Info-Psychology | Timothy Leary |
Larval realities are defined by islands of local environment attached to the nervous system at the time of imprinting.
From the scientific viewpoint reality is an ocean of electromagnetic vibrations whirling constantly through different cycles of speed and swirling momentarily into temporary structures including bodies with nervous systems.
The human nervous system is genetically designed to receive a small band of waves along the cyclic frequency spectrum.
Human consciousness, i.e. personal reality, is determined by the point along the frequency spectrum where the neural dials are tuned.
In a previous section it was suggested that the nervous system has evolved through twelve larval-terrestrial stages and will in the future metamorphize through twelve post-terrestrial stages. As new species emerged, new and more complex stages of the nervous system evolved. Uni-cellular species remain at the primitive level of approach-avoidance. Most mammalian forms remain at the level of individual muscular dominance. Others, the herd-flock species, reach a level of pre-symbolic social communication. Primitive humanoids remain at a level of symbol-manipulation and artifact construction but do not attain domestication and the division of sexual responsibility manifested by homo sapiens and some insects.
In companion books The Periodic Table of Evolution and The Game of Life, it is hypothesized that systematic seasonal variations in solar radiation create alterations in DNA templating at the time of conception which determine human neurogenetic "types." And that the twelve Zodiac "signs" may crudely personalize twelve species very different in neurological wiring which reflect and recapitulate twelve stages of phylogenetic and human evolution. Each Zodiac "species" thus represents the mastery of one of the twelve neurological stages which are involved in the evolution of life on our planet - preparatory for extra-terrestrial migration.[1]
Just as the members of insect colonies are genetically pre-programmed to play certain roles necessary for hive survival - worker, drone, warrior, fertile male, brood queen - so are there twelve larval types of human.
These genetic types have been vulgarly popularized as the twelve Zodiac signs, the first twelve Tarot personages, the twelve Greco-Roman divinities. Each of these twelve types can be considered as genetically separate; each contributes to the human larval evolutionary process and each carries a printed-out nervous system geared to a specialized survival task.
In addition to genetic specializations, the environmental models imprinted at the four periods of individual development define island realities which vary from person-to-person and from group-to-group. The language and dialects to which the child is exposed during the emergence of the Third Circuit lay down muscular patterns in the larynx and hand which are fixed and which limit the cognitive-symbolic reality.
This unique specificity of reality means, among other things, that we find twelve larval species and numerous cultural-imprint groups of human beings wandering around the planet, for the most part existing in different realities. To add to the confusion, since the 1960's we have several million half-mutated Hippies floating aimlessly.
People unconsciously recognize this selectivity of island realities. Social avoidance and clustering tend to respond to these reality chauvinisms. Anyone who is different is crazy or alien. Xenophobia is based on primate neurology. The hive cannot tolerate other realities.
Ontological chauvinisms are deeply rooted in fixed genetic and neural structures. In spite of the ignorance about their neural machinery, human robots manage to communicate with each other about material needs with amazing efficiency.