Quotes About Universe
In the Real Universe we are re-active mechanisms; in the experienced world, we are creators, and The Real Universe is just another of our creations — a dangerous one, with a tendency to hypnotize us.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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In short, we don't need to postulate a supernatural Designer. Our experiments create the universe observed by our experiments — which when interpreted always yield an Anthropic universe, rather than any of the millions or billions of possible non-Anthropic universes — because we designed the experiments.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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would consider it the height of intellectual laziness and mental incompetence to invoke the word God to cover the limitations of my imagination and vocabulary. Instead, I will conclude with the wise words of Aleister Crowley. When asked to define the Tao he said, The result of subtracting the universe from itself.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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The universe is so constructed as to be able to see itself," Spencer Brown once noted. The emergence of the neurosomatic, neurogenetic and metaprogramming circuits is the universe's way of "seeing itself" ever more clearly and totally, to decide where it is going.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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The resistance to hearing the women at Greenham Common is not unrelated to the resistance to bizarre information we have been examining. There are economic as well as neurological reasons why Dr. Reich and Dr. Leary went to prison, while Dr. Teller, Father of the Hydrogen Bomb, is a recognized Authority on The Real Universe, rich, honored and praised throughout the Citadel.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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2) for the reasons sketched above, and developed more fully in the text to follow, I do not think pessimism is the only possible outlook on the universe, but merely the one that is currently ubiquitous;
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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But, if we have a variety of potential selves rather than the one block-like essential self of Aristotelian philosophy, and, if each self acts as an observer who creates a reality-tunnel which appears as a whole universe (to those unaware of Transactional and Quantum Psychology), then: Each time an internal or external trigger causes us to quantum jump from one self' to another, the whole world around us appears to change also.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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It is venturesome to think that a coordination of words (philosophies are nothing more than that) can resemble the universe very much. — Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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In dealing with cryptozoology, lepufology, Disinformation Systems and Quantum Mechanics one eventually feels that one has come close to total nonsense, a basic defect in the human mind (or the Universe?) or some mental fugue similar to schizophrenia or solipsism. However, as our opening drawing showed and we will see again and again, the ordinary perceptions of ordinary people contain just as much weirdness and mystery as all these Occult Sciences put together.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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Kindness remains, to me, the most wonderful miracle in this incomprehensible universe.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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Dr. John Archibald Wheeler, called the father of the hydrogen bomb in some circles (others attribute paternity in that regrettable case to Dr. Edward Teller) has repeatedly urged that the simplest, most honest explanation of quantum paradoxes holds that the known universe results from the observations of those who observe it. This observer-created universe bears an uncanny resemblance to some of our data about self-fulfilling prophecies, it begins to appear.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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But, if our brain software programs our selves and our universes, who programs our brain software? The accidents of history and environment, it seems — in most cases. But learning to internalize and use the principles of Quantum Psychology (or similar systems) adds a new factor. In that case we can gradually learn to program our programs . . . Dr. John Lilly calls this metaprogramming.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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As usual, when you look for synchronicity, synchronicity looks for you.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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as Bucky Fuller said, "The universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events". NON-SIMULTANEOUSLY. The universe consists of NON-SIMULTANEOUSLY apprehended events. Which means any belief system or reality tunnel you've got right now is gonna have to be revised and updated as you continue to apprehend new events later in time. Not simultaneously.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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We begin to realize that, once these issues are raised, it doesn't really matter whether a man believes in God or not. God, after all, is just a short-hand symbol for our attitude toward the nature of the universe.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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I am merely suggesting, playfully at times, maybe seriously at other times, that Universe is a bit more complicated than anybody's models; and that using several reality-tunnels — as in Po or quantum mechanics — may show a great many interesting correlations and details and exciting and beautiful aspects that we will never see if we look always and only through one monotonous reality-tunnel which we have made into an Idol.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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R. Buckminster Fuller illustrates the metaprogramming circuit, in his lectures, by pointing out that we feel puny in comparison to the size of the universe, but only our bodies (hardware) are puny. Our minds, he says — by which he means our software — contain the universe, by the act of comprehending it.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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Mind" is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors). Or as Alan Watts liked to say, because the tongue ultimately cannot taste the tongue.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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Or maybe the universe has wobbles and weirdness indeed. Maybe belief in any system is maintained by forgetting all data that does not fit the system?
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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You see, the position of this book does not embrace what I call Fundamentalist Copenhagenism — the view that the Copenhagen model says the last word forever. Rather, I consider my position Liberal Copenhagenism. I do not believe any model equals the universe, or universes, but I think alternative models will continue to proliferate, because the data of modern science has grown so complex that many models will cover it.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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Every Real Universe is easy to understand, because it is much simpler than the existential continuum. Theists, Nazis, Flat Earthers, etc. can explain their Real Universes as quickly as any Fundamentalist Materialist explains his, because of this simplicity of the edited object as contrasted with the complexity of the sensory-sensual continuum in which we live when awake (unhypnotized).
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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The only thing (or process) precisely equal to the universe remains the universe itself. Every description, or model, or theory, or art-work, or map, or reality-tunnel, or gloss, etc., remains somewhat smaller than the universe and hence includes less than the universe.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
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Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes I do, I do. I think.
~ Robert Cormier
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Though this universe I own, I possess not a thing, for I cannot know the unknown if to the known I cling.
~ Robert Fisher
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