A glossary for men waking up inside the simulation.
You’re sensing that something is off, with culture, with language, with yourself. The roles you were handed don’t feel real anymore. You’ve outgrown the algorithm but haven’t found your way out.
This glossary gives you a new lens to decode the simulation. The terms are symbolic, creative, and soul-aligned, designed to help you stop reacting and start Instinctually Rescripting. Not clinical. Not sanitized. Just the truth you’ve been circling in words that finally land.
Glossary List M-P
Miller Number
Meta-Instincts (Archetypes)
Mood Lability
Moral Complex (Psycho-Systems Analysis)
Narcissistic Mirroring
Nightmares
Panksepp: ANXIETY/DESPAIR
Panksepp: CARE
Panksepp: FEAR
Panksepp: LUST
Panksepp: PLAY
Panksepp: RAGE
Panksepp: SEEKING
Paracosm
Paranoia
Perennial Philosophy
Persona
Personality Possession
Preconscious
Proprioception
Psychogenic Asthma
Psychogenic Bandwidth (Theoretical Construct)
Psychogenic Carrier Wave (Theoretical Construct)
Psychogenic Homeorhesis (Theoretical Construct)
Psychogenic Homeostasis (Theoretical Construct)
Psychogenic Structures (Theoretical Construct)
Psychogenic Valence
Psychogenic Waveform (Theoretical Construct)
Psychogenic Zip Files (Theoretical Construct)
Psychological Defense Mechanisms (PDM)
PDM: Demonization
PDM: Empathetic Projection
PDM: Engressive Inflation
PDM: Fantasy Inflation
PDM: Internal Projection
PDM: Neurotic Alibis
PDM: Neurotic Identification
PDM: Projection
PDM: Regression
PDM: Splitting
PDM: Suppression
PDM: Transduction
PDM: Transference
Psychological Feedback Loops
Pankseppian Instincts
Pankseppian Dift, dansk
Definition
Explore the foundation of human feeling, behavior, and consciousness through the Pankseppian Instincts, which are the seven core emotional-action systems discovered by neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp. These instinctual drives, rooted deep in the mammalian brain, represent primary-process emotional systems that shape how we relate to the world, others, and ourselves.
Why It Matters
Michael C. Walker believes Panksepp’s work challenges the “top-down” cognitive-dominant models of psychology by revealing that emotion, not thought, is the primal mover of behavior and “bottom-up” consciousness. These instinctual systems form the ontological core of our being and offer a revolutionary lens for understanding trauma, neurotic disorders, and emotional healing.
Functional Overview: The Seven Emotional Systems
These systems are biologically hardwired into the brain, identified through electrical stimulation and neurochemical mapping. They are classified into Reward (Approach) and Avoidance (Defensive) circuits:
System | Function | Type | Primary Neurobiology |
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ANXIETY/DESPAIR | Activated by separation, loss, or isolation to signal the need for being found | Avoidance | Endorphins, Enkephalins (Opioids) |
SEEKING | Drives exploration, curiosity, motivation, imagination, dreaming | Reward | Dopamine (VTA, Nucleus Accumbens) |
PLAY | Encourages joy, learning, and social engagement, sympathy, healthy position in groups | Reward | Serotonin, Dopamine, Endocannabinoids |
CARE | Fuels nurturing, social bonding, relating, appropriate self-sacrifice, mirroring | Reward | Oxytocin, Prolactin |
FEAR | Responds to danger or threat | Avoidance | Adrenaline, Cortisol (HPA Axis) |
LUST | Governs sexual desire, creativity, generative feelings of connection, reproductive behavior | Reward | Testosterone, Estrogen |
RAGE | Triggered by slander, isolation, frustration, restraint, or injustice. Demands self-worth and connection | Avoidance | Testosterone, Cortisol, Adrenaline |
Clinical Insight: Endophenotypes & Malignant Complexes
Understanding endophenotypes (biologically rooted markers that bridge genes and behavior) is essential in addressing Malignant Complexes, Complex PTSD (c-PTSD), and emotional dysregulation.
Why Endophenotypes Matter:
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Uncover Root Causes: Reveal which emotional systems (e.g., RAGE, PANIC) have been hijacked by trauma.
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Go Beyond Symptoms: Understand the biopsychosocial pathways of dysfunction rather than just external behaviors.
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Enable Precision Healing: Target specific emotional circuits using tailored therapeutic interventions (e.g., Instinctual Rescripting, Affect-Bridges, Integrative Self-Analysis).
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Support Integrative Self-Analysis (ISA): Empower individuals to recognize and self-regulate their own dysregulated emotional patterns through the development of Counter-Complexes.
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Bridge Mind and Body: Unify psychological insight with neurobiological epigentics for holistic healing.
The Deeper Meaning
This framework revives and extends Freud’s original vision of instinctual drives as central to psychotherapy. Michael C. Walker updates Panksepp for the 21st century, inspired by neuroscientific pioneers like Ernest Rossi, Mark Solms, and Depth psychologist Steve & Pauline Richards. Through this interdisciplinary lens, the Pankseppian Instincts offer not just a clinical model, but a map of human nature, integrating neuroscience, Depth psychology, philosophy, and the arts.
Toward Emotional Integration and Healing
By understanding the Pankseppian emotional systems, their neurochemical foundations, and the role of endophenotypes in trauma and healing, we gain a powerful toolset for both clinical work and personal transformation. These insights cut through surface behaviors to reach the core emotional truths, enabling deeper emotional intelligence, self-compassion, and liberation from trauma-driven patterns called Malignant Complexes.
Prediction Errors
Fantasifuld Fremkomst, dansk
Definition
Prediction error happens when your brain expects one thing but reality shows you something different. This gap tells your mind it needs to update its beliefs and learn something new. Trauma can confuse this process, causing your brain to get stuck in old, harmful patterns. Heavily influenced by Psycho-Systems Analysis and Bessel Van der Kolk's work on the neuroscience of trauma, Michael C. Walker borrows the term from neuroscientist Mark Solms, who showed how these prediction errors play a big role in how the brain handles emotions and trauma. Understanding this helps you see when you’re trapped in repeating old wounds or truly adapting to real life.
Why It Matters
Knowing the difference between false predictions from trauma and real, flexible ones helps you test reality and make better choices. This skill is key to breaking free from mental traps and digital distractions.
Psychogenic Bandwidth (Theoretical Construct)
Psykogenisk Båndbredde (Teoretisk Begreb), dansk
Definition
Psychogenic Bandwidth is the quantitative amount of mental and emotional energy you have to handle your thoughts, feelings, body signals, and what’s going on around you. It works like a system where your instincts, body, environment, and main personality all communicate with each other. This helps you manage stress, make decisions, and connect with others. Michael C. Walker borrows this idea from Psycho-Systems Analysis. It shows how your mind and body try to balance or inhibit this energy to keep you grounded and well adapted as possible.
Why It Matters
If your psychogenic bandwidth is overloaded, you get stuck in stress, confusion, dissociation, addiction, or numbness. Knowing this helps you protect your egoic mind and reconnect with your deeper self (Instinctual Consciousness) instead of getting overwhelmed.
Psychogenic Carrier Wave (Theoretical Construct)
Psykogenisk Bærerbølge (Teoretisk Begreb), dansk
Definition (Core Concept)
The Psychogenic Carrier Wave is the underlying emotional-somatic channel or medium through which instinctual, unconscious, and affective (emotion-based) information is transmitted from the Instinctual Consciousness. It’s not the content itself, but the frequency or emotional tone that carries the content. Think of it like the base signal in radio transmission, it moves through the body and nervous system, often as limbic arousal, tension, or subtle somatic cues. The idea comes Michael C. Walker using a biopsychosocial lens, inspired by Psycho-Systems Analysis.
Examples:
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A tight chest during conflict (fear-based carrier)
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A warm heart during connection (love-based carrier)
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Rage shaking the body (anger-based carrier)
This wave is always present and is what your psyche "rides" to receive and transmit data between the conscious and unconscious realms. It often goes unnoticed unless one is trained to tune in to the body’s subtle messages.
Why It Matters
The carrier wave is the channel for your psychogenic bandwidth. It carries your emotions, body responses, and limbic system signals. Becoming aware of these channels lets you notice when your mind and body are out of sync. This awareness is key to creating Counter-Complexes, which help you balance and heal from emotional disruptions instead of getting stuck in old patterns.
Psychogenic Homeorhesis (Theoretical Construct)
Psykogenisk Homørese (Teoretisk Begreb), dansk
Definition
Most people think the goal is balance, but what if that’s what’s keeping you stuck? Psychogenic Homeorhesis is the process your psyche uses to stay growing, not just staying the same. Unlike homeostasis, which tries to keep things steady even if they’re unhealthy, homeorhesis keeps you moving toward your deeper purpose. It’s how your body, emotions, and instincts work together to push you forward, even through chaos. Developed by Michael C. Walker and inspired by Psycho-Systems Analysis, this concept reframes emotional balance as something alive and evolving, not rigid or frozen.
Why It Matters
Malignant Complexes use homeostasis to trap you in old loops. Homeorhesis is your soul's built-in way to break free, move forward, and align with your inner calling. Without it, you mistake rigidity for safety.
Psychogenic Homeostasis (Theoretical Construct)
Psykogenisk Homøostase (Teoretisk Begreb), dansk
Definition
Feeling stuck in life isn’t random. It’s often your nervous system doing its job too well. Psychogenic Homeostasis is when your mind and body lock you into old emotional habits called a Malignant Complex, that feel safe but stop growth. Instead of helping you evolve, your system protects you with a kind of emotional freeze. This happens when your inner Protector (called a Protective Ego Construct, or PEC) takes over and keeps the real you (Emergent Personality Ego, or EPE) from leading. The idea comes Michael C. Walker using a biopsychosocial lens.
Why It Matters
If you don’t see how your comfort zone is wired into your emotions, you’ll keep mistaking survival for purpose. This term gives you the language to spot what’s holding you back and begin breaking the trance.
Psychogenic Transduction
Psykogen Transduktion, dansk
Definition
Psychogenic transduction is the process where unresolved emotional or psychological trauma is converted into physical symptoms and chronic health conditions. It is the missing link in most mainstream medical thinking. Far too often, chronic illnesses, from autoimmune disorders, skin disorders, and hypertension to unexplained pain and fatigue, are treated as separate categories of symptoms, ignoring how the body and mind are deeply connected. This blind spot fuels iatrogenic harm, where well-meaning treatments actually delay healing by:
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Fragmenting the person into disconnected body parts and mental labels, leading to a scattershot mix of treatments that never address the whole.
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Chasing symptoms instead of causes, trapping the person in a cycle of chronic illness, frustration, and social stigma.
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Ignoring the science of trauma, which means the true root cause is never treated — allowing both the body and mind to deteriorate over time.
When psychogenic transduction is at work, the “mystery” of an undifferentiated diagnosis often makes more sense. What looks like a jumble of unrelated issues, multiple syndromes, overlapping mental health struggles, and physical ailments that don’t match any neat disease category, can instead be seen as a signal from a Malignant Complex. That signal is the body’s way of carrying the unresolved “memory constellations” of trauma into the present moment. The symptoms are not random. They are coded messages from your nervous system, trying to resolve what the conscious mind has been unable to face.
Why It Matters
If you only treat the surface symptoms, the real wound stays hidden and keeps reshaping your health from the inside out. Understanding psychogenic transduction turns scattered diagnoses into a clear map toward real, lasting healing.
Psychogenic Waveform (Theoretical Construct)
Psykogen Bølgeform (Teoretisk Konstruktion), dansk
Definition (Tool for Mapping)
The Psychogenic Waveform is a model or visualization tool used to map how the carrier wave varies over time in its amplitude (intensity), frequency (speed), and phase (timing). It shows the shape of your inner emotional-cognitive terrain across situations and over time. The idea comes Michael C. Walker using a biopsychosocial lens, inspired by Psycho-Systems Analysis.
This theoretical construct allows us to:
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Analyze and track recurring emotional cycles (e.g., anxiety spikes every Sunday night)
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Understand how internal rhythms correlate with triggers, memories, or archetypal energies
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Build Counter-Complexes by consciously introducing new, coherent patterns to disrupt maladaptive waves
Think of it this way:
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Carrier Wave is the emotional medium or nervous system frequency (biological + psychological channel)
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Waveform is the pattern or map of how that medium is moving through your system over time
Analogy
Imagine you're surfing:
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The carrier wave is the ocean swell, deep, powerful, and always moving.
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The waveform is the specific surfable wave you choose to ride, shaped by wind, tide, and terrain. It’s the expression of the underlying carrier.
Why It Matters
Understanding the Carrier Wave helps you feel what you're transmitting or receiving at an instinctual level.
Mapping the Waveform helps you track and tune that information so you can break unhealthy loops and build better internal rhythm by the creation of a Counter-Complex.
Psychogenic Zip Files (Theoretical Construct)
Psykogeniske Zip-filer (Teoretisk Konstruktion), dansk
Definition (Tool for Mapping)
If you don’t know how to shrink down the chaos inside, it’ll break your mind or run your life from the shadows. Psychogenic Zip Files is a mental tool to help understand how your system uses your ego to compress massive emotional, instinctual, and sensory input into something your cognitive mind can actually handle and express effectively. Inspired by Michael C. Walker’s understanding of Psycho-Systems Analysis, this concept explains how your deeper self (Instinctual Consciousness) sends your ego-awareness complex “data,” but because your ego-awareness of the prefrontal cortex can only handle about 5–9 chunks of information at once (Miller’s Number), your system has to shrink that down into a usable form. Like a digital zip file, it’s not the full picture, but it’s enough to survive, relate, or make a decision. The problem is when the compression is false, when your Protective Ego (PEC) made from a Malignant Complex zips the truth wrong to protect your weak spots instead of integrating a fully developed and adaptive Dominant Ego Personality (DEP).
Why It Matters
f you don’t know what’s getting zipped (a PEC or a beneficial DEP) or who’s doing the zipping (a Malignant Complex or adaptive Dynamic Complex), you’ll be unaware of who you are from an egoic perspective. This also means others can never know who you truly are. These files are how your instincts talk to your ego through Psychogenic Bandwidth, ride on the Carrier Wave, and get expressed through your inner Waveform. Understanding the authentic zip file of who you really are is how you start living from your soul, not just your scars.
Psycho-Systems Analysis
Psyko-System Analyse, dansk
Definition
A 21st-century approach to healing that looks at the whole human system including mind, body, relationships, and the deeper search for meaning. Created by Steve and Pauline Richards in 1988, it blends Jungian Depth Psychology, medical holism, breathing science, and hypnotherapy. Instead of breaking you into parts or just talking about symptoms, it works with your unconscious and your biology at the same time, aiming for real-world change and lasting transformation.
Why It Matters
Most therapies fix pieces of you. This one treats the whole person.
