YOUR SOFTWARE IS NON-LOCAL:
POINT-EVENTS EVERYWHERE, EVERYWHEN.
Before the first imprint, the consciousness of the infant is
"formless and void"–like the universe at the beginning of
Genesis, or the descriptions of unconditioned ("enlightened" i.e.,
exploded) consciousness in the mystic traditions. As soon as the
first imprint is made, structure emerges out of the creative void.
The growing mind, alas, becomes trapped within this structure. It
identifies with the structure; in a sense, it becomes the structure.
This entire process is analyzed in G. Spencer Brown's Laws
of Form; and Brown was writing about the foundations of mathematics
and logic. But every sensitive reader knows that Brown
is also talking about a process we have all passed through in
creating, out of an infinite ocean of signals, those particular
constructs we call "myself and "my world." Not surprisingly,
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many acid-heads have said that Brown's math is the best description
ever written of an LSD trip.
Each successive imprint complicates the software which
programs our experience and which we experience as "reality."
Conditioning and learning build further networks onto this
bedrock of imprinted software. The total structure of this braincircuitry
makes up our map of the world. It is what our Thinker
thinks, and our Prover mechanically fits all incoming signals to
the limitations of this map.
Following Dr. Timothy Leary (with a few modifications) we
shall divide this brain hardware into eight circuits for convenience.
("For convenience" means that this is the best map I know
at present. I assume it will be replaced by a better map within 10
or 15 years; and in any case, the map is not the territory.)
Four of the circuits are "antique" and conservative, they exist
in everybody (except feral children).
1. The Oral Bio-Survival Circuit. This is imprinted by the
mother or the first mothering object and conditioned by
subsequent nourishment or threat. It is primarily concerned with
sucking, feeding, cuddling, and body security. It retreats
mechanically from the noxious or predatory–or from anything
associated (by imprinting or conditioning) with the noxious or
predatory.
2. The Anal Emotional-Territorial Circuit. This is imprinted
in the "Toddling" stage when the infant rises up, walks about and
begins to struggle for power within the family structure. This
mostly mammalian circuit processes territorial rules, emotional
games, or cons, pecking order and rituals of domination or
submission.
3. The Time-Binding Semantic Circuit. This is imprinted and
conditioned by human artifacts and symbol systems. It "handles"
and "packages" the environment, classifying everything according
to the local reality tunnel. Invention, calculation, prediction
and transmitting signals across generations are its functions.
4. The "Moral" Socio-Sexual Circuit. This is imprinted by the
first orgasm-mating experiences at puberty and is conditioned by
tribal taboos. It processes sexual pleasure, local definitions of
"right" and "wrong," reproduction, adult-parental personality
(sex role) and nurture of the young.
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The development of these circuits as the brain evolved
through evolution, and as each domesticated primate (human)
brain recapitulates evolution in growing from infancy to adulthood,
makes possible gene-pool survival, mammalian sociobiology
(pecking order, or politics) and transmission of culture.
The second group of four brain circuits is much newer, and
each circuit exists at present only in minorities. Where the
antique circuits recapitulate evolution-to-the-present, these futuristic
circuits ^recapitulate our future evolution.
5. The Holistic Neurosomatic Circuit. This is imprinted by
ecstatic experience, via biological or chemical yogas. It processes
neurosomatic ("mind-body") feedback loops, somatic-sensory
bliss, feeling "high," "faith-healing," etc. Christian Science, NLP
and holistic medicine consist of tricks or gimmicks to get this
circuit into action at least temporarily; Tantra yoga is concerned
with shifting consciousness entirely into this circuit.
6. The Collective Neurogenetic Circuit. This is imprinted by
advanced yogas (bio-chemical - electrical stresses). It processes
DNA-RNA-brain feedback systems and is "collective" in that it
contains and has access to the whole evolutionary "script," past
and future. Experience of this circuit is numinous, "mystical,"
mind-shattering; here dwell the archetypes of Jung's Collective
Unconscious–Gods, Goddesses, Demons, Hairy Dwarfs and
other personifications of the DNA programs (instincts) that
govern us.
7. The Meta-programming Circuit. This is imprinted by very
advanced yogas. It consists, in modern terms, of cybernetic consciousness,
reprogramming and reimprinting all other circuits,
even reprogramming itself, making possible conscious choice
between alternative universes or reality tunnels.
8. The Non-Local Quantum Circuit. This is imprinted by
Shock, by "near-death" or "clinical death" experience, by
OOBEs (out-of-body-experiences), by trans-time perceptions
("precognition"), by trans-space visions (ESP), etc. It tunes the
brain into the non-local quantum communication system suggested
by physicists such as Bohm, Walker, Sarfatti, Bell, etc.
These circuits will be explained in detail as we proceed.
Approximately 50% of the human race has not evolved fully
into the third circuit yet. That is, although they can exchange
primitive signals and handle primitive artifacts, they are still
mostly operating on the mammalian emotional circuit and the
pre-mammalian bio-survival circuit.
Newt Gingrich is their current leader in the United States.
Third-circuit types cannot understand this and regard it as sinister,
but it is simple mammalian herd-behavior. Gingrich is the
typical primate leader; the noises he makes, which appear
meaningless to the third circuit Rationalist, are urgently meaningful
to the territorial-emotional-patriotic minds of the majority
of primates.
Another 20% are "responsible, intelligent adults" with fully
developed third and fourth circuits. They spend most of their
time worrying, because the predominantly primate parameters of
human society seem absurd, immoral and increasingly dangerous
to them.
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Another 20% are neurosomatic adepts. Fourth-circuit Moralists
denounce them as "mystics," "space cases," "nuts," "the Me
generation," "irresponsible hedonists," etc.
Most of the fifth-circuit adepts (aquarian conspirators) have
learned Joyce's arts of "silence, exile, cunning": they are invisible.
Others have turned their talents to "faith-healing" or various
occult gimmicks of that sort, and very carefully do not tell their
clients that the local ideology, morality and reality-tunnel is what
made them ill in the first place. They give "good energy" and
sensibly avoid conflict with the moral ideological "authorities."
Another 5% have neurogenetic consciousness, and function as
Evolutionary Agents–servants of the Life Force, in Shaw's
terminology. Their "God" is Pan (life), and their goal is immortality.
Another 3% have mastered the meta-programming circuit and
make up what Gurdjieff called "the Conscious Circle of humanity."
They are Free Masons, in the original meaning of that
debased term: co-creators of future realities.
Only 2% are neuro-quantum adepts and beyond space-time
categories entirely.
All these estimates are approximations.
