The Neural Impact of Law
Let me explain the psychological effect of law of good and evil with some basic neural science. When memory is written by human brain onto the cerebral matter, the core region of the brain; thalamus and limbic system, will also add emotional tags to the memory. Our fixed memories have both sensory content and feeling tones. This is why our strongest memories can induce strong feelings; first kiss, graduation, marriage, loss and death and trauma, etc.
This composite memory writing is useful to the animal brain, in that similar experiences, that triggers memory, will also trigger the same feelings allowing an animal to act on the feeling. If the animals finds a similar food and this feels good, it will eat, without having to think too deeply. Compulsions, addictions and even depression act on feelings, often without analyzing the pros and cons.
The problem with law, is law is a binary memory; good and evil. Law and knowledge of good and evil tells us the evil path as well as the good path; directly or implied, with the good and the evil paths each needing a different feeling tag; calm/good and fear/evil. The net effect is law memory is actually stored in two locations based on the feeling tones added to each of the binary parts.
Law is loosely like a magnet that has two poles; good and evil or north and south. Science has never found an isolated monopole or just a magnetic north or south. They only exist in pairs. Same is true of law and law memory. If I say an evil, you can tell me the good; or the other pole of the good and evil pair, and vice versa.
An animal can feel calm or it can feel fear, based on the circumstances. This is one tag per memory. Instinct was not designed to feel two conflicting emotions at the same time. The double feeling tag of law memory creates two opposing impulses. A good analogous example of the effect; two emotional tags for one thing, is a love and hate relationship. The love aspect wishes to approach, while the hate aspect wishes to get away. However, since both are pulling in different directions; same person of interest, one is stuck sort of in an orbit, where you can circle but not too close. You cannot fully embrace or fully run away. This causes repression of the neural energy. Law has the same type of effect. It games the natural brain and adds a repression. Instant is left or right and not left and right.
The brain partially resolves this natural conflict; alleviate the state of suspension, for most people, by repressing the dark side of law; all forms of evil we have learned. This allows us to live in the image of being good; good side of law. However, since law of good and evil is one connected thing, like the magnet, these still remain connected; orbit, albeit in an unconscious way.
What can and does happen, can be seen via the example of the Preacher, who preaches good, but becomes compelled by their own repressed evil; greed and lust. The repressed evil comes to the surface as compulsions, opposite of your choices and common sense, since they are connected like a magnet.
There appears to be a subroutine that forms, based on the dark side of law that is repressed. Freud called it the ID. I call it the Satan Subroutine.
The most primitive part of the human mind, the id is the source of our bodily needs, wants, desires, and impulses. Freud believed that the id acts according to the “pleasure principle” – the psychic force that motivates the tendency to seek immediate gratification of any impulse.
The law and knowledge of good and evil, the Satan Subroutine, is like AI, but its data base is the dark side of law combined with animal impulses; dark animal impulses. It can give the ego strong urges, that are opposite to its will to be good by the law. Law feeds the subroutine, by more law adding more sin data; new ways to express the ID and impulses. Once a new law appears, the ID also learns.
The strategy of Jesus and Paul was to reduce law to a minimal set so the ID is weaker. This can work easiest for the youngest people; children, whose ID are empty to begin with. However, those who know the most law; lawyers. have the strongest Satan subroutine that wants to become conscious; knowledge of the criminal mins. They add more laws to keep it down, which only makes it stronger, due to more sin data. Most people would not figure things out for themselves but learn sin from others such as lawyers.
It is not easy to get rid of all law, all at once. Satan thrown from heaven to the earth is implicit of the autonomous Satan Subroutine becoming a second inner voice that competes with the Spirit. Historically, it was difficult to know one from the other, so both were suspect. The promise of the Spirit of Truth stayed in limbo, for most, due to Satan Subroutine; thrown from heaven to the earth.
Years ago I did unconscious mind experiments on myself and learned about the brain. As I went deeper into the unconscious mind beyond my personal unconscious, I did hit a wall that appears to be the Satan Subroutine. One has to get past it, to have shot at removing it. The way that happened was through an update process that led to amnesia. It erased the memory grid so the ID became empty and basic. Science can help fulfill the promise of the Spirit, through knowledge of some neural science.
