Email to the Universe: And Other Alterations of Consciousness

by Robert Anton Wilson

Book Overview

Tackles a wide array of subjects including: The Passion of the Antichrist; The Celtic Roots of Quantum Theory; Paranoia; Black Magic and Curses; LSD, Dogs and Me; Left and Right: A Non-Euclidean... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561841943
• ISBN13: 9781561841943
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: New Falcon Publications
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

quick thoughts on R.A. Wilson, (RAW)

R.A. Wilson (RAW), is a gateway for the average individual and a guide to boot. He'll take any individual on a whirlwind tour of great minds and subjects but more importantly than that he stresses in his writings how to APPLY these things. His sense of humour is tremendous but the man is by no means naive or blindly optimistic. Everybody these days is going on about quantum physics and philosophy but most of it is the usual buzzword-laden, thought-fad-of-the-moment, "white light" drivel that excites emotions and clutters bookshelves. RAW stresses that you must do the exercises and be satisfied with your own answers to questions.

Great Postscript to a Great Body of Work

What I love about Bob's work is that from book to book, even when he addresses the same issues, he always does so from a slightly different perspective. Having read two dozen of his books in the last six years, I found this to be an enlightening "final take" from a modern day genius - reading it deepened my understanding of everything else he has written. As such, I think it's really most enjoyable for those who have some experience with the old guy - i.e. those of us who can appreciate that he's taken to writing haikus about Monteray Bay in his final years.

My 23rd Amazon Review

And I'm still an optomist. This book is very similar to the Cosmic Trigger series in the sense that it is a collection of "shorts" or essays on various topics. I must say that I was impressed with the way that the essays were organized in a coherent whole. It does not seem to me to be a simple mixture of random stuff. Rather, there is a definite intelligence in the way that the articles are ordered and presented which has resulted in an amalgamated master piece. Most of the essays are non-fiction although one short story does appear. Although some of the material is freely available on the internet, the book is definitely worth the purchase price as a good portion of the material is not available anywhere else and several of the essays would be worth the price of admission by themselves. That being said this is probably my fourth favorite Wilson offering after Schroedinger's Cat (which I think is the most important piece of fiction ever written), Maybe Logic (which is absolutely outstanding), and Prometheus Rising (which probably every Wilson fan has read by now).

What a magnificent book

I really loved this book. From a powerful portrait of the challenges faced by Madalyn Murray when she opposed prayer in schools to the wealth of information available to in 2005 from Internet, James Joyce, etc., this book provides a wealth of mind expanding experiences. I treasure it and look forward to rereading many times in the decades to come.