Musings of the Mind

How I’m Re-Training My Limbic System Using Pictures, Not Arguments After understanding that the limbic system is a prediction engine, the next question becomes obvious: How does it update? The answer is uncomfortable but freeing: It does not update through explanation. It updates through experience . And crucially — imagined experience counts. Why arguments don’t work You can’t reason an AI model out of biased training data. You have to: provide counter-examples change the reward signal repeat new outcomes The limbic system works the same way. Words alone rarely enter. Words paired with imagery, sensation, and resolution can. Why pictures work Pictures succeed where explanations fail because they: compress context into a single gestalt show authority clearly encode outcome and resolution include movement and agency demonstrate safety after truth In other words, they supply the missing data. The three patterns I’m actively re-training After a l...

The Limbic System Is Not Illogical — It’s a Mis-Trained Prediction Engine For a long time, I assumed that my internal struggles were primarily emotional. Grief. Anger. Betrayal. Fear. And to be clear — those were real, and they needed processing. But after doing a substantial amount of emotional work, something unexpected happened: the noise quietened, and what remained didn’t feel like emotion at all. It felt structural. Not like a feeling. Not like a memory. Not like a belief. More like a system. What I eventually realised is this: The limbic system is not irrational. It’s not illogical. It’s not broken. It’s a prediction engine that was trained on bad data. The mistake we make about “emotional logic” We often talk about emotions as though they should respond to reasoning: “I know this isn’t happening now.” “I understand why I feel this way.” “It doesn’t make sense to be afraid.” And yet the body doesn’t stand down. The chest still tightens. The dread still appears...

Gravity Without Pulling: A Cavendish Experiment Reframed Through AMS Most explanations of gravity lean on a familiar phrase: mass attracts mass . It works well enough for calculations, but it leaves an uncomfortable gap in intuition. What is actually doing the pulling? And why doesn’t everything constantly fly together? A classic Cavendish-style experiment exposes this tension beautifully. Viewed through the Aetheric Magnetic Substrate (AMS) lens, the experiment becomes not mysterious at all, but mechanically obvious. This post reframes the experiment using AMS, without breaking the parts of physics that already work. The Experiment, Simply Stated We begin with a balanced system: A horizontal bar, free to rotate Identical lead balls on each end Perfect symmetry, no preferred direction Nothing moves. Now we introduce change: Additional lead balls are placed near one side The bar begins to rotate A tiny force becomes measurable In a related setup: A small lead pyram...

Biblical Counter-Images for the Three-Stage Stack (pictures that speak to the limbic system: scene + emotion + outcome) Stage 1: Moral Injury / Reality Violation Core fear: “Wrong happened. It wasn’t named. Truth isn’t protected.” Picture 1 — God as Judge who sees truly Scene: A courtroom where the judge cannot be bribed, confused, or manipulated. Emotional correction: Truth is not lost. Reality is held. Scripture anchors: “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25) “He will bring every deed into judgment…” (Ecclesiastes 12:14) “The LORD loves justice.” (Psalm 37:28) Limbic message: Even if people deny it, Heaven does not. Picture 2 — The blood crying out from the ground Scene: Abel’s blood calling out like a voice that cannot be silenced. Emotional correction: The wrong has a witness built into reality itself. Scripture anchor: “The voice of your brother’s blood cries to Me from the ground.” (Genesis 4:10) Limbic message: Truth has a...

The Three-Stage Stack: When Trauma Becomes a Nervous System Loop (Not a “Thought Problem”) There’s a particular kind of healing moment that feels strangely anticlimactic. Not because you’re “better”, and not because everything is fine — but because you’ve processed so much emotional noise that you finally reach something quieter, deeper, and more structural. It’s the point where you realise: I’m not just dealing with emotions anymore. I’m dealing with wiring. For a long time, I assumed my internal distress was mostly about identifiable feelings: grief, anger, betrayal, sadness, regret — and all the usual suspects. And to be fair: those were real, and I did need to process them. But once I’d worked through a large portion of that emotional backlog, I discovered something underneath it that felt different. Not like a memory. Not like a story. Not even like a thought. More like a system . A loop. A stack. A predictable internal chain reaction that would activate in my body...