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Robert Anton Wilson


Born
in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
January 18, 1932

Died
January 11, 2007

Website

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

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


Robert Anton Wilson was an American author, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized within Discordianism as an Episkopos, pope and saint, Wilson helped publicize Discordianism through his writings and interviews. In 1999 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". Wilson's goal was "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything."
In addition to writing several science-fiction novels, Wilson also wrote non-fiction books on extrasensory perception, mental telepathy, metaphysics, p ...more

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Average rating: 4.06 · 63,015 ratings · 3,320 reviews · 119 distinct works • Similar authors
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Down to Earth (Cosmic Trigg...
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Everything Is Under Control...
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“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
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“...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
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