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Two Ice Floes

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Cognitive Dissonance

 

Introducing a new portal into the mind of Cognitive Dissonance

www.TwoIceFloes.com

 

Regardless of who we are or where we live one truth seems unmistakably clear; we live, work, play, think and just plain exist in two very different worlds simultaneously, while moving seamlessly between and within them in real time. The more obvious of these two realms is the physical ‘real’ world that lay all around us, the place where our physical bodies reside and the space in which we live and eventually die. And then there is the dominion of our (non local) consciousness, some might call it the ‘mind’, ‘soul’ or ‘self’, the place only ‘I’ may find me, myself and mine.

Essentially we exist on two ice floes, which for the vast majority of us are permanently locked together and seemingly inseparable. But for those of us who begin to open our minds and plumb the depths of the rabbit hole, there is an increasing awareness that these two ice floes can and will not only move separately, but at different speeds and levels of awareness.

For the most part we believe that the first world, the so called ‘real’ world, is authentic and genuine, while the second place is just a space, a figment of our mind. And I guess the proof of this lay within our global insane asylum, for if we inmates were not so crazy in the mind, then our world would not be so very confined. But for this particular inmate it is well past time to release me, myself and mine from the self imposed ties that bind. 

I am not a victim and I am not a slave. I am what I decide I am both in the physical realm and within the space of my mind. For far too long I have allowed…….no, more honest words would be passively enabled, my physical world to be fused and formed not by my own mind, not by my own inner being, my ‘self’, but by all the other minds with whom I share this physical world, some of which are much more nefarious and soul sucking than me and mine.

My ego proudly asserts that I alone make my fate, and to a large extent this may be true, at least in the ‘real’ world. But up to this point if it is true it’s only because I have allowed the prevailing default mind control program to dominate me with only slight alterations and modifications to suit the egotistic belief that I am unique in a world not of my own making.

For the most part I live in a reality created by those who do not have my best interests in mind, who wish to control my mind and subvert my consciousness so that the body obediently follows.

My Cognitive Dissonance is that up until a half dozen or so years ago this Cog did not believe he was just another custom colored gear in the reality machine operating system, an emotionally comforting self deception that I desperately wanted to believe in order to rationalize my conformity.

Few wish to march to a different drummer, to be a self imposed outcast from the herd, a contrarian, a loner. Please, please, may I join your self-affirming pod? Born a perfectly unique individual, we spend the rest of our physical lives trying the die just like all the others. Conditioned from birth to believe that ‘I’ was only fit to be part of a ‘we’, breaking up is hard to do.

Two Ice Floes

As I began to seek out answers to the questions that were rapidly forming in my mind and soul I quickly found that there were no end of people, places and things that promised me they had “The Answer” (which as we all know is actually 42). The problem was that often, if not always, “The Answer” promoted by “A” conflicted with “The Answer” offered by “Z”. And yet when examined individually, and most importantly with an open mind, they both made some sense while isolated from both worlds.

Worse, regardless of whether I was examining explanations promoted from the ‘real’ world perspective (aka the scientific worldview mindset) or the esoteric point of view (the woo woo world as some would call it) they all ultimately required blind ‘belief’, a giant leap of faith that this was truth and that was not. “They” of course would loudly claim that this was not so, that it was the other side that required the faith. See…here is my proof.

The one common denominator I consistently found among the self professed truth purveyors was that whoever was speaking from whatever point of view they were promoting, the narrative was always one of self assured confidence that wisdom and light was their exclusive domain. No wavering, no self doubt, no hedging allowed when spouting “The Truth”. To express any uncertainty whatsoever was, and still is, considered a sure sign of weakness and will never be entertained. This belief is nearly universally held and is of course promoted by all self proclaimed authorities.

While the word “Propaganda” has been almost completely intertwined with government controlled information, the reality is that we are all propagandists in the purest sense of the term. When we speak, write or communicate an idea or thought, we tend to present our best argument in favor of our point of view and either diminish, ignore or subvert contrary information that does not help our case and might actually torpedo it.

I am just as guilty of this practice as anyone else, though I do try my best to at least expose myself as a propagandist by declaring myself one with as much certainty as possible. What I try to do in an attempt to compensate for what comes naturally to all of us, primarily because we have been immersed in this authoritarian culture from birth, is to inject a smidge of humility into the equation by exposing my flaws, doubts, confusion and uncertainty. In short, to be aware of my ego and its sometimes subtle, sometimes enormous, influences upon “me”.

There is a saying I am sure I’m about to butcher. There is your truth, there is my truth, and then there is the ‘truth’ which can usually be found somewhere in between, possibly even in the middle. I suspect the actual location is not fixed and will almost certainly not be found between the two promoted “truths” simply because it would be outrageously narcissistic to proclaim that all the undiscovered territory is safely contained between the two “know” end points. It is the epitome of egotistic expression to confidently claim that I occupy one end of the universe, let alone the very center.

Even if one does not accept this premise, and you most certainly should not simply because I am promoting it, what is one to do if one is lost in the wilderness without an accurate compass, maps or signposts, also known as static answers? Well….if you want better answers, the only solution is to ask better questions. And the only way I can see how we can formulate better questions is to expand our perceptive minds and awareness and dump our preconceived notions and beliefs overboard.

I don’t have all the answers. In fact I only have a few. What I have, at least when I can convince my ego that new knowledge is not threatening to it, and thus to me, is the desire and capacity to explore and expand my severely limited universe and seek out those better questions. I am willing to go it alone, but it seems silly to even try when I am not alone in my desire to look beyond my nose and push back the barriers of the ‘known’ body of knowledge and wisdom.

Asking Better Questions

How do you eat an elephant, particularly one that just appeared out of nowhere right in front of your eyes? One bite at a time is the only answer that works for everyone and one that seems to work for me. Over the last seven years, as my growing awareness of the grand facade grew, I began to make changes both personally and professionally, some small and seemingly inconsequential, and others huge and life altering. With the help and encouragement of Mrs. Cog I am once again turning the wheel of life and embarking on another life altering metamorphosis.

Would you care to join me, to observe or even to participate, in a real time thought experiment of alternative reality creation played out in a semi public forum? If you would like to do so then may I introduce you to a new portal into the mind of Cognitive Dissonance?

 

02-20-2014

Cognitive Dissonance

www.TwoIceFloes.com

 

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Fri, 02/21/2014 - 18:38 | 4463451 blindman
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Jordan Maxwell raw and uncut - Part 1: An Intellihub News exclusive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDl8MCC8T-o
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"my people are dying from a lack of knowledge." >>>>

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 15:43 | 4462822 Rene-Paul
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Remember, The "Free Mensch" website? Long gone; but the motto was "Life,Liberty, and the Pursuit of Being Left Alone"

Thank You Cogs!

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 11:13 | 4461681 akarc
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""Few wish to march to a different drummer, to be a self imposed outcast from the herd, a contrarian, a loner. Please, please, may I join your self-affirming pod? Born a perfectly unique individual, we spend the rest of our physical lives trying the die just like all the others. Conditioned from birth to believe that ‘I’ was only fit to be part of a ‘we’, breaking up is hard to do."

You leave one herd to join another only to find that the herds you joined does not have the answers and is possibly more corrupt than the one you left as few of us are guided by more than self interest.

Just as mind game, consider this country's schizoid approach to marijuna. We have been taught the evils of it all our lives. Back in the day you could go to jail for 10 years in some states for a joint. Decades of fighting, decades of science, we are still schizoid over the isssue and how many more lives have been ruined over the argument than the substance itself. Just an example.

 THe country was settled by people seeking religious freedom who then went about dictating that everybody must live a certain way, that imposed many restrictions on personal freedom or even the discussion of such. Yet was able to abide by slavery, stealing indigenous lands, lying, becoming sexual hypocrites, passing laws and then busily set about to find loopholes or excuse for violating the laws.

All in a desire to force people to live by a code that few can live up to. And fear enough instilled in people that dare not publicly admit to thinking outside of any number of boxes.

Is it any wonder everyone is schizoid? Confused? Living in cognitive dissonance? Become hypocrites. Given up having the life sucked out of them after being told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps while chained down?  

What is the mantra from our parents? Do as I say not as I do?

I have lost much seeking for the truth and standing up for the truth as I may have believed it at any given time.

I am quite familiar with  my innerself and the mechanics that made me.  The result, I isolate a lot. I have few serious conversions with friends because even friends wear the vail.   My upbringing was such that I had no choice but to seek the truth. Which brings to question, how many people do you know that can actually afford the truth?

Do not go gentle into that good night, 
Old age should burn and rage at close of day; 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, 
Because their words had forked no lightning they 
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright 
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, 
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, 
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight 
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

 

And you, my father, there on the sad height, 
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. 
Do not go gentle into that good night. 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas......

Be careful what you ask for, you might get it........ 

anonymous

 

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 11:20 | 4461823 Cognitive Dissonance
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"I am quite familiar with  my innerself and the mechanics that made me.  The result, I isolate a lot."

Been there, done that. Mrs. Cog coming into my life has been a great tonic for my isolation tendency. I highly recommend you get your own model if you haven't already. :)

"I have few serious conversions with friends because even friends wear the vail."

We are conditioned to be shallow and vacuous by the daily media barrage. So introspection and contemplation is considered to be weird or a sign of a troubled individual. We are all insane....but some are sicker than others. And some are struggling to get well, thus the reason we started Two Ice Floes. There needs to be discussion on how to grow and heal while still surrounded by the all consuming insanity.

"My upbringing was such that I had no choice but to seek the truth."

Oddly enough I did as well, though from the opposite side of the spectrum. My family lived inside an all consuming alcoholic lie. I knew instinctively that it was wrong and tried to pull away. Eventually I too was pulled in and spent nearly 20 years in agony. 24 years later I am still repairing that damage.

"Which brings to question, how many people do you know that can actually afford the truth?"

No, most cannot. In the land of lies, the truth is not welcome.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 11:58 | 4461971 akarc
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"Oddly enough I did as well, though from the opposite side of the spectrum. My family lived inside an all consuming alcoholic lie. I knew instinctively that it was wrong and tried to pull away. Eventually I too was pulled in and spent nearly 20 years in agony. 24 years later I am still repairing that damage."

So many stories, so similiar in so many ways.  Bittersweet in a way.  Thought I had it fixed once lol. Only to learn I had bandaged it.  Damn steep/deep learning curve.  So now I learn and ask the whys and drive myself crazy and most of the time enjoy it.

And yes, w/o my particular model I would be dead. 

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 12:02 | 4461991 juangrande
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I relate to your sentiments of isolation well. The trick is to cultivate a fierce vulnerability.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 10:55 | 4461517 Dr. Engali
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As usual you given us another good article offering much to think about. Thank you for your contribution CD. As a younger man I was absolutely confident of certain "truths", but as I grow older I find that these truths are purely subjective. I think we all have a certain Utopian image painted in our head if only everybody else would play along. The problem is everybody's idea of utopia is different, some may rhyme, but none are ever the same. My perception on life now is just to be the best person I can be, learn as much as I can,  make a difference where possible, respect other people, and to do as little harm as possible. That seems to be the only set of 'truths' that I can control.

Again, thank you and I look forward to exploring your site.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 11:27 | 4461853 Cognitive Dissonance
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Thank you.

And please do stop by and seriously consider joining the community. I suspect many who think it might not be their cup of tea will be surprised. It is not fight club, and while many like the rough and tumble of ZH, people might just be surprised what springs from within themselves when exposed to a less hostile environment.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 10:03 | 4461449 Sean7k
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Best of luck Cog. Whenever I read ZH recently, your ramblings are one of the few interesting and stimulating conversations on the site. I'm sure twofloes will be even better.

Note to Stycho: I would be concerned with any theory that uses drugs to achieve "higher consciousness". My experience when I was young was extensive. I can't find any agreement with Leary's results. I think we enter those regions greatly impaired and incapable of distinguishing "realities". 

There may be forces that are capable of beguiling the initiate. Just a thought, be careful.

Yes, I'm aware of DNA operation and the possibilities for immortality. However, I am already immortal, it is the vessel that is not. I have serious doubts as to the utility of immortality within a single consciousness. 

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 13:30 | 4462327 Cognitive Dissonance
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"Whenever I read ZH recently, your ramblings are one of the few interesting and stimulating conversations on the site."

In a private email conversation a year or so ago, a ZH'er told me reading my stuff was sort of like watching a car crash in slow motion. I laughed my head off at the anaolgy. Spot on in many cases and why some people cringe when they read my sometimes messy entrails scattered all over the side of the road.  :)

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 09:28 | 4461402 blindman
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http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/thot/esp_thot_1k.htm#tablet 10
The Key of Time
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"...And I questioned the Master, saying:
Was this thought eternal?
And answered me the DWELLER, Saying:
In the beginning, there was eternal thought,
and for thought to be eternal, time must exist.
So into the all-prevading thought
grew the LAW of TIME.
Aye time which exists through all space,
floating in a smooth, rhythmic movement
that is eternally in a state of fixation.

Time changes not,
but all things change in time.
For time is the force
that holds events separate,
each in its own proper place.
Time is not in motion,
but ye move through time
as your consciousness
moves from one event to another.

Aye, by time yet exist, all in all,
an eternal ONE existence.
Know ye that even though in the time ye are separate,
yet still are ONE, in all times existent.

Ceased then the voice of the DWELLER,
and departed I to ponder on time.
For knew I that in these words lay wisdom
and a way to explore the mysteries of time.

Oft did I ponder the words of the DWELLER.
Then sought I to solve the mystery of time.
Found I that time moves through strange angles.
Yet only by curves could I hope to attain the key
that would give me access to the time-space.
Found I that only by moving upward
and yet again by moving to right-ward
could I be free from the time of the movement." thoth
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Joni Mitchell - Blue (full album)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50zkUclo-cw
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"blue ...." j.m.
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Banks Do Not Lend Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqetwSy07o
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good morning, gotta go

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 10:47 | 4461709 akarc
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"Time" = a word invented to describe our existence.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 18:04 | 4463154 blindman
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or an incomplete conception adopted, tweaked and then
bastardised to define our imposed limitations and
"face" value, estimates made by the judges and priests.
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"List ye, O Man. Take of my wisdom.
Learn of his deep hidden mysteries of space.
Learn of the THOUGHT that grew in the abyss,
bringing Order and Harmony in space.

Know ye, O man, that all exists
has being only because of the LAW.
Know ye the LAW and ye shall be free,
never be bound by the fetters of night.

Far, through strange spaces, have I journeyed
into the depth of the abyss of time,
until in the end all was revealed.
Know ye that mystery is only mystery
when it is knowledge unknown to man.
When ye have plumbed the heart of all mystery,
knowledge and wisdom will surely be thine.

Seek ye and learn that TIME is the secret
whereby ye may be free of this space.

Long have I, WISDOM, sought wisdom;
aye, and shall seek of eternity's end
for know that ever before me receding
shall move the goal I seek to attain.
Even the LORDS of the CYCLES
know that not yet have THEY reached the goal,
For with all of their wisdom,
they know that TRUTH ever grows." more thoth from thoth ...
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i repeat,
Banks Do Not Lend Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqetwSy07o
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here an important distinction to contemplate when
figuring out why the fraudulent credit induction
system of debt servitude, with it's tiered and separate
class structure, is falsely and nearly universally
misunderstood to be a "money" system.
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financialisation is a "chronic" (there time) disease
seducing man to blindly kill himself and his community
through acceptance of the destruction of coherent Law
via the fraudulent credit induction notes substituted
for a just "money" system.
.
todays isolation and dissonance, state and corporate
partnering, technological eminence demanding individual
conformity and collective de-evolution emanate from the
initial flaw and lie embedded in the detail and slight
of hand known as usury practiced as a substitute for
outright slavery; the "improvement" being added layers
of middlemen and a bureaucracy to conceal the theft.

Sat, 02/22/2014 - 11:15 | 4464858 akarc
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Aye, and how much "time" is spent waiting for a robotic voice on the other end of the phone to tell us which buttons to push to send in us in never ending circles of never ending answers none of which offer a solution therefor insuring that we will will continue to spend time waiting for a robotic voice.................................................................................................................................  

Sat, 02/22/2014 - 11:45 | 4464950 blindman
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The Truth About Slavery: Past, Present and Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31E1gHowYcA
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here is what i'm listening to now, not sure
where it is going though i have an idea as to where
it should go.

Sat, 02/22/2014 - 12:30 | 4465125 akarc
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Due to "time" I had to jump through it. Being American, of Irish descent (though of any descent would be the same), I now need to:

A. Go find the anti depressants I didn't think I needed any more, or

B. Go out and hit somebody.

Bookmarked for further listening.

Now, back to the choices......Arghhhhhhhhhhhh!

great stuff 

Sat, 02/22/2014 - 12:46 | 4465180 akarc
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Quickly back to share a quick process that went through my head. What I saw of the vid sparked much anger in me. Enough to make me go, whoa, where is that coming from. Knowing anger is a reaction to fear it sent me to trying to identify the cascade of switches that were tripped and the tapes that were sent spinning. And now that I see it, my anger still grows  and I ask,

DOES IT EVER FREAKING END!

My trip out west to ride the mountain twisties has just been moved up.  Maybe I'll find a cave in the desert and pretend .....

Sat, 02/22/2014 - 13:18 | 4465277 blindman
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i think that the fear can be well managed.
never entirely eliminated, perhaps, but definately
used as a fuel to nearly completely extinguish
itself. the best system i know of is the asanas
of yoga, physically, practiced regularly for
a while and you would see for yourself what becomes
of the physical anger and mental fear, if i said that
right? that is something that anyone can do,
right now to thaw out the frozen feelings and
concepts that have us slip into fear and anger,
i think.
you know one great teacher, bks iyengar,
his practice and mastery started when he was
young because he had no food he found that
certain postures eliminated his appetite. then he found
many other things and became one of the world's
greatest authority on the workings of the human being.
so, for him, poverty was a blessing i guess?
that is the way i heard the story.
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"“Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.”
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“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.”
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“When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God.
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When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.”
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“Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it.” bks iyengar

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 07:07 | 4461199 daemon
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" I don’t have all the answers. In fact I only have a few. "

According to some very old teachings, answers are relative to the questions one asks. "Find" who/what asks questions, and he/it will disappear, as well as the questions and the answers.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 07:58 | 4461271 Cognitive Dissonance
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I was trying to point out that Two Ice Floes is not an "answer" website. But we will try to ask better questions.

<i.e. Got Milk?>  :)

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 05:39 | 4461148 StychoKiller
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Cog, do you know about E-prime?

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 08:03 | 4461274 Cognitive Dissonance
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I did not until now. From wiki......

"Some scholars advocate using E-Prime as a device to clarify thinking and strengthen writing. For example, the sentence "the film was good" could not be expressed under the rules of E-Prime, and the speaker might instead say "I liked the film" or "the film made me laugh". The E-Prime versions communicate the speaker's experience rather than judgment, making it harder for the writer or reader to confuse opinion with fact."

I shall look into this further. Thank you.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 05:38 | 4461147 StychoKiller
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Tunnel-Realities and Imprints
written by Robert Anton Wilson

Let's try Dr. Leary's perspective on these mysteries.

To understand neurological space, Dr. Leary assumes that the nervous system consists of eight potential circuits, or "gears," or mini-brains. Four of these brains are in the usually active left lobe and are concerned with our terrestrial survival; four are extraterrestrial, reside in the "silent" or inactive right lobe, and are for use in our future evolution. This explains why the right lobe is usually inactive at this stage of our development, and why it becomes active when the person ingests psychedelics.

We will explain each of the eight "brains" briefly.

I. THE BIO-SURVIVAL CIRCUIT
This invertebrate brain was the first to evolve (2 to 3 billion years ago) and is the first activated when a human infant is born. It programs perception onto an either-or grid divided into nurturing-helpful Things (which it approaches) and noxious-dangerous Things (which it flees, or attacks). The imprinting of this circuit sets up the basic attitude of trust or suspicion which will ever after trigger approach or avoidance.

II. THE EMOTIONAL CIRCUIT
This second, more advanced bio-computer formed when vertebrates appeared and began to compete for territory (perhaps 500,000,000 B.C.). In the individual, this bigger tunnel-reality is activated when the DNA master-tape triggers the metamorphosis from crawling to walking. As every parent knows, the toddler is no longer a passive (bio-survival) infant but a mammalian politician, full of physical (and psychic) territorial demands, quick to meddle in family business and decision-making. Again the first imprint on this circuit remains constant for life (unless brainwashed) and identifies the stimuli which will automatically trigger dominant, aggressive behavior or submissive, cooperative behavior. When we say that a person is behaving emotionally, egotistically or 'like a two-year-old,' we mean that s/he is blindly following one of the tunnel-realities imprinted on this circuit.

III. THE DEXTERITY-SYMBOLISM CIRCUIT
This third brain was formed when hominid types began to differentiate from other primate stock (circa 4-5 million B.C.) and is activated for the linear left-lobe functions of the brain, determines our normal modes of artifact-manufacture and conceptual thought, i.e., third circuit 'mind.'

It is no accident, then, that our logic (and our computer-design) follows either-or, binary structure of these circuits. Nor is it an accident that our geometry, until the last century, has been Euclidean. Euclid's geometry, Aristotle's logic and Newton's physics are meta-programs synthesizing and generalizing first brain forward-back, second brain up-down and third brain right-left programs.

IV. THE SOCIAL-SEXUAL CIRCUIT
The fourth brain, dealing with the transmission of tribal or ethnic culture across generations, introduces the fourth dimension, time.

Since each of these tunnel-realities consists of biochemical imprints or matrices in the nervous system, each of them is specifically triggered by neuro-transmitters and other drugs.

To activate the first brain take an opiate. Mother Opium and Sister Morphine bring you down to cellular intelligence, bio-survival passivity, the floating consciousness of the newborn. (This is why Freudians identify opiate addiction with the desire to return to infancy.)

To activate the second tunnel-reality, take an abundant quantity of alcohol. Vertebrate territorial patterns and mammalian emotional politics immediately appear when the booze flows, as Thomas Nashe intuitively realized when he characterized the various alcohol states by animal labels: "ass drunk," "goat drunk," "swine drunk," "bear drunk," etc.

To activate the third circuit, try coffee or tea, a high-protein diet, speed or cocaine.

The specific neurotransmitter for circuit four has not been synthesized yet, but it is generated by the glands after pubescence and flows volcanically through the bloodstreams of adolescents.

(I think MDMA is in part a 4th-circuit activator that promotoes social cohesion - Paul)

NONE OF THESE TERRESTRIAL DRUGS CHANGE BASIC BIOCHEMICAL IMPRINTS. The behaviors which they trigger are those which were wired into the nervous system during the first stages of imprint vulnerability. The circuit II drunk exhibits the emotional games or cons learned from parents in infancy. The circuit III "mind" never gets beyond the permutations and combinations of those tunnel-realities originally imprinted, or abstractions associated with the imprints through later conditioning. And so forth.

But all this Pavlovian-Skinnerian robotism changes drastically and dramatically when we turn to the right lobe, the future circuits and extraterrestrial chemicals.

The four evolving future 'brains' are:

V. THE NEUROSOMATIC CIRCUIT
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."

VI. THE NEUROELECTRIC CIRCUIT
The sixth brain consists of the nervous system becoming aware of itself apart from imprinted gravitational reality-maps (circuits I-IV) and even apart from body-rapture (circuit V). Count Korzybski, the semanticist, called this state "consciousness of abstracting." Dr. John Lilly calls it "metaprogramming," i.e., awareness of programming one's programming. This Einsteinian, relativistic contelligence (consciousness-intelligence) recognizes, for instance, that the Euclidean, Newtonian and Aristotelian reality-maps are just three among billions of possible programs or models for experience. I turned this circuit on with Peyote, LSD and Crowley's "magick" metaprograms.

This level of brain-functioning seems to have been reported first around 500 B.C. among various "occult" groups connected by the Silk Route (Rome-North India). It is so far beyond the terrestrial tunnel-realities that those who have achieved it can barely communicate about it to ordinary humanity (circuits I-IV) and can hardly be understood even by fifth circuit Rapture Engineers.

The characteristics of the neuroelectric circuit are high velocity, multiple choice, relativity, and the fission-fusion of all perceptions into parallel science-fiction universes of alternate possibilities.

The mammalian politics which monitor power struggles among terrestrial humanity are here transcended, i.e., seen as static, artificial, an elaborate charade. One is neither coercively manipulated into another's territorial reality nor forced to struggle against it with reciprocal emotional game-playing (the usual soap-opera dramatics). One simply elects, consciously, whether or not to share the other's reality-model.

Tactics for opening and imprinting the sixth circuit are described and rarely experienced in advanced rajah yoga, and in the hermetic (coded) manuals of the medieval-Renaissance alchemists and Illuminati.

No specific sixth circuit chemical is yet available, but strong psychedelics like mescaline (from my 1962-63 "sacred cactus," peyotl) and psilocybin (from the Mexican "magic mushroom," teonactl) open the nervous system to a mixed-media series of circuit V and circuit VI channels. This is appropriately called "tripping," as distinguished from straight-forward fifth circuit "turning on" or "getting high."

The suppression of scientific research in this area has had the unfortunate result of turning the outlaw drug culture back toward fifth circuit hedonics and pre-scientific tunnel-realities (the occult revival, solipsism, Pop Orientalism). Without scientific discipline and methodology, few can successfully decode the often-frightening (but philosophically crucial) sixth circuit metaprogramming signals. Such scientists as do continue to study this subject dare not publish their results (which are illegal) and record ever-wider tunnel-realities only in private conversations--like the scholars of the Inquisitorial era. (Voltaire announced the Age of Reason two centuries too soon. We are still in the Dark Ages.) Most underground alchemists have given up on such challenging and risky self-work and restrict their trips to fifth circuit erotic tunnels.

The evolutionary function of the sixth circuit is to enable us to communicate at Einsteinian relativities and neuro-electric accelerations, not using third circuit laryngeal-manual symbols but directly via feedback, telepathy and computer link-up. Neuro-electric signals will increasingly replace "speech" (hominid grunts) after space migration.

When humans have climbed out of the atmosphere-gravity well of planetary life, accelerated sixth circuit contelligence will make possible high-energy communication with "Higher Intelligences," i.e., ourselves-in-the-future and other post-terrestrial races.

It is charmingly simple and obvious, once we realize that the spaced-out neural experiences really are extraterrestrial, that getting high and spacing out are accurate metaphors. Circuit V neurosomatic rapture is preparation for the next step in our evolution, migration off the planet. Circuit VI is preparation for the step after that, interspecies communication with advanced entities possessing electronic (post-verbal) tunnel-realities.

Circuit VI is the "universal translator" often imagined by science-fiction writers, already built into our brains by the DNA tape. Just as the circuits of the future butterfly are already built into the caterpillar.

VII. THE NEUROGENETIC CIRCUIT
The seventh brain kicks into action when the nervous system begins to receive signals from WITHIN THE INDIVIDUAL NEURON, from the DNA-RNA dialogue. The first to achieve this mutation spoke of "memories of past lives," "reincarnation," "immortality," etc. That these adepts were recording something real is indicated by the fact that many of them (especially Hindu and Sufis) gave marvelously accurately poetic vistas of evolution 1,000 or 2,000 years before Darwin, and foresaw Superhumanity before Nietzsche.
The "akashic records" of Theosophy, the "collective unconscious" of Jung, the "phylogenetic unconscious" of Grof and Ring, are three modern metaphors for this circuit. The visions of past and future evolution described by those who have had "out-of-body" experiences during close-to-death episodes also describes the trans-time circuit VII tunnel-reality.

Specific exercises to trigger circuit VII are not to be found in yogic teaching; it usually happens, if at all, after several years of the kind of advanced rajah yoga that develops circuit VI facility.

The specific circuit VII neurotransmitter is, of course LSD. (Peyote and psilocybin produce some circuit VII experiences also.)

Circuit VII is best considered, in terms of 1977 science, as the genetic archives, activated by anti-histone proteins. The DNA memory coiling back to the dawn of life. A sense of the inevitability of immortality and interspecies symbiosis comes to all circuit VII mutants; we now see that this, also, is an evolutionary forecast, since WE STAND RIGHT NOW ON THE DOOR-STEP OF EXTENDED LONGEVITY LEADING TO IMMORTALITY.

The exact role of the right-lobe circuits and the reason for their activation in the 1960s cultural revolution now becomes clear. As sociologist F.M. Esfandiary writes in UPWINGERS, "Today when we speak of immortality and of going to another world we no longer mean these in a theological or metaphysical sense. People are now traveling to other worlds. People are now striving for immortality. Transcendence is no longer a metaphysical concept. It has become reality."

The evolutionary function of the seventh circuit and its evolutionary, aeon-spanning tunnel-reality is to prepare us for conscious immortality and interspecies symbiosis.

VIII. THE NEURO-ATOMIC CIRCUIT
Hold on to your hats and breathe deeply--this is the farthest-out that human intelligence has yet ventured.
Consciousness probably precedes the biological unit or DNA tape-loop. "Out-of-body experiences," "astral projection," contact with alien (extraterrestrial?) "entities" or with a galactic Overmind, etc., such as I've experienced, have all been reported for thousands of years, not merely by the ignorant, the superstitious, the gullible, but often by the finest minds among us (Socrates, Giordano Bruno, Edison, Buckminster Fuller, etc.). Such experiences are reported daily to parapsychologists and have been experienced by such scientists as Dr. John Lilly and Carlos Castaneda. Dr. Kenneth Ring has attributed these phenomena to what he calls, very appropriately, "the extraterrestrial unconscious."

Dr. Leary suggests that circuit VIII is literally neuro-atomic--infra, supra and meta-physiological--a quantum model of consciousness and/or a conscious model of quantum mechanics by the turned-on physicists discussed previously (Prof. John Archibald Wheeler, Saul-Paul Sirag, Dr. Fritjof Capra, Dr. Jack Sarfatti, etc.) indicates strongly that the "atomic consciousness" first suggested by Leary in "The Seven Tongues of God" (1962) is the explanatory link which will unite parapsychology and paraphysics into the first scientific empirical experimental theology in history.

When the nervous system is turned on to this quantum-level circuit, space-time is obliterated. Einstein's speed-of-light barrier is transcended; in Dr. Sarfatti's metaphor, we escape "electromagnetic chauvinism." The contelligence within the quantum projection booth IS the entire cosmic "brain," just as the micro-miniaturized DNA helix IS the local brain guiding planetary evolution. As Lao-tse said from his own Circuit VIII perspective, "The greatest is within the smallest."

Circuit VIII is triggered by Ketamine, a neuro-chemical researched by Dr. John Lilly, which is also (according to a wide-spread but unconfirmed rumor) given to astronauts to prepare them for space. High doses of LSD also produce some circuit VIII quantum awareness.

This neuro-atomic contelligence is four mutations beyond terrestrial domesticity. (The current ideological struggle is between circuit IV tribal moralists-or-collectivists and circuit V hedonic individualists.) When our need for higher intelligence, richer involvement in the cosmic script, further transcendence, will no longer be satisfied by physical bodies, not even by immortal bodies hopping across space-time at Warp 9, circuit VIII will open a further frontier. New universes and realities. "Beyond theology: the science and art of Godmanship," as Alan Watts once wrote.

It is therefore possible that the mysterious "entities" (angels and extraterrestrials) monotonously reported by circuit VIII visionaries are members or races already evolved to this level. But it is also possible, as Leary and Sarfatti more recently suggest, that They are ourselves-in-the-future.

The left-lobe terrestrial circuits contain the learned lessons of our evolutionary past (and present). The right-lobe extraterrestrial circuits are the evolutionary script for out future.

Thus far, there have been two alternative explanations of why the Drug Revolution happened. The first is presented in a sophisticated way by anthropologist Weston LaBarre, and in an ignorant, moralistic way by most anti-drug propaganda in the schools and mass media. This explanation says, in essence, that millions have turned away from the legal DOWN drugs to illegal HIGH drugs because we are living in troubled times and many are seeking escape into fantasy.

This theory, at its best, only partially explains the ugliest and most publicized aspect of the revolution--the reckless drug abuse characteristic of the immature. It says nothing about the millions of respectable doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc., who have turned away from second circuit intoxication with booze to fifth circuit rapture with weed.

Nor does it account at all for the thoughtful, philosophical sixth circuit investigations of persons of high intelligence and deep sensibility, such as Aldous Huxley, Dr. Stanley Grof, Masters-Houston, Alan W. Watts, Carlos Castaneda, Dr. John Lilly and thousands of scientific and lay researchers on consciousness.

A more plausible theory, devised by psychiatrist Norman Zinberg out of the work of Marshall McLuhan, holds that modern electronic media have so shifted the nervous system's parameters that young people no longer enjoy "linear" drugs like alcohol and find meaning only in "non-linear" weed and psychedelics.

This is certainly part of the truth, but it is too narrow and overstresses TV and computers without sufficiently stressing the general technological picture--the ongoing Science-Fiction Revolution of which the most significant aspects are Space Migration, Increased Intelligence and Life Extension, which Leary has condensed into his SMI²LE formula.

Space Migration plus Increased Intelligence plus Life Extension means expansion of humanity into all space-time. SM + I² + LE = infinity.

Without totally endorsing Charles Fort's technological mysticism ("It steam-engines when it comes steam-engine time"), it is obvious that the DNA metaprogram for planetary evolution is far wiser than any of our individual nervous systems--which are, in a sense, giant robots or sensors for DNA. Early science-fiction of brilliant writers like Stapledon, Clarke, Heinlein; Kubrick's 2001--all were increasingly clear DNA signals transmitted through the intuitive right lobe of sensitive artists, preparing us for the extraterrestrial mutation.

It is scarcely coincidental that mainstream "literary" intellectuals--the heir of the Platonic-aristocratic tradition that a gentleman never uses his hands, monkeys with tools or learns a manual craft--despise both science-fiction and the dope culture. Nor is it coincidental that the WHOLE EARTH CATALOGS - created by Stewart Brand, a graduate of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters--are the New Testament of the rural drop-out culture, each issue bulging with tons of eco-technological information about all the manual, dextrous, gadgety know-how that Plato and his heirs consider fit only for slaves. Not surprisingly, Brand's latest publication, CO-EVOLUTION QUATERLY, has been devoted to publicizing Prof. Gerard O'Neill's space-habitat, L5.

Nor is it an accident that dopers seem to prefer science-fiction to any other reading, even including the extraterrestrial-flavored Hindu scriptures and occult-shamanic circuit VI-VIII trip-poets like Crowley and Hesse.

The circuit VI drugs may have contributed much to the metaprogramming consciousness that has led to sudden awareness of "male chauvinism" (women's liberationists), "species chauvinism" (ecology, Lilly's dolphin studies), "type-G star chauvinism" (Carl Sagan), even "oxygen chauvinism" (the CETI conference), etc. The imprinted tunnel-realities which identify one as "white-male-American-earthian" etc. or "black-female-Cuban" etc. are no longer big enough to enclose our exploding contelligence.

As TIME magazine said on November 26, 1973, "Within ten years, according to pharmacologists, they will have perfected pills and cranial electrodes of providing life-long bliss for everyone on Earth." The 1960s hysteria about weed and acid was just the overture to this fifth circuit break-through. Nathan S. Kline, M.D., predicts real aphrodisiacs, drugs to speed up learning, drugs to foster or terminate any behavior. ... Those who were jailed or beaten by cops in the 1960s were forerunners of the Revolution of Inner Technology.

STAR TREK is a better guide to the emerging reality than anything in the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS. The life-support and defense-system engineer, Scotty (circuit I), the emotional-sentimental Dr. McCoy (circuit II), the logical science officer Mr. Spock (circuit III) and the alternately paternalistic and romantic Captain Kirk (circuit IV) are perpetually voyaging through our future neurological history and encountering circuit V, VI, VII, and VIII intelligences, however crudely presented.

In short, the various levels of consciousness and circuits we have been discussing, and illustrating, are all biochemical imprints in the evolution of the nervous system. Each imprint creates a bigger tunnel-reality. In the Sufi metaphor, the donkey on the which we ride becomes a different donkey after each imprint. The metaprogrammer continually learns more and is increasingly able to be aware of itself operating. We are thus evolving to intelligence-studying-intelligence (the nervous system studying the nervous system) and are more and more capable of accelerating our own evolution.

Leary now symbolizes intelligence-studying-intelligence by the mark, I². On the lower levels, you see with one "I", so to speak. On the higher levels, you see with many "I"s, and space-time shifts from three Euclidean dimensions to non-Euclidean multi-dimensionality.

Source: Cosmic Trigger, 1977

 

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 11:16 | 4461741 akarc
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What is interesting is how an imprint can be left so quickly and innoucusly in such a manner as to make it almost impossible to locate it's existence.  Shamans, witches, etc. learned the art of establishing an imprint resulting in an outcome.

Manson and Hitler two  of the greatest hypnotists that ever lived, yet for the most part intellectually inferior to most.  

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 12:32 | 4462130 Sean7k
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Hitler had an IQ of 142. Hardly inferior. His ability to influence others through speech was "magical" to use an Illuminati/Alchemist concept. I think we fail to understand what magic is and how it is manifest in the talents people possess.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 15:10 | 4462707 akarc
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My understanding is that Hitler never took an I.Q. test. That he distrusted them on the basis that Jews consistently score higher. He was a passionate orator however who was able to discern what the people wanted to hear and promise it to them. He was also quite manipulative. Like my parrot.

Magic is pretty much science not yet explained, my opinion.  Many survival characteristics are developed by individuals who have grown up inextremely dysfunctional environments. Among them are the ability to lie, manipulate, hide, and use other people.  Not everyone with Bordeliine Personaliity Disorder has a high IQ. 

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 18:44 | 4462950 Sean7k
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See "HItlers War", by David Irving. He was actually one of the most intelligent amongst his inner circle. Jews have below average IQ's according to some statistics, it could be some of the salted information that finds its' way via propaganda channels. Hitler's relationship with jews was interesting and much different from that portrayed in most literature. 

I can never give science that much credit, it seems to fail more than succeed and often those succeses just result in more pain and suffering. For me, magic is parallel knowledge, mostly beyond our attempted grasp, real science versus the artificial science humans propagate.

Sat, 02/22/2014 - 11:32 | 4464913 akarc
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"David Irving"

"I can never give science that much credit, it seems to fail more than succeed"

 I suspect we'll not find much in agreement. I do not discount "magic," but seek to understand it which for them ost part involves not discounting the science.

Sat, 02/22/2014 - 15:03 | 4465675 Sean7k
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I didn't realize that was required. Hard to see the forest for the trees...

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 13:48 | 4462406 Cognitive Dissonance
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The words we describe to this phenomenon such as "spellbound" and "transfixed" are very informative. We are often 'bewitched" by sounds in certain cadence and rhythm. Mrs. Cog and I wish to explore this in greater depth on Two Ice Floes soon.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 05:36 | 4461146 The Final Straw
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Blah blah blah. Word masturbation without the happy ending. Fine arts major?

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 07:54 | 4461267 Cognitive Dissonance
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Every story must have a happy ending because that's what Hollywood has declared sells. Fortunately I march to a different drummer.

At least you read to the end to find out there was no happy ending. Thanks. Most critics don't even do that.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 05:34 | 4461145 StychoKiller
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How to start your day with a positive attitude:

Create a "new folder" on your computer.
Name it "Barack H. Obama".
Send it to the trash.
Empty the trash.
Your computer will ask you: "Do you really want to delete "Barack H. Obama"?
Calmly answer, "Yes", and press the mouse button firmly...

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 11:20 | 4461825 juangrande
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To borrow from the Glimmer Twins, " I shouted out who killed democracy! when after all, it was You and Me..."

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 01:50 | 4460963 Soul Glow
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Read like Bob Dylan's prose.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 07:51 | 4461264 Cognitive Dissonance
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Don't say that too loud. Mrs. Cog might hear.  :)

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 01:11 | 4460894 the grateful un...
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consciousness (and technology) is an extension of our physical bodies (mcluhan) there is no here and there. here and there is a game we play with ourselves, the right hand doesnt know what the left hand is doing. in order to gain control of these things we need to understand their real nature (what is consciousness?) or how is consciousness defined by your parents teachers, clergy, heads of business to make you a good little mushroom, worker bee, nonviolent promoter of the hidden agenda for all progressive causes (enhanced by violent new technologies, drone warfare, biosoldiers, NSA spying - technology intended to make you LESS violent, until you hold that cyber rifle in your hand and pull the trigger on that poor third world fellow holding an older technology weapon and his brain explodes) technology is your consciousness, you are using it right now in a culture war against all muslims, that is your consciousness, you have no choice. you hate muslims, and if you don't you are self conflicted, violent against yourself. there are your two ice floes, neither very pretty, who promoted these new technologies? did you? no, you're a polar bear on one of the two ice floes. you can't navigate, you are not master of anything. 

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 11:39 | 4461910 juangrande
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There is much correct about what you say, IMO. But the battle is much larger than Muslim/Christian/Jew. The violence is perpetrated on oneself, ultimately. The split is between what one thinks they want/need vs what IS already. Peace is rooted in acceptance of the moment. Our "rational" mind is constantly searching for a "better" way. I suppose, as a tool, it has its uses. The problem is, in the vast majority of us, this aspect of our mind has the proverbial "keys to the bus". It's running the show and it is hungry (for what?) and NEVER satisfied for long. It is this aspect of human consciousness which acts like a virus. Our hope lies in making that aspect of our consciousness subservient to ( for lack of a better word)  a higher consciousness. The paradox is that YOU can't MAKE it happen. That fact pisses off the EGO and inspires it to outthink, distract, negate any attempt at the process of acceptance.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 11:00 | 4461751 akarc
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 how did your parents teachers, clergy, heads of business create your conciousness?

Ever wonder why Budweiser for example might pay big bucks to put a little sticker on the side of a car going around a track at 200 mph. They know well how to manipulate their consumer. They will settle for the 10 percent that keep them in business. 

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 18:42 | 4463464 Miffed Microbio...
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Sigh, this only works if you are not mindful and haven't extricated yourself from the Matrix. Shiny stickers then have no power to hook your attention. They must hope the 10% don't awaken.

Miguel Ruiz in the Four Agreement described the process of domestication during the First Attention ( childhood). This is inevitable. However, during the Second Attention, you start to question the domestication which ultimately is a generational mindset. Through mindfulness you break the old agreements trapping you and keeping you from becoming yourself. Depending on how many agreements you have formed this may be the path of a Warrior. But it is necessary to walk if you want Freedom.

Miffed;-)

Sat, 02/22/2014 - 11:46 | 4464954 akarc
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Agreed. However in defense of the various 10%'s +/-, by the  time some of them awaken it is to late. THey are chained so tightly they will suffocate before they can break free. A much greater hell than never having awakened.  

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 01:59 | 4460975 janus
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RFwhEvVqnA

 

i so badly wanna meet you; your ornery son'a bitch.

 

much love,

janus

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 23:52 | 4460735 Sick
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Bravo. I loved it and will join you.

Standing Ovation: Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap to infinity. :)

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 23:41 | 4460703 Spankrupt
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Monetizing truth or some close variation has always felt uncomfortable....then what? Stalin wanted the world...then what Joe? Have it....I have always had and hopefully always will have my mind. Land ownership is not real, just ask the Indians circa 1670. Bill Richardson built roads to the Navajos with public money...real. The future may be the only truth, It will arrive. The past is constantly re-written by con-artists with bad memories or the politically corrupt, aren't we all corrupt? Although, Niall F. splices my historical senses seemingly effortlessly and thought provokingly. Can't Kissinger die already! So the anti-hero dances with wolves. He never meant to dance...did he? Cog - well done.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 22:40 | 4460472 Yes_Questions
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CD:  I love you.

 

See you soon on the other floe.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 02:06 | 4460987 janus
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i know you enough to know you hate this...but there's a 3rd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4pyiB-kq0

every triangle has 3 sides/

no more no less/

when it's 3/

you can see/

it's a majik #,

janus

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 10:09 | 4461506 Sean7k
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Spend time in the third dimension much?

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 11:06 | 4461769 akarc
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Many things come in three:

Id Ego Super Ego

man woman child

son father holy spirit

forward nuetral reverse

right middle left

low tide high tide slack tide

and on and on......

Remove the S from Six

and you are left with the roman numeral nine

amazing what one little addition or subtraction of information you do not have can change all that you know

Sat, 02/22/2014 - 15:12 | 4465716 Sean7k
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Things come in ones, two's, fours, fives, etc. forward, neutral, reverse, up and down. Right, left, forward, backwards- neutral is not a direction or movement. monotheism and polytheism. While numbers may have significance within a system, to assign significance to ordinary numbers is kind of silly.

Sat, 02/22/2014 - 18:18 | 4466273 akarc
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Science majik or both or all

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_(number)

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!