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Do people on /lit/ have opinions about this guy?

I found his non fiction / autobiographical stuff to be interesting. Namely Prometheus Rising and Cosmic Trigger. The trans-humanism and space colonization stuff didn't age well but his commentary on psychology, consciousness, psychedelics, and mind-programming/brainwashing still seems relevant.

Was never able to get through his fiction.
>Dude sex magick LMAO

>> No.9232390

I like RAW a lot. He introduced me to Korzybski in a comfy Youtube talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6sC4zstiWQ

>> No.9232641

>j*yce lover
>unironically talks about crowley

He's a mess.

>> No.9233390

>>9232382
>The trans-humanism and space colonization stuff didn't age well
To be fair, he got that from Leary.

Very little of Wilson's material is original, but he was truly a master synthesist. Reading him will always lead you on to obscure and fascinating lines of research.

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>>9233390
Would it be fair to say that Prometheus Rising is the definitive go to book on Leary's 8 circuit theory?

Is there a book by Leary that covers it?

>> No.9234369

i liked his notion of us all being trapped in our own views of reality.. but having said that, i felt he was trapped in the sixties reality-tunnel and of viewing the brain as made of "circuits".