ROBERT ANTON WILSON

I AM VERY SAD TO LEARN THAT ROBERT ANTON WILSON ONE OF MY HEROES DIED ON 1/11/2007.

HE WAS A MOST INTELLIGENT AND PROLIFIC WRITER OF OUR TIMES.



HE WROTE STUFF THAT WAS FUNNY THAT LATER TURNED TO BE PROPHETIC.

THE ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY WHICH MY KIDS WERE READING IN 1972 IN HIGH SCHOOL THEY BROUGHT THESE BOOKS HOME AND DON AND I READ THEM AND STARTED TO LOOK FOR MORE OF HIS WORKS HE WROTE THE COSMIC TRIGGER SERIES WHICH FOLLOWED THE PROPHETIC ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY, AFTER WHICH OR DURING HE ALSO WROTE SCHRODINGER'S CAT TRILOGY WHICH WE ALSO READ.

IT WAS SUCH A DELIGHT IN MOVING FROM PHYSICS TO METAPHYSICS AND SEEING IT REALLY WAS.



HIS WRITINGS KEPT US ALERT AND HAPPY DURING THE 70S AND 80S AND NOWADAYS I FIND HE WROTE MANY MORE BOOKS WHICH I AM NOW COLLECTING. GOT 4 YESTERDAY AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT THEM.



WHEN I WAS ABOUT 15 IT STRUCK ME THAT THERE WAS MORE IN THE WORLD THAN WHAT I COULD SEE BECAUSE I AT TIMES COULD SEE MORE.

I STARTED TO READ SCIENCE FICTION AND COLLECT COMICS ABOUT SUCH THINGS.

WHEN I WAS 17 I BEGAN THE FOUNDATION SERIES BY ISAAC ASIMOV THEY WERE VERY EXCITING THEN. IT WAS A SERIES OF 3 BOOKS.



ALSO DURING THAT TIME I WAS READING A BOOK BY VICTOR FRANKL CALLED MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING AND THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING BY NORMAN VINCENT PEALE.



I WAS SEARCHING FOR MEANING IN MY LIFE AND MY PATH . SCIENCE FICTION AND PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS WERE MY FOOD AT THAT TIME. AND STRANGELY ENOUGH STILL.



I WAS ASHAMED THAT I HADN'T FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL BUT MY RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME HAD MADE ME AN OBJECT OF GOSSIP BECAUSE WE RAN AWAY 2 GIRLS AND 1 BOY AND THE BOY ALWAYS SEEMED GAY TO US SO WE DIDN'T SEE HIM AS A SEX OBJECT BUT OTHERS DID. WHICH MADE MY RETURN TO HIGH SCHOOL PURE HELL SO I QUIT. AND AFTER A SHORT SPELL WITH MY MOM AND STEP FATHER WHICH WAS WORSE THAN HELL I WENT ON MY OWN TO DENVER COLO.

AND I BEGAN MY JOURNEY OF SELF DISCOVERY AND STUDY. I WENT TO NIGHT SCHOOL FOR AWHILE COMPTOMETER SCHOOL WHICH WAS BORING AND I NEVER QUITE UNDERSTOOD WHAT I WAS DOING AND NO ONE EXPLAINED IT TO ME. IT WAS A TYPE OF MACHINE THAT ADDED SUBTRACTED MULTIPLIED AND ETC. AN EARLY MODEL OF OUR HANDHELD ONES.

ANYWAY I JUST WANTED TOP MAKE A POINT OF THE IMPORTANCE OF ROBERT ANTON WILSON'S INFLUENCE ON MY LIFE.