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Robert Anton Wilson

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Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.

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Carl Sagan

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1:12:00

…Gardner gives a speech explaining that eyewitness testimony is unreliable if it contradicts the dogmas of fundamentalist materialism. Carl Sagan gives a speech showing there's no evidence anywhere in natural history of any gorillas growing any bigger than…

46:06

…listened to it before reading the new inquisition and after it. And with that in mind, would you say a few words about Carl Sagan and perhaps throw in Martin Gardner and James Randi while you're at it? Yes I got an interesting letter today from a…

47:58

…revised and I call that fundamentalism and I think the scientific world has entirely lost that except for a few cases like Carl Sagan. But there is a sociological study of psycop has been done and the majority of members are not scientists. The majority…

1:36:37

…the likelihoods and the results of extraterrestrial intelligence yeah I find it staggering to think that in this vast galaxy, as Carl Sagan says, billions and billions of stars and all the billions and billions of galaxies that coexist with us I find it…

33:06

…the amount of disorders steadily increases, but in places like earth we don't know of any other places but there may be, as Carl Sagan would say, billions and billions of them. We don't know but on earth the one place we do know with this kind of…

17:43

…parallel universes if every quantum leap creates two opposite universes in which things happen both ways, then there are, as Carl Sagan would say, billions and billions of universes in which I'm female, along with billions and billions of universes in which…

27:05

…writing denunciations of all the important what I feel are all the important discoveries since about 1960. I mean people like Carl Sagan and Martin Gardner and the incredible randy and that whole crowd of true believers who call themselves skeptics. From my…

37:08

…signals that Leary and I and others have received. Curiously enough, frank Drake the astronomer who has worked very closely with Carl Sagan on the Seti project that we were discussing earlier frank drake wrote an article in technology review last year in…

6:57

…most of the world falls in the category between 100 proven and 100 disproven. We live among millions and millions or as Carl Sagan would say, billions and billions of maybes and only a few definite yeses and no's here and there, and they're usually only…

53:06

…room. No two people ever describe it the same. Everybody's nervous system abstracts different from the hundred. I'll do my Carl Sagan bit now. From the billions and billions of photons and neutrons and positrons and whatnot floating around our nervous system…

1:34:05

…mistakes this time. Yes, I didn't get all the words. Yeah I find it staggering to think that in this vast galaxy, as Carl Sagan says billions and billions of stars and all the billions and billions of galaxies that co exist with us I find it rather…

38:17

…It's one of the most endangered species on this planet, places where there used to be literally billions well I'll do my Carl Sagan bit billions and billions of malaria mosquitoes. Now there's five or ten left in some of these areas. They may be totally…

1:35:24

…rose and went to the podium he said: ladies and gentlemen, my address is Taliesin West. They walked out. Ah good stuff. Carl Sagan, who is what? I can vote? Yeah I'm going to vote for Jim Turney for I'm sure, thoroughly idiosyncratic reasons. Nostradamus…

24:33

…getting out of my books is my guesses, my hunches sometimes my prejudices. But I don't know. Unlike the pope, the ayatollah rajinish, Carl Sagan and all the other prophets of all the various, I don't claim to know the truth. All I claim to know is…

50:39

…to pick up all the information in the room what we'd be getting would be billions. If I do my imitation of Carl Sagan, Billions and billions and billions and trillions of electrons and photons. All dancing around crazily in patterns that are only fuzzy…

6:57

…most of the world falls in the category between 100 proven and 100 disproven. We live among millions and millions or as Carl Sagan would say billions and billions of maybes and only a few definite yeses and no's here and there, and they're usually only…

1:53:41

…listened to it before reading the new inquisition and after it and with that in mind, would you say a few words about Carl Sagan and perhaps throw in Martin Gardner and James Randi while you're at it, mm hmm, yes I got an interesting letter today from…

35:25

…of Princeton, which says that the universe does Split Every time two things can happen. So there are millions and millions as Carl Sagan would say, billions and billions of universes all around us in which everything that can happen did happen and I'm not…

1:16:02

…isis and nuit and jesus and Mary Magdalene and luke skywalker and darth Vader. And he has billions and billions Carl Sagan would say billions and billions of years of incredible science fiction gaelic Greek Egyptian Adventures right out of Finnegan's wake.…

5:04

…of scientific method as they have of etruscan poetry, but they have some very top scientists on their board. Is it the board Carl Sagan? And there's billions and billions of scientists here but he's not I mean he's in the forefront right b f Skinner and…

11:41

…30 or 40 years ago. You're talking about rational people you're talking about some of our best scientists. You're talking about Carl Sagan. You're talking about Harlan Ellison, who does a program on this station. You're talking about James Randi and a lot…

12:27

…and those are exactly the people I'm talking about and I wish they would be skeptical about their own ideas occasionally Dr Sagan for instance was responsible for a debate so called on Velikovsky's Heresies. Dr Velikovsky was a man who had an unorthodox…

13:10

…about the conspiracy to suppress Velikovsky. Well, at a meeting of the American Association for the advancement of science Dr Sagan organized what he called an impartial and open debate on Velikovsky's theories. And the impartial debate consisted of three…

14:02

…called the new inquisition. And they just had a meeting this weekend, this last weekend on various things which I didn't attend Carl Sagan was the keynote speaker. But you take situations like this guy came out a few years ago, a couple decades ago…

24:16

…that machines aren't supposed to do. Who am I supposed to read? Who does Gardner allow me to read? Gardner himself and Carl Sagan and I think there are one or two other true believers in 1940s orthodoxy who are still around. You're permitted to read…

24:44

…name of science and science, good, bad and bogus and a couple of others that I don't remember the titles of. And of course Sagan has billions of books, billions and billions. Who I have to mention about Korzybski? A couple of the ideas that I have left…

2:19:24

…will be at the Phoenix Bookstore from 7 to 9 p m 514 Santa Monica Boulevard and you might want to take some book by Carl Sagan or by who's the other guy that in psycop forgot his name but anyway one of his books and try to get an autograph by…

8:04

…churches the idea of a consciousness that has a particular concern with the human race out of all the possible species and what Carl Sagan used to call the billions and billions of galaxies, that this mind behind it has a particular interest in us and a…

6:36

…correct perspective, because he includes all other perspectives. And so my friends, I'm very happy and proud to present the Carl Sagan of religion, the Carol Schwarzenegger of feminism, the Colin Keller of art and music, the Nelson Mandela of white…

53:06

…room. No two people ever describe it the same. Everybody's nervous system abstracts different from the hundred. I'll do my Carl Sagan bit now. From the billions and billions of photons and neutrons and positrons and whatnot floating around our nervous system…