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Dedication to Robert Anton Wilson
#14069184 - 03/05/11 12:27 AM (13 years, 16 hours ago) |
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Terrence McKenna and all those other wishy washy psuedo-scientific guys associated with psychedelia don't hold a candle to true geniuses of the psychedelic movement, like Robert Anton Wilson.

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Re: Dedication to Robert Anton Wilson [Re: morrowasted]
#14069329 - 03/05/11 01:16 AM (13 years, 15 hours ago) |
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RIP RAW
The man was funny, inspiring, philisophical, self deprecating, and extremely original.
Helped me understand Timothy Leary even more, and his explanation of Aleister Crowley's philosophy of "do what thou wilt" finally made me really get it.
The psychedelic community needs more of his and Leary's ilk, instead of the McKenna wannabes like Daniel Pinchbeck.
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Re: Dedication to Robert Anton Wilson [Re: morrowasted]
#14069365 - 03/05/11 01:35 AM (13 years, 15 hours ago) |
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morrowasted said: Terrence McKenna and all those other wishy washy psuedo-scientific guys associated with psychedelia don't hold a candle to true geniuses of the psychedelic movement, like Robert Anton Wilson.
I couldn't have put that any better. He was an awesome writer.
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Re: Dedication to Robert Anton Wilson [Re: Le_Canard]
#14069374 - 03/05/11 01:38 AM (13 years, 15 hours ago) |
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Re: Dedication to Robert Anton Wilson [Re: morrowasted]
#14069575 - 03/05/11 03:42 AM (13 years, 13 hours ago) |
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What a fucking boss.
-------------------- “I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.” - Rumi “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” - Carl Sagan
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Re: Dedication to Robert Anton Wilson [Re: morrowasted]
#14069701 - 03/05/11 06:12 AM (13 years, 11 hours ago) |
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He was awesome. Totally disagree with your assessment of McKenna though.
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