8-Circuit Model of Consciousness

The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness discusses a theory about some but not all of the differing levels of consciousness available to an entity that has some sentience in its environment. It appears that psychologist and psychedelic drug advocate Timothy Leary may have introduced the idea to the western world. Although there are rumors in some circles (according to an interview conducted by Anterio Alli on a NLP Radical Change Group Podcast) that Leary may have received the basic idea for this system from an anthropologist. The 8 Circuit model seems to provide a conglomerate model of a series of preceding and interconnecting models within some of the human and medical sciences such as Psychology, Neurology, Sociology, Anthropology etc. and other more “harder sciences”, I.e. Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics. With this, it seems that Timothy Leary created his umbrella model in which others have expanded and philosophized upon. This model, as an umbrella model discusses how a mind or brain may work as a collection of 8 Neurological “circuits” within an entity with a Nervous System.