Quotes About Robert Anton Wilson

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QUOTES ABOUT ROBERT ANTON WILSON

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

I first heard of the 23 nigma from!illiam ". #urroughs$

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!e are all a%solutely free. If every%ody could go into dhyana at will& no%ody could %e controlled

%y fear of prison& %y fear of whips or electroshoc(& %y fear of death& even. )ll e*istingsociety is %ased on

(eeping those fears alive& to control the masses. Ten people who (now would %e moredangerous than a million

armedanarchists.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generali+ed agnosticism& not agnosticism a%out ,od alone& %ut

agnosticism a%out everything.

I'm a li%ertarian %ecause I don't trustthe people as much as anarchists do. I want to see government limited asmuch as possi%le- I would li(e to see it reduced %ac( to where it was inefferson's time& or even smaller. #ut I

would not li(e to see it a%olished...

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very war results from the struggle for mar(ets and spheres of influence& and every war is sold to the pu%lic %y

professional liars and totally sincerereligious maniacs& as a /oly 0rusade to

save ,od and ,oodness from "atanand vil.

I sometimes call myself a li%ertarian%ut that's only %ecause most peopledon't (now what anarchist means. Most

people hear you're an anarchist and they thin( you're getting ready to throw a %om% at a %uilding.

I thin( any government is dangerousno matter how small you ma(e it.

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I thin( government should %e treated li(e religion& everyone should %e a%le to pic( the (ind they li(e. 1nly it

should %e contractual not o%ligatory.

Most animals& including most domesticated primates humans show a truly staggering a%ility to 4ignore4 certain

(inds of information that which does not 4fit4 their imprinted5conditioned reality6tunnel.

4Mind4 is a tool invented %y the universe to see itself- %ut it can never see all of itself& for much the same

reason that you can7t see your own %ac($

I don't %elieve anything& %ut I have many suspicions.

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#eyond a certain point& the whole universe %ecomes a continuous process of initiation.

/orror is the natural reaction to the last 8&999 years of history.

There is a%solutely nothing that can %e ta(en for granted in this world.

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The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is 4the:ie that all men %elieve.4

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule %y a single im%ecile& %ut democracy often means the rule %y

an assem%ly of three or four hundred im%eciles.

;lease pardon my levity& I don't see how to ta(e death seriously. It seemsa%surd.


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• 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 =>??& p. @A

• I first heard of the 23 Enigma from William . !urroughs& author of Naked Lunch& Nova

Express& etc. )ccording to #urroughs& he had (nown a certain 0aptain 0lar(& around =>B9 in

Tangier& who once %ragged that he had %een sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day&

0lar(7s ship had an accident that (illed him and every%ody else a%oard. Curthermore& while

#urroughs was thin(ing a%out this crude e*ample of the irony of the gods that evening& a %ulletin

on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Clorida& D"). The pilot was another 0aptain

0lar( and the flight was Clight 23.

• 4The 23 ;henomenon4 in Fortean Times 23 =>??& also Euoted in 4The hidden roots

of the 23 nigma4 %y Theo ;aijmans at the 0harles Corte Institute =3 May 29=9

• There is no governor anywhere" you are all a#solutely free. There is no restraint that

cannot #e escaped. !e are all a%solutely free. If every%ody could go into dhyana at will&

no%ody could %e controlled %y fear of prison& %y fear of whips or electroshoc(& %y fear of

death& even. )ll e*isting society is %ased on (eeping those fears alive& to control the

masses. Ten people who $nowwould #e more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.

• /ugh 0rane a.(.a. 0agliostro the ,reat& in Schrödingers Cat Trilog! : The Trick Top

"at =>?>

• Guerrilla ontology

The #asic techni%ue of all my #oo$s. 1ntology is the study of %eing- the guerrilla approach is

to so mi* the elements of each %oo( that the reader mustdecide on each page '/ow much of this

is real and how much is a put6onF'4

• The Illuminati #apers =>@9& p. 2

• It only ta$es 2& years for a li#eral to #ecome a conservative without changing a

single idea.

• The Illuminati #apers =>@9& p. ===

• The Western World has #een #rainwashed #y ristotle for the last 2()&& years. The

unconscious( not %uite articulate( #elief of most *ccidentals is that there is one map

which ade%uately represents reality. !y sheer good luc$( every *ccidental thin$s he or

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she has the map that fits. +uerrilla ontology( to me( involves sha$ing up that certainty. I

use what in modern physics is called the 4multi6model4 approach& which is the idea that there is

more than one model to cover a given set of facts. )s I've said& novel writing

involves learning to thin( li(e 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 a#olishthe unconscious dogmatism that ma$es people thin$ their way of loo$ing at reality is the

only sane way of viewing the world. My goal is to try to get people into a state of

generali,ed agnosticism( not agnosticism a#out +od alone( #ut agnosticism

a#out everything. If one can only see things according to one's own %elief system& one is

destined to %ecome virtually deaf& dum%& and %lind. It's only possi%le to see people when one is

a%le to see the world as others see it. That's what guerrilla ontology is %rea(ing down this

one6model view and giving people a multi6model perspective.

• 4Go%ert )nton !ilsonH "earching Cor 0osmic Intelligence4 6 interview with effrey

lliot =>@9

• My early wor$ is politically anarchist fiction( in that I was an anarchist for a long

period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer( #ecause I've concluded that anarchism is

an impractical ideal. -owadays( I regard myself as a li#ertarian. I suppose an anarchist

would say& paraphrasing whatMar* said a%out agnostics %eing 4frightened atheists&4 that

li%ertarians are simply frightened anarchists. /aving just stated the case for the opposition& I will

go along and agree with themH yes& I am frightened. I'm a li#ertarian #ecause I don't trust the

people as much as anarchists do. I want to seegovernment limited as much as possi#le" I

would li$e to see it reduced #ac$ to where it was in efferson's time( or even smaller. !ut

I would not li$e to see it a#olished. I thin$ the average merican( if left totally free( would

act e/actly li$e Idi min. I don't trust the people any more than I trust the government.

• 4Go%ert )nton !ilsonH "earching Cor 0osmic Intelligence4 6 interview %y effrey lliot

=>@9

• true initiation never ends.

•

$asks of the Illuminati =>@=& p. 28?

• 0Every national #order in Europe(0 El Eswad added ironically( 0mar$s the place where

two gangs of #andits got too e/hausted to $ill each other anymore and signed a

treaty. 1atriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of #andits is #etter than all the

others.0

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• The Earth %ill Shake: The "istor! of the Earl! Illuminati The /istorical Illuminatus

0hronicles ol. = =>@2& p. =99

• Every war results from the struggle for mar$ets and spheres of influence( and every

war is sold to the pu#lic #y professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs( as aoly rusade to save +od and+oodness from atan and Evil.

• Cosmic Trigger II : &o'n to Earth =>>=

• Every morning I have #een loo$ing at -- to see if there is any reason for hope. I see

a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world& %ut mostly I see

empty ro%ot faces monotonously reciting themagic incantations& 4!e must support the

;resident4 and 4!e must support our troops4& %oth of which mean the (illing must continue.

• Cosmic Trigger II: &o'n to Earth =>>=

• We live in an age of artificial scarcity( maintained #y ignorance and fear.The

government has %een paying farmers not to gro' food for fifty years66while millions starve. :a%or

unions& %usiness and government conspire to hold %ac( the Microprocessor Gevolution66

%ecause none of them (now how to deal with the massive unemployment it will cause. Culler 's

%oo(s could tell them. The utilities advertise continually that 4solar power is at least forty years

in the future4 when my friend Jarl /ess& and hundreds of others& already live in largely solar6

powered houses. These propaganda advertisements are just a delaying action& %ecause the

utilities still haven't figured out how to put a meter %etween us and the sun.

• (ight %here )ou *re Sitting No': Further Tales of the Illuminati . #er(eley& 0)H Gonin

;u%.& =>>3. p. =AA.[=]

• I'm using myself as a typical 2&th century model as I'm trying to ma$e sense out of the

world around me $ typical in the sense of %eing 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 a%solutely stunned that there's some%ody else %esides themselves

who thin(s this way. "o& we're a minority& %ut there are a lot of us. 1n a planet this overcrowded&

a minority can have a few million num%ers. $ More scientific than religious. More open than

dogmatic. More optimistic than pessimistic. More future oriented than past oriented. )nd more

humorous than serious. I really dread serious people. Especially serious( dogmatic people.

I regard them as sort of what 4eich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very

dangerous.

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• 4Go%ert )nton !ilson on !ilhelm Geich4 March =>>8

• e 5Wilhelm 4eich6 had a great capacity to arouse irrational hatredo#viously( and

that's #ecause his ideas were radical in the most e/treme sense of the word 0radical.0 is

ideas have something to offend every#ody( and he ended up #ecoming the only heretic inmerican history whose #oo$s were literally #urned #y the government.

Timothy :eary spent five years in prison for unorthodo* scientific ideas. +ra ;ound spent =3

years in a nuthouse for unorthodo* political and economic ideas. Their %oo(s were not %urned.

4eich was not only thrown in prison( #ut they chopped up all the scientific e%uipment in

his la#oratory with a/es and #urned all of his #oo$s in an incinerator. Kow that interests

me as a civil li%erties issue.

!hen I started studying Geich's wor(s& I went through a period of enthusiasm& followed %y a

period of s(epticism& followed %y a period of just continued interest& %ut I thin( a lot of his ideas

pro%a%ly were sound. ) lot pro%a%ly were unsound. )nd& I'm not a 4eichian in the sense of

some#ody who thin$s he was the greatest scientist who ever lived and discovered the

#asic secrets of psychology( physics and everything else( all in one lifetime. !ut I thin$ he

has enough sound ideas that his unpopular ideas deserve further investigation.

• 4Go%ert )nton !ilson on !ilhelm Geich4 March =>>8

• Well I sometimes call myself a li#ertarian #ut that's only #ecause most people don't

$now what anarchist means. Most people hear you're an anarchist and they thin$ you're

getting ready to throw a #om# at a #uilding. They don't understand the concept of voluntary

association& the whole concept of replacing force with voluntary cooperation or contractual

arrangements and so on. "o li%ertarian is a clearer word that doesn't arouse any

immediate an*iety upon the listener. )nd then again& li%ertarians& if they were totally consistent

with their principles would %e anarchists. They ta(e the position which they call minarchy& which

is the smallest possi%le government... The reason I don't %elieve in the smallest possi%le

government is %ecause we started out with that and it only too( us 299 years to arrive at the

c+arist occupation of government that we have now. I think an! government is dangerous no

matter ho' small !ou make it+ Instead of governments we should have contractual

associations that you can opt out of if you don't li$e the way the association is

going. Geligions fought for hundreds of years over which one should dominate urope 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... #ut I thin$ government should #e treated li$e religion( everyone

should #e a#le to pic$ the $ind they li$e. *nly it should #e contractual not o#ligatory. I

wouldn't mind paying ta* money to a local association to maintain a police force& as long as we

need one. #ut I hate li(e hell paying ta*es to help the D" government %uild more nuclear

missiles to %low up more people I don't even (now and don't thin( I'd hate them if I did (now

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them. ) lot of anarchists had a major roll in influencing my political thin(ing& especially the

individualist anarchists. #enjamin Tuc(er and :ysander "pooner especially. #ut I've also %een

influenced %y :eo Tolstoy's anarcho6pacifism. )nd I find a lot of Jropot(incompati%le even

though he was a communist anarchist. -othing wrong with communist anarchism as long

as it remains voluntary. ny one that wants to go ma$e a commune( go ahead( do it. Igot nothing against it. s long as there's room to the individualist to do his or her own

thing.

• Interview in T"1, 2992 sound file

• *#viously( the faster we process information( the more rich and comple/ our models

or glosses 7 our reality8tunnels 7 will #ecome. (esistance to ne' information& however&

has a strong neurological foundation in all animals& as indicated %y studies of imprinting and

conditioning. Most animals( including most domesticated primates 9humans: show a truly

staggering a#ility to 0ignore0 certain $inds of information 7 that which does not 0fit0

their imprinted;conditioned reality8tunnel. We generally call this 0conservatism0 or

0stupidity0( #ut it appears in all parts of the politicalspectrum( and in learned societies as

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• I regard the two major male archetypes in 2&th entury literature as>eopold

!loom and anni#al >ecter . M.. #loom& the perpetual victim& the(ind and gentle fellow who

finishes last& represented an astonishing %rea(through to new levels of realism in the novel& and

also sym%oli+ed the view of humanity that hardly any%ody could deny c. =>996

=>89. /istory& sociology&economics& psychology et al . confirmed oyce7s view of veryman asvictim.!loom( e/ploited and downtrodden #y the !rits for #eing Irish and rejected #y

many of the Irish for #eing ewish( does indeed epiphani,ehumanity in the first half of the

2&th entury. nd he remains a nice guy despite everything that happens...

?r >ecter( my candidate for the male archetype of @A)@82&&&( will never win any -ice +uy

awards( I fear( #ut he sym#oli,es our age as totally as !loom sym#oli,ed his. anni#al's

wit( erudition( insight into others( artistic sensitivity( scientific $nowledge etc. ma$e him

almost a wal$ing one man encyclopedia of Western civili,ation. )s for his 4ho%%ies4 as he

calls them well& according to the !orld ,ame Institute& since the end of !orld !ar II& in which

B9&999&999 human %eings were murdered %y other human %eings& =>3& 999&999 more humanshave %een murdered %y other humans in %rush wars& revolutions& insurrections etc. What #etter

sym#ol of our age than a serial $illerB ell( can you thin$ of any recent C.. 1resident

who doesn't #elong in the erial ecter's ?arwinian one8man effort to rid the planet of

those he finds outstandingly loutish and uncouth.

• 4;revious Thoughts4 at rawilson.com

• orror is the natural reaction to the last )(&&& years of history.

• Cosmic Trigger II : &o'n to Earth

• Ko& they were not e*actly automatons& %ut they did not (now what they were doing. They

ta(e down a %oy7s %ritches. They stare at his %uttoc(s. They cane him until the %uttoc(s %leed.

)nd they %elieve this is virtue& %ecause it is done in a school& and it %ecomes vice only if it is

done in a place with a red lantern over the door.

• The %ido's Son

• !eyond a certain point( the whole universe #ecomes a continuous process of

initiation.

• The %ido's Son

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• ll 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.

• Natures 2od This is a statement derived from one in the #rincipia &iscordia

• *istence is larger than any model that is not itself the e*act si+e of e*istence which has no

si+e...

• Natures 2od

• There is a#solutely nothing that can #e ta$en for granted in this world.

• The "istorical Illuminatus as spo(en %y "igismundo 0eline

• 0onspiracy is just another name for coalition.

• The "istorical Illuminatus as spo(en %y :uigi uccio

• The creative faculty& the god6power& is not used here with anything less than literalness.

!hen %eauty was created %y a godly mind& %eauty e*isted& as surely as the paintings

of #otticelli or the concerti of ivaldi e*ist. When mercy was created( mercy

e/isted. !hen guilt was created& guilt e*isted. *ut of a meaningless and pointless e/istence(

we have made meaning andpurpose" #ut since this creative act happens only when we

rela/ after great strain( we feel it as 'pouring into us' from elsewhere. Thus& we do not (now

our own godhood and we are perpetually swindled %y those who assure us that it is indeed

elsewhere& %ut they can give us access to it& for a reasona%le fee. nd when we as a species

were ignorant enough to #e 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 illusion of in and +uilt( the madness of our species( is the act

of cursing 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 para%le of esus& is to curse the

soil in which it grew& the seed& the rains& the sun- the whole world& eventually %ecause no part

is truly separate from the whole.The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from

the whole is 0the >ie that all men #elieve.0

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


• 0Is(0 0is.0 0is0 7 the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were

a#olished(human thought might #egin to ma$e sense. I don't $now what anything 0is0" I

only $now how it seems to me at this moment.


• !hy does the se*ual appetite cause so much unspea(a%le joy and irrational misery& so

much suicidal and homicidal madness& and so much a%surd theological rantingF #ecause every

se*ual choice is going to play a role in determining the temperament and talents of the ne*tgeneration& and of all future generations who will inherit the earth from us. To %e simple a%out it

for once& a single friendly fuc( can fill a continent with morons or geniuses in only a few

thousand years.


• The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule #y a single im#ecile(

#ut democracy often means the rule #y an assem#ly of three or four hundred im#eciles.

• The "istorical Illuminatus as spo(en %y M. ,a%riel "artines

• ach mans spills the drin( he loves.

• 0osmic Trigger II

• Every#ody who has ever wor$ed for a corporation $nows that corporations conspire

all the time. 1oliticiansconspire all the time( pot8dealers conspire not to get caught #y the

narcs( the world is full of conspiracies. onspiracy is natural primate #ehavior.

• The I in the Triangle& speech held at a %oo(store in "anta 0ru+& 0alifornia =>>9

• The onstitution admittedly has a few defects and #lemishes( #ut it still seems a hell

of a lot #etter than thesystem we have now.

• rawilson.com we%site5%log entry mid =>>9s

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• arious medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have %etween two days and

two months to live. I thin( they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I loo$

forward without dogmatic optimism #ut without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore

you to $eep the lasagna flying.

1lease pardon my levity( I don't see how to ta$e death seriously. It seems a#surd.

• 4o Kot ,o ,ently Into That ,ood Kight4 final %log entry B anuary 299?

The Illuminatus! Trilogy 9@AD):[edit]

There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a %etter guide to reality than

the common6sense interpretation of data availa%le to the so6called normalmind. This is one such period& if you

haven't noticed already.

$ain article: The Illuminatus3 Trilog!

• There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a #etter

guide to reality than the common8sense interpretation of data availa#le to the so8

called normal mind. This is one such period( if you haven't noticed already.

• ;art I H The ye in the ;yramid& p. 32

• *-> TE M?M- I !*>CTE> C4E.

• ;art I H The ye in the ;yramid p. =?B of =>@@ edition

• The individual act of o%edience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian

society %ut also of its wea(ness.

• )nd "paceship arth& that glorious and %loody circus& continued its four6%illion6year6long

spiral or%it a%out the "un- the engineering& I must admit& was so e*Euisite that none of the

passengers felt any motion at all. Those on the dar( side of the ship mostly slept and

voyaged into worlds of freedom and fantasy- those on the light side moved a%out the tas(s

appointed for them %y their rulers& or idled waiting for the ne*t order from a%ove.

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!hatever the Thin(er thin(s& the ;rover proves.

The current rampages of territorial6emotional pugnacity sweeping this planet are not just another

civili+ation failing $ They are the %irth6pangs of a cosmic ;rometheus rising out of the long nightmare

of domesticated primate history.

• omparative religion and philosophy show that the Thin$er can regard itself as

mortal( as immortal( as #oth mortal and immortal 9the reincarnation model: or even as

non8e/istent 9!uddhism:. It can thin( itself into living in a 0hristian universe&

a Mar*ist universe& a scientific6relativistic universe& or a Ka+i universe among manypossi%ilities.

)s psychiatrists and psychologists have often o%served much to the chagrin of their

medical colleagues& the Thin(er can thin( itself sic(& and can even thin( itself well again.

The ;rover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one law onlyHWhatever the

Thin$er thin$s( the 1rover proves.

To cite a notorious e*ample which unleashed incredi%le horrors earlier in this century& if the

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1ccult historians generally agree that ..... signified 4i 4eri 4niversum 4ivus 4ici 4#y

the force of truth I have conEuered the universe4

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The major offense of Masonry to orthodo* churches is that it& li(e our Cirst )mendment&

encourages eEualtolerance for all religions& and this tends& somewhat& to lessen dogmatic

allegiance to any one religion.

• ou simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and o#viously

satirical that some people somewhere don't already #elieve it.

• Introduction& p. =B

• The ∴ ∴ must ran$ as the most secretive secret society in the world.;erhaps

no%ody& not even the few writers who have discussed it& (nows for sure when the

)∴ )∴ %egan& which group claiming to %e the )∴ )∴ at present is thereal )∴ )∴& or

even what the sym%ols )∴ )∴ stand for although many claim to (now these things of

course. $ 1ccult historians generally agree that ..... signified 4i 4eri 4niversum4ivus 4ici 4#y the force of truth I have conEuered theuniverse4& one of the

eleven magic mottoes of )leister 0rowley.

• 1n conspiracy theories involving the )∴ )∴& and the leader& (nown only %y the

initials .....& in )∴ )∴& p. 2= 6 22

• Most historians merely mention that #runo was charged with the heresy of teaching

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always in conflicting forms that %oth oppose and support each other. Whatever his lin$

with occult secret societies( he influencedegel( Mar/( theosophy( ames

oyce( Timothy >eary( ?iscordianism( and ?r. Wilhelm 4eich.

• 4,iordano #runo4& p. >8

• Many tri#al peoples have #oth all8male and all8female secret societies( which help

maintain the cultural values or reality tunnel. Creemasonry is certainly the largest&

and pro%a%ly the oldest& and still the most controversial of the all6male secret societies

surviving in our world. Ko two scholars can even agree on how old it is& much less on

how 4good4 or 4evil4 it is. $ )lthough Masonry is often denounced as either

a political or religious 4conspiracy4& Creemasons are for%idden to discuss either politics

or religion within the lodge. ,ary ryfoos of the Massachusetts Institute of technology&

who maintains the %est Masonic site on the we%& always stresses these points and also

offers personal testimony that after many years as a Mason& including high ran(s& he

has not yet %een as(ed to engage in pagan or "atanic rituals or plot for any reason for

or against any political party. The more ra#id anti8Masons( of course( dismiss such

testimony as flat lies.

The enemies of Masonry& who are usually Goman 0atholics or Cundamentalist

;rotestants& insist that the rites of the order contain 4pagan4 elements& e.g.&

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to mean 4goddesses.4 )l "haddai& god of %attles& appears later& and ?

• )ou need the 7is of identit!7 to descri8e conspirac! theories+ Jor+y%s(i would say that

proves that illusions& delusions& and 4mental4 illnesses reEuire the 4is4 to perpetuate

them. /e often said& 4Isness is an illness.4

Jor+y%s(i also populari+ed the idea that most sentences& especially the sentences that

people Euarrel over or even go to war over& do not ran( as propositions in the logical

sense& %ut %elong to the category that #ertrand Gussell called propositional

functions. They do not have one meaning( as a proposition in logic should have"

they have several meanings( li$e an alge#raic function.

• :anguage as 0onspiracy& p. 2??

• ?r. Wilhelm 4eich was condemned for unscientific claims #y the =ood and ?rug

dministration in @A)H #ecause of his theories a#out se/ual freedom and his

discovery of an alleged 0orgone0 energy. /e Euic(ly %ecame the most world6famous

victim of the C)'s Euest to impose 1ne True Caith on medical practice in the Dnited

"tates& %ecause the Ceds not only destroyed all the eEuipment in r. Geich's

e*perimental la%oratory %ut %urned all his%oo(s& too& in an incinerator& and then they put

him in jail where he died of a heart attac(.

ince many disapprove of this unconstitutional way of silencing heresy( ?r. 4eich

has remained a center of controversy. $ In addition to his %io6physical heresies& r.

Geich vastly offended many people %y his sociologicaltheory& which holds that fascism is

just an e*aggerated form of the %asic structure of se*6negative societies and has

e*isted under other names in every civili+ation %ased on se*ual repression. In this

theory& the character and muscular armor of the average citi+en a su%missive

and frightened attitude anchored in %ody refle*es causes the average person to want

a strong authority figure a%ove them. Tyranny( in this model( is not created #y

tyrants alone #ut #y neurotic masses who want tyrants.

• p. 3B=- some of !ilson's account of the suppression of Geich's ideas and wor( are

technically e*aggerativeH though many of Geich's %oo(s mentioning his concepts of

orgone energy and the 4orgone accumulators4 of his la%oratory were destroyed the

destruction of his eEuipment and %oo(s was not actually total.

Reality Is What You Can Get way With 9@AA3( @AAH:[edit]

)n illustrated screenplay first pu%lished in =>>3 and revised in =>>B& %ut not yet produced in film.

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