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Dr Leary explores the real issues of our time: Space Migration, Intelligence Increase and Life Extension in this "Manual on the Use of the Human Nervous System According to the Instructions of the Manufacturers". "The Info-Worlds our species will discover, create, explore and inhabit in the immediate future will not be reached from launch pads alone, but also through our personal computer screens."
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The psychologies of the Industrial Age, (1850-1975), while claiming to measure thinking, consciousness and behavior, for the most part studied the adjustment-maladjustment of human beings to social rituals and culturally defined constraint systems. Read the first page
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For me this book confirms Tim Leary's status as one of the greatest thinkers of the late 20th century. His visionary understanding of the nature of human consciousness and of the processes of evolution are revolutionary and astonishing. As with a lot of his work it curious combination of psychological terminology and tripped out hippy alternativism don't make this an easy read, but it's well worth persisting. For me his Eight Circuit Model of Consciousness is audacious and enlightened, although he introduces it here, he does not categorise it in ways that I have read elsewhere.
A challenging but utterly fascinating read.
A challenging but utterly fascinating read.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An exellent book here from mr leary. This is the book that first
brings his theory of the eight circuit model of consiousness into play
as much written about by robert anton wilson
along with many other sometimes wacko, but sometimes spot on
predictions and observation, if your interested in a different perspective
of psychology, this will certainly give you one...
brings his theory of the eight circuit model of consiousness into play
as much written about by robert anton wilson
along with many other sometimes wacko, but sometimes spot on
predictions and observation, if your interested in a different perspective
of psychology, this will certainly give you one...
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Psychotherapy for the Psychonauts convenience
29 Nov 2002
Format:Paperback
I know I'm pretty liberal with the 5 star thing on amazon.com, but if I had to revise all of my previous reviews, this one would still get 5 stars. For me, this book represents an amalgamation of all the information our civilization has accumulated over the last century or so.
Based on a solid foundation of science and psychology, chemistry and biology; this book offers your every day average psychonaut the opportunity to understand both personal evolution and the evolution of humanity, as well as where we may be going. Most comprehensive in nature, the human organism take the form of an advanced bio-computational organism of eight circuits that draw from Freud, Jung, Tranactional Analysis, Darwinian evolution, Neurophysiology, psychopharmacology, and an entarouge of Leary's personal research.
As with all of Leary's books the reader should take the presentation of facts lightly. Not to say that they are false or improperly assumed details, only that it is all informtiaon filtered through the understanding of Leary himself. My use of this book - used as companion to Angel Tech, Promethius Rising, and a host of other 8-circuit oriented books - has me re-structuring the entire system from my own point of view, and relating each ciruit to all areas of my life, as well as using it as an interpretation method for better understanding of yoga, magick, science, and psychology. As a whole any book that prompts the user to better understand themselves from a wholistic point of view has my thumbs up.
Based on a solid foundation of science and psychology, chemistry and biology; this book offers your every day average psychonaut the opportunity to understand both personal evolution and the evolution of humanity, as well as where we may be going. Most comprehensive in nature, the human organism take the form of an advanced bio-computational organism of eight circuits that draw from Freud, Jung, Tranactional Analysis, Darwinian evolution, Neurophysiology, psychopharmacology, and an entarouge of Leary's personal research.
As with all of Leary's books the reader should take the presentation of facts lightly. Not to say that they are false or improperly assumed details, only that it is all informtiaon filtered through the understanding of Leary himself. My use of this book - used as companion to Angel Tech, Promethius Rising, and a host of other 8-circuit oriented books - has me re-structuring the entire system from my own point of view, and relating each ciruit to all areas of my life, as well as using it as an interpretation method for better understanding of yoga, magick, science, and psychology. As a whole any book that prompts the user to better understand themselves from a wholistic point of view has my thumbs up.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Worth the read in any case
22 Jun 2005
Format:Paperback
If you are already of the opinion that Timothy Leary was just some fanatical cult organizer under the influence of every illegal substance known to man, you have nothing to lose by reading one of his books. You can at least hope to obtain some first-hand evidence of his alleged insanity.
On the other hand, you would have a hard time convincing me that this book was written under any influence other than a joyful wonder and awe concerning knowledge and the world, and perhaps a mild resentment toward the system that imprisoned him for far greater a period of time than is typical for possession of marijuana.
By all means, InfoPsychology presents an unconventional model of reality, the human mind, and evolution. "Crazy" seems at times to be the best description for some of the ideas presented here. But as Leary himself points out, until the next evolutionary plateau is reached, concepts associated with that plateau will seem alien and threatening to the status quo (as well they should). But that is no excuse to dismiss these ideas as crazy. Subversive, contraversial, beyond the reach of our collective understanding and acceptance, perhaps. Certainly not crazy.
And if only for the time it takes to read the book we accept Leary's logical progression, we'll see that his book must necessarily be considered "crazy." He is dealing with evolutions that have not yet occurred. We cannot expect to fully understand and appreciate the complexities of an evolved form of humanity any more than neanderthals could've been expected to understand us. And in order to be able to reprogram ourselves, we must first recognize, or be made aware of how programmed we are to begin with.
On the other hand, you would have a hard time convincing me that this book was written under any influence other than a joyful wonder and awe concerning knowledge and the world, and perhaps a mild resentment toward the system that imprisoned him for far greater a period of time than is typical for possession of marijuana.
By all means, InfoPsychology presents an unconventional model of reality, the human mind, and evolution. "Crazy" seems at times to be the best description for some of the ideas presented here. But as Leary himself points out, until the next evolutionary plateau is reached, concepts associated with that plateau will seem alien and threatening to the status quo (as well they should). But that is no excuse to dismiss these ideas as crazy. Subversive, contraversial, beyond the reach of our collective understanding and acceptance, perhaps. Certainly not crazy.
And if only for the time it takes to read the book we accept Leary's logical progression, we'll see that his book must necessarily be considered "crazy." He is dealing with evolutions that have not yet occurred. We cannot expect to fully understand and appreciate the complexities of an evolved form of humanity any more than neanderthals could've been expected to understand us. And in order to be able to reprogram ourselves, we must first recognize, or be made aware of how programmed we are to begin with.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Don't dodge the "exo-" of the original
28 Jan 2006
Format:Paperback
This book originally was published as "Exo-Psychology" and the title referred to Dr. Leary's interest in space colonization. Dr. Leary got caught up in the personal computer windstorm of the 1990s and (the Challenger explosion didn't help) turned his sights from outer space to cyberspace. But his original insight that psychedelic states presage those of extraterrestrial minds remains prescient. This book delineates a model of developmental psychology that spans prehistory to posthistory, and deserves a new reading by a new, postpsychedelic, generation. The book sprung from a philosophical context that Dr. Leary called Interstellar Neurogenetics. The term never caught on, but its spirit lives at www.starlarvae.org.
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