from Robert Anton Wilson's "Eightfold Model of Human Consciousness"

[andrewducker]

1. The biosurvival
Winner: "I will live forever or die trying."
Loser: "I don't know how to defend myself."

2. The emotional-territorial

Winner: "I am free; you are free; we can have our separate trips or we can have the same trip."
Loser: "They all intimidate me."

3. The semantic

Winner: "I am learning more about everything, including how to learn more."
Loser: "I can't solve my problems."

4. The sociosexual

Winner: "Love, and do what thou wilt." (Anon. of Ibid)
Loser: "Everything I like is illegal, immoral, or fattening."

5. The neurosomatic

Winner: "How I feel depends on my neurological knowhow."
Loser: "I can't help the way I feel."

6. The metaprogramming

Winner: "I make my own coincidences, synchronicities, luck, and Destiny."
Loser: "Why do I have such lousy luck?"

7. The neurogenetic

Winner: "Future evolution depends on my decisions now."
Loser: "Evolution is blind and impersonal."

8. The neuroatomic

Winner: "In the province of the mind, what is believed to be true is true, or becomes true within certain limits to be learned by experience and experiment." (Dr.John Lilly)
Loser: "I am not psychic, and I doubt anyone is."

Not that I believe any of this stuff.

Of course.

Comments

Re: Belief

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

'Course there is the idea that believing in this would be similar to believing in the tree outside my window.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Winner: "I feel the need to elaborate so much about the reasons for my success because they provide such fine examples for others."

Loser: "Yeah, right."

[dragonscholar.livejournal.com]

Ah, RAW. Actually, Leary came up with those, RAW expanded on them.