Background
Wilson, Robert Anton was born on January 18, 1932 in Brooklyn. Son of John Joseph and Elizabeth Loretta (Milli) Wilson.
(Dort beginnend, wo der Cosmic Trigger I endet, führt Wils...)
Dort beginnend, wo der Cosmic Trigger I endet, führt Wilson die bewusstseinserweiternden Synchronizitäten seines Lebens fort, die seit der Publikation des ersten Teils geschahen, und offenbart dabei die Geheimnisse der Mafia, der CIA, des LSD´s, der Evolutionstheorien, der Hollywoodstars, der Anal-Erotik des Weißen Hauses, des Hundekastrierers von Palm Springs und erläutert die Ursachen und den Heilungsverfahren für die Menstruation. In einem außergewöhnlichen Potpourie kombiniert dieser zweite Teil Humor mit Wissenschaft und verwebt so Logik und Zen-ähnliche Koans, um eine höhere Bedeutungsstruktur zu erzeugen. Auf dem Höhepunkt Wilsons erzählerischen Schaffens wird so alles Metapher, alles Witz und bekommt alles Bedeutung.
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(Forewords by David Cherubim and Timothy Leary. "Cosmic...)
Forewords by David Cherubim and Timothy Leary. "Cosmic Trigger deals with a process of deliberately induced brain change. This process is called 'initiation' or 'vision quest' in many traditional societies and can loosely be considered some dangerous variety of self-psychotherapy in modern terminology. I do not recommend it for everybody. The main thing I learned in my experiments is that 'reality' is always plural and mutable." -- Robert Anton Wilson, Preface, Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati "There are and have been various secret and not-so-secret groups using the name Illuminati within their ranks, including the Rosicrucians and Freemasons, but perhaps this is only symbolic of something within, a visible sign of an invisible grace; and as such it can easily mislead the foolish, but it can also guide the wise, just like an earthy and temporary Temple, which the wise discern to be but a symbol of the spiritual and eternal Temple within. This idea may also extend to the Order of the Illuminati founded in the outer world by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. In Occult Philosophy, the outer world is here to teach us about the inner world of the Spirit. The temporal (or finite) is intended to indicate the eternal (or infinite). Illusions exist to reveal the truth, not to deceive or blind us. So, to cut to the chase, the Illuminati are (at least among the intelligent and informed) a Spiritual Order of Illuminated Souls, an Invisible Circle of Enlightened Spirits or, in the language of the Golden Dawn, they are the Secret Chiefs of the Third Order of the Silver Star (Astrum Argentum). This Order is truly secret, esoteric, or occult; for it is not without, but within; that is, it is in the Inmost Sanctuary of the Soul. Its members are invisible Beings of Light, so to speak, but who can, and do, incarnate in this visible crazy circle of human humdrum existence when it is essential for them to do so. In the midst of this loopy wheel of existence there exists an axle of various Outer Orders (which are really one in essence) that emanate from the spiritual Illuminati through their inner work upon the minds of initiated Adepts who are chosen by them to fulfill their sublime work in the world of men and women. Through these Adepts, the spiritual Illuminati accomplish their Great Work in the world, which is to initiate and illuminate mankind." -- David Cherubim, Foreword, Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati "Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don't know you're a member until it's too late to get out." -- Robert Anton Wilson
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(This book can be considered a "scholarly" appraisal of bo...)
This book can be considered a "scholarly" appraisal of both the historical and modern use (and misuse) of drugs in conjunction with sex and "occult" practices. But don't let the word "scholarly" put you off. Done in Wilson's inimitable style, this is a book filled with humor, cynicism, wonder and essential information for those who would pursue what can be an immensely rewarding path, potholed with an array of social and physical dangers.
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: The Earth Will Shake Author: Wilson, Robert Anton Publisher: New Falcon Pubns Publication Date: 2004/06/01 Number of Pages: 369 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress:
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( Is history a vast conspiracy? A cosmic joke? Discover t...)
Is history a vast conspiracy? A cosmic joke? Discover the truth - maybe - in the long-awaited new edition of Robert Anton Wilson's classic cult bestseller The Illuminati Papers. Created as a vehicle to amuse and enlighten, the story of the Illuminati has attracted devoted readers world-wide, who have found in it a perfect metaphor for our times. This edition has a new introduction, cover and layout.
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(This, the long-awaited third volume of the Cosmic Trigger...)
This, the long-awaited third volume of the Cosmic Trigger series, includes Wilson's witty and humorous observations about the widely spread (and, happily, premature) announcement of his demise. And, of course, what Wilson masterpiece would be complete without synchronicities, religious fanatics, UFOs, crop circles, paranoia, pompous scientists, secret societies, high tech, black magic, quantum physics, hoaxes (real and fake), Orson Welles, James Joyce, Carl Sagan, Madonna, and The Vagina of Nuit.
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(While this, the second volume of the Cosmic Trigger trilo...)
While this, the second volume of the Cosmic Trigger trilogy, continues along the path set by the original Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati, it also stands solidly on its own. Any reader with an open mind and a sense of humor cannot help but be entertained and enlightened while following Wilson's explorations into such subjects as the future of cyberspace; the peculiarities of Irish jurisprudence; links among the Mafia, the CIA and the Catholic Church; anal-eroticism in The White House; the Dog Castrator of Palm Springs; and many more observations from his infinitely fertile brain.
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(The great psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich once wrote, "No Pres...)
The great psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich once wrote, "No President, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or power to decide what will be the knowledge of tomorrow." In 1957, the government of the United States of America jailed Dr. Reich and burned all of his published works. Wilhelm Reich in Hell provides a remarkable new look at the vilification and destruction of a great man who refused to bow to Gestapo tactics.
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(From the date of first printing to the present, I have re...)
From the date of first printing to the present, I have received more mail about Cosmic Trigger than about anything else I ever wrote, and most of the mail has been unusually intelligent and open-minded. For some reason, many readers of this book think they can write me intimately and without fear, about subject officially Taboo in our society....The new edition presents an opportunity to answer the most frequent questions and to correct the most persistent misunderstandings. It should be obvious to all intelligent readers (but curiously is not obvious to many) that my viewpoint in this book of one of agnosticism. The word "agnostic" appears explicitly in the Prologue and the agnostic attitude is restated again and again in the text, but many people still think I "believe" some of the metaphors and models employed here. I therefore want to make it even clearer than ever before that I DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING .... Cosmic Trigger deals with a process of deliberately induced brain change through which I put myself in the years 1962-76. This process is called "initiation" or "vision quest" in many traditional societies and can loosely be considered some dangerous variety of self-psychotherapy in modern terminology. I do not recommend it for everybody, and I think I obtained more good results than bad ones chiefly because I had been through two varieties of ordinary psychotherapy before I started my own adventures and because I had a good background in scientific philosophy and was not inclined to "believe" any astounding Revelations too literally. Briefly, the main thing I learned in my experiments is that "reality" is always plural and mutable. --- excerpts from Preface to the New Edition
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Imagine trying to make sense of an amalgam of Timothy Leary's eight neurological circuits, G.I. Gurdjieff's self-observation exercises, Alfred Korzybski's general semantics, Aleister Crowley's magical theorems, and the several disciplines of Yoga; not to mention Christian Science, relativity, quantum mechanics, and many other approaches to understanding the world around us. That is exactly what Robert Anton Wilson does in Prometheus Rising. In short, this is a book about how the human mind works and what you can do to make the most of yours.
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(They have been with us all through history: The "Invisibl...)
They have been with us all through history: The "Invisible College" of wisdom, and their adversaries--the destroyers--who rise from the flames to burn again. The history of the world is their story: a conspiracy as vast and all-encompassing as the riddle of time itself. In Naples, Italy, in 1764, a young aristocrat is about to stumble onto one piece of the great pattern. Through a heartless murder and his passion for the beautiful daughter of his enemy, young Sigismundo Celine uncovers the mystery of the Rossi brigade, former M.A.F.I.A. assassins, and the secret agenda of the dreaded Inquisition. In the wind of the raging social storm that will soon tear through Europe and America with the flame of revolution, Sigismundo begins his journey of discovery, joined by the boy Mozart, Dr. Frankenstein, Casanova the spy, lover and magician...and a mysterious violet-eyed assassin who calls him "brother." Join him. The journey has just begun.
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(Is history a vast conspiracy? A cosmic joke? Discover the...)
Is history a vast conspiracy? A cosmic joke? Discover the truth - maybe - in the long-awaited new edition of Robert Anton Wilson's classic cult bestseller The Illuminati Papers. Created as a vehicle to amuse and enlighten, the story of the Illuminati has attracted devoted readers world-wide, who have found in it a perfect metaphor for our times. This edition has a new introduction, cover and layout.
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(This book speaks of a New Inquisition, a New Idol and a N...)
This book speaks of a New Inquisition, a New Idol and a New Agnosticism. By the New Inquisition I mean to designate certain habits of repression and intimidation that are becoming increasingly commonplace in the scientific community today. By New Idol I mean to designate the rigid beliefs that form the ideological superstructure of the New Inquisition. By the New Agnosticism I mean to designate an attitude of mind which has elsewhere been called "model agnosticism" and which applies the agnostic principle not just to the "God" concept but to ideas of all sorts in all areas of thoughts and ideology. The agnostic principle refuses total belief or total denial and regards models as tools to be used only and always where appropriate and replaced (by other models) only and always where not appropriate. It does not regard any models, or any class of models, as more "profound" than any other models, or any class of models but asks only how a model serves, or fails to serve, those who use it. The agnostic principle is intended here in a broad "humanistic" or "existential" sense, and is not intended to be narrowly technical or philosophical only. This book is deliberately polemical because I believe models, as tools, should be tested in that kind of combat which Nietzsche metaphorically called "war" and Marx called dialectical struggle. It is deliberately shocking because I do not want its ideas to seem any less stark or startling than they are.
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Dort beginnend, wo der Cosmic Trigger I endet, führt Wilson die bewusstseinserweiternden Synchronizitäten seines Lebens fort, die seit der Publikation des ersten Teils geschahen, und offenbart dabei die Geheimnisse der Mafia, der CIA, des LSD´s, der Evolutionstheorien, der Hollywoodstars, der Anal-Erotik des Weißen Hauses, des Hundekastrierers von Palm Springs und erläutert die Ursachen und den Heilungsverfahren für die Menstruation. In einem außergewöhnlichen Potpourie kombiniert dieser zweite Teil Humor mit Wissenschaft und verwebt so Logik und Zen-ähnliche Koans, um eine höhere Bedeutungsstruktur zu erzeugen. Auf dem Höhepunkt Wilsons erzählerischen Schaffens wird so alles Metapher, alles Witz und bekommt alles Bedeutung.
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Wilson, Robert Anton was born on January 18, 1932 in Brooklyn. Son of John Joseph and Elizabeth Loretta (Milli) Wilson.
Student, New York University, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, Paideia University, 1979.
Associate editor Playboy magazine, 1965-1971. Freelance writer, 1971—2007. Vice president, Institute Study Human Future, Berkeley, California, 1979.
(Dort beginnend, wo der Cosmic Trigger I endet, führt Wils...)
(Dort beginnend, wo der Cosmic Trigger I endet, führt Wils...)
(From the date of first printing to the present, I have re...)
(The great psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich once wrote, "No Pres...)
(This, the long-awaited third volume of the Cosmic Trigger...)
(While this, the second volume of the Cosmic Trigger trilo...)
( Is history a vast conspiracy? A cosmic joke? Discover t...)
(Is history a vast conspiracy? A cosmic joke? Discover the...)
(This book can be considered a "scholarly" appraisal of bo...)
(They have been with us all through history: The "Invisibl...)
( Discusses consciousness, the nature of God, sexuality, ...)
(Imagine trying to make sense of an amalgam of Timothy Lea...)
(This book speaks of a New Inquisition, a New Idol and a N...)
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(Forewords by David Cherubim and Timothy Leary. "Cosmic...)
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Married Arlen Riley, January 4, 1959 (deceased 1999). Children: Christina, Alexandra, Graham.