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Friday, February 22nd, 2019
Chapter One: Institution
Through his advice and authority Jim shaped the burgeoning cultures of
human civilization.
He established centers of learning among the tribes, even while they
were pre-literate, he built up systems and oral traditions by which they
captured and recounted their histories, which became narratives that would take
decades to master.
Through these schools he guided their understanding of agriculture,
teaching them the secrets of building, fostering in them a patience that
allowed them to track the movement of the stars.
He trained them to manage calamities in this way, to preserve their
fragile way of life. He conditioned them with mnemonics, to remember who they
were, what their ancestors had done, and he worked into those memes the
control mechanisms that would allow him to have sway over the people for all
future generations, through secret codes built into the language structure.
He took these psychological sciences, the neuro-linguistic programming
to levels they had never been before. These were the tried and true
conditioning techniques of the Imperial cult, but in the context of Earth’s
cynergenic field their potential was greatly magnified.
The centers of learning he developed became the centers of
civilization, the locus of worship, they became the distribution centers of
food and those who cared for them became the custodians of clean water,
purveyors of the medical arts, and teachers.
It took thousands of years, a time frame that was nothing to Jim, but
was exceedingly long for the people of Earth, In that time these centers cathedrals
and monasteries, and then universities and colleges.
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2019
Chapter Two: Logic
Logic was
the icon he knelt beside, Logic was his Grail, his object of devotion.
He drilled
his fetish for logic, the adherence to it, deep into the structures of the
institutions he built.
The
institutional bias was always logic, dispassionate and utilitarian.
There was safety in logic, there was predictability.
The power of logic was demonstrable, and belief in its power was ingrained into
every level of the vast structures of the schools he founded.
People are not logical by nature, they had to be
conditioned to it, The languages they spoke created modes of thinking that
were more and less suited to it.
Jim left some groups to be wild and never touched them
with the machination of logic. Other tribes were built around intricate webs
of logical assumptions.
At different points in the development of a society he
engineered disasters which took away the institutions the undergirded the
transmission of logic. He starved those societies of it, allowing them to
regress into natural states of animal emotionality, of fear and suspicion.
Then he would bring it back like a healing balm and
watch while they transformed themselves through the use of it.
Within the great-stone walls of the institutions he founded,
he formed secret societies to protect and carry out his work. This allowed
him to focus his attention all around the globe, guiding the development of
civilization with a slow-steady and invisible hand.
He layered control devices into their collective
memory, repeated through the stories they told and the lists they memorized, in
the tropes they wrote into their hearts.
He controlled them through the archetypes they bonded
with, through the myths they constructed to give meaning to their lives.
His work was art.
His art was a weapon
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Sunday, February 24th, 2019
Chapter
Three: Method
There were
a myriad of concerns to manage in the detailed work of engineering the living-vessel
he needed to deliver the crippling blow to the continuum.
The human body had developed a reliance on aggression as a survival
skill, but raw power would not be enough to dislodge the Continuum from its
control of the HomeWorld and all of the systems of the Central Planet.
He need to create doubt and fear, he needed the Continuum to turn its
eye inward, and collapse on itself. This required that the entire field of
consciousness belonging to the Collective do the same thing.
The colonists who had come to populate Earth had come to rely on swift
action for the mitigation of crisis, this had to be tamped down to ensure the
survival of the tribes, to keep them from tearing one another apart. They had
a proclivity for war that was driven by fear, by worry over the allocation of
limited resources in a time of great scarcity.
Jim needed the power and dynamism of the aggressive impulses and
drives which the Ancient People had bred for, unintentionally, on their ages-long
trek across the galaxy, but he needed this to be modulated by
conscientiousness, and bent toward the most supernal values.
Jim conditioned altruism into the social mythological norms of
consciousness he propagated.
He utilized the most subtle tools of neuro-linguistic programming to
establish defaults in his human subjects, serving as capacitators, allowing
great rage to be channeled into protectiveness, and for the individual to
instinctively risk their own self for the sake of the whole which they
represented.
These fail safes followed the religious programming of the Imperial Cult
in many of its dictates.
Jim’s efforts in this regard were seen as a form of preparation for
the coming of the Empire, and so it did not raise suspicion with the
Continuum.
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Monday, February 25th, 2019
Chapter Four: Truth
Jim expended incredible efforts at the habits and practices of
concealment. He risked everything if he was discovered.
Jim had to
be careful with how the genetic properties, and psychic qualities he was
engineering into the human race manifested themselves in the population.
If the
Continuum were to discover these, even if he was able to hide his role in
engineering them, planet Earth and the Human race would be doomed.
In order
to conceal his work he also had to be on the lookout for spies from the Observer
Corps, for any manifestation of the machinations of the Continuum interfering
in his work.
He
introduced subtle changes into the genetic profile of the human being.
There were
moments when he used the transmission of a virus to affect widespread
mutation, and at other times he was more precise, changing the genetic
profile in targeted ways, family by family. He then monitored the families he
was experimenting on for generations following them, normalizing the changes he
introduced before spreading those changes outward.
It was the
most intricate of all puzzles.
He pieced
it together under extreme duress.
All the
things he was aiming for had to be kept in a state of constant tension, with
multiple trajectories kept isolated from one another until they were ready to
be blended with other parts of his study.
He was
busy, and everything he did had to be guarded, kept secret, the systems that
he put in place to protect them were themselves artificial and unnatural.
They were so extensive that he ran the risk of being exposed, simply by
virtue of the fact that he was taking measures to protect his work.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
Chapter Five: Communication
His research was slow, meticulous, and exhaustive. As his experiments
progressed he began to uncover memories of his own that recalled the initial
work he had participated in, work which led to the creation of the
Collective.
Those memories confirmed for him a narrative concerning the Ancient People
which he had suspected was true, but had previously doubted, thinking that
they could be false memories from an artificial narrative he might have lived
in his private world.
He had no way of independently verifying this until he began to study
the electro-magnetic frequency of the consciousness of human beings.
Jim began to peel back the barriers that separated one human
consciousness from another, exposing them to each other, plumbing the limits he
discovered and finding where the threshold between one human consciousness
and another actually existed.
As he delved into this field of research his subjects became deranged,
unstable, so he learned to manage their confusion medicinally, through the
intersection of chemical aides and frequency blockers.
Madness and insanity followed his subjects into the breeding pool, in
some cultures he established cultural protections for these people, allowing
them to thrive and procreate at random, they became holymen and holywomen,
oracles, and shamans.
In other cultures he isolated them, constructing social taboos that
identified those traits early and deliberately ostracized them.
In all cases they became fodder for his studies.
As much as Jim pretended to care for them, in the final analysis human
beings were little more than laboratory animals in service to his greater
purpose.
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
Chapter Six: Foundation
Jim observed the subtle changes taking place in the human population;
in the electromagnetic frequencies he monitored in their cognition and its
nearly imperceptible influence on the electromagnetic field proximate to
them.
The patience he had mastered while he was coming back to consciousness,
in the long interval of the great sleep, during the sequestration, his
imprisonment, or later, in his sojourn as an Observer, leading the thousands
of missions he went on to track down the lost colonies of the Ancient People,
tracking them all the way to Planet Earth.
He studied with extremes of patience as he pulled the genetic
structures of human beings apart, sequencing and resequencing them, combing
and recombining them, manipulating the proteins and amino acids that formed
the tiniest links in the chain of their genetic profiles, with the objective
of strengthening their access to their genetic memory, and enhancing the
retention of the key particles, like magnetite and lithium, that allowed for
the individual person to connect with the Earth’s cynergenic field.
Jim was pleased with what he found in his subjects. He was encouraged
by their reaction to his work and the feedback he received from his subjects.
Whether the individuals adjusted to and thrived from the alterations
he introduced into their genetic lineage, or whether they suffered,
experienced madness, alienation and pain, Jim was pleased.
Relatively few of his experiments resulted in death. Most came through
the changes alive, aware, able to procreate.
He established different social paradigms in various cultural groups
for how to manage the population of the gifted, establishing structures to
identify them and report them to him for closer observation as their gifts
and talents emerged.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2019
Chapter Seven: Mission
Earth Became home to him.
Jim felt
something like happiness for the first time he could remember. After age upon
age of pursuing his cold purpose, the experience of life on Earth made him
feel a sense of joy, even pleasure.
There was
a sense of safety and personal security emanating from the cynergenic field. He
felt a deep connection to humanity, and an atavistic connection to the
replicants he had made of himself, with all of them working towards a common
goal.
He was
filled with a sense of purpose, and if gratified him as he moved toward the
completion of his mission.
The
challenge that his mission represented brought him another kind of joy.
He was
looking for resolution, and he found it, at the end of the line, in the last
remnant of the Ancient people still remaining in the galaxy.
Human
beings, with their unique abilities had given him something for which he was
eternally grateful, and he was prepared to offer up the whole of it for the
sake of destroying the Continuum.
The humans
of Earth and the Collective, together they would burn on the altar of his
sacred purpose, of the trust he had taken to himself.
The
citizens of the Empire would be the beneficiaries.
If Jim was
lucky he would escape the onslaught. If he did, he was determined to scour
the galaxy for another world like Earth. He would build a new civilization
from there, build a home where he could end his days.
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Section Five (a), Jim
Appendix Part Four, University
Collected Chapters
01
Institution
02 Logic
03 Method
04 Truth
05
Communication
06
Foundation
07 Mission
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