Hackers Underworld 2: Forbidden Knowledge/Hackers Underworld 2: Forbidden Knowledge.iso/OCCULT/BRAIN.CIR

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[Not all that surprisingly (based on it's authorship) this document
advocates certain practices that are currently illegal in the United
States of America.  By presenting this document, I am not advocating
these practices myself, merely making available anothers writings on
the subject --Amythyst]

    T I M O T H Y    L E A R Y ' S    E I G H T   C I R C U I T S
                 O F    C O N S C I O U S N E S S


Excerpted from Robert Anton Wilson's
          Cosmic Trigger:  Final Secret of the Illuminati


Tunnel-Realities and Imprints
      Let's try Dr. Leary's perspective on these mysteries.
      To understand neurological space, Dr. Leary assumes that the
nervous system consists of eight potential circuits, or "gears," or
mini-brains.  Four of these brains are in the usually active left lobe
and are concerned with our terrestrial survival; four are
extraterrestrial, reside in the "silent" or inactive right lobe, and
are for use in our future evolution.  This explains why the right lobe
is usually inactive at this stage of our development, and why it
becomes active when the person ingests pyschedelics.
      We will explain each of the eight "brains" briefly.

      I.  THE BIO-SURVIVAL CIRCUIT.  This invertebrate brain was the
first to evolve (2 to 3 million years ago) and is the first activated
when a human infant is born.  It programs perception onto an either-or
grid divided into nurturing-helpful Things (which it approaches) and
noxious-dangerous Things (which it flees, or attacks).  The imprinting
of this circuit sets up the basic attitude of trust or suspicion which
will ever after trigger approach or avoidance.
      II.  THE EMOTIONAL CIRCUIT.  This second, more advanced bio-
computer formed when vertebrates appeared and began to compete for
territory (perhaps 500,000,000 B.C.).  In the individual, this bigger
tunnel-reality is activated when the DNA master-tape triggers the
metamorphosis from crawling to walking.  As every parent knows, the
toddler is no longer a passive (bio-survival) infant but a mammalian
politician, full of physical (and psychic) territorial demands, quick
to meddle in family business and decision-making.  Again the first
imprint on this circuit remains constant for life (unless brainwashed)
and identifies the stimuli which will automatically trigger dominant,
aggressive behavior or submissive, cooperative behavior.  When we say
that a person is behaving emotionally, egotistically or "like a
two-year-old," we mean that s/he is blindly following one of the
tunnel-realities imprinted on this circuit.
      III.  THE DEXTERITY-SYMBOLISM CIRCUIT.  This third brain was
formed when hominid types began to differentiate from other primate
stock (circa 4-5 million B.C.) and is activated for the linear
left-lobe functions of the brain, determine our normal modes of
artifact-manufacture and conceptual thought, i.e., third circuit
"mind."
      It is no accident, then, that our logic (and our computer-
design) follows either-or, binary structure of these circuits.  Nor is
it an accident that our geometry, until the last century, has been
Euclidean.  Euclid's geometry, Aristotle's logic and Newton's physics
are meta-programs synthesizing and generalizing first brain
forward-back, second brain up-down and third brain right-left
programs.
      The fourth brain, dealing with the transmission of tribal or
ethnic culture across generations, introduces the fourth dimension,
time.
      Since each of these tunnel-realities consists of biochemical
imprints or matrices in the nervous system, each of them is
specifically triggered by neuro-transmitters and other drugs.
      To activate the first brain take an opiate.  Mother Opium and
Sister Morphine bring you down to cellular intelligence, bio-survival
passivity, the floating consciousness of the newborn.  (This is why
Freudians identify opiate addiction with the desire to return to
infancy.)
      To activate the second tunnel-reality, take an abundant quantity
of alcohol.  Vertebrate territorial patterns and mammalian emotional
politics immediately appear when the booze flows, as Thomas Nashe
intuitively realized when he characterized the various alcohol states
by animal labels: "ass drunk," "goat drunk," "swine drunk," "bear
drunk," etc.
      To activate the third circuit, try coffee or tea, a high-
protein diet, speed or cocaine.
      The specific neurotransmitter for circuit four has not been
synthesized yet, but it is generated by the glands after pubescence
and flows volcanically through the bloodstreams of adolescents.
      NONE OF THESE TERRESTRIAL DRUGS CHANGE BASIC BIOCHEMICAL
IMPRINTS.  The behaviors which they trigger are those which were wired
into the nervous system during the first stages of imprint
vulnerability.  The circuit II drunk exhibits the emotional games or
cons learned from parents in infancy.  The circuit III "mind" never
gets beyond the permutations and combinations of those
tunnel-realities originally imprinted, or abstractions associated with
the imprints through later conditioning.  And so forth.
      But all this Pavlovian-Skinnerian robotism changes drastically
and dramatically when we turn to the right lobe, the future circuits
and extraterrestrial chemicals.
      The four evolving future "brains" are:
      V.  THE NEUROSOMATIC CIRCUIT.  When this fifth "body-brain" is
activated, flat Euclidean figure-ground configurations explode
multi-dimesionally.  Gestalts shift, in McLuhan's terms, from linear
VISUAL SPACE to all-encompassing SENSORY SPACE.  A hedonic turn-on
occurs, a rapturous amusement, a detachment from the previously
compulsive mechanism of the first four circuits.  I turned this
circuit on with pot and Tantra.
      This fifth brain began to appear about 4,000 years ago in the
first leisure-class civilizations and has been increasing
statistically in recent centuries (even before the Drug Revolution), a
fact demonstrated by the hedonic art of India, China, Rome and other
affluent societies.  More recently, Ornstein and his school have
demonstrated with electroencephalograms that this circuit represents
the first jump from the linear left lobe of the brain to the
analogical right lobe.
      The opening and imprinting of this circuit has been the
preoccupation of "technicians of the occult"--Tantric shamans and
hatha yogis.  While the fifth tunnel-reality can be achieved by
sensory deprivation, social isolation, physiological stress or severe
shock (ceremonial terror tactics, as practiced by such rascal-gurus as
Don Juan Matus or Aleister Crowley), it has traditionally been
reserved to the educated aristocracy of leisure societies who have
solved the four terrestrial survival problems.
      About 20,000 years ago, the specific fifth brain
neurotransmitter was discovered by shamans in the Caspian Sea are of
Asia and quickly spread to other wizards throughout Eurasia and
Africa.  It is, of course, cannabis.  Weed.  Mother Mary Jane.
      It is no accident that the pot-head generally refers to his
neural state as "high" or "spaced-out."  The transcendence of
gravitational, digital, linear, either-or, Aristotelian, Newtonian,
Euclidean, planetary orientations (circuits I-IV) is, in evolutionary
perspective, part of our neurological preparation for the inevitable
migration off our home planet, now beginning.  This is why so many
pot-heads are STAR TREK freaks and science fiction adepts.  (Berkeley,
California, certainly the Cannabis Capital of the U.S., has a
Federation Trading Post on Telegraph Avenue, where the well-heeled can
easily spend $500 or more in a single day, buying STAR TREK novels,
magazines, newsletters, bumper stickers, photographs, posters, tapes,
etc., including even complete blueprints for the starship ENTERPRISE.)
      The extraterrestrial meaning of being "high" is confirmed by
astronauts themselves; 85% of those who have entered the free-fall
zero gravity describe "mystic experiences" or rapture states typical
of the neurosomatic circuit.  "No photo can show how beautiful Earth
looked," raves Captain Ed Mitchell, describing his Illumination in
free-fall.  He sounds like any successful yogi or pot-he