Eight circuit model of consciousness

From The Maze Where Realities Converge - the psychedelic encyclopedia of reality from The Ultimate Comment

Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson proposed that consciousness has eight different levels or circuits. Animals have the first two; most people live in the first four; the last four are evolving, transcendent realms of higher experience not ordinarily accessible to people.

• The bio-survival circuit deals with basic urges for food, shelter, safety etc. It does not think; it only reacts.
• The emotional-territorial circuit deals with egotistical desire, tribal identity and fear
• The semantic time-binding circuit is the realm of symbolism, language and referentiality. It is what enables us to think of things outside our present situation and to deal in abstractions.
• The socio-sexual circuit understands the subtleties of social interactions. It controls conversation, liking and disliking people and understanding of interpersonal roles and relations.
• The neuro-somatic circuit deals in gestalts (i.e. complexes viewed as single entities/ wholes which are greater than the sum of their parts). This circuit is responsible for the happiness and understanding you feel during the afterglow of an LSD trip.
• The neuro-genetic circuit holds the memories of our ancestors and the shared thoughts of mankind, like Jung's 'collective unconscious'
• The metaprogramming circuit may be seen as the seat of True Will. Reaching this circuit is the aim of magick.
• The quantum non-local circuit is nirvana, a state without ego or specificity. Reaching this circuit is the aim of yoga.

There is debate among metacommentologists over which of The Eight Gods control which circuits. Here's a provisional correspondence:

• The Holy Spoon - Biosurvival
  
• Thomas The Walking Head - Emotional-territorial circuit
  
• The Reality Fish - Semantic-time-binding circuit
  
• General Miaow - Socio-sexual circuit
  
• A Magical Trumpet Called Bill - Neuro-somatic
  
• Triangulon - Neuro-genetic
  
• The DXM Angel - Metaprogramming
  
• Dimensional Transfunctioner - Quantum non-local circuit

Read

• The Miaowndukya Upanishad
• Promethus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. Instructions for activating the higher circuits.

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