The Neuropharmacology of an Eight Circuit Brain

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Someday, in the not too distant future, certain drugs will be made available to thepublic claiming the effect of increasing intelligence. Given the opportunity to partake,what would you do? Iʼd ask the pharmacist: "Just what kind of intelligence is your pillgoing to increase?" Like many others schooled in the public education systems, I wastaught that intelligence and "I.Q." were synonymous with intellect and intellectualachievement alone. How was I to know that "intellect" was one of the many functionsof Intelligence in constant interaction with other equally valid functions? In lookingback I now believe a fundamentalist virus somehow slipped into the public educationsystems encouraging the belief and dogma of one, and only one, definition forsubjects such as history, religion, art, political science, language and evenmathematics. Whether this viral infiltration was a conspiracy or not (I think not) is notnearly as important as getting down to the business of redefining Intelligence andreclaiming our brains.

The Eight Circuit Brain is a term Dr. Timothy Leary coined, in his 1977 bookExo-Psychology, for accessing multiple definitions and functions of humanintelligence. Dr. Leary did not invent this system, which probably originated in the SufiMystery Schoolsʼ arcane study of the law of octaves, but revised it for modern times.Since Learyʼs translation, two additional versions have surfaced in Robert AntonWilsonʼs Prometheus Rising and my own, Angel Tech. As a whole-brain model forIntelligence, the Eight Circuit Brain yields an impressive catch of relevant informationabout how intelligence acts when redefined by the user. Learyʼs "circuits" symbolizeeight interactive states of consciousness and the neurochemical transactionsconstantly mingling between them. They are presented here not as a hierarchy - oneis no "better" than another - but as a web of simultaneous transmissions at variousdegrees of cognition within each person. (Please refer to any combination of the threebooks mentioned earlier for a more comprehensive study).

For the purpose of this article, Learyʼs eight circuits have been reframed as "trances"or, states of consciousness, to be altered, bent or broken at will. "Break trance, maketrance, break trance". Trances can be instigated by engaging any of the manycatalysts that excite and maintain each circuit. Some catalysts are pharmaceutical butmany are not. Getting stuck inside any one trance, or circuit, happens when youbecome addicted to one or more of the catalysts. New trances from other circuits canbe introduced to shift addictions, either in their linear sequence or at random. Theneuropharmacy of your own brain produces all the effects, even those involvingingested drugs which depend on receptors in your brain to work. Proceed at your own

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risk. Assume complete responsibility for your actions. Your body / mind / spirit is yoursto do with as you will.

The Eight-Circuit Brain, like any psychological grid or map, is incomplete at describingthe totality of the territory it symbolizes. Imagine an organ as mysterious and powerfulas the human brain having only eight functions of intelligence!? Yet as a whole-brainmodel for mapping functions and behaviors of various "brains within the brain" Ibelieve the Eight Circuit map is unprecedented. I do not recommend using it at theexclusion of other equally valid systems, like the Enneagram or in some casesAstrology, but as another tool in the "psychic archeologistʼs toolbox" for unearthinghereto unknown relics of our past, present and future.

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First Circuit: Biosurvival-Security TrancePreoccupies itself with physical safety and biological survival. Revolves around basicsecurity needs and the warm, buzzy nodding sensations of infant bliss and beingtaken care of at the most primary levels of existence: food, shelter and enough sleep.When frustrated or over-emphasized the search for security intensifies, becomes anobsession and finally an addiction. Security Addiction expresses the lowest energystate of all trances. When the needs of this center are fulfilled, one lives with theknowledge of being a "survivor" with some ability to stabilize and secure others.

SECURITY CATALYSTS: Food, water, shelter, sleep, maternal lactation, Valium,3-6 hrs. of television, Prozac, all sedatives, nicotine, most pain-killers, PCP, morphineand heroin. Any drug acting on the breathing mechanism of the brain stem by slowingit down and, by overdose, stopping it entirely.

OVERDOSE SYMPTOMS: Survival anxiety. The fear of: dying, of living, of eating(bolemia & anorexia), of chaos and of dirt. Obesity and malnutrition.

Second Circuit: Territorial-Emotional TranceEmotions as territorial signals. The compulsion for self-expression and personalfreedom. Churns on the more aggressive emotional needs for dominance (politicalforce), status, and self-esteem. Flight-or-fight reflex producing adrenaline rusheswhen confronting danger and personal triumph, as well as the depression and anxietyattacks often associated with low self-worth, feelings of helplessness andself-diminishment. When frustrated or over-emphasized, emotions inflate and/ordeflate yielding conditions of taking oneself too seriously and/or not seriously enough.Mood swings. Emotional and Sexual Addictions. When emotional needs are satisfied,ego-strength and autonomy develop with some ability to excite, motivate and provokeothers.

EMOTIONAL CATALYSTS: Alcoholic beverages. Amyl nitrate. Temper tantrums.


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Shouting matches. Military marches. Martial arts. High volume rock ʻnʼ roll.Slamdancing. Reichian therapy. Any "drug" relaxing emotional inhibitions or catalyzingcatharsis.

OVERDOSE SYMPTOMS: Anxiety. Hypertension. Hysteria. Emotional dissipationand debilitation. Emotional numbness and vacancy.

Third Circuit: Conceptual-Semantic TranceLearning intellectual and linguistic skills for grasping and communicating ideas. Spinsoff conceptual needs for solving problems, defining terms, making maps, andarticulating meaning. The central nervous system buzz of stimulating conversation,thinking, writing, reading and other symbolic and mathematical acts. Whenover-emphasized, one feels "locked inside oneʼs head" with the angst of conceptualredundancy. Word Trance. Symbolic Addictions. When frustrated, psychological fearsof becoming "stupid" or "insane" or "misinformed" or "meaningless" confuse thoughtprocesses. When satisfied, intellect and language develop coherency to supportmeaningful communication with others; one can "say what one means and mean whatone says".

SEMANTIC CATALYSTS: Reading, writing, arithmetic, speech, speaking on thetelephone, nicotine, caffeine, sugar, chocolate, diet pills, amphetamines, cocaine.Consistent exposure to computer monitors, Internet and other on-line virtualcommunication systems. Any "drugs" acting on the various nervous systems as astimulant to quicken thinking, speech patterns and symbolic associations.

OVERDOSE SYMPTOMS: Nervousness. Thinking or talking too much. Mentalexhaustion. "Neurosis".

Fourth Circuit: Moralistic-Social TranceDevelopment of personality in context to society. Social needs for belonging, gettingalong with people, developing friendships, romance, courtships, partnerships,marriages, domestication, family, and those morals and ethics maintaining communityinterest. The push and pull of attracting and repulsing forces—estrogen, testosterone& other growth hormones—influencing likes, dislikes, procreative love, mating rituals,domestic and community structures, and the morals and beliefs surrounding relationswith others. When over-emphasized, personal identity homogenizes, or blends, intoherd or tribal mentality. Social and Moral Addictions. When frustrated, the individualexperiences alienation, marginalization and degrees of abandonment by the tribe,sometimes resulting in "psychopathic criminal retribution". As social needs aresatisfied, a well-adjusted personality finds "its people" while defining and claiming itsunique behavioral and ethical code amidst a society far too complex to alwayscondone them.

SOCIAL CATALYSTS: Social rituals, parties and gatherings. Cultural events andconcerts. Church. Any "drugs" delivering social or community acceptance or sexualapproval in exchange for submission to externally-imposed behavioral standards andmoralities. Most television programs. Organized Religion. Mass Media. CorporateAdvertising. The Welfare State. Social Security. Fascism.


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OVERDOSE SYMPTOMS: Loss of personality, autonomy and self as individualidentity. Guilt complex, i.e. confusion between the morality of others and oneʼs ownethics.

Fifth Circuit: Somatic-Hedonic TranceDisconnected from previous goals and survival concerns of Circuits 1-4, this first offour "post-survival" centers opens the five senses as the chief source of all life andrelevant information. Being Here Now. The natural sensory rhythms and impulses ofthe body uncensored by mental, emotional or moral intervention. The hedonic needsfor rapture, bliss and ecstatic experience. The post-survival quest for nirvana. Whenfrustrated, the despair and spiritual discontent of "entrapment in the corporeal world ofsurvival issues." When over-emphasized, excessive hedonism becomes debauch,dispersion and disintegration of personal integrity of concentration, i.e., "spaced outbliss ninnies." Ecstasy Junkies. When hedonic needs are met, a state of charismaticmagnetism infuses the personality, as seen with some rock stars, film celebrities andperforming artists.

HEDONIC CATALYSTS: Empathogens (MDMA, etc.), cannabis, opium, hashish,lower doses of psilocybin. Tantric and Hatha yoga, listening to music (subjectiveassessment), sex magick, performing live dance and live theatre, Sufi whirlingdervishes, ecstatic pagan rituals, falling in love, endorphin rushes from "second wind"states (long distance running and working out), verbal fasting (mandatory silence),zen meditation.

OVERDOSE SYMPTOMS: "Spaciness." Loss of meaningful connection with"consensus reality" sometimes showing poor time management and an oblivion to theemotions, thoughts and ethics of others. Time/spatial disorientation and distortions.Difficulty articulating, i.e. "Like, wow, man…"

Sixth Circuit: Neuro-Psychic TranceBrain pleasure; the subjective absorption of intense light. Opening of the "third eye",clairvoyance, telepathy and other supersensual, or psychic, abilities. Incoming signalsare registered at light speed and translated by an active intuition, unencumbered byempirical demands of linear ideation. The Self-Aware Brain. Future-oriented vision;premonitions, precognitions and prophecy. The psychic need for seeing and knowingthings as they are, beyond the illusions, dreams and fantasies projected by previousstates. When frustrated, the "sixth sense" atrophies and psychic, or soul, deathensues. When over-emphasized nervous disorders, hallucinations and mentalillnesses develop in the struggle to act and respond to the influx of overwhelmingimpressions. Vision, or Truth, Addiction. When psychic needs are met, luciditystabilizes perception to accept things as they are while seeing through the scams, thelies, and the illusions often shrouding them. This lucidity can also illuminate the truthof things to the world and in others.

PSYCHIC CATALYSTS: Kundalini and Raja yogas, Rajneeshʼs chaoticmeditations, surviving the loss of a loved one, higher doses of psilocybin, mescaline,peyote, LSD, "Heavenly Blue" morning glory seeds, near-death experiences, sense-


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deprivation, isolation tanks, solitary confinement, intensive Buddhist retreats, AnteroAlliʼs paratheatrical ritual technology, video/filmmaking and editing processes.

OVERDOSE SYMPTOMS: Paranoia. Schizophrenic fragmentation. Loss ofemotions and meaningful connection with the feelings of others. Psychotic breaks.Physical and psychic violence.

Seventh Circuit: Genetic-Mythopoetic TranceThe Central Nervous System receives signals from DNA; when this centre opens, thesignals become conscious. Racial and species memory (reincarnation and past lives)enters present-time awareness. Overwhelming sense of unity with all living things.Realization of the complex, interconnecting mandalic consciousness of DNA-RNA,synchronicity and what Jung called the universal archetypes. When frustrated, bigotry,racial prejudice, nationalist and religious tunnel vision often leading to speciesself-persecution, genocide and war. When over-emphasized, pervasive disorientationerupts as previously invisible archetypes cross over to waking consciousness,shocking the ego and disrupting survival routines. Fears of insanity and socio-politicaland religious persecution. God Addiction. When mythopoetic needs are met, sanity isredefined through the imaginal realm and given mythological and poetic expression inpoetry, inspirational verse, classic mythology, certain music and film, etc.

MYTHOPOETIC CATALYSTS: Childbirth, religious conversion experiences,mystical revelations, higher doses of LSD, kundalini awakenings (via the crownchakra), the chaos magick of Peter Carroll and Aleister Crowley, Stanislav Grofʼs LSDrebirthing therapy, datura, DMT, near-death experiences.

OVERDOSE SYMPTOMS: Dysfunctional messianic complexes, delusions ofgrandeur, paranoia, mental incapacitation, psychosis.

Eighth Circuit: Quantum-Dreambody TranceConsciousness at the level of unpredictable subatomic behaviour. This center opensafter consciousness leaves the physical body while functioning independently innonlocal "cyberspace." Shamanic initiation into Castanedaʼs dreaming and "theNagual" as a conscious visiting spirit, or dreambody. Consciousness leaves the body.The body is left behind, unconscious; comatose and/or sleeping. Where doesconsciousness go? What happens there? Who shows up on "the other side"?Questions for the dreambody. Dr. Leary suggests the ultra-gravitational "singularity"physicists theorize at the heart of the atomic nucleus to be the stuff of black holes.Fusion with Black Holes as Ultimate Destiny?! Out-of-Body Addiction toFormlessness.

DREAMBODY CATALYSTS: Heavy doses of Nitrous Oxide, DMT, Ketamine,Jimson Weed, Sonora desert toad (Bufo alvarius) venom, Near-death andOut-of-Body experiences, Eckankar astral travel techniques, lucid dreaming,Malaysian Senoi tribal dreamwork, Australian aboriginal dreamtime walkabouts,advanced virtual reality "immersion technologies", and any "drugs" that simulatenear-death OR death experience with producing the actual experience of physicaldeath itself, i.e. Haitan voodoo zombie powder extracted from certain species of puffer


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fish.

OVERDOSE SYMPTOMS: Partial to complete loss of bodily functions. Comatose.Death without discernible cause.

Credits and Further Reading

Towards 2012 The Journal of Millenial Mutation Part II: Psychedelica (1996)The entire journal is available online

More Antero Alli links:

Antero Alli discusses the 8 circuit model MP3ParaTheatrical ReSearchFilmographyLiterature Map

Other interpretations of the 8 circuit model on deoxy.org:

The Eightfold Model of Human IntelligenceCyberCraft

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