Robert Anton Wilson

  • COSMIC TRIGGER: Final Secret of the Illuminati

hbk: none
pbk: And/Or Press, (Berkeley, California) US, 1977,,, Abacus / Sphere, (London) UK, 1979

ISBN 0-915904-29-2 (US pbk),,, 0-349-13731-5 (UK pbk)

non-fiction, essays, psychedelics, UFO's, space migration, contactees, cryogenics, immortality, life extension, neurologic, consciousness, Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, R.Buckminster Fuller, Georges I.Gurdjieff, Aleister Crowley, meditation, cyberculture, conspiracy, assassination, John F.Kennedy, Jim Garrison, John Keel

Illustrated by John Thompson.


Contents


"The chronicler of the Illuminati Conspiracy looks at the magick of Crowley, space migration, psychedelics, close encounters with UFO's, and other odd milestones along the human journey". [publisher's bumpf, US pbk, 1977]


"Through interplanetary migration, extraterrestrial visitation, meditation, witchcraft, shamanic revelation, immortalism and hallucinatory drugs, Robert Wilson has traced the path of personal experiences that have convinced him and others of the existence of the 'Illuminati' -- the secret, invisible society that has been playing head games with mankind since the beginning of time. Relating his own personal observations to the works of Castaneda, Crowley, Gurdjieff and Leary -- among many others -- Wilson makes a case that men are being contacted and experimented upon by intelligent beings who share the universe with us -- and always have. It is an argument not easily dismised once you have read Cosmic Trigger." -- [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1979]


"Please consult this book if and when you wish a modern, personal summary of such basic concepts as: the Illuminati conspiracy, the Sirius phenomenon, UFOs, mind-changing drugs, new experiential perspectives on Lee Harvey Oswald, Jim Garrison, Hugh Hefner, the 24 clones of Timothy Leary, the meaning of the number 23, Aleister Crowley, Aldous Huxley, Carl Sagan, Gurdjieff, Alan Watts, William Burroughs, immortality, Nikola Tesla, modern quantum theory, the physics of consciousness, the eight evolving circuits of the nervous system, etc.

"In each of these academic references there is an anecdotal flash so that these important names and topics become alive on the page. This is good writing...

"Cosmic Trigger is an odyssey recounting the personal quest of the author. He explores the labyrinthine regions of his own brain with drugs and many other neuro-activating methods. He experiments with magick, ritual, ESP, isolation. He continually consults his most treasured traveling companions -- his beautiful red-haired wife, Arlen, and his sparkling, wise children.

"Wilson realizes (as do all alchemists) that he must evolve as the work develops. He knows that the motto solve et coagule means that he, too, must accept personal dissolution, that he must vary his own temperature and pressure, test his own sanity in the crucible of change. He gives up a deluxe-sexy job and retreats to social isolation. He plunges unflinchingly into outcaste poverty. He becomes that most recklessly heroic person -- the self-employed intellectual!...

"Cosmic Trigger sparkles with humor, openness of mind, courage, understanding, tolerance. It is the epic adventure of a man who invites us to grow and change with him." --Timothy Leary (from the foreword, Los Angeles, California, summer, 1977).


"Brain food. Excellent." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).

Recommended.

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  • Metaphysics
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