Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson 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, Christian Science, relativity, and, of course, quantum mechanics amongst other approaches to understanding the world around us.

It claims to be a short book (nearly 300 pages) about how the human mind works and what can be done to make the most of yours. Copyrighted and published in 1983, Prometheus Rising began as Wilson's Ph.D. called "The Evolution of Neuro-Sociological Circuits: A Contribution to the Sociobiology of Consciousness" in 1978-79 for Paideia University. In 1982 while in Ireland the manuscript was re-written in a more commercial form, removing footnotes, bolding up the style, adding chapters, exercises and sketching out diagrams for the illustrations. Eventually Wilson submitted the work to Falcon Publications who accepted it within 48 hours, Wilson receiving his advance 48 hours after that.

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Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns Seems to contain a similar philosophical foundation.

Philosophy books | 1983 books