Well yes, and the research into and the creation and development of Choice OS was all about happiness. But when extraordinary bonus effects started appearing, the beyond any imagination desirability of the gifts was undoubted. Disbelief and mistrust were the first reactions, and it took a long time to understand what was happening and why it was happening. Because the bonus side effects were what one would call apparently “SUPERHUMAN” powers, straight out of fantasy movies and comic books.

The more we were engraving Choice OS and the code was transferring itself from the conscious mind to the subconscious, from the volitional brain to the habitual and the automatic, the more we were experiencing extraordinary physical and mental capabilities. The ability to easily and effortlessly perform tasks that were impossible before, find endurance levels that seemed unimaginable, accessing knowledge and skills that we did not even know we had, knowing other people’s thoughts and emotions, predicting what will happen to an unbelievable degree of accuracy were only a few of the unexpected side effects. Is it magic? Is it even real? Well, magic is only science yet to be explored. If you took an iPhone or even just a disposable lighter or a pair of readymade cheap reading glasses to any medieval king a few centuries ago they would declare you their Merlin and shower you with honors and any kind of future technology appears as magic today. The first experiments that led into the discovery of quantum physics left scientists scratching their heads in bewilderment.

Magic does exist, but it obeys physical laws like everything else, even if we do not yet know what particular law it obeys. But the laws that these particular bonus abilities and gifts obey are within our knowledge and science to understand right now:

Everybody has experienced this state where, for example you are driving or cycling down a twisty mountain, with cars and bikes coming the other way, deep in thought about something or in conversation and you end up in your destination with no conscious awareness of the trip; your subconscious has driven safely, observing all traffic rules, avoiding obstacles, passing cars, turning at the correct intersections, braking in the precise moment when it is needed and generally doing everything perfectly, efficiently and automatically with no need for thought. Same applies not only to sports, music, performing arts, cooking etc., but to any habitual action no matter how complex and irrespective of the conditions, where the absence of the conscious mind actually makes you perform much better than when your conscious mind is involved. It is sometimes called “being in the zone”, “flowing” and many other similar terms, and this phenomenon is familiar to all human beings.

This phenomenon is due to the differences between our conscious and subconscious or unconscious brains. So, Let us explore the differences between conscious and sub conscious (or all the categories that are not fully conscious). There are several ways to approach this, so let us start with functionality:

Functionality of the Conscious mind:

Awareness of thoughts, sensations and emotions. Processing and evaluation of all such stimuli. Basically the secondary filtering of all perception. Decision making, directed action and reaction to stimuli and rationalization of actions. Direction of thoughts for the purposes of analysis, evaluation of actions and results and for second level interpretation of stimuli. Direction of visualizations, memory retention and recall. Planning and directed training and learning. Processing and perception of time related concepts, from the past or the future.

Functionality of the subconscious mind:

Initial processing and reaction to stimuli, generation of internal stimuli and thus the actual source of all information to the conscious brain such as thoughts, sensations and emotions. Basically the primary filtering of all perception. Execution and regulation of 99% of any action and automatic supervision and activation of all automatic functionality of our physical body including the immune system, the adrenal system that provides the driving chemicals and everything else. Undirected visualizations and memory recall.

Functionality is what we choose to do or what we automatically or instinctively do, and capability is what we are able to choose to do or what we automatically or instinctively are capable of doing, so:

Capability of the Conscious mind:

Choice, decision making. Abstract thought and perception, such as ideas, humor etc. Directed visualizations, thoughts, memory recollection, memory retention prioritization and short term memory. Perception of past and future events or probabilities. New, unprecedented thought and perception and volitional change. Processing of up to 40 bits of information per second and control of 1-5 events simultaneously.

Capability of the Subconscious mind:

Habit, fully automatic reaction or behavior and habit formation as well as habitual interpretation of stimuli. Literal thought and perception. Absolute memory retention, infinitely long memory retention, undirected visualization, thoughts, emotions and memory recall. Timeless perception; past perceptions as well as future concerns are felt in the present. Everything is NOW. Filtering, perception and modification of all stimuli. Control of all human functionality. Processing of up to 20,000,000 bits of information per second and control of thousands of events simultaneously.

Having not only the control of what kind of information the conscious mind will receive to process as well as the control of 99% of our actions, but also being able to process and react up to half a million times faster, our subconscious mind is like the staff of a big corporation. The CEO, the conscious mind, decides upon the information given to them by their staff and relies upon their staff to actually execute their decisions, their choices and to not lie, distort or hide information. The staff of a company actually runs the company and any manager in disagreement with their staff is impotent, same as the head of a government is impotent if the ministers and the governmental staff and all public servants are uncooperative, providing tainted information and doing the opposite of what the “head” decides.

Now, since all disagreeable thoughts and feelings are due to paradoxes, contradictions in our beliefs, actions and perceptions, who is contradicting whom? Are we not one person?

Well, out of the labyrinthine web of beliefs that comprise our belief systems, we can only hold, process and evaluate a maximum of five in our conscious minds at the same time, and only for highly skilled multi-tasking minds. Since our conscious mind is the only mind that is capable of rationalization and choice, direct contradiction is impossible. The only paradoxes possible are between beliefs held in the subconscious contradicting a belief or perception that enters the conscious mind or between contradictory beliefs and perceptions within the subconscious mind. Contradictions between habitual, deeply engraved beliefs and chosen beliefs are the source of cognitive dissonance.

When there is conflict between managers, they can either be resolved through discussion, compromise and agreement or through domination of one, hierarchically superior authority, assuming all managers have the same goals. However, when there is conflict between management and all of the employees with divergent or even totally opposed goals, if it is impossible to fire and change the workforce, then the staff will always win, sometimes even to the point of closing the company down. The same will happen if the head of a government has opposing goals than all the government employees. It is inevitable that the government and the country will be malfunctioning until the government falls.

But if you consider our internal government as humans, the head of the government or company would be our conscious mind and the subconscious mind would be everybody else. In this case, not only is it impossible for the CEO or President to fire anybody, but also it is impossible for the people to fire the manager or head of government. Our conscious and subconscious parts are stuck with each other for the duration of our lives, like it or not!

Since all the power is naturally held by the subconscious, the one performing all the automatic actions necessary for us to function, all that the management can do is be angry, disappointed, evidently mistrustful and not much else. For example, you may choose to sing or speak in front of an audience, but if your subconscious mind does not think it is a good idea it may leave you speechless, stuttering, unable to remember even what you were going to say or forgetting the song or even give you a headache or diarrhea in order to stop you and it will succeed! Regardless of how hard you try, your body will fill you with stress hormones and incapacitate you or maybe change your mind with an avalanche of conflicting beliefs, thoughts, fears, anxieties and sensations and there is very little you can do about it!

But our subconscious is not really in cross purposes with our conscious, choosing mind. It is just habitually obeying and automatically reacting accordingly to earlier instructions that created the habits in the first place. Since the subconscious cannot differentiate between the past, the present and the future, it thinks that the earlier perception is the current and provides the habitual response, because it only deals in the now. If, for example, someone tried to perform in public in the past and was ridiculed, therefore instructing their subconscious with the conscious at the moment choice “I will never expose myself this way again”, thus creating an instruction to the subconscious for an automatic, protective reaction, for the subconscious, unable of rationalization, that habitual, most deeply engraved response (being the earliest, commonest or loudest) is the default response, one it is incapable of changing since the subconscious does not actually make choices, it obeys choices already made in the past.

We do not find ourselves in conflict with our subconscious, we find ourselves in conflict with our previous choices, our previous selves. Our conscious minds want change, and our subconscious minds are comfortable only in the familiar, resisting change tooth and nail.

What would it be like if we could be in the zone at will, if we could delegate 99% of actions to our subconscious minds which processes much faster than our conscious minds (at least 500,000 times faster by the most conservative estimates) and reserve the conscious minds not for perception, fully trusting our subconscious to inform us when needed, but only for what it does best: Decision making- choice, ideas, inspiration, insight, exploring the new, the unknown rather than the familiar, the habitual?

Being in the “zone” is just fully trusting our subconscious minds to perform a task without needing to think and make decisions- just trusting. Every artist and performer knows this place where they “just do it” and training until all knowledge and skill is engraved on the subconscious mind is what they strive for, because they know that this is the place when they can surpass themselves. Because they are Supercharged over half a million times!

So, the next evolutionary step for our species, becoming capable of being the architects of our own software, is not only a happy, enlightened being, but also a being capable of unimaginable physical and mental feats, running at full efficiency by eliminating internal conflict and by trusting and exploiting the power of its subconscious, working with it in cooperation towards common goals instead of struggling against each other. By taking full advantage of the automatic capabilities of the subconscious, mankind can access abilities powerful beyond even the imagination of the most extravagant movie. Human beings in the zone at will!