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Psychedelic Salon Podcast #297  : Tribute to Robert Anton Wilson

The featured audio that is played in this podcast is part of a two-CD collection produced by Joe Matheny and given to the salon to podcast by the distributor, The Original Falcon Press, which you can find via originalfalcon.com. The voices you will hear are those of: Douglas Rushkoff, Antero Alli, Tiffany Lee Brown, and Joseph Matheny.

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Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.’

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The Golden Apple

You see, darling, it all revolves around sex, but not in the sense that Freud thought. Freud never understood sex. Hardly anybody understands sex, in fact, except a few poets here and there. Any scientist who starts to get an inkling keeps his mouth shut because he knows he’d be drummed out of the profession if he said what he knew. Here, I’ll help you unhook that. What we’re feeling now is supposed to be tension, and what we’ll feel after orgasm is supposed to be relaxation. Oh, there so pretty. Yes, I know I always say that. But they are pretty. Pretty, Pretty, Pretty. Mmmm. Mmmm. Oh, yes, yes. Just hold it like that a moment. Yes. Tension? Lord, yes that’s what I mean.

How can this be tension? What’s it got in common with worry or anxiety or anything else that we call tension? It’s a strain, but not a tension. It’s a drive to break out, and a tension is a drive to hold in. Those are the two polarities. Oh, stop for a minute. Let me do this. You like that? Oh, darling, yes, darling, I like it, too. It makes me happy to make you happy. You see, we’re trying to break through our skins into each other. We’re trying to break the walls, walls, walls. Yes, yes. Break the walls. Tension is trying to hold up the walls, to keep the outside from getting in. It’s the opposite.

Oh, Rebecca. Let me kiss them again. They’re so pretty. Pretty pretty titties. Mmm. Mmm. Pretty, and so big and round. Oh, you’ve got two hard-ons and I’ve only got one. And this, this, ah, you like it, don’t you, that’s three hard ons. You want me to take my finger away and kiss it? Oh, darling, pretty belly, pretty. Mmm. Mmm. Darling, Mmm, MMMMM, Mmm. Lord, Lord. You never came so fast before, oh, I love you. Are you happy? I’m so happy. That’s right, just for a minute. Oh, God, I love watching you do that. I love to see it go into your mouth. Lord, God, Rebecca. I love it. Yes, now I’ll put him in. Little Saul, there, coming up inside you, there. Does little Rebecca like him? I know, I know. They love each other, don’t they? The way we love each other. She’s so warm, she welcomes him so nicely. You’re inside me, too.

That’s what I’m trying to say. My field. You’re inside my field, just like I’m inside yours. It’s the fields, not the physical act. That’s what people are afraid of. That’s why they’re tense during sex. They’re afraid of letting the fields merge. It’s a unifying of the forces. God, I can’t keep talking. Well, if we slow way down, yes, this is nicer, isn’t it? That’s why it’s so fast for most people. They rush, complete the physical act, before the fields are charged. They never experience the fields. They think it’s poetry, fiction, when somebody who’s had it describes it. Once scientist knew. He died in prison. I’ll tell you about him later. It’s the big taboo, the one all the others grow out of. It isn’t sex itself they’re trying to stop. That’s too strong, they can’t stop it. It’s this. Darling, yes. This. The unifying.

It happens at death, but they try to steal it even then. They’ve taken it out of sex. That’s why the fantasies. And the promiscuity. The search. Blacks, homosexuality, our parents, people we know we hate, Saint Bernards. Everything. It’s not neuroses or perversion. It’s a search. A desperate search. Everybody wants sex with an enemy. Hate mobilizes the field, too, you see. And hate. Is safer. Safer than love. Love too dangerous. Lord, Lord, I love you, I love you. Let me more. Get the weight on my elbows, hold your ass with my hands. Yes. Poetry isn’t poetry. I mean it doesn’t lie. It’s true when I say I worship you. Can’t say it outside bed. Can only save love then, usually. Worship too scary. Some people can’t even say love in bed. Searching, partner to partner. Never able to say love. Never able to feel it. Under control. They can’t let us learn, or the game is up. Their name? They got a million names. Monopolize it. Keep it to themselves. They had to stamp it out in the rest of us, to control. To control us. Drove it underground, into background noise. Mustn’t break through. That’s how. How it happened. Darling.

First they repressed telepathy, then sex. That’s why schizos, Darling, why schizos break into crazy sex things first. Why homosexuals dig the occult. Break one taboo, come close to the next. Finally break the wall entirely. Get through. Like we get through, together. They can’t have that. Got to keep us apart. Schisms. Always splitting and schisms. White against black, men against women, all the way down the line. Keep us apart. Don’t let us merge. Make sex a dirty joke. A few more minutes. A few more. My tongue in your ear. Oh, God, Soon. So fast. A miracle. Whole society set up to prevent this. To destroy love. Oh, I do love you. Worship you. Adore you. Rebecca. Beautiful, Beautiful, beautiful. Rebecca. They don’t want us to. Unify. The. Forces. Rebecca. Rebecca. Rebecca.

- The Golden Apple | The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea

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Robert Anton Wilson - Acceleration of Knowledge

A commentary on the exponential doubling of knowledge throughout history & the inevitable migration of technology & culture-to space & beyond

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Interview w/ Robert Anton Wilson - An Incorrigible Optimist

Wilson described his work as an “attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth.” His goal being “to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything.” - Robert Anton Wilson

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