timothy-leary-chaos-cyber-culture

yourself manuals for operating the brain;The Tibetan Book of the Dying. Chinese Taoistsdeveloped the teaching of going with theflownot clinging to idea-structures, but changingand evolving.The message was: Be cool,Don't panic. Chaos is good. Chaos creates infinitepossibilities.The wacko Socratic idea of Do It Yourself (D.I.Y.),which created modem democracy,was a practical, common-sense, sassy Athenian version of the Hindu-Buddhist-TaoistThe standard wayto tame and domesticate theyogas. And remember where this foolishnessgot India, Tibet, and China? Know-where!The most dangerous idea is thisimpossible complexitythat surrounds us is tocrazed, megalomaniac Socratic notion ofKNOW!invent a few "tooth-fairy" Gods, the more infantilethe better, and to laydown a few childish rules:Honour yourfather and your mother, etc. The rulesare simpleand logical.You passively obey.You pray.You sacrifice. You work. You believe.which defines the serf-human beingas a thinker. Outrageous impudence! Theslave isencouraged to become a philosopher!The serf strives to be a psychologist! Apotential yogic sage!This heresy predicts whylater atheistevolutionists like Linnaeus and Darwindefined our super-chimp species as Femina(Homo) sapiens sapiens.THE CHAOS WITHOUTFor centuries there existed a fanatic taboo against scientific understanding. Why?Because of the fear of Chaos. The facts about our (apparenfly) insignificant place in thegalactic dance are so insulting to the conh-ol freaks who try (so manfully and diligently andseriously) to manage Chaos that they forbade any intelligent attempts to look out there anddig the glorious complexity.At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope werecriminaUzed for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in latertimes. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.Galileo got busted and Bruno got the Vatican microwave for showing that the Sundid not circle the Earth. Religious and political Chaos-phobes naturally want the nice, tidy,comfy universe to cuddle around them.In the last century science has developed technical extensions of the human sensoriumthat specify the truly spooky nature of the complexities we inhabit.Stellar astronomy describes a universe of fantastic multiplicify: a hundred bilUontiny star systems in our tiny galaxy, a hundred billion galaxiesm our teeny universe.THE CHAOS WITHINIn the last decades of the 20th Century, scientists began to study the complexifywithin the human brain.Talk about Chaos!It turns out that the brain is a galactic network of a hundred billion neurons. Eachneuron is an information system as complex as a mainframe computer. Each neuron is conxivTIMOTHY LEAIY CHAOS i CYIEI CUtTUIE