How do we achieve the intellectual potential of reasoning in order independently to develop the inner self? Presumably by thinking. But humans have been thinking for many centuries, without breaking down automatic conditioning and discovering truth. The reason can be seen by reference to Figure 9, Chapter 8 - Typical Unfulfilled Automated Human Mind, Demonstrating How Character is Formed. Our thinking has always been that of limited constructions of mind biased towards specific versions of reality and different departments of automatic interest. The verb 'to think' describes a consciously wilful process of personally prejudiced calculation adjusted to a selection from the facts and concepts of reality within the Machine. A different word is needed to describe the much more pure and thorough mental process which true understanding requires.
The word I have chosen is intellation, an explanation of which is made easier if you refer to Figure 8, Chapter 4 - Present Human State - Immature Mutation. To intellate is to correlate every item of knowledge with every other item, and subject all to every conceivable path and interconnection of reason. To begin this process we must start transferring power from our conscious will to strengthen the independent postconscious mind's equivalent of will - its force of reasoning and power of knowing. This is simply done by strongly, deeply and sincerely wishing to know the truth about everything. It is then necessary to relax our wilful control of the output of the independent postconscious and allow and encourage it to enter our consciousness. Finally we must listen to the true guidance of the independent postconscious and prefer it to the directions of the combined conscious/utilised-postconscious, so that our voluntary activity is influenced ever more by the former and ever less by the latter.
The mind of the presently normal individual is made up by the self's subjection to, and manipuation of, the combined conscious/utilised-postconscious faculty. This limited faculty works to a prejudiced pattern, carefully recording and committing to immediate memory only that information which suits predetermined patterns of incomplete reason and conditioning, so as readily to be recalled in support of the conscious self's preferred pattern of prejudice. All other information, with incomplete constructions of reason, is committed to more remote memory which can be recalled by the person but is not immediately connected to his or her spontaneous character.
The mind of an intellating person is not made up by his or her consciousness. Consciousness is aware of the questions and problems; it is also aware that it has been given to know, or does not know, the answers and solutions. If it does not know them, it exerts its will towards knowing, and waits. The postconscious does not work to any preconceived pattern. It is a faculty whose function is truth, and that is its sole activity. The independent postconscious of the intellating individual is constantly seeking, also waiting, for information that will make a connection which will bridge a gap in a train of reason, contributing to the vital objective - the eventual completion of a whole pattern of truth.
To put it another way, intellation is wanting and fully intending to know the truth. It is a matter of our conscious selves questioning the postconscious again and again until it finds answers which we know to be true. For the postconscious this is a matter of considering every item of essential knowledge, relating each of these to all other items by links of reason whose signal strengths are determined according to their preferential degree of true value. The links of reason are formed into patterns which continue seeking essential knowledge and exploring vital reason until they are truly balanced. These patterns are then interrelated until they form one whole complex pattern of perfectly balanced knowing and reasoning, or intellect, which is truth. This is fulfilment of the whole cerebral cortex, leading the way to being human to the optimum.
The process of intellation should not need to be taught because it is a logical process - the natural way for free, unhindered postconscious minds to work. Teaching is necessary because our reality is humanly unnatural. Our minds are not free, as we have seen, and to begin intellating requires a voluntary decision to rise above existing reality. To continue the process cannot be straightforward, as it would be, relatively, were we living in an ideal reality. This is not only because our existing reality is built of much inessential knowledge and false links and patterns of reason, from which the truth is to be disentangled, but also because the task is further confused by our personal conditioning and prejudiced constructions of mind.
Another obstacle to intellation is that postconscious reasoning is unconscious to the self, and brought to our awareness only with effort, unless it breaks through as inspiration. Existing reality, on the other hand, and all the clamorous affairs of the Machine, is glaringly obvious to consciousness, and presses on us overwhelmingly. Furthermore, the postconscious reasons rapidly in a complex signal-system of its own which it then translates into a simplified, coagulated form suited to the more ponderous understanding of consciousness, i.e. language, which serves as a medium of communication with other conscious selves. The other selves then pass the message along for re-translation by their own postconscious faculty back into its own signalling-system.
I believe, and indeed can show from experience, that for the most part intellation goes on at night, during sleep, in all minds to some degree. In my case, when the process was in full flow, revelations were poured into a receptive consciousness each morning and written down. These revelations came as certain knowledge the truth of which I had no doubt and of which, until that moment, the conscious self was unaware, yet they may have been in process of formation for years, the result of much determined effort in the past. In the case of an unsympathetic consciousness, such revelations shall be more retarded because unstimulated, and may be felt as the pricking of conscience but are otherwise unadmitted, shrouded, put to the back of the mind and kept from disturbing the self's preferred character. It is logical that our sleeping time should be given to this cogitation, because we are exposed to such volumes of input all day. Dreams are awareness of items which will not be put away or cannot be slotted in, which come to awareness between sleeping and waking. Decisions, whether arrived at during day or night, are mostly made on the basis of prejudiced character or biased mind construction, or simply automatic precedent. Minds which are determined on truth will decide on the basis of true knowing and reasoning or, if possible, not at all. For this reason indecision is a surer indication of intellation than decisiveness.
The relationship between conscousness C and the postconscious PC is an intricate interchange. We are directly aware with C and only C, but it is the indirect, unconscious awareness of PC, even where we try to be open to its utilised part alone and closed to its greater independent part, which gives our reality its depth and breadth. Yet although C relies on the PC for its advanced nature, C still holds the whip-hand because it intervenes between PC and the preconscious and instinctive controls of the body, so that PC is entirely dependent on C for life.
In this existing reality humans do not normally intellate - they think. Intellation is the necessary beginning of the completion of humanity's mutation - the realisation of our intellectual potential. It requires that we abnegate our present selves, on our own assurance that the individual shall be contented and secure only when bound to truth by his or her intellect, which then becomes the common intellect and the agreed communal bond of truth.
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