The Triune Brain, Hypnosis and the Evolution of Consciousness

By Adam Weishaupt

The only person who has produced a cogent understanding of the extraordinary phenomenon of hypnosis is Julian Jaynes, one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, but tragically overlooked.

Jaynes linked hypnosis to the bicameral (two-hemisphered) structure of the brain, and inferred that consciousness arose from the breakdown of a prior "master-slave" mode of functioning that he called the "bicameral mind".

The architecture of consciousness is the opposite of the architecture of bicameralism. The former hasn’t replaced the latter. It simply sits on top of it, and in certain circumstances the old architecture can reassert itself. This is what happens with hypnosis.

All of human behavior may be understood in terms of the ongoing conflict between these two architectures. Although most people seem conscious, they are often in a thinly-disguised bicameral mode that reflects the master-slave paradigm.

This book is one of a series by the Pythagorean Illuminati.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 24, 2011
• ISBN: 9781447890140

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The Triune Brain, Hypnosis and the Evolution of Consciousness

The Triune Brain, Hypnosis and the Evolution of Consciousness

by

Adam Weishaupt

Published by Hyperreality Books

Copyright © Adam Weishaupt 2011

The right of Adam Weishaupt to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author, except in the case of a reviewer, who may quote brief passages embodied in critical articles or in a review.

ISBN: 978-1-4478-9014-0

Quotations

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly. -- Charles Fort

The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience. -- Peter Redgrove

You're doubtless well aware that most of the great hypnotic patients wind up referring to themselves in the third person, like little children. They see themselves from outside their own organisms, outside their own sensory systems. In order to get further outside themselves, and help them escape their physical personality, some of them, once in the state of clairvoyance, have the curious custom of re-baptizing themselves. The dream name comes to them, no one knows whence, and by this they INSIST on being called as long as their luminous sleep endures – to the point of refusing to answer to any other name. -- Villiers de l’Isle-Adam

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it. -- Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

Table of Contents

The Triune Brain, Hypnosis and the Evolution of Consciousness

Quotations

Table of Contents

The Illuminati

The Triune Brain

The Waiting for Godot World

Immanentize the Eschaton

Eric Voegelin and Gnosticism

The City of God

Hypnosis

Everything is Evolving – even Horror Movies!

How to make yourself a hero

Luther and Bicameralism

The Wizard of Oz – the Perfect Story?

The Evolution of Consciousness

The Mirror Test

The Ladder of Consciousness

Mind at Large

Consciousness as a Waking Story

Grimoire and Grammar

ROBOT

Egregors

The Harsh Reality

Cosmic Ordering

Bicameralism and the Performer on Stage

The Performance

In Search of Identity; In Search of Values

How America made Fashion its Goddess

Inside-Dopesters

Overthrowing Authority

Status Wars

Conclusion

The Illuminati

THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF BOOKS outlining the religion, politics and philosophy of the ancient and controversial secret society known as the Illuminati, of which the Greek polymath Pythagoras was the first official Grand Master. The society exists to this day and the author is a member, working under the pseudonym of Adam Weishaupt – the name of the Illuminati’s most notorious Grand Master.

The Illuminati’s religion is the most highly developed expression of Gnosticism and is called Illumination (alternatively, Illuminism). Dedicated to the pursuit of enlightenment, it has many parallels with the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. It rejects the Abrahamic religions of faith: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, considering these the work of the Demiurge; an inferior, cruel and wicked deity who deludes himself that he is the True God, and who has inflicted endless horrors on humanity.

If you wish to judge for yourself how deranged the Demiurge is, you need only read the Old Testament, the story of the Demiurge’s involvement with his Chosen People, the Hebrews. You may wonder why the God of All entered into an exclusive and partisan Covenant with a tribe in the Middle East several thousand years ago, why he promised them a land (Canaan) that belonged to others, and why he then actively participated with them in a genocidal war against the Canaanites. Even more bizarrely, according to Christian theology, he then despatched all of those Hebrews, whom he had supported so fanatically, to Limbo – the edge of Hell – when they died. They couldn’t go to Heaven because they were indelibly marked by the Original Sin of Adam and Eve. Only the atonement provided by the agonising death of God’s son, Jesus Christ, could wipe the slate clean and allow the Hebrews to be released from Limbo. But there was a catch. Only those who accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour were eligible for Paradise.

Of course, the Chosen People of God have almost entirely rejected Jesus Christ. Therefore, from the Christian perspective, nearly all of the Chosen People are now in hell proper. Don’t you find God’s behaviour distinctly odd? Indeed, unbelievable? Don’t alarm bells start ringing? Doesn’t the behaviour of this God sound rather more like what would be expected of Satan?

Remember that this same God ordered Abraham to perform human sacrifice on his own son, Isaac. Abraham, rather than rejecting this monstrous command, rather than denouncing the creature that gave it as evil incarnate, agreed to butcher his own flesh and blood to demonstrate how slavishly and mindlessly obedient he was – the prototype of all psychopathic, fanatical believers.

Does God’s command to Abraham sound like something that would ever pass the lips of the True God? We pity you if you think it does because you are surely a creature of the Demiurge and one of the legions of the damned. If, however, you doubt the credentials of the Abrahamic God, you may be receptive to the message of the Illuminati and our future-oriented, rational, scientific, mathematical and dialectical religion of light – Illumination.

The Triune Brain

THE REASON HUMAN behaviour is so strange is that we have not one but three brains! The three brains are incompatible and although they try to work together, they often fail.

The triune brain is the hypothesis of neurologist Paul MacLean and he proposes that evolution has adopted a policy of building more advanced brains on top of older, more primitive brains, rather than redesigning from scratch.

So, we have the chance to be brain archaeologists and to dig down into our evolutionary past. We can discover that there was a time when we were far from human and much more like…crocodiles.

MacLean says of the three brains that they operate like three interconnected biological computers, [each] with its own special intelligence, its own subjectivity, its own sense of time and space and its own memory.

Brain 1- the lowest and earliest brain – is the Reptilian Brain: the brainstem and cerebellum.

Brain 2 – the second evolutionary stratum – is the ancient Mammalian Brain: the limbic system.

Brain 3 – the human layer – is the neo Mammalian Brain: the neocortex.

Although all of the brains are interconnected by nerves (hence can communicate with each other) they often seem to operate autonomously as separate brain systems with their own distinctive capacities.

In colloquial terms, a human being is like a crocodile (reptilian brainstem), a horse (limbic system) and a computer (neocortex) all lashed together...with almost comical consequences in many cases (or should that be tragic)?

The crocodile part of us deals with the basic survival, instinctive and reproductive functions: the four Fs – feeding and fucking, fight or flight. (This is the level to which men typically sink after a few drinks.)

That’s all that crocodiles do with their tiny, pea-sized brains: they fight and feed; they flee if necessary; they reproduce. Otherwise, they’re just waiting and watching. Paul MacLean wrote, It is very difficult to imagine a lonelier and more emotionally empty being than a crocodile. (Yup, sounds like a lot of men!)

The horse part deals with a higher F – feelings. This is the level women typically operate at.

The computer part is where our reason resides. This is the level of the philosophers, scientists and mathematicians.

In terms of characters from the original Star Trek, we might say that the most primitive part of our brain is our inner Captain Kirk, the emotional part our Dr McCoy and the computer part our inner Mr Spock.

In Freudian terms, the id corresponds to the crocodile brain, the ego to the horse brain and the superego to the computer brain.

Most men don’t get much beyond the id/crocodile level of existence. They are the knuckle-dragging Neanderthals who spend the years watching every sequel of Fast and Furious up to F & F 500!

Few of humanity rise to the world of reason and consciousness powered by the logic circuits of the computer brain. This highest arena is uniquely human – no other animals have an onboard computer – and the irony is that few humans know how to operate it. They are whizz-kids at using iPhones, but they are clueless about using their own brains properly. They mostly use brains 1 and 2 and rarely trouble brain 3. It lies dormant and dusty in most people, like some never-visited library containing all the knowledge of the cosmos. In fact, many men struggle to use anything more than the crocodile brain. Their minds are preoccupied with fucking, fighting and feasting – like the Vikings.

The computer brain, sadly, does not dominate the lower brains. The limbic system – the seat of the emotions – usually hijacks the higher mental functions i.e. reason is put to the service of the emotions rather than the emotions being in the service of reason. In times of great stress or sexual excitement, the crocodile takes charge of everything and humans become reptiles operating at the basic instinctive level.

With this model of the brain, it becomes easy to see why humanity struggles to reach its potential. Most people are stuck at the level of crocodile or horse, and can’t raise themselves to the godlike, rational level of the internal supercomputer. The attainment of gnosis requires the highest brain working at full capacity.

In Jungian terms, the shadow is the crocodile brain, the ego, persona and anima/animus are the limbic system and the Self is the computer. Reason, not belief, makes us Gods.

The triune brain corresponds very well to the soul described by Plato almost two and a half thousand years ago. The desiring part of the soul is the crocodile brain (desire for food, conquest, sex and safety), the spirited part of the soul (the thymus) is the limbic system, and the rational part of the soul is the computer brain. The Platonic rational charioteer struggles to manage the two