We were also intrigued to discover that the Lillys had become profoundly involved in the issue of synchronicity, saying, "As long as this dyad is functioning fully, events line up."
Their format for such concatenations of events is:
There exists a Cosmic Coincidence Control Center (CCCC) with a Galactic substation called Galactic Coincidence Control (GCC). Within GCC is a Solar System Control Unit (SSCU), within which is the Earth Coincidence Control Office (ECCO, sometimes mistakenly shortened to ECO, as in Ecosystems and in Ecology.) Down through the hierarchy of Coincidence Control (from Cosmic to Galactic to Solar System to Earth) is a chain of command with greater and greater specification of regulation of Coincidences appropriate to each level in the system. The assignments of responsibilities from the top to the bottom of this system of control is by a set of regulations, which translated by ECCO for us human beings, is somewhat as follows:
To all humans:
If you wish to control coincidences in your own life on the planet Earth, we will cooperate and determine these coincidences for you under the following conditions:
1) You must know/assume/simulate our existence in ECCO.
2) You must be willing to accept our responsibility for control of your coincidences.
3) You must exert your best capabilities for your survival programs and your own development as an advancing/advanced member of EC-CO's earthside corps of controlled coincidence workers. You are expected to use your best intelligence in this service.
4) You are expected to expect the unexpected every minute, every hour of every day and of every night.
5) You must be able to remain conscious/thinking/reasoning no matter what events we arrange to happen to you. Some of these events will seem cataclysmic/catastrophic/overwhelming: remember, stay aware, no matter what happens/apparently-happens to you.
6) You are in our training program for life: there is no escape from it. We (not you) control the long-term coincidences; you (not we) control the shorter-term coincidences by your own efforts.
7) Your major mission on Earth is to discover/create that which we do to control the long-term coincidence patterns; you are being trained on Earth to do this job.
8) When your mission on planet Earth is completed, you will no longer be required to remain/return there.
9) Remember the motto passed to us (from GCC via SSCU): Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent; it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not. (End of Instructions)
My own inner orders to desist from the use of ketamine for an indefinite period combined with the impressions garnered from the interview with John and Toni Lilly did temporarily inhibit my experimentations with this mysterious substance. Then gradually I began taking twelve-milligram "mini-trips." Some of these were for specific purposes, but mostly the experiences were like beautiful gifts pulled out of a psychic grab-bag. Each one was an unexpected delight and different from all others.
At no time was I ever disappointed. When overdoing, however, there would be a taste like burned cinders in my mouth or else, for a few minutes, the world would be edged with a jaundiced yellow hue like the oil that sticks to a baking pan. As this book goes to press I have again increased the dosages and feel far more confident of my ability to regulate the heat required for our ketamine cookery. In many respects it has been like using a modern stove that can turn itself off when the job has been done. Already much new material has come through which will be incorporated in The Alchemy of the Soul.
We also found that while ketamine can greatly facilitate the process of regressing people to former lifetimes, that can be done only in certain cases. Presumably these were instances where the information was needed and could prove helpful. The psyche is never flooded with material with which it cannot deal. In this as in all particulars the effects produced by ketamine remain subordinate to the will of the higher self.
Unquestionably my consciousness expanded more during the four months covered by this narrative than during the whole of my former thirty-five years of metaphysical pursuits. Moreover, the changes seem to be permanent. Probably the main acquisition has been a growth in the capacity to love. In yogic terms, it is the heart center which has been primarily stimulated and this vivification, like honey in tea, has sweetened every aspect of life. Currently, the only factor that limits further development seems to be the restricted capacity of the body and mind to assimilate the energies tapped. The power is all there but the circuitry can take only just so much voltage. This personal insufficiency has been a source of frustration but it can also be taken as a challenge, or even as a kind of game. Sometimes it has been a dangerous game like car racing or ascending the rocky face of a mountain, but it has always been exhilarating.
Now, ruminating over the events described in this book, it seems evident that even though our precious "vitamin K" has worked well for us and for most of our friends we still have an obligation to emphasize that it can be, and has been, misused. It must be handled with due caution and respect if we are to avoid the pitfalls which have accompanied the exploration of other psychedelic substances. Hopefully then, if enough enlightened people will take responsibility for maximizing ketamine's regenerative potential it can be made more widely available. But this distribution cannot be entirely regulated by bureaucratic decree. Rather, initiative will have to be taken by freely acting individuals who can grasp the importance of the issues at stake. It cannot be denied that the beauty of the "bright world" may be just too alluring for some mortals to resist. But this is still no excuse for rape. Nor is it adequate reason for insisting that these enticements remain behind the veil. We must simply educate ourselves to the point where the lust for exotic sensations becomes sublimated into a love for discipline, order and pure esthetic appreciation. The temptations posed by consciousness-altering drugs, like the temptations of sex, are here to stay. If ketamine is banned an equally potent analog will take its place. Hence, we might as well learn to deal with it now, not by suppression but rather through the exercise of good judgment.
On the other hand, for those whose responses are less than ecstatic, samadhi therapy may even prove disappointing. Some people just aren't "turned on" by ketamine; it does nothing for them except to produce a nervous sort of "high." There are also some who deliberately block its effects. In cleaning out the caverns of consciousness there are bound to be grimy deposits which must be painfully scraped away. If an inquirer is unwilling to make the requisite improvements then he may be best advised to avoid unnecessary confrontations with the "dweller on the threshold" of the unknown depths of the psyche.
We conclude, therefore, that while this medicine is not for the use of everyone, it can benefit all. Any widespread process of psychological purgation is bound to purify the mass consciousness and thereby hasten the evolutionary development of this planet. If higher channels are opened up, the resultant influx of redeeming energies can, like water, produce a general softening which prepares the soil for next year's season of growth.
In the meanwhile, those individuals who are aware of having been the ones who made the original decision to plunge into the lifestream of the terran sphere, and who are willing to face the consequences of their determination to rise through the ascending grades of Earth's "school for souls," should have reasonable access to this efficacious educational tool. Unquestionably, ketamine can provide the incentive to move on to the point where flashes of insight are focused into a penetrating beam, and where the light of occasional inspiration can be made to shine with a steady glow. It will then be so much easier to find out who we are, from whence we came, and why we are here. In addition, we should be able to gain some understanding of where we are going and what we may potentially become. Only then will we, in due course, take our rightful places as responsible citizens of the galaxy and inheritors of the wisdom of the stars.