Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11.
All Hail Eris!
On behalf of his children and those who cared for him, deepest love and gratitude for the tremendous support and lovingness bestowed upon us.
(that's it from Bob's bedside at his fnord by the sea)
RAW Memorial February 2007
date to be announced
farewell.
ReplyDeleteFarewell brother, father, sister, mother.
ReplyDeleteIAO!!!, 93,God speed, 23!!
I'm in the middle of watching The I In the Triangle right now. Decided to check if Bob had any words of wisdome for us today.
ReplyDeleteYou're my only Hero, Bob.
You're missed already.
We WILL carry on your work.
If you by chance re-incarnate, please come back as something that can speak and write.
I'm going to pick out a star and think of it as you. And imagine you watching this crazy place, and laughing hopefully (meaning laughing with hope).
Good bye Robert Anton WIlson.
Good bye.
ReplyDeletehail eris!
ReplyDeletemay you revel in the mysteries and all infinities
for eternities.
I was just singing a song via IM to my discordian chum.
ReplyDelete"You don't own me... I'm not one of your little toys."
I guess I was speaking about the human body. Its hard to talk about ownership on this planet when we don't even really own our own bodies. We lease them.
I think you got a pretty good ride out of your vessel, Bob.
Thanks for making sense of Leary's 8 brain-circuit model. Thanks for teaching me about the Illuminati without making me despair and succumb to black helicopter moments of paranoia.
Thanks for all the models and the ability to smash and reshape my own.
Peace the Spork out!
good bye
ReplyDelete"Unto Robert from whose eyes the veil of life hath fallen may there be granted the accomplishment of his true Will; whether he wills absorption in the Infinite, or to be united with his chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at peace, or to achieve the labour and heroism of incarnation on this planet or another, or in any Star, or aught else, unto him may there be granted the accomplishment of his will; yea, the accomplishment of his will."
ReplyDeleteFarewell...
LAShTAL
Farewell, and thank you.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your inspiration.
ReplyDeleteFNORD!
I'll make sure to take some time tonight listening to Bob speak to us from Sirius....
ReplyDeleteTravel well, Bob. Oh, and thanks....
Thank you for sharing everything you have throughout the years... I am glad your last days were spent in relative peace and comfort... we'll be seeing you again...
ReplyDelete"And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus."
ReplyDelete--Principia Discordia, pg 00058
Thanks for being a part of the circus, Bob; it was an awfully impressive act.
Thank you for being a wonderful teacher and inspiration in my life. You made the world a better place.
ReplyDeleteMy brother, you were like a father to me. I will sorely miss our conspiratorial whispers, our grins, our sips of Jameson's, our puffs on the balcony, nodding to the Buddha and staring out to sea.
ReplyDeleteLove eternal. Dove Sta Memora.
This is very odd, because about a half hour ago, I knew Bob had gone on. I knew it. I felt compelled to check the website. And here it is, and on 1/11, too.
ReplyDeleteBob is on to the greatest mystery now. How's the old hymn go -- the one who goes is happier than those he leaves behind.
To Bob's family and all those who cared for the man who gave us all so much, thank you. Please take care of yourselves. And let us all know what we may do to help you.
Farewell my friend and Godspeed.
ReplyDelete:(
I looked up this blog site for the first time today after finishing my fourth reading of 'Cosmic Trigger I'. WOW!
ReplyDeleteEven though you're now kickin' it up somewhere in the tunnel down the hall, I'll be seeing you....
Mark
Thanks for everything. My heart aches with joy.
ReplyDeleteBye Robert,
ReplyDeleteYou'll never know the lives you have touched and the eyes you have opened.
See you after the circus, Bob
ReplyDeleteGoodbye, Bob... thanks again for all the intelligence and laughs. May Eris be with you wherever you are.
ReplyDeleteBob,
ReplyDeleteUntil we meet again...
Be in Peace.
Condolences to his family.
Rest in peace. Bob has influenced me more than any other single person, and I know I'm not alone.
ReplyDeleteI can say without hesitation that Robert Anton Wilson's writings changed my life. I regret that I only got to see him speak once (about 15 years ago at the Masons Temple in Santa Monica).
ReplyDeleteGoodbye, Bob. Thanks for opening my third eye. ;-)
Farewell Beloved Satellite
ReplyDeleteI'm cut up, and yet happy.
I'm crying, and yet content.
Eternal love and gratitude to you Bob; and love and support to all the family and carers.
Dove Sta Memora
See you in the next life, its been fun. You will be remembered forever.
ReplyDelete"The Illuminatus Trilogy" immanentized my Eschaton. Hail Eris!
ReplyDeleteSo long Bob
ReplyDeleteEwige Blumenkraft!
Ta, Bob.
ReplyDeleteSail bonnie ship like a bird on the wing onward the sailors cry, carry the lad that's born to be king over the sea to Skye. Loud the wind howels, loud the waves roar, thunderclaps rend the air, baffled our foes, stand by the shore, follow they will not dare. Though the waves heave, soft will ye sleep, ocean's a royal bed, rocked in the deep, Flora will keep watch by your weary head.
ReplyDeleteRobert you will forever be in my heart & mind, Kansha! Aho! Love, & comfort to Robert Anton Wilson's family, peace be with you all.
Tamara & Ishtar Rising
Praise Bob!
ReplyDeleteOh, and that other "Bob", too. You know, whatisname, the dork with the pipe.
Yeah, that one.
Thanks...
ReplyDeletegive the doggiez from Sirius a pat for me Bob
ReplyDeleteyou are and will always be one of my heroes
peace
dave
Farewell teacher. I will continue to lend out your books to my friends to have them come back a little more enlightened, as always.
ReplyDeleteBon Voyage Bob . . .
ReplyDeleteGive'm hell on the other side!
He's dancing, now, just beyond our sight.
ReplyDeleteMay your work Live On and Your Spirit Permeate the void.
ReplyDeleteThanks for waking me up.
Goodbye, you magnificent bastard. You join the ranks of Bill Hicks, Frank Zappa, and Hunter S. Thompsons: for decades frustrated malcontents like me will be saying, "You know who we really need now?" and thinking of you.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
ReplyDeleteCheers, old man.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
Fnord!
Fare thee well, my friend.
ReplyDeleteSee you on the other side.
You kept me thinking outside the box for most of my life. Farewell.
ReplyDeleteThe only possible immortality lies in the respect of those still living - hence RAW will live on a long while yet in the hearts and minds of those who loved his work, as well as those who knew him personally. Bon voyage, Mr. Wilson.
ReplyDeleteGoodbye.
ReplyDeleteI'll see you when I see you.
Bye Bob. Guess it's up to us now. You'll be missed, but only because I have terrible aim.
ReplyDeleteWe'll set a place for you at the table Bob. There's always a place for you.
ReplyDeletexoxoxoxo
See you in the next world, man.
ReplyDeleteI hope I will manage to read everything you ever published before I follow you. I'm still young, so I guess I'll manage.
Thanks for the ride, man.
ReplyDeletethanks for all the thoughts, Bob.
ReplyDeleteJust yesterday Val and I read him all of Arlen's poems (posted on his site). The final poem was her haiku about death. It was a great comfort to him I think. Love Mimi
ReplyDeleteReality is what you make of it.
ReplyDeleteHail Eris! All hail Discordia!
Thanks for the leads, Bob, I'm still following them in my own way.
Farewell, sir, and thank you for taking the "is" out of my life.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the thoughts, the memories, the inspiration.... we will never forget, and we'll remember to not be sad, but hopeful, as you would have wanted
ReplyDeleteMuch love and thanks for your serious jokes and funny wisdom.
ReplyDeleteFarewell.
ReplyDeleteYou will be remembered.
Rest in happiness.
Goodbye Grand CosmicCentral Admin.
ReplyDeletePleasant Trip o Journey...
The Stars seem shooting..or damn ma dewie eyes..
http://www.monkinstitute.com/
-there's an add on it, sayin'
'It's time to fly...'
Farewell. Thanks for all your contributions to this life on Earth.
ReplyDeletefarewell bob. May you be with Arlen, your beloved.
ReplyDeletelove is real
ReplyDeletenot fade away
I hope your next trip is as good or better than your last one.
ReplyDeleteAuf Wiedersehen, du lustiger Lurch, Heil dir, deinem Geiste, in Ewigkeit, Amen.
ReplyDeleteDie amerikanischen Hörnchen wandern wieder, so denn, ehret die Unkontrollierten.
mahola, bob
Rise in Peace olde friend
ReplyDeleteYour work will last much longer than your body. Thanks for making a difference in my life.
ReplyDeleteOverall, there is a smell of fried onions.
ReplyDeleteOverall, there is a smell of fried onions.
ReplyDeleteThank you for everything.
ReplyDeletefarewell.
93 RAW. I never met you, and I know we'd have had some interesting stories to share. I'm quite proud to have shared your written works through my bookstore for many years.
ReplyDeleteTom W
Other Change of Hobbit, in Berkeley
RAW gave me many hours of reading pleasure, and changed my whole view of the world.
ReplyDeleteI hope that whatever happens after death is cool, and that h's having a great time.
My best to his family and friends.
Hail Eris!, and watch out for the fnords
Wotan better watch out.. Bob is here!
ReplyDeleteHow dare you to die. :(
ReplyDeleteGood riddance.
ReplyDeleteHey, SOMEONE had to throw an apple in here....
namu amidha butsu
ReplyDeleteto really love one must let go
go Bob and never turn back
like an arrow from a bow
thx for all the fnords, your tribe will keep the lasagna flying
god speed, robert. you will be missed.
ReplyDeletei am glad to have read your works.
Happy trails to you until we meet again.
ReplyDeleteHappy trails to you, keep smilin' until then.
Who cares about the clouds when we're together?
Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
Happy trails to you 'till we meet again.
-- Hecateuse Eva Maria Discordiana, Midwest Discordian Ministry Assembly
thanks
ReplyDeleteHail Eris
ReplyDeletethanks for helping me squeege my third eye
Hope you packed a toothbrush
Hail Eris
Peace Love and Disco,
Will
"How dare you to die. :("
ReplyDeleteyou said it, paniq!
Chao, baby.
ReplyDeletepoor raw, that blows.
ReplyDeleteDamn. You're one of my heroes, Bob. I'd hoped to meet you someday.
ReplyDeletePerhaps I still will.
Thank you for showing me ways.
ReplyDeleteWill catch up with you some other time.
Take care.
One of the last great visionaries of our time. The world sorely needs more RAWs.
ReplyDeleteThank you for everything, Bob.
ReplyDeleteSee ya soon enough...
Eris reclaims her own at last
ReplyDeleteSo long,Bob. Thanks for the universe.
Say hi to St. Peter for me, Bob, and keep all those angels on their toes.
ReplyDeleteThank you for being part of this world.
Hail Eris!
In the words of William Burroughs -
ReplyDeleteIt ain't no sin
To take off your skin
And dance around in your bones...
Farewell fella,
john higgs
You will always be missed.
ReplyDeleteThank you for all the good you have done for the world.
wow, just wow. . .
ReplyDeleteThanks for inspiring me, and helping to illuminate the path. Mahalo and farewell.
ReplyDeleteBob was an inspiration, and a great thinker. The world gained so much from him, and we've all lost something.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your writing. You opened my mind to quite a few ideas in your time, and always with humour and humanity.
ReplyDeleteQuite an act to follow.
23.
Take it easy, Bob.
ReplyDeleteGood to know you.
Thanks again.
i think i just felt the world get stupider.
ReplyDeletelove.
Farewell man.
ReplyDeletehail eris, thank you for opening and changing my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteyou will be missed by many
fnord
GoodBye Bob
ReplyDelete23 is the key.
ReplyDeleteYou changed my life with Scroedinger's Cat. Thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteGoodBye...
Fnord.
ReplyDeleteWe'll keep up the fight!
ReplyDeleteCya on the other side.
-Myke
Say hi to jpc for me!
ReplyDeleteGoodbye, bob. See you soon. I hope you get your pleasant meal up there.
ReplyDeleteFarewell and Thank you
ReplyDeleteFarewell and Thanks!
ReplyDeleteListen, uh - I just want to say thanks.
ReplyDeleteSo...thanks. Thanks for all the presents.
Thanks for introducing me to the Chief.
Thanks for putting on the feedbag. Thanks for going all out.
Thanks for showing me your Swiss Army knife ... and uh - thanks for letting me autograph your cast.
Thanks for the memories of the future. -jzp
bye bob. love ya
ReplyDelete.
ReplyDeleteAll Hail Eris!
ReplyDeleteAll Hail Discordia!
Joyce, Crowley and Jung now have a fourth for bridge. Hail Eris, and farewell!
ReplyDeleteSo long, and thanks for all the fnords...
ReplyDeleteYou'll be missed dearly.
Please let us know how it goes out there as your voyage continues on.
ReplyDeleteAlas, another true hero falls...
ReplyDeleteYou will be mourned.
Hail Eris.
Thanks for everything.
ReplyDeleteWelcome home!
Farewell and godspeed on the next big part of your journey. It was a privilege to have met you.
ReplyDeleteGoodbye, Bob. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteRIP RAW
ReplyDeletei think it's ridiculous to left messages for dead people on their blogs, but i can't fight the feeling of 'LOSING' a professor. i'm speechless, even knowing he's ok.
ReplyDeleteand let's thrown a discordian party, he would love that ((=
FNORD GALERE!
You will be missed.
ReplyDelete"Bullshit makes
the flowers grow
& that's beautiful."
Fnord.
Good bye, you were one of those who inspired my life. You will be missed.
ReplyDeleteMichael from Vienna, Austria
So Long, Pope Wilson. You made me who i am. I hope that you Mindfuck the underworld.
ReplyDeletegoodbye RAW. thank you graciously.
ReplyDeleteAnd another of Her crazy luminous gifts retires to Limbo. Hope to see you there, Bob. I'll buy you a spliff and a drink.
ReplyDeleteNamaste,
-Telarus, KSC
FAREWELL AND ALL HAIL ERIS!
ReplyDeleteThanks for getting me stoned that time with Timothy Leary. Bon voyage!
ReplyDeleteall hail discordia and a great man and teacher.
ReplyDeletehe's missed already!
be well Bob, you showed me paths, and for that I thank you!
OffOn/OnOn Bob was going fast and is now gone.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you were here to guide me.
See you.
thanks for the mind fucking. here's to a smooth transition to the next thing..
ReplyDeleteSend us a postcard Bob!
ReplyDeleteFair thee well....maverick of the mind
ReplyDeleteRobert Anton Wilson was a verb and not a noun. And he still is.
ReplyDeleteIf there's an afterlife, he and Leary are chatting it up already.
ReplyDeleteBob spent his life illuminating the world one mind at a time. And, even though he's gone, those minds won't become dimmer.
But the world has lost one of its brightest flames... I'll drink one for him even though we never met.
Fnord!
your words guided me through some crazy times. 23
ReplyDeleteThanks, man.
ReplyDeleteFarewell to a great and kind philosopher.
ReplyDeleteI knew something went wrong with karma police, when she sent me that text message telling me not to contact her anymore, but then again, what is the personal disturbance from losing one girl compared to planertary disturbance from loosing one great visonary?
ReplyDeleteOr put the other way around:
What is the pleasure deriven from exchanging worldviews, music, books, caresses and fun with one girl for some weeks compared to visionary notifying readers planetwide of worldviews, music, books, films and even more fun?
Thanks, Robert.
Thanks, everybody, who does the same.
Le RAW est mort. Vive le RAW!
ReplyDeleteFarewell, maestro.
Dear Robert,
ReplyDeleteI had the opportunity to meet you once in my life in person and this very private moment I will never forget.
Thanks for your shared thoughts and your invaluable contributions to mental sanity. We will keep the lasagna flying and you in our hearts.
Tim
I'd always hoped to meet you in the flesh some day. But I'm an east coaster, alas. I wanted to just say "Thank you". Myself, the 117 people who commented before me and countless thousands others owe you so much, we wouldn't be the people we are today if it wasn't for you.
ReplyDeleteI packed this one for you brother.
Hail Eris
p.s. being seeing you on sirius someday.
Cheers, mate. Enjoy the ride.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the ideas, thanks for the words, thanks for the humor, thanks for showing me the approach I hope I can take when my own time comes. Goodbye.
ReplyDeleteCondolences to RAW's family.
0111 = 7...where's the 5, bob?
ReplyDeletethanks for helping me see the fnords.
every man and woman is a tsar. hail eris!!
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro
ReplyDeleteFarewell from Scotland.
ReplyDeletesee joo on xday
ReplyDeleteI feel a great disturbance in the force...
ReplyDeleteI assume you´ll still be checking your blog, so godspeed, Mr Wilson. Say hello to Leary and Mckenna and may you raise a glass with them in Valhalla.
Heartbreakingly yours,
Clark Nova
Ave atque vale, big lad. See you on the other side.
ReplyDeleteOn a personal level, this week has been devoted to silly sounds... and somehow, I find that it is a fitting tribute to you.
ReplyDeleteI thank Eris that she rolled you in my direction.
Kallisti!!!!!!!!!!
Goodbye Robert. See you soon.
ReplyDeleteFarewell from Austria.
ReplyDeletedude, you finally did it! rock on, adios, see you soon, hasta la pasta & meatballs on the side. xoxox
ReplyDeleteHere death may deal not again for ever;
ReplyDeleteHere change may come not till all change end.
From the graves they have made they shall rise up never,
Who have left nought living to ravage and rend.
Earth, stones, and thorns of the wild ground growing,
While the sun and the rain live, these shall be;
Till a last wind's breath upon all these blowing
Roll the sea." - Charles A.Swinburne
Thank You Bob .....Goodbye!!!
23/93 .'. 418
Amor et hilaritas
ReplyDeletei did not visit this website for months. And now I have to read sad news.
ReplyDeleteBob Wilson is already missing. He was a great teacher who did not deny that he was cosmic schmock.
Thank you Bob for all the ideas you gave us to ponder about.
Farewell
truly a dancing star has been born today.
ReplyDeletefarewell robert.
I can't think of anything to say but: I'm very sad today.
ReplyDeleteFarewell, Bob! You will live on in those you inspired.
ReplyDeleteFarewell RAW. Thank you for all the great ways you've contributed to this world.
ReplyDeleteEverywhere the sane are going into mourning...
ReplyDeleteThank you for teaching me so much, enjoy the ride!
The greatest adverture begins.Say Hi to Chopper23,Jim,Jerry,Tim and all the others we miss you all!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Robert, for the Illuminatus! Trilogy at 13, and for Cosmic Trigger and Prometheus Rising at 33. Fare thee well, and may these bits speed to you, wherever you are. My children -- when they exist -- will know your name. -gabriel
ReplyDeleteFarewell in your next journey, your humble servant Malach the Merciless.
ReplyDeleteSaddened I say goodbye in deep respect to an author who has given me unforgettable hours and ideas to ponder upon.
ReplyDeleteFrom the Netherlands and my deepest sympathy to his family.
Theo Paijmans
And so the made form dissolves.
ReplyDeleteGoodbye and thankyou
ReplyDeleteRIP RAW
ReplyDeleteNo wife, no horse, no mustache
thank you for your contribution to making this world a more creative place to live in. deepest sympathies to RAW's family, close families, fans, and future fans who have yet to discover the greatness of his works.
ReplyDelete-maredith
austin, texas
hoping that people don't take themselves too seriously.
Now you can have that pleasant meal. Hope you and Arlen have an excellent menu to choose from.
ReplyDeleteYou're already missed.
Everything in the universe exists and will always exist. Everything stays unchanged through eternity. There is no before, now, later. Statis.
ReplyDeleteOr not. There is not "uni"verse, only a changing experience that we exchange between ourselves. There is no right or wrong, true or false, everything exists, nothing exists.
Or not.
The RAW Essence will linger.
Thanks, Bob. Your wisdom, wit, and activism will be missed on this side.
ReplyDeleteThank you for teaching me not to take everything so damned seriously. I will laugh and drink good whisky in your memory. And then I will write.
ReplyDeleteI wish you excellent navigation in the bardos RAW, I wish you all the best wherever you are.
ReplyDeleteFarewell friend
http://corporate.skynet.be/zen
Fare thee well, Pope O' Mine.
ReplyDeleteCondolences to the world on this one. RAW was a man who really nailed that sucker. He knew everyone better than we know ourselves, even if he hasn't met you.
Let us never forget. And talk is cheap; it's all about the flax, right?
we'll miss you
ReplyDeletebut we won't forget you
and we'll keep spreading your message.
Enormous thanks for being your own dirty, freaky self. Be seeing you!
ReplyDeleteJ. L. Grant
farewell & thank you.
ReplyDelete-k
Go get 'em Bob!
ReplyDeleteRide that comet out of here!
What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
ReplyDeleteNow where's that quarter? ;-)
I have no single greater influence on my thinking than this man, other than perhaps my dad. And I got to discover at just that point in my life when everything was so damn dull (20) that it seemed like nothing could impress me. But he did.
love you, man....
My Teacher, inspiration, entertainer and guide. Your light will always live on. I will miss you...LGN
ReplyDeleteThe planet misses you already. Your works mean so much to me and changed me in so many ways.
ReplyDelete23 skidoo, Bob.
Shed a tear for the coming eschaton.
Bob,
ReplyDeletewith your words you were more of a father and guide to me than my own dad, yet for some reason, I am struck dumb by this news. Thank you. You are already missed.
Somebody warn the gods, cause the afterlife will never be the same.
i say again, you taught me to think. thank you.
ReplyDeleteMr. Wilson, I never met you but I already miss you. Your words gave me glimpses of things I never would have seen otherwise. Wherever you are, they better be treating you right.
ReplyDeleteGoodbye
ReplyDeleteThank you for your inspiration.
Fnord!
a banana bag again (or a camel)
ReplyDeleteHail to you friend.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the Universe you unfolded, the great entertainment and making this world a little wittier and funnier.
We'll keep the lasagna flying and thanks for the fish.
Good bye bob ... you will be missed! You are welcome to reincarnate in my neck of the woods any time you see fit.
ReplyDeleteSend us some jujus from the Big Fnord in the Sky, man. Have a good trip.
ReplyDeleteOh and farewell on your new journey...
ReplyDeleteThanks Bob -- you taught me how to live life as the art of playing games and helped me to learn the unbridled joy of creating and remixing my life in myriad ways.
ReplyDeleteI'll always be indebted to you for helping me, not in opening my eyes, but in helping me look out of them from a different angle.
Hope your journey hasn't ended and this part's an even wilder trip than the last 75 years were.... I'll drink a toast to you tonight. Cheers
So long and thanks for all the fnords.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the books. Have fun on the other side.
ReplyDelete-Darqchild
I have proof that this is all just a cover-up.
ReplyDeleteBye.
ReplyDeleteFarewell, the only author whose originality, imagination and wit have truly surprised me.
ReplyDeleteI've written in to several online news publications. It's only fitting that RAW should get an obituary as a tribute.
ReplyDeletethanks and have a good trip!
ReplyDeleteFarewell, and safe travels. You changed my life.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your return to chaos...
ReplyDeleteNamu Amida Buddha
ReplyDelete