![]() Also, this might be the only book that graphically describes a man having sexual relations with a giant golden apple. ![]() Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Aleister Crowley, and the somewhat fictitious cult of Discordia. I first read this book when I was 19 and it was my gateway drug into William S. 'Trust no one!' is the name of the game in this mental landscape. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. ![]() 1998 by Robert Shea (Author), Robert Anton Wilson (Author) 784 ratings Book 1 of 3: Illuminatus Kindle Edition £6. The Eye in the Pyramid Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 3.83 2,925 ratings172 reviews It was a deadly mistake. The authors (Robert Shea as more transcribing Robert Wilson's pseudo scholarly rants on the Illuminati and other drug blasted notions) shift constantly between time lines and characters to the point where time looses its meaning and everything from a squirrel eating a nut to resurrected Nazis attacking hippies are connected into one organic 3-D picture in your head. Robert Anton Wilson The Illuminatus Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, the Golden Apple, and Leviathan Hardcover 1 Feb. ![]() Am I me, or are you not you, or are you me, and other gibberish. His message is more important right now than it was when. It is at once a philosophical treatise and an act of cognitive defiance. A work of literary fiction (but is it fiction?) that induces not only extreme paranoia but confusion of self as well. Like Alfred Korzybskis Science and Sanity, Robert Anton Wilsons The New Inquisition seeks to rescue science from fundamentalist materialism, and the rest of us from the broader implications of this approach. ![]()
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