The spelling of the title is not a mistake. It includes: "Dance through Religion for the Hell of It"; "The Physics of Synchronicity"; James Joyce and Finnegan's "Wake"; "The Godfather and the Goddess"; "The Poet as Early Warning Radar"; "Mammary Metaphysics"; "The Married Catholic Priests Convention[...]
While this, the second volume of the Cosmic Trigger series, continues along the path set by the original "Cosmic Trigger I", it also stands solidly on its own. Any reader with an open mind and a sense of humour cannot help but be entertained and enlightened while following Wilson's explorations into[...]
This is the masterful biography of the Magus Aleister Crowley, written by the one person most qualified to write it. Israel Regardie was a friend and student of Crowley, and served as his personal secretary for some time. In this book, Regardie manages to write a fair and balanced view of Crowley. I[...]
Imagine trying to make sense of Timothy Leary's eight neurological circuits, G.I. Gurdjieff's self-observations exercises, Alfred Korzybski's general semantics, Aleister Crowley's magical theorems, and the several disciplines of Yoga; not to mention Christian Science, relativity, quantum mechanics a[...]
Throughout human history, thoughts, values and behaviours have been coloured by language and the prevailing view of the universe. With the advent of Quantum Mechanics, relativity, non-Euclidean geometries, non-Aristotelian logic and General Semantics, the scientific view of the world has changed dra[...]
"The Walls Came Tumbling Down" deals with the scary things that happen to those who stumble into a borderless or other-worldly consciousness without any intent to go there and without any preparation or Operating Manual to tell them how to navigate when the walls tumble, the doors of perception fly [...]
The great psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich once wrote, "No President, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or power to decide what will be the knowledge of tomorrow". In 1957, the government of the United States of America jailed Dr Reich and burned all of his publishe[...]
This, the long-awaited third volume of the Cosmic Trigger series, includes Wilson's witty and humorous observations about the widely spread (and, happily, premature) announcement of his demise. And, of course, what Wilson masterpiece would be complete without synchronicities, religious fanatics, UFO[...]
They have been with us all through history: The "Invisible College" of wisdom, and their adversaries - the destroyers - who rise from the flames to burn again. The history of the world is their story: a conspiracy as vast and all-encompassing as the riddle of time itself. In Naples, Italy, in 1764, [...]
Throughout history, secret societies have played a crucial role in shaping events that have created our world. Only an inner circle of power elite know the full extent of the influence of the conspiracy...It is Paris, 1772, and Sigismundo Celine knows he is destined to play an important part in this[...]
They are the most secret of organisations and the most powerful - the Illuminati. They continue to shift the patterns of history to fulfil plans of their own, to open pathways to power which ordinary mortals are never meant to tread. It is 1776, and Sigismundo Celine, a young Neapolitan aristocrat a[...]
This work provides a fair and balanced look at Dr Robert Anton Wilson's writing and its relationship with the "Kaballah", "Finnegans Wake", "General Semantics", "Ezra Pound", "The Wizard of Oz", and the zillion other people, places and things that whirl through Wilson's life and his work. It will ed[...]
The range of Robert Anton Wilson's expertise is always astonishing. In "email to the Universe" he tackles a dazzling array of subjects including: The Passion of the Antichrist; The Celtic Roots of Quantum Theory; Paranoia; Black Magick & Curses; LSD, Dogs & Me; Left and Right: A Non-Euclidean Perspe[...]
"Modern Book Collecting" offers advice that answers all the basic questions a book lover and collector might have--what to collect and where to find it, how to tell a first edition from a reprint, how to build an author collection, how to get the best price from dealers, how to understand the prices[...]
When your street address can either save your life or send it up the creek, there's no telling what kind of daily challenges you'll face in the era of the Northern Irish Troubles. "All stories are love stories," begins "Eureka Street, " Robert McLiam Wilson's big-hearted and achingly funny novel. Se[...]
World Literature Today Editor's Pick "Enchanting...The Poetic Species is a wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely simulating." --MARIA POPOVA, Brain Pickings In this shimmering conversation (the outgrowth of an event co-sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and Poets Ho[...]