Laurent Huguelit - The Shamanic Path to Quantum Consciousness: The Eight Circuits of Creative Power

To tomorrows shamans for whom all thiswill no doubt be self-evident

THE SHAMANIC PATH TO QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS

The Shamanic Path to Quantum Consciousness offers deep insights into the diverse levels of human consciousness. Approached from the perspective of the ancient and now ever more popular philosophy of shamanism, it reaches a pinnacle at the eighth level with quantum consciousnessthe same concept I identified using a scientific analysis to define the next development in the evolution of the human mind. This is a remarkable confluence of two entirely different perspectives.

ERVIN LASZLO, NOBEL PRIZE NOMINEE AND AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND THE AKASHIC FIELD AND THE SELF-ACTUALIZING COSMOS

The work of Laurent Huguelitcartographer of the psyche, explorer of the soul and invisible worldsallows shamanism to become an evolutionary tool more accessible to our Western world.

STPHANE ALLIX, FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF INREES INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH, PARIS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

First of all, I want to thank those who listened to me speak about circuits for months or even just on occasion, and who, to my great astonishment, encouraged me, in spite of everything, to write this book.

A big thank you to the late Timothy Leary, the late Robert Anton Wilson, and Antero Alli for having opened the path and for having had the guts to write their booksbecause yes, more than ever, we need the spiritually incorrect.

I want to express my gratitude to Michael Harner and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies for bringing back the awareness and practice of shamanism in the West. In our Western cultures, we certainly need to practice shamanism more than ever.

Two plants accompanied me during the preparation of this work: tea (Camellia sinensis) in the form of Japanese sencha and gyokuro, and the cybernetic plant, tobacco (Nicotiana spp.), which I consumed in moderation in the form of Cuban cigars. My thanks to them and to their spirits.

And yes, speaking of spirits, thanks to Seth for his good-naturedness, his clarity, and his presence, and thanks to Abraham for their (for they are many) help and their flashes of consciousness. Thanks to the extraterrestrial spirits who were kind enough to pay me the honor of a nice little visit on two memorable nights: the night of 9/9/09 (I am not making that up!), which was somewhat disconcertingwhat a great euphemismand the night of 1/19/11, during which I wept with joy sitting on a bathroom floor in Loire-Atlantique.

Of course, the question arises: Who really wrote this book? Fortunately for my politico-territorial circuit (the second circuit of consciousness), quantum spirits are not very fond of the concept of intellectual property rights. So we can comfortably relax about that.

Thanks to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr for having produced words and music whose scope extends through all the circuits of consciousness. The work of the Beatles is without a doubt the soundtrack of the Great Leap of the sixties. It is all there, including the final cybernetic revelation:

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Merci infiniment, as we say in French, to the team at Bear & Company/Inner Traditions (in alphabetical order): Olatundji Akpo-Sani, Diana Drew, Jeanie Levitan, Meghan MacLean, Maria Murray-Urdaneta, Erica B. Robinson, Jessica Wimett, and, of course, Jon Graham, who chose this very book among a thousand others at the Paris Book Fair. Thanks to all of you, I realized my longtime dream of being published in the English language.

Finally, an infinite thank-you in the shape of (8) to my French publishers, Tigrane Hadengue and Michka Seeliger-Chatelain, founders of Mama Editions, for having confidence in me and having opened the Seth doorway for me. That was what started me off and this book is the end result.

FOREWORD

By Antero Alli

Integrity has no need for rules.

ALBERT CAMUS

Cosmologies of consciousnesssymbolic systems created to help us understand the fluidity of life through comprehensible paradigmscan be found in almost every culture on Earth. The cosmology outlined in the book you are reading now has deep origins in the Vedic Hindu Chakra system initiated almost 4,000 years ago in India. The term chakra refers to spinning centers of prana, or vital energy, within the human physical body that correspond to specific glands, meridians, veins, plexuses, and nerves. The overall purpose of this chakra cosmology was to evolve the human being through an active awakening and refinement of the body and its many interactive, complex biological systems.

This ancient Hindu cosmology is enriched by a colorful mythological pantheon of gods and goddesses alongside arduous study of a comprehensive medical, or healing, Vedic practice. With enough study the student becomes initiated by a guru or teacher into a vigorous meditation practice that leads to firsthand experience of the higher states of consciousness triggered by the chakra energy centers. As with all effective cosmologies, the Hindu Chakra system starts with a map that leads to the territorythe territory of direct firsthand experience.

Fast-forward to the early 1960s in Millbrook, New York, U.S.A. where Harvard Professor of Psychology Timothy Leary hosts a visit from Hindu scholar Professor Adams of Rutgers University. As documented in Dr. Learys book What Does Woman Want? (a sly autobiography disguised as a novel), Adams initiates Leary into an oral tradition of the esoteric Chakra system (not the exoteric, populist, new age version). This auspicious encounter compels Leary toward further chakra study and, with the psychoactive assistance of psilocybin mushrooms, onward to direct experiencea lot more direct experience. After much personal and group experimentation, Dr. Leary renames the chakras as circuits and reframes the context of their purpose to align closer with the scientific and technological advances of contemporary life. He calls his system The Eight-Circuit Brain, which finds fruition in his 1977 book Exo-Psychology (later retitled, Info-Psychology).

Laurent Huguelits new book, The Shamanic Path to Quantum Consciousness, joins the legacy of others who came before him who are venturing to advance Learys theories into novel areas of insight and praxis. Timothy Learys close friend Robert Anton Wilsons Prometheus Rising (Falcon Press, 1983) exposed the links between the Eight-Circuit Brain and multiple system theories such as Quantum Mechanics, Skinners Behaviorism, Gurdjieffs Law of Octaves, Zen Buddhism, and Korzybski General Semanticsto name a few. Three years later my first book on the eight circuits, Angel Tech: A Modern Shamans Guide to Reality Selection (Falcon, 1986), gained endorsements from Leary and Wilson for advancing their theories into application through meditations, rituals, and exercises. After twenty-four years of experimentation, I updated the material in Angel Tech in my book The Eight-Circuit Brain: Navigational Strategies for the Energetic Body (Vertical Pool Publishing, 2009).

The Shamanic Path to Quantum Consciousness applies the eight-circuit model to the authors experiences with indigenous shamanic cultures and traditions, and then, he sifts these impressions through a distinctly European empiricismwhere knowledge comes primarily from sensory experience. The focal lens of Laurents circuit vision stems from his term cybernetic shamanism, or what my late mentor Dr. C. S. Hyatt called the cyber shaman (