Robert Anton Wilson explains our favorite model of human consciousness

The audio files below are the relevant excerpts of the original, extensive, taped interview with Robert Anton Wilson. They are each sides of a tape and about 45 minutes long, and together are the third session of the famous “Sounds True” interview. On this tape Wilson talks about how he got into thinking about these topics in the first place and then famously describes Timothy Leary’s Eight Circuit Model of Human Consciousness. Leary is quoted … >> read more

An answer to life, the universe and everything.

I’ve spent six weeks in Auroville, India, an honest to goodness attempt at a utopian community, a “town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity.”

Supramental descent
Supramental descent. Drawing by Marc Ngui.

Auroville’s ideals are based on the consciousness evolution ideas of Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950). Aurobindo’s life work is a compelling synthesis of the modern ideas of evolution with Vedantic models of spirituality and existence.

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