Learning, conditioning and other educational or coercive methods of behavior-control write their messages on sand. After each daily tide of association and reward-punishment the associations must be repeated. The coercive nature of learned behavior is not clearly seen because it appears voluntary, indeed, the conditioned robot is obsessively drawn back to his place in the sand box. Larval civilization is a Beckett landscape. Every morning millions of humanoids rush to their sand-piles and reconstruct them.

The ordeal of Sisyphus was an exciting heroic adventure compared to the monotony of social conditioning. The robot, operant-conditioned to symbols, is a reward addict. If we remove the symbol-rewarding environment, if we fail to produce the conditioned stimulus, the humanoid robot goes mad, because SHe has nothing to do. We can accurately speak of stimulus junkies. If there is no sand box and no sand to work on, there is panic. Social deprivation creates desperate reward hunger. The social reality of conditioned response requires continual rewarding. The prisoners continually rebuild their restricting reality walls which crumble if they are not continually reinforced.

Operant conditioning is robotry and can exist only in a controlled, scheduled, coercive society.

If, to continue this rather gritty metaphor, conditioning is building sand structures, imprinting is like stamped-out metal patterns. Trying to recondition an imprint with reward punishment is like dropping single grains of sand on a forged steel pattern. Decades of sand can wear away the iron pattern. Senility can wear down the imprint. The aging politician gets lazy, the aging homosexual becomes too fatigued to cruise. Etc.

To change the shape of metal forms one must apply energy sufficient to rearrange the patterning of molecules. Change the electromagnetic field. So it is with neural imprints. Just as heat is used in metallurgy, so is it necessary to apply massive bio-chemical energy to loosen the molecular synaptic bonds. Internal stimuli - drugs, trauma, illness, deprivation, shock - can retract the external neural life lines.

Just as heated metal hardens into the new form, so does the re-imprinted nervous system harden into new circuits, freeze back into new membrane forms. We speak here of psychedelic metallurgy, serial re-imprinting, the neurologic craft of recasting the seven minds, recircuiting the bio-electric wiring.

With the present repertoire of Sixth Circuit neurotransmitter drugs it is apparently only possible to re-imprint about once a week. You cannot re-imprint every day. It takes from five to seven days for the new-mind-mold to harden. LSD research indicates that it takes a retractory period of a week for the structure to build up.

If a person had a full-scale LSD re-imprinting experience once a week for forty years, two thousand re-imprintings would be possible. This is to say, two thousand serial-reincarnations could be experienced. It is obvious that even if one played out all the myths, imprinted all the available soles, focused re-imprints on every sense organ and combination thereof, one would be hard-pressed to find and live out that many reincarnations.

The dismal fact about casual LSD sessions is that the ill prepared person tends to re-imprint the past conditioned structure, thus charging with new energy the habit patterns of the old island reality.

It is a fundamental principle of exo-psychology that conditioning centers around the positive and negative poles of the imprint. The imprint-fix is sudden. Post-imprint conditioning, however, takes time and repetition. Around the initial sexual imprint, for example, there builds up, over the years, billions of conditioned associations. This forms the structure of personality.

During a re-imprinting session it is probable that the new imprint includes the old conditioned structure. You re-imprint your spouse, for example. Where new models are imprinted, it is necessary to start building up new circles of conditioned reflexes around the new imprint. This takes time. Some early LSD researchers concluded that a six month waiting period should occur between LSD sessions. In psychological terms, to "work through the new insights." The exo-psychological phrase is "to allow new conditioning to network around the new imprints." But the new imprint model must be present during the reconditioning.

Neurologic, therefore, requires that one plan one's re-imprinting sessions carefully so that those aspects of previous realities which one wishes to exist in the future reality are present to be imprinted and new models imprinted during the "sensitive" period remain around to allow new conditioned associations to build up around them.

Usually the person re-imprints the old conditioned stimuli.

One often hears the complaint from people who have taken LSD repeatedly that, after a while, the "trips" were the same. Such comments reveal a lack of knowledge of the re-imprinting process. If the recasting of the mind occurs over and over again in the same place with the same set of characters (usually one's larval egos) then the same neural form repeats. This is like having the most precise and expensive photographic equipment and, without moving it, continuing to photograph the same object.

A more thoughtful use of the recasting, reincarnative potentialities of the nervous system was exemplified by the two neurologicians, a newly married couple, who embarked on a psychedelic world tour. The first step was to purchase 'round-the-world air tickets which had to be used within one year. The couple then thought of themselves as orbiting satellites of the planet who had to accomplish the circumnavigation in twelve months.

The procedure was to fly to a country and to enquire as to the "spiritual" center of that nation. In Japan, they were told to go to Kyoto. In India, to Benares. In Greece, to Eleusis. Etc. In Kyoto they asked where the spiritual center, the "soul" of Kyoto was to be found. They were given many suggestions and visited each center to pick up neuro-genetic vibrations. They spent a week reading about the history, politics, culture, art, myths of Japan and Kyoto. Then they went to the "holiest" place, ingested a Sixth Circuit neuro-active chemical which suspended old imprints and opened the nervous system to new imprints - which in this case were structured by the architecture and regalia of the Emperor's palace. For six hours they absorbed the signals of the place and became neurologically Japanesed.

This is the only way to "see the world"[1] to retract the imprint roots and move the unattached nervous system to a new locale to which the neural lines are extended (See diagrams 13-24.)

Without such flexibility - vulnerability - we can experience nothing outside the membrane that was formed at the time of the last imprinting - which for larvals is the time of adolescence or, in the case of women, their last child-birth. Most world travellers move their robot-bodies from country to country experiencing only symbolic versions of their own home grounds.

Such neural touring is not an end in itself, but a rudimentary training exercise for neurologicians learning how to use the Einsteinian serial possibilities of the brain.

The goal of the neurologician is to increase not just consciousness, but intelligence. Contelligence; to learn how to move and change realities by means of serial re-imprinting. When the nervous system can be used at Einsteinian relativistic speeds, the passive limitations of the nervous system itself become apparent. There are basic genetic dimensions of reality-construction which cannot be changed by re-imprinting. Just as operant conditioning is futile when compared to neural imprinting, so is imprinting superficial when compared with the Genetic Template.

We recall: imprinting hooks the bodily-neural equipment to one basic external. The environment (including the body) imprints the nervous system just as film is imprinted in a camera. However, the camera is designed and constructed by DNA. The filming process is limited and guided by the structure of the camera.

The most obvious illustration of the relationships among conditioning, imprinting and genetic templating is seen in the sexual response.

DNA, at the time of conception, stamps out the sex and model (zodiac type) of the nervous system.

The nervous system at puberty then imprints the release-stimulus of the sexual machinery. Then social conditioning either supports or ineffectually (and often cruelly) deals with the outcome of this three-layer programming by means of social rewards for virtue and social punishment for "sin."

The conflicts, internal and social, which plague larval humanity are often due to discordance among the social-neural-genetic structures.

It is a simple matter to change conditioned behavior. Just move into a different reward punishment scene.

It requires neurologic know-how to change imprints.

The genetic template, the most powerful determinant of human behavior, cannot, at this time, be changed; it can only be understood and adapted to. When post-larval humanity has evolved to Stage 20 (Genetic Engineering), it will be possible to change genetic pre-disposition.