Robert Anton Wilson

For other people named Robert Wilson, see Robert haunts me. If it were abolished, human
Wilson (disambiguation). thought might begin to make sense. I don't
know what anything is; I only know how it
Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; seems to me at this moment.
Robert Anton Wilson, The Historical Illu-
January 18, 1932 January 11, 2007) was an Amer-
ican author, novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, minatus Chronicles, as spoken by Sigismundo
futurist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized Celine.
as an Episkopos, Pope, and saint of Discordianism, Wil-
son helped publicize the group through his writings and
interviews. Born Robert Edward Wilson in Methodist Hospital, in
Wilson described his work as an attempt to break down Brooklyn, New York, he spent his rst years in Flatbush,
conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new and moved with his family to lower middle class Gerritsen
way, with many models recognized as models or maps, Beach around the age of four or ve, where they stayed
and no one model elevated to the truth.[1] His goal being until relocating to the steadfastly middle-class neighbor-
to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosti- hood of Bay Ridge when Wilson was thirteen. He suf-
cism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism fered from polio as a child, and found generally eective
about everything.[2] treatment with the Kenny Method (created by Elizabeth
Kenny) which the American Medical Association repu-
diated at that time. Polios eects remained with Wilson
1 Early life throughout his life, usually manifesting as minor muscle
spasms causing him to use a cane occasionally until 2000,
when he experienced a major bout with post-polio syn-
drome that would continue until his death.
Wilson attended Catholic grammar school, likely the
school associated with Gerritsen Beachs Resurrection
Church , and attended Brooklyn Technical High School
(a selective public institution) to remove himself from the
Catholic inuence; at Brooklyn Tech, Wilson was in-
uenced by literary modernism (particularly Ezra Pound
and James Joyce), the Western philosophical tradition,
then-innovative historians such as Charles A. Beard,
science ction (including the works of Olaf Stapledon,
Robert A. Heinlein and Theodore Sturgeon) and Alfred
Korzybski's interdisciplinary theory of general seman-
tics.[3] He would later recall that the family was living
so well... compared to the Depression during this pe-
riod that I imagined we were lace-curtain Irish at last.[4]
After graduating in 1950, Wilson was employed in a suc-
cession of jobs (including ambulance driver, engineering
aide, salesman and medical orderly) and absorbed vari-
ous philosophers & cultural practices (including bebop,
psychoanalysis, Bertrand Russell, Carl Jung, Wilhelm
Reich, Leon Trotsky and Ayn Rand, whom he later re-
pudiated) while writing in his spare time. He also studied
electrical engineering and mathematics at the Brooklyn
Wilson at the National Theatre, London, for the 10-hour stage Polytechnic Institute from 1952 to 1957 and English ed-
version of Illuminatus! in 1977. ucation at New York University from 1957 to 1958 with-
out getting a degree from either institution.[3][5][6]
Is, is. isthe idiocy of the word After smoking marijuana for nearly a decade, he rst ex-

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2 2 THE ILLUMINATUS! TRILOGY
perimented with mescaline in Yellow Springs, Ohio on
December 28, 1961.[3] Wilson began to work as a free-
lance journalist and advertising copywriter in the late
1950s. He adopted his maternal grandfathers name, An-
ton, for his writings, telling himself that he would save the
Edward for when he wrote the Great American Novel
and later nding that Robert Anton Wilson had become but I think they're still working on the project and I wish
an established identity. He assumed co-editorship of the
School for Living's Brookville, Ohio-based Balanced Liv-
ing magazine in 1962 and briey returned to New York
as associate editor of Ralph Ginzburg's quarterly fact: be-
fore leaving for Playboy, where he served as an associate
editor from 1965 to 1971. According to Wilson, Play-
boy paid me a higher salary than any other magazine at
which I had worked and never expected me to become a
conformist or sell my soul in return. I enjoyed my years
in the Bunny Empire. I only resigned when I reached 40
and felt I could not live with myself if I didn't make an
eort to write full-time at last.[4] Along with frequent
collaborator Robert Shea, Wilson edited the magazines
Playboy Forum advice column. During this period, he
covered Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert's Millbrook,
New York-based Castalia Foundation at the instigation
of Alan Watts in The Realist, cultivated important friend-
ships with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, and
lectured at the Free University of New York on 'Anarchist
and Synergetic Politics in 1965.[7]
He received a B.A., M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1981) in
psychology from Paideia University, an unaccredited in-
stitution that has since closed.[8][9][10] Wilson reworked
his dissertation, and it found publication in 1983 as
Prometheus Rising.[11]
Wilson married freelance writer and poet Arlen Riley in
1958.[11] They had four children, including Christiana
Wilson Pearson and Patricia Luna Wilson. Luna was
beaten to death in an apparent robbery in the store where
she worked in 1976 at the age of 15, and became the rst
person to have her brain preserved by the Bay Area Cry-
onics Society.[12] Arlen Riley Wilson died in 1999 fol-
lowing a series of strokes.[13][14]
2 The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Main article: The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Richard Metzger: You have studied the Illuminati for
years. Have you come to any conclusion about their aims?
Robert Anton Wilson: Usually when people ask me that
question, I give them some kind of a put-on, but I can't
think of a good and original put-on that I haven't done
several times before. So I'll tell you the truth, for once.
After investigating the Illuminati and their critics for the
last 30 years, I think the Illuminati was a short lived soci-
ety of free thinkers and democratic reformers that formed
a secret society within Freemasonry, using Freemasonry
as a cover so they could plot to overthrow all the kings
in Europe and the Pope. I'm very happy that they suc-
ceeded in overthrowing all the kings, I just wish that they
had completed the job and gotten rid of the Royal family
in England too, but they did pretty well on the continent.
I'm sorry they haven't nished o the Pope yet, either,
them luck.
Disinformation: The Interviews. By Richard Metzger.[15]
Among Wilsons 35 books,[16] and many other works,
perhaps his best-known volumes remain the cult classic
series[17] The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975), co-authored
with fellow Playboy editor Robert Shea. Advertised as a
fairy tale for paranoids, the three booksThe Eye in the
Pyramid, The Golden Apple, and Leviathan, soon oered
as a single volumephilosophically and humorously ex-
amined, among many other themes, occult and magical
symbolism and history, the counterculture of the 1960s,
secret societies, data concerning author H.P. Lovecraft
and author and occultist Aleister Crowley, and American
paranoia about conspiracies and conspiracy theories. The
book was intended to poke fun at the conspiratorial frame
of mind.[18]
Wilson and Shea derived much of the odder material from
letters sent to Playboy magazine while they worked as
the editors of its Forum.[19] The books mixed true infor-
mation with imaginative ction to engage the reader in
what Wilson called "guerrilla ontology", which he appar-
ently referred to as "Operation Mindfuck" in Illuminatus!
The trilogy also outlined a set of libertarian and anarchist
axioms known as Celines Laws (named after Hagbard
Celine, a character in Illuminatus!), concepts Wilson re-
visited several times in other writings.
Among the many subplots of Illuminatus! one addresses
biological warfare and the overriding of the United States
Bill of Rights, another gives a detailed account of the
John F. Kennedy assassination (in which no fewer than
ve snipers, all working for dierent causes, prepare to
shoot Kennedy), and the books climax occurs at a rock
concert where the audience collectively face the danger
of becoming a mass human sacrice.
Illuminatus! popularized Discordianism and the use of
the term "fnord". It incorporates experimental prose
styles inuenced by writers such as William S. Burroughs,
James Joyce, and Ezra Pound.[20] Although Shea and Wil-
son never co-operated on such a scale again, Wilson con-
tinued to expand upon the themes of the Illuminatus!
books throughout his writing career. Most of his later
ction contains cross-over characters from The Sex Ma-
gicians (Wilsons rst novel, written before the release
of Illuminatus!, which includes many of his same charac-
ters) and The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
Illuminatus! won the Prometheus Hall of Fame award
for science ction in 1986, has many international edi-
tions, and found adaptation for the stage when Ken Camp-
bell produced it as a ten-hour drama. It also appeared as
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two card based games from Steve Jackson Games, one a Theatre in Dublin, in San Francisco, and in Los Ange-
trading-card game (Illuminati: New World Order). Eye les. It features many factual and ctional characters, in-
N Apple Productions and Rip O Press produced a comic cluding Marilyn Monroe, Uncle Sam, and Wilhelm Reich
book version of the trilogy. himself. Wilson also wrote and published as books two
screenplays, not yet produced: Reality Is What You Can
Get Away With: an Illustrated Screenplay (1992) and The
3 Schrdingers Cat Trilogy, The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1997).
Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, Wilsons book Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the
Illuminati has been adapted as a theatrical stage play
and Masks of the Illuminati by Daisy Eris Campbell,[21] daughter of Ken Campbell
the British theatre maverick who staged Illuminatus! at
Main articles: Schrdingers Cat Trilogy, The Historical the Royal National Theatre in 1977.[11] The new play is
Illuminatus Chronicles, and Masks of the Illuminati scheduled to open on 23 November 2014 in Liverpool
before transferring to London and Brighton.[22] Some of
the costs are to be met through crowdfunding.[23] Wil-
Wilson wrote two more popular ction series. The
sons book is itself dedicated to Ken Campbell and the
rst, a trilogy later published as a single volume, was
Science-Fiction Theatre Of Liverpool, England.[24]
Schrdingers Cat. The second, The Historical Illuminatus
Chronicles, appeared as three books. In between publish-
ing the two trilogies Wilson released a stand-alone novel,
Masks of the Illuminati (1981), which ts into, due to
the main characters ancestry, The Historical Illuminatus
5 The Cosmic Trigger series and
Chronicles timeline and, while published earlier, could other books
qualify for the fourth volume in that series.
Schrdingers Cat consists of three volumes: The Universe In his nonction and partly autobiographical Cosmic Trig-
Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, and The Homing Pigeons. ger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977) and its
Wilson set the three books in diering alternative uni- two sequels, as well as in many other works, Wilson
verses, and most of the characters remain almost the same examined Freemasons, Discordianism, Susm, the Illu-
but may have dierent names, careers and background minati, Futurology, Zen Buddhism, Dennis and Terence
stories. The books cover the elds of quantum mechan- McKenna, Jack Parsons, the occult practices of Aleister
ics and the varied philosophies and explanations that exist Crowley and G.I. Gurdjie, Yoga, and many other
within the science. The single volume describes itself as esoteric or counterculture philosophies, personalities, and
a magical textbook and a type of initiation. The single- occurrences.
volume edition omits many entire pages and has many
Wilson advocated Timothy Leary's 8-Circuit Model
other omissions when compared with the original sepa-
of Consciousness and neurosomatic/linguistic engineer-
rate books.
ing, which he wrote about in many books including
The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, composed of The Prometheus Rising (1983, revised 1997) and Quantum
Earth Will Shake (1982), The Widows Son (1985), and Psychology (1990), which contain practical techniques in-
Natures God (1991), follows the timelines of several tended to help the reader break free of ones reality tun-
characters through dierent generations, time periods, nels. With Leary, he helped promote the futurist ideas of
and countries. The books cover, among many other top- space migration, intelligence increase, and life extension,
ics, the history, legacy, and rituals of the Illuminati and which they combined to form the word symbol SMILE.
related groups.
Wilsons 1986 book, The New Inquisition, argues that
Masks of the Illuminati, featuring historical characters in whatever reality consists of it actually would seem much
a ctionalized setting, contains a great deal of occult data. weirder than we commonly imagine. It cites, among other
Intermixing Albert Einstein, James Joyce, Aleister Crow- sources, Bells theorem and Alain Aspect's experimental
ley, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, proof of Bells to suggest that mainstream science has a
and others, the book focuses on Pan and other occult strong materialist bias, and that in fact modern physics
icons, ideas, and practices. The book includes homages, may have already disproved materialist metaphysics.
parodies and pastiches from both the lives and works of
Wilson also supported the work and utopian theories
Crowley and Joyce.
of Buckminster Fuller and examined the theories of
Charles Fort. He and Loren Coleman became friends,[25]
as he did with media theorist Marshall McLuhan and
4 Plays and screenplays Neuro Linguistic Programming co-founder Richard Ban-
dler, with whom he taught workshops. He also admired
Wilsons play, Wilhelm Reich in Hell, was published as a James Joyce, and wrote extensive commentaries on the
book in 1987 and rst performed at the Edmund Burke author and on two of Joyces novels, Finnegans Wake and
4 8 OTHER ACTIVITIES

Ulysses, in his 1988 book Coincidance: A Head Test.[26] only originality lies in applying this zetetic atti-
Although Wilson often lampooned and criticized some tude outside the hardest of the hard sciences,
New Age beliefs, bookstores specializing in New Age ma- physics, to softer sciences and then to non-
terial often sell his books. Wilson, a well-known author sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts
in occult and Neo-Pagan circles, used Aleister Crowley and, of course, conspiracy theory.[30]
as a main character in his 1981 novel Masks of the Illu-
Wilson claimed in Cosmic Trigger: Volume 1 not
minati, also included some elements of H. P. Lovecraft's
to believe anything, since belief is the death of
work in his novels, and at times claimed to have perceived
intelligence.[31] He described this approach as Maybe
encounters with magical entities (when asked whether
Logic.
these entities seemed real, he answered they seemed
real enough, although not as real as the IRS but eas- Wilson wrote about this and other topics in articles for
ier to get rid of, and later decided that his experiences the cyberpunk magazine Mondo 2000.[32]
may have emerged from just my right brain hemisphere
talking to my left).[27] He warned against beginners us-
ing occult practice, since to rush into such practices and 7 Economic thought
the resulting energies they unleash could lead people to
go totally nuts.[28]
Wilson favored a form of basic income guarantee; synthe-
Wilson also criticized scientic types with overly rigid be- sizing several ideas under the acronym RICH. His ideas
lief systems, equating them with religious fundamental- are set forth in the essay The RICH Economy found
ists in their fanaticism. In a 1988 interview, when asked in The Illuminati Papers.[33] In an article critical of cap-
about his newly published book The New Inquisition: Ir- italism Wilson self-identied as a "libertarian socialist",
rational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science, Wilson saying that I ask only one thing of skeptics: dont bring
commented: up Soviet Russia, please. That horrible example of State
Capitalism has nothing to do with what I, and other lib-
ertarian socialists, would oer as an alternative to the
I coined the term irrational rationalism be-
present system.[34] In his book Right Where You Are
cause those people claim to be rationalists,
Sitting Now he praises the German anarchist economist
but they're governed by such a heavy body
Silvio Gesell.[35]
of taboos. They're so fearful, and so hos-
tile, and so narrow, and frightened, and up-
tight and dogmatic... I wrote this book because
I got tired satirizing fundamentalist Christian- 8 Other activities
ity... I decided to satirize fundamentalist ma-
terialism for a change, because the two are Robert Anton Wilson and his wife Arlen Riley Wilson
equally comical... The materialist fundamen- founded the Institute for the Study of the Human Future in
talists are funnier than the Christian funda- 1975.
mentalists, because they think they're rational! From 1982 until his death, Wilson had a business rela-
...They're never skeptical about anything ex- tionship with the Association for Consciousness Explo-
cept the things they have a prejudice against. ration, which hosted his rst on-stage dialogue with his
None of them ever says anything skeptical long-time friend Timothy Leary[36] entitled The Inner
about the AMA, or about anything in estab- Frontier.[37][38][39] Wilson dedicated his book The New
lishment science or any entrenched dogma. Inquisition to A.C.E.'s co-directors, Je Rosenbaum and
They're only skeptical about new ideas that Joseph Rothenberg.
frighten them. They're actually dogmatically
committed to what they were taught when they Wilson also joined the Church of the SubGenius, who
were in college....[29] referred to him as Pope Bob.[40] He contributed to their
literature, including the book Three-Fisted Tales of Bob,
and shared a stage with their founder, Rev. Ivan Stang,
on several occasions. Wilson also founded the Guns and
6 Probability reliance Dope Party[41] and its corresponding Burning Man theme
camp.
In a 2003 interview with High Times magazine, Wilson
As a member of the Board of Advisors of the Fully In-
described himself as model-agnostic" which he said
formed Jury Association, Wilson worked to inform the
public about jury nullication, the right of jurors to nul-
consists of never regarding any model or lify a law they deem unjust.[42] He advocated for and
map of the universe with total 100% belief wrote about E-Prime, a form of English lacking all forms
or total 100% denial. Following Korzybski, I of the verb to be (such as is, are, was, were
put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My etc.).[43]
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A decades-long researcher into drugs and a strong oppo-
nent of what he called the war on some drugs, Wilson
participated as a Special Guest in the week-long 1999 An-
nual Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam,[44] and used and often
promoted the use of medical marijuana.[45] He partici-
pated in a protest organized by the Wo/Mens Alliance
for Medical Marijuana in Santa Cruz in 2002.[46]
same spot as his wifeso the Santa Cruz Beach Board-
walk in Santa Cruz, California.[54][55]
A tribute show to Wilson, organized by Coldcut and
Mixmaster Morris and performed in London as a part
of the Ether 07 Festival held at the Queen Elizabeth
Hall on March 18, 2007, also included Ken Campbell,
Bill Drummond and Alan Moore.[56]

9 Death 10 Works
On June 22, 2006, Hungton Post blogger Paul Krassner
reported that Wilson was under hospice care at home with 10.1 Bibliography
friends and family.[47] On October 2, Douglas Rushko
reported that Wilson was in severe nancial trouble.[48] 10.1.1 Fiction
Slashdot, Boing Boing, and the Church of the SubGe-
nius also picked up on the story, linking to Rushkos The Sex Magicians (1973)
appeal.[49][50] As his webpage reported on October 10,
these eorts succeeded beyond expectation and raised The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) (with Robert Shea)
a sum which would have supported him for at least six
The Eye in the Pyramid
months. Obviously touched by the great outpouring of
support, on October 5, 2006, Wilson left the following The Golden Apple
comment on his personal website, expressing his grati- Leviathan
tude:
Schrdingers Cat Trilogy (19791981)
Dear Friends, my God, what can I say.
I am dumbfounded, abbergasted, and totally The Universe Next Door
stunned by the charity and compassion that has The Trick Top Hat
poured in here the last three days.
The Homing Pigeons
To steal from Jack Benny, I do not deserve
this, but I also have severe leg problems and I Masks of the Illuminati (1981)
don't deserve them either.
Because he was a kind man as well as a The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles
funny one, Benny was beloved. I nd it hard
to believe that I am equally beloved and espe- The Earth Will Shake (1982)
cially that I deserve such love. The Widows Son (1985)
Whoever you are, wherever you are, know
that my love is with you. Natures God (1988)
You have all reminded me that despite
George W. Bush and all his cohorts, there is
10.1.2 Autobiographical and philosophical trilogy
still a lot of beautiful kindness in the world.
Blessings,
Cosmic Trigger Trilogy
Robert Anton Wilson[51]
Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illu-
On January 6, 2007, Wilson wrote on his blog that ac- minati (1977)
cording to several medical authorities, he would likely
Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth (1991)
only have between two days and two months left to
live.[52] He closed this message with I look forward with- Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death (1995)
out dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you
all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna ying.
Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death 10.1.3 Plays and screenplays
seriously. It seems absurd.
Wilhelm Reich in Hell (1987)
Wilson died peacefully ve days later, on January 11 at
4:50 a.m. Pacic time, just a week short of his 75th Reality Is What You Can Get Away With (1992; re-
birthday.[53] After his cremation on January 18 (also his vised editionnew introduction added1996)
75th birthday), his family held a memorial service on
February 18 and then scattered most of his ashes at the The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1997)
6 10 WORKS
10.1.4 Non-ction
Playboys Book of Forbidden Words (1972)
Sex and Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits (1973)
The Book of the Breast (1974)
Revised as Ishtar Rising (1989)
Neuropolitics (1978) (with Timothy Leary and
George Koopman)
Revised as Neuropolitique (1988)
The Game of Life (1979) (with Timothy Leary)
Prometheus Rising (1983)
The New Inquisition (1986)
Natural Law, or Don't Put a Rubber on Your Willy
(1987)
Sex, Drugs and Magick: A Journey Beyond Limits
(1988) revision, with new introduction, of Sex and
Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits
Quantum Psychology (1990)
Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and
Cover-ups (1998) (with Miriam Joan Hill)
TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution (2002)
10.1.5 Essay collections
The Illuminati Papers (1980) collection of essays and
new material
Right Where You Are Sitting Now (1983) collection
of essays and new material
Coincidance: A Head Test (1988) essays and new 10.3 Filmography
material
10.3.1 Actor
Email to the universe and other alterations of con-
sciousness (2005) collection of essays and new ma-
terial
10.1.6 Editor
Semiotext(e) SF (1989) (anthology, editor, with
Rudy Rucker and Peter Lamborn Wilson) 10.3.2 Writer
Chaos and Beyond (1994) (editor and primary au-
thor)
10.2 Discography
A Meeting with Robert Anton Wilson (ACE) cassette
Religion for the Hell of It (ACE) cassette
H.O.M.E.s on LaGrange (ACE) cassette
The New Inquisition (ACE) cassette
The H.E.A.D. Revolution (ACE) cassette and CD
Prometheus Rising (ACE) cassette
The Inner Frontier (with Timothy Leary) (ACE) cas-
sette
The Magickal Movement: Present & Future (with
Margot Adler, Isaac Bonewits & Selena Fox) (ACE)
Panel Discussion cassette
Magick Changing the World, the World Changing
Magick (ACE) Panel Discussion cassette
The Self in Transformation (ACE) Panel Discussion
cassette
The Once & Future Legend (with Ivan Stang, Robert
Shea and others) (ACE) Panel Discussion cassette
What IS the Conspiracy, Anyway? (ACE) Panel Dis-
cussion cassette
The Chocolate-Biscuit Conspiracy album with The
Golden Horde (1984)
Twelve Eggs in a Basket CD
Robert Anton Wilson On Finnegans Wake and Joseph
Campbell (interview by Faustin Bray and Brian Wal-
lace) (1988) 2 CD Set Sound Photosynthesis
Acceleration of Knowledge (1991) cassette
Secrets of Power comedy cassette
Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything: or Old
Bob Exposes His Ignorance (2001) Sounds True
ISBN 1-59179-375-0, ISBN 978-1-59179-375-5
Tneis da Realidade, Os (a.k.a. Who Is the Master
Who Makes the Grass Green?) (1996) Edgar Pra
(Portugal)
Manual de Evaso LX94 (September 16, 1994)
Edgar Pra(Portugal)
Wilhelm Reich in Hell (2005) (Video) Deepleaf Pro-
ductions
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10.3.3 Himself 12 References

Children of the Revolution: Tune Back In (2005) [1] Patricia Monaghan: Robert Anton Wilson. Booklist,
Revolutionary Child Productions May 15, 1999 v. 95 i. 18 p. 1680

[2] Robert Anton Wilson. Contemporary Authors Online,

The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick (2001) TKO Gale, 2007. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center.
Productions Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007

[3] Robert Anton Wilson RIP. The Force Holocron.

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& Wbke Filmproduktion GmbH (Germany) [4] Mises Daily. Mises Institute.

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Arise! The SubGenius Video (1992) (V) (a.k.a.
Novels, Dies, The New York Times, 13 January 2007
Arise! SubGenius Recruitment Film #16) The Sub-
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[7] Berke, Joseph (29 October 1965). The Free Univer-

Borders (1989) Co-Directions Inc. (TV documen-
tary)
Fear In The Night: Demons, Incest and UFOs (1993)
Video Trajectories
Twelve Eggs in a Box: Myth, Ritual and the Jury Sys-
tem (1994) Video Trajectories
Everything Is Under Control: Robert Anton Wilson
in Interview (1998) Video Trajectories
10.4 Documentary
Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert An-
ton Wilson, a documentary featuring selections from
over 25 years of Wilson footage, released on DVD
in North America on May 30, 2006.[57]
sity of New York. Peace News: 67. as reproduced
in Jakobsen, Jakob (2012). Anti-University of Londin
Antihistory Tabloid. London: MayDay Rooms: 67.
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tion Writers, 4th ed. St. James Press, 1996. Reproduced
in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michi-
gan.: Thomson Gale. 2007.
[9] Martin van der Werf: Lawsuit U. The Chronicle of
Higher Education, August 4, 2006
[10] Prometheus Rising Robert Anton Wilsons Prometheus
Rising on the credibility of the previously existing Paideia
University
[11] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/18/
guardianobituaries.usa
[12] Patricia Luna Wilson at cryonics.org
[13] Michael Carlson. Obituary: Robert Anton Wilson. the
Guardian.

[14] The Beltane Celebration. lycaeum.org.

[15] Richard Metzger. Disinformation: the interviews. Re-

11 See also trieved 26 July 2011.

[16] The author of 35 books on subjects like extrasensory per-

23 Enigma
ception, mental telepathy, metaphysics, paranormal expe-
riences, conspiracy theory, sex, drugs and what he called
Chaos magic quantum psychology... New York Times obituary.

General semantics [17] "...an author of The Illuminatus! Trilogya mind-

twisting science-ction series about a secret global society
that has been a cult classic for more than 30 years... from
List of Discordian works Robert Anton Wilson, 74; Wrote Mind-Twisting Nov-
els"; [Obituary (Obit)] Dennis Hevesi. New York Times.
List of occult writers (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jan 13,
2007. p. A.16
Max Stirner
[18] Paul De Groot (Sep 14, 1985). Conspiracys his spe-
cialty. Edmonton Journal. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
The Sekhmet Hypothesis
[19] The Illuminatus saga stumbles along by Robert Anton
Wilson
Smart drugs (Nootropics)
[20] Conspiracy Digest Interviews printed in Illuminatus Pa-
Trajectories pers, 1980
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[21] The Cosmic Trigger driving Miss Daisy. Liverpool Con-
dential. 23 January 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
[22] The Play - What is it About?". Cosmic Trigger Play web-
site. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
[23] Cosmic Trigger Play crowdfunding campaign.
Indiegogo. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
[24] Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (First
Edition, Twenty-fourth Printing ed.). New Falcon Publi-
cations. 2013. p. dedication. ISBN 1-56184-003-3.
[25] 23 Skidoo Cryptomundo
[26] Bray, Faustin / Wallace, Brian (interviewers)/ Wilson,
Robert Anton (speaker) (1988). Robert Anton Wilson On
Finnegans Wake and Joseph Campbell (Audio CD). Mill
Valley: Sound Photosynthesis. ISBN 1-56964-801-8.
[27] Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson
[28] Robert Anton Wilson. Robert Anton Wilson Explains
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13 External links
Ocial website, now maintained by his family
The RAW Trust, The Robert Anton Wilson Trust
Hilaritas Press, publishing house created by the
RAW Trust
RAW Data 2.0, Wilsons blog, now maintained by
his daughter, Christina
RAW Data, Wilsons rst blog
Guns and Dope Party, Political party created by
Wilson and Olga Struthio
Right Where You Are Sitting Now Podcast Exten-
sive two-hour Robert Anton Wilson tribute podcast,
featuring audio clips, and interviews with friends of
Wilson
A collection of RAW audio/video from his publisher
A collection of RAW audio/video from his publisher
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Robert Anton Wilson at the Internet Movie

Database
Riggenbach, Je (August 15, 2011). Robert Anton
Wilson. Mises Daily. Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Robert Anton Wilson Fans

Robert Anton Wilson at the Internet Speculative

Fiction Database

Robert Anton Wilson at Find a Grave

Cosmic Trigger Play website
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