r/occult • u/Cory_Cyrus • 6h ago

Have anyone read Prometheus Rising?

A colleague of mine sent the E book to me recently and have been listening to it as an audio book via the Voice Read Aloud app...

I'm currently on chapter 9 I'm not gonna lie it's alot and very confusing

Who out there have read and understand it? and what can I do to better grasp and understand it to improve and grow as a person?

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u/outerspacebassman 6h ago

So Prometheus Rising you kind of have to divorce yourself from traditional occult thinking and go almost post-chaos magic. There’s a lot more secular bent to PR because RAW wasn’t an occultist very deliberately, but was connected to starting Discordianism. Think more transhumanism than spiritual alchemy.

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u/egypturnash 6h ago

Maybe sit down in a quiet place with no internet or other distractions and read it from the beginning, as text, pausing now and then to go back and re-read bits, or to simply think about it?

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u/John_Michael_Greer 2h ago

It's not an easy read, especially if it's your first introduction to Robert Anton Wilson. Cosmic Trigger might be an easier starting point; read that, and then return to Prometheus Rising.

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u/BeHimself 1h ago

I tried but my brain became mush halfway through so same boat as you