The Kallisto Effect
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8:2 = 16 - Harmony

  External and Internal Faces

All the Circuits involve open and hidden aspects. But what is a hidden aspect? The hidden aspects are modes or techniques which may be viewed as extremely negative by our culture. CyberCraft is a continuation of knowledge which was not received well by our contemporaries. Consequently any practice which may bring prosecution or unusual persecution should be considered an internal aspect. This is to protect the CyberCraft.

As examples--followers of Lyndan Larouche have already penetrated certain neoPagan and Magickal computer networks, gained information and published pamphlets publicly branding the networkers as Satanic devil worshipers utilizing a nationwide Satanic computer network designed to help facilitate the stealing of innocent children from the Christian enclaves. Is it presently rumored that some reportedly armed right-wing organizations are collecting names and addresses for their databases. The South Western Radio Church has long been on an anti-newage campaign and can't be far behind.   Under no circumstance is a public access computer network to beconsidered secure. Use encryption programs that are DES based to provide the needed security. Pass the keys by first class mail. Code the keys in questions or stories that only CyberNauts would understand. The external face can be discussed freely in public environments. The hidden face should be discussed only between members or between members and trusted inquirers. And then onlythe knowledge needed should be exposed. For the internal faces written and electronic telephone line or  air radiated communications should be encrypted in such a way asto provide a reasonable measure of security. Leave no unencrypted internal face material open to accidental discovery by anyone. This author's experience with government agencies is that some 1700 governmental agencies keep and maintain information on individuals. Once these agencies acquire negative information much time, money and effort is required to purge their records. Even then one is never sure an agency has not simply refilled the information in different areas to retain the disputed information. Privacy is a vital practice. This may seem paranoid but a general practice of privacy can only benefit us.

Sharing Bio-circuit Experiences

Bio-Circuit 5 Experiences I have had some very wonderful experiences with the upper 4 circuits. Some of this may sound threatening but I hope not too much. Between circuits 4 and 5 is a place I call Darkmoor. AnteroAlli terms it Chapel Perilous.  Darkmoor is the region of doubt we experience when we begin to notice the upper 4 circuits. Some,perhaps most of us, start thinking that we are betraying our parents, sometimes our peers, and perhaps ourselves when we modify our lifestyles toward circuit 5. After all most of us were taught from early on that we had to "work hard" to live.

Circuit 5 lets us know that we can enjoy ourselves, even be a little lazy when we need, or when we want. The upper circuits do somewhat parallel the lower circuits.The bodily feel goodness of circuit 1 is paralleled and amplified in circuit 5. For most people life can be good, for some it can be great, yet others live fantastic lives. Generally when we learn not to fight ourselves, our general need to feel good and be happy,we learn to live well.   Sometimes I wonder how the grasshopper felt. Did he really think that winter wouldn't come?? If we take our pleasure constantly will we miss some other important event? Yes. Tim Leary writes that people _stuck_ in circuit 5 think having fun is too important to be weighed down with commitments and progress. Those stuck in circuit 5 find it extremely difficult to even notice the upper 3 circuits. The general warning is that there is always something else to learn, to experience. Till things go "non-local", "exponential"and/or "non-linear" in circuit 8 we always have another circuit to experience. One other important point. Infact it's a large consideration. Health, no not just sexual health, but health in general. Exploring circuits takes time. Without a healthy body and mind the fun of exploration is diminished, perhaps even precluded. In this model life extension is a vital part. Writer Paul Bragg, who influenced Jack Lalane, made it to 96 with all his teeth and normal vision, running 5 miles a day and swimming a mile on occasion. Alas due to an unfortunate accident Paul Bragg is no longer with us. There is no reason why we can't live to 100 or 150. Health is part and parcel of circuit 5. What does it benefit us to be king and queens if our health is failing? Yet with good health of mind and body even paupers have the opportunity to become wealthy. With the emergence of micro- and nano-technology in 50 years or so, we may have the tools to extend life to 2-3 hundred years. Some visionaries tell us that because technology is exploding exponentially, in the coming century we may find ways to extend life indefinitely. Or perhaps until the individual decides it'stime to die. It'd be a shame to die the day before immortality machines are brought online. Along with life extension comes greater ability to cope with change. In a 150 year life cycle comes the ability to cross train in several different fields of study. Then after they have been assimilated a cross-discplinary approach to the tough problems can be used to better solve those problems. Of course a 150 year lifecycle also means about 120 years ofpleasure in circuit 5. That's quite a consideration. Circuit 6 experiences Circuit 6 experiences concern the Collective Neuro-genetic Relationship.  While neither of us believes in a real Goddess or God we dosee the value in this for some people. However what appeals to usare collective neuro-genetic archetypes. Please read Jung's workon archetypes for established and accepted definitions of archetypes. To us archetypes are patterns in both the conscious and unconscious that "program" windows of action or opportunity for us. Archetypes can be either the individual's genetic coding (programming) or a culturally determined way or mode of experiencing life.  It is the story of all human life. Expanding consciousness can be substituted for immortality and the story is much the same. (And as presented in the previous reply consciousness may indeed bring to us practical immortality.) Circuit 6 helps us get in touch with our past, present and future history. Some folks think that the current state of humanity is the culminating state. I think not. In a million years or so we may find as many different types of humans as we find in other different but similar species. Part of circuit 6 is aspecting a neuro-genetic archetype. Somefolks call this channeling; and while they think they are channeling a discarnate entity from elsewhere I have my suspicions.In my life I have noticed a semi-major personality change about every 2-3 years. To me the current personality is a variable composite of past personalities. It's variable in that it is  a changeable forum or quorum of memories, thoughts and feelings that make up you. In this quorum there are stronger and weaker individuals. Each play their own part in our psyche. If I allow achange in the quorum these internal changes are evident to me and close friends. Aspecting (channeling) is changing the forum, rearranging thequorum for a different perspective or view of reality. Modern channelers then speak and act differently than normally. But we don't need to be channelers to get in touch with the collective neuro-genetic patterns.  Almost everything. Life has rules, regulations and consequences. Games have the models of those very same things. Tim Leary got into hot water with "games" in a time when life was a serious matter. Early in Joseph Campbell's book PRIMITIVE MYTHOLOGY Joe talks about different culture's approaches to life. One approach is that life is a game to be played. I like that approach myself. If we make ourselves perceive life as a game we can have fun with the game. Sometimes we can even get away with mucking with/the rules. Consequences are there though... In part of the game of aspecting a neuro-collective archetype we know of as witch or magician. Others play this important game with him.  But the archetype(s) is deep within our psyche.We can no more escape them than we can escape our own arms. An advantage of being able to muck the rules is that we can determine what we can and cannot get away with. American culture is very restrictive. Getting in touch with the genetic archetypes enable us to experiment, to know, to be flexible enough to shape-shift into a new personality at whim. Our participants who are actors can identify with this concept. In current psychologies we have models including only three entities--child, adult and parent. However these are a basic three in many thousands. The collective neuro-genetic circuit gives us the opportunity to emulate any of those thousands of internal,genetically and culturally driven archetypes. Just for fun, here are a few words from Ammond... "The witch is a powerful person because they learn to turn,bend, shape and condition reality. Life is a marvelous thing when one realizes that magick does indeed work. Through magick I can create, modify or condition anything in my life. That's fun and I benefit greatly.". And now a few words from another important person-- Arthur C. Clarke... "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Of which Ammond bends into "To the culturally xenophobic any sufficiently different technology is indistinguishable from magic, ie. pure garbage." Circuit 7 experiences... What can be said about circuit 7? Lots of things, but these statements are almost in a different language. Something not in English. In its most basic aspect circuit 7 is the point in the individual's development where they begin to understand how they program, influence, and condition their own minds. The programmer takes control of the program to design in or erase out those functions useful or not. This includes feelings and emotions.[Glasser's Perception orders give us a hint as to how to use circuit 7 better.] Circuit 7 is the metaprogramming circuit. Dr. Lilly has a lotto say on this subject in some of his books. I think Center Of The Cyclone and Programmimg And Metaprogramming The Human Biocomputer both address this topic. I haven't read the latter at this point.It's on my list of a hundred or so. In other topics I refer to the human mind/body complex as a single somewhat mechanical entity. Robert Anton Wilson says the brain is something like a silicon computer. Cyber-punks term the brain "wetware". They even go as far as to distinguish between minds, ie. "meat mind" and "machine mind". In K. Eric Drexler's Engines Of Creation--The Coming Era Of Nanotechnology, he starts his book off writing of the machines that inhabit the human body. Each human cell is inhabited with millions of tiny nanomachines. And today we have the beginning of thec apability of sensing, viewing, controlling and creating newer,more useful nano machines. Obviously our understanding of the wordmachine is evolving. (Perhaps you have heard recently that folks at IBM labs have the ability to manipulate individual atoms. In 22 hours with a scanning tunneling microscope they moved 32 xenonatoms across a nickel surface to spell out IBM. It was difficult and slow, but it was done. Additionally genetic researchers on the East Coast are asking for children with genetic conditions to volunteer for genetic manipulation and testing. They think they can"fix" the bad chromosones.) The human body and by extension the human brain (wetware) is composed of individual micro and nano machines. So by extension we can think of the human brain as a macro-machine (in light of the littler machines that make its composition.) As time proceeds, technology and human knowledge progress. Even the understanding of "technology" and "knowledge" changes with new information. The understanding of "human" and "mind" changes even as you read thisreply. Today we are on the verge of a radical change. Additionally, radical changes in our paradigms are happening now. Either our individual world views keep up with existing useful knowledge or we will grow "strange", alienating ourselves from the force of the march of the race toward the stars. One of these paradigm changes is one which considers the human animal more machine and less a metaphysical entity. By extension we can also say that the human mind is more machine than metaphysical entity. A truly advanced, conscious and replicating,self-modifying, amazing machine, but a machine it remains. This disturbs many metaphysical minded folks because it has ominous consequences, the most ominous being that if WoMankind is basically a machine then what about an afterlife? According to this model unless some vehicle is generated to contain human consciousness there is no life after death. Continuing on... Just like a computer we can program ourminds. School is the primary place of programming. Learning is taught very little in schools. Students are supposed to open their minds to let the teacher pour in the socially accepted, accredited programs. It's no wonder our children hate school. They have the genetically driven need to learn, but they perceive they are being programmed. Programming and learning are not the same thing. Our children perceive the hypocrisy. I rebel against the idea myself. However ethical self-programming is a different item altogether. Folks like Leary, Wilson, Alpert, and Lilly, tell us that some techniques can indeed change our minds. Techniques like focused meditation, positive visualization, brain machines and chemical alteration are powerful tools for brain change. Personally I've used positive visualization to some success. Focused meditation is probably the best current legal technique. More powerful techniques are brain machines which use a feature ofthe brain to train the brain into semi-discrete states while listening to motivational tapes. The most powerful and most dangerous tools are psycho-active drugs. These are generally used to demolish existing emotional structures which might compete with the newly forming, more delicate emotional structures. This wrecking crew is composed of any of the psycho-active drugsavailable. The most popular are LSD, 'shrooms, XTC and pot. All of these drugs tie back into circuit 5 so there is a double whammy involved with their usage. For some people demolition of emotional structures works well. Others would just freak. Currently these drugs are illegal. Our society has some difficult problems to face with respect to mind-altering substances. The primitive (and now our contemporary) shaman has used plant substances to alter brain chemistry for some 30,000years. I have a fairly extensive reading list for these metaprogramming substances. Perhaps this is subject matter for an addendum. Brain machines and disciplined meditation seem to be the most powerful legal tools. These are able to softly rearrange the minds programming without demolishing whole structures. As time marches on brain machines will progress. I presume that at some point, the most powerful models will become illegal. Figures. Circuit 8 experiences... Circuit 8 is very mystical. Writing about circuit 8 for me is difficult. I have a limited understanding of it. This is probably because Mike is a 7 circuit person. . This revolves around strange things like 'information' and 'consciousness', 'charm' and 'quarks'and such intellectual sillyness. Generally the idea is that we are all linked in a network of sorts. When we find the proper technologies and applications we should be able to slide around on the net, doing and going to different places in a flash.  Quantum physics has been bringing us some strange information. Mostly it says that our views of the universe affect our perception of the universe so what we think we see is really something else. Or something like that. You'll have to get the information yourself. There are some good and bad books on this subject. Be careful of what you pick up at the bookstore. Somehow those books jump right off the shelf at you saying buy me, read me. You'd think there was something magic about it all. Experiencing good synchronicity is a good example of circuit 8 being active.  Of course Jung is the one who coined the term Synchronicity.

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