Info-Psychology |
Timothy Leary |
THE EVOLUTION, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
8. A Neuro-muscular Politic: Defines the Eight Freedoms and
the Eight Controls.
Towards the end of the sixteenth century, Giordano Bruno aroused the
groggy world, asking it to fling its mind far beyond the planets. He Speculated that the
cosmos extended to infinity - without an edge.
This is itself was not so shocking; but Bruno went considerably further
- he postulated a multiplicity of worlds; suns and planets with life, unseen companions
for the race of man. He toyed with man's conception of himself, for this, and for
magical claims and political entanglements, he was burned in 1600.
Charles A. Whitney
Politics is the externalization of emotions; mammalian, musculotonic behavior mediated
by the emergency (sympathetic) nervous system to seize or defend territory.
There are four levels of terrestrial freedom, four conditions of servitude, four levels
of social fusion all related to the basic mammalian mesomorphic drive to get "on Top."
There are also four neurological freedoms which characterize post-terrestrial existence.
- Biological, Viscerotonic Freedom to protect one's life and health and the
Constraint of actions which threaten the cellular survival of others. Personal health.
Public health. Access to vital supplies. Expression and control of violence.
- The Territorial Freedom to maintain one's living space and to move freely;
the Constraint of intrusion on the living space of another or the control of the
mobility of others.
- Technological Cerebrotonic Freedom to manufacture, possess and use artifacts
and to transmit symbols. The Constraint of using force to take the artifacts of others
or to censor their symbol systems.[1]
- The Cultural Freedom to select one's life style and socio-sexual role. The
Constraint of interfering with the courtship styles, mating rites, impersonation
styles, and domestic mores of others.
These basic larval Freedoms and Constraints define the muscular politics of material,
Newtonian, terrestrial One-gravity existence.
Next we consider the politics of time.
The politics of extra-terrestrial, Einsteinian existence concern the Freedom and
Control of energies within the human body, within the nervous system, within the
DNA code, and within the structure of the atom.
- 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 drug or food and use any erotic stimulation one wishes and the
Constraint from drugging, torturing or erotically stimulating others without their
consent.
- Neurophysical Freedom to expand, accelerate, control one's own nervous
system and to broadcast and receive electronically. The Freedom to migrate from the
planet. The Constraint of interfering with the brain-reward processes and the
neuro-electrical transception of others. The Constraint of interfering with the
extra-planetary plans of others.
- The Genetic Freedom of all life forms to live and evolve into symbiotic
fusions. The Constraint of actions which threaten the evolution of other life forms.
Specifically this implies the freedom to conduct genetic research; to facilitate one's
own evolution and symbiosis. And the Constraint of genetic research which hurts,
manipulates, enslaves or genocides other life-forms.
- The Nuclear Freedom of all life forms to attain fusion with
metaphysiological intelligence; to conduct nuclear particle research. The Constraint
of actions which use nuclear energy to threaten the lives and evolution of other life
forms.
Exo-psychology defines eight levels of Revolution-revelation:[2]
| 8. |
Nuclear Revelation (quantum time) |
| 7. |
Genetic Revelation (DNA time) |
| 6. |
Electronic Revelation (brain time) |
| 5. |
Hedonic Revelation (body time) |
| 4. |
Cultural-sexual Revolution (hive-domestication power) |
| 3. |
Technological Revolution (mechanical power) |
| 2. |
Political Revolution (musculotonic power) |
1. |
Violence Revolution (viscerotonic power) |
Exo-psychology also defines eight social groupings:
| 8. |
Fusion with nuclear structure |
| 7. |
Symbiosis |
| 6. |
Telepathy; cyborg fusion |
| 5. |
Somatic fusion; tantra, nature communes, space colonies |
| 4. |
Cultural-ethical groupings (hive, tribe) |
| 3. |
Technical-professional-occupational groupings |
| 2. |
Political-territorial groupings |
1. |
Bio-survival groupings; military-medical |