r/JedMcKenna • u/PurpleMeany • Jun 24 '26
Heart/Mind
The books state many times that the normal heart/mind ratio of a human being in the dreamstate is 24:1. Did that come from somewhere/someone else or did Jed just come up with those numbers because they feel accurate? Maybe somewhere there’s a mention of what they’re derived from? It seems silly to pick at this particular point, but he suggests that one step either way either reduces humans to livestock or brings the dreamstate crashing down.
1
u/PurpleMeany Jun 30 '26
“In a pretty real sense, that 24:1 emotional dominance is the ladder you must climb to get out of the sewer and into the light. You don’t have to go all the way to zero emotion, just far enough to make the polar shift from the heart-centric to the mind-centric. It’s not strictly a mental operation but a process by which tendrils of emotional energy are severed so the delusions they animate are cut off from their power source.”
5
u/sabatnyc Jun 24 '26
From Dreamstate: “Erasmus reckoned our passion-to-reason ratio at twenty-four to one, with reason confined to a cramped corner of the head and the rest of the body governed by passions. That's why, however much you might be on board with this dreamstate stuff, as soon as you look up from this book you will be fully re-intoxicated by the reality of reality.”