An Introduction to Leary’s 8 Circuit Brain Model
This all day workshop offers a playful introduction to self-exploration, self-assessment and transformative work, without having to adopt a cultural-spiritual paradigm.
We will explore the 8 Circuit Brain Model, devised by Dr. Timothy Leary, in an embodied way using a series of exercises, games and rituals for you to have a taste of direct experience with this map.
I find this model useful to understand how experiences of altered states affect personal transformation and where we need to focus our inner work, to integrate and remain balanced while engaging with explorations of altered states.
Who is this for?
If your rational mind has strong allergies against the notions of woo and magic, this might not be for you.
It is, if you have an affinity for consciousness exploration and like to play with altered states – either using psychedelics or practicing ritual and magick.
The rabbithole the work around this model offers, might be for you if you are looking for an approach to self-knowledge and expansion, that empowers you to be your own “spiritual authority”… and you are open to fringe philosophers with a sense of humor to give you pointers without selling you ontological paradigms.
What will you get out of this?
An embodied experience of this model downloaded into your system to play, adapt and further explore different dimensions of experience available to the human nervous system so you can map your consciousness explorations on your own terms.
You will receive insights in how to approach psychonautic exploration in a balanced manner and how the integration process can work for you.
You might come out with a sense of expansion and new perspectives for looking at yourself and how your nervous system shapes the way you experience reality.
You might have some “A-ha” moments and “Revelations” and experience some shifts in how you approach the world and life.
And you will have a lot of fun!
The Flow
The journey is designed as a quick run through of the 8 levels of consciousness, with rapid shifts between different spaces.
Over a series of 8 experiments, practices, games and rituals where we will explore safety, territoriality, cognition, belonging, play, intuition, magick and impermanence.This workshop includes physical movement and proximity as well as touch and space for vulnerable sharings.
Flow for the Day:
- 11:15 Doors Open – Arrival
- 11:30 Introduction to the 8 Circuit Brain Model (Lecture)
- 12:30 Circuit 1: Safety and Co-Regulation (Exercise)
- 13:00 Circuit 2: Territorial Response – Monkey Business (Play)
- 13:30 Break
- 13:45 Circuit 3: Mind Twist with E-Prime (Exercise)
- 14:30 Circuit 4: Embodied Values Compass (Ritual)
- 15: 15 Lunch Break
- 15:45 Circuit 5: Presence and Play (Play)
- 16:45 Circuit 6: Creating Possibilities (Ritual)
- 17:30 Break
- 17:45 Circuit 7: Engaging with Archetypal Forces (Ritual)
- 18:30 Break
- 18:45: Circuit 8: Embracing impermanence: Death Meditation (Ritual)
- 19:30 Integration Circle
- 20:30 End and Chill Out
How to prepare
- Do not take any consciousness altering substances. If possible, also not the day before.We want to feel how our system responds and opens throughout this journey.
- Have a light, protein rich breakfast and prepare some healthy snacks for yourself. Bring a bottle of water that can be closed to properly hydrate.
- Wear something you would feel comfortable in doing some physical warm up. If you feel the call, you can bring a second outfit, that makes you feel more magical.
- Bring a journal to take notes and put down reflections from what is coming up for you.Come with curiosity, an open mind and ready to play.
Pricing:
Monk: Navigating tight money flow : 42
Master: I am on top of my money flow: 55
Magickian: I can create abundant money flow: 77
COVID: Please come tested. No matter what kind of G you have as status.
This workshop can take place in German, should only german speaking participants apply.
Mariana Pinzón works as a transformational coach and offers her coaching space and skills for psychonauts to do integration work, recalibrate their system and dive deeper into the quest of self-discovery. She assists Solar Punk Visionaries to ground and embody their vision to be the change they want to see in the world and holds space for chaotic edge-dwellers to balance order and disorder so they may increase response-ability to surf the waves of chaos.
She offers individual coaching journeys with cacao to explore shadows and patterns in an open hearted and compassionate space and to enhance our communication and commitment to the inner child.
She practices Chaos Magick as a path of liberation and illumination and has an academic background in Comparative Religion and Philosophy as well as in political work regarding the separation of church and state and the re-legalization of Cannabis.
In her coaching sessions she applies her Training with Animas Center for Coaching and mixes it up with playful elements from Possibility Management and Chaos Magick.
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To learn more about Mariana’s take on the 8 CB Model and her work, please visit the website
https://chaorsurfing.rocks/chaosophy For updates and information about upcoming events and offerings, please join the @ChaoSurfing Telegram channel: t.me/chaosurfing
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ABOUT THE 8 CIRCUIT BRAIN MODEL
This model was devised by Dr. Timothy Leary and further developed by Robert Anton Wilson and Antero Alli. It is another map for self-assessment and different levels of personal and transpersonal consciousness that works without the determinism of place and time of birth unlike maps like astrology or human design.It maps psychological and spiritual development in a paradigm neutral lingo applying tenants from developmental psychology, evolutionary neurobiology, general semantics and maybe logic. It allows for an understanding how our Central Nervous System wires throughout stages of development and how altered states of consciousness function as catalyst for evolution in our personal wiring, if we manage to absorb and integrate the shocks and how they can create states of disbalance and dysregulation if we fail to do so.
