Prometheus Rising exercise and discussion group, episode 67, Chapter 11

By Eric Wagner
Special guest blogger

In the Hilaritas edition of Prometheus Rising it says: 

The avant-garde 20% of the population, due to the Consciousness Movement (a secularization of much ancient shamanic wisdom), already understands every “wild” idea in the last few pages. They have had enough neurosomatic experience to know that they were once totally robotized (as most people still are) and are knowingly engaged in acquiring more neurosomatic know-how. When this reaches 51% of the population, a major historical revolution will have occurred, as profound as the Life Extension Revolution.* 

 * Please re-read this sentence, and think about it. 

(pg. 166-167) 

This passage becomes a strange loop, telling the reader to re-read “this sentence” over and over again, as well one should. Speaking of the Life Extension Revolution, I find interesting how many people in 2022 still consider death inevitable. Also, the phrase “neurosomatic know how” appeared earlier in Wilson’s “8 Basic Winner and Loser Scripts” from The Illuminati Papers: 

(For circuit 6, “Luck, synchronicities, and destiny” makes a more interesting acronym.) 

A couple of paragraphs later Wilson says,  

Everybody “knows” that the Sixth Symphony is “pantheistic,” but whether Beethoven was an ideological pantheist or not, that way of responding to nature is normal and natural right-brain Circuit V functioning. That is, anybody on the Fifth Circuit will “talk like a pantheist” whether or not he has developed a “philosophy” about pantheism. 

(pg. 167) 

I find it interesting that many people have accused Ibn ‘Arabi of pantheism. At the end of this chapter Wilson tells the reader to “Attend a Sufi week-end seminar.” I have taken a few online Ibn ‘Arabi classes, and last month I had a virtual “Sufi week-end seminar” which included an online Dhikr and an online Ibn ‘Arabi study group as well as reading some Ibn ‘Arabi on my own. Perhaps my whole life has become a virtual Sufi week-end seminar. 

 

On page 171 Wilson quotes Scottish psychiatrist Ian Suttie, “The physician’s love heals the patient.” I have taught many children of doctors in high school classes. Some of them have suggested that money means happiness. Perhaps “The physician’s love of money heals the patient.” (No, Eric, that sounds bitter. I have met many physicians that I like and respect.) 

 

On page 172 Wilson quotes Ezra Pound. I started read Pound because of Bob Wilson's writings. I bought ABC of Reading in either 1982 or 1983. I enjoyed the beginning of it, but I put it down when he started quoting Chaucer in Middle English which I didn’t understand. In the summer of 1983 I got Pound's Guide to Kulchur out of the library, and reading that made me fall in love with Pound's writing. I read him voraciously, becoming horrified by his fascism. I would stop reading him for a while, but then I would return to him, learn more and become horrified again, and stop reading him for a while. In the first few years of the current century I taught the whole Cantos three years in a row. Each time I said I would never do it again. I found it exhausting but very rewarding. I haven't read much of him since then, although I did use the anthology he edited, Confucius to Cummings, for about twelve college courses, and I used ABC of Reading for a creative writing class. 

Wilson discusses marijuana in this chapter. I find it interesting that California legalized recreational pot in the same November 2016 election that saw the election of Donald Trump. I have not noticed much change in California since this legalization except for the presence of pot billboards along the freeways.