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OPEN SECRETS:
Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising

6 Week Course
Sept 8 - Oct 19

In his writings, Bob Wilson pointed to Prometheus Rising over and over again as a practical handbook for self-directed change of the mind/body system. This class will emphasize doing as many of the exercises from this book as possible during a six week period as well as closely reading the text. Bob designed the exercises to weaken the existing imprints and to help the experimenter become a self-metaprogrammer, reimprinting the nervous system as each individual sees fit. In addition this class will explore alternatives to the eight circuit/system/dimension model. Please join Eric Wagner on this six week mission, to explore strange new worlds and new civilizations, both within and without ourselves, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Text: Prometheus Rising, Revised Second Edition, 1997. If you own an older edition, you can use that, but I highly recommend the revised second edition. I think Bob substantially improved the text based on the evolution of his own consciousness and use of language between 1982 and 1997.

Week One Introductions and the plotting of a revolution, etc.
Circuit/System/Dimension One.Values
Reading: Acknowledgments, Preface to the Second Edition, Introduction, Chapters 1 – 3.
Play with the exercises from Chapters 1 – 3.

Week Two - Circuit/System/Dimension Two and Three.
Reading: Chapters 4 – 6.
Play with the exercises from Chapters 1 – 6.

Week Three - Circuit/System/Dimension Four.
Reading: Chapters 7 – 8.
Play with the exercises from Chapters 1 – 8.

Week Four - Circuit/System/Dimension Five.
Reading: Chapters 9 – 11.
Play with the exercises from Chapters 1 – 11.

Week Five - Circuit/System/Dimension Six and/or Seven – The Great Debate.
Bob Wilson and Timothy Leary went back and forth evaluating the nature of these two circuits. We will look at their models and see how they fit in with our experiences.
Reading: Chapters 14 -15
Play with the exercises from Chapters 1 – 15.

Week Six - Circuit/System/Dimension Eight and/or
Alternatives to the Eight Circuit Model – New Models of the Brain/Mind System.
(The fourth movement to Beethoven’s Ninth begins playing, preferably the version Furtwängler conducted in March of 1942.)
Reading: Chapters 16 – 19, Appendix.
Play with the exercises from Chapters 1 – 19.


- Eric Wagner BIO

Born in 1962 in Washington, D.C. to two former NSA computer programmers. Eric and his family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in November, 1967 C.E. In 1982 C.E. he began reading Robert Anton Wilson's books, and in 1986 the two began corresponding. In the years since Eric began reading Wilson, he has traveled from Ingolstadt, Bavaria, to Aswan, Egypt, from Country Kerry, Ireland, to Honolulu, Hawaii, attempting to understand the ideas behind Wilson's works. Eric has worked as a computer programmer, operator and microcoder, a musician, a poet, a technical writer, a dancer, a film historian and a teacher, etc. His first book, An Insider’s Guide to Robert Anton Wilson, came out in 1985 C.E.

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