Leary Timothy - The game of life

EDITORIAL

This is an important book to those of us who wish to understand and participate in the acceleration of our own evolution and that of our divergent human family.

The science of exo-psychology, which analyzes human affairs from an extraterrestrial (future) viewpoint, here links up with ancient, pre-scientific psychologies which were so futique that they all but disappeared into the occult (meaning hidden) traditions, and have suffered distortions and loss to the scientific community until now.

Before you read how Dr. Leary relates the 22 trumps of the Medieval Tarot deck, the 12 sun signs of astrology and the 8 trigrams of the Chinese Book of Changes (I Ching) to the evolving periodic table (here spiral) of elements, the ethological concept of castes, and, most important, to the next quantum leap in human consciousness (as well as the next several down the line), I want to back up a bit and reiterate two basic principles of exo-psychology.

Recapitulationthat ontogeny repeats phylogeny. This concept is easily demonstrated in the development of the human embryo (which at various times has gills and a tail), but seldom extended to the whole lifespan of the individual as here. You will find in The Game of Life, as in Intelligence Agents and Exo-Psychology, not only the idea that evolution is proceeding into pre-programmed post-human stages which will carry us off this planet, but also that some human beings are (have always been) literally ahead of their times in having activated what Dr. Leary calls circuits of their nervous systems years or even centuries ahead of general human development. Recapitulation is thus only a part of a genetic process which throws (castes) out futique as well as antique forms. This would explain the development pre-scientifically of concepts now being explored in such modern sciences as human ethology (sociobiology) and quantum physics.

ImprintingThe idea that during pre-programmed periods in an individuals development the organism is open to fixating on certain behaviors is still mainly confined to animal psychology (Konrad Lorenz). That this might extend to human behaviors is only now being investigated by such researchers as Dr. Marshall Klaus of Cleveland and psychologist Donna Kontos of Toronto, who appear to be amassing evidence that human infants (and mothers) experience a period of heightened suggestibility following birth in which both baby and mother will imprint each other as love/care objectsor in which both gain the impression, through hospital procedures, that the other is not really there for hir.