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Saturday, November 14, 2026

Mike Gathers on the Eight Circuit model

 


Above is a new video from Mike Gathers, "A History of Timothy Leary's Eight Circuit Model of Consciousness."

Here's the description: "I run through the history of Timothy Leary's Eight Circuit Model of Consciousness and a history of Leary's ideas.   From his PHD to Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality to The Harvard Years to Millbrook  to The Politics of Ecstasy to Neurologic, Exo-Psychology, and the Game of Life.   And on to Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson and Antero Alli's Eight Circuit Brain and a few of the modern writers working on it today."


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

this is raw footage of a first take with an intention to make a solo pod for Hilaritas. I think I could slow down a little and break this up into segments for an :official: release. Next year is the 50th of CT1 and Exo-psychology. the coming out of the 8 circuit model, SMI2LE, and RAW's HGA working. I'm trying to see what I can pull together for all of this for the pod for 2027.

Anonymous said...

I think you were being a little bit hard on RAW in that. After all, Leary himself said that Wilson explained it better than he did.

quackenbush said...
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quackenbush said...

Genuinely curious what specifically you mean here. Definitely a first take where I went off on some unfiltered directions. A little to hard on Octaves, as I recall. Not sure where I threw RAW under the bus, tho.