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>>21908595
He lives on through us all remember

Has anyone here read and enjoyed the works of Robert Anton Wilson?

Books of his like “Cosmic Trigger,” “Prometheus Rising”, and “The New Inquisition,” have some beautiful and mind-expanding stuff in them at their best, and even (I’m sure) can contribute to an unconventional “spiritual awakening” of sorts, flashes of this at times for the open-minded reader.

Both Fundamentalist Materialists and Fundamentalist Religionists need not necessarily answer (but I can’t prevent them from doing so, and, hey, they add more to the diversity of viewpoints and carnivalesque atmosphere).

Check out the Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson. It'll change the way you see the world and all three books are collected in one volume.

I hereby anoint all who read this as Discordian popes. Welcome to the Church of the Subgenius.

Yes; why not a totally programmed sexual environment? Saul Kent, who has described this concept as “multi-media masturbation”, envisions sex tapes for the household computer, programmed for the all- around sexual trip — with or without partner. Already, X-rated motels in California provide water beds and closed circuit TV featuring porn films, so that a shy couple can have a simulated orgy and share their real selves with each other and the images of Georgina Spelvin, Harry Reems, and Marilyn Chambers. The next step, easily obtainable for the rich even now, is to program the whole inner environment of the bedroom for a fantasy that goes well with the sex act. ESB control of brain centres via this computer-programmed artificial environment would give, in Burrough’s perfect phrase, “precise control over thought, feeling, and apparent sensory impression” [his italics]. Reality in that room would be whatever you wanted it to be.

Of course, in a sense we already live inside that room, as the Buddhists know. That is, the human nervous system, properly programmed, can edit and orchestrate all experience into any gestalt it wishes. We encounter the same dismal and depressing experience over and over because they are repeating tape loops in the central programmer of our brains. We can encounter ecstasy over and over by learning the neurosciences that orchestrate all incoming signals into ecstatic tape loops. The contact has already happened right where you are sitting now. Whether it is tuned-in or not tuned-in depends on your skill as metaprogrammer.

Multi-media pornography will enthral millions when it first appears; porn light shows, porn 3-D, and porn holograms are the dawning intimations of a revolution that will climax — certainly by the early years of the next century — when the difference between porn and the artificial sex mate will no longer be visible. Multimedia solipsism and all-channel masturbation will be the pleasure norms.

Technological Masturbation by Robert Anton Wilson appeared in TOTAL, Volume 2 (1993).

>>11587502
>Illiuminatus Trilogy

My nigga