CIRCUIT |
Adapted from Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
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I
PHYSICAL |
50% of the human race has not evolved fully
into the third circuit yet.
That is, although they can exchange
primitive signals and handle primitive artifacts, they are still
mostly operating on the mammalian emotional circuit and the
pre-mammalian bio-survival circuit. |
II
EMOTIONAL |
III
MENTAL |
20% are "responsible, intelligent adults" with fully
developed third and fourth circuits.
They spend most of their
time worrying, because the predominantly primate parameters of
human society seem absurd, immoral and increasingly dangerous
to them. |
IV
SOCIAL |
CHAPEL
PERILOUS |
The place "souls" go after leaving their robot bodies...while these bodies are still alive and walking the planet's surface.
Also known as "The Dark Night of the Soul." Can also be seen as a negative activation of the "neurosomatic circuit," which is
endured for as long as it takes the neophyte to effect a positive activation, or permanent body rapture. Ref. More » |
V
BODY |
20% are neurosomatic adepts.
Fourth-circuit Moralists
denounce them as "mystics," "space cases," "nuts," "the Me
generation," "irresponsible hedonists," etc. |
VI
MIND |
5% have mastered the metaprogramming circuit.
They make up what Gurdjieff called "the Conscious Circle of humanity."
They are Free Masons, in the original meaning of that
debased term: co-creators of future realities. |
VII
LIFE |
3% have neurogenetic consciousness.
They function as
Evolutionary Agents—servants of the Life Force, in Shaw's
terminology. Their "God" is Pan (life), and their goal is immortality. |
VIII
ENERGY |
2% are neuro-quantum adepts.
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All these estimates are approximations.
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