The only “realities” (plural) that we actually experience and can talk meaningfully about are perceived realities, experienced realities, existential realities—realities involving ourselves as editors—and they are all relative to the observer, fluctuating, evolving, capable of being magnified and enriched, moving from low resolution to hi-fi, and do not fit together like the pieces of a jig-saw into one single Reality with a capital R. . . . In simple Basic English, as a psychologist and novelist, I set out to find how much rapid reorganization was possible in the brain functioning oaf one normal domesticated primate of average intelligence—the only one on whom I could ethically perform such risky research—myself. . . . What my experiments demonstrate—what all such experiments throughout history have demonstrated—is simply that our models of “reality” are very small and tidy, the universe of experience is huge and untidy, and no model can ever include all the huge untidiness perceived by uncensored consciousness.” — Robert Anton Wilson, from the preface to The Cosmic Trigger
Essays dealing with synchronicity and isomorphism in art and science, with special reference to quantum mechanics and genetics. “If there is a thesis hidden in these random explorations, it might be that nonsense has its own meanings and that Lewis Carroll, the fantasist, was just as wise as Charles Dodgson, the logician who happened to inhabit the same body as Carroll.”
Publisher: New Falcon
Paperback: 250 pages
“Eventually my interest in the Illuminati was to lead me through a cosmic Fun House featuring double and triple agents, UFOs, possible Presidential assassination plots, the enigmatic symbols on the dollar bill, messages from Sirius, pancakes from Gods-know-where, the ambiguities of Aleister Crowley, some mysterious hawks that follow Uri Geller around, Futurists, Immortalists, plans to leave this planet and the latest paradoxes of quantum mechanics.”
Publisher: New Falcon
Paperback: 269 pages
Heretical short essays on a range of Discordian topics from “The Mandelbrot Fractal?” to “The Dog Castrator of Palm Springs.” SS
Publisher: New Falcon
Paperback: 256 pages
“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.”
Publisher: New Falcon
Paperback: 256 pages
“In The Illuminati Papers, Robert Anton Wilson speaks through characters from his novels and other realities and presents his views on our future way of life.” Contents include: “Quantum Mechanics as a Branch of Primate Psychology,” “Beethoven as Information,” “Mammalian Politics: Thackeray via Kubrick,” “Paleopuritanism and Neopuritanism,” and essays in the form of interviews from the Science Fiction Review and the Conspiracy Digest.
Publisher: Ronin
Paperback: 150 pages
Illustrated
“Wilson lets fly at Murray Rothbard, George Smith, Samuel Konkin III, and other purveyors of what he says is the claim that some sort of metaphysical entity called a ‘right’ resides in a human being like a ‘ghost’ residing in a haunted house.”
Publisher: New Falcon
Paperback: 240 pages
“Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Anything.” Inspiration for R.A. Wilson's Illuminatus Trilogy… chaos is salvation.
Publisher: IllumiNet
Paperback: 117 pages
Illustrated
Definitive work on the Wilson/Leary eight-circuit model of the brain. Self-programming made easy!
Publisher: New Falcon
Paperback: 262 pages
This might be the most effective twelve-step program. If one were to follow the steps herein carefully, one could be released from the mental habits that might turn one into a guru, a Republican, or an art critic:
“Weather permitting, leave the house, go outside to the street and look around. How much of what you see would have existed if humans had not designed and built it? How much that ‘just grew there’ would look different if humans had not cultivated and encouraged (or polluted) it?”
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Publisher: New Falcon
Paperback: 192 pages
“I see this book as a machine to disconnect the user from all maps and models whatsoever.”—RAW. Chapters include “Neuro-geography of Conspiracy,” “Ecology, Malthus and Machiavelli,” “Sirius Rising” and a conversation with Bucky Fuller.
Publisher: Ronin
Paperback: 208 pages