Prometheus Rising - The Library of the Uncommons

Paperback, 288 pages

English language

Published Sept. 11, 1992 by New Falcon Publications.

ISBN:: 978-1-56184-056-4
OCLC Number:: 38328352

(5 reviews)

Prometheus Rising is a book by Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1983. It is a guide book of "how to get from here to there", an amalgam of Timothy Leary's 8-circuit model of consciousness, Gurdjieff's self-observation exercises, Alfred Korzybski's general semantics, Aleister Crowley's magical theorems, Sociobiology, Yoga, relativity, and quantum mechanics, amongst other approaches to understanding the world around us, and claiming to be a short book (under 300 pages) about how the human mind works and how to get the most use from one. Wilson describes it as an "owner's manual for the human brain".

The book examines many aspects of social mind control and mental imprinting, and provides mind exercises at the end of every chapter, with the goal of giving the reader more control over how one's mind works. The book has found many readers among followers of alternative culture, and discusses the effect of certain …

Prometheus Rising is a book by Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1983. It is a guide book of "how to get from here to there", an amalgam of Timothy Leary's 8-circuit model of consciousness, Gurdjieff's self-observation exercises, Alfred Korzybski's general semantics, Aleister Crowley's magical theorems, Sociobiology, Yoga, relativity, and quantum mechanics, amongst other approaches to understanding the world around us, and claiming to be a short book (under 300 pages) about how the human mind works and how to get the most use from one. Wilson describes it as an "owner's manual for the human brain".

The book examines many aspects of social mind control and mental imprinting, and provides mind exercises at the end of every chapter, with the goal of giving the reader more control over how one's mind works. The book has found many readers among followers of alternative culture, and discusses the effect of certain psychoactive substances and how these affect the brain, tantric breathing techniques, and other methods and holistic approaches to expanding consciousness. It draws a parallel between the development of one's mind and the development of higher intelligence theorized by biological evolution.

Prometheus Rising was copyrighted and published in 1983 but began as Wilson's Ph.D. dissertation called "The Evolution of Neuro-Sociological Circuits: A Contribution to the Sociobiology of Consciousness" in 1978-79 for Paideia University in California.[1] In 1982, while in Ireland, Wilson rewrote the manuscript for commercial publication, removing footnotes, improving the style, adding chapters and exercises, and sketching out diagrams for the illustrations. Eventually Wilson submitted the work to New Falcon Publications, which accepted it within 48 hours. Wilson received his advance 48 hours after that, according to his preface in the tenth printing of Prometheus Rising.

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4 stars

I reserve the right to alter my rating and review in days and weeks to come, but as of a few hours after finishing the Appendix, I'll type that reading Prometheus Rising may well be the event of my consciousness's ascendance, or an event preceding a significant paradigm shift. I'm giving this four stars and not five as the final chapter's claims about hedonism and the Intelligence Intensification has not panned out, as of this writing, 21 years after publication.

The political climates of certain formerly advanced civilization nations make me wonder where the "responsible, intelligent adults", the "neurosomatic adepts," "the fifth-circuit adepts" are, what countries are fostering their development and creating an environment in which to thrive.

I don't know that I could convince my friends to read this -- I suspect most of my friends are on a higher level of actualization and awareness, maybe they already have, …

I reserve the right to alter my rating and review in days and weeks to come, but as of a few hours after finishing the Appendix, I'll type that reading Prometheus Rising may well be the event of my consciousness's ascendance, or an event preceding a significant paradigm shift. I'm giving this four stars and not five as the final chapter's claims about hedonism and the Intelligence Intensification has not panned out, as of this writing, 21 years after publication.

The political climates of certain formerly advanced civilization nations make me wonder where the "responsible, intelligent adults", the "neurosomatic adepts," "the fifth-circuit adepts" are, what countries are fostering their development and creating an environment in which to thrive.

I don't know that I could convince my friends to read this -- I suspect most of my friends are on a higher level of actualization and awareness, maybe they already have, but the four stars rating rests while I try to manifest meetings with psychonauts and these neurosomatic adepts and Aquarian conspirators R.A. Wilson claims exist, if they haven't all died out with Wilson, or are safely in other countries.