I read the Shrodinger Cat series
I've read his encyclopedia of conspiracy theories Everything is Under Control.
I've never read the Illuminatus! series.
What SHOULD I read of his?
there's already a post on this, entitled 'RAW' somewhere. but just off the top of the head, i'd say everything.
well, everything is all good and all, but I would say that his grocery list from April 12th, 1973 was his best work ever. You should check it out.
woo-hoo!!!!
i got illuminatus- the full book! off of kazaa! now all i have to do is print it!!!
(that's the last place i'll post that, swear to bob.)
"The Shrodinger's Cat Trilogy" is the best by far!
If you haven't read the Illuminatus! trilogy, read the Illuminatus! trilogy!! I mean, sheesh, that's the one that's actually about Discordians and stuff...
But after that, read, Reality Is What You Can Get Away With, and then Quantum Psychology (if you're into either psychology or quantums)
oooh... quantum psychology...
and yes... the trilogy is fun... I was trippin out last night because of reading it...
Just got the Illuminatus trilogy from some fucknuts little library so small it looks like a burst pimple on the map of even my tiny country. Why the hell do they have it and my (the largest in the southern hemisphere) public library doesn't?
Because our buyers, and I know them personally, don't think outside the box too much when it comes to fiction. Top ten, a wave thrown at genre so mainstream you could weep and a trickle for the real freaks out there. Oh well.
All ranting aside, I'm super-pleased.
RAW is prismatic. RAW is not Geno. Therefore 2+1=0.
RAW rocks, it only took a few pages of the prometheus for me to realize that he was a genious, and just a little more pages to realize that he's not even half of what we all can be ^^
Quote from: RiffIf you haven't read the Illuminatus! trilogy, read the Illuminatus! trilogy!! I mean, sheesh, that's the one that's actually about Discordians and stuff...
But after that, read, Reality Is What You Can Get Away With, and then Quantum Psychology (if you're into either psychology or quantums)
DO NOT forget schrodingers cat, Thats about hte strangest book Ive ever read and its so darn good I must have it in my house at all times.. At All Times. :P
And also read 'Liber Kaos', which is by another person altogether. It explains the magical view of the universe as quantum physics.
Quote from: alocQuote from: RiffIf you haven't read the Illuminatus! trilogy, read the Illuminatus! trilogy!! I mean, sheesh, that's the one that's actually about Discordians and stuff...
But after that, read, Reality Is What You Can Get Away With, and then Quantum Psychology (if you're into either psychology or quantums)
DO NOT forget schrodingers cat, Thats about hte strangest book Ive ever read and its so darn good I must have it in my house at all times.. At All Times. :P
Yeah, that's definately my favorite, but he said he'd already read it, so I didn't bother to mention it.
Quote from: St. Hugh, KSCAnd also read 'Liber Kaos', which is by another person altogether. It explains the magical view of the universe as quantum physics.
If you liked that one, also try 'Liber Null and Psychonaut' (two books collected into one volume) by Peter Carroll. Lots of practical 'how-to' info.
Quote from: RiffQuote from: alocQuote from: RiffIf you haven't read the Illuminatus! trilogy, read the Illuminatus! trilogy!! I mean, sheesh, that's the one that's actually about Discordians and stuff...
But after that, read, Reality Is What You Can Get Away With, and then Quantum Psychology (if you're into either psychology or quantums)
DO NOT forget schrodingers cat, Thats about hte strangest book Ive ever read and its so darn good I must have it in my house at all times.. At All Times. :P
Yeah, that's definately my favorite, but he said he'd already read it, so I didn't bother to mention it.
My bad, i thought he said that he had read the illuminatus and then I got like all confused and hey! Here I am... ^^
I consider RAW to be my own patron saint and hero.
My favorite of his books is "Prometheus Rising" which is one of my favorite books of all time. Illuminatus and the Schrodenger Cat Trilogy are also excellent.
Have you been here?
RAW Homepage (http://www.rawilson.com/main.html)
i agree with the man above,prometheus rising is the best see if you can fly go on. but you should read the illuminatus trilogy first, and then schrodingers cat because its supposed to be a follow on. and when your done with that read coincidence and then right where your sitting now and so on and so on
what do we have here...?
http://www.tpdada.art.pl/wabik/books/RAWilson-Prometheus.pdf
Read Prometheus rising, rename yourself as Emperor Norton the second, and name check his sources... Crowley, Gurdieff, Ouspensky, Hyatts 'Undoing yourself...' is good for a giggle, Joyce, Burroughs (Exterminator!!! especialy), Lilly et al You should probably read Leary aswell but treat him as saltily as Crowley. Sex, Drugs and Magick has just been republished here in the UK and if you fancy more of the same try 'Breaking open the head' by Daniel Pinchbeck, and for serious enlightenment read the milk carton at a 45 degree angle, smell the zealotry.
Quote from: MaxwellsDemonRead Prometheus rising, rename yourself as Emperor Norton the second, and name check his sources... Crowley, Gurdieff, Ouspensky, Hyatts 'Undoing yourself...' is good for a giggle, Joyce, Burroughs (Exterminator!!! especialy), Lilly et al You should probably read Leary aswell but treat him as saltily as Crowley. Sex, Drugs and Magick has just been republished here in the UK and if you fancy more of the same try 'Breaking open the head' by Daniel Pinchbeck, and for serious enlightenment read the milk carton at a 45 degree angle, smell the zealotry.
Could you please repeat that so I can write it down and then go check the bookcase?
I'm pretty sure you mentioned a few books I don't have yet.
Oh yeah forgot Shah, somthing akin to wisdom of the idiots is good enough for all us dribbling Savants. How bowt a bit of Sufi nonsense?
Thank you. 8)
Zombies love books.
And sufi dancing is a good way to put
oneself into a deep trance state suitable for the purposes
of astral projection and/or measuring cheeze whiz.
Yes indeed, the whole cheese metric system was devised by Al Hakim Hassai in the the third century, after an extended session of transcendental spinning. Some scholars believe that this is the true meaning behind illuminati secret 54: Mountains of cheese, seek herein....
Since were still in the RAW books bit, Gaiman, Fullminster, Philp K Dick and all that colourfull stuff by Grant Morrison should probably be noted.
I see......always suspected the sufis had a hand in cheese.
Someone should make a documentary about cheese,
don't you think? The winners could get a little statue or
something as a prize. Yessss indeed.
Ah.....Gaiman. I got American Gods for Christmas
this year. Isn't that lovely?
A documentry about cheese is a terrible idea, it would result in all manner of random fact accumulation, dissipation of the mystique of fromage, and possible death.
Im glad you got good christmas presents, where Im from they just hang you from a tree and chant food mneomonics at you: Hot dogs dancing, a lettuce dressed as an elf, bacon on your knees and so it goes. No presents just fil ins for thememory challenged.
It has occured to me that my avatar isnt as petite as it shoould be, a surfing we go....
bo fowler, and the schotts dictionary of miscellany
Quote from: slothrop23bo fowler, and the schotts dictionary of miscellany
About time you came back and brought your literary-minded friend with you.....
I was running out of reading material ideas.
just got ILLUMINATUS! as Quantum Pyschology. reading them both. schroedinger's cat was cool, i only read the first two books though.
you should really read some Bulhakov's books. "Master and Margaret" is for me the greatest book of him and ever written. psychodelic, narcotic, magic, hellish, crazy!!! Also worth of reading is Dog's Heart. By the way, has someone Illuminatus? I have pretty lot of Lovecraft for exchange :)
Quote from: Weselinayou should really read some Bulhakov's books. "Master and Margaret" is for me the greatest book of him and ever written. psychodelic, narcotic, magic, hellish, crazy!!! Also worth of reading is Dog's Heart. By the way, has someone Illuminatus? I have pretty lot of Lovecraft for exchange :)
I gotta agree."The Master and Margarita" is one of the best books ever. Heart of the Dog is also good, but I liked the first one better.
Quote from: SssBella, Oracle of DoomQuote from: Weselinayou should really read some Bulhakov's books. "Master and Margaret" is for me the greatest book of him and ever written. psychodelic, narcotic, magic, hellish, crazy!!! Also worth of reading is Dog's Heart. By the way, has someone Illuminatus? I have pretty lot of Lovecraft for exchange :)
I gotta agree."The Master and Margarita" is one of the best books ever. Heart of the Dog is also good, but I liked the first one better.
Sermon 26 is back up. New, and improved.
Quote from: The Good Reverend RogerQuote from: SssBella, Oracle of DoomQuote from: Weselinayou should really read some Bulhakov's books. "Master and Margaret" is for me the greatest book of him and ever written. psychodelic, narcotic, magic, hellish, crazy!!! Also worth of reading is Dog's Heart. By the way, has someone Illuminatus? I have pretty lot of Lovecraft for exchange :)
I gotta agree."The Master and Margarita" is one of the best books ever. Heart of the Dog is also good, but I liked the first one better.
Sermon 26 is back up. New, and improved.
Yay!
I'm gonna go look now.
Yeah! Read Bulhakov and worship Woland :) You like poetry? Worth reading are poems of Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire. Especially "Les Fleurs du Mal" and "Spleen de Paris" by baudelaire. check it out!!!
Baudelaire is so very fine and I love Rimbaud.
Yeah! His "Season in Hell" was great, now I'm searching for something more. Unfortunately he's not popular in Poland and even in librarys you can't get his poems :(
Here's a link to a forum about Rimbaud that I ran across the other day:
http://pub205.ezboard.com/fthedrunkenboatcommunityfrm2
Looks like it was down for a while, but is back up now.
And here's a link to the Rimbaud Webring.......lots of surfing fun for his fans.
http://s.webring.com/hub?ring=gorimbaud&list%250d
And for Baudelaire fans: http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/People/baud.html
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/flowersofevil/analysis.html
The last one has a message board and I betcha people can help you
find more of his work.
Quote from: WeselinaYeah! His "Season in Hell" was great, now I'm searching for something more. Unfortunately he's not popular in Poland and even in librarys you can't get his poems :(
thats weird....which town are you livin?
Quote from: Den Sorte DragenQuote from: WeselinaYeah! His "Season in Hell" was great, now I'm searching for something more. Unfortunately he's not popular in Poland and even in librarys you can't get his poems :(
thats weird....which town are you livin?
The name wil not tell you anything, but maybe the region- I'm from Silesia (southern Poland). Not much to talk about, heh...
I forgot to log in, that was my post :)
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