Theta Θ axis field. We’ll come to that later.

Our Emotion is also very good at taking short-cuts. It has to be, otherwise we’d never make it through a minute of the waking day. How that all works is what much of Secret Self is about.

Nodes in Matrixial Logic

We said earlier:

An equivalent way of stating:

(A) ≠(-A) = [I]

is to write:

Δn Σ∞

by which we mean: moments aggregated in infinity. Technically, [Δn Σ∞] is the Nodal form of the [I] equation.

Chapters 4 and 5 of Matrixial Logic provide detailed explanation of Nodes.

For the purposes of this summary here, let’s confine ourselves to this:

A Chi ⫚ Node occurs when an Event <ΣE>, which is a combination of [E] Forms of Substance contents, interacts with a course Δn of Infinity ∞.

illustration

A Phi ϕ Node occurs when one meets another.

This creates an Interference Node, rather than a Point Node.

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Let’s use some Experiences to meet the differences between Chi ⫚ Node15 and Phi ϕ Node.

Let’s start with the Chi ⫚ Node, by doing a simple thought experiment:

Imagine you tap your fingers to a beat, which you run in your head, at about 1 beat per second. Where is the most reality in this scene?

Most responses would say: on the beat. That makes sense. It’s where you’re actively interacting with reality. So let’s test that:

Experience: Chi

Setup:

Take the two largest fingers

of the hand you usually write with

Get them ready to tap

On your table top, or your thigh

Step 1:

Now:

•Give yourself a slow rhythm (about 1 tap per second)

•Tap once each beat

Discussion:

(1) Just notice how you set up an expectancy.

(2) You created a framework with a potential [∠] 16

(3) That potential was active as expectancy in the gaps between the beats.

Where was the most reality in this Experience?

Outside of this Experience, there was an obvious answer. Yet inside it, you understand a very different answer. Why is there such a difference?

It’s because you engaged your Emotional |E| potential [∠].17

A Chi ⫚ Node occurs when an Event <ΣE>, which is a combination of [E] Forms of Substance contents, interacts with a course Δn of Infinity ∞.

You created a river of [∠] potential finger-tap Moments Δn in Infinity ∞:

illustration

This manifested a Frame of Expectancy (FoE). Visualise you, right now, looking at this graphic: that’s an analogue of your FoE in this experience.

The tap is the Chi ⫚ point. It manifests the Expectancy, and realises the [∠] potential.

Now, let’s look at the Phi ϕ Node.

Experience: Phi

Setup:

Read the directions then do the simple actions.

Just close your eyes and allow yourselkf a bit of calm space

Imagine just lying on your sofa, or a sun lounger

Step 1:

Now:

•Just be there, calmly, for a few moments

Discussion:

(1) Review the history of your head.

(2) As you replay the Experience , notice that you were breathing.

(3) Just regular, calm, breaths

Step 2:

Back to just lying on your sofa, or a sun lounger

Now:

•Just be there, calmly, for a few moments

•Focus on your breathing, where you are, right now

Discussion:

(1) Compare your process to that in the Chi Experience .

(2) You can see that in this Phi Experience , you had no FoE.

(3) There was no interaction with a river of [∠] potential.

(4) Instead, your braething just happens, you notice it. That’s all.

Why is this like this? It’s because your finger-tapping is an arificially manufactured event. You’re not born with an organic need to tap your fingers.

By contrast, your breathing is autonomic. You’re definitely born with an organic need to breathe. So, you don’t need to manufacture an FoE in which breaths will happen. They’ll happen automatically.

So:

•finger-tapping creates an FoE

•breathing does not create an FoE.

As we said:

A Phi ϕ Node occurs when one meets another. This creates an Interference Node, rather than a Point Node.

In the graphic, the amber river is your autonomic breathing: <Δn ΣB>.

illustration

The blue river is your directed awareness: <Δn ΣA>.

Together, these create an Interference. This doesn’t means something harmful. It just means that one dynamic interacts with another.

Those two arrows indivcate that another process is also going on:

<Δn ΣB> ≠<Δn ΣA> =[x]

We’ll come to that later.

For now, we’ve introduced the ML concept of the Chi ⫚ Node and Phi ϕ Node, and shown you difference between them.

What Time?

Due to currently vexed questions in quantum field theory, we cannot simply say becoming in space time.

Indeed, there are fundamental issues with the concept of spacetime. We will encounter some of these later. For the groundwork, please see Chapter 7 of Matrixial Logic.

ML Fundamental Principles

These are the principles which will inform everything we do in Secret Self. We will use them explicitly. And we’ll find them coming back at us in places we didn’t expect: emerging out of the landscape of Mentation and Emotion.

The fundamental principles of ML are:

•no thing has existence in isolation

•no thing is identical to any other thing.

That nothing solitary exists, is the ML Law of Plurality.

That there is never identity between things, is the ML Law of Inequivalence. This is the function in equations of the inequality ≠ sign.

We think that we are doing our reasoning under the rubric of identity: (A) = (A). This is an inheritance from Aristotle, through the medieval Scholastics and through into the Modern.18

Matrixial Logic showed that we don’t actually think like that. Indeed, if you pause for a moment, and consider, it becomes very difficult to envisage how we could ever really think like that. Thorny questions arise from such an idea: such as some of the following.

(i) On what basis are we supposed to determine whether one (A) is identical to another (A)?

(1) Just by looking: but how could that be a reliable metric?

(2) By some inherent a priori knowledge: in which case we couldn’t know that we know. 19

(3) By reference to some external metric: in which case we are denying any independent reality to any (A), and making it merely a manifestation of that metric.

(ii) Even if we could determine, by some mystical process, that one (A) is identical to another (A), where exactly would that get us?

We can’t derive originality, novelty or indeed change from a a tautology: and that’s all an identity consists of.

In fact, as Chapters 4 and 5 of Matrixial Logic show, version (3) is exactly how we go about parts of our Mentative process: the Theta Θ operations.

As we do so, we are not following a law of identity: we are abstracting attributes and placing those under a computation. We transform things in the world, as represented in our /S/ubjective mind, in to the equivalent of logical operators.

That transforming happens through our Scalar /S/ thinking process. In /S/ thought, we use rules of similarity, not identity. We recognise, categorise, and analyse through analogy. We use inductive reasoning to arrive at premises, then build on those premises through deductive reasoning.

So: no thing in the world, is identical to any other thing:

(A) ≠anything else

The world is a reality of inequalities ≠.

We think of the world in Forms of Inequality.

We should also mention a third ML Law: the Law of Plenum. This states that the concept of existence can be applied to any things (in plurality) only as extensions of a Form of existence.

The Law of Plenum can also be stated as: any Form is the form of its contents. This is the hylopmorphic principle.20

Mentation and Emotion

Now that we are in the landscape of the Self, we need to denote two fundamental categories:

|M|     Mentation

|E|      Emotion

|M| is the realm of thought. That is thought which operates in /S/axis fields and Theta Θ axis fields.21

|E| is the realm of Emotion. The |E| realm uses a different form of equation to the equations of Order:

1. (A) ≠(nA) = [E]: the equation of Being

2. (A) ≠(-A) = [I]: the equation of Becoming

The equation used in |E| is:

(ͼ) ≠(ͽ)ΣΩ22

This is a very different mode of equation to those of Order: [E] and [I]. That’s because Mentation |M| works differently to Emotion |E|.

We will be examining the Ohm equation in much more detail later. At this stage, let’s just note some aspects.

The symbol (ͼ) denotes an . An is not a thing, nor is it a moment. It is a potential [∠]. That potential ∠ may be constrained or amplified by its antigone [≠(ͽ)].

The aggregate function Σ then represents the cumulation of those potentials in dynamic differentiation: [(ͼ) ≠(ͽ)].

Finally Ohm Ω itself represents not a quantity, but a registration. In order to understand what this means, let’s take a simple example:

(1) an (ͼ) has a potential ∠(x)

(2) an (ͽ) has a potential ∠(y)

(3) the imbalance, or inequality ≠ between those potentials signifies Σ a registration Ω.

Some Readers may notice a broad analogy between the Ohm equation and the equations in electricity and electromagnetism.

That’s an interesting analogy. We developed the equations and concepts for |E| out of applied Matrixial Logic. It then became apparent that the concepts do bear analogy to, for example, the behaviour of electrical circuits.

So, we can take a simple classic circuit diagram, and the formulas of Ohm’s Law:

illustration

Voltage [ V = I x R ] = 2 x 12Ω = 24V

Current [ I = V ÷ R ] = 24 ÷ 12Ω = 2A

Resistance [ R = V ÷ I ] = 24 ÷ 2 = 12 Ω

Power [ P = V x I ] = 24 x 2 = 48W

The Ohm Ω equation plugs in at each stage of the circuit. Thus you could analogise the voltage gap as:

[(ͼ) potential ∠(2) ≠[(ͽ)) potential ∠(12)]Σ24 Ω

An electrical circuit is a classic reaction/action dynamic. There exists a dynamic potential. When an event occurs, the potential reacts, realising action: with an electrical crcuit in the mode of power.

Revisiting the registration concept, we see a positive registration in [Σ24 Ω] in the voltage example. But suppose that the potentials ∠n were differently oriented, or differently affected. That could result in a smaller, greater, or nil registration.

As we uncover more of Secret Self, we will discover that:

|E| is a reaction/action dynamic across potentials.

We then will see:

•how that dynamic can be activated

•what results from the activated dynamic

•why it matters

in understanding our Selfs.

Directions to Nowhere

Modern psychology and philosophy both set their foundations in the secrecy of the Self.

There is your internal self-life: something which is in part knowable only to you, and yet