Prometheus Rising

by Robert Anton Wilson

2008

Description

Imagine trying to make sense of Timothy Leary's eight neurological circuits, G.I. Gurdjieff's self-observations exercises, Alfred Korzybski's general semantics, Aleister Crowley's magical theorems, and the several disciplines of Yoga; not to mention Christian Science, relativity, quantum mechanics and many other approaches to understanding the world around us. That is exactly what Wilson does in "Prometheus Rising". In short, it is a book about how the human mind works and what you can do to make the most of yours. Readers have been known to get angry, cry, laugh, and even change their entire lives. Practical techniques to break free of your "reality tunnels".

Library's review

Imagine trying to make sense of an amalgam of Timothy Leary's eight neurological circuits, G.I Gurdjieff's self-observation exercises, Alfred Korzybski's general semantics. Aleister Crowley's magical theorems, and the several disciplines of Yoga; not to mention Christian Science, relativity,

quantum mechanics, and many other approaches to understanding the world around us! That is exactly what Robett Anton Wilson does in Prometheus Rising. In short, this is a book about how the human mind works and what you can do to make the most of yours.

'Bob has done it again for the first time ever! This book is everything I ever wanted to write in a practical guidebook on how to get here from there, and he's-as usual-first in print again! Just the exercise on finding quarters has paid for the book many times over.'-E.J. Gold

'Robert Anton Wilson speaks for that tiny but indispensable minority who are changing the way we think. To read him is to learn what the future holds, how to be part of the future and how to help create the future.'-Robert Shea

'The man's glittering intelligence won't let you rest. First he shocks, then he enlightens. One is never the same after reading him. With each new book I wlecome his wisdom, laced with his special brand of crazy humor.'-Alan Harrington, author of The Immortalist

Novelist, teacher and former Playboy Editor Robert Anton Wilson is the author of the Cosmic Trigger trilogy; Quantum Psychology; The wall Came Tumbling Down; The New Inquisition; The Illuminatus! trilogy (with Robert Shea); Reality Is What You Can Get Away With; Ishtar Rising; Wilhelm Reich in Hell; Sex & Drugs; Chaos & Beyond and other works.

Contents

Preface to the second edition
Introduction
1 The thinker and the power
2 Hardware & software: The brain and its programs
3 The oral bio-survival circuit
4 The anal emotional territorial circuit
5 Dickens & Joyce: The two-circuit dialectic
6 The time-binding semantic circuit
7 The time-binding dialectic: Acceleration & deceleration
8 The 'moral' socio-sexual circuit
9 Mindwashing & brain programming
10 How to brain-wash friends & robotize people
11 The holistic neurosomatic circuit
12 The collective neurogenetic circuit
13 Introduction to the metaprogramming circuit
14 The meta-programming circuit
15 Different models & different muddles
16 The snafu principle
17 Quantum evolution
18 The non-local quantum circuit
19 Prometheus rising
Appendix

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User reviews

LibraryThing member johnemersonsfoot

A bit overly speculative, but that's the 'point' at times. Robert Anton Wilson was the trickster god of the 20th century, with Leary his John the baptist. Once you realize he's laughing both at you, himself, and 'with' you, then there's still a long way to walk in his writing. And that's a blessing

if that's the case, because he has a written voice like nothing else out there.

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LibraryThing member shawn_flecken

This is perhaps the closest Wilson came to a textbook on the subject of the 8 circuit model. While he essentially follows the same theme is in most of his works, Prometheus Rising comes closest to a flat-out lecture on the subject. An absolutely fascinating read that had tremendous influence on my

thinking. I used to highlight the sections that I thought were particularly insightful, but after multiple readings I found that there was more highlighted than not!

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LibraryThing member gerrymcdonald

This was the very first Robert Anton Wilson book I read. As the blurb says, it will reverse every mental polarity in you, well according to none other than Philip K Dick it will. Robert Anton Wilson deserves to be read by every inquiring mind. His books are incisive, thought-provoking, and

humorous. The man's obvious love of humanity and the human psyche shine through. I thoroughly recommend all of his books (I now own 15 of his works), but this is where I started and it might be the best place for you too. This book, and indeed most of RAW's work doen't tell you WHAT to think, but HOW to think. There is a crucial difference, and this is apparent upon reading this. Highly recommended

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LibraryThing member tlockney

This is, likely, the one book of RAW's that I still have a copy of on a shelf somewhere. I read it nearly 20 years ago and I can't say I remember it well or would even necessarily still find it insightful. That said, it had a dramatic impact on me at the time I read it and open my mind to a lot of

possible different ways of looking at the world around me.

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LibraryThing member gkrishna63

A mind altering book. The exercises at the end of a chapter must be done for you to truly get the best out of this book. Find a friend who likes this book and do the exercises together

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