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Born 1932, United States.
"Robert Anton Wilson hold a Ph.D. in psychology and often appears on radio and TV in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain and frequently addresses futurist and libertarian gatherings." [publisher's bumpf, The Illuminati Papers , US pbk, 1980].
One of the founders of the Institute for the Study of Human Future.
"President of the Institute of Exo-Psychology, Robert Anton Wilson is a leading figure in the study of extra-terrestrial psychology. As Director of the Prometheus Society, he is also actively engaged in the scientific search for immortality. Through his membership of the L-5 Society, a group of scientists who are determined to create the first Space City, he is engaged in seeking new frontiers for humanity outside Earth.
"Robert Anton Wilson was an editor at Playboy magazine... His trilogy Illuminatus! , which he co-authored with Robert Shea, has become an 'underground' bestseller and was adapted as a 10-hour science-fiction rock epic by The Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool [Ken Campbell], who also performed it as a season at the National Theatre in London, where the author appeared briefly on stage in a cameo role.
"As an investigator of the Occult, the author has achieved the following initiations: White Cord Witch of the New Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn, Voo Doo Priest at the Sociedad Magicko De Chango, Water-Brother at the Church of All Worlds and member of the Ordo Templi Orientis. He has appeared on radio and television in the USA, Canada and Great Britain and frequently lectures on 'Contact with Higher Intelligence' under the auspices of Future Presentations Inc." -- [publisher's bumpf, Cosmic Trigger , UK pbk, 1979]
"Robert Anton Wilson is a mind-boggling novelist, visionary poet, playwright, futurist, psychologist, stand-up comic, and one of the most brilliant minds on this planet. Among his sci-fi novels are the Illuminatus! trilogy (which in 1986 won the coveted Prometheus Award as a classic of the field only ten years after its first publication) and the Schroedinger's Cat trilogy (called 'the most scientific of all science-fiction novels' by New Scientist ). His historical novels include The Earth Will Shake , The Widow's Son and Nature's God , and his non-fiction works of futurist psychology and guerrilla ontology include Cosmic Trigger , Prometheus Rising , the infamous and unholy Sex and Drugs and The New Inquisition . He has probably done more weird chemicals than any other contributor to this fucking crazy anthology [Semiotext(e) SF 14 ] and has spent the last two years experimenting with every available brain-change machine. Wilson regularly gives seminars at Esalen, Oasis, Interface, Open Center and other New Age centers, has made a Punk Rock record, and -- ever eager for new dimensions of insanity, has become a night club and caberet comedian in the last two years. His Punk Opera Wilhelm Reich in Hell was recently performed at the Edmund Burke Theater in Dublin, and Wilson was a guest of the Norwegian government at the 1986 Oslo International Poetry Festival. Tim Leary has described him as 'one of the most important scientific philosophers of the modern age', and the Denver Post called him 'the Lenny Bruce of philosophers' -- so naturally he is never reviewed in the New York Times . He also publishes his own futurist newsletter, Trajectories , and is currently working on a screenplay for Pacific Entertainment. Despite his genius, Wilson remains touchingly modest. [He wrote his own introduction. --Peter Lamborn Wilson]." --Robert Anton Wilson (in Semiotext(e) SF 14 , 1989).
The Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson Show
(fascinating stuff... plus loads of very interesting links)
Trajectories
("The Journal of Futurism and Heresy"... newsletter published and co-edited by Robert Anton Wilson)
The Unofficial Robert Anton Wilson Homepages
(haven't checked this link yet)
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