Right Where You Are Sitting Now Quotes

“Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody, and I will join it at once.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Right Where You Are Sitting Now

“Thus, the Fifth Patriarch of Zen, Hui Neng, said twelve centuries before Bucky Fuller, "From the beginning there has never been a thing." This is easy to see, if you are thinking in Chinese, but very difficult if you are thinking in Indo-European. Einstein only got to that mode of apprehension by thinking in mathematics (and in pictures, as he once confessed).”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Right Where You Are Sitting Now

“The nonbeliever, in turn, may begin to wonder what, exactly, he is opposing. Certainly, nobody, not even the most rabid Bible-smashing professional atheist, can deny that all the forces, principles and laws observable in nature may be aspects of one bedrock underlying in-form-ation system or implicate order active in all times and all places. "And this," as Aquinas says, "it is customary to call God." It may be conscious, even; or, if not conscious as we are conscious, It may still be "intelligent" in some sense. Yositani Roshi, trying to explain the Zen concept of "Buddha-mind" (the closest thing Zen has to a "God"), used to say it is not far away and metaphysical but always right where you are sitting now. "When the room gets cold at night and you pull up the covers without waking, that is Buddha-mind acting," he said. This "trans-personal" (or un-personalized) It is invoked by Lao-Tse as follows:
Something cloudy and unclear
Before existence and non-existence,
Before heaven and earth,
I do not know its name
So I call it Tao”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Right Where You Are Sitting Now

“Time is in-form-ation.
Fuller simplifies Einstein into a one-sentence poem:
"Matter is knots in energy."
Matter is interference patterns. All radiations travel in geodesics, due to gravity which curves their trajectories. Where these trajectories cross, interference results: knots in energy, perceived by us as "matter."
The world of matter is the tuned-in. The not-yet-tuned-in is not not, it is merely not knot. Dig?”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Right Where You Are Sitting Now

“It is possible, and even probable, that nymphs and satyrs and such are only gods who have been apprehended without love-partially, obscurely, distortedly.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Right Where You Are Sitting Now

“One knows that a god is in the temple when, after contemplating the coherence of the structure, one is seized, violently, by the power and beauty of it, as by a light or flame or an effulgence.

This illumination is a discharge of compressed energy and information.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Right Where You Are Sitting Now

“Consider the child's riddle, "Where does your fist go when you open your hand?" This can be answered by thinking like Einstein, although on a less cosmic scale. That is, the child must first realize that the "fist" is not a thing but a relationship (a "coherent synergy" Bucky Fuller would say). It is not a mere etymological felicity to say that thinking of relations is the first step to thinking Relativistically.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Right Where You Are Sitting Now

“In short, we are living in a mental transform space--Tielhard de Chardin's noösphere--that is, an omnidimensional halo expanding towards infinity in all directions. And the electronic center of this halo of mentation, this noösphere, is poentially everywhere. It is all available to you right where you are sitting now. Just plug in a terminal. The machine doesn't care who or what you are.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Right Where You Are Sitting Now