From: majcher@acsu.buffalo.edu (Salamander~)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,alt.satanism,bit.listserv.fnord-l
Subject: Re: Robert Anton Wilson (Was: Satan)
Keywords: and still is...:)
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:59:41 GMT
Organization: UB


petruz@uqbar.cirfid.unibo.it (Petruz Boonenkamp) writes:

>In article <1992Aug11.150433.29253@spdc.ti.com> achenbac@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Jeff Achenbach) writes:
>>>(unless you read R.A.Wilson's books which I doubt)
>>
>>Titles/ recommended reading?

>He he.  I STILL think the idea of an alt.wilson group or something would
>have been good.  Anyway:

	Try bit.listserv.fnord-l (or FNORD-l@ubvm.bitnet).

>Falcon Press/Golden Dawn, 1209 South Casino Center, Suite 147, Las Vegas,
>NV 89104, (702) 385 5749, publishes quite a few of his best nonfiction:

>Cosmic Trigger
>Cosmic Trigger, volume 2 (really his autobiography)
>Sex and Drugs
>Wilhelm Reich in Hell (a theatrical piece)
>Prometheus Rising
>Coincidance
>Ishtar Rising: Book of the Breast

>There's also lots of other books of his, such as "The New Inquisition", which
>*I thought* Falcon Press publishe{s,d}, but they're not in the list I have
>here.  He also edits himself a Newsletter, "Trajectories", supposedly about
>Our future in space, Nanotech, Artificial Intelligence, Parapsychology,
>Longevity, etc.; 20 $/year, originally quarterly but now perhaps monthly;
>Permanent Press, PO Box 700305, San Jose, CA 95170 (I haven't seen the
>newsletter, so check yourself).

>Reading suggestions about Wilson's nonfiction: "Cosmic Trigger" vol 2 is
>a good place to start, vol. 1 is reasonably general; each of the other
>is quite specialized in its own way (e.g. forget Coincidance unless you
>have at least SOME interest in James Joyce).

>Wilson's fiction is, I believe, even better reading.  The absolute must
>in this field would be "Masks of the Illuminati" (Joyce, Einstein and
>Crowley in a short significant novel).  "The Earth Will Shake" and its
>follow-up "The Widow's Son" are great.  "The Trick Top Hat", "The
>Homing Pigeons", and "Shrodinger's Cat" trilogy is a major work.  His
>original claim to fame, the "Illuminatus!" trilogy written with Shea,
>is also VERY entertaining.  Unfortunately I don't know the publishers
>for these and other fiction works.

>>   Not that it should matter, but lest you take me for a fundamentalist, I
>>am a confirmed atheist and have no use for deities in any form.

>Wison is an Onthological Terrorist, well determined to undermine your
>ideological certainties as well as any fundamentalist's (or satanist's,
>for that matter!).  He manages to jump with assurance and panache
>between the "reality-tunnels" of Jung, Leary, Conspiracy Fans, Pagans,
>Rationalists, Freemasons, Crowleyists, Reichians, and many others,
>jumbling them all up and determinedly tearing down barriers all around.
>NOT recommended if you want to stick to Your Certainty of the One True
>Way, whatever it be, as it MIGHT happen that he should shake it up...

>Oh BTW -- I don't see any particular relevance of Wilson's work to
>Satanism (I may have missed something?).  The Ringmaster in "Wilhelm
>Reich in Hell" looks modeled rather after Rehnquist or something, and
>does NOT appear to be a particularly liberating figure (he can't even
>be REALLY evil all the way -- when he masturbates to fantasies of
>Marylin Monroe, it's VERY hard not to feel pity for him).  Anyway, so
>I added rec.arts.books to the Newsgroups headerline, and maybe
>discussion should go on there to avoid boring alt.satanism readers,
>unless somebody CAN please point out the relevance (I shamefacedly
>admit I haven't followed previous discussion there, not being a regular
>reader, just my eyes grabbed a Wilson reference and I took my clue from
>it...)



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