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The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness
The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness is a speculative framework developed by Timothy Leary and expanded by Robert Anton Wilson, blending psychology, psychedelics, cybernetics, and mysticism. Originating in the 1970s counterculture, the model describes human consciousness as layered circuitry—four terrestrial circuits governing survival and social conditioning, and four higher circuits associated with altered states, metaprogramming, ancestral…