Roughly a year before, on July 23, 1973, Robert Anton Wilson – coauthor of the satire/sci-fi Illuminatus! Trilogy and the Cosmic Trigger books – claims to have channeled information from an intelligence in the Sirius star system. Exactly three years later to the day, Wilson opened himself up again to these entities to garner, as he put it, “another blast of Cosmic Wisdom” from “the Transmitters.”
