Robert Anton Wilson

Person · Open Library

Born

18. Januar 1932

Died

11. Januar 2007

Works

61

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Film & TV

Acting

Known for

• Nova '78 — Self (archive footage)2025
• WMK 23 13 11 — Master Bob (clip)2019
• Tim Leary: The Art of Dying — Self2008
• Disinfo.Con — Self2007
• Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson — Self2003
• The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick — Himself2001
• 23 — Er selbst1998
• Manual of Evasion LX94 — Himself1994
• Arise! SubGenius Recruitment Film #161992
• Robert Anton Wilson: The "I" In The Triangle — self1990

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1932

Active to

2007

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3,385

Total plays

36,103

Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (January 18, 1932 - January 11, 2007) was an American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychologist, futurologist, anarchist, and conspiracy theory researcher. Wilson was born in Methodist Hospital, downtown Brooklyn, New York, and spent his first years in Flatbush, moving with his family to Gerritsen Beach around the age of 4 or 5, where they stayed until he turned 13. Wilson described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations <a href="https://w

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

   · 1988 · cited 95,712x

2. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 84,720x

3. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

   · 2011 · cited 56,512x

4. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 46,778x

5. Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso

   · 1996 · cited 39,745x

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Quotes

• “Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.”
• “There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled — by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.”
• “No wife, no horse, no mustache.”
• “Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books. Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?'"”
• “The persons we think we are have been manufactured out of some shotgun wedding of history and and imagination.”
• “It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”

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Key facts

Born

Robert Edward Wilson , ( 1932-01-18 ) January 18, 1932, Brooklyn , New York, U.S.

Died

January 11, 2007 (2007-01-11) (aged 74), Capitola, California , U.S.

Occupations

Writer, lecturer

Spouse

Arlen Riley Wilson ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 ; died 1999 ) ​

Alma mater

Paideia University ( MA , PhD )

Era

20th-century philosophy , 21st-century philosophy

Region

Western philosophy American philosophy

School

Agnosticism Discordianism Libertarian socialism

Main interests

Conspiracy theories futurology mysticism paranormality politics psychology religion

Notable works

The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy (1979) Masks of the Illuminati (1981) The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles (1982) Prometheus Rising (1983) Quantum Psychology (1990)

Notable ideas

23 enigma Celine's laws Eight-circuit model of consciousness Guerilla ontology Reality tunnel

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