PROMETHEUS RISING OTHER TITLES FROM NEW FALCON PUBLICATIONS Undoing Yourself With Energized Meditation Secrets of Western Tantra Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D. The Enochian World of Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley, L.M. DuQuette, and C.S. Hyatt Pacts With The Devil Urban Voodoo S. Jason Black & Christopher. S. Hyatt, Ph.D. Eight Lectures on Yoga The Heart of the Master Aleister Crowley Game of Life The Intelligence Agents Timothy Leary, Ph.D. Zen Without Zen Masters Camden Benares The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic What You Should Know About the Golden Dawn Israel Regardie Metaskills: The Spiritual Art of Therapy Amy Mindell, Ph.D. Astrology & Consciousness Rio Olesky Breaking the Illusion: Tools for Self-Awakening Ric Weinman Conversations With My Dark Side Shanti Ananda Soul Magic: Understanding Your Journey Katherine Torres, Ph.D. The Alchemy of Opposites Rodolfo Scarfalloto A Soul's Journey: Whispers From the Light Patricia Idol The Eyes of the Sun: Astrology in Light of Psychology Peter Malsin And to get your free catalog of all of our titles, write to: NEW FALCON PUBLICATIONS (Catalog Dept.) 1739 East Broadway Road, Suite 1-277 Tempe, Arizona 85282 U.S.A. And visit our website at http://www.newfalcon.com PROMETHEUS RISING Robert Anton Wilson Introduced by Israel Regardie NEW FALCON PUBLICATIONS TEMPE, ARIZONA U.S.A. COPYRIGHT © 1983 ROBERT ANTON WILSON All rights reserved. No part of this book, in part or in whole, may be reproduced, transmitted, or utilized, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, except for brief quotations in critical articles, books and reviews. International Standard Book Number: 1-56184-056-4 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-81665 First Edition 1983 Second Printing 1984 Third Printing 1986 Fourth Printing 1987 Fifth Printing 1989 Sixth Printing 1990 Seventh Printing 1992 Eighth Printing 1994 Ninth Printing 1997 Second Revised Edition (Tenth Printing) 1997 Eleventh Printing 1999 Twelfth Printing 2000 Cover by Stan Slaughter The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984 Address all inquiries to: NEW FALCON PUBLICATIONS 1739 East Broadway Road Suite 1-277 Tempe, Arizona 85282 U.S.A. (or) 320 East Charleston Blvd. • Suite 204-286 Las Vegas, NV 89104 U.S.A. email: [email protected] website: http://www.newfalcon.com DEDICATED To Timothy Leary & William S. Burroughs dove sta memora ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The eight-circuit model of consciousness in this book and much of its future-vision derive from the writings of Dr. Timothy Leary, whose letters and conversations have also influenced many other ideas herein. I also owe great debts to Dr. O.R. Bontrager, for introducing me to semantics and communication sciences generally; to R. Buckminister Fuller, for general socio- logical technological perspectives on current problems; and to all of the following: Barbara Hubbard, Alan Harrington, P.M. Esfandiary, Dr. Paul Watzlavik, Dr. Eric Berne, Dr. Paul Segall, Dr. Israel Regardie, Alvin Toffler, Phil Laut, Dr. Sigmund Freud, Dr. Carl Jung, Alan Watts, Alfred Korzybski, and Aleister Crowley. The members of the Physics/Consciousness Research Group (Dr. Jack Sarfatti, Dr. Nick Herbert and Saul Paul Sirag) have contributed more than is indicated by my few brief refer- ences to quantum theory in these pages; they clarified my whole comprehension of epistemology. None of these persons are responsible for my mistakes or over-statements. CONTENTS Preface to the Second Edition 11 Introduction 17 1. The Thinker & The Prover 23 2. Hardware & Software: The Brain & Its Programs 33 3. The Oral Bio-Survival Circuit 45 4. The Anal Emotional Territorial Circuit 61 5. Dickens & Joyce: The Two-Circuit Dialectic 85 6. The Time-Binding Semantic Circuit 93 7. The Time-Binding Dialectic: Acceleration & Deceleration 105 8 The "Moral" Socio-Sexual Circuit 121 9. Mindwashing & Brain Programming 149 10. How To Brain-Wash Friends & Robotize People 161 11. The Holistic Neurosomatic Circuit 177 12. The Collective Neurogenetic Circuit 195 13. Introduction to the Metaprogramming Circuit 207 14. The Meta-Programming Circuit 217 15. Different Models & Different Muddles 227 16. The Snafu Principle 239 17. Quantum Evolution 253 18. The Non-Local Quantum Circuit 265 19. Prometheus Rising 271 Appendix 283