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This is a technical report by Thomas E. Bearden, a research scientist with an MS in nuclear engineering, dated January 3, 1977. Bearden submitted it to the Defense Documentation Center under a cover letter and it is approved for public release. The report divides the evolution of life into seven stages and argues that humanity must avoid self-destruction by technologically linking all human brains into a single superbeing. It claims UFO phenomena are consistent with a sixth-stage superbeing preparing humanity for that linkage.
The gigantic expansion ~f consciousness and intelligence is indescribable. Anv mancell can recall anything from total linked memory and think it directly, complete with a~l its shadmgs and ramifications. The consciousness, intelligence, knowledge, and memory of the entire species are in each mancell and ciirectly available to it. E.g., by linking only two monocular retinal patterns in the brain, binocular vision and the third dim:msion are gained. Can the fantastic dimensionality of linkage of even l, 000 perceptions of the same concept or idea be imagined? With linkage, insight is immediate and unbelievably multidimensional. The entire capqbility and dimensionality of the species is brought to bear, and such insight is incomprehensible. to our present understanding. Now the entire theory behind psychotherapy is for the patient to gain iusight into his personal "hangups ," repressions, etc. With total insight, all psychological problems are resolved. Rapidly the linked species becomes totally sane, something which has never before existed for mankind. Insanity and severe neurosis no longer develop because the insight is always available in the first place. The thousands of hi..rmful games humans play on, against, and to each other no lonqer exist.. The species-wide insight and identit:t tf?§}-llt in the loss of all ideological and dogmatic absurdj_.Jes, which ure immediately revealed for what they are. The eyes of each person are literally__Q.~ened in the strictest sense of the word_. With integration of all humcmity into a singl.e coherent consciousness, the inceptive (psychokine 1.lc) act10ns ancl cnpabilittes uf all tl:c mancells are ~lso cof10rently integra ted. Thus.,. gi v.':!n enough cells linked togctlwr, the supe;-be: ng begins to acquire a direct power and dominnncc over time, space, and matter. I.e., it begins to exhibit "godlil:o" powers. The linked, sixth-stage heing thus devalops into multiple dimensions, overcomes limitations of ti.me and space, and becomes independent of matter and matter-changes. These c;haracteristics indeed constitute the ~eventh stage of evolution, the penetration above and beyond all stages. The struggle to comprehend stages six and seven accounts for all metaphysics, philosophi', r~ligion, etc., and the total lack of direct experience with or on those stages accounts for the forbidding dit:iculties involved ir. their comprehension. These stages are noncausal and causal experimental methods cannot be applied, so the gaps in our ability t0 c0mprehend them are formidable indeed. The seventh stage is the "return to allnc~s" or to pure being, or simply to "nothingness" or no-thing-ness in its absolute meaning. This is the void that is devoid of void. This ·is the nature of the Ultimilte God pure being, Omega is alpha, the end is the beginning, and the beginning is zero (1 ne absence of all differentiation). Thus all is indeed holographicC~.lly "closed upor its tail" and identical, includi:1g being itself. Being is undifferentiated, that is its totdl definition. Since. it is totally urdifferentiated 1 in being there is not even any differentiation be~ween "being" and "not-being," Being is a total identity operator, and can even identify with its own opposite. All-being; the Ultimate God ness, is simply totally undifferentiated. Since it is undefined, it encompasses all things and nonthings, Without definition, there can be no defined (perceived) difference. That is why all things~, and why any particular thing is. It is why a thing can also _not-be, i.e., ceas~"' to exist. To be perceivable or not perceivable is totally operatwnal; such terms have no meaning except .-elative to an opt!ration, perception. Removing the limi~ations of the perceptive, comparative operation removes all distinction between "being" and "nonbeing" -- and t~is is the solution to the ag~-old problem of change, and to the ontslogical problem, that the philosophers have sought in vain to solve, 6.
FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.