Foreword by Timothy Leary, Ph.D.

Prologue: Thinking About the Unthinkable

PART ONE: The Sirius Connection

Introductory Fables

From the Sufi
From the ancient Babylonian
From the Zen tradition

The Door to Chapel Perilous
Did a leprechaun leave the Simonton pancakes?
The Kennedy Assassination and the Net
A visit to Millbrook
The Queen of Space
The 23 Enigma
The heresy hunt begins
Multiple realities
The Murder of Christ: a Re-run
Jim Garrison and the Illuminati
Operation Mindfuck
The Horrible Secrets of the Wicked Aleister Crowley
A Discordian signal from Aldous Huxley, deceased
The Net or the Network
The Lady of Guadalupe
Sirius Rising
The Holy Guardian Angel
Beings of light, talking dogs, more extraterrestrials and other weird critters
Starseed
Magick, Technology or Both?
Those mysterious Sufis
A message from Cosmic Central
Some Egyptian gods intrude on the narrative and Our Lady of Space speaks again
A visit to CMF
The prospects of immortality
Stopping the biological clock
Appearances and Disappearances
A lesson in Karma
Witchcraft
Nikola Tesla, secular shaman
Other starry signals
The footsteps of the Illuminati
Dope and divinity
The horrors begin
Ishtar's Walk: a guided tour of Hell
Mystery Babalon
Leary emerges from darkness and Sirius rises again
The Horus Hawk and Uri Geller
The Mothman Prophecies
Doggiez from Sirius

PART TWO: Models and Metaphors

Further Fables and Allegories

From the Sufi
From the Jewish
From the German

The Sirius Evidence
ERP and Bell's Theorem
Tunnel-Realities and Imprints
The Octave of Energy
The law of acceleration

PART THREE: Trigger

A Final Fable

From the Egyptian
Sirius Rises Again
Blood of the Gods?
The Dark Companion
Via Dolorosa


Afterword by Saul-Paul Sirag;
Notes;
Index.

"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.