Keep the Lasagna Flying

""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." 

                                                                                              Robert Anton Wilson

I've not been blogging much. I've mostly been on my pod, Diving Deeper, which has almost become a mini 'zaadz' for me - a group of inspired and inspiring people gathering together to support and encourage each other. I sometimes miss the Larger Zaadz and wish I could clone myself so I could be everywhere here at once. Perhaps in some ways I am, who knows.

I'm also apartment hunting in Berlin, which takes up an equal amount of time and energy... I hope by the next time I blog I can say Yay, the perfect home has arrived.

In the meantime. Once again I seem to be writing an obituary, but I'm not going to call it that. It is really a celebration of an amazing man: Robert Anton Wilson. My dear zaadz and off-zaadz friend Andrew has mentioned him to me a few times, but I never took heed until yesterday when I picked up Quantum Psychology. Many people only know him from his Illuminatus! Trilogy. I haven't read that, but If you want to laugh, get Quantum Psychology. If you want to feel that finally you understand things like E-Prime, hidden variables, multiple universes, logic, and don't understand at the same time and yet the conflict is utterly okay, then get this book.  Are you interested in the creation of reality tunnels ? Get this book. ( if you are not interested, GET THIS BOOK). Are you interested in Logic? Or even more so, are you interested in discovering why you have a sneaking suspicion there is sometimes something 'funny' to how logic is used, then get this book.

If you have read some of my blogs (eg Truth vs Thinking, Logic vs Aliens) you will know that I have an interest in dogmatic rationalism. To quote from Wiki:

"In a 1988 interview, [Robert Anton Wilson] was asked about his recent 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 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 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..."

After reading a few chapters of Quantum Psychology I decided to check Robert out on the net elsewhere, and once again when deciding to blog about someone I find exciting and inspiring, I find that they have died. ( see my blogs The Great IZ, Life Without Death, & Grumpy Krishnamurti....).

Robert  died this year on January 11. He lives on in his books and writings. He wrote the following on his blog just a few days before he died:

"Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.

Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. "   RAW

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