Robert Anton Wilson Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Block, Reality, Tunnels

• There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Dope, Data

  "The Illuminatus! Trilogy". Book by Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea, Part I : The Eye in the Pyramid (p. 176 of 1988 edition), 1975.

• Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Attitude, Reality, Tunnels

  Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns

• Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Believe, Ignorance, Thinking

• Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Struggle, Reality, Rivals

• ...reality is always plural and mutable.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality

• We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Lying, Reality, Tunnels

• We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Fantasy, Endure

• We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Study, Human Nature

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

• All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Tunnels, Self

• Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Animal, Reality, Tunnels

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

• We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Endure, Myth

• Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Endure, Myth

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “The Widow's Son”, Roc

• Reality is what you can get away with.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Get Away, Pop Art

  Robert Anton Wilson (2002). “Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution”

• Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Space, Mind

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “The Widow's Son”, Roc

• The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately
  represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Good Luck, Reality, Thinking

  "Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence". Interview with Jeffrey Elliot, 1980.

• Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify with reality. You can make this neurological fact into conscious experience, and you will never be bored or depressed again.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Bored, Facts

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

• Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Tunnels, Information

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

• People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Tunnels, People

• You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating out of the infinite flux of being. You don't know anything about anybody else's reality unless they tell you about it. You gotta listen very sympathetically in order to understand them. So it's a limited infallibility.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Order, Creating

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