4th Question
ACCESSING THE VOID
(Beyond the Iceberg—Beyond Yourself)
A Thought Experiment
Imagine suffering a brain injury that strips away your ability to understand or produce words.
Life would go on, wouldn’t it?
In some ways, it might even improve—you wouldn’t register criticisms, advertisements, or political rhetoric. You could still move through daily routines, eat, sleep, and breathe. You would exist, untouched by much of the noise that once ruled your thoughts.
This raises a profound question:
Where does all of this originate?
If language disappears, if thoughts and words are silenced—what remains?
At night, we sleep. The world moves on.
And we dream.
Where do these dreams come from?
I propose they rise from the depths—from the vast, submerged iceberg beneath our conscious mind.
And if that’s true, I ask you:
Can we send dreams back?
Everything within us conspires to shape our dreams. But if we can consciously send them back—if we can imprint them upon the depths—then we begin to influence not just our sleep, but the hidden engine of our mind.
Our dreams are the bridge between our inner and outer realities.
Imagine sending them back—allowing the conscious mind and the submerged mind to finally speak.
We’ll call that connection “1eye.”
THE VOID & SUICIDE: A MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE SELF
This leads us, naturally, to a difficult transition—suicide.
Many people confuse “You” and “Yourself.”
This misunderstanding creates a life-wasting dilemma—a distortion so profound that it can push people to erase their own existence.
When a depressed person considers ending “himself,” the direction is wrong.
It is not “You” who wants to die—it is Yourself that is attacking “You.”
And in that battle, Suicide is the ultimate mistake—the conscious mind destroying everything it never truly understood.
The totality of your being is remarkable—your unique genetics, body, subconscious intelligence, and deep intuitive faculties. None of these desire death.
And yet, a fleeting thought can obliterate all of it.
So I ask:
What is your definition of life?
When you say, “I am going to kill myself,” it can momentarily ease your burden—like closing a book on a chaotic story. But nothing has truly changed.
Only the narrative in your mind has momentarily shifted.
That visible portion of the iceberg—the conscious mind—is prepared to erase itself, without ever having understood the depths beneath.

The totality of your being is remarkable—your unique genetic code, your organs, every function within you, all beyond what words can capture. And none of it desires death.
And so I wonder what your definition of life is.
Uttering “I am going to kill myself” might momentarily alleviate stress and worry, as though all problems are resolved. Yet, nothing truly changes except for the narrative in your mind. That visible portion of the iceberg might obliterate its entire existence without ever truly understanding or engaging with it.

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This is not about avoiding suicide—it is about realizing the vastness of what you truly are.
Your conscious mind is not the full you.
David Eagleman, in Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, explains:
“The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control. The vast jungles of neurons operate their own programs. The conscious you—the I that flickers to life when you wake up in the morning—is the smallest bit of what’s transpiring in your brain. Although we are dependent on the functioning of the brain for our inner lives, it runs its own show. Most of its operations are above the security clearance of the conscious mind. The I simply has no right of entry.
Your consciousness is like a tiny stowaway on a transatlantic steamship, taking credit for the journey without acknowledging the massive engineering underfoot.”
Eagleman’s scientific contributions are invaluable, though his philosophical stance may be challenged. By adopting “1eye” in our mnemonic, we recognize and intend to utilize this insight. Contrary to Eagleman’s perspective, we plan to take the helm.
The Mind of the Martial Artist accesses the Void via your will, intent, and the images you play across the screen in your mind. I am going quick and simple for now, but consider that you get dreams from the Void at night, with The Mind of the Martial Artist we send them back.
The Void, the unseen portion of the iceberg, is the source of all creativity, genius, intuition, and brilliant performance. And we will access it, and use it. In this manner we will captain the ship.
FINAL THOUGHT: THE SHIFT BEGINS NOW
The old self-image sees life as something that happens to it.
The new self-image understands that life is shaped from within.
If you’ve only been listening to the dreams from the Void, it’s time to start sending messages back.
This is where we seize control of the unseen.
This is where 1eye opens.
And now, we begin.