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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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Giordano Bruno

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58:09

…and keeping out of jail is probably going to bankrupt him. It's certainly going to reduce his living standard for many years. Giordano Bruno was a neapolitan philosopher who was burned at the stake in 1600 for teaching that the earth moves. He was guilty.…

1:00:36

…everybody really really wants to look into the origin of radical ideas in the modern world and how I got so crazy. Giordano Bruno and the hermetic tradition by Francis Yates and also the rosicrucian enlightenment by Francis Yates will give you an idea of…

33:51

…1500 and 1750 largely due to mystics who were known as hermeticists, and one of the key figures of that period was Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake in Rome in 1600 for, among other things teaching the copernican theory that the earth was…

1:21:31

…something completely new in history. As far as I know, you can find foreshadowings of it in John Dee and a few others, Giordano Bruno but Crowley did it. In a unique way. Science was more advanced in his time than it was in the Elizabethan age. Crowley…

35:25

…1500 and 1750 largely due to mystics who were known as hermeticists, and one of the key figures of that period was Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake in Rome in 1600 for, among other things, teaching the copernican theory that the earth was…

2:13

…both. Jack Parsons is the classic example that you can be both. There are many other cases in history like Isaac Newton, Giordano Bruno, Johannes Kepler, but parsons was the only one in recent Times who was undoubtedly a major scientist or at least a…

58:54

…Copernicus came along and pointed out it's mathematically simpler to assume the earth is moving around the sun. And then Giordano Bruno came along and said the center is everywhere, that everything in the universe is the center of everything else. Looked…

35:02

…more and more but they never will get total control. The internet is sort of like the universe described by the philosopher Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake February 18 1600 for 18 charges of heresy. One of them was teaching the copernican…

32:05

…to shoot the guy who wrote that book. That's the way the Catholic Church used to behave. In 1600 they found a book by Giordano Bruno they didn't like so they burned him alive in Rome Bruno said to the inquisitors: you have more to fear this day than…

34:29

…1500 and 1750, largely due to mystics who were known as hermeticists, and one of the key figures of that period was Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake in Rome in 1600 for, among other things, teaching the copernican theory that the earth was…

29:28

…I think most of the great philosophers of the Renaissance Period would have went the same way as Socrates, or rather Giordano Bruno, right to the stake. How come you don't live then in Amsterdam? Well I've often thought about moving there actually I've…