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Excerpt From: John Hargrave. “Mind Hacking.” iBooks.

“You are not your mind!

Close your eyes and think about your own mind for just a moment. The fact that you can observe your mind, and think about it objectively, shows there is a “mind,” and then an “observer of the mind,” which we’ll call “you.” In other words, you can separate “your mind” (which you have just pictured) with “you” (the one who is doing the picturing).

Got it? You’ve probably got it. But this idea is so fundamental to mind hacking, and yet so foreign to our everyday experience, that I will illustrate it via several different analogies. These analogies will serve as handy tools for peeling away “you” from “your mind,” which a mind hacker must be able to do at will.

If you’re a movie geek like me, perhaps you’ve had the experience of deconstructing a movie as you’re watching it. It’s the opening credits of The Lord of the Rings, and you’re watching the title sequence, analyzing the music. Now comes the first scene, and you’re evaluating the actors, admiring the cinematography, imagining the director orchestrating the action. And then . . . if it’s a good movie, you quickly get lost in it, losing your[…]”



Excerpt From: John Hargrave. “Mind Hacking.” iBooks.

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