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A fourth-circuit type will try to be rational (third circuit) and to sense the emotional dimensions of the problem (second circuit)
(Oliver Wendell Holmes referred to this as “the hydrostatic principle in controversy,” whereby the fools drag everybody down to their own level.)
the fact that most people remain in the same reality-tunnel as their parents, does indicate that acculturalization is a mind control process.
If an employer becomes too obnoxious, one can always find a new job. You cannot walk out on the U.S. or S.L. Army that way, because acute first-circuit helplessness is being imprinted.
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
It is no secret that the most powerful secret society of the middle ages, the Knights Templar, forced recruits to participate in both blasphemy and sodomy.
The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.
Each tunnel is also equally absurd when seen from outside.
The problems of the modern world arise from the fact that these reality-tunnels are no longer isolated from each other.
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.”
Assume you have been brainwashed. 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.
Try to get into the Joycean head space, where everybody is a separate reality-island full of mystery and surprise. In other words, learn to observe.
THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY NEED NOT BE POSTPONED UNTIL AFTER DEATH. IT CAN HAPPEN AT ANY MOMENT.
The neurosomatic circuit of the brain is much more recent than the antique circuits previously discussed. It does not manifest in all human beings,
Temporary neurosomatic consciousness can be acquired by (a) the yoga practice of pranayama breathing and (b) for those who can handle it, by ingestion of Cannabis drugs, such as hashish and marijuana, which trigger neurotransmitters that activate this circuit.
Negative neurosomatic circuit effects are experienced by amateur yogis, by many pot-heads, and by a large number of schizophrenics. The neurosomatic feedback loop, in these unfortunate cases, reverses the above description. Sensory experience becomes unpleasant (any sound or touch is painful), sensuality turns into acute
discomfort with the entire body, perceptions warp into nightmare, and general anxiety is imprinted. Light is particularly terrifying and painful, often associated with Hell or with "mind-control” manipulated by unscrupulous enemies.
One faith-healer told the present author, “Most people die of adrenaline poisoning.” In our terminology, most people have too much first-circuit anxiety and second-circuit territorial pugnacity for their own good. They are literally struggling for survival, as no other animals do, despite Darwin.
The faith-healer went on, “What cures them is realizing that I'm not afraid.” That is, contact with a fifth-circuit personality, a person who controls his or her own Circuit II adrenaline-trips, can be a catalyst, throwing the sufferer upward into a personal fifth-circuit experience.
Prolonged sexual play without orgasm always triggers some Circuit V consciousness.
Large-scale outbursts of neurosomatic consciousness have occurred frequently in all the major historical periods, usually being stamped out quickly by the local branch of the Inquisition or the AM.A.; other outbursts have been co-opted and diluted.
In general, fourth-circuit problems take the form of guilt; “I cannot do what I am supposed to do.” Third-circuit problems take the form of perplexity; “I cannot understand how I got into this mess, or how to get out of it, or what is expected of me,” etc. Second-circuit problems take the form of bullying or cowardice: “I will force them, or I will surrender and let them force me.” First-circuit problems take the form of body
symptoms: “I feel rotten all over” gradually centering in, under enough stress, on one acute disabling symptom.*
Endorphins are neurotransmitters that trigger Circuit V. They can be activated by cannabis drugs, psychedelics, meditation, pranayama, or visualization of white light. The last is the most common system used by “faith-healers” and was known to the medieval Rosicrucians.
This “floating” aspect of the fifth circuit is preparing us for extraterrestrial migration.
“Perfect love casteth out fear” and that is how neurosomatic awakening cures disease.
When the brain develops its full potentials we shall gain a new view of life and the control of neurosomatic bliss over lower-circuit guilts, perplexities, emotions and ‘body symptoms’
In the East, the control of the neurosomatic circuit is known as dhyana, cha'an or Zen; the state is sometimes called “Buddha-mind” or “Buddha-body.”
those who accomplished the ritual successfully were called digenes, “twice-born.”
A permanent neurosomatic circuit can only be imprinted by prolonged practice of one of the yogic, Tantric or related sciences, and perhaps good genes, good environments and good luck generally.
Hassan i Sabbah was not the first or last student of the ways in which sexuality can be transmuted into fifth-circuit rapture. Further to the East, there were Tantric schools within Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism, which taught techniques by which prolongation of the genital embrace could explode into dramatic brain-change.
A strange thing has happened in constructing this cyberneticized brothel. We seem to have gone beyond sex to something that might be called meta-sex.
And the most peculiar thing about this bawdy science-fiction projection is that we don’t even need to build a Magic Room. It is built into our brains already. We have been describing the positive neurosomatic consciousness which Freud called “polymorphous perversity” in one of his Puritan moods and "the oceanic experience” in one of his mystical moments. This is what the neurosomatically turned-on brain feels like.
is it Circuit I consciousness. Circuit II ego. Circuit III mind, Circuit IV sex-role. Circuit V Gestalt-field, or a higher circuit?
“One who is living you now”?
The sixth circuit of the brain kicks into action when the nervous system begins to receive signals from within the individual neuron — from the RNA-DNA “dialogue,” the neurogenetic feedback system.
The species is even more intelligent than the gene-pool. It lives millions of times longer than any individual, many thousand times longer than any gene-pool.
The biosphere — Gaia — the DNA script — is more intelligent than all individuals, gene-pools and species. It has survived everything thrown at it for nearly 4 billion years, and is getting smarter all the time.
It is on the edge of achieving immortality; through the sixth circuit it has a better eye to see itself and judge its trajectories than ever before; it is getting ready to l...
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Beethoven, to cite him one more time, said “Anybody who understands my music will never be unhappy again.” That is because his music is the song of the Sixth Circuit, of Gaia, the Life Spirit, becoming conscious of Herself,...
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According to reliable statistics, over 100,000,000 citizens of the U.S. “believe in” UFOs and at least 15,000,000 have seen a UFO.
Dr. John Lilly says, “In the province of the mind what is believed true is true or becomes true within limits to be learned by experience and experiment. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits.”
there is no division between “me” and “my experience.”
In heavy meditation, when I think of me, I am me; when I think of me and you, I am me and you; when I think of you alone, I am not there anymore; when I think of God, I am God. What I see with my eyes closed and with my eyes open is the same stuff: brain circuitry.
(Almost everybody remembers the name of their first grade teacher — imprint vulnerability again — but that of the second grade teacher tends to get lost.)
If I point a gun at you, you go to Circuit I consciousness at once, and that is your “self” at that instant. But if you are sexually attracted to somebody, you go to Circuit IV and that is your “self” until you are orgasmically satisfied (or hopelessly frustrated).
Most of the preliminary exercizes in Sufi and Gurdjieff schools consist in making you aware that the “self” is not constant but shifts back and forth between the imprints on the various circuits. The “soul” or Circuit VII is constant, because it is, as the Chinese say, void or no-form. It plays all the roles you play — oral dependent, emotional tyrant, cool rationalist, romantic seducer, neurosomatic healer, neurogenetic Evolutionary Visionary — but it is none of them. It is plastic. It is no-form, because it is all forms. It is the “creative Void” of the Taoists.
It is not nonsense. We are merely confronting infinity where we least expected to encounter it — in our own lonely selves.
Of course, only the most fanatic Freudian or Buddhist mystic would claim your whole life history has been similarly “selected” by you. But, stop and think a moment: the life-history you think you have, the part that is stored in your brain as “memory,” has certainly been selected. You can’t even remember everything that happened in the last five minutes. If you try to be inwardly silent (passive; non-verbal) and notice everything happening in your field for one minute, you are overwhelmed by thousands of impressions that you cannot catalog and retain.
Conclusion: who you are, and what you think you are, is a creation edited and orchestrated by your brain.
