Prometheus Rising

About the book

Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (1983) is an idiosyncratic book on human consciousness built around Timothy Leary’s “eight-circuit model of consciousness”. Wilson presents a model of how the mind is conditioned and how it might be reprogrammed, mixing psychology, mysticism, and his trademark playful scepticism, and includes exercises at the end of each chapter. It is a cult classic associated with the fringes of psychology and the “consciousness” counterculture; readers should take its framework as provocation rather than established science.