#cosmic trigger

Cosmic Trigger (by Robert Anton Wilson) deals with a process of deliberately induced brain change. This process is called "initiation" or "vision quest" in many traditional societies and can loosely be considered some dangerous variety of self-psychotherapy in modern terminology. I do not recommend it for everybody.

We find that: "reality" is always plural and mutable.

"Reality" is a word in the English language which happens to be (a) a noun and (b) singular. Thinking in the English language (and Indo-European languages) therefore subliminally programs us to conceptualize "reality" as one block like entity--sort of like a huge New York skyscraper, in which every part is just another "room" within the same building. This linguistic program is so pervasive that most people cannot "think" outside it at all, and when one tries to offer a different perspective they imagine you are talking gibberish.

Frances Yates looked into the intricate and amazingly detailed and useful world of mental memory constructs, free-range organic machinery-making with its own supplies and labor to create a helpful smartner so far constrained to the sketchy landscapes of perpetual motion machines and self-replicating robots....that can learn to repair, improve, and evolve themselves.

These Theaters of Memory, discussed in books like "Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition” (1964), “The Rosicrucian Enlightenment” (1972), and The Art of Memory (1966), calmly and enthrallingly mesmerize—Yates spins fascinating detective stories of the brain mixed with alchemy, architectures, and ways of writing down or communicating esoteric knowledge…that is, to people who know how to read it.

Is the pre-Adamic language of the birds really gone forever?

"Well, there are a lot of occult traditions connected with Sirius. Among other things, Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, so if people are going to focus on anything out there -especially in the ancient world – Sirius would be very important. Particularly in Egypt, where it happens to rise just at the same time the Nile starts its annual flooding.

I mention in Cosmic Trigger something I picked up from Theosophy: just as in yoga you activate the heart chakra and then move the energy up to the crown chakra: this is happening to the ‘Cosmic Being’ which is trying to move the energy up from our Sun to Sirius.

Later in Dublin I met somebody who told me – on the basis of God knows what authority besides his own imagination – that above the 33rd degree of Masonry, unknown to the world, there is actually an illuminated inner circle which is in touch with Sirius. I thought I’d invented that myself, but this guy is telling me this like it’s an inner secret of Masonry!

But maybe that’s what Hugh Kenner calls an ‘Irish fact’, which is quite unlike an English fact, an American fact, or a French fact, and has no connection with a scientific fact. An Irish fact has the wonderful Dalìesque fluidity of a melting clock and the Joycean uncertainty of a rubber inch."

- Robert Anton Wilson, Fortean Times Interview (1992)

MAYBE DAY IS COMING!!