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long, day after day, signals the
    muscles to relax, and natural buoyancy and health returns.
    Throughout human life, when the bio-survival circuit senses
    danger, all other mental activity ceases. All other circuits shut
    down until the bio-survival problem is "solved," realistically or
    symbolically. This is of crucial importance in mind-washing and
    brain-programming.
    To create a new imprint, first reduce the subject to the state of
    infancy, i.e., bio-survival vulnerability. We will enlarge upon this
    later.
    In pre-neurological terms, the bio-survival circuit is what we
    usually call "consciousness," per se. It is the sense of being herenow,
    in this vulnerable body, subject to the raw energies and
    forces of the physical universe. When we are "unconscious," the
    bio-survival circuit is turned off and doctors may cut us up without
    our attempting to flee or even crying out.
    EXERCIZES
    1. Determine to enjoy this primitive circuit fully from now on.
    Play with yourself and others and the environment shamelessly,
    like a newborn baby. Meditate on "Unless ye become as a little
    child, ye shall in no wise enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
    2. Never mind your diet—you will reach the optimum weight
    for your height when your brain is operating properly. Enjoy one
    really sweet and gooey desert every week. Diabetics, of course,
    should buy this goody in the non-sugar section.
    3. Get "high" (on marijuana if this is permissible to your
    superego, or on ginseng, which is legal everywhere and recommended
    by many holistic physicians) and then go to a health spa.
    Enjoy a good swim, a massage and a sauna. Repeat every week,
    forever.
    4. Take a course on kung fu or karate for at least three
    months, then re-read this whole chapter. You will be surprised at
    how much more every sentence will mean.
    5. Lie on your back and pant rapidly to the count of 20. (Each
    exhale-inhale cycle counts as one, not as two.) Panting means
    breathing rapidly through your mouth, as forbidden by almost all
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    experts on health, but this is only an exercise, not a full-time
    practice. When you reach 20, stop and resume nose-breathing, in
    the slow, rhythmic manner recommended by yogis, to the count
    of 20. Then repeat the panting to the count of 20. Then repeat
    proper yoga breathing.
    This is known as the "breath of fire" in Tantric yoga. The
    results are most amusing and enlightening. Try it!'
    6. Visit an aquarium and observe very closely. Try to see the
    bio-survival circuit of the fish brain in operation and recognize
    when and how that circuit in your own brain has operated
    throughout your life.
    7. If you don't have a baby, or haven't had one for many
    years, play with somebody else's baby for an hour. Then reread
    this chapter.
    Like opiate use, this exercize seems to trigger neuro-transmitters
    similar to mother's milk; i.e., it takes you back to the snug security of
    breast-feeding. And it is not addictive.

    CHAPTER FOUR
    THE ANAL EMOTIONAL
    TERRITORIAL CIRCUIT
    Run, puppy, run!
    Run, puppy, run!
    Yonder comes the big dog —
    Run, puppy, run!
    — Children's rhyme
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    The second circuit, the emotional-territorial networks of the
    brain, is concerned entirely with power politics. This "patriotic"
    circuit is built into all vertebrates and is perhaps 500 million to
    1000 million years old. In the modern human it seems to be
    centralized in the thalamus— the "back brain" or "old brain" and
    is linked with the voluntary nervous system and the muscles.
    This circuit appears in each newborn when the DNA master
    tape sends out RNA messenger molecules to trigger the mutation
    from neonate to "toddler," which involves first of all standing
    erect. Walking, mastering gravity, overcoming physical obstacles
    and learning to manipulate others politically are the vulnerable
    points at which imprinting and heavy conditioning occur. The
    muscles that perform these power functions are quickly programmed
    with what become chronic,