Musings on Human Metamorphoses
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Musings on Human Metamorphoses - Timothy Leary
CHAPTER 1
COSMIC GARDENERS
THE THEORIES PRESENTED HERE are science fiction: Scientific in that they are based on empirical findings, fictional in the Wittgensteinian sense that all theories and the speculations beyond the propositions of natural science are subjective.
Christian theologians, statistical materialists, and Marxist dialecticians make different interpretations of the same corpus of scientific fact. Such theories, however popular, are not necessarily any less fictional than those which are persecuted and censored. Indeed, science fictions are forcibly suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge. Think of Socrates, Darwin, Copernicus, Galileo, Pasteur, and the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Spain.
EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE COULD HAVE SENT DNA-SEED PACKETS OUT THROUGH SPACE TO PLANT LIFE ON HOSPITABLE PLANETS, SUCH AS EARTH.
Sir Francis Crick, the Nobel laureate who deciphered the DNA code, and his colleague Orgel triggered off a wonderful, life-changing insight. Crick and Orgel provided evidence, and much convincing speculation, to support the notion of directed panspermia.
It is possible and feasible, they suggested, that extraterrestrial intelligence at a level of scientific sophistication about equal to our own, could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets, such as our Earth.
This was the first intelligent human-level scientific life-origin explanation I ran across, and it clicked. If we domesticated primates could figure out how to seed plants, then intelligent life in other solar systems could have used this obvious gardening technique to perpetuate itself across the galaxy.
DNA SEEDS
ACCORDING TO NEUROLOGIC COSMOLOGY, the planet has already been invaded
by a superior intelligence to be found in the nervous system and the genetic code. The DNA molecule might be considered a miniaturized, bio-computerized, organic robot, preprogrammed to evolve in optimal reaction to local planetary characteristics.
Life on this planet can be seen as an intelligent information-transmitting process, in which more complex bodies evolve to house more sophisticated nervous systems, until it produces a nervous system capable of using itself as instrument. The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave the planet and live in post-terrestrial mini-worlds, decode the aging sectors of the DNA code—thus assuring immortality, and act in harmony with stages of evolution to come.
THE MISSION IS THE MESSAGE.
From the standpoint of DNA, life is an unbroken chain of simultaneity. Each individual body housing the DNA nucleus is a particle in the wave-rhythm of passage.
GET SMARTER!
Before arrival on this planet, the evolutionary material was already preplanned to evolve serially—imprinting nervous systems that could master planetary survival and explore the message coded within the nervous system and neuron-nucleus.
The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same amino-acid seeding that have evolved in other solar systems. The mission is the message—to escape and come home.
DNA IS LIVING INTELLIGENCE
NEUROLOGISTS ASSUME, with primitive insouciance, that studying nerve tissue is no different from the study of the digestive system. Geneticists make the chauvinistic mistake of assuming that DNA is a process, rather than a living intelligence as old as life itself that can teach us the meaning of existence. DNA designs and constructs the nervous system. The mammalian ego, the primate mind, the personality are temporary fragments of the postplanetary nervous system. Neurogeneticists believe that the DNA code can communicate revelation and instruction. Our task is to learn how to use the nervous system to receive and modulate DNA’s instructions.
WE ARE THEM.
Based on all relevant facts from astronomy, genetics, and gerontology the message of DNA is simple: Get Smarter! Increase velocity and altitude! The genetic entity wants off the