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
reality space mind
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
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.
philosophical emotional mind
Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
mirrors mind tools
Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors).
philosophy optimistic mind
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
running mind use
We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.
horror natural
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
cynics equally everybody except idealists regard
Cynics regard everybody as equally corrupt... idealists regard everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.
people
It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.
believe thinking people
Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. And if the Thinker thinks passionately enough, the Prover will prove the thought so conclusively that you will never talk a person out of such a belief, even if it is something as remarkable as the notion that there is a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft (" GOD ") who will spend all eternity torturing people who do not believe in his religion.
reality self tunnels
All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away.
real our-world devil
The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
real blue fiction
Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction