{"id":194,"date":"2006-05-27T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2006-05-27T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T10:09:00","slug":"psychotic-abilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Psychotic Abilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have determined one of the effects of my little meeting with my unconscious mind: <!--more More Talk-Talk--><\/p>\n<p>I did some more experiments last night, and I realized what any doctor would call the physiological effects that I described: I&#8217;ve found a way to induce epileptic seizures.  And I seem to be able to control them completely&#8211; onset, depth, length, and purpose.<\/p>\n<p>It is as though there&#8217;s a little tunnel inside my head, which I may enter as I choose.  Inside is the unconscious, waiting to commune with me.  I close my eyes, and will myself there, and say, &#8220;Okay, Mr. Unconscious, I am here; talk to me,&#8221; and the twitches start, and the thunderstorm in my head begins to build, although all I need to do is will it to stop and it does.<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly a gift, and knowing how such seizures have been used in history, and knowing the extent of unconscious knowledge, it has the potential to be a very powerful gift.  The question is, is it a purely benign gift, is this a gift like the wishes in&#8230; what was that book again?  I forget.<\/p>\n<p>In response to that last sentence, I felt my unconscious mind offering the answer by presenting itself, like a shadow coming up from behind me, and my legs started twitching, as though it was saying, &#8220;Yes, like this!&#8221;  I turned it down (and got the answer later: the Neverending Story), but wow.<\/p>\n<p>I am Epileptic Seizure Man, defender of the good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have determined one of the effects of my little meeting with my unconscious mind:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}