Did you know theres a spider on the U.S. one dollar bill? Can you find it?
Anywho I thought I'd tell you fine fucks all about the 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness.
It was created by Dr. Timothy Leary and later expanded upon by Robert Anton Wilson in his book Prometheus Rising. While not generally accepted in most science circles it still holds some bearing on how our minds have evolved over time. It is presented in 8 stages, consider each stage a gear or mini-brain that collectively makes up our consciousness. Leary presumed that the first 4 circuits exist in the left lobe of the cerebrum, and concern the survival of organisms on earth. The second 4 circuits exist in the right lobe, and are for use in the future evolution of humans, with the majority of people today never using them.
1. The Bio-survival Circuit is concerned with the earliest modes of survival and the basic separation of objects into either harmful or safe. This circuit is said to have first appeared in the earliest evolution of the invertebrate brain. It is the first to be activated in an infant's mind. Leary says this circuit is stimulated by opioid drugs. This circuit introduces a one-dimensional perception: forward and backward (i.e., forward towards food, nourishment and that which is trusted as safe, and backwards -- away from danger and predators).
2. The Emotional Circuit is concerned with raw emotion and the separation of behavior into submissive and dominant. This circuit appeared first in vertebrate animals. In humans, it is activated when the child learns to walk. Leary associates this circuit with alcohol. This circuit introduces a second dimension, up-down, linked with territorial politics and tribal power games (up, as in swelling ones body in size to represent dominance, and down, as in the cowering, tail-between-the-legs submissive stance).
3. The Dexterity-Symbolism Circuit is concerned with logic and symbolic thought. This circuit is said to have first appeared when hominids started differentiating from the rest of the primates. Leary says this circuit is stimulated by caffeine, cocaine, and other stimulants. This circuit introduces the third dimension, left and right, related to the development of dextrous movement and handling "artifacts".
4. The Social-Sexual Circuit is concerned with operating within social networks and the transmission of culture across time. This circuit is said to have first appeared with the development of tribes. Leary never associated a drug with it, but later writers have associated it with Ecstasy. This fourth circuit deals with moral-social/sexual tribal rules passed through generations and is the introduction to the fourth dimension -- time.
5. The Neurosomatic Circuit is the first of the right-brain, "higher" circuits which are inactive in most humans. It allows one to see things in multi-dimensional space instead of the 4 dimensions of Euclidean space-time, and is there to aid in the future exploration of outer space. It is said to have first appeared with the development of leisure-class civilizations around 2000 BC. It is associated with hedonism and eroticism. Leary says this circuit is stimulated by marijuana and tantric yoga, or simply by experiencing the sensation of free fall at the right time.
6. The Neuroelectric Circuit is concerned with the mind becoming aware of itself independent of the patterns imprinted by the previous five circuits. It is also called "metaprogramming" or "consciousness of abstracting". Leary says this circuit will enable telepathic communication, and that this circuit is impossible to explain to those who have only left-brain activity and is difficult to explain to those with active fifth circuits. It is said to have appeared in 500 BC, in connection with the Silk Route. Leary associates this circuit with peyote, and psilocybin. (Robert Anton Wilson called this circuit The Metaprogramming Circuit.)
7. The Neurogenetic Circuit allows access to the genetic memory contained in DNA. It is connected to memories of past lives, the Akashic Records, and the collective unconscious, and allows for essential immortality in humans. This circuit first appeared among Hindu and Sufi sects in the early first millennium. This circuit is stimulated by LSD, and Raja Yoga. (Robert Anton Wilson called this circuit The Morphogenetic Circuit.)
8. The Neuro-atomic Circuit allows access to the intergalactic consciousness that predates life in the universe (characterized as God or aliens), and lets humans operate outside of space-time and the constraints of relativity. This circuit is associated with Ketamine and DMT by Leary. (Called also by Leary The Psycho-Atomic Circuit or The Metaphysiological Circuit, Robert Anton Wilson called this circuit The Quantum Non-Local Circuit.)
Personally, I have experienced activation of all 8 circuits, to varying degrees. The 8th circuit I experienced breifly during a Salvia trip, it was apparent to me afterwards that we humans are not evolved enough to control our actions during this state. I experienced things that are hard to communicate to terrestials (you 1st through 4th circuits that have not yet experienced the other 4). As a species that (for the most part) accepts evolution as a part of life, we must learn to navigate our way through these extraterrestial circuits (5 thru 8) so that we can begin the transformation into space colonization, as well as shedding these useless sacks of blood and guts in favor of immortality as a machine-god.
Yes, this may sound like nothing more then drug induced science fiction, but you wait, 100 to 200 years from now, the rest of the world will catch up and we can begin to talk seriously. For now, I'm content in continuing on as a misunderstood explorer, diving into realms unknown and untouched by the majority of humanity.
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