In one breath

The material describes you in three layers. The soul is a large, self-aware structure made of organised quanta, and it mostly lives outside any world. A consciousness is a slice of the soul sent into a reality to gather experience; a soul can run several at once. The body is a vehicle. On Earth the vehicle was deliberately engineered as an "inmate suit": it takes in only a small slice of you, blocks your memories, and is built so the non-physical part of you cannot leave the area.

Three layers, one you

SOUL: organised quanta that became self-aware clusters called garbons (like organs) joined by swales (like highways) mostly outside any reality; keeps every memory; timeless consciousness A ~20 to 23% of the soul's quanta in a human body consciousness B another ~20%, another life in a human body consciousness C a few percent, a "slave" slice in an animal body One soul, several consciousnesses, several bodies, at thesame time. Each slice feels like the whole. (Commander)
Slices of a soul. The Commander says an ordinary human soul runs two or three consciousnesses at about 20 to 23 percent of its quanta each (MM's own runs at 32 to 33 percent), and that many people also carry small "slave" consciousnesses in animals without knowing it. ΨORM puts it more simply: "a garbon is a body without a driver; a soul is a body with a driver".

The words

Quanta
The basic stuff. MM describes "quantum strings" that flooded a placeless, timeless realm at "the Start" (which came before the Big Bang). Unordered quanta plus experience becomes ordered quanta.
Garbon
A cluster of quanta that formed together and works as a unit, "similar to how cells form together to make a heart or a liver". Garbons set the attributes of the lives a soul takes on: how long, what trials, what kind of thoughts.
Swale
A shared path that quanta use to move from one garbon to another: "set highways that enable garbons to work together". ΨORM adds that swales survive death intact.
Soul
"The repository of who we are independent of our consciousness and our memories." A self-aware cluster of garbons. It builds realities to gather experience, and "the purpose of life is to improve, maintain and assist the soul to grow".
Consciousness
"A partition of the soul's sentience" placed in a reality as an interface. It must take particle form to occupy a body. Only one consciousness of a soul per reality, but a soul may have many realities going.
IS-BE
The Alien Interview word for the whole immortal being: "Immortal Spiritual Being". MM uses it interchangeably with soul when he is writing about The Domain.

What one second looks like

MM's most concrete article breaks a single second into steps. Notice where thinking happens: not inside the body.

~4 times a second 1. Anchor in the body as a particle, at the pineal gland. Inside the body it only operatesthe body. No thoughts are made here. 2. Flip to wave form and leave the body and the world-line. 3. Think. Thoughts are made out here, and they build up a profile. MM: "the entropy profile of the thoughts". 4. Land on the nearest world-line that best fits that profile. Then repeat. Similar lines cluster,so the landing is usually next door. A spoken sentence of about 4.7 seconds spans roughly 18 to 19world-lines: speaking an affirmation is "literal piloting" (MM).
The cycle. From Detailed breakdown of consciousness migration in the MWI. ΨORM keeps the same idea but calls the two phases "physical" and "in-between", and says the rate depends on brain state: faster when alert, slower when drowsy, slowest in deep sleep.

Where your memories are

Every stream in the archive agrees on one thing: memories are not stored in the brain. MM: "Memories do not migrate, are not in the brain; the brain only has access points." The Commander (part 10): "Memories are not retained in the human brain. They are external to the physical body. So when a consciousness translates to the non-physical realms, it retains all memories." ΨORM gives the cleanest image.

the cloud = the soul all memories, all lives, kept outside the brain = a router an antenna, not a hard drive "Damage the antenna and you lose the signal. But the data isstill there, in the cloud. The cloud is the soul." (ΨORM)
Router and cloud. This is why the model says amnesia is not deletion. The "tunnel of light" (part 6) does not erase; it cuts or scrambles the access. MM: memories "are never erased", only access is controlled, both by his MAJestic probes and by the prison system.

The inmate suit

MM's 2021 article on the engineering of the human body pulls the threads together. Any free IS-BE can pass through the containment field. Inmates cannot, because on arrival their sense of self is erased and they are issued a modified body, "feature-omitted like appliances, State-issue prison attire", that can never cross the fence.

  1. Two bodies, both altered. The inmate body is a physical body plus a simplified non-physical body. The physical one is kept at low technology so it never leaves the planet. The non-physical one could travel anywhere by thought, so it is modified to "snag on the fence and alert the warden".
  2. Memory is suppressed on purpose. A single clear memory of any place outside would let an IS-BE "home in" on it and leave. So access is blocked, and the block is renewed at every death.
  3. Only a slice of you fits. The Monroe Institute material MM reprints describes a "constriction" that compresses each incoming awareness "like a deep-sea diving suit" so it can function among the thought-noise of billions of people. The Commander's numbers: roughly a fifth to a third of your quanta.
  4. Sleep was sealed. Sleep exists in animals so the IS-BE can leave the body for a while. The prison suit keeps the need for sleep but "closes over" the exit, so inmates "unwind and dream randomly". People who can leave anyway (lucid dreamers, out-of-body travellers) are rare and valuable.
  5. Thought power is throttled. In the main universe thoughts manifest quickly. Inside the bubble that ability is suppressed at the level of the suit's DNA, physical and non-physical, which is why intention needs the spoken-word bridge (part 5).
  6. The suit is a signal. "The inmate skin suit is a very complex frequency." It is how the system tracks you. Changing it is possible, and dangerous.
  7. It runs too fast. The human archetype was designed for a 72 to 73 hour day; the inmate version's "hyper-accelerated mind" forces the 24-hour cycle and shortens the lifespan.

Not everyone you see is "home"

Both MM and the Commander say the apparent population is larger than the real one. Many bodies are "empty containers" at a given moment: MM's "shadow people", the Commander's "the population of humans, dolphins, horses, elephants, etc is an illusion". In the Commander's framing (part 15) the difference between a person and a "shadow" is only the percentage of active quanta in the body at that moment, and everything, "a rock, a stone, a bird, a human, or a phonograph", has some kind of consciousness.

What kind of soul are you: sentience

In MM's vocabulary a sentience is the behaviour pattern of a soul type. Approved soul types in the galaxy (a "hive soul", a "layered soul") each have a fixed sentience. Humans do not: MM says we are in a transitional, unapproved "individual soul" configuration, which is why Earth is run as a nursery and why sorting matters so much to The Domain.

STO service to others acts for others andmeans it. The onlytype The Domainrecruits; releasedsecond after thelost battalion. SFA service for another loyal to one person,group or cause;bored by strangers'troubles. Releasedthird, in "parolesuits". STS service to self acts for its owngain. Not "bad" initself, but a deadend: it ends upabsorbed by theGreys or farmed. DIS disjointed / disrupted believes it is STO,acts STS. Thoughtsand actions do notmatch, so garbonsform "unclean".Released last. MM's test: watch a "Rufus" video (a person quietly helping strangers). Warmth = STO; boredom = SFA; contempt = STS; curiosity without connection = DIS.
Four sentiences. From Terms and Conventions, Earth is a sentience sorting nursery and the Commander's release plan in the October 2021 sessions. MM's example of a disrupted sentience: someone who wants the rich taxed "so the poor are fed" and feels good about it, versus someone who feeds a poor person from their own pocket.

Built, split and re-used

  • Constructs. The Commander says the only "new" souls in the prison are constructed ones, made in the Heaven pockets from the components of incorrigible souls that the Mantid Primes took apart. He told MM that MM himself was built from the components of a former prison administrator, Mades Escapleon, "and is thus a rather pure soul". Commander
  • Fractionals. Some IS-BEs are split into several consciousnesses in different bodies "for the purposes of control and education". Each piece is treated as its own person.
  • Hybrids. MM says he is a hybrid: a human archetype plus an inmate suit plus the MAJestic and Domain alterations, and that every Domain volunteer has become a hybrid too: "the stranger your dreams, the more changes".
  • Lego bricks. The Commander's own metaphor (part 9): the whole of you, physical and non-physical, is one construction of interchangeable bricks, and only the part "above the waterline" can be sensed from inside the body. When The Domain alters a volunteer it "rearranges certain Legos".

Remember

  • Soul (the whole) → consciousness (a slice in a body) → body (a vehicle). Several slices can run at once.
  • Thinking happens between the flickers, outside the body, about four times a second.
  • Memories live outside the brain, so nothing is lost at death; only access is blocked.
  • The human body here is engineered to hold you: small slice, no memory, sealed sleep exit, throttled thought.
  • Your sentience (STO, SFA, STS, DIS) decides your path in the release plan.
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