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# Super Conscious State

The "last point" Jacob wanted to land before David interrupted to head to the bathroom. The most speculative part of the vision, but Jacob takes it seriously and frames it as the *highest-leverage* part.

## What it is

> "A psychically charged state that — taking those sparks of pleasure, you can elevate yourself to. And really, sparks of motivation or sparks of pleasure are very connected. It's energy. You can get yourself this super highly charged state, and then your consciousness seems to be able to reach out beyond yourself."

The state: a high-charge configuration of consciousness, fed by reintegrated [[Sparks of Motivation|sparks]], in which the practitioner reports phenomena that are out-of-paradigm for current physics.

## Specific traditions

Jacob lists practices that aim at this:

- **Tibetan inner fire (tummo)** — practitioners "make themselves physically hot and melt snow"
- **Kundalini Yoga**
- **Qigong** — see [[Qigong (Arms-Up Position)]]
- **Healing Tantra**
- **Healing in SF** — a group "training zapping people with healing total no-nonsense, not woo, not spiritual people just standing horse stance, power"
- **Psychedelic culture** — same family, different access path
- **Astral travel / different realms**

> "Yeah, I think it's very important to understanding what we're doing as a goal of meditation."

## How sparks feed the state

The bridge between ordinary [[Sparks of Motivation|sparks]] and the super conscious state is **redirection**:

> "Sparks of motivation or sparks of pleasure are very connected. It's energy."

Ordinary use of sparks: outward, into action and motivation. Super-conscious use: **inward**, accumulated into psychic charge.

> "It's also good to not let the energy escape and let it become fully yours, instead of controlled by something that's not entirely you. They're putting the energies under your control of sparks, and it's like you're taking those sparks, which are wild, and now they're all unifying and becoming part of you."

This is the same integration mechanic as [[Inner Ecosystem]] work, but with intensity rather than balance as the optimization target.

## The paranormal claim

Jacob is careful but not coy about psychic phenomena:

> "I've done some time researching paranormal phenomena, psychic phenomena and so on. The evidence is pretty compelling — passes all the statistical tests — that there are slight but extremely hard to explain psychic phenomena: things like telepathy, telekinesis, distance healing, that don't make any sense in a paradigm that we have right now."

His position: don't laugh it off, even if there's a lot of BS and wishful thinking around it. The signal is small but statistically real.

> "I would put more than 50% chance that some of this is true."

## Rainbow body

The Tibetan Buddhist legend Jacob invokes:

> "Rainbow body is our natural state. The Tibetan Buddhists have a legend, at least, which you can interpret metaphorically or literally — that when you really cultivate to a high level, your body transforms into rainbow light and you vanish, leaving only your hair and nails. Kind of like Yoda in Star Wars."

Two readings:
- **Metaphorical**: ego vanishes; the practitioner is "merged so completely with the stream" that the experience is one of dissolution into lightness.
- **Literal**: if [[Spirit as Substrate]] is right, "there's not really that distance between the gross material world and the experiential world." Phase change becomes at least conceivable.

Jacob doesn't insist on the literal reading, but doesn't rule it out either. `confidence: speculative` for the literal claim; `confidence: high` that he believes the metaphorical reading.

## The Kogi precedent

The [[Kogi Tribe]] of Colombia identifies certain children as potential shamans and **raises them in total darkness until age 8**. Jacob's framing:

> "What this does is it activates the pineal gland in the head to produce far more endogenous DMT. And DMT taken externally is the most potent psychedelic known to man."

So: the cultural claim is that institutionalized darkness rearing produces adults with enhanced endogenous psychedelic capacity, which in turn supports the psychic abilities the tradition assumes are real.

> "And the Kogi tribe is very interesting. They revealed themselves to us, and their name for the rest of us of the world — they call it 'younger brother' — and they say younger brother is destroying himself, so we had to reveal ourselves."

## Why this matters for the vision

This is the **luxury good** of the post-instrumentalist world (per [[Nick Bostrom]]'s *Deep Utopia*). When everything material is handled, the open question is what to do with yourself. Jacob:

> "The space to cultivate this is the ultimate luxury. And I want it to be on more people's radar — so much luxury, more than all these fancy external things, to be able to cultivate these inner states of like heart openness and mind openness."

Far from being a flight from the world, the super conscious state is **the answer to the question the rest of the vision asks**: what is all this coordination, technology, and abundance *for*?

> "That's what I think people are seeking innately, as our nature, going to our natural state — seeking these higher states."

## Confidence

`medium` overall:
- `high` that Jacob believes this is real and important
- `medium` that the framing here represents him faithfully
- `speculative` on any specific paranormal claim
- `high` on the metaphorical reading of rainbow body / dissolution

## Related

- [[Sparks of Motivation]] — the energy source
- [[Spirit as Substrate]] — the ontology that makes literal readings coherent
- [[Qigong (Arms-Up Position)]] — Jacob's core practice for charge
- [[Kogi Tribe]] — cultural example
- [[Post Instrumentalism]] — why this matters when everything else is handled