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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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39:23

…we did not invent numbers, we discovered them. Numbers are in the collective unconscious. I think that's one of the most profound ideas Jung ever had. At every ritual you look at the number there and try to figure out why that number is appropriate for…

9:24

…think Tim is one of the great masters of metaphor, and so I find Tim's Formulations enable me to translate from Freud into Jung and from both of them into behaviorism and from that into sociobiology and then relate it all to quantum physics. I think Tim…

11:01

…and with Leary's System you can easily see what parts of Freud make sense in terms of modern neurology and what parts of Jung fit in with current genetic theory and so on. I think it's a marvelously all inclusive theory. Although I don't think it's the…

33:20

…extremely weird areas of the paranormal where you've got to consider jungian synchronicity as being a much heavier thing than even Jung realized and then you even get into the area where you've got to consider that psychokinesis is more widespread than we…

32:39

…best synthesis of all developmental psychology that anybody has done. He's taken all the work of Harry stack Sullivan and Freud and Jung and Adler and everybody and put it all together into a system that synthesizes with what we know about the brain in…

14:03

…the most poetic movies ever made. So you feel that the poetic language of fantasy talks to us in like jungian type terms. Jung is one good source to try to understand. I don't think Jung explains fully I don't think anybody understands fully the power…

14:06

…language of fantasy talks to us in like jungian type terms. Jung is one good source to try to understand. I don't think Jung explains fully I don't think anybody understands fully the power of poetry and fantasy. I think they come from a level of the…

50:03

…center, the 3rd circuit is the false rational center and the fourth circuit is the false personality. Together they make up what Jung calls the persona or the self we present to society. Behind that is always the shadow which is the imprints, conditioning,…

1:00:04

…want to stay there he had to come back to adult reality eventually. But he did recognize it as a human experience. Jung puts all the higher circuits under the general title intuition bunches them all together. There's a guy named Kenneth ring who did…

1:05:26

…next experience will contradict it. I find it very useful to think in terms of Jung's idea of the collective unconscious. What does Jung Mean by the collective unconscious? It's got to be inside me if I can contact it at all but it's inside everybody…

36:49

…from sirius or from my own unconscious or the collective unconscious, or what lies even deeper than the collective unconscious according to Jung, the psychoid level which is the same in all animals, not just in humans and it's also the same in inanimate…

37:10

…non locality. So it includes all space and all time, which explains why you often get precognition on this level, which is why Jung calls it synchronicity. One student of Jung tells about a time at the Jung Institute when they were having one of these…

37:13

…time, which explains why you often get precognition on this level, which is why Jung calls it synchronicity. One student of Jung tells about a time at the Jung Institute when they were having one of these incredible coincidences after another. This student…

37:15

…precognition on this level, which is why Jung calls it synchronicity. One student of Jung tells about a time at the Jung Institute when they were having one of these incredible coincidences after another. This student said to Jung: I can't understand all…

37:20

…about a time at the Jung Institute when they were having one of these incredible coincidences after another. This student said to Jung: I can't understand all this and Jung said it's just synchronicity. And then the next day there was more of it. This…

37:22

…when they were having one of these incredible coincidences after another. This student said to Jung: I can't understand all this and Jung said it's just synchronicity. And then the next day there was more of it. This student says: how can the synchronicity…

37:29

…synchronicity. And then the next day there was more of it. This student says: how can the synchronicity keep on happening like this? Jung said: okay it's demons and that's why I don't know how it approaches. It's the non local level of mind as described…

55:41

…them. With this the neurogenetic circuit is when the RNA begins to read the DNA directly and pass messages on to us. Jung called this the collective unconscious, but it's not really unconscious. It can become conscious and it frequently does this. Is the…

1:00:39

…code into the consciousness, these symbols are spontaneously created to represent various types of gene packets and imprint packets and Jung called them the archetypes. Leary just calls this neurogenetic circuit experience and he says if you pay close enough…

44:08

…the third circuit is the false rational center and the fourth circuit is the false personality. Together they make up what Jung calls the persona or the self we present to society. Behind that is always the shadow which is the imprints, conditioning,…

52:48

…want to stay there you had to come back to adult reality eventually. But he did recognize it as a human experience. Jung puts all the higher circuits under the general title intuition bunches them all together. There's a guy named Kenneth ring who did…

57:30

…next experience will contradict it. I find it very useful to think in terms of Jung's idea of the collective unconscious. What does Jung Mean by the collective unconscious? It's got to be inside me if I can contact it at all but it's inside everybody…

55:53

…was a gnostic underground tradition that recognized the positive meaning of the sun archetype and jungian Times Crowley identified with what Jung calls the solar phallic archetype, which I think is clear enough and doesn't require. All you have to do is…

56:12

…pages of Crowley and you get the solar and phallic energy coming at you right away. You don't even have to read Jung to find out what solar phallic means. Masonry, rosicrucianism, alchemy, kabbalah all related in a variety of ways, but disentangling them…

49:12

…always wonders: when is it going to come and get me or am I going to go to it or what's uh that's why Jung calls the shadow and his beautifully poetic psychology anyway the uh, the the curious thing is that these people believe in what they're doing…

54:14

…which is the one, goes through the twelve signs of the zodiac every year. This is all very deep archetypal jungian stuff. Jung said numbers are archetypes and twelve is a very mystical number, especially when you add the one extra, the tilly. In Dublin…

0:33

…center the third circuit is the false rational center and the fourth circuit is the false personality. Together they make up what Jung calls the persona or the self we present to society. Behind that is always the shadow, which is the imprints conditioning…

9:36

…want to stay there he had to come back to adult reality eventually but he did recognize it as a human experience. Jung puts all the higher circuits under the general title: intuition bunches them all together. There's a guy named Kenneth ring who did…

14:27

…next experience will contradict it. I find it very useful to think in terms of Jung's idea of the collective unconscious. What does Jung Mean by the collective unconscious? It's got to be inside me if I can contact it at all but it's inside everybody…

24:36

…and I began to think this is too much synchronicity even for me. And I remember the story about the guy at the Jung Institute. When they were having a run like that he kept saying I don't understand and Jung kept saying it's synchronicity. Finally he…

24:41

…story about the guy at the Jung Institute. When they were having a run like that he kept saying I don't understand and Jung kept saying it's synchronicity. Finally he burst out and when it got even worse he said what the hell what does this…

24:51

…Finally he burst out and when it got even worse he said what the hell what does this synchronicity really mean? And Jung said okay it's demons. It's almost as good as turtles, turtles turtles it's all around. Yeah it's much connected. It's not going…

1:43:25

…I was in college from the behaviorists and I rejected it after a while as I got more and more heavily influenced by Jung and Leary and Sullivan and the whole human potential side of psychology. But I was continually haunted by the fact all this human…

31:35

…development. According to fundamentalist materialist science, they're just coincidences and they don't have any meaning. I tend to agree with Jung that they do have meaning. I found when I was going through a period of tremendous transformation and growth and…

40:43

…that I heard that you said that Carl Jung met James Joyce and they didn't like each other very much because James Joyce, Jung said Jung observed was a borderland schizophrenic and if it wasn't for his art he would have went under. Was that you heard…

40:44

…heard that you said that Carl Jung met James Joyce and they didn't like each other very much because James Joyce, Jung said Jung observed was a borderland schizophrenic and if it wasn't for his art he would have went under. Was that you heard say that…

40:53

…schizophrenic and if it wasn't for his art he would have went under. Was that you heard say that or maybe somebody else? Jung did say that at one time Joyce's Theory about why Jung Didn't like him was if you translate Joyce into German It's freude.…

40:58

…have went under. Was that you heard say that or maybe somebody else? Jung did say that at one time Joyce's Theory about why Jung Didn't like him was if you translate Joyce into German It's freude. That could be it okay thank you for calling thank you,…

48:41

…archangels at the corners of a kabbalistic ritual, the four deacons in a masonic ceremony or the four chambers of the human heart. Jung said every dream has a system of fours in it. The four in finnegans way keep changing into different fours but there's…

51:49

…for me because I was raised that way. But what do you think in terms of the idea of being centered sociologically I know Jung talked about it and it's really big in kabbalah like you're supposed to be 40 years old and have two kids and whatever the…

1:00:21

…was part of what I what I call the second wave of the de robotization of humanity. The first wave was Freud and Jung and uh that crowd who first got us in touch with the unconscious. Then came Korzybski who showed how language hypnotizes us then…

1:55:47

…wise but mischievous, fond of rum pots, crack pots and how are you tonight Mr Wilson? And I thought okay I'll write to the Jung Institute about this one now the damn television is talking to me a few years later. I decided absolutely that all that is…

6:18

…bottle with a nipple on it. If they can't find that they'll try anything else. This brings us already to jungian archetypes. Jung talks about the archetype of the great mother. Well an example of how powerful that archetype is and the way imprinting…

9:30

…When the giraffe grew up, it tried to mate with the Jeep. Now this gives you some concept of your jungian archetypes. Jung said the archetype has no content. The archetype is just a vague general genetic potential. It has no specific content. Apparently…

1:15:58

…which could be confirmed by historical records. You see how this fits into the reincarnation model. Graf called it phylogenetic memory, Jung calls it the collective unconscious the theosophists call it the akashic records there are all sorts of names for it.…

1:17:54

…to define synchronicity? Go ahead. Synchronicity is meaningful connection without mechanical connection, meaningful correlation without mechanical connection. An example: Jung had a patient telling him a dream about a scarab and Jung thought this is a symbol of…

1:17:58

…connection, meaningful correlation without mechanical connection. An example: Jung had a patient telling him a dream about a scarab and Jung thought this is a symbol of rebirth to the egyptians he was just developing his theory of the collective unconscious…

1:18:10

…to the egyptians he was just developing his theory of the collective unconscious or the morphogenetic field, the neurogenetic circuit. Jung thought this is an Egyptian Symbol of rebirth. That means the patient is reaching the rebirth stage in therapy and…

1:18:21

…is reaching the rebirth stage in therapy and at that point a scarab beetle began banging on the window. That's where Jung first began to think of synchronicity. Synchronicity happens in all types of psychotherapy. Some pay more attention to it than others…

7:17

…many sides to it. The side that's been preoccupying me lately is the synchronicity aspect, which is very curious because Jung Didn't publish on synchronicity until long after Finnegan's wake was finished. And yet Finnegan's wake seems to be an illustration…

7:34

…wake was finished. And yet Finnegan's wake seems to be an illustration of Jung's theories but it isn't. It was written before Jung developed those theories. Joyce and Jung met a few times and they didn't like each other. By the way. Joyce thought Jung

7:38

…wake seems to be an illustration of Jung's theories but it isn't. It was written before Jung developed those theories. Joyce and Jung met a few times and they didn't like each other. By the way. Joyce thought Jung thought Joyce was a possible candidate…

7:43

Jung developed those theories. Joyce and Jung met a few times and they didn't like each other. By the way. Joyce thought Jung thought Joyce was a possible candidate for therapy and Jung thought Joyce was a man on the edge of schizophrenia who remained…

7:48

…a few times and they didn't like each other. By the way. Joyce thought Jung thought Joyce was a possible candidate for therapy and Jung thought Joyce was a man on the edge of schizophrenia who remained on the safe side through his art if he lost his…

8:10

…his daughter too. Didn't he work with his daughter? Yes, Joyce did not wish to believe his daughter was schizophrenic. He told Jung I'm doing the same experiments with language that she is and Jung said the difference is you're diving and she's sinking.…

8:15

…did not wish to believe his daughter was schizophrenic. He told Jung I'm doing the same experiments with language that she is and Jung said the difference is you're diving and she's sinking. So Jung, would you say then that Jung could have gotten some of…

8:23

…I'm doing the same experiments with language that she is and Jung said the difference is you're diving and she's sinking. So Jung, would you say then that Jung could have gotten some of his ideas from or they were just synchronistic ideas? I'm inclined…

8:25

…language that she is and Jung said the difference is you're diving and she's sinking. So Jung, would you say then that Jung could have gotten some of his ideas from or they were just synchronistic ideas? I'm inclined to suspect Jung was influenced by…

8:33

…say then that Jung could have gotten some of his ideas from or they were just synchronistic ideas? I'm inclined to suspect Jung was influenced by Joyce, because Jung Certainly had the highest regard for Ulysses he said he recommended it as a New Bible…

8:37

…have gotten some of his ideas from or they were just synchronistic ideas? I'm inclined to suspect Jung was influenced by Joyce, because Jung Certainly had the highest regard for Ulysses he said he recommended it as a New Bible for the white race on the…

8:58

…for the white race on the grounds that the Bible has warped the development of western humanity in certain egotistic directions. And Jung thought the development of the true self the higher self, required a dose of oriental thinking and feeling and he felt…

9:14

…thinking and feeling and he felt Joyce had brought that into western literature with Ulysses. And when Finnegan's wake started to appear Jung wrote a comment on it in which he said: this is either mental illness or a degree of mental health inconceivable…

9:23

…it in which he said: this is either mental illness or a degree of mental health inconceivable to most people. And I think Jung Finally decided it was a degree of mental health inconceivable to most people because a lot of Jung develops right out of…

9:28

…people. And I think Jung Finally decided it was a degree of mental 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…

50:21

…below the ego and below the personal unconscious of Freud with all the sexual taboos being violated, and the collective unconscious of Jung with the archetypes of the moon goddess and the dying and rising god and so on. The fourth level down is this…

53:28

…and the grave next to it said j Joyce, which did a great deal to increase our man's faith in synchronicity, even though Jung Hadn't named it synchronicity then but that's also the theme of the dead. And the dead Joyce is portrayed by Gabriel Conroy…

56:57

…you have a view about that. Synchronicity and history. It seems to me it's a very powerful thing that continues to occur that Jung talks about evidently Joyce Refers to and I would wonder if the coming together of events like that doesn't play a role in…

40:35

…a gnostic underground tradition that recognized the positive meaning of the sun archetype and jungian Times Crowley identified with what Jung calls the solar phallic archetype, which I think is clear enough and doesn't require any explanation. All you have to…

40:54

…a few pages of Crowley and you get the solar and phallic energy coming at you right away. You don't even have to read Jung to find out what solar phallic means. So the rastafarian order in San Jose got in trouble with Crowley. I think the rastafarians…

19:59

…and they got back a lot of answers. People didn't have Easter Bunny sightings but they had mysterious conjunctions, synchronicities, Jung would say mysterious conjunctions of ufos and rabbits. For instance, there's a farmer in Isola Italy who says that a…