{"product_id":"masks-of-the-illuminati-paperback","title":"Masks of the Illuminati - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert a. Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis American underground classic is a \u003cb\u003erollicking cosmic mystery \u003c\/b\u003efeaturing Albert Einstein and James Joyce as the ultimate space\/time detectives.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One fateful evening in a suitably dark, beer-soaked Swiss rathskeller, a wild and obscure Irishman named James Joyce would become the drinking partner of an unknown physics professor called Albert Einstein. And on that same momentous night, Sir John Babcock, a terror-stricken young Englishman, would rush through the tavern door bringing a mystery that only the two most brilliant minds of the century could solve . . . or perhaps bringing only a figment of his imagination born of the paranoia of our times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An outrageous, raunchy ride through the twists and turns of mind and space, \u003ci\u003eMasks of the Illuminati\u003c\/i\u003e runs amok with all our fondest conspiracy theories to show us the truth behind the laughter . . . and the laughter in the truth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMasks of the Illuminati\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I was astonished and delighted . . . Robert Anton Wilson managed to reverse every mental polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity.\"\u003cb\u003e--Philip K. Dick\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[Wilson is] erudite, witty, and genuinely scary.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A dazzling barker hawking tickets to the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway to a higher consciousness.\"\u003cb\u003e--Tom Robbins\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Wilson is one of the most profound, important, scientific philosophers of this century--scholarly, witty, hip, and hopeful.\"\u003cb\u003e--Timothy Leary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Anton Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (1932-2007) was the author of some thirty-five books including \u003ci\u003eCosmic Trigger, Prometheus Rising, \u003c\/i\u003e and the Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, and the co-author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy. He was a futurist, author, lecturer, stand-up comic, guerrilla ontologist, psychedelic magician, outer head of the Illuminati, quantum psychologist, Taoist sage, Discordian Pope, Struthian politician . . . maybe. He described his work as an \"attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with different perspectives recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.92 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43619837050969,"sku":"9780440503064","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/Dw2iazgFbL9780440503064.webp?v=1783767464","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/products\/masks-of-the-illuminati-paperback","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}