Talk:Robert Shea

message: Can anybody provide me with a link to Shea's "tribute page"? Google seems to retreive only one match: the article.
--GatesPlusPlus 12:02, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I remember reading an interview years ago with either Wilson or Shea (possibly in Playboy itself) in he said, presumably with tongue in cheek, that the sole purpose of fiction was to provide descriptions of fellatio.  Anyone know what the source is, and which of them said it? Hayford Peirce 00:10, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fellatio 

message: There are a range of Wikipedia sources that can help you out. All articles must meet WP:V. To learn how to a proper citing style, consult WP:CITE. For what kind of external links are acceptable, WP:EL is a useful set of guidelines.  Good luck!  GBYork 18:56, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  To upgrade article 

message: I don't see the photo anymore, but if it's the one I remember it was by Jeff Koslow, owned by the Association for Consciousness Exploration, the same one shown here http://bobshea.net, and used by permission. It is the same photo to be found on the cover of the cassette lecture tape "A Meeting with Robert Shea". I don't know how to reverse it's deletion. Also, starting the text with the fact that he co-wrote a book already mentioned in the next paragraph doesn't make much sense. Shouldn't it just start with something like "Robert Shea was a journalist and an author of science fiction and historical novels."? Rosencomet 20:34, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo of Bob Shea 

message: I have no dog in this race, but it seems that this is a clash of personalities that has zip to do with the facts. Pigman has deleted ONLY stuff about these ACE-related appearances and recordings. There's no record I can find that Robert Shea ever appeared anywhere else (so how can it be undue weight?) or made any other recorded talks. Therefor, they belong in this article, where viewers can learn about them. If Robert Shea had spoken at some other event, like the Whole Life Expo, and Sounds True had produced the talk on tape, I don't think this would have happened. He had no objection to mentioning an outline of a novel that was never even written, Children of Earthmaker. (For that matter, why does it have an article?) I also changed the section heading from Other Writings to Other Works. JuliusAaron (talk) 18:23, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Recorded lectures and panel discussions

message: Shea met Wilsoned on Playboy magazine. They decided to collaborate on a novel. It would combine sex, drugs, religious cults and conspiracies, as well as anarchy. Their philosophical and political differences merely served to enrich their efforts. Objectivity was jettisoned, as indeed was subjectivity: no single point of view or version of reality was privileged: Illuminatus! was the three-volume consequence.
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What exactly were the philosophical and political differences between Shea and Wilson? It sounds to me like they were both non-pseudoskeptical skeptics open to religious mysticism and magic, and non-objectivist hedonistic egoist anarcho-capitalist propertarian libertarians. Is there anything I missed? Can somebody spell out what significant differences they had, if any? I think this would improve this section of the article and help shed more light on the details of the philosophies of these two men.  Shanoman (talk) 00:55, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The Illuminatus! Trilogy