I am faced with a daunting task; how to reach people without running up against insuperable barriers, and the tendency on the part of each of us to reject or dismiss any new information or insight that runs counter to our own beliefs and ideas.

 

The barriers to which I refer are the ones we encounter when trying to convince the devoutly religious as well as the atheistic scientist that their views of the world both require serious reappraisal. Certainly, much of my attention has been focused on trying to fathom out how it is that people who are bright, intelligent and articulate can have such passionate yet divergent beliefs and convictions that are the antithesis of each other.

 

They cannot both be right; they can, however, both be wrong.

 

It is my contention that the central problem facing many of us is an evolutionary conflict between primal feelings and thought; feelings that under normal circumstances remain dormant and inert; unfelt yet exerting a powerful influence on our waking and sleeping lives, far more powerful than we can ever hope to realise.

 

It is further my conviction that simply talking about these feelings is pointless and futile, in some cases actually counterproductive. A large splinter in the foot or a painful tooth can elicit terrible feelings of discomfort yet no amount of talking or rationalising is going to ease the pain one iota. Eventually one must confront the problem and pull it out. The act of extraction could well be excruciating pain but the relief which follows awesome.

 

Back in the mid 70s, I stepped on board a train of thought that has become this book, and which I believe will provide experimental verification of answers to some or all of the profound questions about ourselves, questions such as:

 

• What is the meaning and purpose of life

• How and why it will be possible to see into the future

• Why some individuals appear to be gifted with second sight and can exhibit paranormal capabilities

• How and why it will be possible to send and receive messages through time

• Understanding the significance and the reason for the existence of phantoms

• What is required to produce Primal Man

• How to create our own forces

• How to achieve immortality and eternal life

• How to control and manage our own personal evolution by altering events that have already happened

• How to transform the entire human race, or at any rate a significant part of it.

 

Through essays and short stories, I have earnestly sought ways to make the salient points known to the kind of people I would like to think have the resources and the expertise and the willingness and the desire and the motivation to see if what I have written has validity and can actually be proved.

 

The transition of early Man from four to two legs – irrespective of whether it was via divine intervention or evolution (adaptive radiation) – had, in my view, tragic and unforeseen consequences. It was physically impossible for the young infant to remain in contact with its mother during mating thus forcing the little one to withdraw into itself and suppress its feelings.

 

This would have marked a new kind of threat to the toddler. Whereas the brainstem could cope adequately with any external physical threat to life, this new peril by contrast was aimed directly at its emotions; now the child was being kept away from what it needed most. We may feel inclined to cast this observation aside as trivial, but a modern day parallel would infidelity by a partner or uninvited access by a third party to our partner’s most treasured and sacred parts, when violation of this nature can lead to the most harrowing and awful feelings of hurt, betrayal, retribution and revenge, so let us not underestimate the impact this kind of separation must surely have had on the primitive infant’s psyche and feelings of well being.

 

The imbalance between suppression of feeling, and its view of the world, created in the primitive child’s mind an internal conflict that it could neither influence nor accept. Why do I feel so bad about myself when everyone else around me is enjoying themselves? and which, in my view, motivated the acquisition and development of intelligence via a newly formed neo cortex in order that it could think its way out of its dilemma - the consequence of involuntary and undesirable compromise. I speculate that it was the emergence of ideas – little packets of information – that acted as the catalyst for reversing this evolutionary process. Becoming aware of ideas would have provided the young infant with a vehicle – abstract thought – for seeking understanding of a world it quickly found bewildering and hostile.

 

If the work of Janov and others at the Primal Centre is anything to go by, then for the past 50,000 years, Man has made do without his primal feelings to help guide him in the right direction, and by definition without significant connection with his entire history. I use the term primal gate to denote the barrier that the nervous system constructs during the birth process in order to separate its new life from the memories and feelings of all that occurred before. In other words, at birth, all pre-birth consciousness is shut off meaning our orbital neo cortex (our thinking or adult brain) is denied access to it. There are several reasons why this should happen, notably to give the baby the wherewithal to survive; otherwise it would be thrown into total and utter chaos.

 

For the first three years of life, whilst the infant has a fully functional limbic system and brainstem, there is nevertheless no functioning orbital neo cortex. That is because it takes three years to fully mature and is why most of us would have a tough time trying to remember what happened to us during that period of our lives.

 

I describe next how we might be able to reverse the negative consequences of the firsrt major evolutionary leap. It would be a major stepping stone in the evolution of Man as a whole.

 

I speculate that the transition of primitive man from four to two legs unwittingly and unintentionally created a hiatus – a splitting, a fracturing, a dislocation, an uncalled-for and highly undesirable separation of feeling from thought that the young child fell victim to, and is ultimately responsible for the widely and perhaps wildly disparate beliefs and convictions that modern Man now carries in his mind.

 

Patients entering the Primal Centre for therapy are subjected to a process that allows them to liberate buried feelings and to discover that they carry a lifetime’s unfelt Pain. Janov asserts that feeling this Pain is liberating thereby resulting in a total transformation of the patient both from the psychological and physiological points of view.

 

I see the therapy as a process, the goal of which is to prise open the primal gate in order to allow consciousness and these buried feelings to flood through the three regions of the brain in much the same way that unblocking a pipe allows the water to flow unimpeded through the entire system. The patient becomes fully conscious and free of pain.

 

In his book Primal Healing, Dr Janov defines consciousness as maximised interaction among neuronal groups and different levels of the brain.

 

In order to get a handle on what the mechanics of a journey into the primal components or constituents of the human psyche might entail, I have constructed in my mind what I call the Primal Room. During the first stage, which lasts three days, the patient is subjected to a Janov style preparation program the goal of which is to enable him to return to his primal roots in which he eventually cries out for his earthly mother, the room designed to get him wholly into his baby brain. I envisage the room to be a hemisphere inside which video is played out across the entire inner surface and which will display imagery consistent with the meaning contained in Mahler’s second and eighth symphonies.

 

The second stage of the process begins at the end of the three days of virtual silence when the patient is conveyed back into the womb using the beginning of the second symphony as the guiding hand, plus video of a mother giving birth – only in reverse, the effect designed to take him back to his own conception and the beginning of time. If you are familiar with this symphony, you will know what I mean.

 

The first movement of his eighth symphony, which begins immediately afterwards and last twenty six minutes, propels the patient towards his own birth. As is described in much greater detail later on, events are generated that to all intents and purposes simulate the patient’s death, although his ever resourceful and vigilant adult brain will know that what has transpired is in reality only make believe. He will also know that he is potentially being made privy to the secrets of the Universe.

 

The second part of the symphony brings him back to life and at its finale has our patient transformed and rejuvenated – Primal Man, first child of the Universe.

 

According to David Yurth’s Y-Bias, Angularity and Self Organising Criticality, the Universe exists inside a sea of consciousness that is holographic, unbounded, all-encompassing and is the underlying foundation out of which space, time and the other attributes of the real matter Universe come into being.

 

If, as he asserts, the Physical Vacuum is indeed consciousness, the very same consciousness that pervades, directs and governs us human beings, and if humans are further distinguished from all other living organisms by our capacity to not only feel consciousness but also to be able to make sense of it via our prefrontal cortex, should we not then be able to devise and master techniques that exploit consciousness to our own ends?

 

For it is at the secondary scale that the interactions of charge ensembles create time as a separate and distinct dimension with an energy density of its own.

 

The premise that time is created above the primary level would suggest that it is neither absolute nor inviolable. If therefore we were somehow able to get beneath it to, as it were, roam unimpeded through consciousness, we could in effect go on a tour of exploration and investigation whilst simultaneously ‘looking up’ at the world, so to speak.

 

For Primal Man, time will take on an entirely new meaning and perspective. In essence he will be able to access moments in time throughout his entire history and leave time messages constructed and transmitted in a manner that is analogous with the seven scales described in the Y-Bias monograph. These moments in time will extend right back to the beginning of time, as well as forwards in time, and consciousness will be the medium, the vehicle through which these messages will be propagated.

 

In order to make sense of the world we live in, powerful Authorities have divided time into the past, present and future. The passing of time as we perceive it is fortunately mirrored precisely by the seat of our consciousness which appears to move at precisely the same rate that the future becomes the present, and then just as mysteriously becomes the past.

 

Primal Man on the other hand is a fully conscious human being who will be able to receive messages from his future self. The mechanics for achieving this are fully explained in the book later on. I speculate that it is the seat of his consciousness which will acquire new properties and new fluidity, and be capable of repositioning itself from the present moment of time (though hopefully not permanently)

 

In order to send messages through time, this could mean from the future to the present, or the present to the past, as is made clear later on, such a message would get received whilst the person is experiencing sexual orgasm. Generally speaking, people are unconscious during orgasm. By contrast, Primal Man will be fully conscious as a consequence of the activity that will have occurred when the message was transmitted.