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.