french



excerpt from "Flashbacks",

by Timothy Leary

The first 12 stages are usually experienced by any human being.

1. Reflex of feeding 2. Reflex of swimming 3. Reflex of crawling 4. First steps (stages 4 to 6: mastery of gravity) 5. Walking-running 6. Climbing 7. Langage acquisition 8. Symbolic invention mind 9. Social cooperation 10. Dawning awareness of sexuality 11. Parentale stage 12. Post-menopause



The 12 following stages map out the way for the potential evolution of our perceptions and our mental functions.

They occur after that the individual (and finally the species) has transcended the 12 primitives patterns related to the survival and has started to learn the neuro-technology of self .





Mastery of the body as aesthetic instrument

13. Hedosnist: aesthetic-erotic-somatic cousciousness; receptive and passive consumer approach of the body. 14. Artist: aesthetic-erotic-somatic engineering. active and innovative sensory invention. 15. Aesthetic fusion: aesthetic-erotic-somatic contact with other artists; the life as art.



Mastery of the brain-computer operations

16. Consumption of multiples realities: electronic-cybernetic-psychedélic cousciousness; Use of the relativist functions of brain and neuro-electric modeling (i.e video games). 17. Neurological engineering: invention of an electronic-cybernetic-psychedélic reality; computers programming. 18. Multi-real reticlation: inter-computers contacts; telepathy?



Mastery of the ADN-ARN, theorie of Gaïa, and socio-biology

19. Genetic consumer: socio-biological cousciousness; unicellular cousciousness; jouissance passive and receptive use of the ADN knowledge; cloning. 20. Genetic engineering: sense of invention with the ADN; genetic creativity, life extension. 21. Symbiosis: inter-species contacts; cooperation at the level of antigens and immunogy; participation in Gaïa's intelligence.



Mastery of the meta-physiological and neuro-physical processes