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