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Angel Tech : A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection

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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.

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.

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.

Antero Alli sums up the key points of modern paganism and shamanism interlacing it with beautifully worded excursions into psychology and sociology of everyday life. All the thoughts that I would quietly have to myself, not daring to ask or discuss them with anyone else -- these are discussed at length in the book. Every chapter is a small revelation. The topics are presented so lightly and elegantly that I read through it effortlessly, realising at the end that this book has as much fundamentals as the Bible, the difference being only in size and language. The after-effect has been tremendous -- at my job, my personal life, my music (I am a musician), and even my health. Thank you!

This book really does tie together many different systems and bring some great fundamental understandings to the reader. It's about understanding your biology, and then directing it. I dropped a star from my rating because this book fails in the same place where all the other shamanistic books do: the meditations. I don't know how many people have psychic sight, but some of the meditations involve heavy visualizations that require this (which is probably helped tremendously by some form of psychedelics). This book is sitting on my bookshelf and I'm thankful for the knowledge it brings, but it'll sit up there because it doesn't bring any new actions to my style besides a way of thinking

Facilitating greater communication between right and left hemispheres of the brain, while at the same time assisting in the expansion of their creative development, this is a rip-roaring rollercoaster through the very essence of what makes us human, taking us high on the edge of our devilishly crafted structures - the initial feeling of peril being replace, or perhaps refined, into wicked-dangerous-fun - and showing us a glimpse of what lies beyond.

This book is like horseradish sauce to my surloin steak, cranberry to my vodka, and a skeleton key to the limitless expression of the multiple personalities i have for so long tried to keep locked in the basement.

Taking as its foundation Timothy Learys 8 circuit model of the brain, a psychological model based on the law of octaves, it explores the connections between mind, body and the universe (our environment), utilising the ancient technologies and devices inherent in tarot, alchemy, the Hindu Chakra body and other systems in order to discover a deeper sense of freedom and more creative ways of interACTing with our world.

Its a no non-sense, uncensored exploration through deep space, covering ground usually reserved for the intellectual elites of NASA and James Bond.

Included in these simple, de-gargoned instructions for crafting your own reality and maintaining your spaceship are enlightening excercises and lots of fun pictures. One point I have to make is that Antero has crafted this book like a chef, taking all the readily available ingredients (such as well known models of the psyche) and preparing them with experience, skill and a passion for fine dining. Rather than a collection of old techniques regurgitated for a quick profit, it is an exquisite 8 course meal served at the five star hotel of your mind.

I began reading this book over a year ago. I am still reading it.

This book is so dense with useful information, I move at the pace of about one paragraph per day. Literally.

Obviously, each word seems to have been chosen just right to communicate meaning.

Words cannot express how much I have learned from using the exercises and information in this book.

LOOK NO FURTHER FOR A LIFE-CHANGING BOOK. BUY IT NOW!

antero alli's "modern shaman's guide" is brilliant; an extraordinarily useful tool for personal growth and exploration. the world is a more logical and fun place to be once you understand antero's eight circuit nervous system "owner's manual". tim leary's "infopsychology" and robert anton wilson's "prometheus rising" compliment this book really well.

I got this book looking for something similar to Robert Anton Wilson's "Prometheus Rising", also based on Timothy Leary's 8-circuit model of consciousness. Well, in the introduction RAW said that "those who want to talk about mystical matters without first-hand experience will find Antero's realism a bit disconcerting": the only thing I actually found disconcerting was not his realism, but his writing style. It appears very plain (forget the neurolinguistic nested loop and the other stylish structures that RAW accustomed us to) and mixed up with what seems to me occultish and new-age jargon. Even if I found some passage of this book interesting (expecially some explanation of the upper grades of consciousness and some exercizes), most of it seems to me still unaccessible. In particular, the chapter about the "Chapel Perilous", stated by another Amazon reviewer as the part he considered the most enlightening, sounded me as absolutely meaningless. Please note that I have nearly no knowledge about mystical matters, I tried sometimes to read something by Aleister Crowley and found it totally unreadable for me. On top on that, reading Wilson's "Quantum Psychology" made me somehow "allergic" to excessive definition -- the wide use of the word "is" in sentences (search "E-Prime" with Google if you don't what I mean). Too often during the whole book, Alli writes about abstract stuff giving definition I simply couldn't get. I raccomand this only if you already are accustomed to readings like the New Falcon Publications' titles, or you may find it quite hard to digest. I actually wanted to rate it 2 stars, but I gave it one more just because I think it would better fit readers different by me.

I don't know what I was thinking buying this book. What an absolute mistake. I have spent the last four years exploring my inner self at one and in peace with the new age movement, harmonious and royally uptight. Man this book has screwed me on all fronts. Never again will I be the same, now after reading and performing this book I am forced to think for myself. I am busying myself aspiring for maximum density, and attempting to create maps throughout my scrammbled egg of a brain.
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