Robert Anton Wilson
c/robert-anton-wilson
Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.
…I think it's the way they adopted it, it's actually about Gurdjieff. Peter Sellers is playing Gurdjieff and Ringo Starr is playing Ouspensky. And you can see that in a lot of scenes, especially every time Ringo Starr says to, as Ouspensky says to Peter…
…Starr is playing Ouspensky. And you can see that in a lot of scenes, especially every time Ringo Starr says to, as Ouspensky says to Peter Sellers as Gurdjieff, what business are we in, Dad? That's the kind of question Ouspensky was always asking, you…
…Starr says to, as Ouspensky says to Peter Sellers as Gurdjieff, what business are we in, Dad? That's the kind of question Ouspensky was always asking, you know. Okay, next question. Yes? I read somewhere that there were 300 pages left out of Illuminati's…
…of the old days in Paris G and I don't know whether he really believes he's the reincarnation of Gurdjieff and I'm the reincarnation of Ouspensky or what, or if that's another of his jokes. He had me as guest of honor at a cosmic con that he put on…
…was playing Gurdjieff. The character he was playing was based on Gurdjieff and the character that Ringo Starr was playing was based on Ouspensky. And people after the movie they were telling me and I never realized it before when I saw that movie when it…
…I never realized it before when I saw that movie when it first came out but it really is and Ringo really captured Ouspensky so well when he keeps asking Peter Sellers what are we doing, dad? Anyway, Prometheus rises has my seal of approval and this…
…shipping 60 000 body bags over there. And I thought for years in my seminars I've been quoting this story about Ouspensky Ouspensky, prince Peter Ouspensky studied with Gurdjieff and one of the main teachings of the Gurdjieff Schools is that human beings…
…60 000 body bags over there. And I thought for years in my seminars I've been quoting this story about Ouspensky Ouspensky, prince Peter Ouspensky studied with Gurdjieff and one of the main teachings of the Gurdjieff Schools is that human beings at…
…body bags over there. And I thought for years in my seminars I've been quoting this story about Ouspensky Ouspensky, prince Peter Ouspensky studied with Gurdjieff and one of the main teachings of the Gurdjieff Schools is that human beings at this stage of…
…work has heard at least that much. Try to see how mechanical you are. As a first step in the Gurdjieff work, Ouspensky Couldn't understand what Gurdjieff meant about people being mechanical until 1914, when war was declared. And one day Ouspensky saw a…
…Gurdjieff work, Ouspensky Couldn't understand what Gurdjieff meant about people being mechanical until 1914, when war was declared. And one day Ouspensky saw a truck headed for the front and it was full of artificial legs. And it suddenly hit Ouspensky that…
…declared. And one day Ouspensky saw a truck headed for the front and it was full of artificial legs. And it suddenly hit Ouspensky that these the shooting had hardly started, the troops were just moving up to the front. It suddenly occurred to him this…
…for soldiers who had their legs blown off already. This was for soldiers whose legs were going to be blown off. And Ouspensky had a background in mathematics and statistics and he knew how the Russian war department calculated how many legs were going to…
…there I was in maui two months ago and I hear they're sending 60 000 body bags to the mideast and I suddenly felt just like Ouspensky what the hell is going on on this planet? Are we all really in a deep state of hypnosis, as very jeff said are we…
…If they're in a state of deep hypnosis to believe that bullshit, isn't it possible you're in a state of deep hypnosis too. Ouspensky Couldn't believe when he was studying with Gary Jeff he couldn't believe Gary Jeff's claim that people are in a state of…
…people are in a state of deep hypnosis, sleepwalking all the time, until one day, shortly after the beginning of world war I. Ouspensky was walking through Moscow and he saw a lorry, a truck. I lived in Ireland for six years and I occasionally lapsed…
…Irish rather than American. They say lorry we say truck. They say tomato, we say tomato. Let's call the whole thing off. Ouspensky saw a truck full of artificial legs, wooden legs in those days. Now we got better ones, prosthetic ones. It was heading…
…legs, wooden legs in those days. Now we got better ones, prosthetic ones. It was heading for the front and Ouspensky, who was a mathematician who had specialized in statistics, he realized that statistically the government could predict how many legs…