The Marquis Pierre St. Georges d'Ayturde-The Father of Retrogeosophistry

In the history of retrogeosophistry, there is no greater figure than the Marquis Pierre St. Georges d'Ayturde (1880-1956). d'Ayturde, who was a professor of belles letres at the University of Lyon for 35 years, was an exponent of the theory that the mind could be liberated from traditional macrobiosophistry by engaging the forces of minimal emanation of the spirit combined with maximum emanation of the id in order to realize a greater sense of nothingness.

Initially dismissed as a crackpot by his peers, d'Ayturde eventually won converts to his theory including the American exchange student Anne Edith Oakley, who studied under him at Lyon. Ms Oakley went on to apply the science of retrogeosophistry to her own ideas of feminist totalistic ethereal ballistic transmissions at the University of Wyoming in the 1940s, for which she was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1949.

Another student who studied under d'Ayturde was the German intellectual, Alfred Eduard von Neumann (1910-1970), who applied d'Ayturde's ideas in his research experiments into the relationship between the human cerebellum and the cosmic universe using the principle of free interchange of over and under fermentation. The result of von Neumann's research came to be known as cross-ocular disanalization (COD). Not surprisingly, during the Third Reich, von Neumann's ideas were considered "not worthy of study", and he was suspended from his teaching position at Bonn University.

Largely due to the influence of Oakley, d'Ayturde's ideas gained currency in the US, albeit subsequent to her death. In the 1960s, Harvard Professor Timothy Leary was a proponent of d'Ayturde's ideas. In 1998, a statue of d'Ayturde was erected at the entrance of the History of Consciousness Dept at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Today, Pierre St. Georges d'Ayturde is recognized as a genius and the Father of Retrogeosophistry. His name is spoken with reverence in universities all over the world.