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– “….YOU SHOULD VIEW THE WORLD AS A CONSPIRACY RUN BY A VERY CLOSELY-KNIT GROUP OF NEARLY OMNIPOTENT PEOPLE, AND YOU SHOULD THINK OF THOSE PEOPLE AS YOURSELF & YOUR FRIENDS…”
Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything
If you take history on this planet is starting at midnight and you assume the life on this planet is 4 billion years old, 10 billion which is the estimated life of a g-type star. It is now 8 o’clock in the morning and it’s time for us to wake up, because we’ve pretty much been operating on autopilot up until now and there are signs of planetary awakening, domesticated primates psychology remains pretty much the same as it was and the Paleolithic.
Once these increasing evidences of mutations there was only one Buddha 2,500 years ago now you meet five or ten Buddha’s at every city. Open knowledge wherever it’s discovered is traveling over the whole world faster and faster the possibility of changing consciousness was discovered in the Orient 2,500 years ago at least probably it’s older than that. Techniques were discovered to quiet the mind pacify the mind remove emotional compulsions and these were organized into the science of yoga.
As John Lilly says: “Yoga is the science of the East a science is the yoga of the West. As a way of trying to reach an objective level in which your emotional compulsions and prejudices aren’t twisting all the facts to fit in with your favorite reality tunnel. The scientific worldview grew up in the West between 1500 and 1750, widely due to mystics, who were known as hermeticists this hermetic scientific revolution saw theology as its enemy. There was no conflict between hermeticism and science they were both based on experiment. Find out what happens if you do this and they were both opposed to the authority of the church.
Shortly after 1600 this began to split and the Hermetic tradition faded into the background and we developed for the first time in history a science that had absolutely no connection with anything except your reason. The Hermetic tradition was that there is no such thing as pure reason, you’ve got first to word your own perceiving apparatus to correct your prejudices, the scientist is not separate from what scientist observes and the general yogic attitude that you have a master who makes the grass green Western science lost that insight. From Newton onwards we had the idea that it doesn’t matter who you are if you follow scientific procedure you’ll find the truth.
This began to break down after 1900 through to Sigmund Freud who pointed out that even scientists are human beings and may have neuroses and that scientific theories may be elaborate rationalizations for neuroses. The influence of Karl Marx who pointed out, no matter what you theorize about it’s a mirror of your economic status and what your economic goals are. Anthropologist started coming back with reports about alternative reality tunnels showing that no matter what reality tunnel you live, the world will organize itself in your perceptions to be compatible with that reality tunnel.
Science began to have data to look at science itself critically that’s how intelligence increases when intelligence looks at intelligence and criticizes intelligence, so we got to the point where we could look at science and say, science is the product of people. People are doing this and their prejudices are getting into it and it’s not just enough to say I will be objective you’ve gotta learn to change yourself from the inside out before you can even begin to approximate toward objectivity. How do you do that?
Well it took a while to begin to find answers to that. When Albert Hofmann went for a bicycle ride one day after experimenting with ergot derivatives, after accidentally ingesting LSD, he went through a profound experience in 1942 which he did not put into words until 1980. So it took him 40 years, he was educated as a classical chemist with a classical scientific background and assumed that there was such a thing as an objective observer. It took him 40 years to figure out what LSD meant and in 1982 he wrote on the 40th anniversary of the discovery of LSD in which he says. “The main thing I’ve learned from LSD is that there is no objective reality separate from us”.
Well there are other realities that I know the system’s construct out of the signals they receive this became obvious to others due to the things that were happening in quantum physics. From 1900 on in the doubling of knowledge between 1900 and 1950 physicists discovered that the atomic world is just not describable in terms of Aristotelian logic. For one thing you can’t describe anything on the quantum level accurately unless you include the observer in your picture so quantum physics turned out to be saying exactly the same thing that the psychedelic revolution was saying. That there is no objective reality separate from us, all we know is the reality that we are co-creators of the reality perceived conceived put together by our nervous systems.
At this point it becomes obvious that intelligence can be raised consciousness can be altered nothing is static, what we should do is learn how to change our nervous systems and we can go to wider and wider reality tunnels and bigger and bigger levels of perception. There was a great deal of drug research and a lot of people were getting a lot of radical ideas and so the government made it illegal which is the natural thing to do if you’re a politician. The last thing you want is intelligence increase, now that we know it’s possible to change consciousness let’s see the other techniques that they will let us investigate. Nobody has made pranayama illegal yet because it would be impossible to enforce. Whether you just read a book on yoga and learn how to breathe through alternative nostrils and you find you’re going to an entirely different consciousness state. Then you can go back to you ordinary consciousness think about that state then go back into that state and think about your ordinary consciousness and already you’re in I squared.
By intelligence studying intelligence you finding out how the system works so with each decade since the 1960s we are moving to the place where we can change our nervous systems, change reality tunnels and make bigger and bigger reality tunnels once you look down at your reality tunnel whether your reality tunnel is Ohio Methodist or New York Jewish for Marin County hippy or Tokyo capitalist and Buddhist or Iranian Muslim fundamentalist.
Once you get to the level where you’re outside your reality tunnel looking down at it you can compare reality tunnels and you’re on a higher level of intelligence already because you no longer a conditioned mechanism just following the reality tunnel that was accidentally imprinted or conditioned and you can start choosing between reality tunnels.
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