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
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brain doe models
Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.
optimism secret has-beens
The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
giving-up government deception
Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you get too uppity, give up on the deception and resort to brute force, as a lot of us found out in the sixites. Those who didn't find out in the sixites will find out in the near future because we're going to have a rerun.
emotional hysteria world
Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.
too-much variables constant
The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.
ignorance age scarcity
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
trying world typical
I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.
emotional people serious
I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
essence definitions libertarian
Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.
faith religious thinking
Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.
ends initiation
A true initiation never ends.
good-luck reality thinking
The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.
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.
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.