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The Terrestrial Circuits. |
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1. The Biosurvival Circuit:
imprinted in infancy. Concerned with sucking, nourishment,
cuddling, biosecurity. |
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2. The Emotional-Territorial
Circuit: imprinted in the toddling stage. Concerned with
territorial demands, emotional power tactics, political
domination-and-submission strategies. |
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3. The Semantic Circuit:
imprinted by human artifacts and symbol systems. Concerned with
handling the environment, invention, calculation, prediction,
building a “map” of the universe. |
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4. The Sociosexual Circuit:
imprinted by the first orgasm-mating experiences and tribal
“morals.” Concerned with sexual pleasure, local definitions of
“moral” and “immoral,” reproduction, nurture of the young. |
| II. |
The Extraterrestrial Circuits. |
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5. The Neurosomatic Circuit:
imprinted by ecstatic experience via physiological or chemical
yogas. Concerned with neurological-somatic feedbacks, feeling high,
somatic re-programming (Christian Science, faith healing,
etc.). |
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6. The Metaprogramming Circuit:
imprinted by advanced yogas. Concerned with reimprinting and
reprogramming all earlier circuits, relativity of “realities”
perceived, cybernetic consciousness. |
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7. The Neurogenetic Circuit:
imprinted by advanced yogas. Concerned with evolutionary
consciousness (past and future), DNA-RNA-brain feedbacks, Jung’s
“Collective Unconscious.” |
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8. The Neuroatomic Circuit:
imprinted by shock or near-death experience. Concerned with quantum
consciousness, non-local awareness (beyond spacetime), so-called
“PSI” or “magick” powers, Illumination. |
Adapted from Exo-Psychology, by
Timothy Leary
