"Robert Anton Wilson - The Illuminati Papers" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wilson Robert Anton)

(Preceding was written in 1976; following was written in 1979)

The difference between Conspiracy Digest and myself is that CD defines the Power
Elite as somebody else. I always define the Power Elite as myself and my friends.
CD and I are in basic agreement that certain kinds of power are vested in (a) those
who monopolize weaponry, i.e. governments, (b) those who monopolize land, i.e.
landlords, and (c) those who monopolize currency, i.e. banks of issue. We disagree in that
CD regards these traditional monopolies as possessing the only kinds of power that matters
on this planet; and I recognize another kind of power, Brain Power.
Brain power (the work of all artists, scientists, and symbolizers since the dawn of
humanity, but particularly those of the Nineteenth Century) created the "real world" over
which monopolists fight each other in the Twentieth Century. Similiarly, Brain power right
now, today, is creating the "real world" of the Twenty-First Century, over which the
monopolies will then be struggling. The Brain people create the realities over which the
Power people fight each other, and the Brain people even create the techniques of the
fight...


Less than thirty years ago it was believed by many
intellectuals that the United States was a matriarchy.
The intellectuals who believed this were all males, but I
don't know any other explanation for them.




Paleopuritanism and Neopuritanism

...As psychologist Theodore Schroeder pointed out, "obscenity" is the modern form of

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"black magic." Both concepts are operationally meaningless; there is no instrument which, pointed at a
book or painting, will tell how much "black magic" or "obscenity" is in it. These things are in the nervous
system of the observer. Attributing them to books, art, ideas, etc., in the external world, and seeking to
punish the perpetrators, is the same kind of hallucination that produced the witch-hunts in which nine
million innocents were killed.
Clarification of this issue explains what the Buddhists mean by "maya." One could lead a group of
both old Puritans and new Puritans through a gallery featuring photographs of flowers without any
problem arising, even though flowers are the genitals of plants, as everyone who passed Botany 101
knows. However, try to navigate that group through an exhibit of photos of animal genitalia and almost
anything could happen, when the emotional imprints are activated. The external stimuli (natural
sexuality) are the same, but the imprints are different. Contemplation of this parable should clarify what
Buddha meant in saying that most people see only their own "maya" and never experience objective fact
at all. Of course, if the exhibit featured human genitalia... a great deal of angry speech about "smut" from
the first group and "sexism" from the second would be heard. All of this speech would confuse the
internal glandular-emotional emergency imprint with the objective external stimuli, and there would be a