"Wilson, Robert Anton - Prometheus Rising" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wilson Robert Anton)

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 close with a quote from Wilson,

We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch. Unleashing our full statureЧour total brain powerЧis what this book is all about.

Israel Regardie

Phoenix Arizona

July 1983











WARNING

Wilson describes himself as a 'guerrilla ontologist,' signifying his intent to attack language and knowledge the way terrorists attack their targets: to jump out from the shadows for an unprovoked attack, then slink back and hide behind a hearty belly laugh.

Ч Robert Sheaffer, The Skeptical Inquirer

CHAPTER ONE

THE THINKER & THE PROVER

All that we are is the result of all that we have thought. It is founded on thought. It is based on thought.

Ч Buddha, The Dhammapada

William James, father of American psychology, tells of meeting an old lady who told him the Earth rested on the back of a huge turtle.

"But, my dear lady," Professor James asked, as politely as possible, "what holds up the turtle?"

"Ah," she said, "that's easy. He is standing on the back of another turtle."

"Oh, I see," said Professor James, still being polite. "But would you be so good as to tell me what holds up the second turtle?"

"It's no use, Professor," said the old lady, realizing he was trying to lead her into a logical trap. "It's turtles-turtles-turtles, all the way!"

Don't be too quick to laugh at this little old lady. All human minds work on fundamentally similar principles. Her universe was a little bit weirder than most but it was built up on the same mental principles as every other universe people have believed in.

As Dr. Leonard Orr has noted, the human mind behaves as if it were divided into two parts, the Thinker and the Prover.