This book was written, a long, long time ago, in the period 1975-1976.

The subsequent twelve years have produced enormous changes -- in world consciousness, in American Culture, in the information-psychological sciences and, to say the least, in my own perspectives.

For example, when this book was written:

Richard Nixon was in the Oval Office, being replaced by Gerald Ford. Decriminalization of marijuana had been recommended by Presidential commissions, and by the top medical / legal associations.

I wrote EXO-PSYCHOLOGY while serving a long sentence in federal prison for possession of a half ounce of the stuff. Taking advantage of this government-grant of undistracted time I cheerfully involved myself in writing three books and in warily avoiding FBI assassination threats.

This enforced monasticism may excuse the wistful references to Aleksandr L. Solzenitsyn, Giordano Benno, Andrei Sakharov, etc. My caged status may partially explain the earnest yearnings for extra-terrestrial flight, for O'Neill Space colonies and for bird-like escape from this earth's heavy gravity-well.

Can you recall those starry nights back then when our very own Sky Lab hung above us in bright high-orbit? The Washington/Cape Canaveral Shuttle had not been built, nor destroyed by NASA communication breakdowns.

In our innocence we assumed that the Shah, with the help of the CIA, could establish a western industrial culture in Iran. That Israel was a western-democracy. That Born-Again Christians were pathetic, irrelevant kooks. How innocent we were back then.

How uninformed was I, not understanding several great insights which would, in the next wild decade, clarify our expectations of the 21st century.

I had, for example, not read Great Expectations by Landon Y. Jones. This fascinating and erroneously pessimistic book suggested that each decade of the last half of the 20th century represents a stage or passage in the growing-up of the Baby Boom Generation, a cohort 76 million strong, twice as large as expected. This new species of Cyber-kids, encouraged by Dr. Spock to think for themselves, trained by TV ads to become consumer gourmets of reality, were the first generation to explore and inhabit the Info-World, the first cohort of humans to think and communicate in terms of electron-clusters projected on screens, those shimmering, always changing mirrors of public consciousness.

Nor had I, in 1975-76, read Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave or John Naisbitt's writings about the post-industrial, post-nation, post-collective consciousness.

I clearly did realize that the smokestack, assembly line, factory civilization was winding down in smog, rust, and acid rain. And I was able to spell out the four most probable next stages of our evolution as species and individuals.

5. Cyber-somatic: the individual managing hir own body, using new hedonic-aesthetic technologies to pilot through the sensory world which can only be experienced by the registered (imprinted) owner. The emergence of High-Tech Paganism.

6. Cyber-neurologic: the world of the brain which can only be experienced by the owner, the individual navigating and re-programming hir own bran; using new electronic technologies to create Info-worlds more tangible and natural and livable than the mechanical realities of the industrial age; the emergence of Electronic-Quantum Paganism, High-Tech Humanism.

7. Cyber-genetic: the world of genetic consciousness which can only be experienced by the individual deciphering and reprogramming hir own DNA, using the new micro-biological technologies to harmonize with the Gaia Matrix to create new species; the emergence of Amino Acid Animism.

8. Cyber-atomic: the individual deciphering and reprogramming atomic info-structures, piloting the new nano-technologies for personal and species evolution.

Believe it or not, I wrote this book in the antiquated world of the rag-and-glue book, before the arrival of Eve's Electronic Apple. Before Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had marketed the first cyber-computer, the first personal knowledge appliance which allowed individuals to digitize thoughts, process them, alter their molecular structures, communicate them on screens

I was quite blind to the fact that the new young generation would grow up automatically processing digitized thoughts on home electronic screens

In short, I understood PSYber-world, but not CYBer-world

I had extensively explored the inner worlds of consciousness, navigated the limitless psy-universe of the brain. But I had no access to and understanding of the Info-world, created by the electronic technologies which were just about to change us from mechanical-book people to quantum screen people. Home synthesizers. Computers. Audio digitizers. Video digitizers. Compact Disk Interactive systems.

My high-tech ignorance in 1976 accounts for the over emphasis on space colonies and post-terrestrial psychology.

I did not realize that the first wave of Alien Intelligences which would teach me the quantum language of the galaxy would be found, not out beyond the wall of the Van Allen belt, but would appear in my own house in the year 1979 in the form of my Cyber-son Zachary piloting his way around the info-space of video games and the asteroids, planets and constellations of data to be explored in computer software.

In 1975-76 it seemed clear that life was leaving the planet and migrating to space-colonies which the inhabitants would fabricate. These H.O.M.E.s (High Orbital Mini-Earths) would obviously involve post-mechanical, post-national, neuro-electronic environments. But I did not realize that the space-worlds could only be built and inhabited by those who had attained Cyber-Quantum proficiency.

Exo-psychology now seems to me an important futique concept. But it places emphasis on the rocket-ship hardware. The title of this book should be:

INFO-PSYCHOLOGY

The Info-Worlds which our species will discover, create, explore and inhabit in the immediate future are not to be reached from Canaveral launch-pads alone, but throughour computer personal savers.

To explain these new ripples my current publisher/editors Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt and Nicholas Tharcher have allowed me to re-write the first 16 pages of this revised edition. This new beginning permitted me to start shifting the emphasis from "EXO" to "INFO".

From Space Habitats to Information Habitats.

After page 16 or so you, the reader, must translate and update my 1976 prose.

Many of the terms of Exo-Psychology seem a bit out of place in the slick, high-tech 1980's. To update and clarify may I offer some translations?