QUOTES ABOUT ROBERT ANTON WILSON

Quotes[edit]

Most of our ancestors were notperfect ladies and gentlemen. Themajority of them weren't even mammals.

I first heard of the 23 Enigma fromWilliam S. Burroughs

We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled
by fear ofprison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existingsociety is based on
keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be moredangerous than a million
armedanarchists.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but
agnosticism about everything.

I'm a libertarian because I don't trustthe people as much as anarchists do. I want to see government limited as
much as possible; I would like to see it reduced back to where it was inJefferson's time, or even smaller. But I
would not like to see it abolished...

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by
professional liars and totally sincerereligious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to
save God and Goodness from Satanand Evil.

I sometimes call myself a libertarianbut that's only because most peopledon't know what anarchist means. Most
people hear you're an anarchist and they think you're getting ready to throw a bomb at a building.

I think any government is dangerousno matter how small you make it.

I think government should be treated like religion, everyone should be able to pick the kind they like. Only it
should be contractual not obligatory.

Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show a truly staggering ability to "ignore" certain
kinds of information that which does not "fit" their imprinted/conditioned reality-tunnel.

"Mind" is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same
reason that you cant see your own back

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is "theLie that all men believe."

The worst that can happen undermonarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by
an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seemsabsurd.

You simply cannot invent anyconspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people
somewhere don't already believe it.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. Themajority of them
weren't even mammals.

Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977), p. 84

I first heard of the 23 Enigma from William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova

Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in
Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day,
Clarks ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while
Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin
on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another Captain
Clark and the flight was Flight 23.

"The 23 Phenomenon" in Fortean Times 23 (1977), also quoted in "The hidden roots
of the 23 Enigma" by Theo Paijmans at the Charles Forte Institute (13 May 2010)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that
cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will,
nobody could be controlled by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of
death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the
masses. Ten people who knowwould be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.

Hugh Crane a.k.a. Cagliostro the Great, in Schrdinger's Cat Trilogy : The Trick Top
Hat (1979)

Guerrilla ontology
The basic technique of all my books. Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is
to so mix the elements of each book that the reader mustdecide on each page 'How much of this
is real and how much is a put-on?'"

The Illuminati Papers (1980), p. 2

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a

single idea.

The Illuminati Papers (1980), p. 111

The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The

unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map
which adequately represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or

she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty. I
use what in modern physics is called the "multi-model" approach, which is the idea that there is
more than one model to cover a given set of facts. As I've said, novel writing
involves learning to think like other people. My novels are written so as to force the reader to see
things through different reality grids rather than through a single grid. It's important to abolish
the unconscious dogmatism that makes people think their way of looking at reality is the
only sane way of viewing the world. My goal is to try to get people into a state of
generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism
about everything. If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is
destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. It's only possible to see people when one is
able to see the world as others see it. That's what guerrilla ontology is breaking down this
one-model view and giving people a multi-model perspective.

"Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence" - interview with Jeffrey
Elliot (1980)

My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long
period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is
an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian. I suppose an anarchist
would say, paraphrasing whatMarx said about agnostics being "frightened atheists," that
libertarians are simply frightened anarchists. Having just stated the case for the opposition, I will
go along and agree with them: yes, I am frightened. I'm a libertarian because I don't trust the
people as much as anarchists do. I want to seegovernment limited as much as possible; I
would like to see it reduced back to where it was in Jefferson's time, or even smaller. But
I would not like to see it abolished. I think the average American, if left totally free, would
act exactly like Idi Amin. I don't trust the people any more than I trust the government.

"Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence" - interview by Jeffrey Elliot
(1980)

A true initiation never ends.

Masks of the Illuminati (1981), p. 257

"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where

two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a
treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the
others."

The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati (The Historical Illuminatus
Chronicles Vol. 1) (1982), p. 100

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every
war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a
Holy Crusade to save God andGoodness from Satan and Evil.

Cosmic Trigger II : Down to Earth (1991)

Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see

a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see
empty robot faces monotonously reciting themagic incantations, "We must support the
President" and "We must support our troops", both of which mean the killing must continue.

Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth (1991)

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.The

government has been paying farmers not to grow food for fifty years--while millions starve. Labor
unions, business and government conspire to hold back the Microprocessor Revolution-because none of them know how to deal with the massive unemployment it will cause. (Fuller's
books could tell them.) The utilities advertise continually that "solar power is at least forty years
in the future" when my friend Karl Hess, and hundreds of others, already live in largely solarpowered houses. These propaganda advertisements are just a delaying action, because the
utilities still haven't figured out how to put a meter between us and the sun.

Right Where You Are Sitting Now: Further Tales of the Illuminati. Berkeley, CA: Ronin
Pub., 1993. p. 144.[1]

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the
world around me typical in the sense of being one of the damn good models around these
days. I am typical in the sense that ...a lot of people are on the same wave length as me. I get
fan mail from people that are absolutely stunned that there's somebody else besides themselves
who thinks this way. So, we're a minority, but there are a lot of us. On a planet this overcrowded,
a minority can have a few million numbers. More scientific than religious. More open than
dogmatic. More optimistic than pessimistic. More future oriented than past oriented. And more
humorous than serious. I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people.
I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very
dangerous.

"Robert Anton Wilson on Wilhelm Reich" (March 1995)

He {Wilhelm Reich} had a great capacity to arouse irrational hatredobviously, and

that's because his ideas were radical in the most extreme sense of the word "radical." His
ideas have something to offend everybody, and he ended up becoming the only heretic in
American history whose books were literally burned by the government.
Timothy Leary spent five years in prison for unorthodox scientific ideas. Ezra Pound spent 13
years in a nuthouse for unorthodox political and economic ideas. Their books were not burned.
Reich was not only thrown in prison, but they chopped up all the scientific equipment in
his laboratory with axes and burned all of his books in an incinerator. Now that interests
me as a civil liberties issue.
When I started studying Reich's works, I went through a period of enthusiasm, followed by a
period of skepticism, followed by a period of just continued interest, but I think a lot of his ideas
probably were sound. A lot probably were unsound. And, I'm not a Reichian in the sense of
somebody who thinks he was the greatest scientist who ever lived and discovered the
basic secrets ofpsychology, physics and everything else, all in one lifetime. But I think he
has enough sound ideas that his unpopular ideas deserve further investigation.

"Robert Anton Wilson on Wilhelm Reich" (March 1995)

Well I sometimes call myself a libertarian but that's only because most people don't

know what anarchist means. Most people hear you're an anarchist and they think you're
getting ready to throw a bomb at a building. They don't understand the concept of voluntary
association, the whole concept of replacing force with voluntary cooperation or contractual
arrangements and so on. So libertarian is a clearer word that doesn't arouse any
immediate anxiety upon the listener. And then again, libertarians, if they were totally consistent
with their principles would be anarchists. They take the position which they call minarchy, which
is the smallest possible government... The reason I don't believe in the smallest possible
government is because we started out with that and it only took us 200 years to arrive at the
czarist occupation of government that we have now. I think any government is dangerous no
matter how small you make it. Instead of governments we should have contractual
associations that you can opt out of if you don't like the way the association is
going. Religions fought for hundreds of years over which one should dominate Europe and then
they finally gave up and made a truce, and they all agreed to tolerate each other at least in
this part of the world... But I think government should be treated like religion, everyone
should be able to pick the kind they like. Only it should be contractual not obligatory. I
wouldn't mind paying tax money to a local association to maintain a police force, as long as we
need one. But I hate like hell paying taxes to help the US government build more nuclear
missiles to blow up more people I don't even know and don't think I'd hate them if I did know

them. A lot of anarchists had a major roll in influencing my political thinking, especially the
individualist anarchists. Benjamin Tucker and Lysander Spooner especially. But I've also been
influenced by Leo Tolstoy's anarcho-pacifism. And I find a lot of Kropotkincompatible even
though he was a communist anarchist. Nothing wrong with communist anarchism as long
as it remains voluntary. Any one that wants to go make a commune, go ahead, do it. I
got nothing against it. As long as there's room to the individualist to do his or her own
thing.

Interview in TSOG (2002) (sound file)

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models

or glosses our reality-tunnels will become. Resistance to new information, however,

has a strong neurological foundation in all animals, as indicated by studies of imprinting and
conditioning. Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show a truly
staggering ability to "ignore" certain kinds of information that which does not "fit"
their imprinted/conditioned reality-tunnel. We generally call this "conservatism" or
"stupidity", but it appears in all parts of the politicalspectrum, and in learned societies as
well as in the Ku Klux Klan.

Quantum Psychology
I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. "Oh Random

Chance! Oh Random Chance!" just doesn't cut it.

DragonCon, 2000

This quote is knowingly or otherwise lifted from Bill Hicks' comedy routine, or vice
versa.

Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies
in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer
sciences and then to non-sciences like politics,ideology, jury verdicts and, of
course, conspiracy theory.

Interview in High Times (2003)

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

"RAW Thoughts" at rawilson.com

I regard the two major male archetypes in 20th Century literature asLeopold
Bloom and Hannibal Lecter. M.D. Bloom, the perpetual victim, thekind and gentle fellow who
finishes last, represented an astonishing breakthrough to new levels of realism in the novel, and
also symbolized the view of humanity that hardly anybody could deny c. 19001950. History, sociology,economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyces view of Everyman as
victim.Bloom, exploited and downtrodden by the Brits for being Irish and rejected by
many of the Irish for being Jewish, does indeed epiphanizehumanity in the first half of the
20th Century. And he remains a nice guy despite everything that happens...
Dr Lecter, my candidate for the male archetype of 1951-2000, will never win any Nice Guy
awards, I fear, but he symbolizes our age as totally as Bloom symbolized his. Hannibal's
wit, erudition, insight into others, artistic sensitivity, scientific knowledge etc. make him
almost a walking one man encyclopedia of Western civilization. As for his "hobbies" as he
calls them well, according to the World Game Institute, since the end of World War II, in which
60,000,000 human beings were murdered by other human beings, 193, 000,000 more humans
have been murdered by other humans in brush wars, revolutions, insurrections etc. What better
symbol of our age than a serial killer? Hell, can you think of any recent U.S. President
who doesn't belong in the Serial Killer Hall of Fame? And their motives make no more
sense, and no less sense, than Dr Lecter's Darwinian one-man effort to rid the planet of
those he finds outstandingly loutish and uncouth.

"Previous Thoughts" at rawilson.com

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Cosmic Trigger II : Down to Earth

No, they were not exactly automatons, but they did not know what they were doing. They

take down a boys britches. They stare at his buttocks. They cane him until the buttocks bleed.
And they believe this is virtue, because it is done in a school, and it becomes vice only if it is
done in a place with a red lantern over the door.

The Widow's Son

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of

initiation.

The Widow's Son

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some
sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and
real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

Nature's God This is a statement derived from one in the Principia Discordia
Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no

size...)

Nature's God
There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine

Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.

The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Luigi Duccio

The creative faculty, the god-power, is not used here with anything less than literalness.

When beauty was created by a godly mind, beauty existed, as surely as the paintings
of Botticelli or the concerti of Vivaldi exist. When mercy was created, mercy
existed. When guilt was created, guilt existed. Out of a meaningless and pointless existence,
we have made meaning andpurpose; but since this creative act happens only when we
relax after great strain, we feel it as 'pouring into us' from elsewhere. Thus, we do not know
our own godhood and we are perpetually swindled by those who assure us that it is indeed
elsewhere, but they can give us access to it, for a reasonable fee. And when we as a species
were ignorant enough to be duped in that way, the swindlers went one step further,
invented original sin and other horrors of that sort, and made us even more 'dependent'
upon them.

The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine

The illusion of Sin and Guilt, the madness of our species, is the act

ofcursing the world under the misapprehension that one is cursing only one part of it. To
curse the fig tree, as in the funniest and most misunderstood parable of Jesus, is to curse the
soil in which it grew, the seed, the rains, the sun; the whole world, eventually because no part
is truly separate from the whole.The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from
the whole is "the Lie that all men believe."

The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine

"Is," "is." "is" the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were

abolished,human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I
only know how it seems to me at this moment.

The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine

Why does the sexual appetite cause so much unspeakable joy and irrational misery, so

much suicidal and homicidal madness, and so much absurd theological ranting? Because every
sexual choice is going to play a role in determining the temperament and talents of the next
generation, and of all future generations who will inherit the earth from us. To be simple about it
for once, a single friendly fuck can fill a continent with morons or geniuses in only a few
thousand years.

The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile,

but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by M. Gabriel Sartines

Each mans spills the drink he loves.

Cosmic Trigger II
Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire

all the time. Politiciansconspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the
narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.

The I in the Triangle, speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California (1990)
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell

of a lot better than thesystem we have now.

rawilson.com website/blog entry (mid 1990s)

Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and
two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look
forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore
you to keep the lasagna flying.
Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.

"Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night" final blog entry (6 January 2007)

The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)[edit]

There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than
the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normalmind. This is one such period, if you
haven't noticed already.
Main article: The Illuminatus! Trilogy

There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better
guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the socalled normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.

ONLY THE MADMAN IS ABSOLUTELY SURE.

Part I : The Eye in the Pyramid, p. 32

Part I : The Eye in the Pyramid p. 176 of 1988 edition

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian
society but also of its weakness.

And Spaceship Earth, that glorious and bloody circus, continued its four-billion-year-long
spiral orbit about the Sun; the engineering, I must admit, was so exquisite that none of the
passengers felt any motion at all. Those on the dark side of the ship mostly slept and
voyaged into worlds of freedom and fantasy; those on the light side moved about the tasks
appointed for them by their rulers, or idled waiting for the next order from above.

Prometheus Rising (1983)[edit]

Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.

The current rampages of territorial-emotional pugnacity sweeping this planet are not just another
civilization failing They are the birth-pangs of a cosmic Prometheus rising out of the long nightmare
of domesticated primate history.

Comparative religion and philosophy show that the Thinker can regard itself as
mortal, as immortal, as both mortal and immortal (the reincarnation model) or even as
non-existent (Buddhism). It can think itself into living in a Christian universe,
a Marxist universe, a scientific-relativistic universe, or a Nazi universe among many
possibilities.
As psychiatrists and psychologists have often observed (much to the chagrin of their
medical colleagues), the Thinker can think itself sick, and can even think itself well again.
The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one law only:Whatever the
Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.
To cite a notorious example which unleashed incredible horrors earlier in this century, if the

Thinker thinks that all Jews are rich, the Prover will prove it. It will find evidence that the
poorest Jew in the most run-down ghetto has hidden money somewhere.

Ch. 1 : The Thinker & The Prover, p. 25

Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. And if the Thinker thinks passionately
enough, the Prover will prove the thought so conclusively that you will never talk a person
out of such a belief, even if it is something as remarkable as the notion that there is
a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft ("GOD") who will spend all eternity torturing
people who do not believe in his religion.

Ch. 1 : The Thinker & The Prover, p. 28

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories
by ink excretions on paper.

Ch. 4 : The Anal Emotional Territiorial Circuit, p. 68

The current rampages of territorial-emotional pugnacity sweeping this planet are not just
another civilization failing They are the birth-pangs of a cosmicPrometheus rising out of
the long nightmare of domesticated primate history.

Ch. 5 : Dickens & Joyce : The Two-Circuit Dialectic, p. 90

"Mind" is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself,
for much the same reason that you cant see your own back (without mirrors).

Ch. 14 : The Meta Programming Circuit, p. 224

Mind and its contents are functionally identical: My wife only exists, for me, in my mind. Not
being a solipsist, I recognize the converse: I only exist, for her, in her mind. Lest the reader
exclaim, like Byron of Wordworth, "I wish he would explain his explanation!", let us try it this
way: If I am so fortunate as to be listening to the Hammerklavier sonata, the only correct
answer, if you ask me suddenly, "Who are you?" would be to hum the Hammerklavier. For,
with music of that quality, one is hypnotized into rapt attention: there is no division between
"me" and "my experience".

Ch. 14 : The Meta-Programming Circuit, p. 219

Everything Is Under Control (1998)[edit]

The AA must rank as the most secretive secret society in the world.

Occult historians generally agree that V.V.V.V.V. signified Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici ("By
the force oftruth I have conquered the universe")
Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups (1998)

Yates thinks Bruno may have had a role in the invention of

eitherRosicrucianism or Freemasonry or both.

The major offense of Masonry to orthodox churches is that it, like ourFirst Amendment,
encourages equaltolerance for all religions, and this tends, somewhat, to lessen dogmatic
allegiance to any one religion.

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously
satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.
Introduction, p. 16

The AA must rank as the most secretive secret society in the world.Perhaps
nobody, not even the few writers who have discussed it, knows for sure when the
AA began, which group claiming to be the AA at present is thereal AA, or
even what the symbols AA stand for although many claim to know these things of
course. Occult historians generally agree that V.V.V.V.V. signified Vi Veri Vniversum
Vivus Vici ("By the force of truth I have conquered theuniverse"), one of the
eleven magic mottoes of Aleister Crowley.
On conspiracy theories involving the AA, and the leader, known only by the
initials V.V.V.V.V., in AA, p. 21 - 22

Most historians merely mention that Bruno was charged with the heresy of teaching
Copernican astronomy, but Frances Yates, a historian who specialized in the occult
aspects of the scientific revolution, points out that Bruno was charged with 18 heresies
and crimes, including the practice of sorcery and organizing secret societies to oppose
the Vatican. Yates thinks Bruno may have had a role in the invention of
either Rosicrucianism orFreemasonry or both.
Bruno's teachings combined the new science of his time with traditional
Cabalistic mysticism. He believed in a universe of infinite space with infinite planets,
and in a kind of dualistic pantheism, in which the divine is incarnate in every part but

always in conflicting forms that both oppose and support each other. Whatever his link
with occult secret societies, he influencedHegel, Marx, theosophy, James
Joyce, Timothy Leary, Discordianism, and Dr. Wilhelm Reich.
"Giordano Bruno", p. 95

Many tribal peoples have both all-male and all-female secret societies, which help
maintain the cultural values or reality tunnel. Freemasonry is certainly the largest,
and probably the oldest, and still the most controversial of the all-male secret societies
surviving in our world. No two scholars can even agree on how old it is, much less on
how "good" or "evil" it is. Although Masonry is often denounced as either
a political or religious "conspiracy", Freemasons are forbidden to discuss either politics
or religion within the lodge. Gary Dryfoos of the Massachusetts Institute of technology,
who maintains the best Masonic site on the web, always stresses these points and also
offers personal testimony that after many years as a Mason, including high ranks, he
has not yet been asked to engage in pagan or Satanic rituals or plot for any reason for
or against any political party. The more rabid anti-Masons, of course, dismiss such
testimony as flat lies.
The enemies of Masonry, who are usually Roman Catholics or Fundamentalist
Protestants, insist that the rites of the order contain "pagan" elements, e.g.,
theYule festival, the Spring Solstice festival, the dead-and-resurrected martyr (Jesus,
allegedly historical, to Christians; Hiram, admittedly allegorical, to Masons). All these
and many other elements in Christianity and Masonry have a long prehistory in
paganism, as documented in the 12 volumes of Sir James George Frazer's Golden
Bough.
The major offense of Masonry to orthodox churches is that it, like ourFirst
Amendment, encourages equal tolerance for all religions, and this tends,
somewhat, to lessen dogmatic allegiance to any one religion.Those who insist you
must accept their dogma fervently and renounce all others as devilish errors, correctly
see this Masonic tendency as inimitable [sic] to their faith.
Freemasonry, p. 187; in the final sentence here, inimitable perhaps should be
"inimicable"

"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural,
a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all
explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles
translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems

to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH,

mispronounced Jehovah, later still.
Genesis, p. 197

You need the "is of identity" to describe conspiracy theories. Korzybski would say that
proves that illusions, delusions, and "mental" illnesses require the "is" to perpetuate
them. (He often said, "Isness is an illness.")
Korzybski also popularized the idea that most sentences, especially the sentences that
people quarrel over or even go to war over, do not rank as propositions in the logical
sense, but belong to the category that Bertrand Russell called propositional
functions. They do not have one meaning, as a proposition in logic should have;
they have several meanings, like an algebraic function.
Language as Conspiracy, p. 277

Dr. Wilhelm Reich was condemned for unscientific claims by the Food and Drug
Administration in 1956 because of his theories about sexual freedom and his
discovery of an alleged "orgone" energy. He quickly became the most world-famous
victim of the FDA's quest to impose One True Faith on medical practice in the United
States, because the Feds not only destroyed all the equipment in Dr. Reich's
experimental laboratory but burned all hisbooks, too, in an incinerator, and then they put
him in jail where he died of a heart attack.
Since many disapprove of this unconstitutional way of silencing heresy, Dr. Reich
has remained a center of controversy. In addition to his bio-physical heresies, Dr.
Reich vastly offended many people by his sociologicaltheory, which holds that fascism is
just an exaggerated form of the basic structure of sex-negative societies and has
existed under other names in every civilization based on sexual repression. In this
theory, the character and muscular armor of the average citizen a submissive
and frightened attitude anchored in body reflexes causes the average person to want
a strong authority figure above them. Tyranny, in this model, is not created by
tyrants alone but by neurotic masses who want tyrants.
p. 361; some of Wilson's account of the suppression of Reich's ideas and work are
technically exaggerative: though many of Reich's books mentioning his concepts of
orgone energy and the "orgone accumulators" of his laboratory were destroyed the
destruction of his equipment and books was not actually total.

Reality Is What You Can Get Away With (1993, 1996)[edit]

An illustrated screenplay first published in 1993 and revised in 1996, but not (yet) produced in film.

Everyone has a belief system, B.S., the trick is to learn not to take anyone's
B.S. too seriously, especially your own.