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Rather, quantum leaps, in outlook ala Teilhard de Chardin, occur with a fantastic jump to a new horizon or level of perception.
The transition to a higher order of functioning — or hooking on to a higher neural circuit — is often accompanied by considerable anxiety or a turbulence in personal life which seems as if the organism were falling apart or breaking up. This phenomenon of instability is really the way that every living organism — societies, human primates, chemical solutions, etc. — shakes itself, as it were, by myoclonisms or similar convulsions into new combinations and permutations for higher and new levels of development.
Feminists are able to believe that all men, including the starving wretches who live and sleep on the streets, are exploiting all women, including the Queen of England.
11. Believe that you can exceed all your previous ambitions and hopes in all areas of your life.
Since “What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves,” all of our ideas are psychedelic. Even without experimenting with diet or drugs, whatever you think you should see, you will see — unless it is physically impossible in this universe.
The hardware is more “real” than the software in that you can always locate it in space-time — if it’s not in the bedroom, somebody must have moved it to the study, etc. On the other hand, the software is more “real” in the sense that you can smash the hardware back to dust (“kill” the computer) and the software still exists, and can “materialize” or “manifest” again in a different computer. (Any speculations about reincarnation at this point are the responsibility of the reader, not of the author.)
“FAIRNESS? DECENCY? HOW CAN YOU EXPECT FAIRNESS OR DECENCY ON A PLANET OF SLEEPING PEOPLE?” — G.I. Gurdjieff
Throughout human life, when the bio-survival circuit senses danger, all other mental activity ceases.
The standard “authority” reflex on the emotional-territorial circuit is to swell the muscles and howl. You will find this among birds as well as mammals, and in the Board meeting of your local bank. The standard “submission” reflex is to shrink the muscles, lower the head, and “crawl away.” You will find this among dogs, primates, fowl and employees who wish to keep their jobs everywhere.
Ego is simply the mammalian recognition of one’s status in the pack; it is a “role” as sociologists say, a single brain circuit which mistakes itself for the whole Self, the entire brain-mind apparatus. The “egotist” behaves like “a two year old,” in the common saying, because Ego is the imprint of the toddling and toilet-training stage.
Kuhn demonstrated, at length, that each scientific revolution took one full generation to turn over the old world view.
Such freedom, up to and including the present, is only relative, because many taboos are unconscious and pass themselves off as “common sense” or “common decency,” etc. Whoever challenges them is by definition a “heretic,” by definition a “traitor,” or by definition “an irresponsible nut.”
“Information is difference that makes a difference.” Information is also known mathematically as negative entropy or, in a widely used abbreviation, negentropy.
All wealth is created by human beings using their neurons intelligently.
The infant is genetically prepared to learn any language, master any skill, play any sex role; in a very short time, however, he or she becomes mechanically, robotically, fixated to accept, follow and mimic the limited offerings of his social and cultural environment.
Why is there this taboo against sexual self-definition and self-actualization? Why is it that, while no two societies can agree on what is sexually “good” and sexually “bad,” every society thinks that it must make some definition? The answer is that our first humanoid (symbolizing and conceptualizing) ancestors were very ignorant, but not at all stupid. They were ignorant of the laws of genetics, but they were smart enough to suspect that such laws exist. Sperm-egg fusion is surrounded by violent taboos and fierce tribal conformity because the survival and future evolution of the gene pool
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Taboo and morality are tribal attempts to govern the random element — to select the desired future.
The most “idiotic” and “superstitious” taboos, from the Rationalist viewpoint, always had some function when invented.
Persons who take their heaviest imprint on this circuit are beautiful. That is, their entire body has received so many sexual neurotransmitters from the brain that they are constantly radiating the “attractive” mating signals that make up our perception of what is “beautiful” in a human being.
Nelson Algren had her in mind when he said, “Never bed down with a woman who has more problems than you.”
Very simply, a totally aware, alert, awakened (unbrainwashed) person would not fit very well into any of the standard roles society offers; the damaged, robotized products of traditional child-rearing do fit into those slots.
Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous yes; but such schools are necessary to train people for roles in the ordinary office or factory or profession, which are also very much like mini-prisons, stifle imagination, cramp the person physically and mentally and run on terror (threat of loss of bio-survival tickets, in the form of pay-checks or tenure).
as the accelerated changes now occurring propel us into the most rapid period of social evolution in all human history, we will then need citizens who are not robots, who are creative; who are not docile, who are innovative; who are not narrow-minded bigots, who are explorers in every sense of the word.
concretely, most people are not encouraged to be very smart, and are rather heavily programmed to be comparatively stupid. Such programming is what is needed to fit them into most traditional jobs.
awakening from that hypnoidal state he saw through the mechanism of all other delusions and how they robotize us.
The brain can be tuned, like a TV, to turn off any channel, and to bring in a new channel. This is what the veterans of the 1960s-1970s Neurological Revolution know. This is the major threat, and the major promise of our time.
synchronicities and said they represented an acausal and/or holistic principle in nature that acts outside the linear past-present-future of Newtonian time.
subatomic events cannot be understood in Newtonian terms and must require some sort of acausality (indeterminism) or holism (superdeterminism) to explain them. In either case, the distinction between “observer” and “observed" breaks down. (About that, more later.) Jung, in turn, had observed that such synchronicities — weird coincidences — tend to occur when certain deep structures in the psyche are activated.
From the viewpoint of neuro-sociology, how I perceive “myself” and “my world” depends on how each circuit has been wired in my brain.
Christianity, Buddhism and Islam, between them, are the most potent brain-programming institutions on this planet. Approximately half the art and philosophy of the human race — the architecture, the music, the paintings, the literature, the educational ideals, the “great ideas” — has been influenced by and/or nurtured by these three great systems of theology.
Throughout most of human history and up to 100 years ago — up to 20 years ago, in some parts of the world — a man or woman could lead their entire life snugly within the cocoon of the local tunnel-reality. Today, we all constantly collide with persons living in wildly different tunnel-realities. This creates a great deal of hostility in the more ignorant, vast amounts of metaphysical and ethical confusion in the more sophisticated, and growing disorientation for all — a situation known as our “crisis of values.”
Try to learn as much from every human you meet about their separate reality-tunnel and see how much of it you can use to make your reality-tunnel bigger and more inclusive. In other words, learn to listen.
For instance, she knew and wrote with total clarity that illness is fear and love is its cure.
1. I am at cause over my body. 2. I am at cause over my imagination. 3. I am at cause over my future. 4. My mind abounds with beauty and power. 5. I like people, and people like me.
Conclusion: who you are, and what you think you are, is a creation edited and orchestrated by your brain.
Theologians are vexed by questions like: Can an omnipotent God create a rock so heavy He Himself cannot lift it? (If he cannot, he is not omnipotent; and if he can, he is also not omnipotent.)
communication is only possible between equals.
This data demonstrates that both UFOs and other energy anomalies tend to cluster along earthquake faults with some peaking before earthquakes.
The average Man or Woman of 1997 will be as obsolete in 2007 as the medieval serf is now. What we consider normal jobs, normal social roles; normal “humanity” will be as archaic as a horde of alchemists, smithies, Town Criers, courtiers and barber-surgeons arriving in our midst today.
Neither capitalist indust-reality nor socialist indust-reality have been able to give humanity what most of us really want: liberty and justice, freedom and the abolition of poverty, continued growth and continued security. In looking at capitalism vs. socialism, we are always confronted with a dilemma, not a choice.
“The universe is so constructed as to be able to see itself,” Spencer Brown once noted. The emergence of the neurosomatic, neurogenetic and metaprogramming circuits is the universe’s way of “seeing itself” ever more clearly and totally, to decide where it is going.
We are going to live a lot longer than we have expected, and we are going to get a lot smarter. A whole new reality will emerge from those mutations.
what does move faster than light, and holds the Whole System together, is “consciousness.”
Beethoven says it for all of them, without words, in the fourth movement of the Ninth Symphony.
We are extending ourselves in Space and Time not because of capitalism or socialism but in spite of them. The Right/Left Capitalist/Socialist establishments are psychologically unprepared for our emerging situation in Time and Space. — F.M. Esfandiary, Upwingers
the universe “is not a dead machine but a living presence.”
stupidity has murdered and imprisoned more geniuses (and more ordinary people), burned more books, slaughtered more populations, and blocked progress more effectively than any other force in history.
Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.
If human stupidity in general decreased, there would be less opposition to original thinking and new approaches to our old problems, less censorship and less bigotry. If stupidity decreased, less money would be wasted
“Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.”
