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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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Charles II

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45:46

…actually coming out with, and the time lag of our most intellectual would you agree? It's just the two cultures problem that sir Charles snow wrote about a long time ago only it's gotten worse since he wrote about it. Most of the communication media is…

20:26

…any American president in legend, not only in history but in legend and folklore. Bill and Monica It's going to be like Charles Ii and Nell Gwynn, Louis Xiv and madame pompadour I mean the fabulous rulers and the fabulous courtesans they go on forever.…

20:44

…courtesans they go on forever. Who knows anything about the politics of Louis Xiv? Nobody. Who knows anything about the politics of Charles Ii? Nobody. We know about their mistresses, though because that's what lives in folk memory and I swear 5 000 years…

27:48

…in this planet. What is that fellow William Bramley? He has a book on the same theme I got that from Joe the gods of Eden, Charles Fort I have a note on him too. Charles Fort was the first one to suggest we're property. That was in the book of the…

27:50

…He has a book on the same theme I got that from Joe the gods of Eden, Charles Fort I have a note on him too. Charles Fort was the first one to suggest we're property. That was in the book of the damned in 1919. Everybody thought he was joking. Now…

1:09:56

…law may have been a prank or a hoax. And yet the whole thing about the numerical significance of the 93, the 31. Charles Stanfield Jones did a lot of research into that and found that there was this sort of impeccable mathematical formula underlying the…

1:18:15

…who were the legitimate heirs to the throne. But of course Joyce has misspelled darling to Darwin so as a reference to Charles Darwin in there, charlie you're my darling and charlie you're my darling also refers to charlie the chimp in the Phoenix park…

1:18:29

…refers to charlie the chimp in the Phoenix park zoo where most of Finnegan's wake is set. And charlie the chimp and Charles Darwin remind us of our ancestry in that level of Finnegan's wake which is psychopaleoanthropology. And I guess that's enough on…

10:31

…in Ireland. I was in the Dublin Theater and they had a travel art about glastonbury cathedral and it was narrated by prince Charles. You know prince Charles, He's married to die. And at the end of the film prince Charles came on the screen after we…

10:34

…in the Dublin Theater and they had a travel art about glastonbury cathedral and it was narrated by prince Charles. You know prince Charles, He's married to die. And at the end of the film prince Charles came on the screen after we just heard his voice…

10:41

…cathedral and it was narrated by prince Charles. You know prince Charles, He's married to die. And at the end of the film prince Charles came on the screen after we just heard his voice for 15 minutes he came on the screen and pleaded with everybody to…

52:54

…invisible hand. Well you can make it dialectical if you want but actually it's economic Taoism. It's based on the profound wisdom of Charles Ii of England who said: the more you stir a turd the more it stinks. How about the stolen bums, the Yale…

19:16

…conspiracy, it's a part of an excitement. It really is exciting yeah well people go to see horror movies they go to see Charles Bronson, blowing people away in the Subway. They go to see Clint Eastwood and they say: violence is all in the other people.…

1:15:13

…count Cagliostro who was everybody knows was actually a sicilian gypsy named Joseph Balsamo Everybody knows that who has a direct Charles Floyd and Colin Wilson both of whom have pointed out that the identification of Cagliostro with Balsamo was made by one…

36:49

…into all sorts of irrelevant issues, such as whether Mathers had or had not alleged that he was the reincarnation of King Charles I, which Mathers Didn't want to answer on the witness stand for fear of prejudicing the jury who was compelled to admit…

37:02

…stand for fear of prejudicing the jury who was compelled to admit he had at times claimed to be the reincarnation of Charles I. There wasn't Charles Ii I think. And there were various innuendos about Crowley's Sex life which Crowley enjoyed very much,…

37:03

…prejudicing the jury who was compelled to admit he had at times claimed to be the reincarnation of Charles I. There wasn't Charles Ii I think. And there were various innuendos about Crowley's Sex life which Crowley enjoyed very much, although most of the…

35:28

…is it a biography of me? No no, I keep waiting for it. The author's theory links the son of sam shootings, Charles Manson and the process church, which was and apparently still is a fairly wide reaching occult organization based in England whose motives…

48:21

…on trial for heresy by the council of cardinals. Everybody has a fantastic capacity to forget what doesn't fit their reality. Charles is a frog swallowing out of the sky just because that doesn't fit anybody's reality. That's what he's trying to illustrate.…

1:08:31

…space opening up, if you generalize from the aviation industry to the aerospace industry. In 1928 one person flew the Atlantic Charles Lindbergh. In 1978 200 million people flew the Atlantic. If space moves forward at the same rate, by around 2010 there…

22:14

…my book the new inquisition which came out last spring, I wanted to have some frog falls that were not in the books of Charles Fort and I started looking around and I found quite a few from the last five years alone in Greece, in Russia, in turkey…

55:18

…began to realize Clinton and Monica Lewinsky would enter folklore like King Henry Viii and his wives and Louis Xiv and pompadour and Charles Ii and Nell Gwynn by the way does anybody know the last words of Charles Ii let not poor nellie starve. He had…

55:23

…Viii and his wives and Louis Xiv and pompadour and Charles Ii and Nell Gwynn by the way does anybody know the last words of Charles Ii let not poor nellie starve. He had a good heart didn't he? I once sat in the chair where he was crowned King of…

56:01

…so many atrocities that oliver Cromwell of all the englishmen who ever existed is still the one most hated in Ireland. And so Charles had it fairly easy but he wanted reassurance that the Irish would like him and the earl of Kilkenny persuaded him to…

56:15

…like him and the earl of Kilkenny persuaded him to donate an enormous public park called Phoenix park to the people of Dublin. Charles had been planning to give it to Nell Gwynn as a birthday present, but instead he gave it to the people of Ireland…

56:41

…too big that day they'll let you sit down in the chair. And I sat down in the chair and thought: gee I wonder what Charles thought when he sat in this chair and they put the crown on his head. He probably was thinking: Christ I hope they don't do…

57:00

…to my father. His father was shortened by oliver Cromwell by about six or seven inches before Cromwell started making war on Ireland. Charles Ii is one of my favorite kings because he's the only one of the few kings of England Who's really quotable. He…

57:31

…dongs, let them fight it out among themselves. Another thing he said: somebody quoted to him the well known aphorism of the period, Charles Ii, the King who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one. And he replied: that's because my words are…

58:12

…everything of everybody. Besides he founded the royal scientific society, and he was a gifted experimenter himself. Well anyway enough for Charles Ii. That reminds me though since we had one question I think at this point in the proceedings I ought to…

2:38:55

…I don't know. There's two books that I can only speak to one was the book of the damned. If you read it, by Charles Ford Yeah I think that's the one about all the stuff that's rejected by rational science. Yes I've read all of Charles Ford's books,…

2:39:03

…by Charles Ford Yeah I think that's the one about all the stuff that's rejected by rational science. Yes I've read all of Charles Ford's books, and another one recently is Roger's Choice by John Updike, that I haven't read. You've got to wade through it.…

1:49:50

…and that's related to the French and Spanish. And you find that root surviving in words like cavalier the supporters of King Charles Caballero in Spanish, Chevalier in French and so on, and there are lots of other examples. It's definitely an indo European…

58:30

…was once in contact with another particle continues to influence it and be influenced by it. Long before that the great mystic named Charles Fort wrote: a bear coughs at the North Pole and a bottle of ketchup falls off a fire escape in Harlem. Everything…

10:57

…sense that you hear about these days but in the most practical, down to earth materialistic sense. One human being named Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in 1928. In 1978, 200 million people flew the Atlantic. All the parameters of our neurological…

22:01

…fighting the jacobite wars 200 years later. And that appears in Finnegan's wake as charlie you're my darwing, which is a pun on Charles Darwin but it also refers to charlie the chimp who was one of the denizens of the Phoenix park zoo when Joyce was…

13:44

…they've done on x files itself. There are so many conspiracies, conspiracy theories about various aliens meddling with us. This goes back to Charles Fort in the 1920s who wrote a couple of books on that theme. There's all sorts of ideas about who it is…

12:42

…into all sorts of irrelevant issues such as whether Mathers had or had not alleged that he was the reincarnation of King Charles I, which Mathers Didn't want to answer on the witness stand for fear of prejudicing the jury who was compelled to admit…

12:56

…stand for fear of prejudicing the jury who was compelled to admit he had at times claimed to be the reincarnation of Charles I. There wasn't Charles Ii like you know, and there were various innuendos about Crowley's Sex life which Crowley enjoyed very…

12:57

…prejudicing the jury who was compelled to admit he had at times claimed to be the reincarnation of Charles I. There wasn't Charles Ii like you know, and there were various innuendos about Crowley's Sex life which Crowley enjoyed very much, although most of…

20:26

…president in legend, not only in history but in legend and folklore. He's going bill and Monica It's going to be like Charles Ii and Nell Gwynn, Louis Xiv and madame pompadour I mean the fabulous rulers and the fabulous courtesans they go on forever.…

20:44

…courtesans they go on forever. Who knows anything about the politics of Louis Xiv? Nobody. Who knows anything about the politics of Charles Ii? Nobody. We know about their mistresses, though because that's what lives in folk memory and I swear 5 000 years…

24:12

…People are having extraterrestrial experiences with rabbits. And then there's the great frog fall mystery. How many people here have read Charles Fort? Ah well you know about that. Frogs have been falling out of the sky forever in ancient Greece, in…

26:58

…the horses were turned around in their stalls and one horse was missing. So he hunted here and he hunted there this is one of Charles Fort's cases and finally he looked in the hay room and the horse was in the hay room even though the door was too…