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I should like to emphasise once again that this is a fact that applies to every organism. So on this solid scientific basis I should like to put up for discussion an idea that I personally find quite logical. Why should there not have been a comprehensive building plan for the whole of mankind—as for every Anthropological, archaeological and ethnological facts embolden me to add my theory to other hypotheses of the origin of mankind. I suspect that in the case of primitive man all the information, i.e. all the orders punched in the cards, was introduced from outside by a planned artificial mutation. If we follow my theory back into the dark maze of mankind's prehistory, man is both the 'son of earth' and ‘child of the gods'. Tremendous and fantastic consequences result from this dual descent. Our ancestors experienced 'their' age, the primordial past, directly. They took it into their consciousness and their memory stored up every event. As each new generation came into being a part of this primitive memory was transferred to it. Simultaneously each generation added new holes to the existing ones in the punched cards. The cards were constantly enriched with new information. Even if some information was lost in the course of time or had stronger impulses superimposed on it, the sum of all information did not decrease. But now man houses not only the punched holes of his own memories, but also the programming of the gods, who were already travelling in space in Adam's day! few men manage to break through at fortunate moments. Sensitive men—poets, painters, musicians and scientists—sense the creative stimulation of this primordial memory and often struggle desperately to recapture the stored up information. The medicine man puts himself into a trance with drugs and monotonous rhythms so that he can break through the barrier to the primitive memory. I also believe that even behind the trendy behaviour of the psychedelic pioneers a primitive instinct is at work that drives them to seek access to the unconscious by using drugs and exacerbating music. But even if the door to a buried world is sometimes opened in individual cases, most people are incapable of communicating to others what they experienced in their exalted state. For example, Aladdin's lamp is always quoted when people want to describe a fantastic apparatus or miraculous process. But not only do I take the prophets literally, I have also got into the habit of seeking something real behind the strange primitive memories of the men of antiquity, something real that may only await (re)-discovery by us today. What was the special thing about Aladdin's lamp? The fact that it could materialise supernatural beings whenever young Aladdin rubbed it. Is it possible that he set a materialisation machine going when he rubbed it? In the light of the present-day knowledge there is a possible explanation of the magic lamp. We know that atomic technology turns mass into energy and that physics turns energy into mass. A television picture is split up into hundreds of thousands of lines that are radiated over relay stations after they have been transformed into waves of energy. individual being—since the remotest times? Between our present knowledge and the wealth of these memories there stands a barrier which only a