The Manitoba Cooperative Commonwealth Federation existed from 1933 to 1961, and was the dominant socialist party in the province during its existence.
79-2372: Robert Wilson may refer to: Entertainment [ edit ] Writers [ edit ] Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007), American writer, futurist, and mystic Robert Burns Wilson (1850–1916), American painter and poet Robert C. Wilson (born 1951), American novelist and lawyer Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953), Canadian science fiction writer Robert McLiam Wilson (born 1966), Northern Irish novelist Robert McNair Wilson (1882–1963), British surgeon, fiction writer, and politician Robert Wilson (crime novelist) (born 1957), British crime novelist Robert Wilson (dramatist) (died 1600), English Elizabethan dramatist Robert Wilson (editor) (born 1951), American magazine editor and author Musicians [ edit ] Rob Wilson, known as Fresh I.E. , Canadian rapper Robert Wilson (tenor) (1907–1964), Scottish tenor Robert Wilson (American singer) (1957–2010), American R&B and funk musician in The Gap Band Robert Wilson (music entrepreneur) (born 1951), British musician and charity founder Juice Wilson (Robert Wilson, 1904–1993), American jazz violinist Robert Wilson (born 1980), Bobby V , American R&B singer formerly known as Bobby Valentino Other entertainment [ edit ] Robert Scott Wilson (born 1987), American model and actor Robert Wilson (director) (born 1941), American avant-garde stage director and playwright Robert Wilson (1941–2017), American advertising executive; father of Andrew , Owen , and Luke Wilson Military [ edit ] Sir Robert Wilson (British Army officer, born 1777) (1777–1849), British Army general Robert Wilson (British Army officer, born 1911) (1911–2002), British Army special operations officer Robert L. Wilson (1920–1944), United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient Politics [ edit ] Robert A. Wilson (Virginia politician) (1913–2003), vice mayor of Richmond, Virginia Robert Wilson (Missouri politician) (1803–1870), U.S. Senator from Missouri Robert L. Wilson (politician) (1805–1880), American politician Robert P. C. Wilson (1834–1916), U.S. Representative from Missouri Robert D. Wilson (1839–1930), member of
158-542: A " libertarian socialist ", saying that "I ask only one thing of skeptics: don't bring up Soviet Russia, please. That horrible example of State Capitalism has nothing to do with what I, and other libertarian socialists, would offer as an alternative to the present system." By the 1980s he was less enthusiastic about the socialist label, writing in Prometheus Rising that he "does not like" the spread of socialism. In his book Right Where You Are Sitting Now , he praises
237-402: A 33% quota. The CCF's 1953 platform contained fourteen points, foremost of which was a plan for a provincial hospital scheme similar to that undertaken by Tommy Douglas in neighbouring Saskatchewan . The party also supported state automobile insurance, a restructuring of the provincial municipalities, needs-based grants to municipalities for road repair, a provincial labour code, and lowering
316-508: A BA, MA (1978) and PhD (1981) in psychology from Paideia University, which was an accredited university in California at the time he graduated in 1981 but later on became unaccredited and then closed. Wilson reworked his dissertation, and it found publication in 1983 as Prometheus Rising . Wilson married freelance writer and poet Arlen Riley in 1958. They had four children, including Christina Wilson Pearson and Patricia Luna Wilson. Luna
395-602: A cane, until 2000, when he experienced a major bout with post-polio syndrome that would continue until his death. He attended Catholic grammar schools before securing admission to the selective Brooklyn Technical High School . Removed from the Catholic influence at "Brooklyn Tech", Wilson became enamored of literary modernism (particularly Ezra Pound and James Joyce ), the Western philosophical tradition, then-innovative historians such as Charles A. Beard , science fiction (including
474-583: A career in journalism and as an editor, notably for Playboy , Wilson emerged as a major countercultural figure in the mid-1970s, comparable to one of his coauthors, Timothy Leary , as well as Terence McKenna . Born Robert Edward Wilson in Methodist Hospital , in Brooklyn , New York, he spent his first years in Flatbush , and moved with his family to Gerritsen Beach , in a lower middle class area, around
553-714: A farm in Dominion City . He placed third out of four candidates on the first count with 665 votes (17.41%), and was eliminated. The winner was John McDowell of the Progressive Conservative Party. Hilgenga later campaigned for the CCF's successor party, the New Democratic Party , in the 1969 provincial election . He placed third in Charleswood against Progressive Conservative candidate Arthur Moug . Paulley
632-690: A field of four candidates with 785 votes (15.15%). The winner was William Bullmore of the Social Credit Party . Basaraba finished second out of four candidates with 1,368 votes (35.84%). The winner was Michael N. Hryhorczuk of the Liberal-Progressive Party , who won on the first count. McDonald finished fourth out of four candidates with 249 votes (10.98%). The winner was Liberal-Progressive candidate James Anderson . Lyon received 211 votes (8.07%), finishing third out of four candidates. Liberal-Progressive candidate Nicholas Bachynsky
711-522: A heavy body of taboos. They're so fearful, and so hostile, and so narrow, and frightened, and uptight and dogmatic ... I wrote this book because I got tired satirizing fundamentalist Christianity ... I decided to satirize fundamentalist materialism for a change, because the two are equally comical ... The materialist fundamentalists are funnier than the Christian fundamentalists, because they think they're rational! ... They're never skeptical about anything except
790-498: A higher salary than any other magazine at which I had worked and never expected me to become a conformist or sell my soul in return. I enjoyed my years in the Bunny Empire. I only resigned when I reached 40 and felt I could not live with myself if I didn't make an effort to write full-time at last." Along with frequent collaborator Robert Shea , Wilson edited the magazine's Playboy Forum, a letters section consisting of responses to
869-412: A kind man as well as a funny one, Benny was beloved. I find it hard to believe that I am equally beloved and especially that I deserve such love. Whoever you are, wherever you are, know that my love is with you. You have all reminded me that despite George W. Bush and all his cohorts, there is still a lot of beautiful kindness in the world. Robert J. Wilson The party nominated 25 candidates in
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#1732880807034948-1120: A photograph purporting to show the Loch Ness Monster Robert M. Wilson Jr. (1952–2012), Arkansas lawyer Robert W. Wilson (philanthropist) (1926–2013), American hedge fund manager and philanthropist Robert Wilson (architect) (1834–1901), Scottish architect Robert Wilson (businessman) (born 1942/1943), British businessman Robert Wilson (engineer) (1803–1882), Scottish engineer and inventor Robert Wilson (philosopher) (born 1964), philosophy professor Robert Wilson (priest, born 1840) (1840–1897), English Anglican priest and academic, warden of Keble College, Oxford Robert Wilson (dean of Ferns) , 17th-century Anglican dean in Ireland Robert Wilson (ship captain) (1806–1888), Great Lakes captain who helped slaves escape Robert Wilson (merchant) (1832–1899), New Zealand merchant and company director Robert & William Wilson , American silversmiths in Philadelphia during
1027-525: A put-on, but I can't think of a good and original put-on that I haven't done several times before. So I'll tell you the truth, for once. After investigating the Illuminati and their critics for the last 30 years, I think the Illuminati was a short lived society of free thinkers and democratic reformers that formed a secret society within Freemasonry, using Freemasonry as a cover so they could plot to overthrow all
1106-661: A set of libertarian and anarchist axioms known as Celine's laws (named after Hagbard Celine, a character in Illuminatus! ), concepts Wilson revisited several times in other writings. Among the many subplots of Illuminatus! one addresses biological warfare and the overriding of the United States Bill of Rights , another gives a detailed account of the John F. Kennedy assassination (in which no fewer than five snipers, all working for different causes, prepare to shoot Kennedy), and
1185-489: A strong materialist bias, and that in fact modern physics may have already disproved materialist metaphysics . Wilson also supported the work and utopian theories of Buckminster Fuller and examined the theories of Charles Fort . He and Loren Coleman became friends, as he did with media theorist Marshall McLuhan and Neuro Linguistic Programming co-founder Richard Bandler , with whom he taught workshops. He also admired James Joyce, and wrote extensive commentaries on
1264-568: A strong opponent of what he called "the war on some drugs", Wilson participated as a Special Guest in the week-long 1999 Annual Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, and used and often promoted the use of medical marijuana . He participated in a protest organized by the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Santa Cruz in 2002. On June 22, 2006, Paul Krassner reported on The Huffington Post that Wilson
1343-483: A third time in the 1966 election , after the CCF had become the New Democratic Party , and once again finished second with 1,583 votes. The winner on this occasion was Progressive Conservative Wally McKenzie . Sotas was a farmer in Rossburn . He finished second on the first count with 1,190 votes (28.83%), and lost to Independent Liberal-Progressive candidate Rodney S. Clement on transfers. Sotas later campaigned for
1422-519: A third-place position on later counts. He narrowly missed election to the second position on the sixth and final count, losing to Liberal-Progressive candidate L. Raymond Fennell by 389 votes. Turner was later nominated for the federal Cooperative Commonwealth Federation candidacy in Winnipeg South for the 1953 Canadian election , but declined. Kay E. McKinnon was the daughter of Canadian labour pioneer Roger E. Bray . She served as secretary of
1501-605: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson ; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, futurist , psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic . Recognized within Discordianism as an Episkopos , pope and saint, Wilson helped publicize Discordianism through his writings and interviews. In 1999 he described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at
1580-500: Is the death of intelligence". He described this approach as "Maybe Logic". Wilson wrote about this and other topics in articles for the cyberpunk magazine Mondo 2000 . Wilson favored a form of basic income guarantee ; synthesizing several ideas under the acronym RICH. His ideas are set forth in the essay "The RICH Economy", found in The Illuminati Papers . In an article critical of capitalism, Wilson self-identified as
1659-471: The 1953 provincial election , five of whom were elected. Some candidates have their own biography pages; information on other candidates may be found here. The 1953 Manitoba election was conducted by instant-runoff voting in most constituencies. Three constituencies (Winnipeg North, Winnipeg Centre and Winnipeg South) returned four members by the single transferable vote (STV), with a 20% quota for election. St. Boniface returned two members by STV, with
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#17328808070341738-534: The 1969 election , and Sotas ran for the party again in Birtle-Russell in the 1973 provincial election . This was the closest he ever came to winning, finished a close second against Progressive Conservative candidate Harry Graham . Draffin served in the Manitoba legislature from 1945 to 1949. He finished third out of three candidates in 1953 with 838 votes (16.30%). Liberal-Progressive candidate Thomas Hillhouse
1817-528: The Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute from 1952 to 1957 and English education at New York University from 1957 to 1958 but did not complete his degree at either institution. After having smoked cannabis for nearly a decade, Wilson first experimented with mescaline in Yellow Springs, Ohio , on December 28, 1961. Wilson began to work as a freelance journalist and advertising copywriter in
1896-690: The Church of the SubGenius , who referred to him as "Pope Bob". He contributed to their literature, including the book Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob" , and shared a stage with their founder, Rev. Ivan Stang , on several occasions. Wilson also founded the Guns and Dope Party. As a member of the Board of Advisors of the Fully Informed Jury Association , Wilson worked to inform the public about jury nullification ,
1975-580: The Playboy Philosophy editorial column. During this period, he covered Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert 's Millbrook, New York -based Castalia Foundation at the instigation of Alan Watts in The Realist , cultivated important friendships with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg , and lectured at the Free University of New York on 'Anarchist and Synergetic Politics' in 1965. He received
2054-753: The georgist economist Silvio Gesell . In the essay Left and Right: A Non-Euclidean Perspective , Wilson speaks favorably of several "excluded middles" that "transcend the hackneyed debate between monopoly Capitalism and totalitarian Socialism"; he says his favorite is the mutualist anarchism of Benjamin Tucker and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , but he also offers kind words for the ideas of Gesell, Henry George , C. H. Douglas , and Buckminster Fuller . Wilson also identified as an anarchist and described his belief system as "a blend of Tucker, Spooner , Fuller, Pound , Henry George, Rothbard , Douglas, Korzybski , Proudhon and Marx ." Wilson spoke several times at conventions of
2133-528: The 1953 election, he placed second out of four candidates on the first count with 3,078 votes (35.62%), and lost to Liberal-Progressive candidate Reginald Wightman on the second count. See his biography page for more information. Fulbrook was an automotive service manager, and a shop foreman at his garage. during his nomination meeting, the Dauphin CCF affirmed its support for a provincial hospital scheme and state automobile insurance. Fulbrook placed last in
2212-589: The 19th century Other uses [ edit ] USS Robert L. Wilson , United States Navy destroyer named for Robert L. Wilson Robert Wilson, big-game hunter in the Ernest Hemingway short story " The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber " See also [ edit ] Bert Wilson (disambiguation) Bob Wilson (disambiguation) Bobby Wilson (disambiguation) Robert Willson (disambiguation) Robert Gordon Wilson (disambiguation) Robert Lee Wilson (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
2291-471: The American Libertarian Party . He included Benjamin Tucker's Instead of a Book , Henry George's Progress and Poverty , and Gesell's The Natural Economic Order in a list of 20 book recommendations, "the bare minimum of what everybody really needs to chew and digest before they can converse intelligently about the 21st Century." Robert Anton Wilson and his wife Arlen Riley Wilson founded
2370-637: The CCF for the Ontario riding of Kenora—Rainy River , and was a member of the World Government Association . She finished in sixth place on the first count with 1,293 votes, and was not elected (St. Boniface elected two members by a single transferable ballot during this period). Smee was a summer resort proprietor. He was nominated in Lac du Bonnet on May 8, 1953. He received 1,495 votes (25.77%), losing to Liberal-Progressive candidate Stanley Copp on
2449-497: The CCF's successor party, the New Democratic Party . He ran for the national New Democratic Party in the 1963 federal election , and finished fourth in Marquette with 981 votes. Mandziuk was again the winner. Sotas contested Dauphin for the provincial NDP in the 1966 provincial election , and finished third against Progressive Conservative candidate Stewart McLean with 236 votes. The NDP formed government in Manitoba following
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2528-580: The Illuminati has been adapted as a theatrical stage play by Daisy Eris Campbell, daughter of Ken Campbell the British theatre maverick who staged Illuminatus! at the Royal National Theatre in 1977. The play opened on November 23, 2014, in Liverpool before transferring to London and Brighton. Some of the costs were met through crowdfunding . Wilson's book is itself dedicated to "Ken Campbell and
2607-564: The Illuminati , also included some elements of H. P. Lovecraft 's work in his novels, and at times claimed to have perceived encounters with magical "entities" (when asked whether these entities seemed "real", he answered they seemed "real enough", although "not as real as the IRS" but "easier to get rid of", and later decided that his experiences may have emerged from "just my right brain hemisphere talking to my left"). He warned against beginners using occult practice, since to rush into such practices and
2686-518: The Illuminati features historical characters in a fictionalized setting, and contains a blend of occult history. Intermixing Albert Einstein , James Joyce , Aleister Crowley , Sigmund Freud , Carl Jung , Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , and others, the book focuses on Pan as well as other occult icons, ideas, and practices. It also includes homages, parodies and pastiches from both the lives and works of Crowley and Joyce. Wilson's play, Wilhelm Reich in Hell ,
2765-633: The Institute for the Study of the Human Future in 1975. From 1982 until his death, Wilson had a business relationship with the Association for Consciousness Exploration , which hosted his first on-stage dialogue with his long-time friend Timothy Leary entitled The Inner Frontier . Wilson dedicated his book The New Inquisition to A.C.E.'s co-directors, Jeff Rosenbaum and Joseph Rothenberg. Wilson also joined
2844-898: The Science-Fiction Theatre Of Liverpool, England." In his nonfiction and partly autobiographical Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977) and its two sequels, as well as in many other works, Wilson examined Freemasons , Discordianism, Sufism , the Illuminati, Futurology , Zen Buddhism , Dennis and Terence McKenna , Jack Parsons , the occult practices of Aleister Crowley and G.I. Gurdjieff , Yoga , and many other esoteric or counterculture philosophies, personalities, and occurrences. Wilson advocated Timothy Leary 's 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness and neurosomatic/linguistic engineering, which he wrote about in many books including Prometheus Rising (1983, revised 1997) and Quantum Psychology (1990), which contain practical techniques intended to help
2923-540: The Winnipeg Labour Council. He finished ninth on the first count with 1,122 votes (5.19%), and was eliminated after the fourth count with 1,325 votes (6.13%). Gray, Hawryluk and Aylen were nominated on March 11, 1953. The CCF initially planned to nominate a fourth candidate in Winnipeg North, but did not follow up on this. Stinson was chosen as CCF leader shortly before the election. He finished third on
3002-1084: The Wisconsin State Assembly Robert Richard Wilson (1891–1969), farmer and politician in South Australia Robert Wilson (Australian politician) (1896–1973), New South Wales politician Robert John Wilson , Member of Parliament in 1922 for Jarrow Robert Wilson (Manitoba politician) (born 1934), Manitoba politician Robert J. Wilson , candidate in the 1953 Manitoba provincial election Rob Wilson (born 1965), British politician and entrepreneur, MP for Reading East Robert Nichol Wilson , Northern Irish politician Robert Wilson (Texas politician) (1793–1856), land speculator and politician in Texas Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician) (Robert Gordon Wilson), Scottish politician and solicitor Science and medicine [ edit ] Robert A. Wilson (gynecologist) (1895–1981), American gynecologist who wrote
3081-591: The age of four or five, where they stayed until relocating to the steadfastly middle-class neighborhood of Bay Ridge when Wilson was thirteen. He had polio as a child, and found generally effective treatment with the Kenny Method (created by Elizabeth Kenny ) which the American Medical Association repudiated at that time. Polio's effects remained with Wilson throughout his life, usually manifesting as minor muscle spasms causing him to occasionally use
3160-451: The author and on two of Joyce's novels, Finnegans Wake and Ulysses , in his 1988 book Coincidance: A Head Test . Although Wilson often lampooned and criticized some New Age beliefs, bookstores specializing in New Age material often sell his books. Wilson, a well-known author in occult and Neo-Pagan circles, used Aleister Crowley as a main character in his 1981 novel Masks of
3239-2489: The book Feminine Forever Robert Wilson (physician) (1829–1881), wrote about the British mining industry Robert O. Wilson (1904–1967), American physician Robert R. Wilson (1914–2000), American physicist Robert Wilson (astronomer) (1927–2002), British astronomer Robert Woodrow Wilson (born 1936), American astronomer and physicist Robert B. Wilson (born 1937), American economist Robert E. Wilson , astrophysicist, academic, and author Sports [ edit ] American football [ edit ] Robert P. Wilson (fl. 1890s), American football player and coach Robert Wilson (running back) (born 1969), American football player Robert Wilson (wide receiver) (1974–2020), American football player Cricket [ edit ] Robert Wilson (cricketer, born 1916) (1916–2004), Scottish cricketer Robert Wilson (cricketer, born 1922) (1922–1980), English cricketer Robert Wilson (cricketer, born 1934) , English cricketer Robert Wilson (cricketer, born 1935) (1935–1987), Scottish cricketer Robert Wilson (cricketer, born 1948) , New Zealand cricketer Rugby [ edit ] Robert Wilson (rugby union, born 1854) (1854–1911), Scottish rugby union player Robert Wilson (rugby union, born 1861) (1861–1944), rugby union player for New Zealand in 1884 Robert Wilson (rugby league) (1879–1916), rugby league footballer for England and Broughton Ranchers Other sports [ edit ] Robert Wilson (Scottish footballer) (fl. 1909–1913), Scottish footballer (Partick Thistle} Robert Wilson (Canadian rower) (born 1935), Canadian Olympic rower Robert Wilson (tennis) (1935-2020), English tennis player Robert Wilson (American rower) (born 1939), American Olympic rower Rob Wilson (racing driver) (born 1952), racing driver from New Zealand Robert Wilson (bobsleigh) (born 1954), Canadian Olympic bobsledder Robert Wilson (footballer, born 1961) , English football player for Fulham Rob Wilson (ice hockey) (born 1968), Canadian-British professional ice hockey coach Other [ edit ] Robert Arnott Wilson (born 1958), British mathematician Robert Dick Wilson (1856–1930), American linguist and Presbyterian scholar Robert E. Lee Wilson (1865–1933), American cotton plantation owner Robert Gordon Wilson (architect) (1844–1931), Scottish architect Robert Kenneth Wilson , surgeon who in 1934 supposedly took
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3318-434: The book's climax occurs at a rock concert where the audience collectively face the danger of becoming a mass human sacrifice. Illuminatus! popularized Discordianism and the use of the term " fnord ". It incorporates experimental prose styles influenced by writers such as William S. Burroughs , James Joyce , and Ezra Pound . Although Shea and Wilson never co-operated on such a scale again, Wilson continued to expand upon
3397-563: The constituency. Thompson was a civil engineer, and was 52 years old at the time of the election. He had been a member of the Ontario Labour Party from 1927 to 1933, and joined the national Cooperative Commonwealth Federation upon its founding. After moving to Manitoba, he worked for the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company. Thompson finished third with 1,526 votes (18.91%). Liberal-Progressive candidate Francis Jobin won on
3476-621: The cult classic series The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975), co-authored with Shea. Advertised as "a fairy tale for paranoids", the three books— The Eye in the Pyramid , The Golden Apple , and Leviathan , soon offered as a single volume—philosophically and humorously examined, among many other themes, occult and magical symbolism and history, the counterculture of the 1960s , secret societies , data concerning author H. P. Lovecraft and author and occultist Aleister Crowley , and American paranoia about conspiracies and conspiracy theories . The book
3555-522: The federal Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Marquette for the 1958 federal election , receiving 1,572 votes and finishing third against Progressive Conservative candidate Nicholas Mandziuk . He campaigned for the provincial CCF again in the 1959 provincial election , and finished third against Progressive Conservative candidate Robert Smellie in Birtle-Russell . Sotas was also active with
3634-465: The first count with 1,117 votes (3.83%), and was eliminated after the fifth count with 1,234 votes (4.24%). Israels delivered the cleverest line of the campaign shortly before election day, when he said that Progressive Conservative leader Errick Willis had been "too recently in Mr. Campbell's arms to be now at his throat". This referred to the fact that Willis and Premier Douglas Campbell had been partners in
3713-608: The first count with 2,857 votes (13.22%). He later overtook second-place candidate Bill Kardash of the Labour Progressive Party and was elected for the second position on the seventh count with 4,793 votes (22.18%). See his biography page for more information. At the time of the election, Aylen led the United Packinghouse Workers Local 216 in Winnipeg and was chair of the political action committee of
3792-543: The first count with 4,934 votes (16.94%), and was declared elected on the sixth count with 5,972 votes (20.50%). See his biography page for more information. Israels was the vice-president of the Manitoba CCF at the time of the 1953 election, and was active in the Winnipeg labour movement. At his nomination meeting, he criticized the tax status of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Winnipeg. He finished seventh on
3871-592: The first count with 541 votes (2.63%), and was eliminated after the fourth count with 558 votes (2.71%). Borgford was nominated by Lloyd Stinson to serve on the Winnipeg Police Commission in 1969, but was defeated by a vote of the Winnipeg City Council . Gray finished in first place on the first count with 4,642 votes (21.48%) and was declared elected to the first position. See his biography page for more information. Hawryluk finished third on
3950-696: The first count. Smee campaigned for the national Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in the 1957 federal election , and finished fourth out of four candidates in Portage—Neepawa with 1,630 votes. The winner was George Fairfield of the Progressive Conservative . Einarson was born in Iceland , and moved to Manitoba in 1910. He was educated in Arborg , and enlisted to serve in World War I at age 17. After
4029-549: The first count. Swailes finished in first place on the first count with 3,910 votes (19.01%), and was declared elected to the first position on the fifth count. See his biography page for more information. Fines served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from 1949 to 1953. He finished seventh on the first count in 1953 with 1,080 votes (5.25%), and was eliminated following the seventh count with 1,339 votes (6.51%). Fines's chances for re-election in 1953 were hurt by
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#17328808070344108-468: The independent candidacies of Stephen Juba and Lewis Stubbs . See his biography page for more information. Borgford was the regional director of the Canadian Congress of Labour , and a prominent figure in the Winnipeg labour movement. He won the third CCF position for Winnipeg Centre on May 12, 1953, after E.H. Cove, Walter Seaberg and A.E. Vandurme withdrew from the contest. He finished tenth on
4187-707: The kings in Europe and the Pope. I'm very happy that they succeeded in overthrowing all the kings, I just wish that they had completed the job and gotten rid of the Royal family in England too, but they did pretty well on the continent. I'm sorry they haven't finished off the Pope yet, either, but I think they're still working on the project and I wish them luck. Disinformation: The Interviews , by Richard Metzger Among Wilson's 35 books and many other works, perhaps his best-known volumes remain
4266-725: The late 1950s. He adopted his maternal grandfather's name, Anton, for his writings and told himself that he would save the "Edward" for when he wrote the Great American Novel . He later found that "Robert Anton Wilson" had become an established identity. He assumed co-editorship of the School for Living 's Brookville, Ohio -based Balanced Living magazine in 1962 and briefly returned to New York as associate editor of Ralph Ginzburg 's quarterly magazine, called fact: , before leaving for Playboy , where he served as an associate editor from 1965 to 1971. According to Wilson, Playboy "paid me
4345-474: The original separate books. The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles , composed of The Earth Will Shake (1982), The Widow's Son (1985), and Nature's God (1991), follows the timelines of several characters through different generations, time periods, and countries. The books cover a range of topics, including (but not limited to) the history, legacy, and rituals of the Illuminati and related groups. Masks of
4424-470: The party's image, and marginalized it with the electorate. Tom Kobzey planned to run for the CCF in Emerson . He was reportedly threatened with violence from a vigilante group, and was forced to leave the area. Alvin H. Mackling served in the Manitoba legislature from 1969 to 1973 and again from 1981 to 1988, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the governments of Edward Schreyer and Howard Pawley . In
4503-557: The reader break free of one's reality tunnels . With Leary, he helped promote the futurist ideas of space migration , intelligence increase , and life extension , which they combined to form the word symbol SMI²LE . Wilson's 1986 book, The New Inquisition , argues that whatever reality consists of it actually would seem much weirder than we commonly imagine. It cites, among other sources, Bell's theorem and Alain Aspect 's experimental proof of Bell's to suggest that mainstream science has
4582-550: The resulting "energies" they unleash could lead people to "go totally nuts". Wilson also criticized scientific types with overly rigid belief systems, equating them with religious fundamentalists in their fanaticism . In a 1988 interview, when asked about his newly published book The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science , Wilson commented: I coined the term irrational rationalism because those people claim to be rationalists, but they're governed by such
4661-447: The right of jurors to nullify a law they deem unjust. Wilson advocated for and wrote about E-Prime , a form of English lacking all forms of the verb "to be" (such as "is", "are", "was", "were" etc.). "Is", "is." "is" —the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is" ; I only know how it seems to me at this moment. A decades-long researcher into drugs and
4740-462: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Robert Wilson . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wilson&oldid=1251436375 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
4819-512: The stage when Ken Campbell produced it as a ten-hour drama. It also appeared as two card based games from Steve Jackson Games , one a trading-card game ( Illuminati: New World Order ). Eye N Apple Productions and Rip Off Press produced a comic book version of the trilogy. Wilson wrote two more popular fiction series. The first, a trilogy later published as a single volume, was Schrödinger's Cat . The second, The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles , appeared as three books. In between publishing
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#17328808070344898-402: The support by posting the following comment on his personal website, expressing his gratitude: Dear Friends, my God, what can I say. I am dumbfounded, flabbergasted, and totally stunned by the charity and compassion that has poured in here the last three days. To steal from Jack Benny, "I do not deserve this, but I also have severe leg problems and I don't deserve them either." Because he was
4977-509: The themes of the Illuminatus! books throughout his writing career. Most of his later fiction contains cross-over characters from The Sex Magicians (Wilson's first novel, written before the release of Illuminatus! , which includes many of his same characters) and The Illuminatus! Trilogy . Illuminatus! won the Prometheus Hall of Fame award for Best Classic Fiction, voted by the Libertarian Futurist Society for science fiction in 1986, has many international editions, and found adaptation for
5056-478: The things they have a prejudice against. None of them ever says anything skeptical about the AMA, or about anything in establishment science or any entrenched dogma. They're only skeptical about new ideas that frighten them. They're actually dogmatically committed to what they were taught when they were in college. In a 2003 interview with High Times magazine, Wilson described himself as "model-agnostic" which he said consists of never regarding any model or map of
5135-486: The three books in differing alternative universes , in which the cast of characters remains almost the same aside from variations in names, careers and background stories. The books cover the fields of quantum mechanics and the varied philosophies and explanations that exist within the science. The single volume describes itself as a magical textbook and a type of initiation . The single-volume edition omits many entire pages and has many other omissions when compared with
5214-413: The two trilogies Wilson released a stand-alone novel, Masks of the Illuminati (1981), which, due to the main character's ancestry, fits into the timeline of The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles and, while published earlier, may qualify as the fourth volume in that series. Schrödinger's Cat consists of three volumes: The Universe Next Door , The Trick Top Hat , and The Homing Pigeons . Wilson set
5293-445: The universe with total 100% belief or total 100% denial. Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes ... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory. Wilson claimed in Cosmic Trigger: Volume 1 "not to believe anything", since "belief
5372-471: The voting age to eighteen. Party leader Lloyd Stinson later argued that the election was essentially about three things: hospitalization, education and electoral redistribution. There is no doubt that the party was at a disadvantage as a result of their decision to run only 25 candidates. There were 57 seats in the Manitoba legislature, so a majority government for the CCF was mathematically impossible to win. Stinson later acknowledged that this situation hurt
5451-474: The war, he worked as a farmer in Minitonas , Manitoba. He first campaigned for the Manitoba legislature in the 1932 provincial election , as an independent candidate in Swan River. He finished second to Progressive Conservative George Renouf on the second count, losing by only 51 votes. Einarson joined the national Cooperative Commonwealth Federation when it was formed later in the year. He finished third in 1953 with 757 votes (15.67%). Renouf again won
5530-825: The works of Olaf Stapledon , Robert A. Heinlein and Theodore Sturgeon ) and Alfred Korzybski 's interdisciplinary theory of general semantics . He would later recall that the family was "living so well ... compared to the Depression " during this period "that I imagined we were lace-curtain Irish at last." Following his graduation in 1950, Wilson was employed in a succession of jobs (including ambulance driver, engineering aide, salesman and medical orderly) and absorbed various philosophers and cultural practices (including bebop , psychoanalysis , Friedrich Nietzsche , Alfred Korzybski , James Joyce , Bertrand Russell , Carl Jung , Wilhelm Reich , Leon Trotsky , and Ayn Rand , whom he later repudiated) while writing in his spare time. He studied electrical engineering and mathematics at
5609-538: The world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth". Wilson's goal was "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything." In addition to writing several science-fiction novels, Wilson also wrote non-fiction books on extrasensory perception , mental telepathy , metaphysics , paranormal experiences, conspiracy theory, sex, drugs, and what Wilson called " quantum psychology ". Following
5688-479: Was Liberal-Progressive candidate Douglas Campbell , the Premier of Manitoba . Perchaluk finished second out of four candidates with 866 votes (29.53%). Liberal-Progressive candidate Ronald Robertson was declared elected on the first count. Perchaluk contested Roblin again in the 1959 provincial election , and finished a second against Progressive Conservative candidate Keith Alexander with 1,569 votes. He ran
5767-494: Was Mayor of Transcona at the time of the election. He won the CCF nomination over sitting MLA George Olive in early April 1953. In the general election, He placed first on the first count with 5,770 votes (47.68%), and was declared elected on the second count. Paulley became the leader of the Manitoba CCF in 1959. See his biography page for more information. Allan was a resident of Macgregor . She received 342 votes (8.38%), finishing fourth out of four candidates. The winner
5846-665: Was beaten to death in an apparent robbery in the store where she worked in 1976 at the age of 15, and became the first person to have her brain preserved by the American Cryonics Society (which was called the Bay Area Cryonics Society at the time). Arlen Riley Wilson died on May 22, 1999, following a series of strokes. Richard Metzger : You have studied the Illuminati for years. Have you come to any conclusion about their aims? Robert Anton Wilson: Usually when people ask me that question, I give them some kind of
5925-460: Was elected on the first count. Wilson was a young farmer in Grandview at the time of the election, and was also known as a skilled baseball player. He defeated four other candidates for the CCF nomination. Wilson finished a strong second on the first count with 989 votes (31.57%), but lost to Liberal-Progressive candidate Ray Mitchell on transfers. Hilgenga lived in Charleswood , and also owned
6004-512: Was elected on the first count. See his biography page for more information Turner was endorsed by Winnipeg's labour movement, and made labour and health issues the primary focus of his campaign. He argued that the average wage-earner's housing problems were ignored under the Liberal-Progressive government, and that there was insufficient hospital space available. He placed fourth on the first count with 2,707 votes (13.84%), but improved to
6083-432: Was intended to poke fun at the conspiratorial frame of mind. Wilson and Shea derived much of the odder material from letters sent to Playboy magazine while they worked as the editors of its Forum. The books mixed true information with imaginative fiction to engage the reader in what Wilson called " guerrilla ontology ", which he apparently referred to as " Operation Mindfuck " in Illuminatus! The trilogy also outlined
6162-726: Was published as a book in 1987 and first performed at the Edmund Burke Theatre in Dublin , in San Francisco, and in Los Angeles. It features many factual and fictional characters, including Marilyn Monroe , Uncle Sam , and Wilhelm Reich himself. Wilson also wrote and published as books two screenplays , not yet produced: Reality Is What You Can Get Away With: an Illustrated Screenplay (1992) and The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1997). Wilson's book Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of
6241-507: Was under hospice care at home with friends and family. On October 2, Douglas Rushkoff reported that Wilson was in severe financial trouble. Slashdot , Boing Boing , and the Church of the SubGenius also picked up on the story, linking to Rushkoff's appeal. As his webpage reported on October 10, these efforts succeeded beyond expectation and raised a sum that would have supported him for at least six months. On October 5, 2006, Wilson responded to
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