Reprinted from SCIENTIFIC AMERICA, September 1987

The Ex-Citing, Ex-Foliating, Ex-Plosion of the Human Gene-Pool
by Henry Edwards

Evolution is speeding up.  In the first eight decades of the twentieth century evolution has accelerated with a rapidity which is almost impossible for us, who are whirled up in the process, to understand.

There is one diagram which stands out as the symbol of our mutational century.  Figure 1 presents the course of evolution in terms of the growth of intelligence, i.e., energies received, integrated and transmitted by different geographical sub-species of homo sapiens.

FIGURE 1

Figure 1 reminds us that for 3 billion years the intelligence of life forms on this planet grew with almost invisible acceleration.  It took more than two billion years to slowly evolve the muscular technologies which propelled animals a few miles per hour; or which produced the muscular force of an elephant.

Then, with the mechanical revolution, the curve rockets upward.

The horizontal axis of Figure 1 is time indexed in billions of years.  The vertical (energy) axis can be calibrated in terms of number of inventions, energy produced and consumed, mobility in terms of speed and altitude, expansions of perception -- microscopic or telescopic.  Whatever energy index we chart, the climb rate shoots up almost vertically after 1946.

The human species is riding an energy-intelligence boom that has dramatically changed our conceptions of evolution.  Darwinian theories of blind natural selection are now seen as primitive chauvinism of 19th century British imperialism.

Next consider Figure 2.  Here the horizontal axis scopes the neurographic time zones -- from primitive, pre-historic Africa to current California.  The vertical axis is calibrated in DNA time.

We note that the Dom-Species in Africa today is hunter-gatherer.  The Africans are thus 2 million years behind California.  In Western Europe the Dom-Species is Stage 11 Bourgeois -- roughly 400 years behind-time.

It is interesting to observe that Africa lacks the more civilized gene-colonies and that Europe and Russia and China lack the mammalian-primitive gene-colonies.  Europe is left brain -- Africa is right brain.

The forcible injection of the powerful African gene strain into North America, via slavery, produces the sturdy, solid, far ranging American and Californian cultures.  Post-terrestrial colonization, obviously, must propel seeds from all terrestrial gene-pools into High Orbital Mini-Earths.  The importance of the Black-and-Brown infiltrations into North America and, particularly into California, cannot be overestimated.

The Emergence of Evolved Nervous Systems at Various Geographical and Temporal Stages (Dom-Species of Each Ecological Niche Shaded Grey)

FIGURE 2

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:

1.  Reference is made to the articles (attached), "The Hallucinogenic Drug Cult," appearing in The Reporter, 15 August 1963; "The Strange Case of the Harvard Drug Scandal," appearing in the 5 November 1963 issue of Look; and, numerous other articles recently appearing in magazines and in the public press on the same subject.  These articles concern the use of certain hallucinogenic drugs (particularly LSD, mescaline, peyote, and psilocybin), some mind affecting mushrooms, and others by various groups for experimental purposes, often in a quasi-religious nature.

2.  In the Spring of 1963, Harvard University fired Dr. Richard ALPERT, a psychologist, from its staff for noncontrolled use of the above-mentioned drugs for experimental purposes.  His associate, Dr. Timothy F. LEARY, also a psychologist, had been using hallucinogenic drugs in experiments involving undergraduate students and after a series of attacks by faculty and by outside sources, the University was forced to remove both of these individuals from its staff.  Somewhat earlier, Drs. ALPERT and LEARY had set up an organization known as the International Federal for Internal Freedom (IFIF), which obviously was a cover for additional experimental work in the hallucinogenic drugs.  After their dismissal from Harvard and the attacks on their activities by the Division of Food and Drugs of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and by the Federal Food and Drug Administration, the two doctors transferred their activities to Mexico where they claimed that they would have more freedom.  However, several chapters of the IFIF were organized in different parts of the United States, particularly at Los Angeles, New York City, and with the main office at Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Another chapter was organized at Mexico City, Mexico.

3.  SRS/OS has for a number of years been engaged with certain other Agency areas in research and operational work with some hallucinogenic drugs.  This work has been under rigid Security and Agency control, and the then Director of Security, Colonel Edwards, laid down rigid instructions that those types of drugs were not be used under any circumstances on Agency personnel.  Operational use of the drugs was handled through a special committee under the specific control and only with consent of Mr. Richard Helms, DDP.

4.  It should be noted that the aforementioned hallucinogenic drugs are considered by the office of Security and by the Medical Office as extremely dangerous.  Uncontrolled experimentation has in the past resulted in tragic circumstances and for this reason every effort is made to control any involvement with these drugs.

5.  SRS has not been able to determine whether any staff employees of the Agency have engaged in the unauthorized taking of any of these drugs, but there is information that some non-Agency groups, particularly on the West Coast, have taken these drugs in a type of religious experimentation.  While as previously mentioned there are no staff employees involved, some individuals known to have taken the drugs have sensitive security clearances and are engaged in classified work.

6.  Any information concerning the use of this type of drug for experimental or personal reasons should be reported immediately to Chief/SRS/OS with all specific details furnished.  In addition, any information of Agency personnel involved with the International Federation for Internal Freedom, or with Drs. ALPERT or LEARY, or with any group engaging in this type of activity should also be reported.

Chief/SRS/OS

WINTER 1977
TUCSON LECTURE
LIFE WAS SEEDED ON THIS PLANET

Here is an idea you may find amusing and stimulating to your intelligence.  Directed Panspermia -- the theory that life was seeded on this planet by higher intelligence and evolves, stage by stage, according to a pre-programmed plan.

Why are we here?  How did life get started on this planet?  These are crucial questions because your answer determines how you live your life here, and defines your goal.  Your answer to the creation question (how you got here) determines what the next stop is, and where you are going.

There are two conventional theories of creation.  The first, the scientific, is the most popular now.  It is quite mad!  It's the Darwinian dogma of accidental, statistical mutation.  Natural Selection.  A blindless, aimless, accidental forward lurching of evolution.

Urey and Miller performed an experiment in Chicago years ago.  They put ammonium, methane and water vapor in a jar, blasted it with an electrical charge and found pre-biotic molecules.  Then, they claim that is how life started.  Look at any biological textbook!  And marvel at the superstitions of current salaried scientists!  Here's the orthodox hive scientific fantasy of evolution:  2-1/2 billion years ago there was this bunch of methane molecules and they had a party one night with some ammonia molecules and invited a few carbon girls over, and started drinking water vapor, and the joint got hit by lightning.  And they began to copulate!

None of the biology textbooks explains self-replication.  They quickly slide over the key issue.  How did pre-biotic amino acid become living organism?

Now the other orthodox theory is a vulgar, populist misinterpretation of the Bible.  I am sure that the pre-civilized writers of the Bible didn't mean this, but the parrot-version taught in Sunday School is that Life was designed by some kind of police-type Jehovah.  An Arab-desert macho character who went around interrogating, arresting and condemning anyone that he didn't like, and stationed an Irish cop named Michael at the gate of the Oasis to keep dissidents out.

The Panspermia theory was developed about 50 years ago by a Swedish biologist named Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927).  He suggested that this planet was seeded by spores from outer space.  Recently, dozens of pre-biotic-organic molecules have been found floating around in pre-stellar cloud complexes and in a type of meteorite called carbonacious chrondites.

The French, by the way, were un-interested in Panspermia until about 10 years ago when they discovered that alcohol was one of the biological molecules in space.  Paris Match immediately ran an article on the existence of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence!  (Laughter)

And then in 1973, a distinguished scientist, a geneticist named Sir Francis Crick (you remember him, he decoded the DNA code with Watson) and his colleague Orgel suggested the theory of Directed Panspermia:  This planet may have been deliberately seeded.  It is possible, and it is certainly fun to believe, that there are millions or even billions of planets like ours in this small galaxy alone, on which we have been seeded.  And that the same process of evolution is taking place here and on many other planets.

Some sophisticated geneticists now agree with the Panspermia theory because they say it is impossible that in 2-1/2 billion years, accidental copying-error mutations could have taken us from simple, unicellular life to Monday night football and Howard Cosell.

And who seeded us here on this womb planet?

We, in the future, did it.