Reprinted from PARTISAN REVUE, March 1994

The Neurological Level of the Judeo-Christian Bible
by Leslie Fiddler

Leslie Fiddler discovered the principle of neotony (conscious re-adolescence) and applied it to his life and work.

His refusal to follow the over-specialized conformity of the literary dinosaurs who ruled New York culture, his ability to connect with and interpret emerging trends, led to his expulsion from the Terminal Adult establishment.

Fiddler and his Out-Caste perspective to write the classic texts in psychological-genetics.  These books include Freeks, Higher Intelligence, and Futiques.

Fiddler migrated to a new High Orbital Home around the turn of the 21st century.  His adventures on the pioneering frontier provided the material for his epic, picaresque masterpiece Finn-Again's Voyage.

The last contact from Fiddler came in a neurogram sent from his pleasure yacht which was floating down the Milky Way.

The Judeo-Christian Bible is an invaluable index to the neurogenetic level of the period in which it was written.  We can always identify the Genetic Stage of a gene-pool by the personality-characteristics of the Local God.

The Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk.  He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blue-prints.  His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive Mammalian Brain.  His petty prides are Primate. First we note that he is very Animal-Territorial.  He owns the Garden, this Mafia Capo, Jehovah.  He allows Adam and Eve their tenancy there.  He has the right to throw them out.  He puts his warrior guards on the periphery of His turf to scare off intruders.  He is very Stage 5 with the intelligence of a Lion or possessive child.

Now a post-terrestrial God would not be that concerned with possession of territory.  A DNA ecological-engineer God understands that Hir creatures must evolve through the Marine, Territorial, Artifact, and Social technologies -- and that they must self-actualize at each; thus passing the 2nd, 5th, 8th and 11th stages of Self-Defined Divinity.  Any wise parent smiles when Hir little cub says, "My ... and mine."  This is the beginning of Stage 5:  definition of reality and self in terms of territory.  And every wise parent smiles praise when the little Stage 8 humanoid proudly presents a crayon drawing or  some original symbolic creation.  Now it is true that the terrestrial parent gets upset when the kids fool around with the Tree of Good and Evil, i.e., the Socio-Sex rituals of the local hive -- but this is no reason to throw the kids out of the house and put a flaming torch at the front door to keep the poor errant youngster from creeping back contritely.  No, the Jehovah God has not reached the technological level of the civilized stage of parental cultural transmission.

The fact that Sexuality is not a concern of the Genesis Jehovah supports the suggestion that we are dealing in this folk legend with the reality of a 7th Brain Paleolithic-herding Tribe obsessed with territory; moving uneasily into an 8th Brain Inventive Self-actualization.  The Bible is thus a collection of histories and taboos produced by backward, Semitic tribes, pre-civilized, in awe and fear of the sexually-active feudal kingdoms around them.

The power of the Bible-thumping Christianities which emerged from the Old Testament tradition is rural, pre-urban.  Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to the pre-Civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

Remember, the principle of Correspondence keeps us from rejecting the Judeo-Christian Bible as erroneous.  It becomes a valuable ethological document to help us locate the evolutionary stage which emerged in the Middle East at Biblical Times.

All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place ...

TO END SUFFERING ... MOVE!

DEAR ABBY: The discovery that our brains create the realities we inhabit has led some to say that "we are just prisoners of our own device," or that "everything we communicate is a lie." Is that true?
                                                                                      BRAIN REALITIES

DEAR BRAIN:  A useful word to use in communicating with technological primates is PRE-FABRICATION.  The brain is a loom unceasingly weaving the personal fabric of future reality.  We are thus prisoners of our own fabrication.  Neurological Fusion occurs when two or more join to weave a new reality fabric.

The Gospel According to My Husband
by Mrs. Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon's work illustrates one of those strange historical occurrences in the field of information.  "Gravity's Rainbow," gushed John Gardner, "is guaranteed to double the intelligence of anyone who understands it."  High praise, indeed, from a Counter-Intelligence operative whose life was devoted to Chaucerian Rumination.

Gravity's Rainbow is properly described as an encyclopedic epic.  A detailed updating of the classic tensions of evolution:  Control versus Expansion.  I.Q. (Intelligence Qualification, Queering, Quitting, Quarreling, Quizzing) versus I2.

My husband's book describes how modern psychology-neurology-psycho-pharmacology was created by the Allied and German militaries during World War II.

The Anglo-America Psychological Warfare Branch operates a mind-control unit named Pisces (Psychological Intelligence Schemes for Expediting Surrender).  Tommy hastens to point out that "whose" surrender is never made clear.  From a base in England, Pisces' agents probe the mysteries of consciousness, behavior and brain-function, using Pavlovian conditioning, ESP, brain surgery, hypnosis, clairvoyance, drugs, objective questionnaires, projective tests, personality assessments, behavior modifications.

Gravity's Rainbow is an exhaustive, clinical study of the tactics and strategies of the behavior control bureaucracy -- and the methods used by enlightened, anarchistic individuals to counter the controls.  The book is a monumental treatise on intelligence increase (I2) and intelligence control (I.Q.).

WINTER 1977
TUCSON LECTURE
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE EVOLVES THROUGH CONTINUAL MUTATION AND MIGRATION

The first recorded human history is Egyptian, dated 4241 B.C.  During the next four-thousand years civilization evolved in a migration-re-migration shuttle between the Mid-Brain-Middle-East (Cairo, Jerusalem, Babylon) down to Shanghai.  Along the Genetic Runway -- 30th to 45th degrees longitude.  The spinal column of genetic Intelligence.

Imagine that it's 800,000 B.C., Lower Paleolithic and you are a Homo Erectus born where life originated and still flourishes in primitive forms in Africa.  You move North along the fertile avenue of the Nile and you reach the Middle East.  You face West.  In front of you is the Mediterranean Sea -- wine-dark, endless, blocking movement West.  To your left lies Africa -- so hot that everything melts.  The genetic swamp where you originated, soft, cozy, warm -- but mobility is slowed.  To your right lies the jagged peninsula, craggy mountains and cold forests of Europe.

So, if you are neuro-geared for action and movement you sense those neo-lithic, mobile-noble, self-directed circuits kicking around in your Brain.  You don't go South and you don't go North.  And the sea blocks you Westward.

You turn and face East.  Now that's more like it for restless Genetic Agitators.  The fertile crescent of the Tigris and Euphrates.  The green plains of Persia.  The northern mountains of Afghanistan ooze you down through the Kyber to the gentle hills of Indus Valley.  You skirt the Himalayas along the Ganges and it's a smooth-flow all the way down to the South China Seas.

Four thousand years of empires a-building along the great transcontinental neuron pathway from Suez to Shanghai.  The noble empires -- Egyptian Dynasties, Hittites, Babylon, Assyria, Medes and Persians.  The movements of civilization moving East -- along the historic invasion routes through the Kyber, Gumal and Bolan Passes reaching China in two thousand years. (The first authenticated dynasty is the Hsia, 2205-1766 B.C.).

The Chou dynasty (1122-249 B.C.) produced the affluence, security and self-confidence necessary for a philosophic blossoming:  Confucius, Laotze and Mencius.  Here we note the characteristic of Oriental thought.  It is terminal, soothing, quiescent.  Confucius outlines the rules of insectoid-caste conduct which can keep the hive-game going harmoniously.  Laotze sings his rhythmic song of cycles, easy-come, easy-go, cool-out, be-here-now passivity.  You can understand why.  There was no place to go!

Stand on the China coast in the 6th Century B.C.  You've got the wasteland of the Pacific Ocean at your back.  And, with no compass or marine technology, that's a dead end.  In front of you there's 6000 miles of mammalian territory that's all signed, sealed, and mortgaged, locked up by kingdoms, empires, duchies, brigand-tribes.  Each suspiciously confronting neighboring units.

So by 1000 B.C., all the gene-pools ready to move up into the future are collecting in the Middle-East waiting for the marine-technology and navigational skill to sail up the great inter-cerebral fissure called the Middle-Earth Sea.

You Have to Be Together ..
... To Be Two-gether

COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT

Date: January, 1972
Country: Montana-Crans, Switzerland
Subject: THE SEXUAL FLOWER OF STAGE 10 FEUDAL CIVILIZATION
Classification: TOP SECRET

During the week our informant models in Lausannne.  Weekends She is Perfect Mistress, elegant, bawdy, funny.  Her description is as follows:  Lavender-pink translucent skin, Andalusian enamel, Her tawny corazon basket in opal on smoky gold, admirably adapted to the rounded contour of the hand.  Her contessa-face is etched crystal, eyes in dark enamel.  She speaks no English, luckily, so they fuse in basic French.  Her gestures are gitane-erotic.  Rita Hayworth.  To say Espagnolade is not to be overly derisive.

But She won't engage at Circuit Five.

One afternoon while performing some lazy yoga he puts a small crumb of Kabul resin in Her mouth and says, "Mangez.  It will relax your muscles."

The neurograms look like a Canabis Rapture Commercial.  "Oh mon amour, jamais, jamais," she murmurs to the camera.  Her Faberge pink-platinum network had never moved so smoothly and there is no doubt that new circuits of fluid transmission have been activated.  We instructed her, of course, to desist.  So the next day when he offers Her some more, she  sniffs in disapproval and opens a bottle of Valais.

He was overheard telling her that She is crown jewel of Terrestrial Domestication, Princess of Ceremonial Linkage for whom Kings put aside Thrones, Ambassadors forget their Duties, Maharajas carpet marbled Floors with Rubies. This Agent is programmed to do anything for Her Lover.  Passion, fervor, ardor, fever, desire, longing, yearning.  "J'aime pour deux," She murmurs.  Eager to suffer, mourn, lament, languish, anguish, pine, grieve, despair.  She loves to dance, flirt, fuck, tease, coquet, vamp, lick, excite, titillate.  She is the perfect racy drunk, joking Shady Lady, dancing down to Rio, cooking gourmet meals, laughing that none of Her friends would believe.  He worships Her as The Sexual Triumph of Feudal Civilization, but when he looks aloft on starry nights he appears lonely.  The predicted Difference in Velocity.  Delta V.

Maria and skiing are what is happening before we get him ejected from the Canton of Valais.

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