Human Nervous System

Neurobatics™ guides one through a “nervous system walk” producing a grounded feeling while strengthening and increasing awareness; allowing greater surrender to the rhythm of the flow of the authentic celebration of life. Neurobatics™ mixes philosophy, metaphysics, curiosity, culture, knowledge, and secrets of history and the universe. In a sense, one can consider Neurobatics™ a 21st Century expression of certain useful pre-Christian beliefs and practices common to most of early Christianity, Hellenistic Judaism, Greco-Roman mystery religions, Zoroastrianism, and Neoplatonism, in a contemporary secular environment, and so much more.

To rise to God, the Gnostic felt one must achieve a certain mental state to break mundane dualism and reach “knowledge” uniting a matter filled, flesh and blood, space-time, molecular, imperfect and ephemeral world with the soul and perfection, an eternal world not part of the physical, where space-time does not exist. Neurobatics™ achieves a congruent secular mental state by integrating deep awareness with the personalized neurosomatic intelligence. In both appearance and experience, you can achieve this peak Gnostic mental state now, without religious allegiances, with Neurobatics™.

Gnostic Christians, Sufi Muslims and Neurobatics™

Sufi Muslims, in addition to Gnostic Christians, engage in a variety of ritual practices intended to help them realize union with God, such as distinct forms of ritual prayer similar to Bhakti Yoga which includes the recitation of God’s names, as well as bodily rituals such as those practices by the so-called “Whirling Dervishes.” Darqawi Sufi teacher Ahmad ibn Ajiba defined Sufism as,

“a science through which one can know how to travel into the presence of the Divine, purify one’s inner self from filth, and beautify it with a variety of praiseworthy traits”.

Again, it seems as if the discussion revolves around achieving certain useful mental states.

As followers of these inner or mystical dimensions of mainstream religions, both Christian and Islam, seek to find divine truth and love through direct encounters with God, Neurobatics™ practitioners find achieving certain useful mental states provides access to similar inner or mystical dimensions.

Jewish mysticism, especially in the tradition of the Kabbalah, sought the similar immediate psychological perception of Divine Omnipresence amidst the mundane. Kabbalah is a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between an unchanging, eternal and mysterious and the mortal and finite universe. Once again we find the fusing the false divisions between sacred and secular, rational and mystical, conservative and imaginative.

Kabbalah in Judaism emerged from origins preceding most religions and foreshadowed Neurobatics™

The nature of the Divine prompted kabbalists to envision two aspects to God:

1. God in essence, absolutely transcendent, unknowable, limitless Divine simplicity, and
2. God in manifestation, the revealed persona of God through which He creates and sustains and relates to mankind.

Kabbalists speak of the first as “the infinite/endless”, literally “that which has no limits”. Of this nothing can be grasped. The second aspect of Divine emanations, however, are accessible to human perception, dynamically interacting throughout spiritual and physical existence, reveal the Divine immanently, and are bound up in the life of man.

And, what holds anyone back but certain less useful mental states driven by the confusion of contradictory ideas. And, what have people sought since the beginning of if not the resolution of this inner duality. And, when comes the point where you realize that if you don’t change anything, nothing’s going to change.

And when you change by mastering your mind, you’ll find things become easier and better in a natural way. And, the most accurate contemporary language to associate with this may be “Jedi Mind Powers”.

People both fully informed and knowledgeable agree, language directly impacts neurology. My conscious relationship with words involves transformative responses. I say this because I believe that the meaning of any communication is the response one receives. Liz and I have trained to do this, specifically.

For us, now, the essential skill seems to be that progress depends upon first mastering one’s own mental state. The ability to achieve certain useful mental states enables all positive effort.

We’ve discovered that just about everything revolves around mental states accessible with Neurobatics™

Now, we’re opening up opportunities for motivated individuals like you, to work with us directly. In addition to the classes we already run on Maui, there will be workshops, retreats and immersive intensives. And, there will be an online curriculum with telephone access to us.

Please feel free to share with me what appeals to you, what you can get motivated about.

And for new members of my newsletter, I offer a 10 minute introductory coaching or consulting call for only $20. Click Here to Pay Now and then we can set up a useful and appropriate time for the call.

About the Book:

Yoga Nidra is a simple yet profound system adapted by Swami Satyananda Saraswati from the traditional tantric practice of nyasa. This text explains the theory of Yoga Nidra in both yogic and scientific terms and includes class transcriptions of the practice.

It is written in the first person, so that when you read “I” know that it refers to Swami Satyananda Saraswati himself. Below find the introduction comprising the first 7 pages of the book.

This systematic method of inducing complete mental, emotional and physical relaxation is recommended for everyone. Perhaps you already know the secret of transformation has 3 parts: release of tension, relaxation and peace of mind.

When you practice yoga nidra, then you change the nature of your mind, healing dis-ease and restoring your creative genius. Isn’t it nice to know yoga nidra practice will free you of muscular, mental and emotional tensions.

A person may experience superhuman efficiency and energy of many great teachers past and present who accomplish so much in one lifetime. When you know how to free yourself of tension then you solve all your problems in life.

Introduction

Yoga nidra, which is derived from the tantras, is a powerful technique in which you learn to relax consciously. In yoga nidra, sleep is not regarded as relaxation. People feel that they are relaxing when they collapse in an easy chair with a cup of coffee, a drink or a cigarette, and read a newspaper or switch on the television. But this will never suffice as a scientific definition of relaxation. These are only sensory diversions. True relaxation is actually an experience far beyond all this. For absolute relaxation you must remain aware. This is yoga nidra, the state of dynamic sleep.

Yoga nidra is a systematic method of inducing complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation. The term yoga nidra is derived from two Sanskrit words, yoga meaning union or one-pointed awareness, and nidra which means sleep. During the practice of yoga nidra, one appears to be asleep, but the consciousness is functioning at a deeper level of awareness. For this reason, yoga nidra is often referred to as psychic sleep or deep relaxation with inner awareness. In this threshold state between sleep and wakefulness, contact with the subconscious and unconscious dimensions occurs spontaneously.

In yoga nidra, the state of relaxation is reached by turning inwards, away from outer experiences. If the consciousness can be separated from external awareness and from sleep, it becomes very powerful and can be applied in many ways, for example, to develop the memory, increase knowledge and creativity, or transform one’s nature.

In the raja yoga of Patanjali there is a state called pratyahara where the mind and mental awareness are dissociated from the sensory channels. Yoga nidra is one aspect of pratyahara which leads to the higher states of concentration and Samadhi.

The birth of yoga nidra

About 35 years ago, when I was living with my guru, Swami Sivananda, in Rishikesh, I had a very important experience which triggered my interest in developing the science of yoga nidra. I had been appointed to watch over a Sanskrit school where small boys were learning to chant the Vedas. It was my duty to remain awake all night to guard the school while the acharya was away. At three a.m. I used to fall into a deep sleep, and at six I would get up and return to the ashram. Meanwhile, the boys got up at four, bathed and chanted Sanskrit prayers, but I never heard them.

Some time later, my ashram was holding a large function, and the boys of that Sanskrit school were brought to chant the vedic mantras. During the function they recited certain slokas which I did not know, yet somehow I felt that I had heard them before. As I listened, the feeling grew stronger, and I tried in vain to remember where and when I had heard them. I was absolutely certain that I had never read or written them, yet they sounded so familiar to me.

Finally, I decided to ask the boys’ guru, who was seated nearby, if he could explain the meaning of this. What he told me changed my entire outlook on life. He said that this feeling of familiarity was not at all surprising, because my many times while I was sleeping in their school. This was a great revelation to me. I knew that knowledge is transmitted directly through the senses, but from this experience I realized that you can also gain direct knowledge without any sensory medium as well. That was the birth of yoga nidra.

From that experience, further ideas and insights came to my mind. I realized that sleep was not a state of total unconsciousness. When one is asleep, there remains a state of potentiality, a form of awareness that is awake and fully alert to the outer situations. I found by training the mind, it is possible to utilize this state.

Tantric origin

After this discovery, I began studying the tantric scriptures in a new light. I came across many important but little known practices, which interested me greatly. After practising them myself, I decided to construct a new system called yoga nidra which would incorporate the essence of these practices without having complicated ritualistic drawbacks.

The characteristic feature of yoga nidra was the systematic rotation of consciousness in the body, which originated from the tantric practice of nyasa (meaning ‘to place’ or ‘to take the mind to that point’). Nyasa was practiced in a sitting posture and involved the use of specific mantras which were placed, felt or experienced at different parts of the body. First the name of the part was recited, then it was visualized or touched, and the mantra was placed there. Nyasa was a means of consecrating the physical body by instilling higher awareness or divine consciousness into the various parts during tantric ritual practices. For example. The Angushtadi-Shadanga-nyasa was used to place mantras in the hand as follows:

Thumb: Hram angushtabhyam namah
Index finger: Hrim tarjanibhyam swaha
Middle finger: Hrum madhyamabhyam vashat
Ring finger: Hraim anamikabhyam vashat
Little finger: Hraum kanishthabhyam vaushat
Palm and back of hand: Hrah karatalaprishtabhyam phat
In a similar manner, in the Hridayi-Shadanga-nyasa, certain mantras were placed at the various parts of the body.

The present form of yoga nidra, which I have devised, enables people who are unfamiliar with Sanskrit mantras to gain the full benefits of the traditional nyasa. It can be beneficially practiced by people of any religion or culture. In the beginning I used to call this practice ‘yogic sleep’, but now I have become more aware of the vast potentialities of yoga nidra and I think that yoga nidra is nothing but yoga nidra. If you ask me to translate yoga nidra into French or Spanish, I will say ‘yoga nidra’. It is an international practice.

Experiments with yoga nidra

Since devising the practice, I have carried out many experiments to validate these ideas. First I tried it on myself and then on different people. I even succeeded in training an Alsatian dog. Later on I experimented with some of my disciples and with many children, giving them knowledge, experience and instruction while they were sleeping soundly.

One of my most interesting experiments was with a little boy who presented himself at my ashram for sannyasa. I wanted to send him to school, but he flatly refused. He was a very naughty boy, an absolute monkey. All day long he broke things, harassed visitors and caused accidents. Finally he became such a liability for the ashram that I decided to try yoga nidra on him.

I began by chanting the 15th chapter of the Gita to him about three minutes after he had fallen asleep. Then when he got up in the morning I would have him read through the chapter, which he would do, on course, mindlessly. After one week he was able to recite the whole chapter by heart. When this succeeded I went ahead with other texts, and in this way I managed to teach him Srimad Bhagawatam, Upanishads, Bible, Koran, English, Hindi, Sanskrit, all that I knew, while he was sound asleep.

Now that boy is twenty-one and I have sent him to the USA. He speaks eleven languages, and writes and lectures in English better than I do, yet he has never been to school. All of his studies and learning took place within that two year period when I gave him yoga nidra, and he does not even remember it.

Soon afterwards I made another experiment. Thirty people were practising yoga nidra and about ten of them were snoring loudly. At that time I instructed them, ‘When I say Hari Om Tat Sat, you must get up.’ I repeated it twice. When the yoga nidra was finished I said ‘Hari Om Tat Sat’ and everybody sat up, even those who had been snoring throughout. I asked them how they had awakened. They said, ‘Suddenly’. They did not hear the last Hari Om Tat Sat or even the one in the middle of the practice, but somehow they had still followed my instruction. Now, this is a very significant factor. It means even when you sleep, your self is awake and aware.

From these experiments I have drawn my own conclusions. Deepest sleep may not be sleep at all. Perhaps when you are in deep sleep at night, you have more awareness, more potential, than when you are in the dreaming state. This means you can learn ore when you are sleeping than when you are awake and this is how we are utilizing yoga nidra for the evolution of the mind.

Impressing the mind

How does this happen? The answer is simple. When the relaxation is complete, the receptivity is greater. When the consciousness is complete, the receptivity is greater. When the consciousness is connected to all the senses, the receptivity is less. This is the secret of yoga nidra. Due to the intellectualization process, the knowledge that goes into the brain does not really impress itself there. But when you withdraw your mind a little bit, and enter into a state where you are neither in deep sleep nor completely awake, whatever impressions enter the mind at that time become powerful, and they remain there.

There are distinct levels of mind. Some are very hard soil; some are very tender soil. The conscious mind is like hard soil because it has intellect and logic in operation. Intellect is a process of analyzing things. It does not accept everything; it rejects as well. But the deeper consciousness is not like that. Whatever impression you plant within the subconscious mind cannot be rejected. It will grow and the fruits will enrich every aspect of your life.

Therefore, you should not be worried if you sleep in yoga nidra. On the other hand, maybe that is more powerful. But, you must keep one things in mind: ‘I am not going to sleep.’ You must keep one thing in mind: ‘I am not going to sleep.’ You should not try to sleep. You should try to keep awake, because if you sleep, then it is not yoga nidra.

Supposing you play a tape, but you go to sleep and hear nothing. Then what you should do is replay the tape in the morning when you wake up. Listen to that replay with bridge between conscious and unconscious. This is how languages are learned. You can learn anything like this. If you have certain habits which you want to overcome, the suitable seeds or sankalpas should be first put into the unconscious and then you must listen to them during consciousness. This is a very important science of yogic self-transformation for the future.

The hypnayogic state

In yoga nidra, the consciousness is in a state between waking and sleep, but it is subject to neither. In modern psychology this has been termed ‘the hypnagogic state’ but I prefer to call it ‘the hypnayogic state’. But the best name of all is ‘yoga nidra’. In this state the mind is exceptionally receptive. Languages and other subjects can be learned rapidly. Suggestions given at this time are successful in removing unwanted habits and tendencies. In fact, yoga nidra can be used for directing the mind to accomplish anything. This is the secret of the extraordinary accomplishments of great yogis and swamis.

The practice of yoga nidra enables one to receive intuitions from the unconscious mind. This state is the fount of artistic and poetic inspiration. It is also the source of the most creative scientific discoveries. Wolfgang von Goethe used the inspirations and intuitions from this state to solve problems arising in his work. In dreams occurring in this state, Kekule realized the circular molecular structure of benzene, Noble laureate Niels Bohr saw the planetary structure of the atom, and Einstein accelerated his awareness to the speed of light in the famous ‘thought experiments’ which led to the theory of relativity.

The intuitions received in yoga nidra enable one to find within himself the answers to all problems. One’s true nature and integrity manifest, enabling him to live a meaningful and peaceful life in any environment. This is the opening of the ‘third eye’, which takes the consciousness beyond the conditioned personality with its tensions and complexes. No longer emotionally identified with the mind and body, one’s entire being is pervaded with divine consciousness.

In the Tripura Rahasya it is stated: “Therefore, realize with a still mind your own true nature, which is the one pure, undivided consciousness underlying the restless mind which is composed of the whole universe in all its diversity. Realize, with a still mind, the state between sleep and wakefulness… This is the real Self, inherent in which one is no longer deluded.”

The cleaning station could have been overlooked as just another pile of coral encrusted rock if it were not for its large population of Hawaiian cleaner wrasses and Garbanzo. Garbanzo was the famous 2+ meter long yellow margin moray eel who made that pile of coral encrusted rock its home.

We found the bottom near 15 meters just as the mantas showed up at the cleaning station. I maintained buoyancy a few centimeters off the bottom.

It was impossible to keep count of how many mantas rotated through all the available positions at the cleaning station. It was like what the final big flyover scene in the movie “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind” wanted to be.

We were all experienced divers and challenged each other in air conservation. No one made unnecessary moves in a conspiracy to catch as much of the show as possible and the dive went long.

The stars were out when we surfaced. The planned safety interval passed, the boat moved to the eastern arm of Molokini and the night dive began.

Advanced open water certification had already exposed me to nitrogen narcosis, rapture of the deep, and I was not unfamiliar with the effect of nitrous oxide. This night dive around the deep end of Molokini was something I had looked forward to with keen anticipation.

Cyalume glow-sticks of various colors tied to our equipment marked our positions and we each carried at least a pair of lights. The reef night life reflected back our lights and appeared as a giant metropolitan night-scape that we floated above like grotesquely bloated stealth UFOs.

Our dive group worked its way deeper as we moved towards the outer end of Molokini. The dive master liked going deep and I eventually found myself at around 40 meters.

I say I was around 40 meters deep because I am not exactly sure how deep I was. At first, I hung back from the group hypnotized by the fantastic visual display in front of me.

The invisible extent of the dive group was vaguely defined by the floating bits of neon color given off by the cyalume glow-sticks. The individual divers were hard to make out in their black rubber suits and the shifting lights captured all my attention.

The seemingly unattached dive lights restlessly scanned the reef in erratic crisscrossing beams illuminating the eyes of nocturnal crustaceans and undulating mollusks fleeing through the water column. At some point the uncoordinated shifting patterns of colored lights stopped making any sense to me at all.

All the colored lights dancing on the reef threatened to overwhelm me in psychedelic chaos and I turned away to peer into the darkness for relief. The water seemed to glow with a shimmering luminescence around me except for an infinitely black path directly in front.

The infinitely black path directly in front of me went down over 100 meters here. I knew all secrets would be revealed if I would but follow it.

I did not want to turn around and once again expose myself to the visual cacophony surrounding the dive group. The black path in front of me promised quiet solitude, uninterrupted peace and blessed relief from the confusion of the lights over the submerged reef in the night.

It was then that some small voice inside my head told me to breath and the rush of air through the regulator startled me into noticing that I had been unconsciously holding my breath. It was only a small voice inside my head that told me to breath and I do not know how I could have heard it over the other insistent, persistent and strangely confident voice urging me forward to discover the eternally silent mysteries of the deep.

Once again breathing, I ascended in the water column and thought to check my depth gauge. Just then rising above 40 meters, I must have emptied my lungs and drifted deeper when under the influence of the rapture of the deep.

My dive partner reached out to me and queried my with hand signs, “Was I OK?”

I signed back, “OK.”

I had only been “narked” a few moments and my dive partner later told me that I was never far away and constantly in her view. She had come after me when she noticed I was drifting deeper and no longer exhaling through my regulator.

The memory of it all haunts me still.

I was privileged with an intimate glimpse at my personal death and yet I still live. What was impressed upon me most of all was my complete lack of fear at the time.

What I found most shocking was my willingness, at the time, to become seduced by the eternal night. The promised security of total oblivion overwhelmed any sense of self preservation.

This event echoes in my nightmares.

In my nightmares I am again underwater with other people. Everyone is holding their breath, no one can breath.

It is like we all chose to self-suffocate. The overwhelming anxiety smothers us.

All we can do is

• thrash around,
• completely submerged in confusion,
• impulsively reaching out to anything that catches the eye,
• desperately inventing pointless maneuvers and
• making no apparent progress.

Some small voice beckons me to leave the others and swim towards the light. As I struggle against nameless nagging doubts about my decision, clueless to what awaits me above, a new determination takes hold of me, sustaining my efforts.

I momentarily black out just below the surface, yet somehow my journey continues and when I break into the fresh air it jolts me awake as if I had been struck by lightening.

Effortlessly, I bob up and down in the water awed by the bright sunlight, newly aware of the taste of salt upon my lips as if I had never used my senses before.

Already my memories of the life below grows dim. For the first time I can hear voices clearing calling out to me.

Straining to scan the horizon, finally I see people on a distant beach waving their arms over their heads. I swim towards the beach all but forgetting the life below.

Exhausted, I barely reach the shore and once again I black out. Strong friendly hands pull me out of the water and onto the warm sand of the beach.

Strangely, as I soak up the heat of the sand, vague sensory memories of the deeply chilling water temperatures overwhelm my last clear remembrances of being lost in the deep.

A new life fills my days.

Yet, a deep lingering sadness still troubles me because I know uncounted others still struggle aimlessly beneath the frigid waters.

Now I pray for some small voice to be heard by those still lost in their private narcotic raptures, leading them to the surface and into the light.

And I wait on the beach, calling out to those who have miraculously succeeded against all odds in breaking away from suffocating delusions, ready to help them out of the ice cold water and onto the warm sand of the beach.

The feeling of warm sand beneath your feet might surprise you.

Liz and Jay have lived, laughed, studied and worked together since 1973 practicing and teaching neurosomatic systems of relaxation and bliss with conscious neurosomatic intelligence integration. Thinking and mind cannot be confined to the brain. Our minds and bodies are one, literally.

Employing special activities and specific language, Liz and Jay teach certain useful mental states to your neurosomatic intelligence with appropriate integration with your conscious mind. One of the useful mental states Liz and Jay teach is traditionally referred to as Yoga Nidra.

When one lucid dreams, one may pay attention to the spacetime void between lucid dreams. Pay attention to the timeless silent blackness and find it enveloping you in indescribable solace while remaining lucid. Osho writes that this achievement represents the entire point of lucid dreaming. This is the lucid spacetime emptiness of Yoga Nidra.

Yoga Nidra originated in India as a method to change the quality of your consciousness and designed for the purpose of increasing your awareness of the nature of your being.

Both Liz and Jay earned MFAs (directing film and theatre) from the Theatre Arts Department at Humboldt State University on Jacob Javits Fellowships after graduating from UCSD, Summa cum Laude, with double majors from the Visual Arts and the Communication Departments.

Ethical teachers throughout history instruct us to learn to trust our own inner compass, that individual, internal “sense” of the best course of action in every situation, our Neurosomatic Intelligence, our sensitive inner self.

Consider your Neurosomatic Intelligence as, by far, the most sophisticated and valuable guide you could possibly access and a critical factor to more effectiveness in every area of your life.

Your Neurosomatic Intelligence understands the most effective course of action for you and prompts you to act appropriately.

Neurosomatic Intelligence ‘thinks in Gestalts’ — that is, Neurosomatic Intelligence processes are not linear progressions but holistic, simultaneous perceptions. Neurologically wired to the genitals and the limbic system and often working through endorphins, Neurosomatic Intelligence is often triggered by relaxed, playful sex. One who has activated and imprinted Neurosomatic Intelligence is radiant, cheerful rather than depressed, energetic rather than sluggish, in exceptional health, and almost seems to ‘sparkle.’

Various complaints — physical sickness, aggressive power-over, submissive no-power, and the associated turbulent emotions, bewilderment over how to improve the quality of life, and guilt — are resolved quickly and dramatically by the integration of Neurosomatic Intelligence. An accurate description of life by Neurosomatic Intelligence adepts is ‘floating one foot off the ground.’

Neurosomatic Intelligence and Dr. Timothy Leary, PhD

Dr. Timothy Leary, PhD (1920-1996) Psychologist, philosopher, explorer, teacher, optimist, author and revolutionary avatar of the mind used Neurosomatic Intelligence as a descriptive category of certain contents of the human psyche. Rightly called the Galileo of Consciousness, he went public with his observations of the mind made with psychedelic mindscopes and helped initiate a renaissance which is still only beginning to elaborate itself.

Info-psychology : a manual on the use of the human nervous system according to the instructions of the manufacturers and a navigational guide for plotting the evolution of the human individual (1987) can be found a number of places online and still provides the best overview of his vision.

Library of Congress Catalog No: 76-56056
 Leary, Timothy
 Exo-Psychology
 [Revised as Info-Psychology]
 A Manual on the Use of the Nervous System
 According to the Instructions of the Manufacturers
 ISBN 0-941404-60-9

Neurosomatic Intelligence and Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson dedicated a good amount of ink and paper in several of his books explaining and exploring enticing possibilities suggested by Dr. Timothy Leary’s work. Neurosomatic Intelligence seems to figure as a gateway state on the border of the mundane opening our minds to the universe.

From Robert Anton Wilson’s
Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati

When this fifth “body-brain” is activated, flat Euclidean figure-ground configurations explode multi-dimensionally. Gestalts shift, in McLuhan’s terms, from linear VISUAL SPACE to all-encompassing SENSORY SPACE. A hedonic turn-on occurs, a rapturous amusement, a detachment from the previously compulsive mechanism of the first four circuits. I turned this circuit on with pot and Tantra.

This fifth brain began to appear about 4,000 years ago in the first leisure-class civilizations and has been increasing statistically in recent centuries (even before the Drug Revolution), a fact demonstrated by the hedonic art of India, China, Rome and other affluent societies. More recently, Ornstein and his school have demonstrated with electroencephalograms that this circuit represents the first jump from the linear left lobe of the brain to the analogical right lobe.

The opening and imprinting of this circuit has been the preoccupation of “technicians of the occult”—Tantric shamans and hatha yogis. While the fifth tunnel-reality can be achieved by sensory deprivation, social isolation, physiological stress or severe shock (ceremonial terror tactics, as practiced by such rascal-gurus as Don Juan Matus or Aleister Crowley), it has traditionally been reserved to the educated aristocracy of leisure societies who have solved the four terrestrial survival problems.

About 20,000 years ago, the specific fifth brain neurotransmitter was discovered by shamans in the Caspian Sea area of Asia and quickly spread to other wizards throughout Eurasia and Africa. It is, of course, cannabis. Weed. Mother Mary Jane.

It is no accident that the pot-head generally refers to his neural state as “high” or “spaced-out.” The transcendence of gravitational, digital, linear, either-or, Aristotelian, Newtonian, Euclidean, planetary orientations (circuits I-IV) is, in evolutionary perspective, part of our neurological preparation for the inevitable migration off our home planet, now beginning. This is why so many pot-heads are STAR TREK freaks and science fiction adepts. (Berkeley, California, certainly the Cannabis Capital of the U.S., has a Federation Trading Post on Telegraph Avenue, where the well-heeled can easily spend $500 or more in a single day, buying STAR TREK novels, magazines, newsletters, bumper stickers, photographs, posters, tapes, etc., including even complete blueprints for the starship ENTERPRISE.)

The extraterrestrial meaning of being “high” is confirmed by astronauts themselves; 85% of those who have entered the free-fall zero gravity describe “mystic experiences” or rapture states typical of the neurosomatic circuit. “No photo can show how beautiful Earth looked,” raves Captain Ed Mitchell, describing his Illumination in free-fall. He sounds like any successful yogi or pot-head. No camera can show this experience because it is inside the nervous system.

FREE-FALL, AT THE PROPER EVOLUTIONARY TIME, TRIGGERS THE NEUROSOMATIC MUTATION, Leary believes. Previously this mutation has been achieved “artificially” by yogic or shamanic training or by the fifth circuit stimulant, cannabis. Surfing, skiing, skin-diving and the new sexual culture (sensuous massage, vibrators, imported Tantric arts, etc.) have evolved at the same time as part of the hedonic conquest of gravity. The Turn-On state is always described as “floating,” or, in the Zen metaphor, “one foot above the ground.”

Neurosomatic Intelligence.  The ability to stay “high”, to look and feel like a happy, healthy young adult all your life.  This is somewhat “spookier” than the previous kinds of consciousness, but only because it is still statistically rare.  When somebody else transmits this to you, it’s called “Christian Science” or “Faith Healing,” etc.  Maslow found that his self-actualizing people do it for themselves, without a guru.  However arcane it may seem at present, this type of intelligence is increasing because weed had made temporary flashes of it familiar to about a third of the population, because biofeedback is showing us how to control it scientifically, and because the Human Potential Movement, and such exotic imports as Zen and yoga, are making it more accessible to people every year.

NEUROSOMATIC
(Hedonic) (Sensory intelligence)
Level of Reality: hedonic
Drug Trigger: marijuana
Function: hedonic engineering: Tantra, Yoga, etc.
Gurdjieff Center: Magnetic center
Life Form: Free-fall (cosmic migration)
Dimension: Linear-cyclic
Description: "free floating"; the turn-on
[Pleasures:] Rapture, ritual, charisma
Medium: the five senses

Aesthetes, epicureans, space travelers, and libertines discover the awakened possibilities of the higher circuits – but then often forget that such pleasures are a means, and not an end.

Who has not broadly smiled at someone they wish to impress and revealed food debris stuck between their teeth? Who has never walked around with an unknown note stuck to their back with a humiliating message on it?

Who always zipped zippers, buttoned buttons in the correct holes, tied their shoelaces, put their shirt on straight and never shut anything in a car door and drove around with it hanging out? Certainly not me nor anyone I ever met.

Taking this to heart adds another dimension to my reading.

There seems a consensus among intellectual writers from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America that United States intellectual writers never get it. Just for the thought experiment it affords, exclude the too obvious possibility of a snarky conspiracy against the intimidating superiority of United States intellectual literature.

With the easy answer forestalled by the thought experiment parameters, alternate explanations can emerge. Consider the possibility that intellectual writers from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America might be right.

United States intellectual writers might miss something in their writing and therefor we might miss something in our reading. I studied intellectual writers from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America looking for clues to what we might be missing.

Even in translation, their writings include something missing from United States writing. Intellectual writers from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America always seen to account for human psychology.

Some intellectual writers from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America are fairly explicit, others write as if it were commonly understood that we are psychological creatures and all assume no further supportive arguments necessary. They all seem to acknowledge, somehow, unconscious mental states and the foundational role they play in society.

In the United States the role of psychology in society always seems an optional consideration, only useful for explaining individual mental disorders. Including psychology in any other discussion only serves to diminish and marginalize the strength of your position. In the United States, psychology becomes a liability to the expression of serious thought.

Of course in the United States we have Behavioral Psychology and Cognitive Psychology and even Cognitive-Behavioral Psychology but their obvious inadequacies damage the public perception of psychology as a whole. They just do not produce much apparent success with larger psychological issues and by association all areas of psychology lose credibility.

One area of psychology does exhibit a great deal of success with larger psychological issues and that is the psychology I became interested in. More on that further down but first there is something I need to mention.

Our eyes do not see. All sight takes place in the brain. The eyes can only send nerve impulses to the brain and the brain makes of it what it will.

Likewise, all hearing, feeling, taste and smell also take place in the brain. We act upon the composite mental map created by the brain as if the map is the terrain.

The Secret Code Word

In sequestered academic departments buried in the maze of United States universities the secret code word for this is mediation. What they do not tell you in the United States is that psychology governs mediation and then insist you account for that when you write.

This implies that from all the hard sciences;

• math to
• physics, through
• chemistry and
• biology

to all the soft sciences;

• sociology to
• economics, through
• linguistics and
• psychology itself,

all the theories and conclusions are based upon a world that only exists as a mental construction, the map of sensory input created in our brains consolidated by our group psychotic decisions.

All contemporary technology depends upon this science. This science and technology validates every aspect of our civilized lives. Governments justify their existence with it and eliminate their need to seek the endorsement of religions for their mandate to govern.

The continued survival of civilization as we know it seems to insist that we never correctly recognize our sciences as the neuro-sciences they really are. After all, what consequences are implied with a neuro-physics and neuro-sociology mediated with demonstrably unstable human psychology?

Everything people have accomplished, everything people have built, including every aspect of civilization, could not possibly have emerged from unconsciously motivated group psychotic decisions.

What kind of person would ever think such a thing possible?

This is the distracting challenge that United States intellectuals offer. They build a case that speculates upon the psychology of individuals who insist upon acknowledging the universal mediation of psychology in human perception and thought.

In the United States, psychology only appears discussed when regarding isolated disordered individuals and never as the driving force behind the totality of human affairs. That brings me to the psychology I became interested in mentioned above.

You see, the

• biggest marketplace in world history and the
• most powerful military force the world has ever known, run by the
• most pervasive global financial empire ever assembled is
• systematically influenced with psychology.

I became interested in psychological systems of influence.

This is not some kind of massive mind control conspiracy theory. The interlocking interests of a multitude of individuals with ordinary psychology easily accounts for these developments. The key is accounting for psychology.

Interlocking bureaucracies, each serving their own agendas, create the enveloping fabric of contemporary society and the feeling of a global financial empire. It only appears monolithic from the outside. Within boardrooms and the halls of power, ordinary psychology accounts for group psychotic decisions.

When you consider that every significant advertising campaign out of Madison Avenue, New York City and every election campaign in the United States employs methods proven to influence people psychologically, and I do not mean anything Cognitive-Behavioral, you may begin to understand the scope of the implications.

The evidence of psychological systems of influence active in everyday life abound in the United States and around the world.

An essential element in the strategy of the apparent global financial empire for preserving psychological systems of influence is suppressing the very knowledge of their existence.

In the heart of this virtual global financial empire psychology disappears from public consciousness through the use of psychology itself. Psychological tools access the unconscious psychology we each develop to mask its own existence.

In the United States psychology finds widespread use in the service of suppressing the knowledge of psychology itself. Triggering the individual repression of psychology across most social groups eliminates the capacity to examine and use psychology as a society.

No where in the world has it become more important to hide the very existence of pervasive psychology than in the United States itself. This is one reason many people from around the world believe people in the United States are generally the most ignorant people in the world.

Personal growth and development frees people from ignorance, personnel development enslaves them. Many people only offer personnel development but call it personal growth and development to attract high-potential adults.

Personal growth and development works on developing the person. With personal growth and development people grow into empowered individuals capable of thinking for themselves.

Personnel development works on developing an organization. With personnel development an organization grows an

• ignorant membership,
• dependent upon leadership and
• willing to follow orders.

Personnel development influences group psychotic decisions.

Personal growth and development insulates you from group psychotic decisions.

It is easy to see that high-potential adults would be valued by organizations. Even high-potential adults can be kept ignorant of psychology.

Psychological systems of influence require people ignorant of psychology for their effective use. When high-potential adults become informed they

• seek personal growth and development,
• assemble more accurate psychological insights and
• become harder to influence.

When high-potential adults with accurate psychological insights liberate themselves from psychological systems of influence, they always seek progressive change. The minority that receives the majority of the marketplace revenue and the most powerful military force the world has ever known, resist progressive change in unison with all the considerable resources under their combined control.

The marketplace and the military both promote an atmosphere of contentious competition. Contentious competition rewards a mindset focused on the polarity of offense and defense.

A mindset focused on the polarity of offense and defense overlooks the potential of peace and cooperation. No surprise either that a mindset focused on the polarity of offense and defense finds itself disadvantaged in an environment of peace and cooperation.

High-potential adults discover more efficient and productive, peaceful and cooperative, focuses all by themselves. That is what high-potential adults do. Each develops a psychology that compels them to improve their conditions.

This natural psychological process instigates progressive change. Progressive change threatens all institutions because the nature of all institutions includes the preservation of traditions by definition.

A superior contentious competition mindset demands a preemptive offense as a defense against threats of progressive change. Fear and paranoia demand it.

This preemptive offense

• suppresses the knowledge of psychology,
• discounts personal growth and development, and
• forestalls accurate psychological insights.

This strategy requires tremendous expense and continuous application to suppress the natural tendency of human psychology.

Discounting personal growth and development while forestalling accurate psychological insights ironically impairs human ability to compete. No one escapes the consequences of universal mediation by human psychology.

High-potential adults

• minimizing their exploitation by the marketplace,
• avoiding exposure to military targeting and
• farthest from sources of suppression often
• seek personal growth and development.

You are not alone.

The advantages of more accurate psychological insights cannot be denied or countered.

Personal growth and development trumps personnel development, every time.