{"id":112714,"date":"2014-04-12T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2014-04-12T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T15:53:10","slug":"artist-exceeds-the-limits-permitted-by-brain-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/artist-exceeds-the-limits-permitted-by-brain-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist exceeds the limits permitted by brain researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist exceeds the limits permitted by brain researchers<\/span><\/p>\n

~a short story~<\/span><\/p>\n

by Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/p>\n

April 12, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

www.nomorefakenews.com<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

The year was 2054. The artist, living on the edge of the city in a small room, picked up his messages and discovered one from the Bureau of Mind Management. It was an order to appear.<\/p>\n

In an office on the 15th<\/sup> floor of a virtual building, he sat in a chair surrounded by a ring of yellow tulips. A holographic interrogator materialized.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a report on you,\u201d the iFigure said. \u201cIt indicates an output difficult to measure or interpret. What can you tell us about this?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell,\u201d the artist said, \u201cI’m composing a symphony.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA symphony? What is that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a piece of music written for a large orchestra.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI find no extant orchestras in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s true,\u201d the artist said. \u201cNevertheless, I’m composing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy?\u201d the iFigure said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor that day when an orchestra may come into being.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour thought impulses entered ranges we were not able to summarize.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI suppose that means your instruments are limited,\u201d the artist said.<\/p>\n

There was a pause.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour statement is incendiary,\u201d the iFigure said. \u201cIt suggests we are imposing a restriction. As you well know, the science is settled on this point. We measure and interpret thought that contributes to an overall positive outcome, for the population at large.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m aware of that, yes,\u201d the artist said. \u201cBut the science rests on certain assumptions. I would call it greatest good as a lowest common denominator.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d the iFigure said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou assume a certain mindset contributes to the consensus reality you favor. You legislate or permit a range of thought that will produce the consensus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s a gross oversimplification.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn’t describe the algorithms you employ,\u201d the artist said, \u201cbut all in all I believe my summary is correct. You’re reality makers. You monitor thought-emissions, and when you find a departure from ‘combined averages,’ as you call them, you issue a citation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is this symphony you’re composing?\u201d the iFigure said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s impossible to explain. It’s music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has a specific message?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. If it did, I would write out the message and leave it at that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy have we not heard of you before?\u201d said the iFigure.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I was doing illustrations for the Happiness Holos.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI became bored. A machine could make those pictures. So I decided to compose music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Happiness Holos are an essential social program.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps,\u201d the artist said. \u201cThey encourage people to stay on the positive side of a fantasy-construct called Positive&Negative, which as you know is a State-sponsored theme. But what is superficially indicated by those two opposing sets is, in fact, fuel for the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFuel for what fire?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe creative fire. The artist can use and transform any material.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere did you hear such a thing?\u201d the iFigure said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNowhere,\u201d the artist said. \u201cI’ve experienced it many times.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour views are highly eccentric,\u201d the iFigure said. \u201cI will have to consult your childhood history to understand their roots.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m afraid that won’t do you any good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause your version, the US Department of Psychology version of cause and effect, is propaganda for the masses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is your idea of a joke?\u201d the iFigure said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you compose this…symphony, how do you think?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s not thinking in the way you use the term,\u201d the artist said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo? Then what do you do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI invent sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPreposterous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLarge masses of sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsurd. According to what underlying pattern?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNone,\u201d the artist said. \u201cI assume you’re from The Library of Structures. You won’t find my activity in the catalogs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll structures and patterns are contained in the files.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI doubt that,\u201d the artist said. \u201cBut regardless, I don’t invent through pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo?\u201d the iFigure said. \u201cHow then?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI improvise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this term refers to?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething done spontaneously,\u201d the artist said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you exceed prescribed ranges of thought in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps. I would hope so. I don’t keep track.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou’re being flippant,\u201d the iFigure said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew you’d cite me,\u201d the artist said. \u201cI’m just trying to enjoy myself until you pass sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no sentence,\u201d the iFigure said. \u201cYou’re an anomaly. We investigate. We consider. We direct resources. We question. We determine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m afraid,\u201d the artist said, \u201cthat your and my idea of ‘determine’ are quite different.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me ask you this,\u201d the iFigure said. \u201cWhen you are composing, do you ever believe you enter into a realm or area that could be called ‘non-material’?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot if you’re referring to some fairyland. But all thought is basically non-material. The brain registers it after the fact. Thought, the real thing, doesn’t take place in the brain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou’re deluded,\u201d the iFigure said. \u201cAnd disordered.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I could simply confess to that and be on my way, I’d be a happy man. But I’m sure you have charges to attach.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou live in a society,\u201d the iFigure said. \u201cTo keep the peace and maintain the Positive, from which all good things flow, science has discovered that thought should occur within certain parameters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you insist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to study you. It’s a great honor to be called. You could help extend the boundaries of research.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

\"Exit<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

The artist was about to ask whether he had a choice, when a holographic webbing that looked curiously like a rainbow clamped him tight in his chair. The pressure increased.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe register some variation from the norm in your present thinking,\u201d the iFigure said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat present thinking?\u201d the artist said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you’re thinking right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was quick.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe readouts are instantaneous…what are you doing?\u201d<\/p>\n

The artist took up from where he’d last left off, composing his symphony.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m starting the third movement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWait,\u201d the iFigure said. His left arm sizzled and disappeared.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the thunderstorm section,\u201d the artist said.<\/p>\n

The pressure of the rainbow around him relaxed.<\/p>\n

The iFigure said, \u201cWhat you’re doing is disruptive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s because of how you set your frequencies,\u201d the artist said.<\/p>\n

He continued composing.<\/p>\n

All along the major esplanade, and in the lake area, and in the industrial parks and residential high rises, virtual structures shattered like glass.<\/p>\n

Then adjoining suburban towns blew away into the sky of the communal apparatus. The iFigure reminded the artist of one of those ancient neon signs, broken, buzzing, blinking. Finally, it went dark.<\/p>\n

Ten thousand holographic government buildings started to explode, froze, and vanished.<\/p>\n

The artist said to no one, \u201cI’m just composing. Well, maybe not just.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was suddenly back in his room at the edge of the city. But now there was no edge and no city. The room felt like a vehicle traveling through space.<\/p>\n

\u201cI suppose this is what they mean by a negative consequence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The room increased velocity and…jumped.<\/p>\n

Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/p>\n

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at <\/span>www.nomorefakenews.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Filed under: Energy & Imagination<\/a>, Exit From the Matrix<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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