Robert Anton Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007

[Aratos]

January 11, 2007

Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11.

All Hail Eris!

On behalf of his children and those who cared for him, deepest love and gratitude for the tremendous support and lovingness bestowed upon us.

(that's it from Bob's bedside at his fnord by the sea)

RAW Memorial February 07
date to be announced

Robert Anton Wilson, foremost world authority on the Illuminati, co-author of the Illuminatus! trilogy and writer of numerous other books including the schroedingers cat trilogy. Also on my list of the ten greatest uthors who ever lived. On 6th January he announced the doctors had given him a few days or a few months to live, and on Albert Hoffman's 101st birthday he died, a week before his 75th birthdya. RIP, man. fnord.

[Kaoru]

Who??

[AnimeDudde]

Who??

dittoo

[Aratos]

Robert Anton Wilson, foremost world authority on the Illuminati, co-author of the Illuminatus! trilogy and writer of numerous other books including the schroedingers cat trilogy. Also on my list of the ten greatest uthors who ever lived.

That answer your uestion?

[YamPuff]

I've never even heard of those books before, but now I feel interested.

[Aratos]

Well you should be. The Illuminatus! trilogy is an utter classic. An irreligeous, confusing, complciated, drug-referencing classic that needs to be read multiple times to udnerstand, but a classic non the less. Hail Eris!

[Kaoru]

That answer your uestion?
No. Not really.

[Aratos]

Well he was a great author. Brilliant author in fact. And the foremost authority on teh Iluminati.

[densukemifune]

No. Not really.

Perhaps I can shed some light on the subject. Robert Anton Wilson wrote about secret societies, coincidences,and exploring different levels of consciousness. The Illuminati is supposedly a secret society dating back to the 1700's or even further back that is rumored to steer the course of human history.

Regarding his books on consciousness,Cosmic Trigger, and Cosmic Trigger :Back to Earth are about Wilson experimenting with exploring various levels of consciousness and the nature of reality, some of these explorations aided by his consumption of hallucinogens like mescaline.(Don't touch that stuff kids).

Finally, his death on 1/11 is interesting because of his writings on coincidences, mainly recurrences of certain prime numbers such as 11 and 23.

The world may not have seen the last of him though. In Cosmic Trigger, he relates the sad story of his daughter Luna who was murdered. In the hopes that one day science may be able to reverse death, he had her cryogenically frozen and had laid plans for him and his wife to be frozen as well.

[Aratos]

The illuminati was nor supposedly anything.

The bavarian illuminati was documented fact. The links of the bavarian illuminati to the Hashshashin cannot be discounted, nor can the fact the Hashshashin currently exist in a slightly less violent form. It's also undeniable that they _have_ steered the course of history, at least to an extent. Certainly they've helped to shape it.

[YamPuff]

Ok, now I've lost interest.

*wanders off*

[Aratos]

Bah! Lost interest indeed.

Actually, I started re-reading the Illuminatus! trilogy again today. I'd forgotten how philosophical it was. Amazing. Not t'mention it makes so much sense!

[YamPuff]

The more I hear people rave about an author's genuis the more skeptical I get. The book usually turn out to be an over-rated thing that people feel obligated to praise because obivously if you don't like it you were too stupid to 'get it'.
Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill.

[B]Another Review:[B]

It ties together the Kennedy assassinations, George Washington's supposed pot-farms, UFO's, Atlantis, the Ishmalian sect, and any other group you can come up with using a convoluted numerological system, defying intelligence.
Yep, totally my cup of tea. :rolleyes:

[Aratos]

YamPuff, have you ever seen me rave avbout something for any reason other than I think it's amazing? Nope.

Anyway, those reviews are a bit useless. I mean, sure it _is_ high-camp with a few gratuitous sex scenes, insults hurled at a few religeons, every conspiracy theory u can think of and the like, but that's what makes it so great. You'll never look at fiction the same way again. It's a must-read if only for the way it's written: flips between 1st-and-third person, between characters, between times whenevr it likes. It's like reading an acid trip. Or I imagine is anyway, never having taken acid.

[tomselleck69]

crazy to think that people would recognize or appreciate robert anton wilson on this forum.

DOES HE HAEV BIG EYES ADN J-POP THEME SOGN PLEAS?!?! WUT IS YUR FAVOTRITE NARTO OR SAUKSE OKAY!!11?!?

[Aratos]

you have a point. Guess it _was_ bit nieve to bother posting that he's dead and expect anyone to be bothered.