From Old Brain to Superconscious
KEITH:
Apparently there is more to the old brain than just a subconscious, and more to
the new brain than simply a superconscious, if I
understand you correctly.
CHRIS:
There is, though traditional psychology has failed to stress that fact. The old brain is divisible between a
subconscious and a feeling/visionary body, while the new brain is likewise
divisible between a superconscious and a
feeling/visionary body, the principal difference being
that whereas in the old brain the subconscious is dominated by the
feeling/visionary body, in the new brain it is the superconscious
which dominates its alpha-stemming antithesis.
And this is because the ratio of protons and neutrons to electrons, or
vice versa, is dissimilar in each of the brains - the atomic integrity of the
old brain being heavily biased towards the proton/neutron ingredients, that of
the new brain being biased towards the electron ingredient, so that whereas
protons and neutrons dominate electrons in the former, electrons dominate
protons and neutrons in the latter.
KEITH:
Presumably that is why the old brain is a predominantly feeling/visionary
phenomenon and the new brain, by contrast, a superconscious
phenomenon or, more correctly, essential noumenon?
CHRIS:
Absolutely! Being antithetically constituted, the old and the new brains function in
different ways, according to their respective atomic integrities. Egocentricity, as we customarily understand
it, is a combination of these two disparate functions; feelings and
visions/thoughts coming up from below, and awareness coming down from above,
each of which meet in the corpus callosum, that
psychological link between the two brains - the cerebellum and the cerebrum.
KEITH:
Whereas the cultivation of pure consciousness, as the mystics understand it,
depends upon our ability to transcend feelings and visions/thoughts, and
presupposes a deeper commitment to the superconscious
- in other words, to a consciousness undiluted by feelings and
visions/thoughts.
CHRIS: Yes,
to superconsciousness purely and simply, since we do
not feel with our superconscious mind. We register feelings in our body through the
agency of soul, the body's mind, as it were, which consciousness becomes aware
of, to the detriment of its own expansion.
KEITH: Thus
consciousness and superconsciousness are
approximately the same?
CHRIS: No,
consciousness is our superconsciousness existing as a
bound-electron equivalent in a day-to-day context of ordinary utilitarian
and/or relaxed receptive awareness.
When, however, we strive to tune-in to our superconscious
in order to cultivate awareness for its own sake, divorced from will, we
experience superconsciousness, or consciousness
elevated above feelings and thoughts, in a free-electron context, to a higher
pitch of awareness. Ordinarily our
consciousness, although originating in the superconscious,
is less elevated and therefore encumbered by feelings and thoughts, which
impinge upon it, causing us to respond to them in some way. If we haven't habitually sought to develop
our consciousness, we will be more exposed to the encroachments of feelings and
thoughts than otherwise. Indeed, we may become our
feelings or thoughts rather than our consciousness of them. Consequently we will be more exposed to the
encroachments of feelings/thoughts than otherwise, and therefore become
enslaved to the flesh, the body/brain, at such times. The object of evolutionary progress, however,
is to become free of this enslavement, to cultivate consciousness independently
of the body, and thus aspire towards the Divine, which would be pure
consciousness.
KEITH: And therefore completely beyond the flesh, beyond all
manifestations of atomicity, with their proton/neutron roots?
CHRIS:
Precisely! When we purposely cultivate
awareness by tuning-in to our superconscious we
achieve a free-electron consciousness, an absolutely post-atomic consciousness
elevated above the usual relatively post-atomic consciousness of the everyday
conscious mind, which, when we aren't enslaved by or succumbing to feelings,
emotions, sensations, thoughts, fantasies, et cetera, functions as a relatively
bound-electron consciousness - as when we watch television or listen to the
radio. This is the consciousness which
is contiguous with the subconscious, that part of the conscious mind which
pertains to the old brain and exists there as an absolutely bound-electron
equivalent enslaved to and dominated by the majority proton/neutron content of
the feeling/visionary body.
KEITH: As
when we sleep and witness the dreams that the majority proton/neutron content
of the old brain foists upon our subconscious.
CHRIS: Yes,
our subconscious is, at such times, the passive spectator of the dream process,
which takes place independently of conscious volition, and is thereby
absolutely bound to the proton/neutron control, unable to transcend it in any
way.
KEITH: Thus
one could speak of an old brain/subconscious dichotomy as applying to this
distinction between the feeling/visionary body and the subconscious, phenomenon
and noumenon, idea and will, but a will so enslaved
to and dominated by the proton/neutron root ... as generally to be incapable of
conscious volition.
CHRIS:
Correct! Though there are occasions
when, under duress from a particularly oppressive dream, even the subconscious
can muster the necessary resolve to revolt against its oppressor, and we
wake-up before matters in the nightmare have come to a grisly pass, or so it
seems! Even the subconscious has
willpower, though nowhere near as much as the conscious mind, which is
relatively free to direct the body along any desired channel of activity. When the conscious mind is turned away from
the body, however, it ceases to function as will but becomes the free-electron
consciousness of the superconscious.
KEITH:
Interesting how there is a spectrum of consciousness from the subconscious to
the superconscious via an intermediate level of
everyday consciousness, a spectrum which pertains to the spirit or psyche as
opposed to the body/soul, and is therefore separate from feelings and dreams.
CHRIS: Indeed! And in its highest reach, that of the superconscious, separate from thoughts and visions as
well! For we do not think with our superconscious but use it, as awareness directed towards a
conceptual end, to elicit and order thoughts from the minority neutron content
of the new brain, in which such concepts are housed. What feelings are to consciousness in the old
brain, thoughts are to consciousness in the new one, which is to say, its
antithesis, except that whereas in the former context feelings tend, through
the medium of the senses, to condition consciousness, in the latter context it
is generally consciousness which, through the agency of the will, conditions
thought - at least during waking-life periods.
For during sleep the old brain prefers to indulge in dreams, which are
feelings made manifest to the subconscious through perceptual images.
KEITH: Then
what of new-brain visions, particularly with regard to synthetically-induced
ones?
CHRIS:
These are thoughts made manifest to the superconscious
through perceptual images, a kind of waking-life dream state in which
consciousness perceives the visual contents of the new brain as the minority
neutron content is freed from majority electron control and thus from the will,
which, though not entirely neutralized, is rendered passive before the highly
intriguing spectacle of the synthetically-induced visions that we refer to as
the 'trip'. An hallucinogen like LSD
directly appeals to the new brain, where it reduces the threshold of the
minority proton/neutron content from the level of concepts to the level of
visions, from the quasi-essential to the apparent, albeit an appearance
rendered static by dint of its proximity to the majority electron content. Just as sleep lowers the threshold of
consciousness to the subconscious and thereby allows the old brain free play,
so LSD lowers the threshold of the new brain and thereby permits the superconscious to contemplate the visionary contents of its
antithesis. From being a
thought-mechanism, the new brain becomes a vision-mechanism. With sleep, the old brain is raised from a
feeling bias to a dreaming bias. With
'trips', the new brain is lowered from a conceptual bias to a perceptual
bias. Sleep lowers consciousness,
whereas LSD raises it.
KEITH:
Though the latter doesn't raise it as far, I presume, as would transcendental
meditation.
CHRIS: No,
since LSD directly appeals to the new brain and only indirectly to the superconscious, whereas transcendental meditation directly
appeals to the superconscious and not at all to the
new brain, i.e. to the minority proton/neutron content of its atomic
structure. The 'trip' is a quasi-occult
experience, the meditation state, by contrast, a hypermetaphysical
one - the difference, in a sense, between the phenomenal at its furthest reach
and the noumenal at or near its inception. The 'trip' is the culmination of an
alpha-stemming tradition, the meditation state the beginning of an exclusively
omega-oriented aspiration. The one is
basically Occidental, the other Oriental.
The one stems from a tradition of proton indulgence in the use of
alcohol, the other from a tradition of electron indulgence in the use of
hashish and kindred mind-expanding drugs.
The former tradition lowers consciousness by weighting the proton/neutron
content with increased sensuality, whereas the latter tradition expands
consciousness by imposing increased awareness upon the electron content. In the first context, the distilled, i.e.
alcohol, is used to sensualize the old brain and,
following on its heels, the synthesized, i.e. LSD, is used to visualize the new
brain. In the second context, the
naturalistic, i.e. hashish, is used to increase sensual consciousness and,
following on its heels, the supernaturalistic, i.e.
transcendental meditation, is used to increase spiritual consciousness. Alcohol leads to LSD as surely as dope to
meditation in the evolutionary progression of each tradition! Of course, neither tradition is
absolute. For, in a certain sense,
tobacco is the occidental equivalent to dope and, conversely, tea the oriental
equivalent to alcohol, though both tobacco and tea are considerably milder than
their respective counterparts. Tobacco
does not raise sensual consciousness to anything like the same extent as
hashish or marijuana. Conversely, tea
does not lower consciousness, by appealing to the old brain, to anything like
the same extent as alcohol, particularly the wines and spirits. So whilst a relativity has prevailed in each
tradition, it has not prevented a bias, one way or the other, from emerging in
accordance with the use of stronger drugs, so that the Occident has remained
predominantly alcoholic and the Orient, by contrast, predominantly hashistic, despite the recourse of each civilization to
tobacco and tea respectively. The one
tradition has mainly stemmed from the Diabolic Alpha, while the other one has
mainly aspired towards the Divine Omega.
KEITH:
Though the Occident presumably began by directly stemming from the Diabolic
Alpha and has now reached or is approaching a stage of indirectly stemming from
it, whereas the Orient began by indirectly aspiring towards the Divine Omega
and then proceeded, in due course of time, to directly aspire towards it - a
distinction, in the one case, between distilled alcohol and synthesized LSD,
and, in the other case, between naturalistic hashish and supernaturalistic
transcendental meditation.
CHRIS: Yes,
which we may alternatively define, in atomic terms, as a progression from a
proton equivalent to a pseudo-electron equivalent in the case of the Occident,
and from a bound-electron equivalent to a free-electron equivalent in the case
of the Orient. It is the example of the
Orient that we must follow in regard to the development of a transcendental
civilization.
KEITH: Then
the final human civilization will be entirely metaphysical, with regard to the
practice of transcendental meditation?
CHRIS:
Correct! And it will lead, in due course
of time, to the Host-human Millennium, the first phase of which - a
quasi-occult one - will entail the widespread use of synthetic hallucinogens
like LSD by the Supermen, the first of two life forms who, created by
millennial technicians, will be human brains artificially supported and
sustained in communal contexts. With the
subsequent establishment, however, of the second of the post-human life forms,
the superbeingful new-brain collectivizations,
millennial evolution will progress to its highest phase, a wholly metaphysical
phase involving the practice of hypermeditation - a
more intensive and purer form of meditation than was practised, if I may be
permitted to anticipate the future, by the transcendental proletarians of the
civilization preceding the post-Human Millennium. This hypermeditation
will lead to transcendence, to the freeing of the majority electron content of
the new brain from its minority proton/neutron content - in other words, to the
freeing of superconsciousness from the new brain, so
that pure spirit can soar heavenwards towards its ultimate goal in the Omega
Beyond, a goal, however, which is unlikely to be attained to for some
considerable period of supra-atomic evolution, as the various Spiritual Globes
from whichever Superbeing on whichever habitable
planet converge towards and expand into one another in a continuous process
leading from separateness to unity. As
you can see, life has a long way to go before it becomes a candidate for
transcendence! But at least it is slowly
evolving, in the guise of men, towards that distant goal in a truly superconscious mind.
Both the old and new brains are destined to be discarded, as the superconscious continues to expand towards the omega goal
of evolution. From discarding them
relatively, evolving life will proceed to discard them absolutely, the removal
of the old brain preceding the transcendence of the new!