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Robert Anton Wilson
| born |
January 18, 1932
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| died |
January 11, 2007 |
| gender |
male |
| place of birth |
Brooklyn, New York, The United States |
| website |
http://www.rawilson.com |
| genre |
Health, Mind & Body, Religion & Spirituality, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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| influences |
[a:Thomas Pynchon|235|Thomas Pynchon|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206652179p2/235.jpg], [a:William S. Burroughs|5025|William S. Burroughs|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1287257547p2/5025.jpg], [a:Timothy Leary|47718|Timothy Leary|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1209559712p2/47718.jpg] |
about this author
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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