Reprinted from EBONIE MAGAZINE, August, 1991

The Perils of a Front-Line Evolutionary Agent
by Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks, philosopher-architect-acoustic physicist, is best known for her design and construction of sound-worlds in the Scorpio Sector in the late 27th century.  After Hir 900th birthday celebration on the New Wales H.O.M.E., when SHe was reunited with hundreds of grand-children and Hir 37 husbands, SHe volunteered for a time-mission into antiquity--popping up in the volatile, pre-migration 20th century.

Hir assignment was multinational-media-transmission.  After Hir audi-neural signals established Hir authenticity as a post-terrestrial, Stevie scripted and starred in several movies which accelerated Intelligence Increase on the larval planet.

In the year 1995 SHe was selected as one of the Council of Twenty-Four and thus became one of the first post-terrestrials to attain Inter-Stellar Fusion.

Timothy Leary's tactic (at that time S.O.P. with Out-Caste Agents) required him to place himself in Their hands to find out who They were and how They operated.  Thus his task in the Federal Prison system was surveillance.

SURVEILLANCE:  Close observation of a person or group especially of one under suspicion.

SURVEILLANT:  One who keeps a close watch; French present particle (sic) of surveiller, to watch over.  Sur, on top of or over + veiller, from vigil, awake, watchful.

In August 1974 I2 was taken from a cell in Terminal Island Prison at 3:00 A.M. by two armed Federal Agents and driven to the Los Angeles airport.  He was told only that he was traveling under an alias and that if he attempted to escape, he would be shot.  He was flown to Minneapolis and picked up by two Federal agents who drove him to the Federal Prison in Sandstone, Minnesota.  Upon arrival he was taken to the warden's office and told that he was to be admitted to the prison under an alias.  He protested to the warden that this was a perilous act and demanded that he be registered under his own name.  The warden replied that he had no choice but to follow orders.  No choice but to follow orders!

Since it was Friday evening, no appeal of this decision could be made to Washington.  I2 was conducted to the "hole" and locked in a small metal room with no furnishings except a mattress and bedding.  The metal door to the cell had a slot eight inches high and twenty-four inches in width.  The slot was secured from the outside by a padlock.  At meal times and at various times during the day and night, a guard would unlock the slot (which according to Solzhenitsyn, Soviet prisoners call "The Swine Trough").  At one such inspection, he asked the guard what his name was.  I2 was told that his name was Charles Thrush.  The thrush is a song bird.

SELF
ACTUALIZATION
PRECEDES
INTERPERSONAL
FUSION

WINTER 1977
TUCSON LECTURE
"SELF-DISCOVERY LEADS TO SELF-ACTUALIZATION"

There is a rumor going around that the younger generation, or for that matter, the American public in general, is laid back these days, apathetic, narcissistic, self-indulgent, sensual.  Well, we can't knock intelligent pursuit of happiness.  There are periods when a species or an individual or a nation needs to lay back, mellow out, cocoon-quiescent and recoup.  However, this 1970's quiescence is more apparent than real.  The 60's were a period of self-discovery -- a daring assertion of personal pleasure rather than societal reward.  The genetic conflicts of the 60's were won by the forces of self-discovery.

The 70's have moved America into an unprecedented era of self-actualization.  Today, young people and most intelligent older people are apparently laid back because they are taking care of their own situation first.  They are "getting their own heads together," discovering and tending their bodies, learning how to produce their own Reality Movies.  College students aren't charging after partisan dogmas or idealistic rhetoric.  But don't be deceived by this quiescence.  It denotes neither apathy nor stupidity.  In fact, it may well be the better part of wisdom to lay back until something worthy of your intelligence comes along.  Later, I'll be suggesting some ideas that do merit the attention and intelligent participation of confident self-actualized people, eager to assume responsibility for scripting and directing their own reality movies.  Pre-fabricating their futures.

Here's the flight plan.  I'd like to give two lectures tonight.  First I'll talk about the past because I think it is important to understand "roots."  Intelligence Agents (Out-Castes) study history very carefully.  Because we can't navigate precisely into the future unless we understand the rhythms and coherence of past voyages.  However, once we've traced our roots back East, it's necessary to move on to the future and create blossoms.  A philosopher demonstrates his understanding of the past by the accuracy of hir predictions about the future.  I think the time has come to take a look into the future and catch the next waves that are coming.  Watch out!  They're going to be big ones.

Lecture number two (and the main theme of tonight's celebration) deals with THE CREATION OF THE FUTURE and THE EVOLUTION OF INTELLIGENCE.  We'll survey the three great change techniques employed by DNA!  1) Mutation -- a species getting smarter; 2) Metamorphosis -- individuals getting more intelligent; and 3) Migration -- because every time you improve, every time you change, every time some new challenge increases your intelligence, you have to migrate to find new space to live out your new capacity, to custom-make your new vision.  Mobility is the classic stimulus for Intelligence Increase, I2.

Please learn to be comfortable with the idea of change.  To discover who we are means that we must learn how our intelligence has evolved.  Don't let Them scare you about change.  Recall that each of us has passed through at least twelve volatile and dramatic changes during our life times.  Each of us possesses within our nervous systems twelve primitive brains which have emerged in sequence as we develop from infancy to adult maturity.  And here's some good news.  Recent cryptographic decoding of the DNA helix has suggested that each of us has twelve post-terrestrial brains which are scheduled to be activated in sequence as we move into and pre-fabricate the post-hive future!

COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT

Date: January, 1972
Country: Montana-Crans, Switzerland
Subject: GRAVITY BEING NO LONGER A PROBLEM--THE CHALLENGE IS SPEED
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL File No. 4575

Back in Crans, the Scandalous Fugitive is becoming addicted to skiing.  Early mornings he straps on by the front door of his chalet, skis down to a rope-lift which ascends to town, lumbers through the village and cable cars up to the Spectacular View of the high plateau, fifty miles down the Rhone valley.  High, wide and clear.

Ski-town sociology:  The smart natives run the Cash Registers.  The solid natives keep the lift machinery running and collect tickets.  The stocky, tanned instructors smile knowingly.  The Latin-American propeller-set ski and dance.  The colony of American-Canadian ski-hippies work, ski, and fuck.  There is no shortage of instructors.

Neurological Note:  "The first step in skiing involves rewiring the Second Circuit of the Nervous System -- sensory kinaesthetic, hooking up newly-discovered muscles, total attention to bicep mechanics, re-mastering balance, learning new asanas, plough, christie, stem christie, parallel." (Xeroxed from Fugitive's desk.)

His guru is Craig (no criminal record) a blond kid from Oregon, Yale graduate, leading figure in the snow commune just down the slope from his chalet where twelve young snow-pilgrims share expenses, work four hours, ski four hours and stay high in front of the fire dancing, listening to music, talking philosophy and fucking.

The instructor Craig comes by the chalet each morning after breakfast and they ascend together in the swaying cabin discussing Universal Questions.

Craig, a mountain climber, seems to be infecting the Professor with peak-madness.  He plans to teach him skiing in the winter and climbing in the summer.

Diary entry:  "The skiing goes slowly.  Recapitulation of evolution:  the first problem for the beginner is the struggle against gravity, to remain erect on long plastic boards attached to the feet.  Craig patiently slides ahead shouting instructions for an hour and then, in relief dives headlong down the slope.  For the expert, gravity being no longer a problem, but an asset, the challenge is speed.

"Skiing is a mating ritual of the technological young.  Families show up for weekends and vacations, but the numerical majority and the neuro-logical charge is sexual.  It is a sport for the courageous, virile, healthy.  My slipping, straining attempts leave me an admiring anthropological mammal clinging to the slippery slopes of evolution."  (Xeroxed from fugitive's desk.)

COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT

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Classification: CONFIDENTIAL File No. 4575

John Milano first attained fame as Attorney General in the administration of President Jerry Brown.  His great achievement was the complete transformation of the Legal System.  Before John Milano terrestrial law was based upon a punitive imposition of the behavioral characteristics of the Dom-Species upon all other human species.  In this cruel and bizarre situation which existed until the end of the 20th century, one species would obtain power by force of arms and then impose its own robot-style upon the majority.  This ruthless suppression of species differences was based on monotheistic religions that glorified authoritarian uniformity.

By 1978 Human Ethologists had demonstrated that the so-called human race actually comprised at least 24 species and thousands of sub-species.  The classic tendency of Terminal Adult species to impose its over-specialized dinosaur models on all other neurogenetic forms was then exposed as genetic barbarism.

The Multi-World Neurogenetic Legal Commission, of which John Milano was the chairperson, totally revised the structure of post-human society -- by harmonizing human behavior with genetic-caste, DNA law replaced the whims of hive-law.

In the post-terrestrial legal system (sometimes called the Milano Code) every individual was seen as a member of a neurogenetic caste, with certain clearly defined species characteristics.  It was the responsibility of each individual to restrict caste-actions to the appropriate ecological niche.  The necessity for each hive to develop its own mores and cultural styles was recognized.  However, no hive was allowed to impose its behavioral styles on other hives or extra-hive individuals.

The last punitive-reprisal by a hive upon an individual occurred in 1999.  Since the dawn of the 21st century all social frictions have been solved by transferring the out-of-place individual to an appropriate ecological niche of hir own choice.  By the year 2000 all such species-migrations were occurring voluntarily and the very concept of socially imposed law was relegated to the nostalgia banks.

The galactic fame of John Milano as the Last Lawyer has endured.

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