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
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.
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
real book elements
Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?
real unreal meaningless
All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.
reality space mind
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
children leaving poverty
I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.
alone god people state
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.