matter. While the imprints of circuits one through four prepare the individual for physical survival, five through eight prepare the individual for psychological, metaphysical survival, past the tangible physical realm. The first stage of fifth circuit development is triggered at the moment the individual experiences a reality he or she is not familiar with—an extra-terrestrial, chemical, supernatural, or somehow otherwise inexplicable event—in the same way that the infant’s first imprint is his first moment outside the familiar womb. He is now experiencing thought patterns that challenge the validity of his past, his ideology and belief systems, and his perception of reality. This stage is easily personified with the quintessential Hippie, one that consumes mind-altering chemicals and experiments with her neurological paths for the sake of physical consumption and experience, or by the Sci-Fi dork who is addicted to depictions of worlds that are not this one. Stage two of the fifth circuit’s development is when the Hippie starts assigning relevancy to her “unusual” physical experiences: she becomes the disciplined yogin, the health food freak, the sort of person that is so aware of her physical and mental existence that she can direct it and dictate its processes. The last stage of the fifth circuit is the stage in which this highly cognitive individual is able to understand, without words and symbols, the thoughts of other individuals—in short, ESP. The homogeneity achieved in the last stage of circuit four is necessary for this to occur. We don’t all have to look alike, sound alike, and live alike, but we do have to work together on the same plane of awareness, recognizing the same truths, in order to wordlessly understand each other. This is personified with the classic concept of true lovers; they are the same person and don’t need to speak to each other to understand one another.
     Neuro-electric Circuit The individual in the first stage of sixth-circuit development achieves an understanding of the electric, physical union of all matter. It is the wide-eyed acidhead that observes a simple object and is completely amazed at its intricate atomic structure and its electromagnetic vibration. In the second stage this individual becomes more curious about the nature of that collective whole. Instead of merely observing that all things exist as one thing, he starts to form a more logical organization of this vast collection of matter. The acidhead comes down from his observant trip and assigns language to the things he has “seen.” In the same sense that toddlers will cooperate in order to get they want in the third stage of the second circuit, in the third stage of the sixth circuit, the electric thought patterns charging through our

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