~ 8 Circuit brain oracle ~
The 8 Circuit Brain Oracle deck & immersive, interactive art installation were offered during Sou’Wester Arts Week 2023 @ Cape Disappointment, WA
Based on a 64 card deck Kodi Crone created as part of a course taught by Antero Alli, the 8 Circuit Brain Oracle aids querents in reaching higher planes of consciousness and contemplating bardo realms.
The immersive and interactive, brainwave driven installation explored and questioned the possibility of expanding on previously held beliefs about reality through electronic means.
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This piece draws on the 8 Circuit Brain model popularized in the West by Timothy Leary in the 1960s. The model was developed as a way to track the evolution of human consciousness through the history of the species.
The model involves 8 conceptual ‘circuits’, evolving from bodily to emotional, cognitive and tribal intelligence (circuits 1 through 4) into experiences of pleasure, meta programming, numinous entities and non-locality (circuits 5-8).
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The 8 Circuit Brain Oracle aims to further develop the earlier model, adding feminine energy to a model that, as Leary stated, is based on “the vital energy (that) is located in the woman (...) as a soft-yielding battery of (cosmic) power.”
Yet the model has so far mostly been presented by males including Robert Anton Wilson, Antero Alli, Georges I. Gurdjieff and, of course, Leary himself.
During the Oracle installation, circuits were selected and deselected as a result of participants’ brainwaves.
Making subconscious selections, querents become aware of the Oracle cards’ effects and sound design on their thought patterns and expanding perspectives of reality.
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Brain circuits were clustered and routed to 4 projectors, with brain waves driving percentages of visibility of certain cards and circuits over others.
Participants described the experience as reminiscent of
a ketamine encounter.
The soundscapes for this piece were inspired by the Greek-Armenian philosopher Georges I. Gurdjieff, who taught an early iteration of the Eight Circuit Brain model drawing on his Law of Octaves at the beginning of the 20th century.
The original Oracle card deck was created while participating in an inspiring 8 Circuit Brain course annually taught by the late Antero Alli.