After I tried (and failed) to make an epub version of Neurologic by Timothy Leary and Joanna Harcourt-Smith, the short book on the Eight Circuit model that is not in print but available on the Internet (see this post for background), Mike Gathers tackled the job. At this link, you can download the original PDF file, or a zipped epub file, which quickly unzips into a working epub file. I have tested the epub on my smartphone and it seemed to be fine.
This seems worth mentioning in a blog post because an epub of the book seems more convenient to me. You can much more easily read an epub file on your phone than a PDF; I use a well-reviewed app called Readera but there are many others. (Here is a guide to reading apps.) Also, you can use the send-to-Kindle feature to read the book on your Kindle, or your Kindle app.
Here is a Wikipedia article about Neurologic. Apparently the book dates to when there were seven circuits, not 8.
I need to look more closely at the book just recovered by Bobby Campbell, The Periodic Table of Energy, would it work as an epub, too?
Thanks, Mike!
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The PToE epub would be quite a task. It's a very raw typescript document with lots and lots of handwritten edits. Not only would the raw typescript need to go through character recognition, but you'd have to deal with all the handwriting and edits. And a few tables. And the magazine cutouts that didn't come out at all through photocopying would need to be delt with....
As of 5pm mountain on August 1st, I have updated the files with some minor corrections, mostly a footnote that I missed in formatting.
Leary wrote the preliminary version of this within two weeks of being back in prison in January 73, with this full version out by May/June with 7 circuits. Within less than 9 months or so, he would be working with an eighth circuit on the Periodic Table of Energy. Apparently his collaborator in Europe/N. Africa, Brian Barrett, thought their should be an 8th for the White Light/God Head experience, but Leary felt that was rather the peak of the 6th Neuroelectric experience. No discussion of the change from 7 to 8 in 1973 that I'm aware of.
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