This reminded me of an early passage in Strangers to Ourselves:
(Page 32. Im truncating here and there for the sake of brevity.)
“More commonly, though, our feelings are extremely useful indicators that help us make wise decisions. And a case could be made that the most important function of the adaptive unconscious is to generate those feelings.
“Consider an experiment by Antoine Bechara....
Participants played a gambling game in which they selected cards from one of four decks. Decks A and B resulted in large gains or losses, adding up to a net loss if played consistently. Decks C and D resulted in small losses or gains, adding up to a net gain if played consistently.
The question was, how long did it take people to figure out that it was to their advantage to select cards from C and D? And how did they do so?
To find out, the researchers measured three things: which cards people chose, their reports about why they chose a card, and their level of skin conductance while making their choices. . . . .
“... Normal participants learned to select cards from decks C and D and avoid cards from decks A and B without being able to verbalize what they were doing. ... They did not seem to recognize consciously that the two decks were superior to the others.
“After several trials, the participants showed a marked increase in skin conductance while pondering whether to choose from A or B, signaling them that something was wrong with this choice.
Their adaptive unconscious had learned that decks A and B were risky and triggered a “gut feeling” before they knew what was going on.
The researchers also included participants who had damage to the ventromedial prefrontal region of their brains. . . . The people with damage to this area never showed an increase in skin conductance when thinking about decks A and B. They continued to make poor choices.”
I haven't read that book yet, so thanks kindly for the share! I have ordered it now. Looking forward to it.
So from what we're putting together, this electrodermal activity thing may be a significant hint from the C's about a way for us to experiment in the near future. According to what you've written, our skin is kinda like a vast bio-energetic 'touchpad' that can 'taste' whether a choice is beneficial or not. So I'm thinking it's something along the lines of dowsing, but using our fingers and toes, even the whole surface of the body. I think it will take practice, though. I remember reading that developing any senses takes regular practice - in particular the senses of smell and hearing, which can be quite underdeveloped in 'civilized' humans. So this would be suggesting the development of a sixth sense. And also an exercise in both mindfulness and faith. Cool beans!
There are a few interpretations of 'unpleasant frissons'.
(1) Cold.
That much is kinda obvious, what with blasts of cold air killing Chinese marathon runners and herds of goats in central Asia, etc. My question is this - are these extreme weather drops the result of Ice Age atmospheric anomalies, or is it possible that meteors are punching through the tropospheric membrane, causing a downpour of frigid air? My guess is that its probably moreso the former, but the Firestone discussion in HoM (p. 85) opened my eyes to the possibility of the latter.
So Firestone tells the tale; on a dark and stormy night, the comet impacts, overhead or on land. Superheated air blasts outward at 1,000 mile per hour. The energy of the impacts blows out a series of giant overlapping bubbles that push aside the atmosphere. The outward blast of the shockwave eventually slows to a stop, and a vacuum draws the air backwards, channeling mass amounts of earthly debris up into the air, and out into space. Then there is a frigid downdraft of high-altitude air, traveling at hundreds of miles per hour with temperatures exceeding -150 F. It hits the ground, radiating out from the blast site and flash-freezes everything it touches, including those poor innocent mammoths in the middle of their lunch.
So I wonder if this can be happening on a much smaller scale, in proportion to the size of the current fireballs?
(2) Earthquakes.
It may not just be our skin that will be shivering... Mother Earth's electrodermal activity may be in for a change, too, in violation of our 'musical expectations'.
(3) New viruses, and vaccine effects - including mutations...
(4) Electrophonic mutations.
In HoM, there's evidence to suggest that genetic mutations accompany cataclysms. First there is the idea that meteors generate very-low frequency (VLF) radio signals. I can't help but think of these as 'songs of change'. We are in a period of heightened meteoric activity, and as such, it's more of a whole 'chorus of change' out there, as opposed to a 'solo singer' now and then.
So from HoM, there is a great discussion about Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) being the capacitor of evolution in response to 'comet songs'. HSPs refold damaged proteins. They buffer variation. They're our friendly, local antenna-repair crew. Well, that's what they do in stable conditions. We apparently we have a high sensitivity to EM fields, and when we hear one of these 'songs of change' (violating our musical expectations, perhaps), the HSP stops buffering the variations, and instead switches to taking care of other cellular business. And then the variations or mutations begin to show. And I think the kicker is this - you change according the 'shape' (meaning both fitness and structure) of your proteins, your DNA, your Soul.
So what's 'in us' will be amplified, or turned loose. Whether we actually have done the Work to Know what actually is in us, and by extension, what we may become, is another question. From HoM (p. 260):
"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Scaling this up to the global level seems to suggest that 'as a civilization thinks/is, so the cosmos creates'. Another way of saying it is: men and nations do not attract what they want, but what they are; the soul attracts what it harbours in secret.
And so people may start to drastically mutate into zombies and werewolves and who-knows-what. This due to this impending cosmic music, resonating with the 'seeds of non-being' hidden in their Souls, harboured in secret. Perhaps the amplification itself will be amplified by mRNA vaccines. And if that all is gunna happen soon, I'm pretty certain that some of the unpleasant frissons would be:
(5) Good ol' fear. Especially if the mutations are widespread. And happen fast.
One wonders what role cometary VLF will play in the 'triple bad day' for the Rockefellers?
Lastly, this thing about 'musical expectations' seems to the key to 'frissons'. There are two aspects to this,
music and
expectations.
Music brings up the vibrational-frequency nature of the unpleasantness to come, and for me serves as a reminder to really
mean it, with my whole heart, when I talk, think about, or endeavour to ground an STO FRV. "An open heart that's not unguarded."
Expectations - another good reminder to find my way to a state of alert non-anticipation, and keep the normalcy bias (and my Dunning-Kruger) safely in check. "An open mind that's not unguarded."
On that note, I've found that reading romance novels has helped immensely with both opening the heart, and opening the mind. And keeping up my guard at the same time, too.
So romance novels may be the best weapon we have against the zombie apocalypse!
And I gotta say, I never thought I'd write a sentence like that - and actually
mean it.
This is all so nuts!
