Friday12 Jan 10:44 AM
Robert Anton Wilson Rest In Peace
The blogosphere exploded yesterday with revelatory discord as the news begain to spread: Robert Anton Wilson has departed. Rest yee in the great Lord Yama's grace.
He was an absolutely instrumental figure in my formative years. His books bent my mind and helped me to shape my own life.
He introduced me to Timothy Leary's Eight Circuit Model of Consciousness; to the works of Aleister Crowley; to the sweet Devi Eris and her sacred text; to Alfred Korzybski's general semantics; & to the implications/applications of quantum mechanics upon everyday life.
Three useful tools that I have culled from his cannon:
- the devlopment of my personal bullshit detector;
- Wilson's 23rd Law --Do it every day;
- and the fundamental notion that thoughts and language shape reality.
Most of these ideas were not his own. He was a great collator and remixer of thoughts and language and concepts; he often presented them in testable, exciting ways that helped to make the world a bit more fun. His work, alongside a healthy, harrowing path of pyschoactive drugs and mind-will excersizes, changed my life forever.
I salute you RAW.
Aum Nama Shivaya.
My favorite books by RAW:
- Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati (Cosmic Trigger)
- Prometheus Rising
- Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World
- Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy: "The Universe Next Door", "The Trick Top Hat", & "The Homing Pigeons"
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Fri 12 Jan 2007 at 12:44PM
He will be greatly missed...
fnord.
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