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We put up a vintage paperback for sale written in the 70s by Robert Anton Wilson. The title is "Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of The Illuminati".
When this book was written, the topic of the Illuminati had not really been in circulation, since the Internet was still in its infancy, being probably still an experimental set of computers in Boelter Hall at UCLA.
But in the ensuing decades since, it is now a staple of Saturday Afternoon television on the History Channel. Several radio talk show hosts give us breathless updates and link them to a number of conspiracies.
Robert Anton Wilson had written a fictional trilogy about the Illuminati, and he followed up his colorful success with this non-fictional book about his own life experiences in strangeness, UFOs, and his newly introduced concept of "the reality tunnel", which is is definition of a personal reality subject to extraordinary events. We have a copy for sale, it is in good shape. Find out what people in the 70s were thinking about when it came to strangeness. He talks about how he communicated telepathically with creatures from Sirius, before it was cool.
Here is a short quote:
...all of our perceptions have gone myriads of neural processes in the brain before they appear to our consciousness. At the point of conscious recognition, the identified image is organized into a three-dimensional hologram which we project outside ourselves and call “reality.” We are much too modest about our own creativity if we take any of these projections literally. We see the sun “going down” at twilight, but science assures us that nothing of the sort Is happening; instead, the earth is turning. We perceive an orange as really orange, whereas it is actually blue, the orange light being the light bouncing off the real fruit. And, everywhere we look, we imagine solid objects, but science finds only a web of dancing energy.
When this book was written, the topic of the Illuminati had not really been in circulation, since the Internet was still in its infancy, being probably still an experimental set of computers in Boelter Hall at UCLA.
But in the ensuing decades since, it is now a staple of Saturday Afternoon television on the History Channel. Several radio talk show hosts give us breathless updates and link them to a number of conspiracies.
Robert Anton Wilson had written a fictional trilogy about the Illuminati, and he followed up his colorful success with this non-fictional book about his own life experiences in strangeness, UFOs, and his newly introduced concept of "the reality tunnel", which is is definition of a personal reality subject to extraordinary events. We have a copy for sale, it is in good shape. Find out what people in the 70s were thinking about when it came to strangeness. He talks about how he communicated telepathically with creatures from Sirius, before it was cool.
Here is a short quote:
...all of our perceptions have gone myriads of neural processes in the brain before they appear to our consciousness. At the point of conscious recognition, the identified image is organized into a three-dimensional hologram which we project outside ourselves and call “reality.” We are much too modest about our own creativity if we take any of these projections literally. We see the sun “going down” at twilight, but science assures us that nothing of the sort Is happening; instead, the earth is turning. We perceive an orange as really orange, whereas it is actually blue, the orange light being the light bouncing off the real fruit. And, everywhere we look, we imagine solid objects, but science finds only a web of dancing energy.
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