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Theorem, however, is inescapable: a theorem in physics is not a

mere "theory"; it is a mathematical demonstration which
must be

true, if the mathematics contains no flaw, and if the experiments

on which it is based are replicable. Bell's Theorem contains no

mathematical flaw, and the experiments are replicable and have

been replicated several times.

And yet we cannot dispense with Special Relativity either,

because the mathematics there is equally flawless and the experiments

are legion that confirm it.

Two solutions have been proposed and both assume that the

"communication" involved in Bellian transmissions does not

involve
energy,
since it is energy that cannot move faster than

light. Dr. Edward Harris Walker suggests that what does move

faster than light, and holds the Whole System together, is "consciousness."

We may eventually be forced to accept this, in

which case physics will have justified pantheism or at least panpsychism.

The other alternative, proposed by Dr. Jack Sarfatti, is

that the medium of Bellian transmissions is
information.

Pure information, in the mathematical sense, does not require

energy; it is that which orders energy. It is the negative of

entropy,
that which brings disorder to energy systems.

Dr. Sarfatti explains his theory as follows:

Imagine that your brain is a computer, as modern neurology

suggests. Now imagine that the whole universe is a big computer,

a mega-computer,
as John Lilly has proposed. Then

imagine that the sub-quantum realm, the realm of what Dr.

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David Bohm calls 'hidden variables' is made up of
mini-minicomputers.

Now, the hardware of each 'computer'—the universe,

your brain, the sub-quantum mechanisms—is localized.

Each part of it is somewhere in spacetime,
here
not
there, now

not
then.
But the software—the information—is non-local. It

is
here, there
and
everywhere; now, then
and
everywhen.

The highest varieties of shamanic and yogic consciousness

seem to begin from dilation beyond the immediate ("out-ofbody-

experience") and dilate, rapidly and dizzily, much further,

to union with the smallest and the largest—the "Cosmic Mind"

in short. This seems to be what would necessarily happen if the

brain turned on to the non-local information system proposed by

Sarfatti and implicit in Bell's Theorem.

The meta-physiological circuit, then, is this cosmic Information

System. The synchronicities of circuits V to VII are just the

dawning notes of the symphony of all inter-related harmonies

revealed to those who have experienced Circuit VIII in action. It

is hard to avoid hyperbole when talking of such matters, but

everything one can associate with the idea of Oneness With

God—or Oneness with "Everything"—is part of what is experienced

in the vistas, beyond space-time, of this meta-physiological

circuit.

Mystics stammer, gibber and rave incoherently in trying to

discuss this. Beethoven says it for all of them, without words, in

the fourth movement of the Ninth Symphony. The words of

Schiller's "Ode to Joy," which Beethoven set to this virtually

superhuman music, are a linear third-circuit map conveying only

a skeleton key to the multi-level meanings of the 8-circuit

"language" of the melodic construction itself, which spans all

consciousness from primitive bio-survival to meta-physiological

cosmic fusion.

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THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS A WHOLE SYSTEM

THE METAPHYSIOLOGICAL CIRCUIT

Wheels within wheels within'wheels...

Dr. Sarfatti's computers within computers within computers...

Consciousness or information perceived as coherent Intelligence

expanding to infinity in all directions.

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We are extending ourselves in Space and Time not
because
of capitalism

or socialism but
in spite
o/them. The Right/Left Capitalist/

Socialist establishments are psychologically unprepared for our

emerging situation in Time and Space.

— P.M. Esfandiary,
Upwingers

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According to Patanjali, there are seven "limbs" to yoga, or as we

would say seven steps or stages.

First is
asana,
which consists of holding a single posture

(usually sitting) for prolonged periods of time. This is an

attempt, in our terminology, to stabilize the bio-survival circuit

by drowning it in monotony. You sit, and sit, and sit, and sit.

Eventually, an "internal peace" is reached, which signifies the

atrophying of all background levels of "unconscious" or unnoticed

bio-survival anxiety.

In other schools, since
asana
is so monotonous and slowworking

and because war (second-circuit mammalian struggles

over territory) so common among domesticated primates, an

alternative method of stabilizing the bio-survival circuit is used:

martial arts. Akido, judo, karate etc. all emerged from yoga-like

mystic schools, as bio-survival reprogrammers.

The second step in classical yoga, according to Patanjali, is

pranayama.
We have already commented on the efficiency of

this breathing technique in quieting and mellowing-out secondcircuit

emotional programs.

(It will already be seen that yoga, like brainwashing, begins

from the bottom up, working on the more primitive and older

circuits first.)

The third step in yoga is
dharana
or
mantra. Dharana consists

of concentrating on a single image, such as a vividly imagined

red triangle, and ruthlessly pushing aside any other images,

verbalizations or impressions that cross the mind's screen. In

practice, this is beyond the powers of most students, so the

majority of yoga teachers substitute mantra,
which is concentration

(by repetition) on a single sentence, usually nonsensical,

such as "Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare

Hare" or "Aum Tat Sat Aum" or whatever.

Either practice,
dharana
or
mantra,
stops the third-circuit

"internal monologue," if persisted in for long enough periods

each day.

The Western mystical equivalent is Cabala, the most complicated

"Jewish joke" ever invented. Briefly, Cabala exhausts the

third, semantic circuit by setting it to solve intractable numerological

and verbal problems. The Far Eastern equivalent is the

Zen
Koan,
which serves the same function in a less maniacally

systematic way than Cabala, e.g., "What is the sound of one hand

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clapping?" Zen koans are always combined with
zazen
(sitting

Zen), which combines the first-circuit-clearing
asana
with second-

circuit-mellowing breath-counting (a weaker
pranayama).

When the student has acquired sufficient detachment from

first-circuit anxieties, second-circuit emotions and third-circuit

reality-maps, by way of
asana, pranayama
and
dharana
or

mantra,
Patanjali recommends the practice of
yama.
This

includes, but is not limited to, celibacy. The ultimate
of yama
is

to lose all interest in both the social and sexual aspects of the

fourth circuit; to cease to care at all about family, tribal or societal

matters. This is accomplished by self-denial, which is easier

for those skilled in
asana, pranayama
and
dharana,
but still

requires intense determination.

Some take a short-cut at this point, discovered after Patanjali

or not known to him, by having themselves locked up in caves.

Such isolation, as indicated earlier, helps vastly in bleaching out

all four hominid circuits.

An alternative, for those not attracted to either celibacy or

becoming hermits, is
Tantra,
invented in northern India around

the time of Patanjali. This simply transmutes the fourth circuit by

ceremonial, physiological arid "magick" (self-hypnotic) explosion

of the (prolonged) sexual act into fifth-circuit neurosomatic

rapture.

For those following the orthodox path of Patanjali, the fifth

circuit is imprinted by
niyama,
which signifies "super-control" or

"no-control," being the paradoxical state of
being spontaneous

deliberately.
You cannot be taught
niyama; you
can only learn it

by personal experience. We hypothesize that the bio-energies

have to discharge somewhere, and then when one has driven

them out of the first circuit by
asana,
out of the second circuit by

pranayama,
out of the third circuit by
dharana
or
mantra,
and

out of the fourth circuit by
yama,
they are driven explosively

upward into fifth-circuit neurosomatic illumination.

The sixth step in yoga, according to Patanjali, is
dhyana,

which means "meditation" only in the roughest way.
Dhyana

means actually union with the object on the mind's screen, i.e.,

realization of the total meaning of the proposition that
mind and

its contents are functionally identical,
i.e., opening the metaprogramming

circuit. One can make
dhyana
on
anything;
yogis

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talk of making
dhyana
on a tree or a dog, just as don Juan Matus,

the Mexican shaman, talks of becoming one with a coyote or a

star in the books of Castaneda.

The seventh step in yoga is
Samadhi,
from
sam,
(union;

cognate of Greek
syn)
and
Adhis,
the Lord (cognate, Hebrew

Adonai,
Greek
Adonis).
Here Patanjali and his successors are in

violent dispute, some claiming there is only one
Samadhi,
others

claiming two or three or many. Since this corresponds with the

opening and imprinting of the neurogenetic circuit, we must opt

for the opinion that there are many
Samadhi,
depending on

which or how many of the Godly archetypes of the genetic

archives are imprinted. Catholic mystics make
Samadhi
on the

Virgin, Sufis on Allah, Aleister Crowley on Pan, etc.; and, above

all this, the eighth circuit cosmic information network can also

be imprinted, making union not just with all sentient beings and

some emblematic archetype of the DNA master program, but

with the inorganic universe as well. It was from this second order

or meta-physiological Samadhi that Gandhi said, "God is in the

rock, too—
in the rock!"
and pantheists of all sorts, in all traditions,

emphatically agree with Canadian psychiatrist, R.M.

Bucke who said after his own Eighth-Circuit Samadhi that the

universe "is not a dead machine but a living presence."

This planet is, to put the matter baldly, populated and largely

controlled by domesticated primates who are not in all respects

reasonable men and women. Voltaire may have been exaggerating

when he said that to understand the mathematical meaning of

infinity, consider the extent of human stupidity; but the situation

is almost that bad. Millions have been murdered by stupid leaders

or stupid mobs, for stupid reasons, in every century; and the

bizarre (accidentally imprinted) reality-tunnels which make this

possible continue to rule us and robotize us.

Nor is stupidity the exclusive possession of one group or

another; you do not need a "vocation" for it as you do for the

priesthood. It seems to be a contagious socio-semantic disturbance

which afflicts all of us at one time or another. Notorious

examples can be found in the lives of the great. As we have already

mentioned an exact measurement of the extent of stupidity

among the learned is provided by the fact that every scientific

revolution takes one generation. Elderly scientists hardly ever

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