The Eight Circuit Model of Consciousness and the Relationship to the Chakras

Benares · #1 (**permalink**) 02-12-2008, 02:27 AM

I felt this was something that I wanted to bring to the attention of the Society. Many people know and understand the different chakras and their functions. However, I haven't seen any talk into the eightfold model of consciousness and their relationship to each other. Hopefully this will spark much in depth conversation.. so, let's begin!

The eightfold circuit of consciousness model, which was a proposed model into how our brain works on a terrestrial and extraterrestrial level, was originally proposed by Timothy Leary in his book Exo-Psychology, as well as going in depth with more material in Info-Psychology some years later. Robert Anton Wilson expanded upon this model and made it into something more usable, in my opinion. He wrote Prometheus Rising as well as The Cosmic Trigger, which both go in depth into the eightfold circuit model. Antero Alli also wrote a book called Angel Tech which goes in depth into an understanding of the eight circuits as well as working with them without drugs!

I have put together a short version and a long version. I would muchly encourage you to read the quote from Wilson's book below, but if not, at least take the time to glimpse over this cut from Wikipedia, which breaks it down more simply:

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1. The Bio-survival Circuit is concerned with the earliest modes of survival and the basic separation of objects into either harmful or safe. This circuit is said to have first appeared in the earliest evolution of the invertebrate brain. It is the first to be activated in an infant's mind. Leary says this circuit is stimulated by opioid drugs. This circuit introduces a one-dimensional perception: forward and backward (i.e., forward towards food, nourishment and that which is trusted as safe, and backwards -- away from danger and predators).
2. The Emotional Circuit is concerned with raw emotion and the separation of behavior into submissive and dominant. This circuit appeared first in vertebrate animals. In humans, it is activated when the child learns to walk. Leary associates this circuit with alcohol. This circuit introduces a second dimension, up-down, linked with territorial politics and tribal power games (up, as in swelling ones body in size to represent dominance, and down, as in the cowering, tail-between-the-legs submissive stance).
3. The Symbolic Circuit is concerned with logic and symbolic thought. Leary said this circuit first appeared when hominids started differentiating from the rest of the primates. Leary believed this circuit is stimulated by caffeine, cocaine, and other stimulants. This circuit introduces the third dimension, left and right, related to the development of dextrous movement and handling "artefacts". (Also called by Leary The Dexterity-Symbolism Circuit; called by Robert Anton Wilson the Semantic Circuit.)
4. The Domestic Circuit. This circuit is concerned with operating within social networks and the transmission of culture across time. This circuit is said to have first appeared with the development of tribes. Leary never associated a drug with it. This fourth circuit deals with moral-social/sexual tribal rules passed through generations and is the introduction to the fourth dimension -- time. [Note from Benares: MDMA activates this circuit.](Also called by Leary and Wilson the Socio-Sexual Circuit).
5. The Neurosomatic Circuit is the first of the right-brain, "higher" circuits which are usually inactive in most humans. It allows one to see things in multi-dimensional space instead of the 4 dimensions of Euclidean space-time, and is there to aid in the future exploration of outer space. It is said to have first appeared with the development of leisure-class civilizations around 2000 BC. It is associated with hedonism and eroticism. Leary says this circuit is stimulated by cannabis and tantric yoga, or simply by experiencing the sensation of free fall at the right time.
6. The Neuroelectric Circuit is concerned with the mind becoming aware of itself independent of the patterns imprinted by the previous five circuits. It is also called "metaprogramming" or "consciousness of abstracting". Leary says this circuit enables telepathic communication, and that this circuit is impossible to explain to those who have only left-brain activity and is difficult to explain to those with active fifth circuits. It is said to have appeared in 500 BC, in connection with the Silk Road. Leary associates this circuit with peyote and psilocybin. (Robert Anton Wilson called this circuit The Metaprogramming Circuit.)
7. The Neurogenetic Circuit allows access to the genetic memory contained in DNA. It is connected to memories of past lives, the Akashic Records, and the collective unconscious, and allows for essential immortality in humans. This circuit first appeared among Hindu and Sufi sects in the early first millennium. This circuit is stimulated by LSD, and Raja Yoga. (Robert Anton Wilson called this circuit The Morphogenetic Circuit.)
8. The Psycho-atomic Circuit allows access to the intergalactic consciousness that predates life in the universe (characterized as God, the Overmind or aliens), and lets humans operate outside of space-time and the constraints of relativity. This circuit is associated with Ketamine and DMT by Leary. (Called also by Leary The Neuro-Atomic Circuit or The Metaphysiological Circuit, Robert Anton Wilson called this circuit The Quantum Non-Local Circuit.)

This quote comes from RAW's book, The Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati. This should give you a good bit of insight into these ways of thinking. It goes much more in depth than the forenamed quotation.

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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.

NOTICE how drugs that stimulate the first four circuits, which are already activated, tend to be dangerously addictive, roughly ordered ascending from the first circuit. -John

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. (MDMA (Esctasy) is know to activate the 4th circuit -Benares)

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 some "rascal-gurus"), 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, and LSD.

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.

Benares · #2 (**permalink**) 02-12-2008, 02:28 AM

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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. (Also activated by DMT and DPT -Benares)

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 Thompson.

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.

So, now that you understand the eightfold circuit model, let's apply it to the chakra model:

I see a direct correlation between these circuits and the chakras, as well that I can feel the connection to the chakras when occasionally (now, more occasionally than ever) indulging in any of these substances.

The base chakra has a direct connection with the 1st circuit of bio-survival. Ever seen someone on heroine? Yeah, that don't really care about much.. except maybe whether they live or die. In the over stimulation of this circuit, you also find many problems as with an imbalanced root chakra.. which is exactly the case here.

I can go on and on, with every chakra, but I think you at least get the point. I may point out some big things later. If you aren't familiar with the chakras, or even if you are, here is some GREAT information MagdaleneGraceMae posted: http://indigosociety.com/healing-you...5601#post65601
Included there is a list of problems etc. related to the chakras. See if you can't see the similarities to the eight circuit model.

For example, look at these affirmations of the winner and loser:

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1. The biosurvival

Winner
"I will live forever or die trying."
Loser
"I don't know how to defend myself."

2. The emotional-territorial

Winner
"I am free; you are free; we can have our
separate trips or we can have the same trip."
Loser
"They all intimidate me."

3. The semantic

Winner
"I am learning more about everything,
including how to learn more."
Loser
"I can't solve my problems."

4. The sociosexual

Winner
"Love, and do what thou wilt." (Anon. of Ibid)
Loser
"Everything I like is illegal, immoral, or fattening."

5. The neurosomatic

Winner
"How I feel depends on my neurological knowhow."
Loser
"I can't help the way I feel."

6. The metaprogramming

Winner
"I make my own coincidences, synchronicities,
luck, and Destiny."
Loser
"Why do I have such lousy luck?"

7. The neurogenetic

Winner
"Future evolution depends on my decisions now."
Loser
"Evolution is blind and impersonal."

8. The neuroatomic

Winner
"In the province of the mind, what is believed to be true is true,
or becomes true within certain limits to be learned by
experience and experiment." (Dr.John Lilly)
Loser
"I am not psychic, and I doubt anyone is."

Another big thing I wanted to touch on here is how controlled substances can open and activate the chakras. Yeah, you here some people that are familiar with LSD speak about the third eye. But what does that really mean? In fact, these substances work to open the corresponding chakra in every case, and, if use is heavy enough, open neighboring chakras as well. The flip side here is that the chakras are extremely imbalanced, especially in accordance to the rest of the body. This can create a lot of problems for anybody.. as I have experienced a couple myself.

The other thing I wanted to touch on briefly is the connection between alike circuits. If you noticed, each circuit focuses on one of the (subtle) bodies: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Circuit 1 and 5 have connections to the physical, 2 and 6 to the emotional, 3 and 7 to the mental, 4 and 8 to the spiritual. This also means that when you activate one circuit, it activates the corresponding circuit to some extent. This also doubles for the chakras. Taking this into mind, we now have a connection between the root and the heart, the navel and the throat, the solar plexus and the third eye, and the heart (again) and the crown. A good example of this is how my kundalini awakened.. I'll give you a short synopsis.

I was toking on some fine mary jane out of an enormous water pipe, when suddenly I felt this huge rush of energy and almost fell out of my body. My heart was rushing, and I really didn't know what was going on. It wasn't until I was able to clear my thoughts for a second that I remembered something about kundalini. It played out more smoothly from there. In the case of my base kundalini awakening, it was the 1-5 circuit connection that kicked my ass. Neat, huh?

So maybe your brain is a little bit more related to your energy body than you thought, hmm? This makes me inquire about the structure of our DNA, and our supposed "12 strands". That will have to be a different topic, though.

I hope this serves as some food for thought for you guys. I'd love to hear what you think or have to say about it all.

Consciousness love!
John

Benares · #3 (**permalink**) 02-14-2008, 07:38 PM

As an important note, I think that most indigos are born with circuit 6/7 active, and most crystals are born with circuit 7/8 active. If they aren't born with them active, they at least grow into them being active. I guess that makes more sense because you are really only born with circuit 1 active, then 2 and 3, and 4 when you hit puberty.

Neat stuff

Tear_of_the_WoLF · #4 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 08:27 PM

im not sure why no one else has even responded yet...this really is very interesting information here that makes lots of sense...
hmmm ...Benares....i wonder if people shy away from the drug associations...me ive used every single one mentioned above and agree at least on more than a few, for example the first circuit the biosurvival circuit being associated with opiates....they really DO open that energy of survival ONLY.....its all about evolving and the human experience, which at least for me, was moved along by drugs at some points in my life...no i don't do dope anymore...i just drink my beer, smoke a lil weed, and occassionly take psychedelics....but all of them have opened different gates when looked upon on a metaphysical level.

Benares · #5 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 09:25 PM

My focus here isn't the drugs, but I think it is important to realize that drugs do affect you, regardless of what they are. Also, I want to emphasize that drugs are not at all the only way to activate the different circuits. A great book on this, that I mentioned above, is Angel Tech by Antero Alli. He also wrote two sequels to it as well (I've read the first and part of the second) that has a lot of great information.

I agree though. Regardless of all of this, I really felt that this is something that those who are interested in this sort of thing would want to know more about. It's how our brain works, and understand and expanding on this "framework" has lead me to uncover and understand a lot of things, albeit them strange, that have happened in my life.

I hope this post finds all of you guys well. I wrote it in love

L&L
John

Tear_of_the_WoLF · #6 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 01:35 AM

again thank you....no if read in the right essence...drugs dont have to be apart of it...at all....i just thnk for the right person they ARE able to correlate to the theme...

squeezetheshaman · #7 (**permalink**) 02-17-2008, 10:17 PM

good time for my first post.....

big fan of the eight circuit model of consciousness and RAW. i first read leary's exo psychology about 11 years ago and still haven't fully comprehended it. the only time i can is when i have a little psychedelic help

i like the comparison to the chakras, good observation!

PsychoActiveSoul · #8 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008, 12:44 PM

exactly!

psuedo-judo · #9 (**permalink**) 02-20-2008, 08:09 AM

i jus want to say that im reading and thank you

norajean · #10 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 06:47 PM

Let me start by saying that I do not condone the use of illegal drugs. Also, I do not condone irresponsible [including uninformed] use of drugs, be they legal or not.
I should note that I stumbled on this page searching for relativities between dna/rna consciousness and dmt. I found it a funny coincidence that this page happens to belong to a site called indigo society. The coincidence is that I have picked up and put down this independent study of consciousness every few months for the past 7 years, and the past few times I have done this I keep finding myself back on some page talking about indigos...
I am beginning to suspect that this topic of indigos is the next level of understanding I am to reach before getting further in this study. Being that so far, quite honestly, I do not yet understand what this (indigo thing) is all about. That is aside from the fact that I have been told by a few people on separate occasions that I may be such as well.
I have drawn this conclusion before: I totally agree with you that there is a striking correspondence between the chakras and the 8 circuits. I haven't seen anyone else draw this conclusion until now, and as such have not been able to determine that my own conclusions were not just mere me over analyzing patterns again.. thank you, i am not alone!
well anyways here goes:
the reason I have been searching lately for correspondences between dna/rna consciousness and dmt is because I personally question why dmt is associated with the eight circuit as opposed to the 6th and 7th. this is due to a personal experience. granted this is based on one experience; nonetheless, it was rather profound. i spent this time sitting alone outside. it was not exactly out of body at all, in fact it was very in my body. it felt as though my awareness (which at the time was clearly normally situated in my frontal lobe) had shifted back to the center of my brain. from this point of view i recognized that i am much older, much wiser, and much larger (by larger, i mean i think i was aware of what i would call my electromagnetic energy field, you might call it you aura) than i normally allow myself to see. it was clear to me that I was (am) my genetic line, and that i do inertly have the wisdom of such. i rested here until it were off.
since then i have had a few dreams steering me in the direction of beginning to seek out information on dna/rna consciousness... as i think this is wha it was... though, when looking at the circuit model.. it just doesn't line up.
any insight here? even if not, i hope this info packet adds to your search.
please do be certain that the human is capable of altering himself without the use of drugs - as proven by the buddhists brains

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2005Jan2.html

Benares · #11 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 09:06 PM

The thing I've found is that any "higher mind" substance (circuits 5-8) can help you easily access the other higher circuits, be they already open and activated. Such is my case. So, if one was to indulge that is fully open, one could easily have an out of body experience on marijuana as well as metareprogram themsevles on DMT. Once you jump the gate, which is the heart.. and remember to stay in love, everything is simultaneously available to you.

The same applies in the reverse.. if you get paranoid, you are almost undoubtedly going to get scared. This has nothing to do with even doing any drugs. It is "normal" human nature. Thus, it makes sense to apply this to our higher minds as well.

What I have found when putting that awareness into the middle of the brain is that you are connecting easily to your higher self, and almost feel as though you are someone else, looking through "your own" (your bodies) eyes. I get this sensation sometimes, and try to run with it, as it normally, like you said, entails interesting experiences and findings. Something to run with.

Consciousness study was how I first became aware of so many things that I am aware of today. It helps a WHOLE lot with self work, because you are looking at it from a simple, psychological point of view. You are then able to put things where they need to go, or do things that need to be done, without having to visit a psychologist or whatnot. Very helpful. I think from this study you will eventually develop your own spirituality, as I have. I am assuming, of course, that you even have an interest in the study of your own spirit.

Things will pan out. Get some reading material on indigos and see how it resonates with you. Hell, have some fun with it

John

norajean · #12 (**permalink**) 04-15-2008, 02:14 PM

I have some innate views that have been with me my whole life. These are in regards to conciousness study and spirituality. I am in search for truth.

Inset annecdotal real life story here: I was put through sunday school (catholic) until the fourh grade. I was taken from and put into a unitarian universalist church at that time due to the fact that I would not stop arguing with my sunday school teacher on the topic of original sin. I told her I am happy I was born and so should be everyone else. Life is a gift, not something to be guilty of.

I have quite a few stories like this one, however the point I am getting to is that from that point on I began my own search for truth. There are many languages that describe the human condition and its relationship with spirituality. There are many maps. To me; all the legit ones (as in not designed to control populations; but instead with spiritual integrity) ...yeah all the maps, all the languages, all the stories say the same thing and point the same direction.

Due to this viewpoint I have not ever settled with one religion or school of thought as the right way. The monks would tell you the same; literally what they have told me is : "Dont take my word for it, figure it out yoruself."

So in this search to do just that, I have found a roadblock - Indigo.
What is this? I see descriptions of personality traits that would describe an Indigo person. I see a community of support and expression for those who claim to be such. I see a lot of my own real physical world community exhibiting 98% of these traits in each individual. But I do not see more than that. I have browsed this site searching for info, but maybe I am missing something?

Apologies if my analytical nature comes off as brash, I can be rather frank sometimes.

darksearch · #13 (**permalink**) 06-08-2008, 11:47 PM

good to see you around

...bump

darksearch · #14 (**permalink**) 06-08-2008, 11:49 PM

oh this is a old post....but i did see you around...hehe