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of mirrors are arranged in such a manner that, when
    the candle was lit, one saw not only its reflection in each individual
    mirror, but also the reflections of the reflections in every
    other mirror repeated ad infinitum.
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    One of the several virtues of Prometheus Rising is that Wilson
    using Leary's neurological circuits believes that a new philosophical
    paradigm is about due. In reality, this is really Wilson's
    answer to my proposed criticism of his Utopian fantasy. It may
    not be within a decade that we shall realize whether it is true or
    false. But that is not important. What is clear is that thanks to the
    insights of many modern thinkers, major new intellectual findings
    do not come solely from the slow drip and grind of tiny new
    discoveries, or from new theories simply being added to our present
    armamentarium of time-honoured truisms. Rather, quantum
    leaps, in outlook ala Teilhard de Chardin, occur with a fantastic
    jump to a new horizon or level of perception. This insight usually
    comes from a revolutionary overview which realigns or transforms
    former thinking into a new and more enlightening frame
    of reference.
    This dovetails with his equally fascinating thesis that everything
    alive is really alive in the fullest and most dynamic sense
    of the word. It twitches, searches, throbs, organizes and seems
    aware of an upward movement. Twitches seems almost the right
    word, recalling to mind the myoclonisms of Wilhelm Reich's
    vegetotherapy which, at sometime, are infinitely disturbing to the
    patient on the couch who, because of them, feels he is falling
    apart, being shattered into a thousand pieces. He isn't really. It is
    as though the organism were gathering itself together for an
    upward or forward leap into the unknown, to a higher order of
    looking at things.
    The transition to a higher order of functioning—or hooking
    on to a higher neural circuit—is often accompanied by considerable
    anxiety or a turbulence in personal life which seems as if the
    organism were falling apart or breaking up. This phenomenon of
    instability is really the way that every living organism—societies,
    human primates, chemical solutions, etc.—shakes itself, as
    it were, by myoclonisms or similar convulsions into new combinations
    and permutations for higher and new levels of development.
    So perhaps the space-time Utopia of a new area of primate
    exploration has some validity after all, as indicating that the
    more vigorous the disturbance or myoclonism the greater the
    quantum jump into a higher neurological circuit. This is one
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    reason why I firmly believe that the transition to the next spiral
    will not be smooth nor without much suffering and chaos.
    All of which suggests, with Wilson and Leary, that the brain
    is considerably more sophisticated than any of us previously had
    imagined. It is quite possible that it operates in dimensions so
    beyond the lower neural circuitry that it occasionally "throws us
    a bone" every day so that we can continue to function in the
    make-believe world of everyday status quo. In the meantime, it
    is a multidimensional structure at ease in far more than the
    narrow primate world we have been programmed to live in. It
    may interpret waves and frequencies from other dimensions,
    realms of "light," of meaningful unrestricted patterned reality—
    that are here and now—and which transcend our present myopic
    tunnel realities of our rigid perceptions and conceptualizations of
    space and time.
    If so, then the title of this book Prometheus Rising is representative
    of more than a catchy title to a profound fascinating
    book. It becomes a title, instead, to the very attempt which we
    are now making to reach beyond ourselves with a quantum leap
    into a new world which has been envisaged only by a very few.
    Wilson is one of this group who are preparing themselves and if
    we allow them, the rest of us, to take our place in the New Aeon.
    I will