— The Moody Blues

Timothy Leary came up with this scheme of eight circuits of consciousness and Robert Anton Wilson expanded and renamed most of them. It’s basically a “great-chain” of evolutionary brain circuitry, leading from lower to higher states of consciousness.

I’ve labeled my diagram with RAW’s names, but below I also list Leary’s names in parentheses.

• Oral Bio-survival (Vegetative-invertebrate)
• Anal Territorial (Emotional-locomotion)
• Semantic Time-binding (Laryngeal-manual Symbolic)
• Socio-sexual (Socio-sexual Domestication)
• Neurosomatic (Neurosomatic)
• Metaprogramming (Neuro-electric)
• Morphogenetic (Neurogenetic)
• Non-local Quantum (Neuro-atomic Metaphysiological)

Pretty wild stuff!

Further Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-circuit_model_of_consciousness

http://www.phinnweb.org/neuro/8-circuit/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson

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