Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson

Aka "RAW" He's the one who Co-wrote the Illuminatus! Trilogy with Robert Shea, not to mention his other books.

His Homepage can be found here: [rawilson.com]

Rumors are he was also involved in the Principia Discordia somehow.. (with Kerry Thornley)

Bibliography

   * Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words (1972)
   * Sex and Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits (1973)
   * The Sex Magicians (1973)
   * The Book of the Breast (1974)
   * Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words (?)
   * Illuminatus! (w/ Robert Shea) (1975)
         o The Eye in the Pyramid
         o The Golden Apple
         o Leviathan 
   * Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati
   * Neuropolitics (w/ Leary and Koopman) (1978)
   * The Illuminati Papers (1980)
   * The Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy (1980-1)
         o The Universe Next Door
         o The Trick Top Hat
         o The Homing Pigeon 
   * Masks of the Illuminati (1981)
   * Right Where You Are Sitting Now (1983)
   * The Earth Will Shake (1983)
   * Prometheus Rising (1983)
   * The Widow's Son (1985)
   * The New Inquisition (1986)
   * Wilhelm Reich in Hell (1987)
   * Natural Law, or Don't Put a Rubber on Your Willy (1987)
   * Coincidance: A Head Test (1988)
   * Neuropolitique (1988) (w/ Leary & Koopman) [Neuropolitics revised]
   * Ishtar Rising (1989) [Revision of The Book if the Breast]
   * Quantum Psychology (1990)
   * Cosmic Trigger II: Down To Earth (1991)
   * Nature's God (1991)
   * Reality Is What You Can Get Away With: An Illustrated Screenplay (1992)
   * Chaos and Beyond: The Best of Trajectories (1994)
   * Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death (1995)
   * The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1997)
   * Everything Is Under Control (1998) 

Music

A couple of records too..

   * Secrets of Power (Comedy)
   * The Chocolate Biscuit Conspiracy (Punk)

Films

(excerpt from imdb as of 01/02/2005 + slightly modified due to wiki format limitations)

Actor - filmography (2000s) (1990s)
   1. The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick (2001)
   2. T·neis da Realidade, Os (1996)
      ... aka Who Is the Master Who Makes the Grass Green?

Filmography as: Actor, Himself

Himself - filmography (In Production) (2000s) (1990s) (1980s)

   1. Children of the Revolution: Tune Back In (2005) (filming)
   2. Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson] (2003) (V)
      ... http://www.maybelogic.com
   3. 23 (1998) .... Himself
      ... aka 23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint (Germany) 
      ... Note: English subtitles for this movie exist _online_ (added by author)
   4. Arise! The SubGenius Video (1992) (V) .... Himself
      ... aka Arise! SubGenius Recruitment Film #16 (USA)
   5. Borders (1989) .... Himself

if you want his books and audio ,start SoulSeek and use its search function. seems a good place to find his stuff or buy his material.

Links

RAW's official homepage
Wikipedia:Robert_Anton_Wilson
Wikiquote:Robert_Anton_Wilson
[Backlinks] on the old wiki
http://www.rawilsonfans.com/
http://www.deoxy.org/rawbib.htm
Excerpts from a lecture  (requires real audio)

On Anarchism

From a 1977 interview-by-mail with Neal wilgus.

Q: Would i be right in saying you probably lean more toward the libertarian form of anarchism than the classical leftist variety?

A: My trajectory is perpendicular to the left-right axis of terrestrial politics. I put some of my deepest idealism into both the Leftwing anarchism of Simon Moon and the Rightwing anarchism of Hagbard Celine in Illuminatus!, but i am detached from both on another level. ...

Interview excerpt

KBOO-FM Interview with Robert Anton Wilson by Cliff Walker 1990 (or so) on KBOO FM, Portland, Oregon

Cliff Walker: Hi, my name is Cliff Walker. Welcome to KBOO, Robert!

Robert Anton Wilson: It's great to be here.

Walker: Robert is the author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Schrödinger's Cat, Masks of the Illuminati, and the most recent series, The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles-- those are the novels. Some of my favorite non-fiction: Sex and Drugs, Cosmic Trigger, Prometheus Rising, and the brand new one, Quantum Psychology. What is Quantum Psychology about?

Wilson: Quantum Psychology is about the fact that we can never know reality the way we know our models of reality.

Walker: So what are some of the ideas you are trying to share in this book?

Wilson: Chiefly, that the paradoxes in quantum mechanics don't just exist in quantum mechanics. They exist in every area of knowledge. Modern art has gotten to be very relativistic, just like modern physics. We're even getting relativistic films, these days. Total Recall, with Schwarzenegger, is about a man that doesn't know which memories are real and which are implanted. And there's a new movie, Jacob's Ladder, which has a similar theme. These are very similar to the themes of my novels, curiously enough!

'The world is moving into a new era in which we're beginning to realize every instrument creates a different reality-tunnel. Every brain is a different instrument. The instruments we make, to do science, turn out to have the same limitations as the instrument we started with -- which is our own brain. Every instrument reveals a partial reality: a yardstick doesn't tell you the temperature; a Geiger counter doesn't tell you the weather. Every instrument has its limitations. Every brain has its limitations -- except the brains of the Pope, and, er, the Ayatollah, and George Bush, and the members of C.S.I.C.O.P.

All: [laughter]

...

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