Prometheus rising

284 Pages·1997·3.72 MB·English

by  Wilson

PROMETHEUS
RISING
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PROMETHEUS
RISING
Robert Anton Wilson
Introduced by
Israel Regardie
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-81665
First Edition 1983
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DEDICATED
To
Timothy Leary
&
William S. Burroughs
dove sta memora
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The eight-circuit model of consciousness in this book and much
of its future-vision derive from the writings of Dr. Timothy
Leary, whose letters and conversations have also influenced
many other ideas herein. I also owe great debts to Dr. O.R.
Bontrager, for introducing me to semantics and communication
sciences generally; to R. Buckminister Fuller, for general socio-
logical technological perspectives on current problems; and to all
of the following: Barbara Hubbard, Alan Harrington, P.M.
Esfandiary, Dr. Paul Watzlavik, Dr. Eric Berne, Dr. Paul Segall,
Dr. Israel Regardie, Alvin Toffler, Phil Laut, Dr. Sigmund Freud,
Dr. Carl Jung, Alan Watts, Alfred Korzybski, and Aleister
Crowley. The members of the Physics/Consciousness Research
Group (Dr. Jack Sarfatti, Dr. Nick Herbert and Saul Paul Sirag)
have contributed more than is indicated by my few brief refer-
ences to quantum theory in these pages; they clarified my whole
comprehension of epistemology.
None of these persons are responsible for my mistakes or
over-statements.

CONTENTS
Preface to the Second Edition 11
Introduction 17
1. The Thinker & The Prover 23
2. Hardware & Software: The Brain & Its Programs 33
3. The Oral Bio-Survival Circuit 45
4. The Anal Emotional Territorial Circuit 61
5. Dickens & Joyce: The Two-Circuit Dialectic 85
6. The Time-Binding Semantic Circuit 93
7. The Time-Binding Dialectic: Acceleration & Deceleration 105
8 The "Moral" Socio-Sexual Circuit 121
9. Mindwashing & Brain Programming 149
10. How To Brain-Wash Friends & Robotize People 161
11. The Holistic Neurosomatic Circuit 177
12. The Collective Neurogenetic Circuit 195
13. Introduction to the Metaprogramming Circuit 207
14. The Meta-Programming Circuit 217
15. Different Models & Different Muddles 227
16. The Snafu Principle 239
17. Quantum Evolution 253
18. The Non-Local Quantum Circuit 265
19. Prometheus Rising 271
Appendix 283