Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilsonwas an American author, novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized as an Episkopos, Pope, and saint of Discordianism, Wilson helped publicize the group through his writings and interviews...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 January 1932
CountryUnited States of America
church locks priests
Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.
illumination laughing chance
If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
way principles action
The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.
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help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more
drink spills
Each mans spills the drink he loves.
attitude lying originality
Following Korzybski , I put things in probabilities, not absolutes ... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics , to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics , ideology , jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory .
people would-be alive
There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.
voice doors mind
How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.
sex law universal
There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
giants raised walks
We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.
devil there-is-no-god
There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
book nun
Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
ability staggering universe
I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.
way-forward way path
The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.