Robert Anton Wilson's Biography (Books) (Photos)

Robert Anton Wilson (b. January 18, 1932) is an American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychologist, futurologist, anarchist, and conspiracy theory researcher. One of the most profound and important scientific philosophers of this century, Wilson has written many important works of fiction and non-fiction. His vast intelligence and sharp wit are sufficient to shock and enlighten the most heavily imprinted domesticated primate nervous system.

Recognized as an Episkopos, Pope, and saint of Discordianism, Wilson helped publicize the group through his writings and interviews.

Wilson described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth". His goal being "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything."

Born Robert Edward Wilson in Methodist Hospital, in Brooklyn, New York, he spent his first years in Flatbush, and moved with his family to lower middle class Gerritsen Beach around the age of four or five, where they stayed until relocating to the steadfastly middle-class neighborhood of Bay Ridge when Wilson was thirteen. He suffered from polio as a child, and found generally effective treatment with the Kenny Method (created by Elizabeth Kenny) which the American Medical Association repudiated at that time. Polio's effects remained with Wilson throughout his life, usually manifesting as minor muscle spasms causing him to use a cane occasionally until 2000, when he experienced a major bout with post-polio syndrome that would continue until his death.

Wilson died peacefully on January 11 at 4:50 a.m. Pacific time. After his cremation on January 18, his family held a memorial service on February 18 and then scattered most of his ashes at the same spot as his wife's-off the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California.

Robert Anton Wilson Bibliography:

Fiction:

- The Sex Magicians (1973)
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) (with Robert Shea) ("The Eye in the Pyramid", "The Golden Apple", "Leviathan")
- Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy (1979-1981) ("The Universe Next Door", "The Trick Top Hat", "The Homing Pigeons")
- Masks of the Illuminati (1981)
- The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles ("The Earth Will Shake" (1982), "The Widow's Son" (1985), "Nature's God" (1988))

Autobiographical and philosophical trilogy, "Cosmic Trigger Trilogy":

- Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977)
- Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth (1991)
- Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death (1995)

Plays and screenplays:

- Wilhelm Reich in Hell (1987)
- Reality Is What You Can Get Away With (1992; revised edition-new introduction added-1996)
- The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1997)

Non-fiction:

- Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words (1972)
- Sex and Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits (1973)
- The Book of the Breast (1974), Revised as Ishtar Rising (1989)
- Neuropolitics (1978) (with Timothy Leary and George Koopman), Revised as Neuropolitique (1988)
- The Game of Life (1979) (with Timothy Leary)
- Prometheus Rising (1983)
- The New Inquisition (1986)
- Natural Law, or Don't Put a Rubber on Your Willy (1987)
- Sex, Drugs and Magick: A Journey Beyond Limits (1988) revision, with new introduction, of Sex and Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits
- Quantum Psychology (1990)
- Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups (1998) (with Miriam Joan Hill)
- TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution (2002)

Essay collections:

- The Illuminati Papers (1980) collection of essays and new material
- Right Where You Are Sitting Now (1983) collection of essays and new material
- Coincidance: A Head Test (1988) essays and new material
- Email to the universe and other alterations of consciousness (2005) collection of essays and new material

Editor:

- Semiotext(e) SF (1989) (anthology, editor, with Rudy Rucker and Peter Lamborn Wilson)
- Chaos and Beyond (1994) (editor and primary author)

Source: wikipedia