Angel Tech: A Modern Shamans Guide to Reality Selection [Paperback]

Antero Alli (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1991

Angel Tech is a guide for the realization of the Multidimensional Self. The great neurological scripts of the past are synthesized and modernized for our day: Tarot, Cabala, Alchemy, the Hindu Chakra System and more are all made accessible and understandable.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A witty, rollicking, wise rendition of the stages of evolution. Alli is a frontier scout for the species. --Timothy Leary, Ph.D., author of Info-Psychology

Funny and brain-changing. Should this book be sold only by prescription?? --Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D., author of Undoing Yourself

A refreshing absence of cant, pomposity and mystification. --Robert Anton Wilson, Ph.D., author of Cosmic Trigger

About the Author

Antero Alli is a freelance ritualist who maintains a private astrological practice. He also designs Tarot Cards and performs inter-media theater pieces. He is also the author of A Modern Shaman's Guide to a Pregnant Universe and The Akashic Record Player.

Product Details

• Paperback: 251 pages
• Publisher: New Falcon Publications (January 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561840092
• ISBN-13: 978-1561840090
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #428,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magic theatre: Not For Everybody, January 17, 2004

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This review is from: Angel Tech: A Modern Shamans Guide to Reality Selection (Paperback)

Not exactly a self help book or a metaphysical treatise, Angel Tech is (in its own words), "a survival manual for fallen angels who are through with their frozen responses to the nightmares around us." Several sentences later, it instructs us to: "fly higher, plant both feet firmly in the ground... ground." The title is somewhat deceptive, also, because Angel Tech isn't about angels per se; at least not the kind painted by artists and described in the bible. To once again quote the text, "An angel is a being of Light. Tech comes from techne, meaning art or skill. Angel Tech is the Art of Being Light... We are in essence, beings of light."

Alli has taken it upon himself to redefine common terminology as well as make up words of his own to describe his psychic journey. This journey traverses through the Law of Octaves and Overtones translated into eight evolving functions of One Intelligence. Its destination is the awesome task of Intelligence Increase. The format of the law of eights is as old as the Sufi Mystery Schools and vigorous enough to attract Gurdjieff himself to wrestle with. More recently, the rascal guru Timothy Leary picked it up and wrote his opus, Exo Psychology (also out of print), one of the source books for Angel Tech. What sets Angel Tech apart from other interpretations of this eightfold system is its comedic brilliance and some hysterically wicked illustrations. Also conspicuously absent is the kind of dogma that almost always accompanies subject matter like this. (The author constantly reminds us that the book is a map and not the territory itself, and that we, the readers, must make our own maps as fast as we absorb information in order to minimize psychic constipation.)

This book is not for everybody. Consider the section entitled Karma Mechanics which is "a course of study best suited for self-realizing robots." Who's going to admit to their robot hood? Gurdjieff and his kind certainly did but not without a lot of work. Further into this section is another called Mechanical Problems which, with painstaking detail, explores the symptoms, causes and necessary adjustments for "robots run amok"... in laymen's terms, the process of fixing broken people. Despite the rather dense reading in this section, Alli did manage to pull me through with his humor, which at times, is ruthless. For the uninitiated neophyte, Fred Mertz (remember, from the I love Lucy show?) has resurrected to the spiritual status of Bodhisattva for the purpose of transmitting his compassion through the "neuroelectronic medium of television in the reruns..." If Fred Mertz is a New Age Avatar, then I'm the pope. And in some parallel universe, I probably am.

Sometimes, this book rides the edge between redundancy and instructive repetition with the hopes of driving its point home. This point seems to be self-responsibility and the need to define oneself or be defined by others. Alli takes for granted that readers already understand that they create their own reality, so there's not much schooling on this (read the Seth books). It is, perhaps, for this reason that the audience for Angel Tech will remain limited to those currently designing their own program. In this way, Angel Tech is even elitist. It refuses to try and reach everybody. However, the people it will touch will be richer for it due to Alli's lack of compromise. It's not an entirely inaccessible book yet it's based on a rather radical assumption. It fails to recognize the split between Lower and Higher Selves that most metaphysical books all but deify. My guess is that Alli is something of an anarchist who found his way into the system. His passion for annihilating hierarchy for the purpose of demystifying higher intelligence is hard to ignore.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A field guide for shattering paradigms., April 16, 2006

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This review is from: Angel Tech: A Modern Shamans Guide to Reality Selection (Paperback)

This book rocked my world as much as RAW did when I first started reading him. There seem to be only three scholars of the 8 Circuit Model: Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and Antero Alli. While the former provided me with the theoretical basics, it was the first time I came across the practical exercizes. Alli mainly focuses on the experience for his readers, so you do not need any theoretical background nor do you need to believe anything. Don't expect any new age mumbo-jumbo: this book is about trying things out for yourself and note what happens. The only need for things to happen is commitment. And if the 8CM is unknown to you, rest assured that you'll find many connections with kabballah, chakras, I King, Alchemy, Tarot, astrology, etc. whatever your current paradigm is; but also with quantum theory, general semantics etc.
The more I read into this book, the more I discover how this model works out for me as a meta-map for other systems.
One of my top ten books in my library.

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is an amazing guide into ritual., October 14, 1998

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This review is from: Angel Tech: A Modern Shamans Guide to Reality Selection (Paperback)

I used this book to perform the first ritual I ever did. Armed only with the exercises in this book I successfully manifested Deity in a circle. It was a beautiful and transformative experience. This book is excellent for focusing and directing intent. I highly recommend it.