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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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Lao Tzu

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1:48:35

…you get a little more cautious. You develop what Nietzsche called the habit of caution. You develop the kind of sensibility that Lao Tzu Describes in the tao te Ching. Everybody else is full of robust certainty only I am tentative and unsure. And when…

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42:25

…Consciousness is a non local signal from an alternative reality, the realm of the hidden variables. As David Bohm says, or as Lao Tzu said the greatest is within the smallest. Now if that's perfectly clear, I said yeah I'd like an out of body experience…

9:42

…thing but something that's evolving and growing and changing all the time. And now we get to the real killer: fa Dao Fa Tzu ran. Dao is some kind of intelligent movement, by the way it's got the ideogram for intelligence and the ideogram for moving feet…

10:11

…That's what it was in prime early way back at the dawn of Chinese History when the language was being formed. Now we come to Tzu ran. Tzu is easy it means self or person or the one you're talking to. Or it can mean somebody you're honoring, like Kung…

10:11

…it was in prime early way back at the dawn of Chinese History when the language was being formed. Now we come to Tzu ran. Tzu is easy it means self or person or the one you're talking to. Or it can mean somebody you're honoring, like Kung Fu Tzu Lao…

10:20

Tzu ran. Tzu is easy it means self or person or the one you're talking to. Or it can mean somebody you're honoring, like Kung Fu Tzu Lao Tzu Monk Tzu, Etc. Ran is I give up on ran, I think. Well Alan Watts translates Tzu ran as self such if that…

10:21

Tzu is easy it means self or person or the one you're talking to. Or it can mean somebody you're honoring, like Kung Fu Tzu Lao Tzu Monk Tzu, Etc. Ran is I give up on ran, I think. Well Alan Watts translates Tzu ran as self such if that helps you…

10:22

…easy it means self or person or the one you're talking to. Or it can mean somebody you're honoring, like Kung Fu Tzu Lao Tzu Monk Tzu, Etc. Ran is I give up on ran, I think. Well Alan Watts translates Tzu ran as self such if that helps you in any…

10:31

…somebody you're honoring, like Kung Fu Tzu Lao Tzu Monk Tzu, Etc. Ran is I give up on ran, I think. Well Alan Watts translates Tzu ran as self such if that helps you in any way, I think the best translation is Dao Fa Tzu ran the Dao just happened.…

10:38

…Well Alan Watts translates Tzu ran as self such if that helps you in any way, I think the best translation is Dao Fa Tzu ran the Dao just happened. Dao happens, shit happens. You never know if you never see a shit happens, bump a stick around the…

46:16

…find a passage where the surface meaning is conventionally religious well not in the ordinary sense conventionally mystic. It could be Lao Tzu or buddha or some Sufi it could be any great mystic. And then you suddenly discover there's a dirty joke hidden…

19:40

…two you'd get two opposite opinions about how legal you are. So nobody knows whether they're a criminal anymore. And just as Lao Tzu said 2 500 years ago the more laws we create the more criminals we manufacture. That's obviously true the more laws there…

1:02:15

…that can be told is not the way, it is the way that can be told. Good night been talking to you. Nice quote from Lao Tzu there. There's another cosmic answer which is from I forgot the name of the book. Anyway the answer is 48. I think that's one…

21:32

…which just goes to show what you can accomplish if the proper man is in the right place at the right time as Lao Tzu says anything can happen. Emperor Norton's Currency was not only good in his lifetime it's worth even more now. People pay fabulous…

25:04

…you'll find the passage where the surface meaning is conventionally religious, not in the ordinary sense conventionally mystic. It could be Lao Tzu or buddha or some Sufi, it could be any great mystic. And then you suddenly discover there's a dirty joke…

6:58

…is that the more bills that get through congress the better off we all are, which is exactly the reverse of the view of Lao Tzu, who said: the more laws we enact the more criminals we produce. Actually the more laws we enact, the more we approach the…