Welcome, David!
Honestly I think its the diversity of different backgrounds here and the willingness to experiment that makes most difference. That and the drive to self development the subs help to amplify rather than imagining/wanting immediate results, there’s a practicality in understanding change takes time and we might as well enjoy the scenery on the way.
I’d like to suggest some things that may help towards answering the questions yourself (I like Socrates)… we use this word “subconscious” or “subconscious mind” as if we know what it means. Well, something is able to hear the script embedded in the subliminal, but what is it? It’s clearly something conscious and intelligent because its able to give us messages or guide us, and somehow it understands language, or is able to use the language centers of the brain in order to decode the message even though consciously we can’t repeat back the words in the script. That’s pretty wild if you think about it. It’s seen by many as irrational, creative, imaginative, habit driven etc, belief driven, yet understands language? It drives your bodily functions, but understands language?
Something tells me the cells of my intestinal wall are not chatting away to one another in English having a philosophical conversation about the food flowing past.
It doesn’t take much examination of our popular ideas around conscious and subconscious mind to decode the fact that the ideas people have in this area are, if not incorrect, at least only halfway to the truth.
What even is the the conscious mind? Can we point to some aspect of our physiology or our brain and say “this is what’s hearing the thoughts in my head”?
I would venture that the answer is no.
My point is, when we say that subliminals “talk” to the subconscious mind, and divide our consciousness arbitrarily in two like this, its a partial truth only based on our observation of the results.
But we can see results - like changes of posture with Emperor, people holding doors open for us (many people have talked about this), wealth manifestations on wealth subs, etc.
I would suggest our model of consciousness that we use to explain how these masked or frequency shifted commands are “heard”, is incomplete. Perhaps we would be better thinking in terms of a distributed network or a multi billion piece orchestra. To answer the question of what theyre doing to your mind or subconscious mind, you need to be able to define those terms with precision. Its the lack of clarity that prevents us from forming a proper mental picture so that we can answer the question ourselves.
How do they pick up “I’m not the Man” prior to that change happening?
Because your mind controls your actions. Of course, part of running subs, taking action, and learning as a result. The subs only provide guidelines but the feedback from outside is needed for the neural net to grow and learn how to respond in a different way.