{"id":121,"date":"2004-02-17T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2004-02-17T04:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T04:04:00","slug":"121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Anton Wilson’s cultural influence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesse Walker writes from Reason Online<\/em> that “We’re living in Robert Anton Wilson’s world<\/a>.” <\/p>\n

The co-author of the Illuminatus!<\/em> triology, he says, is “the unacknowledged elephant in our cultural living room: a direct and indirect influence on popular books, movies, TV shows, music, games, comics, and commentary. (His late co-author has left less of a mark: Many of Wilson?s books have cult followings, while the only Shea effort to make a big splash was the trilogy he wrote with Wilson.) Allusions to Wilson?s work appear in places both classy and trashy: There?s a Wilsonian stamp on films as diverse as Magnolia, The Mothman Prophecies<\/em>, and Sex and Lucia<\/em>, and it?s because of Wilson and Shea that the Illuminati, a secret society that once lurked only in right-wing conspiracy tracts, became the villains of Lara Croft, Tomb Raider<\/em>. Now Wilson?s the star of a lively documentary, Maybe Logic<\/em><\/a>, that?s being screened at film festivals and distributed on DVD.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Anton Wilson’s cultural influence Jesse Walker writes from Reason Online that “We’re living in Robert Anton Wilson’s world.” The co-author of the Illuminatus! triology, he says, is “the unacknowledged elephant in our cultural living room: a direct and indirect influence on popular books, movies, TV shows, music, games, comics, and commentary. 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Follow his links.I spent some time today looking through some files for an article by him that ran in the old Llewellyn Publications magazine Gnostica, but I could not find it. It was an account of a mystical experience\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3724,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3724","url_meta":{"origin":121,"position":4},"title":"“My Weirdest Summer”","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"For Erik Davis, it was the summer of 1985, when he took a total-immersion course in Robert Anton Wilson. It didn't help that I spent the summer reading Aleister Crowley, Phil Dick, the Principia Discordia, and Robert Anton Wilson, especially the Illuminatus! Trilogy, Prometheus Rising, and Cosmic Trigger. 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