Cosmic Trigger: Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati (Paperback)

from lithicbee

I try to open my mind up as much as possible when reading R.A.W.'s books, because it is more fun that way. Skipping the self-medication and sex magick bit, the basic thesis I think anyone can draw from this is that it is good to keep an open mind and believe "six impossible things before breakfas...

from latefordinner

R. A. Wilsons books are not the occult themed mystery stories they appear to be. They are in fact attempts at ontological subversion, by trying to create states of cognitive dissonance in the reader thereby freeing the reader from preconcieved ideas and assumptions that can distort and color the ...

from Ogmin

A great read. In spite of their mystic insights and cosmic aspirations, RAW and Leary were vulnerable human beings living in a dark age. Wilson provides a surprisingly graphic glimpse of life as the sixties became a memory and the backlash began; the onset of the troubling karmas which are still ...

from RandyStafford

My reactions to reading this book in 2004. "Foreword", Timothy Leary, Ph.D -- Basically an account of the syncretic blend of weirdness the reader can expect from Wilson, who seems to be Leary's friend. Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati, Robert Anton Wilson -- This book provide...

from ritaer

How many predictions of the futurists failed to come to fruition--space colonies, life extension, immortality, Interesting relic of the era, insights into what many thought was going to happen.