Prometheus Rising

Paperback, 262 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 1983 by Falcon Press.

ISBN:
978-0-941404-19-8
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Imagine trying to make sense of an amalgam of Timothy Leary's eight neurological circuits, G.I. Gurdjieff's self-observation exercises, Alfred Korzybskis 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 Robert 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.

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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, …

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