Does Altitude/Spiral Dynamics correlate with Timothy Leary 8-Circuit Model??
I have been re-reading an old book by Robert Anton Wilson called Prometheus Rising, where he speaks to Timothy Leary’s 8 Circuit Model of the brain. I can’t help but suspect a correlation between this model and the altitude model. I thought it would be a fun expirement to put them side by side and see what happens. I have merely copied and pasted other sources to form a table. The altitude excerpts were snipped from ii-zaadz, and the 8-circuit excerpts were snipped from wikipedia. Infrared (archaic—a proto 1st-person perspective): infrared Altitude signifies a degree of development that is in many ways imbedded in nature, body, and the gross realm in general. Infrared Altitude exhibits an archaic worldview, physiological needs (food, water, shelter, etc.), a self-sense that is minimally differentiated from its environment, and is in nearly all ways oriented towards physical survival. Although present in infants, infrared is rarely seen in adults except in cases of famine, natural disas
