Browsing the archives for the wisdom category
Share The Acceleration Of Knowledge Boulder, Colorado 1986 The Acceleration of Knowledge: The Jumping Jesus Phenomenon is an hour and a half talk by Robert Anton Wilson, of whom I have written before, once or twice. I first owned this on cassette, mail ordered from the man himself (via his Trajectories magazine). That is, alas, long [...]
ShareHoward Hallis Interviews Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson in 1994 Go here to read the entire interview. Howard Hallis does it right, Here’s a taste of Robert Anton Wilson: RAW: I very much doubt a Hell because it sort of makes a bad joke out of life. Who created Hell? Presumably God, or the [...]
Share Money From Nothing If That’s Not Magick, What Is? Yet another video from Uncle Bob, or Robert Anton Wilson. This one is only 3 minutes long and contains an insight that many people have not had, regarding the nature of money. I’ve posted quite a bit of Robert Anton Wilson lately, because I love [...]
ShareVery Rare Recording The Lord of Fnord Speaks For An Hour Robert Anton Wilson is one of my favorite people ever. That’s why you will find quite a few posts featuring the great RAW, going back years. This recording may be for the purists, but I believe it’s important enough to promote. I just found [...]
Share More Robert Anton Wilson A Brilliant Talk When it rains it pours, and right after I found this two hour talk by Robert Anton Wilson, I discovered a whole new two hour talk by Uncle Bob. This one is about a year or two earlier than the first one, and the content is almost [...]
Share2 Hours Of Pure Fnord Robert Anton Wilson Is A National Treasure “I’ve learned more from Robert Anton Wilson than I have from any other source.” – George Carlin, comedian Regular readers will know that I have a huge appreciation for the works of Robert Anton Wilson. I have written of him, and posted videos [...]
ShareZurich 1959 Brilliant Mind I don’t read much Jung. I listen to my fair share (interviews like this, audiobooks of his, etc) but I haven’t really read many of his books, aside from Synchronicity, and Memories, Dreams, and Reflections. I believe I know a little more about Jung’s work than the average person, but still [...]
ShareTemporary Autonomous Zone Hakim Bey’s Shot Across The Bow There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you’re the monarch of your own skin. – Hakim Bey You should read this. Familiarize yourself with poetic terrorism, chaos magick, and pure, wild, freedom. I first heard of the concept of the Temporary Autonomous [...]
ShareCopy/Paste Straight From Facebook The Joseph Campbell Foundation Page “I was five years without a job. I went out to California looking for one and settled down in Carmel, where I met John Steinbeck, who was also broke. That was an important moment for me, especially getting to know his collaborator, Ed Ricketts, who’s the [...]
ShareProphets Conference 2000 Enjoy The Fnord You can’t have too much Robert Anton Wilson, I say. I’ve been posting more Bob than usual, but that’s a good thing. I want to put a little more substance on Youdopia, and not just memes, and Jimmy Page. … not that there’s anything wrong with that. This hour [...]
ShareYour Operating System Can Be Modified Reality Is Almost Purely Subjective I learned about Timothy Leary from the writing of Robert Anton Wilson. The Harvard professor/pariah/genius called the most dangerous man in the country by Richard Nixon, will one day (I think) be rehabilitated in the eyes of history. If you don’t know anything about [...]
ShareA Little Uncle Bob A Little Uncle Joe, and Creepy Uncle Al That’s all you need. If you haven’t really given these guys a shot, I think you’re missing out on some wild stuff, my friend.
Share The Lord Of Fnord & The Prophet Of The New Aeon It doesn’t really get better than this. One of the greatest minds of the 20th Century (Robert Anton Wilson) talking about one of the greatest minds of the 20th Century. It’s a rabbit hole of infinite regress that is worth falling into. Speaking [...]
ShareGreat Wisdom Hail Eris and 23 The Principia Discordia is one of the touchstones of my life. Like he has does times innumerable, Robert Anton Wilson (who wrote an intro to this work)led me to Eris, Discordianism, fnord, and all that noise. It struck at a time when I was really into Kashmir advaitism (a [...]
Share“My function is to raise the possibility, ‘Hey, you know, some of this stuff might be bullshit.’” — Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson Pope, Genius, Awesome BoingBoing recently paid homage to Robert Anton Wilson. He is one of the most underappreciated pillars of the post everything culture. He is, by far, the most influential [...]
ShareWe Stopped Dreaming And Settled For Surviving A culture without a common mythology can’t hold together. Break the thread and all the beads fall. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, [...]
ShareBring up all the fuckers and leave them Let them gasp out their last, loathsome lies into the vacuum Astronauts are badass. I mean real astronauts. The moon walkers. The Right Stuff folk. Buzz Aldrin is in his 80′s and he still kicks ass, when fucked with.
ShareIf the bad guys speak like the good guys are supposed to, and the good guys act like bad guys… and the good guys imprison, torture, lie, extort, exploit, and exhaust the country, and the people whom they are sworn to serve (remember… public servants), then I believe the time has come for a reevaluation [...]
ShareCoolest Show Ever Incredibly Information Rich If you have never read, heard, or seen The Power of Myth, with Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, then I strongly encourage you to do so. It’s one of the coolest things ever, and it may provide a ton of cool insights for you. You can read an excellent [...]
ShareThe B in B. Kliban Stands For Bernard Funniest Cartoonist Ever I discovered B. Kliban in 1986, in the humor section of the Paperback Booksmith, in the Bedford (NH) Mall. I was probably looking at Bloom County, and National Lampoon, as well. His unbelievably weird, and transcendentally brilliant cartoons brought unto me illumination not unlike [...]
