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Robert Anton Wilson

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KatalógusnévWilson, Robert Anton

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Robert Anton Wilson: Kvantum pszichológia
Robert Shea – Robert Anton Wilson: The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Robert Anton Wilson: Prometheus Rising
Robert Anton Wilson: Cosmic Trigger
Robert Anton Wilson: Cosmic Trigger II.
Robert Anton Wilson: Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy

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We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch. Unleashing our full stature—our total brain power—is what this book is all about.

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„You mean the Dev—”
„Satan,” Simon said simply „is just another of the innumerable masks he wears. Behind the mask is a man and behind the man is another mask. It's all a matter of merging multiverses, remember? Don't look for an Ultimate Reality. There isn't any.”
„Then this person— this being—” Joe protested, „really is supernatural—”
„Supernatural, schmupernatural,” Simon grimaced. „You're still like the people in that mathematical parable about Flatland. You can only think in categories of right and left, and I'm talking about up and down, so you say 'supernatural.' There is no 'supernatural'; there are just more dimensions than you are accustomed to, that's all. If you were living in Flatland and I stepped out of your plane into a plane at a different angle, it would look to you as if I vanished 'into thin air.' Somebody looking down from our three-dimensional viewpoint would see me going off at a tangent from you, and would wonder why you were acting so distressed and surprised about it.”
„But the flash of light—”
„It's an energy transformation,” Simon explained patiently. „Look, the reason you can only think three-dimensionally is because there are only three directions in cubical space. That's why the Illuminati— and some of the kids they've allowed to become partially illuminized lately— refer to ordinary science as 'square.' The basic energy-vector coordinates of Universe are five-dimensional —of course— and can best be visualized in terms of the five sides of the Illuminati Pyramid of Egypt.”
„Five sides?” Joe objected. „It only has four.”
„You're ignoring the bottom.”
„Oh. Go on.”
„Energy is always triangular, not cubical. Bucky Fuller has a line on this, by the way: he's the first one outside the Illuminati to discover it independently. The basic energy transformation we're concerned with is the one Fuller hasn't discovered yet, although he's said he's looking for it— the one that ties Mind into the matter-energy continuum. The pyramid is the key. You take a man in the lotus position and draw lines from his pineal gland— the Third Eye, as the Buddhists call it— to his two knees, and from each knee to the other, and this is what you get…” Simon sketched rapidly in his notepad and passed it over to Joe:
„When the Pineal Eye opens —after fear is conquered; that is, after your first Bad Trip— you can control the energy field entirely,” Simon went on. „An Irish Illuminatus of the ninth century, Scotus Ergina, put it very simply— in five words, of course —when he said Omnia quia sunt, lumina sunt: 'All things that are, are lights.' Einstein also put it into five symbols when he wrote e = mc2?. The actual transformation doesn't require atomic reactors and all that jazz, once you learn how to control the mind vectors, but it always lets off one hell of a flash of light, as John can tell you.”

Robert Shea – Robert Anton Wilson: The Illuminatus! Trilogy The Eye in the Pyramid / The Golden Apple / Leviathan

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EXERCIZES
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1. Visualize a quarter vividly, and imagine vividly that you are going to find the quarter on the street. Then, look for the quarter every time you take a walk, meanwhile continuing to visualize it. See how long it takes you to find the quarter.
2. Explain the above experiment by the hypothesis of "selective attention"—that is, believe there are lots of lost quarters everywhere and you were bound to find one by continually looking. Go looking for a second quarter.
3. Explain the experiment by the alternative „mystical” hypothesis that „mind controls everything.” Believe that you made the quarter manifest in this universe. Go looking for a second quarter.
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10. Believe it possible that you can float off the ground and fly by merely willing it. See what happens.
If this exercize proves as disappointing to you as it has to me, try number 11 below, which is never disappointing.
11. Believe that you can exceed all your previous ambitions and hopes in all areas of your life.

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In the area of extra-sensory perception, the results are uniform after more than a century: everybody who sets out to prove that ESP exists succeeds, and everybody who sets out to prove that ESP does not exist also succeeds.

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As Dr. Leonard Orr has noted, the human mind behaves as if it were divided into two parts, the Thinker and the Prover.
The Thinker can think about virtually anything. […]
The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one law only: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.

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The paleface kept turning colors, the way people do when you're on peyote. Now he looked almost like an Indian. That made it easier to talk to him. […] Why shouldn't people turn colors? All the trouble in the world came from the fact they usually stayed the same color. James nodded profoundly. As usual, peyote had brought him a big Truth. If whites and blacks and Indians were turning colors all the time, there wouldn't be any hate in the world, because nobody would know which people to hate.

Robert Shea – Robert Anton Wilson: The Illuminatus! Trilogy The Eye in the Pyramid / The Golden Apple / Leviathan

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Muldoon had been thinking too. „I've seen men land on the moon,” he said. „I've seen students break into administration offices and shit in the dean's waste basket. I've even seen nuns in mini-skirts. But this international conspiracy existing in secret for eight hundred years, it's like opening a door in your own house and finding James Bond and the President of the United States personally shooting it out with Fu Manchu and the five original Marx Brothers.”

Robert Shea – Robert Anton Wilson: The Illuminatus! Trilogy The Eye in the Pyramid / The Golden Apple / Leviathan

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To the creative mind there is no right or wrong. Every action is an experiment, and every experiment yields its fruit in knowledge.

Robert Shea – Robert Anton Wilson: The Illuminatus! Trilogy The Eye in the Pyramid / The Golden Apple / Leviathan

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Do I suspect you? Since I met you, I suspect everybody."
„I'm glad to hear it,” Hagbard grinned. „You are well on your way to paranoia. Take this card and keep it in your wallet. When you begin to understand it, you'll be ready for your next promotion. Just remember: ifs not true unless it makes you laugh. That is the one and sole and infallible test of all ideas that will ever be presented to you.” And he handed Joe a card saying
THERE IS NO FRIEND ANYWHERE

Robert Shea – Robert Anton Wilson: The Illuminatus! Trilogy The Eye in the Pyramid / The Golden Apple / Leviathan

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„That's just Marx: the ideology of the ruling class becomes the ideology of the whole society.”
„Not the ideology. The Reality.” He lowered his handkerchief. „This was a public park until they changed the definition. Now, the guns have changed the Reality. It isn't a public park. There's more than one kind of magic.”
„Just like the Enclosure Acts,” I said hollowly. „One day the land belonged to the people. The next day it belonged to the landlords.”
„And like the Narcotics Acts,” he added. „A hundred thousand harmless junkies became criminals overnight, by Act of Congress, in nineteen twenty-seven. Ten years later, in thirty-seven, all the potheads in the country became criminals overnight, by Act of Congress. And they really were criminals, when the papers were signed. The guns prove it. Walk away from those guns, waving a joint, and refuse to halt when they tell you. Their Imagination will become your Reality in a second.”

Robert Shea – Robert Anton Wilson: The Illuminatus! Trilogy The Eye in the Pyramid / The Golden Apple / Leviathan