Robert Anton Wilson or even Altogether (natural January 18, 1932) is a futurologist, libertarian, and novelist.

His right-known act, The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) co-authored with Robert Shea, humorously examined American paranoia about conspiracies. These books mix avowedly references by having ingenious fiction to locate a reader around what Wilson known as "Operation Mindfuck". (Lot of the odder poop from either letters sent to Playboy magazine while Shea & Wilson worked when editors of the Man-about-town Forum.) It was advertised as "A fairy tale for paranoids." Although Shea & Wilsin never partnered on such a shell over again, Wilson has continued to expand upon the themes of the Illuminatus! books throughout his writing career.

Inside Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977), he made Discordianism, Sufism, Futurology, the Illuminati and other esoteric or counter-culture philosophies accessible to larger audiences. He is as well the exponent of Timothy Leary's eight circuit model of consciousness and neurosomatic/lingustic engineering, which he writes about within Prometheus Rising (1983, revised 1997) and Quantum Psychology (1990), books of practical techniques to break free of of these's "reality tunnels". Using Leary, he helped promote a futuristic ideas of space migration, intelligence increase (sweetening), & life extension (SMI^IiLE); he is arguably the additional weighty & persuasive exponent of Leary's "imprinting circuit" theory of psychological development than Leary himself.

Ironically, looking for Wilson has hanker lampooned & criticized new age beliefs, his books can typically exist as discovered inside bookshop specializing within recently age lesson.

Around the 2003 locate by owning High Times magazine, RAW described himself as a "Model Agnostic" which he says "consists of never regarding any model or map of Universe with total 100% belief or total 100% denial. Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory."

Birthday suit holds a post of U.s. director of the Committee for Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal (CSICON).

Bibliography

Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words (1972) Sex and Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits (1973) The Sex Magicians (1973) The Book of the Breast (1974) Illuminatus! trilogy (1975) (with Robert Shea) A Eye in the Pyramid A Golden Apple Leviathan Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977) Neuropolitics (1978) (with Timothy Leary & George Koopman) The Game of Life (1979) (with Timothy Leary) The Illuminati Papers (1980) Schrödinger's Cat trilogy (1980-1981) A Universe Next Door A Trick Top Hat A Homing Pigeon Masks of the Illuminati (1981) The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles: A Globe May Dislodge (1982) A Widow woman's Boy (1985) Nature and severity's God (1991) Right Where You Are Sitting Now (1983) Prometheus Rising (1983) The New Inquisition (1986) Wilhelm Reich in Hell (1987) Natural Law, or Don't Put a Rubber on Your Willy (1987) Coincidance (1988) Neuropolitique (1988) (with Leary & Koopman) [revision of Neuropolitics] Ishtar Rising (1989) [revision of The Book of the Breast] Semiotext(e) SF (1989) (editor, with Rudy Rucker & Peter Lamborn Wilson) Quantum Psychology (1990) Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth (1991) Reality Is What You Can Get Away With: An Illustrated Screenplay (1992) Chaos and Beyond (1994) (editor and primary creator) Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death (1995) The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1997) Everything Is Under Control (1998) TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution (2002) email to the universe (2005)