Up until the present, human beings have been neurologically unable to conceive of the future.

This inhibition (Neo-phobia) is genetically imposed. The larval nervous system creates earth-bound realities. For the caterpillar to "think" about flying would be survivally risky. Indeed the caterpillar cannot "think" about flying because it has no wings. We assume that pre-human forms of life have no awareness of time, no ability to look into the future; that mammals operating with the two immediate survival circuits have no conception of the evolutionary plan.[1]

The key to evolution beyond the larval forms is the understanding and control of time.

The emergence of the laryngeal-manual circuit, the paleolithic unfolding of left-hemisphere symbol-manipulating and logical-ordering allowed humanity to transmit vocal, written and artifactual time-signals across the generations. Operant conditioning, instrumental learning assures the transmission of culture from the past to the present.

Larval time-binding involves very short periods and narrow perspectives. The farmer looks to the next harvest. The politician looks to the next election. The bureaucrat looks forward to payday, to the weekend, to the summer vacation. Parents look to their children.

Larval civilizations operate on the basis of calculated ignorance about the future. The four-brained person does not want to know about the future because it threatens the stability of the reality imprint. Four-brained societies do not want to know about the present, because prospection would lessen the motivation to work blindly towards organized uncertainty.

There is a taboo about future forecast. The book Future Shock seems to be more about present shock and describes the terror and confusion created by a world which is different from the past; i.e. different from one's childhood imprint realities. Prophobia is so intense that the future cannot be faced in a best-selling book.

Even the scientific groups who try to project the future are curiously unable to foresee an evolving neurological-mutational change. The Club of Rome, the RAND Corporation, Herman Kahn all present statistical extrapolations of material trends of the past projected to the future. Thus we are told that the future will be a global extension of a Swedish Los Angeles. All the current predictions by "futurists" forecast an air-conditioned ant-hill world in which personal freedom, creativity are limited by population pressure, scarcity and restrictive social control.

There is one possibility routinely omitted in future projections - a sudden global raising of contelligence. The "I²"of S.M.I².L.E.

The 1960's witnessed a general raising of consciousness, a massive "mind-fission," a widespread retraction of larval imprints. The new realities imprinted were not thoughtfully selected. While there was a "drop-out" away from the artifact-symbols of the parent-culture and a joyful hedonic acceptance of the rapture of direct sensation ("feel good, stay-high"), there was an unfortunate tendency to reject technology and scientific thinking. The drug-culture of the 1960's wandered around, "spaced out" (this is a good term), "high," but with no place to go.[2] One generation too early for interstellar migration.

Into this neural vacuum rushed the "occultists," second hand Karma dealers, Jesus-salesmen, "spiritualists," fad-cultists, astrologers providing occult terms and "other-worldly" explanations for the new transcendental states.

The question of the 1960's was: After retracting imprints from the material culture, where do you go? The answers of the past were: back to Jesus, back to Hassidism, back to India, back to the nature simplicity of the pioneers. The Here and Now of Transcendental Masturbation. The "Me" generation.

The consciousness fads became soothing terrestrial "turn-offs," offering peace of mind, detached serenity, health-foodism, feel-good sensory supermarkets for pre-mature mutants who have no idea of where to go. The water-bed fad is a classic example of pre-mature 5th Circuit mutation, with its hint of zero-gravity sensory freedom.

The hedonic spirit of the 1960's was a manifestation of Stage 13, the receptive, exploratory use of a new neural circuit. It is natural that the first post-larval generation would appear confused, dis-oriented, frivolous, irritatingly vague. The task of the next generation is to learn how to transmit the new experiences, to raise intelligence, to control time, to create extra-terrestrial models based on scientific evidence.

A mutation is always disturbing to the larval culture. No one wants the reality game to become bigger than one's childhood imprints.

The genetic time-table has reached the point where humanity is beginning to understand how the nervous system operates and how robot-synaptic reactions can be suspended. A new level of contelligence is defined.