Game of Life

A subjective exposure of the science of exopsychology --an examination of human affairs from an extra-terrestial viewpoint.

We migrated out of Africa. Leary interprets this nomadic drive -- for the thousand reasons we do it, it is done -- better than most academics. We have this "living" we did not earn and we cling to it as long as possible. And the great vector, the direction, and the Truth of our lives is the ideation/idea processing of the brain, or 2 "intelligence". Leary's triple pun is SMI LE , or permutations, in reverse order, of "tune in, turn on, drop out" -- life in the prepositional lane, in/ on/ out. Space Migration, Intelligence squared, Life Extension.

An editorial intro by Arel Lucas reiterates two basic principles of show more exopsychology:
(1) RECAPITULATION - ontogeny repeats phylogeny. The idea here is that evolution is proceeding to the post-human, as we process the futique with the antique forms.
(2) IMPRINTING. Organisms are preprogrammed to fixate on certain behaviors.

I love how Leary proclaimed that the flowering of beauty and self-actualization is not decadence or the end of human evolution. There are places/stages in California for example which are clearly on the path toward "escape velocity". We can use this guide to locate/identify the communities of tolerance and knowledge.

The author was described by President Nixon as "the most dangerous man in America". Gordon Liddy used to search his Estate routinely, never finding contraband, but harassing him out of town. Questions about the entheogenic experience (cf. Huston) and the impact of one with so much hilaritose (Robert Anton Wilson's word for the quality by which we recognise divity). show less