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Circuit Five
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-head. No camera can show this
experience because it is inside the nervous system. FREE-FALL, AT THE PROPER EVOLUTIONARY
TIME, TRIGGERS THE NEUROSOMATIC MUTATION, Leary believes. Previously this mutation has
been achieved "artificially" by yogic or shamanic training or by the fifth
circuit stimulant, cannabis. Surfing, skiing, skin- diving and the new sexual culture
(sensuous massage, vibrators, imported Tantric
arts, etc.) have evolved at the same time as part of the hedonic conquest of gravity. The
Turn-On state is always described as "floating," or, in the Zen metaphor,
"on foot above the ground."
Associated consequences to be taken into account include:
A Neurosomatic aesthetic, defining
the natural, somatic dimensions of the beautiful.
The Cyber-somatic stage - mediating
the recveption, integration and transmission of sensory-somatic signals uncensored by
government imprints, designed to operate in a zero gravity environment. Body
Consciousness.
Somatic Freedom to control
one's own body function and sensory input. The Constraint of interfering with another's
bodily function or sensory intake. The Constraint of imposing involuntary stimuli on
others. Specifically this implies the freedom to ingest any substance or food and use any
erotic stimulation one wishes and the Constraint from drugging, torturing or eroticaly
stimulating others without their consent.
Revolution-revealation Hedonic
Revelation (body time)
Social grouping Somatic
fusion; tantra, nature communes, space colonies
Level of Truth Neurosomatic
truth: somatic-sensory signals, free of larval-survival cues, directly registered and
mediated by the Fifth Circuit. ("My pleasure, my beauty")
Reality Class The Fifth
Reality, body consciousness is the reception by thebody of direct, natural signals
uncensored by survival imprints ans selectively aware of the demands of gravity.
Individual/species evolution An
aesthetic defining beautiful-ugly, artistic-unartistic
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