Thanks for the session! Especially the part about the inner monologue resulted in a lot of amazement and thinking, as well as stimulating conversations in my house!
(Joe) Well, these people aren't intending to produce more resistance. They're probably intending to create more control, but by trying to do that, they'll provoke more resistance.
A: Yes.
Q: (L) So the controls may get tighter.
(Joe) And then people will rebel more.
The Quorum, as explained in previous sessions, is composed by both STS and STO beings. It's kind of hard to understand that if that's the case, how can they reach any agreement on any matter. But on this point, if I understand correctly, the Cs seem to be implying that the STS part would be in favour of tighter controls (obviously), and the STO part would also be in favour because it would result in resistance which is needed to restore balance. Is that it or am I missing something?
(Joe) So why then are peoples’ lives today so much shorter than they were then?
A: Changes in Earth and DNA.
On this point, I wonder if the DNA part of why the ancients lived so much longer is related to the argument in the book '
Genetic Enthropy' (discussed in the Intelligent Design thread), which basically states that with every generation the genetic code naturally deteriorates due to mutations - and it can only be deteriorating because the probability of getting any improvement out of a random mutation is astronomically low - to the point that after a couple hundred more generations the human DNA would no longer be functional, or something to that effect!
Therefore, the author argues, there has to be some kind of higher intervention (which he thinks is Jesus himself, but whatever), that somehow resets or renews the DNA material of the species - otherwise life would have long ago be extinct (here I'm just citing by memory, so I may not have all the details right).
So, after several generations since people lived 800 - 8K years, could it be that the deterioration of our DNA expalins at least in part our shorter lifespans?
So it looks like we have a big clue about OP and perhaps this video shows person of this kind:
Fascinating. I found it interesting that people wanted to ask the girl if she ever gets anxious or depressed, and I think I understand where they are coming from. Because in my case, the 'inner voice' is way louder and constant if I am either anxious or depressed. And also interesting that she says she does feel like that, but it's a much more physical or corporeal experience, as in sweating hands or shivering. Is it because her inner life is much less 'abstract' and more 'material'?
Also interesting that when she is alone she is never just doing nothing with herself. She always needs to be doing something like cleaning, cooking, watching TV or something, so she doesn't really get that much time to observe her inner life. Is that because she doesn't have much of it?
I don't have a constant narrator and I found it quite unsettling when the discussion about inner monologue started and I first found out that people have a constant voice in their heads that they can't control and turn off. It was also troubling to me because thinking mostly in words seems quite slow and exhausting. My mind is constantly overthinking, day and night, but mostly I don't think in words but thoughts (can't explain it otherwise). When I really want to dissect a problem or a thought, then I turn to actual words and have a conversation with myself inside my mind. (For example, while I'm writing this post and trying to make it readable and concise. Or when thinking about a topic and how I would explain my thoughts on it to other people.)
Don't worry, I had similar thoughts. I definitely have an inner voice (even in different languages), but I cannot say it's there all the time. Most of the times, if I'm calm, I can hear some words or phrases, but I also see images and have those 'unsymbolic thoughts' the researcher mentions. Some of my thinking goes too fast to have time to fully articulate into a full monologue - sort of like when you get a sudden idea and you want to tell it but it takes a few seconds to find the right words for it. And I don't think that's special or rare, because obviously a lot of smart people can think interesting stuff way faster than they can articulate it.
If I'm really trying to explain something to myself, as if I was going to explain to someone else, or if I'm recreating a fictional conversation with someone, or as I mentioned above, if I'm thinking particularly anxious or worried about something, then yes, the inner voice is loud and constant.
In my opinion it is probably more 'to the point' whether people are capable of having that inner observer that Joe asked about in the session, which I think is also that 'Self' that Yas mentioned in her post that would be able to regulate or 'talk into reason' the 'little I's' running around inside - which I also understand to be the 'magnetic center', which is sort of the emmisary or precursor of a fully seated soul. At least that observer I know I often have. Unless I'm dissociated watching TV or sleeping or something along those lines.
