classless Kulla on Timothy Leary @ c-base

classless Kulla Neuro evolution will go on! Timothy Leary's model of the nervous system and its past and future development

Predecessors Traditional: ca. 15th century, Indus valley, Northern Italy water – cream – cheese – worms – humans – gods Scientific: Alfred Russell Wallace, 19th century theory of evolution, but: „designed“ spiritual capacities

Leary's Participant Psychology Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality, 1956 focus on relations, social „games“ understanding behavior by environment & circumstances The Existential Transaction, 1957 real-life situations, personal involvement patient and psychologist form research group

Psilocybin "...mentally travelled back through the aeons..." putting things into perspective patient and psychologist take the same „medicine“ (quotes from „I Have America Surrounded“ by John Higgs)

Leary's approach before LSD instead of narrowing down human psychology to a certain role considered obligatory for everyone in society: a) relativize this: different games with different rules and for different reasons b) expand horizon & put things into perspective ( by administering psychedelic mushrooms)

The difference Psilocybin 4 to 5 hours agonist of serotonin alters (sense of) reality LSD 12 to 16 hours agonist of serotonin and dopamin alters (sense of) reality directly connects nervous system & emotions to altered reality

The Marsh Chapel experiment

The right tool for the job LSD combined both of Leary's requirements for his new approach in psychological research: it created the common ground like psilocybin (widening the perspective, individual self- awareness of one's place in evolution) also interrelated this with the functioning of the own nervous system & the own emotions

Social impact of LSD did not cause „The 60s“ „lit a fire“ under new ideas & movements influenced many key figures of „The 60s“ anticipation of the desired world encouragement to bring it about

Leary hysteria

Neuro evolution human nervous system as ensemble of up to 8 autonomous neural circuits circuits develop both over the course of natural evolution and during each individual's life increase complexity of interaction with the outside world and with oneself

The terrestial circuits 1) bio-survival pleasure – anxiety, attraction – distraction early animals, early infant life, Freud's „oral phase“ 2) territorial domination – submission, attack – retreat predators, Freud's „anal phase“ 3) symbolic tools, language, negotiation apes, ants, humans 4) socio-sexual rules and (sexual) taboos, social order animals in tribes and states

The extra-terrestial circuits 5) neuro-somatic intensity and quality, transcending the first 4 circuits only some humans but fast growing number THC, „getting high“ 6) metaprogramming willful recombination and reimprinting of all circuits LSD, „taking a trip“ 7/8) neurogenetic, neuroatomic, quantum super-purpose, cosmic reunion, „Starseed“ „returning home“

Ash Ra Tempel & Timothy Leary „Seven Up“ A-Side: „Space“ „Downtown“

Ash Ra Tempel & Timothy Leary „Seven Up“ A-Side: „Space“ „Power Drive“

Ash Ra Tempel & Timothy Leary „Seven Up“ A-Side: „Space“ „Right Hand Lover“

Ash Ra Tempel & Timothy Leary „Seven Up“ B-Side: „Time“

Stoned Ape Theories "...only 0.01 per cent of the original dose enters the brain, where it remains for only 20 minutes. (...) drug itself seems to have left the brain before the psychological effects start.“ (Lee/Shlain: Acid Dreams) „Any attempts to explain this, such as the drug acting as a 'trigger' for an unknown natural biochemical state, or creating a role for the body in relation to consciousness, just seems whacky and unacceptable to the scientific community." (Higgs) a) McKenna: mushrooms in the savannah, coevolution b) DMT: sleep/waking barrier

Chaos & Cyber Culture The first e-commerce transaction took place in the early 1970s, on the ARPAnet network, which later evolved into the Internet. This was a drug deal. Students of MIT used the network to arrange the sale of some marijuana with students of Stanford.

Weary of Leary advocated free market survival of the highest actively and knowingly brainwashed many people including his wife Joanna never accepted responsibility for the millions of unprepared trips used metaprogramming as an excuse for Verrat (1970) „Now that wealth and beauty surrounded him, the economic struggle of the common man didn't trouble [Leary] too greatly. Indeed, just months after pledging 'eternal solidarity' to the Brazilian Marxists who had escaped from jail and fled to Algiers, he found himself drinking with the Brazilian autocrats who jailed them in the first place.“

Neuro evolution will go on! currently arrested development caught between repression and commodification necessary compensation drowns experiments drugs rather used for adapting to the requirements of market, office and factory can the world become (like) a good trip?

classless Kulla on Timothy Leary @ c-base

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