Prometheus Rising

by Wilson, Robert Anton
ISBN: 9780692710609
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Prometheus Rising describes the landscape of human evolution and offers the reader an opportunity to become a conscious participant. In an astoundingly useful road map infused with humor and startling insight, Robert Anton Wilson presents the Eight Circuits of the Brain model as an essential guide for the effort to break free of imprinted and programmed behavior, Bob writes, "We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch. Unleashing our full stature-our total brain power-is what this book is all about." The Robert Anton Wilson Trust Authorized Hilaritas Press Edition
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Wilson, Robert Anton
  • ISBN: 9780692710609
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.50 x 0.67
  • Number Of Pages: 322
  • Publication Year: 2016

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  • Psy, Sci, and "Sigh"

    Andru V. - 3 years 4 months ago

    Prometheus Rising would most likely top the "books that have shaped who I am as a person" list. The author, Robert Anton Wilson, who is probably most known for his Sci-fi meets Conspiri-Fi trilogy "Illuminatus!" presents his understanding of human consciousness in an "Eight Circuit model" that borrows heavily from the counter-culture messiah Timothy Leary, but also blends parts of Freudian and Jungian Psychology, Semantics, Yoga, Christian Science, the I Ching, and the Tarot. Quoting James Joyce in one chapter, as well as Aleister Crowley in another, Wilson effortlessly joins together seemingly different and disconnected elements of human culture in order to illustrate his points relating to the development of consciousness. An open mind is absolutely necessary for the reader attempting to entertain Wilson's ideas about the human brain's full potential. In essence, Wilson preaches a mind over matter approach to reality in the sense that absolutely anything is possible, but that all it takes is some "figuring it out". If you can make it past two chapters, there is little chance you won't finish this book. Even if you don't agree with what Wilson posits, it will nonetheless provide some chuckles.

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