Robert Anton Wilson
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Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.
…incredible tension of ridiculousness and when it bursts and blossoms then you have a thinker. I'm thinking of people like Joseph Campbell, Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, people that I think they went through that I think they're people who were Catholic…
…duty comics and then try to find how many references to that there are in Finnegan's wake. Have you ever talked with Joseph Campbell about it or shared any of your insights about it? Well that's a counter synchronicity. I only met Joseph Campbell once.…
…talked with Joseph Campbell about it or shared any of your insights about it? Well that's a counter synchronicity. I only met Joseph Campbell once. That was a long time ago, about almost 30 years ago and we talked about an article I had written about…
…and it's a scandal that he's not taught in all anthropology classes. And it was through the study of Joyce that Joseph Campbell developed his unique approach to anthropology. The first book he wrote after the skeleton key was the hero with a thousand…
…health inconceivable to most people because a lot of Jung develops right out of Finnegan's wake just like a lot of Joseph Campbell did. The synchronistic element includes many seeming cases of precognition and I'm going to do a whole book about this…
…have a storyline we know it's one day we know Finnegan's wake goes through actually one night, one night yeah one night. And Joseph Campbell said that he thought that it was one of a trilogy which would end with a dream sequence that was even more of…
…to try next. That's a fascinating thought to think what he might have tried next if he had lived. Yeah well Joseph Campbell seemed to be quite convinced that he was going to write something which linked the Indian Philosophy, Hinduism and whatnot, much…
…invited to speak to groups of nuns. You know, I know there are a lot of radical nuns in the church and what Campbell had to say about the female aspect of divinity was very interesting to these nuns who are beginning to feel there's something a…
…close in the opera of it all, and I want to tell you that you've really done a nice job for us to interpret what Joseph Campbell had to put out there in the key and also for us to be a little bit more educated in Pennington's wake and Joyce, since…