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THE INTELLIGENCE AGENTS |
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HOW TO INCREASE INTELLIGENCE
Aleister Crowley said: "There are three ways to increase your intelligence: 1. Continually expanding the scope, source, intensity of the information you receive. 2. Constantly revise your reality maps, and seek new metaphors about the future to understand what's happening now. 3. Develop external networks for increasing intelligence. In particular, spend all your time with people as smart or smarter than you. We assume that you are the Intelligence Agent from your gene-pool, so you will seek Intelligence Agents from other gene-pools who will stimulate you to get smarter. WINTER 1977 Genetic History (as opposed to political history) is a record of those moments when a successful gene-pool migrates in response to swarming pressures: the hive castes out its future probes. Those migrating-wave moments produce the highest peak of civilizations, of culture, of hive philosophy and art and science. Civilization began in the East. Shuttling up and down the Spinal Column from Suez to China. The great pyramids of Egypt remind us that long ago women and men looked at the stars and built enormous highways aloft. Inside the pyramid they assembled all the instruments and comforts needed in a post-terrestrial life. The Egyptian gene-pool evolved rapidly and prematurely because they had temporarily solved the four terrestrial survival problems: security, political autonomy, technological predominance and a national socio-sexual mythos. The Nile Valley geography produced this early genetic probe into the future.
In Babylon the breakthroughs in science, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, technology were celebrated in the epic poem Gilgamesh, who personified the Search for the seed-flower of Immortality. The story of going beyond limits, beyond chartered realms, beyond the territories of the known, scouting out gene-pool futures. Exactly when the Greek wave migrated, Sophocles and Aeschylus wrote their plays; Phidias sculpted; Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, and the physical mathematical philosophers raised Greek civilization to its highest point. Then the Intelligence Frontier moved to Rome. Virgil sang the song of the Migrating Aeneid. All the great epics are "trip" stories, remember? The classic heroes surf genetic waves, voyagers moving out beyond hive limits. Then the Arab empire exploded from the Middle East across the North African coast. The great achievements of the Moslem wave came in the universities of Cordoba and Seville where Arab mathematicians, philosophers, musicians and astronomers made their great contributions to the evolution of intelligence. When successful gene-pools migrate, expand, explode outward, westward, they propel their seed-style into the future.
This same wave of mutation and migration has, for the last 2000 years, moved the Highest Intelligence flower of our species relentlessly from East to West. The Phoenicians, and then the Greeks, pushing their risky space craft out across the Mediterranean, their brows cleaving the unknown sea. Marine technology started the movement of gene-pools West towards the unknown future. DIFFERENT SCENES FOR DIFFERENT GENES ON THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLUTION THE REDEMPTIVE AGENT "And so it frequently occurs that the Redemptive Agent must endure long periods of quiescence and obscurity. These can be times of grave peril, obstruction or hive-disgrace. Out-Caste Agents have been selected on the basis of their capacity to face and survive experiences which would be judged unendurable by terrestrials. The childhoods of Agents abound in anecdotes of precocious sagacity, strength and independence from hive-morals. We recall the scandalous escapades of Krishna, the prowess of Hercules, the boyish wisdom of Einstein, the early verbal cleverness of the Galilean, the patience of Robert Goddard, the endurance of Susan Kaiser Vogel." |
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