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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…

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Editions

6 editions · 2 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2016
    Hilaritas Press, LLC. · 321 pages · 9780692710609
  • Paperback · English · 1986
    Prometheus Rising -Op/023
    Not Avail · 9780941404211
  • Paperback · English · 1983
    Falcon Press · 262 pages · 9780941404198
  • Other · English · 2023
    Hilaritas Press, LLC. · 9781952746277
  • Other · English · 1997
    New Falcon Publications · 286 pages · 9781561840564
  • Other · German · 1988
    Der neue Prometheus
    Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag · 278 pages · 9783499183508
PhilosophyEight-circuit model of consciousnessPsychologyThought and thinkingMind and bodyImprinting (Psychology)ConsciousnessReality