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    opposite, ALP (German, dream; also the root of the first letters
    of the Greek and Hebrew alphabets— alpha and aleph, the
    source, the beginning)—Anna Livia Plurabella, when her name
    is written in full: the waters of life combined with all beautiful
    women. She is as oral and loving as "the Omniboss" is anal and
    threatening:
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    ...with a beak, with a spring, all her rillringlets shaking, rock
    drops in her tachie, tramtokens in her hair, all waived to a
    point and then all inuendation, little oldfashioned mummy,
    little wonderful mommy, ducking under bridges...as happy as
    the day is wet, babbling, bubbling, chattering to herself,
    deloothering the fields...
    This amniotic river-woman is the perfect mother of infantile
    dream memory and the Great Goddess of the ancients, the ideal
    bio-survival safe, warm place and to her Joyce offers his most
    fervent prayer:
    In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the
    Bringer of Plurabilites, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung,
    her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!
    Humanity, in Joyce's view as in Rattray Taylor's, is forever
    leaving her to follow the Hero (Father) to "the bluddlefilth of
    Waterloo" (battlefield of Waterloo with blood and excrement
    superimposed to reveal the anal-territorial roots of war) and then
    returning, temporarily chastened, "to list, as she bibs us, by the
    waters of babalong."
    In Chapter Three of Finnegans Wake, the "offenders"
    (invaders) and "defenders" (natives) get so thoroughly mixed up
    that all that remains is a composite "fender" who takes the blame
    for everybody.
    This cyclical view of history, whether in Joyce, Rattray
    Taylor, Vico (Joyce's source), Hegel-and-Marx, etc. is only part
    of the truth, but it needs to be stressed because it is the part that
    most people fearfully refuse to recognize. Whether we speak in
    terms of Taylor's Matrist-Patrist dialectic, Vice's cycle of
    Divine, Heroic and Urbanized ages, the Marx-Hegel trinity of
    Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis, or any variation thereon, we are
    speaking of a pattern that is real and that does repeat.
    But it only does so to the extent that people are robotized:
    trapped in hard-wired reflexes.
    When the accumulated facts, gimmicks, tools, techniques and
    gadgets of neuro-science—the science of brain change and brain
    liberation—reaches a certain critical mass, we will all be able to
    free ourselves from these robot cycles. It is the thesis of this book
    that we have been approaching that critical mass for several
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    decades now and will reach the crossover point faster than you
    expect.
    The current rampages of territorial-emotional pugnacity
    sweeping this planet are not just another civilization falling, Vico
    fashion.
    They are the birth-pangs of a cosmic Prometheus rising out of
    the long nightmare of domesticated primate history
    Of course, these are genetic/historical generalizations which
    do not precisely match any specific family. The gracious goddess/
    hostile giant archetypes are not activated in cases where the
    mother is cold, rejecting, embittered etc. and the father is the
    warm, supportive figure. The imprints on the first and second
    circuits are statistically deviant in such families and anything
    may result—a shaman, a schizophrenic, a genius, a homosexual,
    an artist, a psychologist, etc.
    EXERCIZE
    In terms of the theory so far developed, analyze the following
    characters:
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    l.ScarlettO'Hara
    2. King Kong
    3. Odysseus
    4. Hamlet
    5. Bugs Bunny
    6. Portnoy
    7. Leopold Bloom
    8. Richard M. Nixon
    9. Thomas Jefferson
    10. St. Paul
    11. Donald Duck
    12 lago
    13. Jane Eyre
    14. Josef Stalin
    15. Joan of Arc
    16. Timothy Leary
    17. Aleister Crowley
    18. The Author
    19. Mao
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    20. Carl Jung
    21. The Secret Chiefs
    22. Hannibal Lecter, M.D.
    23. You

    CHAPTER SIX
    THE TIME-BINDING
    SEMANTIC CIRCUIT
    It says that when you put two minds together, there is always a
    third mind, a