THINKER

As a child, everything is a new experience. A wonderful world for you to explore. Your experiencer is in charge. You have neuroplasticity. You are constantly learning and growing.

The longer that you have been alive, the less new things you see. So, the true self takes a back seat to the self most of the time. Adults have the conscious true self in charge less than 5% of the time. You live your life in a repetitive rut most of the time. Experiencer is suppressed by know-it-all self.

So your programmed thoughts determine most of your choices and therefore most of your actions.

Involuntary choices are automatic programming. Even most voluntary. Very few require our soul, or prime experiencer.

Whenever you need to use your brain. Either your true self is in charge, or self is. Either can operate as your thinker. Your thinker is your problem solver.

Thinker first looks to see if you have encountered this problem before. If you have, it delegates the task to the self.

If operating at best capacity, the thinker uses the experiencer plus all the previously constructed programming and tools available to it. Including the tools of language and rationalization.

If the self is operating as the thinker, it rehashes the past and rehearses the future. Endlessly.

Doer controls the body. This will be the self if you let it.

Quieting the thinker leaves you only with experiencer in your head. This forces you to remain present. Time no longer has any meaning. Time can fly by in this state. This is how meditation works.

If thinker is quieted and doer is still active, this is flow state. You just experience reality and flow with it. Completely integrated with reality.

Full enlightenment is almost no thinker and doer. Just experiencer connected to the experience. Connected to reality directly.

Young children and animals have a smaller thinker. So, percentage wise, have larger experiencer and doer. This makes them more connected to the present and reality. Less concerned about past and future.

THE VOICES IN YOUR HEAD

There are many copies of self. Each thinking it has the answer. These are the voices in your head. Each has a different set of information it is going by. Each competing for attention and validity.

They take the form of: inner child, inner parent, devil on one shoulder, angel on the other, and more.