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Schindler's Pissed
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No one has anything to say about RAW? Not even Nonduality?
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Nonduality
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^^ Just got in.
Agreed, Bob's "Greater Feast" is by no means a sad occasion. As another Bob (Fripp) said in the liner notes to his Soundscape album "A Blessing of Tears", regarding his mother's passing:
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I've read and been highly influenced by nearly all of RAW's books.
I met Bob once, at the convention center in San Jose. He was giving a speech at some kind of New Age / Astrology conference and I couldn't pass up the opportunity. He started with an exercise, asking us all to close our eyes and remember the journey from our homes to the seats where we then sat. He used this as a demonstrative device to explain what he called "Reality Tunnels".
Bob was a lot of fun, for certain.
I also agree with whoever posted that announcement, that his timing was perfect.
I'm just glad, more than anything, that I found out right away, rather than finding out like six months later. So thanks for posting.
For those who may not be familiar with this legend of thought and word:
http://hostgator.rawilson.com/main.shtml
(interesting article at bottom of page "In Defense of Pat Robertson" which I have not yet read, but will)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson
and of course
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=robert+anton+wilson
Bon Voyage, Bob. See you on the other side.
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Nonduality
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe we're all just slow with old age, but I'm a little surprised at so little quality memorialising of this great man. I am reminded though of the story in "The Cosmic Trigger" about Laura Huxley's determination to get a message from Aldous from beyond the grave, since he always said he would send a message from the other side if he could. That's a pretty fucking trippy story.
Bob Wilson is a genius of depth so unfathomable that I am only beginning to discover the value of his work with the next generation after him, i.e. Daniel Pinchbeck. But I think this pales in comparison to his essential niceness and happiness. Probably the truest statement I could make about Bob Wilson is that he is one of the nicest and happiest people I have ever been so fortunate to know and learn from.
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Thor
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Bob made a damn good potato salad too which i fondly recall from his many BBQs. |
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Nonduality
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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Are you serious? I know he was a bay areaite....
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Schindler's Pissed
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I seriously doubt he was being serious up there... I mean, come on, Thor?.
The unfortunate thing is that when I posted this thread I had the feeling that only myself and Nonduality would have something to say about RAW... and it seems as though I was right in that intuition. Somebody, prove me wrong, please.
I unfortunately never had the chance to actually meet RAW in person. However, reading some of his books (Prometheus Rising, Cosmic Trigger I, II & III, The New Inquisition) has had a profound effect on my life and my consciousness as well as my perspective of my own & others' "reality-tunnels"... laughing out loud all along the way. I love his non-linear style, his playfullness/sense of humor and his undying optimism. He may have physically left the planet but his influence and body of work will remain here for the rest of our days. RIP Robert Anton Wilson 
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Thor
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| i am sure he made killer potato salad and family BBQs with a name like bob wilson. |
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drtboi
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I thought the Illuminati trilogy was good clean fun.
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Nonduality
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^^  clean. yeah.
and Schrodinger's Cat could be used as a boy / girl scout training manual.
Just ask thin mints bitch!
Okay, found the first seamingly semi-official and sincere memorial online:
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| Robert Anton Wilson enjoyed his first death so much; he decided to try it again. As Wilson himself wrote in his 1995 book, Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death: |
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According to reliable sources, I died on February 22, 1994 — George Washington’s birthday. I felt nothing special or shocking at the time, and believed that I still sat at my word processor working on a novel called Bride of Illuminatus. At lunch-time, however, when I checked my voice mail, I found that Tim Leary and a dozen other friends had already called to ask to speak to me, or — if they still believed in Reliable Sources — to offer support and condolences to my grieving family. I quickly gathered that news of my tragic end had appeared on the Internet in the form of an obituary from the Los Angeles Times:
“Noted science-fiction author Robert Anton Wilson was found dead in his home yesterday, apparently the victim of a heart attack. Mr. Wilson, 63, was discovered by his wife, Arlen.
“Mr. Wilson was the author of numerous books… He was noted for his libertarian viewpoints, love of technology and off the wall humor. Mr. Wilson is survived by his wife and two children.” |
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| This time around, it appears that Mr. Wilson has actually left corporeality, appropriately on 1/11 (at 4:50 am – you hardcore number freaks can get to work on the meaning of that one… I do see a five in there!). |
The fact is I've no doubt he made a killer potato salad.
Only a shame I never tried it in this life.
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I think my lack of breeding (as a verb, not as a noun) has caused my idea of clean fun to degrade to the point of meaning pretty much nothing.
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Nonduality
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Iobtrd Post-Collegiate Dictionary
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| Good Clean Fun: a preschooler who douches regularly. |
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Very interesting man to say the least. I've been meaning to delve into his works deeper for years, but some of it is so obscure that like alot of Crowley, it goes over my head. But surely he was an amazing man and it never occured to me he'd die. He seemed immortal for sure. RIP.
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| But surely he was an amazing man and it never occured to me he'd die. He seemed immortal for sure. RIP. |
I'll have more to say on this later. Still searching for the exact quote of Aldous Huxley's message from the other side, quoted in "The Cosmic Trigger". Bob's own "According to reliable sources..." quoted above is not bad either. Since Bob's passing my research on entheogens / psychedelics has gone very casually into hyperdrive.
I suggest we start a "Church of the Second Coming of Robert Anton Wilson"! 
Good places to start with Wilson:
"Masks of the Illuminati": one of his shortest, a great introduction. Sir John Babcock, a wealthy english gentleman, is having some apparent neuroses related to a meeting with a man named Aleister Crowley. He is convinced that Crowley is psychically monitoring him, and that the man has sent demons after him. A man on a train in Switzerland hands Sir John a business card, saying "You should come see me. I think I can help you...". The card reads "Carl Jung, Psychiatrist". Exiting the train Sir John has a psychotic episode and runs into a bar screaming "They're coming to get me! They're coming to get me!!!" and collapses at the feet of two men seated in a booth drinking. This all happens in the first few pages. The two men are James Joyce and Albert Einstein, who take an interest in Sir John's condition and proceed to spend the rest of the book disentangling the mystery, which has, thanks to Wilson's book, come to be known as "Sir John Syndrome".
"The Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of The Illuminati": I have not read books II and III of this series, will have to get to them. I read the first one years ago. This is nonfiction, a collection of stories of the paranormal, including the story of Aldous Huxley's post-mortem messaging, among many others including UFO encounters, the McKenna Brothers' trip to the Amazon, mysterious pancakes and more. This is the first place I ever heard anyone mention 2012. The conclusions Wilson draws here are actually pretty clear, but I did not understand them until reading Pinchbeck, recently. That, to me, is the beauty of Pinchbeck: he makes clear some pretty lofty concepts that I have had floating around in my head for years but never understood, or barely / vaguely understood.
"Illuminatus!" is classic. Long though. Three volumes, around 1300 pages.
"Schrodinger's Cat", another series, much like Illuminatus!, but a little easier to get into. More down to earth, fewer far reaching conspiracies, more anecdotes about the strangeness of everyday life. Wilson at his raunchiest here: the story of the transsexual book editor who has his amputated member taken to the taxidermist and hung above the mantlepiece, in plain view at his many parties. The amputated / stuffed member is stolen. The adventures of the amputated penis are over the top!
A review of The Cosmic Trigger III : My Life After Death from Amazon
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This Book is a Fake, May 14, 2000
Reviewer: Anthony M. Testani "mygotta" (San Diego, CA United States)
Robert Anton Wilson's final part of his Cosmic Trigger Series proves that from the beginning its all a conspiracy. Even his own death was just a hoax. Can you prove normalcy beyond a shadow of a doubt? Although I found this part one of the best, I would still say to read part 1, then part 2, in that order. Wilson argues Evolution and Creationism, political correctness, Carl Sagan and of course, conspiracies. Well thought out with the reading that doubles upon itself, you will find how information adds up into another line of thinking. Certainly a classic RAW book! Highly reccomended! |
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