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Robert Anton Wilson needs our help

 
 
Bradley Sands
02:06 / 03.10.06
I'm cutting-and-pasting this from an entry in Rushkoff's blog:

I hope people I've inspired with my work would band together to help me out in my later years if I needed it. Which is at least part of the reason why I'm sending what I can to support cosmic thinking patriarch Robert Anton Wilson, whose infirmity and depleted finances have put him in the precarious position of not being able to meet next month's rent.

In case the name doesn't immediately ring a bell, Bob is the guy who wrote Cosmic Trigger - still the best narrative on how to enter and navigate the psycho-spiritual realm, and co-wrote the Illuminatus Trilogy, an epic work that pushes beyond conspiracy theory into conspiracy practice. Robert Anton Wilson will one day be remembered alongside such literary philosophers as Aldous Huxley and James Joyce.

But right now, Bob is a human being in a rather painful fleshsuit, who needs our help. I refuse for the history books to say he died alone and destitute, for I want future generations to know we appreciated Robert Anton Wilson while he was alive.

Let me add, on a personal note, that Bob is the only one of my heroes who I was not disappointed to actually meet in person. He was of tremendous support to me along my road, and I'm honored to have the opportunity to be of some support on his.

Any donations can be made to Bob directly to the Paypal account olgaceline@gmail.com.
You can also send a check payable to Robert Anton Wilson to
Dennis Berry c/o Futique Trust
P.O. Box 3561
Santa Cruz, CA 95063.
 
 
Chiropteran
13:32 / 03.10.06
Brad, just FYI: there's another thread on this topic currently running in the Convo. It's a bit of a trainwreck, though.
 
 
Quantum
17:47 / 03.10.06
He used to be namechecked in the Books forum description IIRC. Good luck to him, if the messages of support are anything to go by he'll get the help he needs. I imagine Maybelogic is involved in helping too.
 
 
Chiropteran
15:42 / 06.10.06
New Falcon Publications has just announced that they will be donating "7% of all online orders" to Wilson's fund for the month of October. They also substantiate the popular assumption that his financial problems are due to his medical costs.

I'm not really a big fan of "the whole New Falcon thing" (C. Hyatt, et al), but it's good to see a publisher standing by an author with that kind of direct support.
 
 
The Prince of All Lies
22:16 / 13.10.06
Crap... I hate it when these things happen. Hopefully the fan community will show their support.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
09:25 / 30.10.06
This particular story seems to have had a happy response in the short term, $80,000 was raised for RAW so he'll be safe at home or, in a managed care facility for at least six months. But man, compared to what he looked like a few years ago doing things like Disinfo TV...
 
 
_Boboss
16:08 / 30.10.06
heh - check the last comment there...
 
 
Quantum
16:30 / 30.10.06
...and I've ALSO been increasingly SPREADING the WORD of RAW ever since...

Yeah. Thanks. Well done.

"BELIEF is EVERYTHING"

Thanks for that, thanks, we got it in capitals, see ya bye.
 
  
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