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Robert Anton Wilson

Born

in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

January 18, 1932

Died

January 11, 2007

Website

http://www.rawilson.com

Genre

Health, Mind & Body, Religion & Spirituality, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Influences

Thomas Pynchon, William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Alfred Korzybski ...more

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Robert Anton Wilson became, at various times, an American novelist, essayist, philosopher, polymath, psychonaut, futurist, libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized as an Episkopos, Pope, and Saint of Discordianism by Discordians who care to label him as such, Wilson helped publicize the group/religion/melee through his writings, interviews, and strolls.

He described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth."

"My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything."
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Average rating: 4.06 · 60,427 ratings · 3,009 reviews · 128 distinct works • Similar authors

	Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson, Israel Regardie (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 7,049 ratings — published 1983 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy 4.08 avg rating — 4,811 ratings — published 1981 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins 4.26 avg rating — 3,911 ratings — published 1977 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World 4.24 avg rating — 2,544 ratings — published 1990 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Masks of the Illuminati 4.03 avg rating — 1,926 ratings — published 1981 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down to Earth (Cosmic Trigger #2) 4.14 avg rating — 1,624 ratings — published 1991 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cosmic Trigger 3: My Life After Death 4.13 avg rating — 1,240 ratings — published 1995 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups by Robert Anton Wilson, Miriam Joan Hill 3.79 avg rating — 1,286 ratings — published 1998 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati 4.12 avg rating — 1,165 ratings — published 1982 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Schrödinger's Cat 1: The Universe Next Door 3.99 avg rating — 1,053 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Robert Anton Wilson

Cosmic Trigger (3 books)
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Schrödinger's Cat (3 books)
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The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles (3 books)
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Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson (?)

“belief is the death of intelligence.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

tags: atheism, belief, faith, intelligence, metaphysics, philosophy, religion

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“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”
― Robert Anton Wilson

tags: anton, religion

293 likes

“...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

tags: metaphysics, philosophy

262 likes

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