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Musings from Robert Anton Wilson
Thursday, January 11, 2007
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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

Posted by Robert Anton Wilson

1226 comments:

Doug said...

farewell.
January 11, 2007
nando said...

Farewell brother, father, sister, mother.

IAO!!!, 93,God speed, 23!!
January 11, 2007
Ryan Lawrence said...

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.

You'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.
January 11, 2007
vogod said...

Good bye.
January 11, 2007
Monsieur Obscure said...

hail eris!

may you revel in the mysteries and all infinities

for eternities.
January 11, 2007
Christopher said...

I was just singing a song via IM to my discordian chum.

"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!
January 11, 2007
joseph said...

good bye
January 11, 2007
Billy Beck said...

"French Canadian Bean Soup!"
January 11, 2007
Paul Feazey said...

"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."

Farewell...

LAShTAL
January 11, 2007
Timmy Mac said...

Farewell, and thank you.
January 11, 2007
R. M. McGrath said...

Thank you for your inspiration.
FNORD!
January 11, 2007
JWL said...

I'll make sure to take some time tonight listening to Bob speak to us from Sirius....

Travel well, Bob. Oh, and thanks....
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

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...
January 11, 2007
Fenwick K. Rysen said...

"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."

--Principia Discordia, pg 00058

Thanks for being a part of the circus, Bob; it was an awfully impressive act.
January 11, 2007
Mark said...

Thank you for being a wonderful teacher and inspiration in my life. You made the world a better place.
January 11, 2007
Rasa said...

My 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.

Love eternal. Dove Sta Memora.
January 11, 2007
Melody said...

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.

Bob 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.
January 11, 2007
Vanessa said...

Farewell my friend and Godspeed.

:(
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

I looked up this blog site for the first time today after finishing my fourth reading of 'Cosmic Trigger I'. WOW!
Even though you're now kickin' it up somewhere in the tunnel down the hall, I'll be seeing you....

Mark
January 11, 2007
Phil Norman said...

Thanks for everything. My heart aches with joy.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Bye Robert,

You'll never know the lives you have touched and the eyes you have opened.
January 11, 2007
danny o'b said...

See you after the circus, Bob
January 11, 2007
Steven Stwalley said...

Goodbye, Bob... thanks again for all the intelligence and laughs. May Eris be with you wherever you are.
January 11, 2007
David Biedny said...

Bob,

Until we meet again...

Be in Peace.

Condolences to his family.
January 11, 2007
Zack said...

Rest in peace. Bob has influenced me more than any other single person, and I know I'm not alone.
January 11, 2007
Adam said...

I 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).

Goodbye, Bob. Thanks for opening my third eye. ;-)
January 11, 2007
Jack Henry said...

Farewell Beloved Satellite

I'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
January 11, 2007
JOE said...

See you in the next life, its been fun. You will be remembered forever.
January 11, 2007
missionblvd.com said...

"The Illuminatus Trilogy" immanentized my Eschaton. Hail Eris!
January 11, 2007
tekpagan said...

So long Bob
Ewige Blumenkraft!
January 11, 2007
Dakota said...

Ta, Bob.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Sail 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.

Robert 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
January 11, 2007
Reverend Brainfish said...

All Hail Discordia! :(
January 11, 2007
Rev. Jihad Frenzy said...

Praise Bob!

Oh, and that other "Bob", too. You know, whatisname, the dork with the pipe.

Yeah, that one.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks...
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

give the doggiez from Sirius a pat for me Bob

you are and will always be one of my heroes

peace

dave
January 11, 2007
MDB said...

Farewell teacher. I will continue to lend out your books to my friends to have them come back a little more enlightened, as always.
January 11, 2007
Baron von Hoopla said...

Bon Voyage Bob . . .

Give'm hell on the other side!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

He's dancing, now, just beyond our sight.
January 11, 2007
Rudi said...

May your work Live On and Your Spirit Permeate the void.
Thanks for waking me up.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

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.
January 11, 2007
Stephan said...

Thanks.
January 11, 2007
Perilous said...

Cheers, old man.

Thanks.

Fnord!
January 11, 2007
John said...

Fare thee well, my friend.

See you on the other side.
January 11, 2007
BigHickey said...

You kept me thinking outside the box for most of my life. Farewell.
January 11, 2007
Armchair Anarchist said...

The 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.
January 11, 2007
Demian said...

Goodbye.

I'll see you when I see you.
January 11, 2007
Dru said...

Bye Bob. Guess it's up to us now. You'll be missed, but only because I have terrible aim.
January 11, 2007
The Editor said...

We'll set a place for you at the table Bob. There's always a place for you.
xoxoxoxo
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

See you in the next world, man.

I hope I will manage to read everything you ever published before I follow you. I'm still young, so I guess I'll manage.
January 11, 2007
dano said...

Thanks for the ride, man.
January 11, 2007
Dru'el the Chaotic said...

thanks for all the thoughts, Bob.
January 11, 2007
Mimi said...

Just 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
January 11, 2007
Ian W. Hill said...

Reality is what you make of it.

Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Thanks for the leads, Bob, I'm still following them in my own way.
January 11, 2007
Shawn said...

Farewell, sir, and thank you for taking the "is" out of my life.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks 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
January 11, 2007
Frater Spiff said...

Much love and thanks for your serious jokes and funny wisdom.
January 11, 2007
Nysidra said...

Farewell.
You will be remembered.
Rest in happiness.
January 11, 2007
haeresis said...

..and you didn't even get to marry Brooke Shields. :-(
January 11, 2007
b.kane said...

Goodbye Grand CosmicCentral Admin.
Pleasant 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...'
January 11, 2007
dqueue said...

Farewell. Thanks for all your contributions to this life on Earth.
January 11, 2007
Veleda said...

farewell bob. May you be with Arlen, your beloved.
January 11, 2007
bandito said...

love is real
not fade away
January 11, 2007
Edward said...

I hope your next trip is as good or better than your last one.
January 11, 2007
Julia said...

Auf Wiedersehen, du lustiger Lurch, Heil dir, deinem Geiste, in Ewigkeit, Amen.

Die amerikanischen Hörnchen wandern wieder, so denn, ehret die Unkontrollierten.

mahola, bob
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Rise in Peace olde friend
January 11, 2007
Alternate said...

Your work will last much longer than your body. Thanks for making a difference in my life.
January 11, 2007
Scott said...

Overall, there is a smell of fried onions.
January 11, 2007
Scott said...

Overall, there is a smell of fried onions.
January 11, 2007
Collin said...

Thank you for everything.

farewell.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

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.

Tom W
Other Change of Hobbit, in Berkeley
January 11, 2007
Keith said...

RAW gave me many hours of reading pleasure, and changed my whole view of the world.
I 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
January 11, 2007
herr prof said...

Wotan better watch out.. Bob is here!
January 11, 2007
paniq said...

How dare you to die. :(
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Good riddance.

Hey, SOMEONE had to throw an apple in here....
January 11, 2007
borsky said...

namu amidha butsu
to 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
January 11, 2007
skippy said...

god speed, robert. you will be missed.

i am glad to have read your works.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Happy trails to you until we meet again.
Happy 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
January 11, 2007
Chris said...

thanks
January 11, 2007
Will said...

Hail Eris

thanks for helping me squeege my third eye

Hope you packed a toothbrush

Hail Eris

Peace Love and Disco,
Will
January 11, 2007
magnus said...

"How dare you to die. :("
you said it, paniq!
January 11, 2007
jher said...

Chao, baby.
January 11, 2007
dannyglix said...

poor raw, that blows.
January 11, 2007
Jason said...

Damn. You're one of my heroes, Bob. I'd hoped to meet you someday.

Perhaps I still will.
January 11, 2007
Chris M said...

Thank you for showing me ways.

Will catch up with you some other time.

Take care.
January 11, 2007
confusa said...

One of the last great visionaries of our time. The world sorely needs more RAWs.
January 11, 2007
Brad said...

Thank you for everything, Bob.

See ya soon enough...
January 11, 2007
criss said...

Eris reclaims her own at last

So long,Bob. Thanks for the universe.
January 11, 2007
Christine said...

Say hi to St. Peter for me, Bob, and keep all those angels on their toes.

Thank you for being part of this world.

Hail Eris!
January 11, 2007
jh said...

In the words of William Burroughs -

It ain't no sin
To take off your skin
And dance around in your bones...

Farewell fella,
john higgs
January 11, 2007
redjenn93 said...

You will always be missed.

Thank you for all the good you have done for the world.
January 11, 2007
Josh Franklin said...

wow, just wow. . .
January 11, 2007
Adam said...

Thanks for inspiring me, and helping to illuminate the path. Mahalo and farewell.
January 11, 2007
Hobbs von Wackamole said...

Bob was an inspiration, and a great thinker. The world gained so much from him, and we've all lost something.
January 11, 2007
Mike Calder said...

Thanks for your writing. You opened my mind to quite a few ideas in your time, and always with humour and humanity.

Quite an act to follow.

23.
January 11, 2007
-Logan- said...

Take it easy, Bob.

Good to know you.

Thanks again.
January 11, 2007
Nothus said...

Thanks for the "Trip"!!!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

i think i just felt the world get stupider.

love.
January 11, 2007
Jules said...

Farewell man.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

hail eris, thank you for opening and changing my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you will be missed by many

fnord
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

GoodBye Bob
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

23 is the key.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

You changed my life with Scroedinger's Cat. Thank you very much.
GoodBye...
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Fnord.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

We'll keep up the fight!

Cya on the other side.

-Myke
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Say hi to jpc for me!
January 11, 2007
Abhijit Shylanath said...

Goodbye, bob. See you soon. I hope you get your pleasant meal up there.
January 11, 2007
Ric said...

Farewell and Thank you
January 11, 2007
Ric said...

Farewell and Thanks!
January 11, 2007
Joe said...

Listen, uh - I just want to say thanks.
So...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
January 11, 2007
Alex said...

bye bob. love ya
January 11, 2007
Mike Didj said...

.
January 11, 2007
Jay Lee said...

All Hail Eris!
All Hail Discordia!
January 11, 2007
M. Watts said...

Joyce, Crowley and Jung now have a fourth for bridge. Hail Eris, and farewell!
January 11, 2007
hemlock_martini said...

So long, and thanks for all the fnords...

You'll be missed dearly.
January 11, 2007
Brian said...

Please let us know how it goes out there as your voyage continues on.
January 11, 2007
dB said...

Alas, another true hero falls...

You will be mourned.

Hail Eris.
January 11, 2007
Scott said...

Thanks for everything.

Welcome home!
January 11, 2007
Linda said...

Farewell and godspeed on the next big part of your journey. It was a privilege to have met you.
January 11, 2007
Mark Givens said...

Goodbye, Bob. Thanks.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

RIP RAW
January 11, 2007
venus delle stanze da bagno said...

i 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.

and let's thrown a discordian party, he would love that ((=

FNORD GALERE!
January 11, 2007
Renazzle said...

You will be missed.

"Bullshit makes
the flowers grow
& that's beautiful."

Fnord.
January 11, 2007
Michael said...

Good bye, you were one of those who inspired my life. You will be missed.

Michael from Vienna, Austria
January 11, 2007
Pope Richard Corey said...

So Long, Pope Wilson. You made me who i am. I hope that you Mindfuck the underworld.
January 11, 2007
PK and J said...

goodbye RAW. thank you graciously.
January 11, 2007
Telarus, KSC said...

And another of Her crazy luminous gifts retires to Limbo. Hope to see you there, Bob. I'll buy you a spliff and a drink.

Namaste,
-Telarus, KSC
January 11, 2007
philolog said...

FAREWELL AND ALL HAIL ERIS!
January 11, 2007
Darren said...

Thanks for getting me stoned that time with Timothy Leary. Bon voyage!
January 11, 2007
Jeremy said...

all hail discordia and a great man and teacher.

he's missed already!

be well Bob, you showed me paths, and for that I thank you!
January 11, 2007
Elisha Grey said...

OffOn/OnOn Bob was going fast and is now gone.

So glad you were here to guide me.

See you.
January 11, 2007
Brian said...

thanks for the mind fucking. here's to a smooth transition to the next thing..
January 11, 2007
Steve said...

Send us a postcard Bob!
January 11, 2007
323ism said...

Fair thee well....maverick of the mind
January 11, 2007
Widgett Walls said...

Robert Anton Wilson was a verb and not a noun. And he still is.
January 11, 2007
Non-Local said...

If there's an afterlife, he and Leary are chatting it up already.

Bob 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!
January 11, 2007
helixx said...

your words guided me through some crazy times. 23
January 11, 2007
whidB65 said...

Thanks, man.
January 11, 2007
Kale Gans said...

Farewell to a great and kind philosopher.
January 11, 2007
Kebap said...

I 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?

Or 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.
January 11, 2007
Doc said...

Le RAW est mort. Vive le RAW!

Farewell, maestro.
January 11, 2007
Tim said...

Dear Robert,

I 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
January 11, 2007
High Priest Vasilis Azoth said...

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.

I packed this one for you brother.

Hail Eris

p.s. being seeing you on sirius someday.
January 11, 2007
Shig said...

Cheers, mate. Enjoy the ride.
January 11, 2007
William said...

Thanks 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.

Condolences to RAW's family.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

0111 = 7...where's the 5, bob?

thanks for helping me see the fnords.

every man and woman is a tsar. hail eris!!
January 11, 2007
The Odd Emperor said...

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro
January 11, 2007
Zornhau said...

Farewell from Scotland.
January 11, 2007
isol8d said...

see joo on xday
January 11, 2007
Clark Nova said...

I feel a great disturbance in the force...

I 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
January 11, 2007
Tom said...

Ave atque vale, big lad. See you on the other side.
January 11, 2007
Malgrin said...

On a personal level, this week has been devoted to silly sounds... and somehow, I find that it is a fitting tribute to you.

I thank Eris that she rolled you in my direction.

Kallisti!!!!!!!!!!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Goodbye Robert. See you soon.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Farewell from Austria.
January 11, 2007
Tom said...

dude, you finally did it! rock on, adios, see you soon, hasta la pasta & meatballs on the side. xoxox
January 11, 2007
KhaoSuN said...

Here death may deal not again for ever;
Here 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
January 11, 2007
steam-powered said...

Amor et hilaritas
January 11, 2007
sfdh said...

i did not visit this website for months. And now I have to read sad news.
Bob 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
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

truly a dancing star has been born today.

farewell robert.
January 11, 2007
Wally said...

I can't think of anything to say but: I'm very sad today.
January 11, 2007
Dustin said...

Farewell, Bob! You will live on in those you inspired.
January 11, 2007
Kingfox said...

Farewell RAW. Thank you for all the great ways you've contributed to this world.
January 11, 2007
Ben said...

Everywhere the sane are going into mourning...

Thank you for teaching me so much, enjoy the ride!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

The greatest adverture begins.Say Hi to Chopper23,Jim,Jerry,Tim and all the others we miss you all!
January 11, 2007
Gabriel said...

Thank 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
January 11, 2007
Malach the Merciless said...

Farewell in your next journey, your humble servant Malach the Merciless.
January 11, 2007
Theo Paijmans said...

Saddened I say goodbye in deep respect to an author who has given me unforgettable hours and ideas to ponder upon.

From the Netherlands and my deepest sympathy to his family.

Theo Paijmans
January 11, 2007
Bookartist said...

And so the made form dissolves.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Goodbye and thankyou
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

RIP RAW
No wife, no horse, no mustache
January 11, 2007
Maredith said...

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.

-maredith
austin, texas

hoping that people don't take themselves too seriously.
January 11, 2007
Lupa said...

Now you can have that pleasant meal. Hope you and Arlen have an excellent menu to choose from.

You're already missed.
January 11, 2007
pljones said...

Everything in the universe exists and will always exist. Everything stays unchanged through eternity. There is no before, now, later. Statis.

Or 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.
January 11, 2007
MamaMoonie said...

Thanks, Bob. Your wisdom, wit, and activism will be missed on this side.
January 11, 2007
cavalaxis said...

Thank 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.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

I wish you excellent navigation in the bardos RAW, I wish you all the best wherever you are.

Farewell friend

http://corporate.skynet.be/zen
January 11, 2007
Nutrimentia said...

Fare thee well, Pope O' Mine.

Condolences 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?
January 11, 2007
fool@dfw.net said...

we'll miss you
but we won't forget you
and we'll keep spreading your message.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Enormous thanks for being your own dirty, freaky self. Be seeing you!

J. L. Grant
January 11, 2007
Kevin Evans said...

farewell & thank you.

-k
January 11, 2007
PeteG said...

Go get 'em Bob!
Ride that comet out of here!
January 11, 2007
gregory pleshaw said...

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

Now 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....
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

My Teacher, inspiration, entertainer and guide. Your light will always live on. I will miss you...LGN
January 11, 2007
Sam said...

The planet misses you already. Your works mean so much to me and changed me in so many ways.

23 skidoo, Bob.

Shed a tear for the coming eschaton.
January 11, 2007
Honky-Tonk Dragon said...

Bob,

with 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.
January 11, 2007
c. vermeers said...

i say again, you taught me to think. thank you.
January 11, 2007
postrodent said...

Mr. 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.
January 11, 2007
nabi al-ek said...

Goodbye
Thank you for your inspiration.
Fnord!
January 11, 2007
Huey said...

a banana bag again (or a camel)
January 11, 2007
Creators and Manifestors, OPen Board said...

Hail to you friend.

Thank 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.
January 11, 2007
Jason Scott said...

That money I threw your way when the call came out was some of the best money spent! Thanks for the ride.
January 11, 2007
kristian said...

Good bye bob ... you will be missed! You are welcome to reincarnate in my neck of the woods any time you see fit.
January 11, 2007
Eleri Hamilton said...

Send us some jujus from the Big Fnord in the Sky, man. Have a good trip.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Oh and farewell on your new journey...
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks 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.

I'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
January 11, 2007
John said...

So long and thanks for all the fnords.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks for all the books. Have fun on the other side.

-Darqchild
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

I have proof that this is all just a cover-up.
January 11, 2007
RJ said...

Bye.
January 11, 2007
Elías said...

Farewell, the only author whose originality, imagination and wit have truly surprised me.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

I've written in to several online news publications. It's only fitting that RAW should get an obituary as a tribute.
January 11, 2007
rmjon23 said...

Copious tears of joy for all you've given me and, by obvious extension, our kulchur. Your intelligence was/"is"...hyper-"real"! 35+ books, articles, recordings = Immortality...in some sense. Love and profound gratitude to you, oblivious?

-RMJon23
Berkeley
January 11, 2007
margaret griffis said...

thanks and have a good trip!
January 11, 2007
Tom Reynolds said...

Farewell, and safe travels. You changed my life.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Enjoy your return to chaos...
January 11, 2007
Ezra Ravencroft said...

Namu Amida Buddha
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

I was never the same person after I read Prometeus Rising. Hope the next adventure is even better than the last.

Bon Voyage

Duncan
January 11, 2007
Sydney said...

I half expected you to check out on 1/23, but hey ... one third of 11:11 isn't so bad. I love you. I just do. Thank you for the wake up call all those years ago and laughing with me. Have fun trippin' the light fantastick!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Good night, sweet absurd prince. You shall be truly missed.
January 11, 2007
NmDrkAngl said...

what can one say... on an occasion such as this?

oh, I know.

Please pass the potatoes.
January 11, 2007
cadigan said...

I miss you already.
January 11, 2007
Pope Athos V said...

Five pounds of flax!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Well done, sir. Well done indeed.
January 11, 2007
Nashimiron said...

Hail Eris!

Hail Stones!

Run for cover!

Fare ye well, for the Well hast been fair to yee.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

May there is no snow in Shambala...
January 11, 2007
michael scarrett said...

Pleasant journeys Bob.
may the Company of Heaven honor you as a King among the Kings.
And the pasta keeps flying.
Godspeed.
January 11, 2007
Lumpyg said...

My Guide through Chapel Perilous is gone but his widom lives on.
January 11, 2007
Lan said...

Thanks for the enlightenment you've brought. Farewell, and may your journey continue in the light of stars.
January 11, 2007
Cathy said...

The circus just won't be the same without my favorite ringleader.

Take a ride on Comet McNaught on your way out, all right? And don't forget to write.

~Del
January 11, 2007
prophei said...

you will be missed forever.
enjoy the new journey

thank you for all you are and were
January 11, 2007
NeonCat said...

My condolences to his family and friends. He shared so much with us, including the example of seriously not taking ourselves too seriously.

I am glad that he is no longer in pain, that he is at rest, and if he is anywhere I hope he is truly joyous.

RIP, RAW.

NeonCat93
January 11, 2007
Andy said...

Several years ago, you helped me to put my brain to better use by showing me the fnords and who the Illuminati "really" are, and I will always be grateful to you for that. I hope that whatever part(s) of the multiverse may still contain your consciousness have a hell of a lot more Slack than this one does.
January 11, 2007
Rev. T. Monkey said...

Thanks for everything, Bob. May you be happy in whatever bardo you're exploring right now.

Until we all meet again, bless.
January 11, 2007
Erik said...

Thank you for mind-expanding hours of confusion, laughter and surprise while enjoying your books. You made me open my eyes.
January 11, 2007
leafy said...

Bye, Bob.

Even in dying you've shown me a better way to think about life. Thank you.
January 11, 2007
Hummingbird said...

Thanks for the levity amongst such a dour bunch Robert!
January 11, 2007
drjon said...

Good night, Uncle Bob.

Thank you again. We mourn.
January 11, 2007
Jesse said...
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January 11, 2007
Lev Lafayette said...

Now that was a life worthy of living.

It was a good trip. Thanks for everything.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

No ignorance and also no extinction of it,
and so forth until no old age and death
and also no extinction of them.

No suffering, no origination,
no stopping, no path, no cognition,
also no attainment with nothing to attain.

The Bodhisattva depends on Prajna Paramita
and his mind is no hindrance;
without any hindrance no fears exist.
Far apart from every perverted view he dwells in Nirvana.

In the three worlds
all Buddhas depend on Prajna Paramita
and attain Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi.

Therefore know that Prajna Paramita
is the great transcendent mantra,
is the great bright mantra,
is the utmost mantra,
is the supreme mantra
which is able to relieve all suffering
and is true, not false.
So proclaim the Prajna Paramita mantra,
proclaim the mantra which says:

gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha
gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha
gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.
January 11, 2007
Amie said...

So long, and thanks for all the fish, buddy.
January 11, 2007
Bryan Delano III said...

A sweet "good morning" to you as you begin your next great whateveritis.

Thanks for everything, sir.
January 11, 2007
Bentley Scarton said...

12/31/06 was a date that will be remembered as the day I finished reading my first Robert Anton Wilson book, "Prometheus Rising".

01/11/07 will go down as infamy as I realized I can never count on a new book of this brilliant man to ever be published again.

Farewell and rest in peace, I am sorry humanity let you down!
January 11, 2007
Steve P. said...

Goodbye, Bob. Thanks for everything.
January 11, 2007
T said...

don't let the fnords hit you onthe ass on the way out...
January 11, 2007
Psyche said...

You did great. Goddess bless, Bob.

A bientot.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

kick ass and take names ;)
January 11, 2007
kwiksotik said...

Have good trip!!! And thanX for nothing and everything!!!
January 11, 2007
Bruce Kodish said...

I'm sorry for myself, sorry to realize that you're gone now. You have left friends, family, fans, who have memories and your wonderful writings.

So long, Doc. T'was good to know ya.
January 11, 2007
Jonathan Currie said...

Thanks for all the enlightenment Bob. You'll always have a place of honor on my bookshelf. Say hi to Tim for me! Fnord!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

bon voyage bob, don't forget to send a sirius transmission -
January 11, 2007
Trevor J Wallace said...

So long. I cannot thank enough or ever pay you back for what your works have given me.
January 11, 2007
Christopher said...

Salute.
January 11, 2007
Jonathan Currie said...

Thanks for all the enlightenment Bob! You blew a big window open in my head. Say hi to Dr. Tim for me!

Fnord!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

See ya, RAW.

Thanks.
January 11, 2007
Jesse said...

this reality "models" a dream... (inside a dream.. inside a dream..)

last night I finally met the Holy Guardaian Angel, harry the rabbit, my quantum self. I had some very psychic experiences, I was shown the other side, I was shown many aspects of the fabric of our reality. I was spoken to and through by my grandfather whose birthday it was, yet I did not know this until I was on the phone with my mother and I felt his presence his transmission of consciousness showing me things from the next stage, and the stages after that...

Then I felt.. somehow I knew RAW had passed to the next level. I didn't want to believe it, and I sure as heck doubted myself. Then I looked on this blog today and to my amazement, he has. It is very surreal, amazing, sad and beautiful. I'm still in shock. But now know, in much stronger terms then I would have ever felt possible that there is so.. so much more then we could have ever and will ever imagine or know. Bob is still with us, and we will all meet again. Everything comes back around. Just be (patient).

Though while we are still here.. in this seemingly physical realm.. let us pass on his knowledge.. let's save as many as we can

thank you so much Bob :)
you are love(d)
January 11, 2007
Mark Joyner said...

Bob, you changed my life perhaps more than anyone else.

What you taught me as a young man will stay with me through my whole life. Later in life, when I was able to befriend you, one of my heroes, it had an even more profound impact on me.

Your intellect was so staggering.

But Bob, you were one who would advise us not to have heroes, weren't you?

Well, that is my way of raising my fist in the air and demonstrating the true nature of the Illuminati (if I understood the parable).

You say, "Have no heroes!"

I stand, my fist raised in defiance and say, "You're my hero."

I am sure that in death, as it always is, your contribution will be better recognized than it was in life.

At the very least, here is one man who owes so much to you, saying it's so.

Enjoy the trip.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Look to the west at sunset 5:30PMwst there is a comet that is not coming bach fo 10000 yrs.A fitting UNIVERSAL tribute to a UNIVERSAL man there is always TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE!!!!!BFISH
January 11, 2007
Boris the Spider said...

RAW: More and more, as time passes, I realize more fully just how seminal and important your philosophy was/is to me. I keep coming back to it to break through the ice that keeps covering the watering hole in the cold, cold times. Thanks!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Rot in hell.
January 11, 2007
Sean said...

Hey. I thought you were great.
January 11, 2007
Eldon Trent said...

Shit.....

Thought, "must be a joke".

Dunno yet fnord could be just part of the inevitable chaos that follows his death am sure he wanted it this way.....uncertain.

Hail Eris, hail Robert Anton Wilson, keep watching for the Fnords.

Ewige Blumenkraft!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

;(
January 11, 2007
eugene plawiuk said...

You were a hell of a Holy Guru. Don't Let them Immanatize the Eschaton.
January 11, 2007
Joscha said...

You have been one of the most important shaping forces of my view and understanding of the world, from history to quantum mechanics, systems' theory, religion and love. Ever transcending prophet of non-belief and intellectual independence, prometheus of the Aquarian age, my hero.

Good bye.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Every Man is a Star,

Not everyman knows it.

Thanks, Bob
January 11, 2007
pippi said...

punchline???
January 11, 2007
Oystein said...

Thanks Bob, for screwing up my mind.

Stay free!
January 11, 2007
darius said...

I can't find words to name a place Bob lived in my life. But one thing I'm sure, it was somewhere in a centre of my being. So from this secret place I'm saying: Keep on goin' Bob! Let's unveil the final secret of illuminati and have fun of it!

Bob is dead! Long live Bob!

My condolencies to family. You were so lucky...
January 11, 2007
Tom Buckner said...

Bob, this time you've gone TOO FAR. First you tampered with our sense of humor, then you rearranged our reality tunnels, and now you've abandoned us in a section of the multiverse where the Dark Ages still continue. This act will not go unfunished. I think I'll go find a church and pee on the doorknobs.
----------------------------------

"A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to."
(crowd) "Oh, enlightened master, may WE be YOUR disciples?"

-- Bob, 'Reality is What You Can Get Away With'

Have fun stormin' Eris's castle!
January 11, 2007
Spörri said...

So Long

Thanks for rewiring my brains.
January 11, 2007
Robert said...

Happy Trails, and thanks for all the reality checks, and all of your writings...
January 11, 2007
arly said...

the world laments
the heavens sing
unto the stars
bequeath thy spirit

THE teacher has embarked
upon HIS great journey.
please remember to send us dafties
left on this rock a postcard
from Sirius!

Hail Eris!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

You did good, Bob. Farewell.
January 11, 2007
srj said...

Thanks, and agape.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

spiral onward brother!
January 11, 2007
brian said...

Thanks Bob,
hail Eris!!
January 11, 2007
Jason said...

RIP RAW. Goodbye old chum. I'm sure you are having a great time whereever you may be.

Hail Eris!
All Hail Discordia!
Fnord.
January 11, 2007
Eris Siva said...

Have fun, and hope to see you soon dearest teacher. May blessings propel you into wondrous lands beyond those that we mortals can reach.

I wanted to write to you yesterday. Now I'm sorry I didn't.

Just know that your words and thoughts changed me into a person that I have always wanted to be. Although I never met you (yet), you mean the world to me.

Peace and rest, wise one...Peace and rest. But hopefully not too much of either. ;-)

Farewell
January 11, 2007
§cott Weitz said...

I first met Bob when I came to the Berkeley area in the 1970's & I took his Scientific & Experimental Magick class. What a mind-expanding experience those classes were! I will cherish the memories of those times forever. He was an amazing guy with an utterly hilarious sense of humor. As irreverant as he was, he was always very kind & considerate to the people around him. A very compassionate & loving individual, he redefined what it meant to be a Thelemite & always pushed the envelope to the hilt! He will be missed, but never forgotten.

Live from the Macworld Expo in S.F, §cott.
January 11, 2007
Pope Clifton said...

I knew it was coming, but damn.

Bob was probably one of the biggest influences on my life. Reading Illuminatus when I was 16 was one of the major forces which led to my reading Crowley (and John Lilly, and John Dee, and ...) as a teenager, dropping acid, and signing up with the SubGenii as soon as I stumbled on them. I suspect I'd be a whole lot less sane today if not for his books. Hell, I might never have resolved my authority figure problems, if I hadn't become a Pope!

Hail f'in Eris, and I'll miss knowing you're out there on this plane. Go raise hell in the next level.

93, 23, parasamgate, whatever.
January 11, 2007
Chester said...

good travels. you will be missed.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

You will be so missed Bob.

Life will be a less strange without you...

Hail Eris!

PBK
January 11, 2007
wetwebwork said...

Adios and thank you. It was fun.
January 11, 2007
pahool said...

I hope being dead doesn't slow you down any.

You will be missed...
January 11, 2007
Lesley said...

It is hard to add anything to everything that has already been said, but he will be missed greatly! He is traveling the vast universe now and I would imagine extremely enjoying it.
January 11, 2007
Krafty23 said...

This one really chokes me up! hail eris!
you will never be forgotten!
sad sad day!
January 11, 2007
Doc Gloom said...

Goodbye Bob. The set of keys you gave me continues to open locks in the strangest places. I promise not to waste them.
January 11, 2007
Josi said...

You changed my life by teaching me that reality is elastic and perspective is everything.

I could write the formulas before I read you, but it was you, and not Einstein, that taught me relativity.

Fare you well, Bossman.
January 11, 2007
Vajra_23 said...

Dearest Bob! - Goodbye to you: My life would be very, very much poorer without you and your immortal work! Especially your books "Cosmic Trigger" and "Prometheus Rising" were my first and most important maps on the psychedelic path - they were magic jewels to me. This planet will be a little bit darker without your lightful smile. - Thanks for all, Bob, I would like to thank you deeply from within! May your soul remain in Eternal Bliss!

:V.23:
January 11, 2007
PopeJaimie said...

Damn, Bob, we weren't done with you yet.

Hopefully one of your past lives pops up in 20 years or so and you start blowing minds again.
January 11, 2007
Yasue said...

Please Remove Shoes
Before Entering The
Next Plane Of Reality.

-Thanks. The Management.
January 11, 2007
om said...

Fare well. Enjoy the ride. Thank you.
January 11, 2007
Brian said...

Bob:

You remain in my agnostic prayers.

Brian Shields
San Francisco, CA
January 11, 2007
Walton said...

Have a good trip.
January 11, 2007
aegisprime said...

It is rare that you can say that an author actually changed your life, but RAW was one I can wholeheartedly say it in truth.

You will be greatly missed, but your words will live on and continue to change people's reality tunnels.

Our thoughts are with you and yours.
January 11, 2007
Fun-da-mental and sexy online magazine! said...

I salute you!

RAW forever!!

Either we will find a way, or we will make one!!!
January 11, 2007
MalaKai said...

thank you
January 11, 2007
Mr. Mescalito said...

changed my life...

for the better...

thanks
January 11, 2007
Billy Verde said...

I miss you already, Bob. Godspeed...
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

loved him like an uncle he will be greatly missed along with his wisdom. good bye to a true hero.
reverend brendan
January 11, 2007
Jared said...

ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!!!
January 11, 2007
Pope Kentucky F. Chicken III said...

Bob, you are missed. Goddess be praised!

Only now will the world recognize you as the genius and bright shining space-time anomaly that you were.

May your time off the earth be as fruitful as your time on it. Rest in piece, frater.
January 11, 2007
Stephanx said...

Fejus amoos congratus...
All Hail!!!

~Sx
January 11, 2007
Jerry said...

Thank you Bob. Pleasant Journeys.
January 11, 2007
supes said...

farewell.
My condolences to his family and friends.
You're my only Hero, Bob.
for eternities.
Thanks for all the models and the ability to smash and reshape my own.
Thanks for everything. My heart aches with joy.
Be in Peace.
Le RAW est mort. Vive le RAW!
Chao, baby.
So long and thanks for all the fnords.
You did great. Goddess bless, Bob.

with love eternal
23skiddoo
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

goodbye
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

"Memorial February 07
date to be announced"

How fitting.
January 11, 2007
jaymoo said...

bob. :) thanks.

moo
January 11, 2007
heavyartillery said...

I will say only, thank you RAW
January 11, 2007
Rob Pugh said...

Eris damn it.

Much love Bob, wherever you are.
January 11, 2007
C said...

I can honestly say I owe a lot of who I am to RAW. One of the greatest minds of the 20th century and beyond. History will show him as one of the greats. I will always defend his honor and praise his contributions.
January 11, 2007
Mr. Mescalito said...

Book Junkie
(for R.A.W.)

One
line
at
a
time
he
shoots
for
the
soul
of
the
mind.
January 11, 2007
sevenveils said...

i echo everyone else's sentiments....

thank you for your work. you were a force of nature and reformed many personal realities. you will be missed.
January 11, 2007
Justin said...

I've only just discovered his books in the last few years and I've already learned so much. His words changed the way I percieved the world. Thanks and RIP.
January 11, 2007
wjbrown said...

you are a cool dude. thanks & pax.
January 11, 2007
Working Gringa said...

Bye Robert Anton Wilson. Thank Goddess we have your writing that will live on and continue to inspire, confound and delight. I'm sure you are thrilled to be joining Arlen.

We'll all see you soon.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

What a loss.
All Hail Eris!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

307 fan's comments and no major Media attention yet...that's Bob for ya!
January 11, 2007
chris said...

This is hard news for those of us still behind, but he is in a much, much better place far from the weight of life.
January 11, 2007
Jerrod said...

Guns and Dope forever.

Good luck Traveler.
January 11, 2007
Sergey said...

?R???p???y?q??, ?Q?@?T - ?y ??o?N?????????u?s?? ????c???u???u?????r?y??e!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

So long, Bob. My wife still blames the hives on you...
January 11, 2007
Loocite said...

Pleasant journey and thank you for stopping by in this plane of existence!
With love, Rachel and Abe
January 11, 2007
Folgsam said...

lucky bastard

you owe me five dollars
January 11, 2007
xenlab said...

I don't mean to mix metaphors, but...

So Long, and Thanks for all the fish!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks RAW - much love to a man who helped shape my understanding of my world.
bez
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Even when you know it's coming, you don't really know until it arrives.

Others have shared here some very beautiful and personal things in memory of you, Mr. Wilson. Indeed, you have left us a great legacy of lives touched and knowledge shared.

I wish I, too, could find the right poetry to say how grateful I am for the fact of your existence in this life. But then you were never like a poem to me. More like a mantra.

"Just do go ahead."
-George Dorn

Yeah. Thanks for all the brilliance you shed here, RAW. You changed me. May you shine on!
January 11, 2007
HolyChao said...

Hail Bob!!!

Thanks for Everything

HC
January 11, 2007
BrianDammit said...

Until next time...
January 11, 2007
mark said...

RIP Mr. Wilson
January 11, 2007
Bob said...

hi five, mr man.
on and unto the great beyond and other essays on madness.
kick god in teh nutz for me.
and I promise I'm not crying over yr ascendence or whatever the hell it ended up being.
a peck on the cheek for Arlen for me, if you will, I praise her infinitely for putting up with yr bullshit.
love, best wishes and other nonsense you might not ever experience.
fuck it.
I'm openly weeping and this doesn't fit with my standards of living.
you bastard.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

No one can ever replace RAW.

My thoughts are with his family and friends. Though we may have lost our beloved Pope, they have lost much more.

I will be flying my lasagna at half-mast for the next 23 days.

After that, watch out.

Tom W.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Condolations to his family and friends from Oslo, Norway

Hail Eris, All Hail Discordia!
January 11, 2007
Neil' said...

Fare thee well Bob, great see-er and teacher, TO META THERION. You will be missed by every thinker and seeker, but we know your unbound mind journeys on. I often sleep in the bed that you slept in, the time I hosted you for a Seminar here in Newport Newsland of 23....") late 80s. I will meditate upon your presence.("I am getting ready to call my mother, who served us crabcakes and considered him very entertaining and thought-provoking. She says, sorry to hear about his passing. Right now, at work in ZIP 23666, heh. I am sobered. The rest of us must carry on the struggle for enlightenment and for a better planet.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

And its Time, Time, Time.....

See you later Bob..........

Tears dance in my skin, bones...
A Tango of illuminated bits of flesh...
spinning, spinning, spinning...

Bob's efforts exerting influence...immortalized...
January 11, 2007
Unquietsoul said...

Namaste Bob.

Your corporeal presence will be missed.
January 11, 2007
Floyd Hayes said...

With tears in my eyes I say thank you for the good times. You changed my life for the better and I'll see you on the other side.
January 11, 2007
Jonah Brownsmith said...

farewell my friend. you will be missed.
love,
jonah
January 11, 2007
Pope Eggs Benedict Arnold said...

Well done, old man. You've learned all that tattered old body could teach you. Time to mosey on to What Comes Next.

While your learning here may be complete, your lessons linger to teach those who come after. This is your legacy. All of us, who have been touched by your soul, and pass it on to whomever learns from us.

Into the out of.
January 11, 2007
Cameron said...

God bless you and your family, Bob. You did so much to help me and so many others to open our eyes to new ways of thinking and perceiving. Thank you for your good work. You will be missed. Rest in peace.
January 11, 2007
weis said...

Just another note from another person whose life was altered profoundly by RAW's work. I guess that says something - he hasn't even been gone a day yet, and already the list of people whose hearts and minds he touched is too long to read at one sitting.
January 11, 2007
Nicholas said...

Thanks, thanks for everything. Thank you for opening my mind, thanks for all the wisdom. Thank you for all the work you've done, thank you for all the help you've given to countless people, you've made a mark on me, and more people than you may ever know. I may have never met you, but you've effected my life more than any other person ever has, you have my eternal gratitude and thanks.

HAIL ERIS!
ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!
January 11, 2007
Bluefoo said...

Fare well in whatever awaits, thanks for your words and thoughts.

Hail our lady Eris, fnord fnord fnord.
January 11, 2007
H. Celine said...

Moksha!

Thank you for your unpredictable
information that injected so much humor and INsight into my sad, fear-ridden life.

I love you.
Thank you again
-D
January 11, 2007
yoram said...

farewell and good bye.
January 11, 2007
zaaa said...

Goodnight RAW, I hope you enjoyed your time at this wild circus.
January 11, 2007
Brock said...

Fuck Death! Bobdamnit!
January 11, 2007
look and find said...

my father gave me a copy of the Principia Discordia in high school. Recently I re-read Prometheus Rising.

For over half my life RAW help teach, shape and free my thoughts.

Thanks, and have a great time out there!
January 11, 2007
stupidBaby said...

Farewell ALternate Pope.
You're still with us in a myriad of reality-tunnels :)
January 11, 2007
Simon said...

Hail Eris!
And thanks for all the roadsigns.
January 11, 2007
Ghost of a flea said...

Thank you.
January 11, 2007
Jeff said...

You can't read this, so it seems odd typing to you, but I will make an exception in this case.

You are a great being that has improved everyone that you ever touched.

If there exists a word that serves the opposite purpose as "fnord", then imagine that I just typed it for you.

Hail Eris.
"Anti-Fnord"
jw
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

don’t forget to write. and say hello fnord to doug adams.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

A nice day to move on.

Today is Sweetmorn, the 11th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3173
January 11, 2007
Aram said...

Today the world, tomorrow the universe.

Thanks Bob!
January 11, 2007
Kid Happy said...

Thanks for caving in my brain and shifting my reality tunnel. I hope the worms enjoy you as much as we did...
January 11, 2007
Joel said...

To a life well lived.
Thankyou for you RAW.
You gave more to this world than you took. A rare spirit.
Ave atque vale
Anon
J
January 11, 2007
Pietro said...

Hey Bob, I would proclaim myself a disciple of yours, but we all know about disciples don't we?

Thanks for rearranging my brain, filling my head with wonderful thoughts and being so damn witty.

You will be sorely missed.

By the way, I knew something cosmic was going to happen today (1/11)...I've been seeing that damn number everywhere the last few weeks ;)

Peace my friend!
January 11, 2007
Lovely Wife George said...

Thanks for the mind fuck!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Farewell, Bob. My thoughts of peace and love are with your family, friends, and the thousands of fans who dearly miss you already.

Hope to see you winking at me soon on some clear night. I'll wink back.
January 11, 2007
Michelle said...

Robert, You've been such a great inspiration.. you'll be moving onwards to a better place and will always be remembered on the flip side.
-Michelle Meijs
January 11, 2007
paranoidwriter said...

Dear Robert Anton WIlson:

I wish I could say that I won't miss you, but though I never got to meet you in person and although I believe through your works you have achieved an honourable state of immortality, I can't help feeling that I've lost a member of my own family today and so I mourn your parting from this CorpoReality.

For me, you were more than another candle in the wind. You were and still are a modern day Prometheus. And I, for one, Will always endeavour to pass on the brilliance of your wit and wisdom whenever I can, and also add whatever I can to keep the torch burning brightly.

I pray Sirius guides you onwards and true towards and beyond your next great adventure.

Lots of Love,

p.w

XXIII
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Adieu Bob, great teacher and superb human being.
January 11, 2007
Chad said...

Mahalo, Bob. I will miss you.
January 11, 2007
Reno said...

Merci
Au revoir
January 11, 2007
xian said...

Whack fol the dah O, dance to your partner
Welt the floor, your trotters shake;
Wasn't it the truth I told you
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake!

~x23
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Helped me a lot, thanks Bob, the world needs more people like you.

V. Furby
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Arlen says "Welcome Home, sweetie!"
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

RIP Uncle Bob! My deepest thanks for such thought provoking reading . . . I was late to discover your good stuff and will continue to make my way through your fine works for as long as there remains books of yours that have yet to pass through my eyes, into my brain and on to my heart and soul.

cheers

stephen wesley crowther
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann

love.
January 11, 2007
ricK said...

You are great inspiration to me

you'll never be forgotten

Rest in peace dude!
January 11, 2007
Ms. Information said...

...ciao now brown cow...

We all knew this was coming but it is still a sad day.

I hope all if comfortable where he is.
January 11, 2007
Neil said...

Goodbye Bob.

You've taught us all a lot, and you've never appeared on celebrity big brother.
Good luck, wherever you find yourself.

All hail Discordia!
January 11, 2007
Antero Alli said...

you were successful in achieving the highest aims of the revolution guiding you through this world. your ideas live on forever; immortality achieved. godspeed be with you and keep that lasagna flying wherever you are.
January 11, 2007
antares93 said...

93
23
I feel so lucky to have met you once, thank you for all your Work, Hail Eris and Light for your Journey!
January 11, 2007
Doug said...

well, that was pretty cool.
January 11, 2007
Pod Leader said...

The Pod admires the way you open quantum blowholes in the heads of your fellow monkeys. Thankyou.
January 11, 2007
pilgrim said...

sleep well, bob, and thanks

shanti, shanti, shanti
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

So long, and smile down upon us from whatever plane you're on now. You've inspired a lot of people and uncovered a lot of fnords.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Farewell RAW. May the Four Winds blow you safely Home.

Tomorrow, I shall flush a single hotdog down the toilet in your honor.
It being Friday, and all.

.:George:.
January 11, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer said...

Ave atque vale.

Blessinges vpon hys familie and beloved ones. And glorie to Erys!

Geoffrey Chaucer
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

1/11/2007=12=3;3=III=111=7;3=7 ----> RAW, we will love you forever.
January 11, 2007
charlotte93 said...

I wish you much light, love, and strength on your journey across the Tuat.

"Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu."
January 11, 2007
Jay Dugger said...

We will miss you, but we will remember you.
January 11, 2007
J. Neil Schulman said...

Don't forget to look up SEK3, Bob. I'm sure he'll know where the dark beer is.

Cheers!

Neil
January 11, 2007
Eric said...

thank you...
January 11, 2007
jonl said...

Death is just another conspiracy theory.

Come back if you get bored.
January 11, 2007
Rev. Michael S. Margolin said...

HS,
I met Mr. Wilson only one time in my life. I made him laugh by playing "Dennis the menace" Mr. Wilson! Mr. Wilson! I'd say I'm gonna miss him but it feels like he is here more now than when I met him in person. May Bes bless you and keep you smiling Mr. Wilson.
ISN
Rev. Michael S. Margolin
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Goodbye, Old Bob! You've been loved.
January 11, 2007
Kev. said...

Farewell, Bob.

I have nothing but love for you, and for the generosity you showed me a few years ago, granting me an interview.

I owe much of the weirdness in my life to my encounters with you and your books, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

May your journey be beautiful.
January 11, 2007
pentaphobe said...

Bye Bob,

I am glad you got to be around for the naming of Eris in our solar system.

To my third parent: porn, booze, guns, dope, confused expressions and Joycean multilayered skullbuggery.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Wisdom and humor never sat on a better bench together.

Ta da.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

For everything I learned from your books, thank you.

And hello.
January 11, 2007
b0rken said...

Five tons of flax!

Watch out for Hendrix on the Air Hockey -- he's had a while to practice ...
January 11, 2007
peter said...

Robert you will never be forgotten for the help you gave many in cracking open the stasis and for your wit and erudition to boot

Om Namah Shivaya

Boom!
January 11, 2007
Cris said...

Where one is cut down, may one hundred thousand spring up in their place!

We are all stars - arise!!!

Thanks for showing us the way Bob...

Crispin.
January 11, 2007
colin said...

the world and i would be much sorrier without you in it. you help make the crazy world seem less out of control and help put the power back into peoples lives. Your buckyfuller optimism well be sorely missed.
popecolin
January 11, 2007
Eva Whitley said...

I'm glad I was able to pay forward a little bit to help you stay in your home.

Man, I hate the 11th of the month. (Except for July 11, 1991. That was one hell of an eclipse.)
January 11, 2007
Balen said...

Farewell and thank you Bob!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

"I am without form, Without limit. Beyond space, Beyond time. I am in Everything, Everything is me. I am the Bliss of the Universe, Everything am I." -Ram Tirtha. My condolences to the Wilson family. May Bob find the bliss he deserves, served with a pleasant meal.
January 11, 2007
Cliffie, The Lemming Girl said...

The world just got a little saner. There will never be another one like him.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Happy Trails Bob
January 11, 2007
Eris Pandemoaniummm said...

"...And so castles
made of sand
melt into the sea
eventually..."

I love and miss you. Enjoy the next realm, brother, sensai, friend.
January 11, 2007
Kelly said...

Goodbye, Bob. You'll live on in the minds you touched.

Hail Eris!
All Hail Discordia!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

"Only the survivors are dead."

Ancient Chinese proverb, quoted on the album cover of Carla Bley's Genuine Tong Funeral.

Bet you're pleasantly surprised, or will be "soon".

Soar forth in your growth RAW. We will miss you.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thankyou Robert Anton Wilson, and farewell.

Peace.
January 11, 2007
pandaduck said...

Robert Anton Wilson (1932-NEVER)..

farewell, my inspiration,
you showed us how to use our brain in this riddle called life
instead off freaking out..
thank you

all hail ERIS

--cut out--
January 11, 2007
Grandmaster Armadillo said...

Thank you and safe journey.

Love and a 23,

Grandmaster Armadillo Curmudgeon
January 11, 2007
Balen said...

Farewell Bob and thank you for all the mind ****s!

The worlds just got a little crazier ;)
January 11, 2007
stefan said...

love you bob--you have taught me and my loved ones more than we can imagine...i'm glad we crossed paths when we did, my friend. much love to the extended family in such a time as this.
goodbye bro.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

We'll meet again…

Cheers and Good Luck!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Even though you were kind of mean to me about 12 years ago when asked to take a picture with my friend, you will be missed, sir.

Your words will hopefully reach many for generations to follow.

Cheers Bob..
xx
Sharon
January 11, 2007
Scott Beibin said...

Farewell and thank you Mr. Wilson
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

happy travels...
January 11, 2007
Cathy said...

farewell

may you and Arlen embrace once again

may your family find peace in the love of those left behind

we will meet again

in the not-so-distant future

you are loved
January 11, 2007
Jeff said...

You are the best author ever.
Thank you for all your work you've given us.
January 11, 2007
Juliana said...

So it goes.

See you on the other side.
Or... well... not.
January 11, 2007
rodneyk said...

Thanks Bob for waking up a slumbering, lost and wandering kid so many years ago using nothing more than your magic words, your piercing wit and your playful rearrangement of our circus of reality. May your spirit live long
in those who you've changed!

Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
O Pan! Io Pan!
January 11, 2007
loki said...

RAW, you planted memes in my mind and I'll honour your memory by spreading them as far and wide as I can. Thanks.
January 11, 2007
Xenobia said...

See ya later!
January 11, 2007
QuantumTimeSpace said...

Now Eris, God, or whoever is up there has someone to have conversations with!!

Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!!! Kallisti!!
January 11, 2007
ryan said...

I just finished Cosmic Trigger this morning... RIP RAW.
--REW
January 11, 2007
Dr. Aether said...

The afterlife has just received a giant among men. We'll miss you Bob.
January 11, 2007
Doug Alder said...

All Hail Eris

See you on the rebound bro
January 11, 2007
.:[G]:. said...

Never whistle while you're pissing.
January 11, 2007
Rayn Drahps said...

Goodbye for now kind sir. I don't think I could forget all I've taken from your scribble's if I tried. Much love.
January 11, 2007
Danny said...

Hail Eris!

Thanks, RAW for the laughs, the psychic twists and the spirit.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

RIP, Dr. Wilson

I'm curiously aware of a squirrel.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks Bob, and goodbye.
January 11, 2007
Fell said...

Thank you for everything.
Thank you very much.
January 11, 2007
William Scott said...

I've never been much for the idea, but if there ever was a guru in my life it was Bob Wilson, a man I never met who absolutely changed my life. Hail Eris!
January 11, 2007
briotron said...

thanks for everything and goodbye. may maybe logic prevail and one day overthrow the tyrany of western and eastern fundamentalism as we know it today. it's up to us to carry it on
January 11, 2007
Gwen said...

Catch ya next time around, Bob.
January 11, 2007
Kaiser Jive Albino said...

Thank you for everything. You were my spiritual grandfather. You changed my life.

My sincere love and sympathy to your family.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Rest in peace. Thanks for Prometheus Rising and Quantum Psychology. May you continue to confound generations of us, the more reflective human primates, through your writings and other provocations. I know you will.

Phoenix @ Promethea.org
January 11, 2007
Ruby said...

Journey on Mr. Wilson and may all light and peace be yours....Thank you for your amazing books which helped me to awaken.....I feel sad the world has lost you. Goodbye...
January 11, 2007
EdO said...

Why are you people leaving messages for a dead guy?
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

I lit a candle for ya Bob, 'cause I didn't know what else to do.
You're a true hero, whether you knew it or not.

Love and light,
Alex
January 11, 2007
donaldGuy said...

Take comfort..

what ever Afterlife there is .. RAW's probably already having a great party or hand picking who himself reincarnate will be.
January 11, 2007
Brad Spangler said...

fnord
January 11, 2007
almagill said...

Bugger.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

ah!
January 11, 2007
Reg Aubry said...

Thank you. That's all I can say.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

miss you brother
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

never got the chance to meet you. too bad.maybe next time around.

hail eris
January 11, 2007
Ward said...

Your transmissions were received 5 x 5 here.

We're clear on your final.
January 11, 2007
gregyroman said...

thanx you RAW for everything.. you (fnord) have helped me through many a travel. hope all is well and i will remember the time we spent in PITTSBURGH,texas, (fnord) RIVERCIDE ca, sf.. i live close so if there is going to be any kind of service i would (fnord) gladly make the trip...

you helped me escape the domesticated primates....
January 11, 2007
Reality Engineer said...

Bob!

I'll meet you beside the campfire on the edge of the infinite. Good show man!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Godspeed Robert! Thank you for your humour and whimsical guidence. Your a man among men. A discordian among discordians. A pope among popes and now your everwhere and nowhere. Three cheers for the man who loved blow jobs and may he now an infinity of orgasms and laughs.

Greatful friend,
Derick
January 11, 2007
Mandrake said...

He showed me that everything is true.
January 11, 2007
coolvoodoo said...

Hail Eris, Goddess of Discord!
Thank you Robert, for helping me to view reality through my own eyes. I owe you so much.........
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Bob! I love you! Thank you for changing my mind. Your one of my biggest heros that I never got to meet, and you introduced me to the rest of them.

I owe you the deepest gratitude. I cried today.

Much Love and the Highest Admiration

Rome Viharo
January 11, 2007
Baron Von Stevenstein said...

Good bye Bob.

A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life and a little wisdom to avoid
the errors, that will do -carl Muckenhoupt

You lived a wonderful life.
You'll be missed.

"Bob's" speed my friend.
take care

Hail Eris!, Hail Kallisti!, Hail Discordia!, Hail a cab!

FNORD.
January 11, 2007
antipax said...

The Time/Space meat vehicle is left behind. What new landscapes is RAW privy to right now?

And what of us left behind, mourning? The world has become a poorer place. Maybe we should turn anguish and sorrow into joy and celebration that he is now free of discomfort and has travelled into a new mistery.

To all those who knew him, my deepest sympathy and the certainty that he has made a difference to millions worldwide, thanks to his wonderful, wonderful writing.
January 11, 2007
John said...

see you in the funny pages, bob.

love and peace.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Hail Eris!

Just a few days ago, I finally got around to penning and sending a letter to Wilson, saying all of the things that I'd meant to say all these years, namely, thanking him for all of the wonderful and weird things to think about during my formative years. It was returned in the mail, unopened, not long ago; got a bad feeling off that, I did.

The world is saddened and somewhat darkened by his passing; it is heartened and illuminated (heh) by the loss of his shell while the true RAW goes on Somewhere, Somewhen.

His W/work will go on.

All hail Discordia!

The Doctor [412/724/301/703/0x5d!]
January 11, 2007
ZenPupDog said...

You'll be missed. You did things that have worth. Thanks for what you shared with us.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Reading your writing helped to give my brain a vocabulary with which I could more easily make contact with this world we all got trapped in.

Hopefully what you are now experiencing is outrageously out of this world.

-UGN
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

In answer to the question of "why are we leaving a message for a dead guy?". We leave a message in RAW's memory, because it lives on. We leave messages for his family, who are grieving and managing this blog. We leave messages for each other, who grieve someone who influenced our lives, and was truly a legend in his own time. How's that for an answer?
January 11, 2007
YA said...

I never met you, but you were my cool dad. Thanks
January 11, 2007
dada said...

Thrill with the lissome lust of the light,
O man! My man!
Come careering out of the night
Of Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea
From Sicily and from Arcady!
Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards
And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards,
On a milk-white ass, come over the sea
To me, to me,
Come with Apollo in bridal dress
(Shepherdess and pythoness)
Come with Artemis, silken shod,
And wash thy white thigh, beautifal God,
In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount,
The dimpled dawn of the amber fount!
Dip the purple of passionate prayer
In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare,
The soul that startles in eyes of blue
To watch thy wantonness weeping through
The tangled grove, the gnarled bole
Of the living tree that is spirit and soul
And body and brain - come over the sea,
(Io Pan! Io Pan!)
Devil or God, to me, to me,
My man! My man!
Come with trumpets sounding shrill
Over the hill!
Come with drums low muttering
From the spring!
Come with flute and come with pipe!
Am I not ripe?
I, who wait and writhe and wrestle
With air that hath no boughs to nestle
My body, weary of empty clasp,
Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp -
Come, O come!
I am numb
With the lonely lust of devildom.
Thrust the sword through the galling fetter,
All-devourer, all begetter;
Give me the sign of the Open Eye,
And the token erect of thorny thigh,
And the word of madness and mystery,
O Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pan,
I am a man:
Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
O Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
In the grip of the snake.
The eagle slashes with beak and claw;
The Gods withdraw;
The great beasts come, Io Pan! I am borne
To death on the horn
Of the Unicorn.
I am Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan!
I am thy mate, I am thy man,
Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god,
Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod.
With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks
Through solstice stubborn to equinox.
I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend
Everlasting, world without end,
Mannikin, maiden, maenad, man,
In the might of Pan.
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!
January 11, 2007
Heidi said...

Thank you for the nearly thirty years of entertainment and learning you provided me. Catch you somewhere along the way!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

RAW,

You've changed my life and my mind forever. You showed me profound ways of interpreting the wisdom that I thought I knew. And above all you showed me how relative life really is. May the gods look kindly upon you.

Do What Thou Wilt,
SZC
January 11, 2007
Sheta & Meridjet said...

Feel free to drop by my otherwhere place anytime, Bob. Have fun, wherever you are.
January 11, 2007
dysjunct said...

To echo what many others have said, RAW changed my life and helped me to become a better person on many levels. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
January 11, 2007
Mark said...

Bob,

You showed me many ways to love and be fascinated. You are a star now.

Fondly,

Mark
January 11, 2007
Ranarchy said...

F.G.U.T.A

Now who should I put my lack of faith into?
January 11, 2007
Nenad said...

Goodbye, Bob... I will miss your humour and wisdom.

Wherever you are, I know you are enjoying it.
January 11, 2007
Rev. Phil said...

There goes one of the greatest human beings who ever goddamn lived.

RIP RAW
January 11, 2007
Rev. Jac Martins said...

Goodbye, Robert. Let it be said, He stomped on the terra, and people knew he was alive.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

i love you bob. i love you so damn much.

you blew my mind at 18, exploding out into the world blissfull and laughing, now, for the last 5 years I've been so blessed to be your friend. last i saw you, you were laughing, giving me a goodbye we both knew might be the last. thank for the love and unbelievable brilliance of heart and mind.

the kids at school will be sending you "wishes." they love you more than you know...

thank you everyone on this post. you gave me a place to grieve tonight, because our dear cosmonaut was a damn good friend, father, grandfather, brother..

may you be in Arlen's and Luna's arms, loving gaze and dearest love, my friend.
may my missing you be only joyful and hilarious.

thank you so much. you'll hardly know how much, my sweet dear friend. I love you. amanda
January 11, 2007
codexico said...

i miss you compadre. much love. movie night dates TBA on the other side. you taught me forgiveness and optimism. things i work on daily.

love is the law and then some.

cant wait to see you again.
January 11, 2007
Gabriel said...

Thanks for everything RAW, i have no words to thank you for all you gave me... you changed (and possibly saved) my life. 93!
January 11, 2007
Iphigenia said...

Bye, Bob.
Thanks for being here in the first place.
January 11, 2007
7ance said...

Thank you for writing back; for being the commonest of random factors. I will endeavor to listen for your wisdom amongst the blatherings of the CCCC/Sophia Frequencies.

And thank you for guiding me to a love I could not have had otherwise. I will spread this virus far and wide.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

thank you for existing!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

You are in good company! Farewell..
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

thank you and farewell, teacher.
January 11, 2007
David said...

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
...W B Yeats
Journey well, Bob. Thanks for all the fun you taught me to have with my brain over the years, and the curious things your words have done to my synapses.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

To planet Eris, and beyond!
January 11, 2007
Vinnie said...

hope you get to meet Arlen again and fall in love again. Your contribution to this madhouse seems to me to be immeasurable and truly excellent.
111 - the # of Ana Livia Plurabella...
nam myoho renge kyo
praise Bob
Hail Eris
"Is" that all there "is" ?
January 11, 2007
smallerdemon said...

I was 39 when I finally made it to finishing one of your great works. You easily are now one of my favorite American writers. I never knew you good sir, but oh how you will be missed. You saw the world better than most of us ever will.
January 11, 2007
Matt said...

Goodbye
January 11, 2007
datakid said...

good luck out there, dude
January 11, 2007
Kurt said...

Farewell and good luck.
January 11, 2007
Amos Quito said...

He has decreed in his will that upon his death his body will be cremated and the ashes thrown in Jerry Falwell's face. The executor of his will should then shout one word only: "Gotcha!"

12:12 12
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

thank you for you
January 11, 2007
denis said...

Rest in Peace, Bob! You've changed my life and you will be missed!
January 11, 2007
jaybird said...

Thank you Bob for everything. You changed my life at 18 and sixteen years later I haven't stopped. Bless you. All hail Eris.
January 11, 2007
Planet Heidi said...

Goodbye. There are so few genius/freaks left in the world. Goodbye.
January 11, 2007
J said...
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January 11, 2007
Nebt Khut Mau said...

I read Illuminatus when it first came out, in three parts, back in 73. I re-read it again every year or two.

There are few modern books or authors I admire more.

23 Skidoo, Dear Voyager!
January 11, 2007
brad77 said...

We'll miss you, Bob.
January 11, 2007
John Paul said...

Maybe there is personal immortality. If so, I hope Mr. Wilson will be so kind as to pop in when I reach the other side. If not, his was still a life with meaning.

Rest in Peace
January 11, 2007
J said...

It should be noted that RAW was not a liberal in modern sense, but an anti-statist libertarian (tho' not of the right-wing sort, true), and often critical of leftists (certainly marxists), and even of environmentalists--including vegetarians and health nazis (anti-tobacco or anti-alcohol). He was pro-NRA, wasn't he, and not a vegetarian, nor hardly a PC sort of thinker; RAW also had some not-so-pleasant words for feminists. Of course, he was no hard-core Heinleinian or Appliantologist, and yeah he didn't care for BushCo.

RAW was well read in quantum physics and Einstein, apparently (tho' perhaps a bit too willing to support fringe mysticism), and the Wizard also respected Nietzsche, Freud and Reich, semanticists, and he had read Ezra Pound and Joyce with appreciation--neither of whom were exactly liberal; and yet RAW still had a Jeffersonian aspect, along with the weirdness--and in ways the Jeffersonian aspects of his writing seem more sound than the occult or mystical. RAW was also of course not a bad satirist and comedian and yeah, pagan to his heart--not afraid to be blasphemous on occasion. Censor or wannabe Goebbels--or Cheka member (i.e. many democrats)-- he was not.

I don't enjoy all of his writings (there are some us who are not so down with the Crowley school of applied blasphemy), yet I doubt he was supportive of the little crypto-marxist rodents or teamsters commonly found scurrying about DU or Kos.

Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman; pass by!

Say hello to WB Yeats, Wizard
January 11, 2007
Alex said...

Arrivederci, a presto, Roberto Antonio figlio di Guglielmo.

Alessandro
January 11, 2007
Hippie Craque said...

Sforzando to pianissimo. Goodbye Bob and thanks for everything. Especially getting me into classical music via The Earth Will Shake. Tomorrow I will drink a pitcher of beer in your memory. Much love.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Love ya, Bob. Thanks for everything.
January 11, 2007
chuck said...

See you on the flip side, friend.
January 11, 2007
aaron! said...

Hail it all you bastard!

Long live the long lover!

FNappy trails my Erisian consort!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Robert Anton Wilson isn't really dead, he faked his own death. If you don't believe me, read Schroedinger's Cat. Robert Anton Wilson is a notorious prankster.
January 11, 2007
Adam said...

You will sorely be missed, dear brother. May you grace us again with your presence.

93/93
January 11, 2007
aaron! said...

oh yeah: i am glad that you left on the Eleventh.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

RAW mentioned on several occasions how much of a fan he was of Andy Kaufman. Prometheus Rising, Schrodinger's Cat, etc. many of his books proport an idea on the surface which are intentionally ironic/sarcastic to point out insight; perhaps this is another.
January 11, 2007
Saint Bucky said...

Praise "Bob".

And thank you, for everything that you've helped me do.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

i had only recently found mr. wilson's work, and it quickly changed my life for the better. we are poorer for his passing but he lives on in his works. all hail bob
January 11, 2007
Intruder_W said...

Thanks Uncle Bob.
Thanks for September.
I liked yours more.

I need a new big toe now.
January 11, 2007
dada said...

Sirius Rising

The world shall sing of Mary Jane
The newscasts all go daft
The goat-god's dance will dance them down
By the power of our Craft

The spell is cast. The sign appears
Of pyramid-and-eye
Old Adam's fall becomes our spring
And death itself shall die

A new star rises in the south
Prometheus is born
Fire leaps from earth to sky
On resurrection morn

All flesh shall see it in a flash
In the twinkling of an eye
A cone of power in the stars
And death itself shall die
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

I'll continue to spread your words and read your thoughts. I hope Arlen was there to guide you back to heaven :)

You will be missed, but I feel like celebrating as well.

To Bob!
January 11, 2007
Brett said...

On to a greater plane, o' pioneer, seer and kingpin of the late 20th century literati illuminati!

Your words and philosophies changed my life in oh-so-many ways.

You made your mark on the world like few have dared to.

God bless you, and the planet will miss you dearly!

-Frater H.A.H.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

the world grew duller today
but that fateful night
cold and white
reclaimed a life
whose words of provoked
introspective thoughts of life, reality, and the soul.

always searching and questioning
challenging and reflecting
with love and respect a humorous nest
the heavens opened wide
to accept your great stride
we can only hope that you find your way back to our hearts and home.
January 11, 2007
Pete said...

Bye Bob! See you in another life! Thanks for everything!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Give the white light a wedgie from me.

See you soon...
January 11, 2007
Nathan Rambukkana said...

Fare thee well old soul.
January 11, 2007
rev. roland said...

Cosmic Intelligence Agent Robert Anton Wilson, your mission is now complete. Stand-by for further instructions . . .
January 11, 2007
Mike Isenberg said...

I wish I had some fancy words to put here. But I guess it doesn't really matter. You're dead. You're probably not going to read this.

I am so sad to see you go. Couldn't you have stayed a little longer?
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

bob,
call us when you get home to let us know that you've arrived safely.
January 11, 2007
nathanielperson said...

This is the part where the wise old mentor bites it so the brash young mentees can find their own way, right? I sure hope so.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Bob. You made my tunnel a little wider and a whole lot brighter.
January 11, 2007
Spielblogger said...

Thanks for making my brain hurt (in a positive kind of way).
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Cheers Bob. Thanks for all that you've given us.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

See you later. I'll save some of my best weed for you.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

nw_sandman(russia):

thank you and farewell.
January 11, 2007
Josh said...

RIP RAW
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Our Love with you!
93 93/93

Arch 93, Moscow
January 11, 2007
Xavier said...

Our psytrance tribe wouldn't exist without you. Or more precisely, without Eris, whom I certainly would not have heard about without you.

So thanks, from all the psytrancers out there. Without you, there would be little justification for our incredibly hedonistic lifestyle!

See you later, I'm sure-
January 11, 2007
degg said...

Farewell, Uncle Bob!
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks from one Robert to another.

But I still expect you to write the fourth book. Death is no excuse.
January 11, 2007
Robin Heemstra said...

Thank you, and farewell.
January 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

I will see you, Tim and the others near the Dog Star, Brother.

Sire Liah

2
3
January 11, 2007
mike said...

Thanks for the lasagna, RIP Bob
Hail Eris, All Hail Discordia!
from France
January 11, 2007
Sandro said...

illuminatus!

ich hoffe es stoert niemanden wenn ich in meiner muttersprache schreibe.

wilson war mein ganz persoenlicher entfernter prometheus!

viel spass in der ewigkeit!!

-nodmh
January 11, 2007
KenneK said...

many thanks for everything, and a fond farewell.

fnord?
fnord.
January 11, 2007
Benjamin said...

May the fairest one welcome him.
January 11, 2007
The Purple Gooroo said...

I am sad to see you go...

Farewell to one of my very few heroes and teachers.

I hope to see you someday, chat about illuminatory concepts and have a pint of astral Guinness with you.

Thanks for everything, Bob--and rest in peace.
January 11, 2007
Curtis said...

Words cannot express the profound impact your writings have had on both myself personally and on the relatively large bits of the world that are not me.

I do not know that I have have a hero, but if I do, then you are it. I, like, so many others, am forever indebted to you for the incalculably valuable gift of an open mind.

RIP RAW - All Hail Discordia
January 11, 2007
Hunnybytes said...

Hail Eris!

Bob, I was literally speaking about you with a friend, around the time you passed from the Earthly plane. We were talking about the Golden Apple of Discord, and your name came up, no surprise.

I had just posted an article about contacting the HGA, when I saw a friend's post about your physical death, and of course, was shocked/unshocked to find the time of 11:11 on my clock.

I was honored to have met you and your lovely wife when I visited Laura Jennings years ago. You were a delightful, funny and engaging man. I especially loved the night you "spilled" the IXth Degree secret of the OTO at a magickal get-together years ago.

I remember being turned onto your "Iluminati Trilogy" by Victor Koman, and his band of Libertarians/Discordians. Ah, the good old days. I didn't know you as well as I would have liked, but of course, I have your books to re-read all over again. You will certainly be missed my old friend. I know you achieved your True Will while you were here, and I look forward to having you jump into my psychic sphere and continue to share your ageless wisdom with such a Fool as I.

Many blessings Bob, you are loved.

.'.93.'.

Voxx
January 11, 2007
Anna Fedorova said...

Good bye, Robert Anton Wilson.
Thank you very much for all you've done.
I am reading your book now. You understood this world, you re-created the reality. Thank you. Fly friendly skies.
January 12, 2007
Vladimir @ Fantastic Planet said...

As a fringe-dweller from before I ever learned about Mr. Wilson, I am sorry to hear he has moved onto the next phase.

He has left us with enough memes and mysteries to keep agitating the status quo for a long time...

-Vladimir
January 12, 2007
frater_volen said...

All Hail Eris.

Congratulations Bob, always taking fnordward steps. Spiral out, keep going.

To Bob's family: My deepest condolences, live well.
January 12, 2007
knaz said...

Farewell
January 12, 2007
knaz said...

Farewell
January 12, 2007
Nick Kick said...

Infinity Exists
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Good luck out there Robert! Your thoughts will never leave us!
January 12, 2007
meris said...

There is no death wich can eternal lie, yet within strange eons even death may die
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Good by,
And I promise I will not wistle while peeing (unless it's absolutely necessary).

Etauin Shurdlhu (we did met, did'nt we :-))
January 12, 2007
Edward B. W. Heffernan said...

23
January 12, 2007
William said...

Goodbye. Father.
January 12, 2007
Aion 131 said...

"The union of mankind with the stars is precisely forecast"

-RAW, Cosmic Trigger

Unto Nuit, O Magus Wilson!
Fly free with love & will

Your grateful younger brother in the Art

Aion 131
January 12, 2007
GMBrand said...

Goodbye good teacher.
Hope the adventure is exciting and pleasurable. Don't forget to call..
January 12, 2007
V. Greimann said...

Bob cannot die, for he will forever continue to live inside us.
January 12, 2007
22eleven said...

g-dspeed......
January 12, 2007
shaun said...

Thank you so much, I will miss you greatly..... PRAISE BOB!!!!
January 12, 2007
BK said...

good bye, bob!
January 12, 2007
Jon Bastian said...

Farewell and fnord, my friend. Let us know what happens when you meet the goddess, and what you did to her.

Hail Eris.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

that's it. fnord indeed
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Sad you had to go. But your message will stay and keep on annoying the shit out of every dogmatist on earth.
Talk about leaving a legacy.
Bye Bob,
Felix.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Schon wieder einer weniger ...

Aber die Besten müssen ja leider immer zuerst gehen!

Ruhe in Frieden!!
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, fairly well Bob.

You will be missed.
xx
January 12, 2007
pupil said...

Good luck and have fun Mr Wilson!
January 12, 2007
Sean said...

Thank you for the all the redecorating tips; they really helped beautify my reality tunnel. Farewell...
January 12, 2007
Qlippoth said...

Thank you. I will always look to your work and smile. It is always there for me when I need it and for that, thank you.
January 12, 2007
Conradino Beb said...

... then the next buddha has been reborn.
January 12, 2007
Mark said...

Have a good trip, Bob. You are one hell of a great teacher. Thanks for helping me de- and re-program the ol' biocomputer of mine, it damn sure needed some rewiring by the time I discovered "Prometheus Rising". Sharing your humor, insight, and wisdom with us were beautiful, much-appreciated gifts. People like you are rare indeed, and they are just enough to keep my faith in this fucked-up bunch of mutated apes from completely evaporating. Weird mutants like you have helped weird mutants like me make just a little bit more sense of it all. Bob, it was really good to share the ride on Earth with you, if only for a little while. You made it a lot easier to bear. Take care, Bob, I'll see you on the other side.
January 12, 2007
swami leelaa said...

Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost...
I guess it was time for you to pass on the torch to someone else, Bob. I only hope some of us will be able to take off from from where you left...

I think of you now as I look out on the non-existent winter which has left roses flowering and animals of all kinds behaving erratically.
I'll think of you as I'll be standing on the barricades of a squatted house later this spring...
As I'll be sitting with my friends on a little island with psychedelic indoles scooting around my neural pathways...
I'll come visit you in the universe next door some time...

And to all the rest of you out there: You know exactly what to do ;-)

-gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha-
Peace, love and anarchy
January 12, 2007
elmyr23 said...

Auf diesem Weg vielen Dank, Bob.

Du hast mir geholfen, "normal" aus dem Weg zu räumen und meine geistige Gesundheit zu retten.

farfalla in tempesta.

Gute Reise, Bob.
January 12, 2007
ian said...

The cleverness is unimportant.
Remember the kindness.

Thank you, Bob.
January 12, 2007
archdude said...

23 dishes of lasagna flew 5 times
fly with goddess dear Uncle Bob, please keep watching us always...
January 12, 2007
Frater Chaovsky said...

Fare thee well. All hail Discordia -><-
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Hail Eris Bob.
Have a good flight.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Farewell,

your ideas are already immortal,
an everlasting flame that illuminates our vision for the future

All hail BOB!
January 12, 2007
almutasim said...

Rest in Peace.

Thanks for all, old Bob.

ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

?T?t?p??n?y ?r ????c???y !
January 12, 2007
Brian from Ireland said...

Enjoy the next journey
May it glisten and shine
like a lighthouse to more lost
souls like it did in this one.

I wont forget this day
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

1
1
1
7

3 kings
&
a precipice

godspeed
Thanks for the light

~skindnef~
January 12, 2007
Rob said...

thank you robert

for everything

may your afterlife be as interesting as your earthly one

godspeed
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

?R???p???y?q??, ?Q???q?u????!
?T?????u??o?N???r!
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

This is really sad news. I've no idea what to say, other than thanks and well done. May Amitabha give you a leg up in the bardo.

Om Ami Deva Hri
Om Ami Deva Hri
Om Ami Deva Hri
January 12, 2007
Kuriku P. Chao said...

Thank you for not letting the door hit your ass on the way out...and the other stuff, too.

Your pal,
Kuriku P. Chao
January 12, 2007
Pavel said...

RIP RAW
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Goog bye my friend. We will see us on the other side.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

?????p???y?q??
?q???|?? ?x?t???????r??
?y ????n?p?????|?y?r??!
January 12, 2007
robin said...

robert anton wilson wird durch seine werk ewig weiterleben. danke für alles
January 12, 2007
James said...

Bob changed my life. A true hero and genius. Cheers, big man. Rest easy.
January 12, 2007
Nicholas said...

See you later.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

CU.
January 12, 2007
Marty said...

Dang, we have lost a great genuis. Godspeed where ever the next phase leads you.
January 12, 2007
Tony said...

As awesome an inspiration of positive energies in his passing as was his life.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

What an inspiration you are, sad for me, excited for you and your new journey. Ave Atque Vale.
January 12, 2007
bby said...

thanks, good bye and "see ya".
January 12, 2007
Fred said...

The worst feeling is that I never got to meet the hero himself. Though, assuredly, I will always know, love and visit him in his legacy of amazing, brilliant works.

Cheers, Bob. We will be far less awake with you gone.

Hail Eris, Hail Bob, Hail Discordia.

93 and Love.
January 12, 2007
Anton said...

Good by, i-man!
January 12, 2007
tom said...

When Bob died on 1/11, Albert Hofmann became 101 ..! See you, Bob
January 12, 2007
Seti I Shadim said...

Goodbye Bob. I hope you find everything as absurd on that side as it is on this side. Your books have always been my companions. Thank you for everything.

23 Skidoo,

Seti
January 12, 2007
f(A)b said...

Thank you for EVERYTHING

23232
5

Viva Discordia!
January 12, 2007
anton said...

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?R??n?p?????|?y?r???s?? ????c???y!
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?P???{?p
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Hey Bob,

Hope this gets to you on some level..

Thank-you for your vision & inspiration & words & jokes. I was only thinking 2 days ago I really should get round to writing to you, to express all you have brought to my life.
2 Christmasses running I have bought & distributed "the Illuminatus Trilogy" to my 'discerning' friends..
Have a great journey & see you again one day.
and humility is endless.
Hail Eris
Dave the Hat
January 12, 2007
Francois Olivier said...

Thanks for all the signals.
Fare Thee Well.
January 12, 2007
Κοκκινο Μπαλονι said...

I am sad and joyous at the same time.
Farewell RAW.
K.
January 12, 2007
Lobo Di Noccento said...

Hail Chaos
Hail Eris
Hail Erebus
Hail The Christian Eating Werewolves in Paris
Hail The Vampires
Hail The Shin LayLee Miru
Hail Bob The ArchPapalProphet of Discord through and, through
January 12, 2007
Kal said...

Bob made me laugh, made me cry, but above all he made me think.

I can imagine no greater compliment.

So long, Bob.
January 12, 2007
peneloops said...

RIP...
nothing is real everything is allowed

Come back SoOn ...

Hail ERIS 23.
January 12, 2007
jacob said...

thank you. i hope to see you on the flip-flop.

Fnord!
January 12, 2007
Ian Shuttleworth said...

I'm profoundly saddened by this news. I'd always hoped that he'd hang on for longer. I just feel it fundamentally wrong of the human race not to have fulfilled his predictions of over two decades ago that life extension would by now have been implemented in such a way that he might never need to bugger off like this.

Illuminatus! was published in Britain when I was 14, and was the start of a so-far-lifelong fascination with Bob's writing and thinking. Yeah, I know it's boring, but I'm one more of that gibbering horde testifying that the man changed my life.

I feel privileged to have interviewed him in Ireland back in '86, ostensibly for my degree dissertation on Joyce but basically because I wanted to meet him! I shall reframe forthwith his pope-letter to me.

Open the soap duckets, Bob. Unify the forces. And keep reporting back, OK?
January 12, 2007
waterhole said...

fair-thee-well
January 12, 2007
Thorben said...

i happend to finish "Schroedingers Cat Trilogy" just the day you died. I had been reading in it unregularly for about half a year

perhaps there are fluctuations in the random void after all :-)
January 12, 2007
alizard said...

well, you're finally reunited with Arlen and Luna. . . knowing that limits the amount of grief I can feel about this.

I wish I'd been able to spend more time learning from you in this life. . . see you, Arlen, and Luna on the other side.

93. . .
January 12, 2007
Sparky said...

"Listen to my last words anywhere. Listen to my last words any world. Listen all you board syndicates and governments of the earth. And you powers behind what filth deals consummated in what lavatory to take what is not yours. To sell the ground from unborn feet forever --
'Don't let them see us. Don't tell them what we are doing --'
Are these the words of the all-powerful boards and syndicates of the earth?
'For God's sake don't let that Coca-Cola thing out --'
'Not The Cancer Deal with The Venusians --'
'Not The Grean Deal -- Don't show them that --'
'Not The Orgasm Death --'
'Not the ovens --'
Listen: I call you all. Show your cards all players. Pay it all pay it all pay it all back. Play it all pay it all play it all back. For all to see. In Times Square. In Picadilly.
'Premature. Premature. Give us a little more time.'
Time for what? More lies? Premature? Premature for who? I say to all these words are premature. These words may be to late. Minutes to go. Minutes to foe goal --
'Top Secret -- Classified -- For The Board -- The Elite -- The Initiates --'"

End transmission. 23. Eris. The spinning spiral chaos of the galactic core around the corner in your very own neighborhood.

Au revoir, Monsieur Wilson.
January 12, 2007
Micha said...

Rest in Peace and farewell, Robert!

Du bist/warst einer der größten Autoren die ich kenne. Illuminatus! und Schödingers Katze werden nie in Vergessenheit geraten und damit auch du.

Hail Eris!
January 12, 2007
pookzilla said...

You helped steer my life in entirely new directions as a teenager. I wouldn't be the person I am now without your influence.

Toodles.
January 12, 2007
Alex said...

Beautiful mind dissolves in a beautiful universe...
January 12, 2007
A said...

i know its particularly infantile / emotional circuit behaviour....
but i cant stop crying ....
you will be so greatly missed....

love always.... thank you for 'freeing' me from my self
and acting like a constant source of inspiration in times of hardship ...
ALL hail eris ...
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Addio. La tua vita ci ha illuminato molto.

---Humano
January 12, 2007
Tweek said...

"Der Mensch ist erst wirklich tot, wenn niemand mehr an ihn denkt."
(Berthold Brecht)

Rest in Peace, all hail discordia!
January 12, 2007
Rev. Kevin said...

Goodbye Bob. I will never forget the joy your work brought me.

Hail Eris!

Praise Bob!
January 12, 2007
pbg said...

Dear Bob:
Glad to see you got away with it.
Hail Eris.
January 12, 2007
Rev. Kevin said...

How can you be far if we can think of you?
January 12, 2007
Murray Hamilton said...

Fare Thee Well, Mr Wilson!

If Alan Watts' philosophy on Death is as close as anything else to the 'Truth', then, Hey! It's all gonna work out just fine!

What an incredible Legacy you've left us! May many more 'pygmies' discover your works and become GIANTS!
January 12, 2007
catsgrin said...

Love and Peace

Thank you from my heart for your presence and all your works.

Ps you're determined to make me think for myself.
January 12, 2007
Stranger in a strange land said...

Goodbye, wherever you go. You taught me that live can seem stranger than fiction.
Among other things.
Thank you for this! You appeared to be a mind that was ahead of his time.

Or should rather be said that your fellows either unable or unwilling to catch up with you?

"A feast of life and a Greater feast for death!"

We will challenge the TSOG wherever we live!
January 12, 2007
Joaquin Struss said...

Farewell Bob
Alone the thought that you were there was a good thought.
And I feel a bit lonely now.
Now it is on us to show what we have learned from you.
January 12, 2007
ChairMan said...

Very sad - a great great man.

Peace...
January 12, 2007
Foobario said...

Robert Anton Wilson was 3 or 4 of the most interesting people I have ever met.

With Bob as my guide I drank the koolaid, saw the fnords, and nuzzled the tentacular maw of great Cthulhu.

Thanks for everything, Bob. Fare thee well.

COME, UNIVERSE, AND HAVE A KICK IN THE YARBLES... IF YOU HAVE ANY YARBLES.
January 12, 2007
trigger said...

Farwell Mr. Wilson. All the best at the other side. Let us know.

Goodbye...

trigger
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thank you for all the incredible writings and thought you gave us during your time here...you will be missed.

John Ludi
January 12, 2007
Joe said...

journey well bob, you will be missed and remembered always
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Here you go. Greeting to whoever you are going to meet next.
January 12, 2007
AnnedeCroix said...

Hello There....

Bit of a huge hole there now left to fill.

Thoughts to Bob's friends and family.

xxx
January 12, 2007
pascal said...

Bob your books will continue changing the world to the better. Bye
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

hail bob !!!
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Oh yeah, and Asta la Pasta Baby.......
January 12, 2007
octo said...
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January 12, 2007
octo said...

Até a próxima vida,mestre dos magos...

23!!!
January 12, 2007
Anne said...

Goodbye and thanks.
The world would have been a duller place without you and I might still have been stuck in an unsuitable reality tunnel!

cheers Bob!
x
January 12, 2007
ibsorath said...

Happy trip to the Western Lands, dear Bob. Why not?
January 12, 2007
Al said...
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January 12, 2007
Al said...

When I heard the news today I was sad. And, when I mentioned RAW's passing to my co-workers and they didn't know who he was I was dissappointed. But, when I came here and saw how many people have left comments I felt that there is hope for the world.

RAW woke me from the illusions of society, through his words, and to his credit, by explaining the words and works of others.

Thank you, Uncle Bob.
January 12, 2007
FOD T2 said...

Goodbye, Mr. Wilson. Thanks for everything.
January 12, 2007
Knecht said...

Gute Reise!
January 12, 2007
erinni said...

Thanks for waking me up.
I'll never forget!
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Rest in Peace!

I'm so sad... :-(
January 12, 2007
Isabel said...

Thank you for all you gave - beautiful spirit.

Best wishes from Denmark,
Isabel
January 12, 2007
jon said...

To a great author and a huge influence. All hail Eris!
January 12, 2007
Alexander Heaton said...

Farewell Bob, you have influenced my life in ways unimaginable and freed my mind to soar where eagles dare. I shed tears of joy for the laughter, insights and enlightenment you have given me and others and for the many yet to discover your works.

And so in death we have the ledged. Go get um Wilson!
January 12, 2007
Mr. Burke said...

Goodbye, farewell and FNORD
January 12, 2007
Jason said...

Hopefully it's nice on the other side. Peace, Bob.
January 12, 2007
Otto Lehto said...

For Bob:

Light has brought you near,
Love has kept you here,
Truth has set you free
&
23
.

R.I.P.
January 12, 2007
osirisrisen said...

I'm actually sad. I suppose it was bound to happen.
I would like to thank him for his sincerity. He was a good writer but more so a compiler of others writings and thoughts. He did like the rest and complied them and added to them, then gave them to us.
He was a great philosopher, I feel lucky to have been exposed to his writings and thoughts.

Peace, you will live forever.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

93! May the pyramids shelter you
January 12, 2007
TJakab said...

Farewell and thank you!

Hail Eris!
January 12, 2007
Selfs Layer and his pals Neat Freak and Duster said...

Bob, even though I respect you dearly and cherish the laughter you may posthumously bring to us all midst the wafty vapors of your last decent meal, I choose not to post a comment to a dead man because I would feel stupid.. Oh, wait...
January 12, 2007
Kaptein Sinnsfrisk said...

Have a good trip! Don`t be a stranger, man.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Remember you can't make Past(a) in the future. Glod Loves you. Thanks for making us better Men and Women. D>M>
January 12, 2007
Louis said...

Blessings on your journey Bob.

And for all you number crunchers:

= January 1, 2007
= 1112007
= 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 7 + 10 + 10 (0 = 10)
= 3 + 9 + 10 + 10
= 12 + 20
= 32

Look in the mirror... 23 skidoo!

All Hail Eris!

Blessings and good tidings,

Louis
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

good.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

farewell...
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

farewell...
January 12, 2007
travis said...

Goodbye, Bob. You seemed like a very kind man. I'll miss you, always.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

See yous around Bob. Looking forward to our sharing a good chuckle in some odd place about something silly some sadly locked-in human said, and probably even believed, oy.

Cheers!

The Occasionally Venerable MarsPoet
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

I can say, without hesitation, that I would not be the person I am today if you had never existed. Thank you!

-Larry
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

RAW, you were my favorite writer.

Here's to Bob. Skoal!

An hour-long MP3 interview with RAW from enlightenment.com:

http://tinyurl.com/c48ax
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Beware the regresses as you seek the brighter lights of higher planes! Thanks for influencing my shambling mound of sub-atomic parts. All things are interconnected.
January 12, 2007
Sketchmonkey said...

Bob exits stage right, while folks like Cheney stay past their due. Something ain't right about that... but so it goes.

I'd say that you'll be missed, but you'll always be a part of us.

Always.

Still gonna miss ya though. :(

Thank you from my head & heart.
January 12, 2007
Josh said...

To those who are suriviving Bob, my deepest condolences. As readers, we had a conceptualized, idealized wise old (sometimes dirty) uncle who taught us how we might think for ourselves, and that maybe people who tell you how to think could be full of bullshit. As such, we "loved" a half-imaginary figure that probably resembled the guy you actually loved.

I know that I feel an awful pang, knowing that my phantom impression of this man (if you will) isn't around in the world-- I can only imagine the cold knife it must be for you. And also the relief, I suppose, to know that he is no longer suffering any pain, and seemed content and OK with dying.

Please know that your Bob was so very cherished by so many people who never even met him. That's a rare feat.

Be well and celebrate him as well as mourn.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

farewell

Die Nihilistische Anarchistenhorde (NAH)

Elbedigital
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

good bye. and thanks for all your books. I enjoyed them all very much.
SANFU
January 12, 2007
SchwarzeOrangen said...

Farewell Bob.

I´ve never had the chance to meet you, but we´ll meet after the circus. I pray to Eris that I will be such a piously, heroic and believing discordian as you have been all your life.

We will give you the honors you deserve!

HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!
January 12, 2007
Luposapien said...

I've never left a comment on this site before. I swear, by whatever it is that agnostics swear by, that I had a dream just before waking on 01/11 (roughly 5am CST), where I was having a conversation with Bob (the details of which I'm straining to remember now). I never met or spoke with him in the waking world, and never before in my dreams.

His writings always had a profound resonance with my own thoughts.

Farewell, til next time...
January 12, 2007
Elemento said...

Thanks Bob for doing everything you did.
January 12, 2007
Mike said...

We will always love, Mr. Robert Anton Wilson ...
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

You were once wild here, don't let them tame you.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

See ya later, Bob - CIAO & CHAO
January 12, 2007
myke said...

thanks for stopping by and writing such amazing stuff.
January 12, 2007
josh said...

Be Well Bob

You helped to open my third eye, pointed me in the right direction to remove much pain in my life. your humor, wit, writings and rants will never be forgotten.

Thank You

Be Seeing You
January 12, 2007
Ibisis said...

Thanks for being as excellent as you are Bob. Many people were Illumined by your work, myself among them. Cheers to you, you scallywag...
-Ibisis
January 12, 2007
Mary and the Widow's Son said...

So long and thanks for all the books. And ideas. And entertainment. Fnord.

— The Widow's Son
January 12, 2007
So-Called Austin Mayor said...

RAW,

Although we've never met, without your inspiration, this particular fictional character would never have considered taking an active role in the consensual universe.

Thanks for giving me the vision to take a step into "reality".

See ya when I see ya.

your fictional grandchild,
-- So-Called "Austin Mayor"
January 12, 2007
Markoff Chaney said...

A way a lone a last a loved a
long the
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Ram Ram! Kind soul. Peace.
January 12, 2007
Walter Five said...

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Unto Robert Anton Wilson and unto them from whose eyes the veil of
life hath fallen may there be granted the accomplishment of their true
Wills; whether they will absorption in the Infinite, or to be united
with their 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 them may there
be granted the accomplishment of their wills; yea, the accomplishment
of their wills.

See you on the Other Side, Bob.

Love is the law, love under will.
January 12, 2007
Camron said...

To a great mind and a great visionary... Have a safe journey. See you there when I can make it!
January 12, 2007
Eric said...

Lieber Bob,

Ich bin traurig. Aber deine Ideen hast du gut gesät.
Ich hoffe du ruhest in frieden..Schöner wäre es, du kämst zurück und würdest mit deinen Augen den Realitätstunnel "Jenseits" beschreiben...

Hail
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Goodbye Bob, the light you brought to us will never disappear.
January 12, 2007
rihahn said...

(salute)

Thanks for everything.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

You changed my life, farewell Bob
January 12, 2007
maarten said...

My condolences.

I hope things worked out for you.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Godspeed... be seeing you around...
January 12, 2007
Liam Johnson said...

Heyl Bob !
I know you're dead
But you live on
Deep in my head
And in the books
On my shelf
Providing me
With mental wealth
For free I add
Be free I say
The answers easy
To bob I pray
OH great modest boB
You're now a star
Born elsewhere
The door is a jar
The window's open
The spirit is free
This is represented
With twentythree
A real number
That does not exist
In which contains
The final twist
Hail Eris, Hail Ceasar
Hail, sleet and snow
Oh RAW you're a legend
Thank you and bye.

Yeah so anyway, that's for the dead bloke.. nice one for everything... almost everything I think and do has been influenced by this or the other Bob so I bow and fart simultaneously as I say goodbye.

Liam Johnson (from Ingoland)
___________
THIS GAME IS DEDICATED TO ALL ILLEGAL HEROES
vote PARTY party !
_______
23ES
___
January 12, 2007
Euronymous said...

see you soon...

Ewige Blumenkraft
January 12, 2007
P Killelea said...

you will be missed. we all love you so much and appreciate the wisdom you leave behind. fnord.
January 12, 2007
Yada Yada Dada said...

You helped warp my mind forever, and for that I will always remember you fondly....

Nothing Lasts!
January 12, 2007
jk said...

catch you on the flipside brother.
fnord4life4ever
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well.

Thanks for beeing with us, all the best to you and your loved ones. Condolences to your family.

Hail Eris.

Moritz
Marburg, Germany
January 12, 2007
Zen Cosmo said...

Holy

Crap.

I feel a strange mixture of sadness and joy. One of the greatest Humans has left us...Luck Bastard!

Send us a postcard Bob!
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Bob,

I had the pleasure of meeting you years ago, and helping you get to the other side of a bottle of Jameson. Your wisdom and Celine's Laws provided the basis for my ability to giggle at the stupidity of the naked baboons who think they run this world. The world is a big and funny place, but not quite as big and funny today. You will be missed.

Safe Journey, Bob1.

From Bob2
January 12, 2007
Al Scandar said...

Viva Bob!

Nos vemos fora do palco espaço-temporal rapaz...

Ni! :)

(for those lacking a babelfish: See you beyond the space-time stage pal...)
January 12, 2007
Xtel Davies said...

Call me on my thrid eye phone if you need some contraband smuggled into the Western Lands. The fnords are tossing down quarters in the land of the dead, leeding to a tree house mansion. The keys are under the mat. The landlord is being punished for his greed back here, and can't help but pay you every month in magick coins, also he must do what you tell him to, although he may still be rather confused at this point. Spontenous combustions are really the most disorienting death.

Hail Eris!
January 12, 2007
ferdinando said...

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

SEE YOU IN HELL MY DEAR!!!
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

the eyes of many were opened by the mind of one and nothing can replace this..

we must all carry on the fight and challenge everything!!!!
January 12, 2007
Toby said...

So Long, Bob!

and yet, too short a time...

All the best!

Hail Eris!
January 12, 2007
agent z said...

fare well, il miglior fabbro; i can think of no man who has so thoroughly proven himself not to be a cabbage or something, nor can i recall another who did more to awaken my own slumbering mind (and those of so many of our brethren). you answered your calling with honor and skill; may our future works be a humble tribute to your contributions.

shantih, shantih, shantih, and 23-skidoo!
January 12, 2007
Dave said...

I will do what I can to "keep the lasagna flying" although as yet I have only the slightest idea what that might mean.

I'm glad to see so many intend to carry on your work - optimism seems very precious just now.

I hope there's a clever, funny afterlife - you deserve one.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

At last I can read the Illuminatus Trilogy, and look forward to many a conversation with you via the medium of the mass-unconcious. Keep up the good work.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Gracias R.A.W.,

con Amor desde España.
January 12, 2007
morganfaulkner said...

Ring my friend I said you’d call Doctor Robert,
Day or night he’ll be there anytime at all,
Doctor Robert,
Doctor Robert, you’re a new and better man,
He helps you to understand,
He does ev’rything he can, Doctor Robert.
If you are down he’ll pick you up, Doctor Robert,
Take a drink from his special cup, Doctor Robert,
Doctor Robert, he’s a man you must believe,
Helping ev’ry one in need,
No-one can succeed like Doctor Robert.
Well, well, well, you’re feeling fine,
Well, well, well, he’ll make you, Doctor Robert.
My friend works with the National Health,
Doctor Robert,
Don’t pay money just to see yourself with
Doctor Robert,
Doctor Robert, you’re a new and better man,
He helps you to understand,
He does ev’rything he can, Doctor Robert.
Well, well, well, you’re feeling fine,
Well, well, well, he’ll make you Doctor Robert.
Ring my friend I said you’d call
Doctor Robert."

The Beatles

I'm going to miss you Bob.
January 12, 2007
Gordon said...

Sleep well, Bob. You are already missed. Please hurry back.
January 12, 2007
Pax said...

RAW,

I'm 26 now, and over a decade ago my dad gave me The Illuminatus! Trilogy to read. Since then, I've given it to more people than I can remember. I've found nothing to be a more powerful solvent for washing fnord away the walls and arbitrary boundaries of the reality everyone seems to be trying to buy into.
Since then, Cosmic Trigger and Prometheus Rising have even more pushed me into weirder and weirder realms and helped make me into a very strange person.
Thank you, Bob. I can't tell you how much.
January 12, 2007
MadMacNab said...

What can I possibly say about Bob that has not been duly noted? His sheer luminous brilliance mixed with wild, high humor not only confirmed some of my more esoteric suspicions but also my dedication to the whole Merry Prankster ethic..."Blow thier minds, kids, and make 'em THINK!" Which of course fit in perfectly with Discordianism once I found out about that.
Bob's words flipped switches in my software that will never be turned off. All of us who were blessed by his laughing wisdom will carry it for the rest of our lives, and the ripples created by the metaphorical rocks he threw will continue to dance across the water of life and far into the future.
Nobody on this Earth ever fucked with my head in a more delightful way. Thank You, Bob. Come back and visit anytime!
In Happy Sadness,
Jeffrey the XXIII MacNab
Pyrate Rebublic of Erisia
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

R A Wilson died
And intelligent men thought
is wisom eternal?
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

R A Wilson died
And intelligent men thought
is wisdom eternal?
January 12, 2007
Chritian M. 'Seraphyn' Grube said...

Condolence to his family and thanks for the good times i spend with your books. Hope you'll havin some good times now, some better ...
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks for making all those Schmucks think for themselves!

Nice that "Robert Anton Wilson ..leaves his body" was posted by Robert Anton Wilson himself.

We'll pass your influence on to the next generation.
January 12, 2007
Schol-R-LEA;2 said...

Farewell, Bob, and know that of all the performers in our current Circus, you are the one whose act pleased many of us the most. We await your return in a new season and a new act, invigorated by your latest return to the Great Winter Encampment, and hope to hear from your new you soon.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

I found you too late, or I discovered you just in time.

rougy
January 12, 2007
Michael said...

Hail Discordia! A Great One has left this world.
January 12, 2007
Mistic said...

Bedzie nam Cie brakowa?o...... ;(
January 12, 2007
Ibrahim Cesar said...

23 Skidoo!

We're all live forever!
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

thanks for everything. anything. nothing. let me know how the story ends if you get a chance.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks for all the books, that drove me in/sane, you'll be missed, may your loved ones find comfort in their memories, or your books if they've never met you in person. I wish I had had an opportunity to see one of your lectures. Thanks for taking certainty out of my life and opening my eyes to probability, much more fun.
January 12, 2007
Erik Davis said...

See you later, Bob. Should you check back in, make sure to keep grinning. Joy to you.
January 12, 2007
Matt said...

We miss you already, Bob. Fnord.
January 12, 2007
manu said...

Gute Reise & vielen Dank für alles! ;)

/Manu
January 12, 2007
Alex said...

Later, Bob!
January 12, 2007
Mark said...

"And to think, I hesitated..."

I deeply regret that it took so long for me to overcome the rigidity of my own reality tunnel to begin exploring the fountain of your wisdom.

I join the rest of your fans in "missing you already." My only resistance to your passing is that you left me behind.

Rest in Chaos, my brother.

Mark Anthony Reviea
January 12, 2007
Kristopher said...

And the apple rolls out onto the ground ....
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

when I´m dead my dearest sing no sad songs for me. Plant no roses at my head nor shady cypress tree. Be there wild grass above me and dew drops wet; and if thou wilt remember, and if thou wilt forget. - Lord Byron

Farwell & Thank you
January 12, 2007
TDB said...

You will be sorely missed. I knew you in the last life and loved you in this one. God-speed your return as another mad prophet to save this crazy fucked planet from eating itself.

T
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Catch u on the flipside... ;)
January 12, 2007
Kenneth said...
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January 12, 2007
Kenneth said...

Addio Bob. Thank you for continually turning me around until I seem to have become utterly confused - and clear.
January 12, 2007
Mondo Brutto said...

We will miss you, Master!
January 12, 2007
Tim Lesher said...

Thank you, RAW.
January 12, 2007
Jason said...

Got the news Today (12th). When I heard the man was sick, I decided to read The Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy. On the 11th, I put the book down after these words:

"Starhawk moved quickly to a new perch. Carefully, he pulled up his trouser leg, tore the adhesive tape, and took a pistol from his calf. He was not smiling now."

First words read on the 12th were:

"Cheese"(Chapter heading)"Robert Pearson said "Shee-it" in a tone of profound skepticism."

Keep that skeptic eye open all the way to the Source, Bob. I'll keep reading to see what you find when you get there.
January 12, 2007
T.S. said...

Thanx for all the inspiration!!!
Hope that you´ll release some of your wisdom from wherever you are now - and let it seep into our "collective" conciousness!
Another star, another god, in my universe!
Say hello to John B.!
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

I wonder if my handwritten copy of Principia Discordia is finally worth anything!
January 12, 2007
Bokonon Deemax said...

Happy adventuring in the new now! Come back and see us sometime.
January 12, 2007
Douglas said...

Goodbye, and thank you for helping me see the world in a larger, stranger way.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

I... wish I knew what to say. I only hope that, when Concordia comes for me, I am so blessed as to look at Her and smile.

Come back as a hotdog. Please.
January 12, 2007
Kel Gleason said...

hail eris!! all hail dicordia!!!

rest in chaos, RAW!! you are truly my hero, my courtless king and my inspiration.

you will be missed, and you will be found...

more light!!!!!!
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

hooray for bob! from all the little stars and beans.!
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Rob Wilson, Ontological Anarchist, Pineal Massage Therapist, Professional Mind-Fucker, Eris's personal Cabana Boy, Cosmic Trigger-Happy Harlequin Sage, and the single greatest and most important influence on my own and others' thinking.

Join Huxley, Joyce, Burroughs and the rest of the Cosmic Prankster Brigade at Coincidence Control Central. We'll meet you on the porch of Chapel Perilous at high noon to discuss quantum physics, E-Prime and Finnegan's Wake for 23 eternities over a warm plate of alien pancakes.

I love you Rob. I can't say enough. Thank you for teaching us how to pull the Cosmic Trigger; may we use it to shoot down dogma, intolerance and our own shabby egos.

You will be dearly missed.

PF
January 12, 2007
nevlik said...

Shit.

When I buy Apple products, family members die. This has been documented.

Apparently, when I buy game consoles, my favorite authors die.

So long, and thanks.
January 12, 2007
Ben said...

When you get to heaven Kick out the Jams! Overthrow that bloody Monarchy they've got going on up there. ;)

All Hail Eris! All Hail RAW!
January 12, 2007
WBS said...

I had hoped you were really a robot replicant.
January 12, 2007
M Shirley said...

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

Peaceful journey, dear cosmic jester...
January 12, 2007
Lance said...

It is your kindness that remains. I love you.
January 12, 2007
Markoff said...

I'm sitting here at my desk at work crying. They're mostly happy tears though. Resquiescat in pace, Mr. Wilson. You had a profound effect on my life.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

I'm going to miss you.
January 12, 2007
Ryan JackSIN said...

Thank you so much for everything. You will be deeply, deeply missed.
January 12, 2007
jamie in asheville said...

the most influential person in my life. take it easy and farewell.

hail eris

all hail discordia

thank you
January 12, 2007
hoopla said...

Thanks.

GK - Glasgow, Scotland
January 12, 2007
Nick said...

In case you're getting the internet wherever you are - I'll miss you. Oh yeah, and if you are getting this, please write one final blog post so we know in advance what it's like.

Later Bob.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

FNORD! rendezvous at Quaranc!
January 12, 2007
paul said...

Best teacher i ever had, thank you. The world has a chance when it contains people of your humanity.
January 12, 2007
J said...

After reading and being deeply affected by his books, I got to photograph him speaking. THe photo came out particularly well, and I always wanted to send him a picture of this. Didn't know him enough to just send it to him.

Heard he was having trouble with his medical bills, and didn't get around to kicking in for that either.

Now I'll the picture and a donation to his family, of what little I can afford, and hope all can be well and we can cherish what a light he was, and that I can remember to keep doing things *now* and not *someday*.

Hail Eris, Hail Discordia, Hail Bob Wilson.
January 12, 2007
K said...

as a broken gourd in outer orbit,
i expect you will be shooting on by here any moment. You are welcome to inhabit me for a while. I just dusted the furniture.
Freedom is where you find it, then you realize you fnord.

hhe,
meatboy
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

goodbye, old guy. you performed your Work with grace, aplomb and style. thank you.
January 12, 2007
Aaron said...

Goodbye, and thank you.
January 12, 2007
Anton said...

I was named in honor of you, and am told I met you when I was only a few months old.

I wish I'd had the chance to meet you again while we were both capable of conversation.

Good journey, the father I never had.
January 12, 2007
James Killus said...

'Bye Bob. We loved your act as well.
January 12, 2007
Acrillic said...

LI SAO!

Now go out and have fun like he'd want you to!

Fly Agaric 23
January 12, 2007
Sister SpiderFarmer said...

Much shall your passing be celebrated. Not with tears and sadness...although we may feel them, but with laughter and frop and Subgeni and sex. For your exit from this plane should inspire as much fun as your living in it did.

Fnord, my chaotic mentor, fnord.
January 12, 2007
Zell said...

Thanks RAW!!! You won't be forgotten!!
January 12, 2007
pope oliver zimovah said...

Thank you Bob for being one of the most amazing minds to find existence in this world.
Hail Discordia!
January 12, 2007
tor said...

love you bob
January 12, 2007
Justin said...

Thank You
January 12, 2007
Buho said...

Hasta luego AMIGO.
Creeme, tus libros me han ayudado mucho...
Buen Viaje y disfrutalo con Alegría!!!
January 12, 2007
Frater Scarabaeus said...

93!
Robert showed that through adversity and believing in yourself and your HGA there is a point to existence. He radiated warmth, humour and intelligence! If we do the same he'd be proud. Let go of everything you KNOW and be open to the next moment...
93, 93/93.
January 12, 2007
John said...

Goodbye Mr. Wilson. You blew my mind at exactly the right time.

Thanks again for all the fnord.

John Michael Snook
http://planetsnook.com/
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

it sucks living in a world full of idiots when you are attempting to no longer be one so thanks for being a constant reminder that i am not alone. ditto all the other posters here.
January 12, 2007
Kevin Bart said...

Dear Bob:

I miss you already. I feel as though a piece of my own past has disappeared.

In terms of cosmic time, we'll all of us see you again before too long.

Peace,
Kevin Bart
January 12, 2007
Joe Erjavec said...

We'll miss you in this plane. Thank you.
January 12, 2007
KalithAlur'sMaster said...

We've eternally damned a soul, request help overcoming this stupidity we've performed!

As you have died, Bob Wilson, may your soul be safe and live on.

This is the desperate plea of a slave master: I want to be caught. I'm screaming at everybody, I'm enslaving this man!!! Don't interrogate him. I rape this guy, I torture him, he literally has no freedom, no method whatsoever of trascending this treatment on his own, and we have no hard evidence he's ever committed any crime in his entire life!

Hanover, Virginia. 23116 Mechanicsville, Va, 10426 Malboro Rd.

leaving richmond on 301, drive past the Atlee Library the Foodlion & a small rescue station with a medium divide quasitraffic light, take the first left turn at the next (real) traffic light, then a right turn at the train tracks onto malboro rd
January 12, 2007
LabThug said...

Digg has a story about this in the upcoming pipeline. It would be nice if you could help this make the front page.

http://digg.com/world_news/Robert_Anton_Wilson_1932_2007

Hail Eris!
January 12, 2007
Mr. M said...

Earlier today I recieved a txt msg from my dear cohort and associate PF, while I was in biology [the science of life] that ol' Bobby Wilson had passed. I must say that it is encouraging to know that one man can positively influence so many people. You are a star, bob. I'd suggested travelling to see you a month or so back, but didn't have the funds. I knew you'd be leaving us soon, but didn't expect it to be quite this soon. Know that you are joining the ranks of angels and bodhisattvas and that some of us who thought of you as a central figure in our personal mythologies will be placing our pen where yours left off. With so many stupid schmucks in the world, it is truly sad to lose a rational intellectual such as yourself. I'm glad that you and your wife are reunited at last. All the best.

Mr. M
January 12, 2007
Jabin said...

I heard you cry from overseas
Into the night as black as ink
In hopes to conquer your disease
Abandon ship, before it sinks
I felt the fear rise in your soul
A scream so loud for all to hear
Uneasy hearts together hold
A fascination to deep to bear.

PS:
May your journey be safe
May your spirit soar high
May your influence reighn
May your words never die
In this maddening exsistance
Your love for discord
Your eternal persistance
forever FNORD

Peace out Bob
see you in the next life!

Jesse
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

best mindfuck i ever had.
January 12, 2007
Dan said...

yep, thats beautiful.
January 12, 2007
pjt said...

Damn
One of the last great voices in the Wilderness is no more
It was a great trip
And you left the world better than you found it
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
And farewell old friend
January 12, 2007
Marvin Sielenkemper said...

Thank you and farewell.
January 12, 2007
Matt Jenny said...

RIP :-(
January 12, 2007
psychopath23 said...

Thank you for everything, Robert. :-)
January 12, 2007
Markoff Chaney said...

Enjoy the Steinemjob from Eris

thanks for taking all the "IS" with you!

Have fun with the quantum superposition and showing us how to get from here to there...
January 12, 2007
chicomarx said...

Good bye Bob,
and give the goddess a kiss, I'm sure we'll meet someday, somewhere.
You gave us so much. We'll never forget you.

all hail Eris!
January 12, 2007
Davide Simonetti said...

Farewell, and thanks for so much humour and inspiration.
January 12, 2007
Mike Didj said...

Thank you Bob!!
January 12, 2007
Callum said...

Laters!
January 12, 2007
X said...

Oh Bob - Will miss you so much. Hope Tim and Bob Shea and Kerry T were all on hand to meet you when you crossed over.
You rocked my world.
What is remembered, lives!
January 12, 2007
Isispriest said...

I met you at a workshop in Vancouver, BC 15yrs ago. I still use the "un-grounding" visualization meditation you shared with my groups. May we meet again.
January 12, 2007
BLK Hobb said...

Nerdy kid in a mining town gets intrigued by the 'eye in the pyramid' stuff. Downloads RAW into his head (book by book). Now after a decade of protest marchs, mediatation, acid trips, magic rituals, philosophy classes (where I'm the f**king teacher), movies, comic books, Fortean Times, science, evolution, computers, economics ect.... I can honestly say :
You were the mentor who brought me to the gates of Castle Perilous, smiled, and said: "See you on the other side! Hail Eris!"

Alot of us here can say this. You gave us the courage and example to be the humans we are now. And we are Legion. Even in the darkest recesses of the Black Iron Prison your star shone bright.

Saw you at Disinfo. You couldn't seem to feel all the love in the audience for you. I hope you knew it before the biology gave out. It's still pouring out to you right now.

Mammal Pride! Intelligence! Empathy! Imagination!

-DRONF- Hail Eris! -DRONF-
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

You are one of my life Heros

Allen Sligar
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks for everything, St. Robert.

-Pope Ourri XLII
January 12, 2007
Matt said...

Thanks for the kicks, they'll probably spiral endlessly to oblivion. As for everything else, I think it's about to holy rolly over!

Goodluck, farwell and HELLO!
January 12, 2007
Matt said...

Well thanks for the kicks they've been an incredible help! as for the journey (if there is one) good luck! I have a strange feeling it's all about to wholly rolly over. Blessings old chap!
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Your writings have taught me to look behind everyday "reality" and to abandon the concepts of true and false, subject and object, good and bad...

You have given me so much!

Farewell!
January 12, 2007
darkrond said...

thank you for your great works.
enjoy your flight.
c u l8er.
fnord.
January 12, 2007
Vistachiri said...

I hope all those you've inspired over the years, all those you made open their eyes for the first time live up to your hopes.

Say hi to Eris for me, and tell her we'll take good care of her apple.

Goodbye my friend, the world becomes a little darker at your passing.
January 12, 2007
Trance-formation said...

Have fun Bob
January 12, 2007
lee said...

See you on the other side.
January 12, 2007
ivymoon said...

Fare thee well, Bob. :) Thanks for everything.
January 12, 2007
Jake said...

I've tried writing 4 posts already, and nothing seems to sound right. How exactly do you say goodbye to a mentor, father, and the best bobdamn mindfucker to enter a reality tunnel ever?

Thank you for all you've meant to the Terrans on the 3rd furthest planet from another non-descript star near the outskirts of the Milky Way Galaxy. Every time I notice a synchronicity from here on, I'll know you're the one manning the Coincidence Generator...

Tell Tim and Hunter to get us a table at the pub and we'll meet up for drinks, time and date to be decided.
January 12, 2007
Stix said...

HAIL BOB!

Man...what a dude.

I got sober and read the book Alcoholics Anonymous, and, The Illuminatus Trilogy!.

One book saved me from myself. The other saved me from my own bullshit (and yours).

Both books saved my life.

From there I lept into R.A.W.'s other books, some Tim Leary, etc., etc.

I owe Mr. Wilson a tremendous debt of gratitude for helping me understand a spec or two more about me, and you.

ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!
January 12, 2007
Royal Academy of Reality 1132 said...

I have the Ode to Joy playing once again as I try to come to terms with this loss. I think he helped to tilt our reality toward a variety of utopias and away from various sorts of oblivion. It seems reality needs all of us right now, sitting, standing or whatever, to choose life, humor, intelligence and compassion, etc. Bob made such choices easier, and his creative visions will continue to make such choices easier, and clearer, and funnier.

Hilaritas et amor, my friend.
January 12, 2007
Nexus23 said...

Thanks for everything, Bob! :)
January 12, 2007
Noryungi said...

This one is for you, RAW:

Bury me when I die
beneath a wine barrel
in a tavern.
With luck
The cask will leak
-- Moriya Sen' An.

R.I.P. and thanks for all the fnords.
January 12, 2007
xthplanet said...

A curmudgeony optimist, a guerilla ontologist extrordinaire, a connector of humane futures and collector of sombunall challenges to the plethora of status quos....He appears uncorporally risen....

Thanks Bob.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Goodbye, thanks for helping me think for myself
January 12, 2007
Jonathan said...

Like many, Wilson's work literally changed my life...

What do you say about a man who danced so long with the pooka it became impossible to tell where one began or the other ended

I'd like to suggest we commemorate this man, and his lifetime of guerrilla ontology with the coining of a new term. Something to enhance are always enhance-able reality tunnels...

Getting 'R.A.W.ed':

"The experience of feeling both breathtakingly stupid, and heartbreakingly happy, at the same time."
January 12, 2007
Ghostgrrrl said...

Peace be with you RAW. you opened my mind, my eyes, my ears, my intellect and my pocketbook. You are my all time fave writer, forever. Fnord.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Bob Wilson was fucking A1
January 12, 2007
"THe SOn Of GOD" said...

come visit me one day for a peppercake,
greetings to oversease,
you have been a great source of inspiration
January 12, 2007
PsyberKat said...

The initiation never ends.

Thank you, RAW.
January 12, 2007
douglasp said...

tanto nomini nullum par elogium
January 12, 2007
Marco said...

Descanse em paz.
January 12, 2007
Kebap said...

1,000th commentator will have to pay for a round.
January 12, 2007
qwzybug said...

Much love for the four-dimensional something that is/was RAW. If you still be, Bob, be well.
January 12, 2007
Brennuvargr said...

Fare thee well. Your impact on my life cannot be overstated.
January 12, 2007
Bobby said...

DOVE STA MEMORIA
January 12, 2007
Cody said...

Thank you for everything, Bob!
January 12, 2007
samajckaman@hotmail.com said...

rock-on robert anton wilson
yes, your words have changed my life too.let me share this with you all.
whilst reading cosmic trigger one (in 2003) 23 began to appear everywhere and continues to do so today. please, why is this? somebody?!
AS Sirius rose I experienced the ecstatic white light the hysterical uncontrollable joy of conception and our child was born on 6/6/2004 in a shower of sixes and twenty threes... paternal pride aside, she does seem to be some kind of brainella.
so thank you RAW, your work provides great comfort and the motivation to sort my shit out. please pass safely to "the other side" and send our cosmic-regards and luv to
Al Watts Al Crowley Ali Farka Toure
John H.Bonham Mr.James Brown etc and also
to ASHLEY SCARBOROUGH of Allestree 7years gone without whom i would have never heard your name
so there
and so to you, Bob and to the above mentioned and to all those who gaze upon these words i say this!
Beat Your Drumz!
Sing Your Thing!
Share Your Love!
Love Is The Law !

And as some kind of selfish psychic experiment, I humbly beseech your assistance in the Destruction of my own Demons.
I Thank You And Send You All Much Love From Sam In The Windy High Peak Derbyshire Uk The Earth
January 12, 2007
Darios said...

RAW in peace

Don't cry. Don't cry. Is it shooting stars or my misty eyes.
Lo he's gone on and left us all here.
Beyond pain and and beyond fear. I hope. We hope.
For no end except to hurt. That we're more than raised from dirt.
That the questions that burn us all, no answers given yet we heard his call.

To stand tall. To love because not just despite. To ask always first before you fight.
To push evolution forward, to spit in oblivion's eye. To curse all the gods of men who
took our sight.

You said you still held onto Arlen. Imprinted in your nervous system. Every thought
you provoked, every smile and belly laugh that shook, every tear you made me choke. To think
that giants of men could be broke. To see you weakened it took my heart. To know yours still
beat against the tide. Like seeing my grandfather wasted by time. It devastated me. And yet.
Every time you said yes when they said no. Every defiant footstep you willed. How could I not
continue to fight.

I saw you young. I saw you old. I'll see you when I've gone cold. I'll do it for them. I'll do it for
you. I'll give it all up. I'll see it through. Burning ones rise to resist the fall. You shined so bright
and passed on your light. A long chain succession. Another profound impression. A circle connected us inspired from one to another. My sons will be your brothers. As memes supersede slow genes proceed. We'll carry your fight - our fight onto our shoulders. Yours like boulders. Lifted. Gifted. Us with the will to heed. The hardest path. I won't be a stone. I'll push and defy. Even when I'm empty and have no more tears to cry. Even when I drift you'll be in my sky. I'll pass on your wisdom, maybe even find some of my own. Maybe one day, the warriors wish, like you I'll find home. Where there are no warriors and no swords. Only the maiden's kiss on the hilts, no sword that tilts and your words always in my thoughts.

I'll miss you so much.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Schrodinger's Cat is one of the great novels of the 20th Century. Cosmic Trigger opened my eyes. Promethus Rising made me see my potential, and gave me the means to fulfill it. Bob, I hope you are with your wife. I send my love to you.
January 12, 2007
John said...

You are deeply missed my dearest friend.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thank you so much Bob, you were one of my favorite human beings on the planet, and with any luck, you're already born and back in action.

Much love for you and you're family

farewell
January 12, 2007
Russell said...

I love you. My friends love you. You have affected all of our lives as we will continue to affect those we love. Thank you for all of your work and for all of your honesty. It took another friend to point out that I had a guru. A modern hero I can look up to. I thank you for what you have provided me. Your optimism turned many lives around. I feel like I lost a very, very close friend. We all did.

peace, love and forgiveness,

Russell
January 12, 2007
v howard said...

You influenced my thinking more than any other author on the planet. All Hail Discordia and FNORDS away!
January 12, 2007
jackamo said...

In the universe next door we choose to imagine Robert Anton Wilson walking arm in arm with his wife and his daughter Patricia Luna in an orchard of noon blue apples framed by the dazzling LUX of the infinite light..

RAW was always my favourite teacher in the invisible college. Its been 23 years (of course it just had to be) since i picked up the Illuminatus at the tender age of 15 and I cannot imagine a life without the lessons RAW taught me.

Nothing to clutch in life.
Nothing to fear in death.
Indeed.

www.utopiated.net
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Hard to believe you're gone... You, of all people... I suppose now you finally have all the answers, if there are any to be had...

Thank you for teaching us the value of nondogmatism.

.:.IATIAOAI.:.
January 12, 2007
Andrew said...

I hoped to meet you in the flesh some day, but being stuck on the opposite side of the planet, I left it too long. Now I must content myself with the wisdom you committed to paper.

The world is a poorer, colder, sadder, crueler, and above all, stupider place for your passing. Those of us who remain will do what we can to carry the light, but one of the true giants of this world has left us. It will take many, many pygmies to fill those shoes.

Hail Eris. All hail Discordia. The next one I smoke will be for you, Old Man.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thank you for everything.

Love is the Law.

Farewell.
January 12, 2007
Donnacha DeLong said...

Just saw this now - Bob passes as the world stands up to one of the world's most biggest symbols of oppression (Guantánamo Bay). I'm shocked and saddened that the world has lost one of its finest minds, but maybe in passing Bob will be recognised for what he was. Fare thee well, great teacher, and keep the afterlife bright for us that follow you.
January 12, 2007
ashe´ said...

I first read Bob in GREEN EGG, back in the early 70's. Then Illuminatus! came out... I gave away so many copies of that book.

For over 30 years, Bob's wit, wisdom and sheer intelligence has lit the darkness of my world, and that of many of my friends. We are all so much richer for the fractals Bob magickly created --and placed in our heads. He was and is unique, in taking ideas apart and putting them back together in new and novel ways, for never taking anything at face value and laughing all the way. He was the thinking person's writer-hero. The pagan and magickal world has lost the greatest thinker since Crowley.

Someone else, on another blog, noted how amusing that the LA Times, which ran Bob's obituary over 10 years ago, didn't notice when he died, this time for real.

'Every man and every woman is a star', but Bob burns so much brighter many couldn't even look.

Hail Eris! Hail Robert Anton Wilson!
January 12, 2007
St John the Blasphemist said...

A true personal saviour of mine. I wouldn't have had anywhere near as much inspiration without him. I probably wouldn't have got my shit together as much either.

Thanks Bob.

Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!
St John the Blasphemist
January 12, 2007
Per said...

This sucks :(
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

You were a huge inspiration to my life, and you will be greatly missed.

HAIL ERIS!!

We all need to burn a little brighter now. For RAW.

I'll see you when the stars are right...

the SacredRoach
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

You do magick Bob!

You revealed and then so elegantly annihilated my reality tunnel. You did so with optimism, humor, and grace absent condescension.

Thank you for revealing what "is" neither here nor there.

Thank you for squashing my I, revealing all inside and around that 'seems'.

I think therefore I am? ... Not anymore, not for 'I'.

We observe, we communicate, therefore we grow.

We love you. We miss you. We strive and rise to reach you.

Send us a postcard.
January 12, 2007
Karmabot said...

peace. we'll see you when we get there.
January 12, 2007
David Norstad said...

I’ve been around, I seen the town take its fee

I seen the breeze hit the sea, looking for something to be

I’ve fucked around and done a lot of silly things

Running far in the dark, trying hard to outrace me

And as I watch the fading sunset comb its fingers

through the hair of the air dying free

I wonder to myself if I will be so beautiful and brave

When the reaper comes for me

You can’t hold a sound or its proud energy

In your hands but you can dance if you’re bold enough you see

And where the ground meets a boundless sky of dreams

You can go there you know if you close your eyes and leap

And as I watch the trees of august drop their tumbling tragic leaves

In broken wreaths on the dying green

I cannot help but wonder to myself what I will someday be
When the reaper comes for me.

But enough poetry. Thank you, farewell, goodnight. I like to imagine that there is some part of you that is now aware just how many of us are still down here hoping and focusing for the fufillment of whatever the hell it is you may desire at this point of your journey.

See you in the lifestream...
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

30 seconds of copyright-free video clips of Robert Anton Wilson available for download to authorized media outlets at:

http://impermanentpress.com/pages2/wilson-trailer.html

QuickTime MPEG-4 movies

SUGGESTED NARRATION:

Counterculture icon ROBERT ANTON WILSON passed away quietly in his Capitola home on January 11th. Wilson, perhaps best known as co-author of the 1975 cult classic novel "Illuminatus!," wrote more than 30 books and several plays, and was the subject of a 2003 documentary, "Maybe Logic." A long-time friend of such counterculture figures as Timothy Leary, Paul Krassner and George Carlin, Wilson recently gained notoriety as a vocal proponent of medical marijuana, which he claimed relieved the pain and suffering of his Post-Polio Syndrome. Robert Anton Wilson was 74 years old.
January 12, 2007
Rev. Ivan Stang said...

Around dawn yesterday, when Pope Bob started frolicking with the Sex Goddessess aboard the Escape Vessels, my computer happened to be employed in uploading to Usenet group alt.binaries.multimedia.slack the 10 minute video of him in the Hour of Slack radio studio (from 1987, same as the one in the course).

I was sound asleep at the time. But when I got up, I opened my t-shirt drawer full of ten zillion weirdo t-shirts, and the one on top JUST HAPPENED (??!?!?) to be my SINGLE Pope "Bob" shirt. Quite a while after I read of his Advance Personal X-Day I looked in the mirror and realized Pope Bob was looking back at me from my shirt.

That old joker!
January 12, 2007
Zach said...

This world did not deserve you, kind sir, and yet there you were, here you are, and there you go. Give Douglas Adams a punch in the arm for me. ..Not too hard.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

thank you for make me/us think.

"
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange æons, even death may die
"

23

#red-eyez

condolences ()
January 12, 2007
iamthegreatbeast said...

Bob, your work has given me direction and purpose for years, we know what we must do, we just hope we continue the work you initiated with the same level of courage and honesty that you have displayed. See you around old man
HAIL ERIS ALL HAIL DISCORDIA
January 12, 2007
Zach said...

...Oh yeah! Praise Bob. Hail Eris.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

farewell
travel well
January 12, 2007
Malcolm said...

One of the few humans that I will truly miss. Thanks fnord for the writings, the humor, intelligence, creativity, and the irreverence that I always found inspriring and wholly satisfying. RAW -- one of a kind in the best possible way. Thank you, and good-bye.
January 12, 2007
nick pell said...

all i could do for st. raw

see you in the western lands...
January 12, 2007
Malaio said...

Enospí, Sin forcí, Tvrusky...

Good Travel ma frienda!
"AHD"!

Hail Eris!
January 12, 2007
Thia said...

Bob, we love you, Man, and we will miss you! Have fun and Happy Trails.
Love and Lasagne,
The Star Children
January 12, 2007
Thomas said...

Bob,

A heartfelt farewell to you here on earth.
You were an enormous influence in my life and I am forever grateful to you.
January 12, 2007
The Grim Reefer said...

Roses are red
Violets are blue
You think this wil rhyme
But it ain't gonna

But seriously, Simon Moon never really made a convincing homosexual, despite his penchant for the androgynous in his lovers. Well, that's the kind of nonsense you get when you fuck around with alternate histories I suppose.

You owe me about $50 in quarters, you fucking Chirs Kringle thelemite.

Cheerio!
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

BAAAAAAAAAAAHB!!!!
January 12, 2007
Tonee K said...

Dear Bob,
Hey, thanx for the mind fuck, and Bon Voyage, see you on the other side.
Love you dearly...
January 12, 2007
Rene said...

Come back soon. We need more like you.

Rene Gonzales, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Earth, Milky Way
I think, Maybe.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

The comet in Alaska is I believe... YOU coming back into the Earths atmosphere.
You will be welcomed again into our Earth..
With many regards and respects to you and your family Robert...
Sorry to see you leave so soon but knowing you will return to us sooner..

Mtmike
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Safe journey.
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

Bob, you helped to influence a change in my view of the world and will always be a hero to me.

Hail Eris. All hail Discordia!
January 12, 2007
chimerical nascent said...

As sad as it is to hear of his departure from our plane of existance, we must remember he has not left us. He will be forever remembered as a revolutionary, a free thinker, a teacher, a friend... I never met him, nor did I ever communicate with him... but he and I, just as him and yourself are connected... a body may expire, but the energy that is that person's essence can never be destroyed... he is now once more with the sea of information and potential that we are all a part of... may he rest in peace knowing that he achieved his dream of immortality, even though his body did not... he has passed a horizion, but his information will never be lost... he showed me and opened my I... and he will influence my life until I join him...

All Hail Eris!
January 12, 2007
armin schmid said...

farewell my brother in mind
January 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

11, 23, hot dogs, bob, and dillinger, anyways, and all ways, thank you, and goodnight.

:)
January 12, 2007
Juno Jones said...

Bye, RAW. I was fortunate to see you speak a few times and recieve my 'dicordian popehood' from you (Along with 75 other crazy multi-panthestic freaks..:) ) I loved Illuminatus but Cosmic Trigger changed my life. I have released several of your books into the wild and they are travelling the world. I wish you peace, you will missed and am grateful you showed up to this party. Got Fnord? 23, Juno

PS, say 'hi' to leary for us, you guys are free at last...
January 12, 2007
wile e. peyote said...

Anything I could possibly post here would only be redundant. But then anything I could possibly post here would only be redundant.

Goddess-speed, Bob, and thanks.
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

who put the bob in the bobshoobobshoobob? who put the bob in the bobalama ding dong? you did. goodbye.
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

mister bob ~ he dead
~
a penny fer the ol' guy
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

Goodbye, and thank you. We'll take it from here.
January 13, 2007
Will Tomsett said...

The Anglophone sector of micronationalism is grateful to you, Robert, for giving us the word FNORD, which has evolved into one of the highest awards we can recieve.

Farewell.
January 13, 2007
Chy said...

Thanks for everything, Bob.
January 13, 2007
Nathaniel D. said...

You will be sorely missed.
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks for everything
January 13, 2007
Gismo said...

Thank you

Hail Eris!
January 13, 2007
MAB said...

Adiós...
Hasta pronto...
Hola...
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

How is it that I only meet you after you have gone? I linked to your blog from a friends. I only logged on LJ tonight to post some thoughts on how silly and pointless life seems, at least I've felt that way since I lost my Dad. Then I read your thoughts. Somehow I think in a odd, inner connected way that is unintelligible to this mere mortal, I was meant to find it. Now I'm off to read more, and find out what is up with flying lasagna. Good journey to you Bob, where ever you may be.
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

thanks for everything
January 13, 2007
?R?p?~???y?} said...

Thank you Bob. Thank you for everything.
All Hail Discordia !
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

The Illuminatus Trilogy is probably the most important book I've ever read. Thank you.

Hail Eris.
January 13, 2007
neil said...

Words can't do some feelings justice.

I'm just going to think my goodbye instead...

Having been lucky enough to be shown our roads by Bob, we should all resolve to drag ourselves and as many others as we have the energy for out of this quagmire. Like a bunch of little Bobs. We shouldn't feel obliged to grow a beard though and we should try not to be preachy or too certain of our opinions. We should all just chat about stuff with the people we know, be optimistic and keep on thinking (even when it seems sticky) Minds are highly elastic freestyle groove machines. One jewel in many.

(Hope that didn't seem too preachy, just feel that we are all very lucky and this great fella deserves a legacy we can all be proud of) Let's do it.

Hip Hip Hooray !! Well Aye !!!
January 13, 2007
Dm said...

Cheers, much love and thanks!
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

visionary philosopher, mentor, hero -
thanks RAW, you have seeded so many! we all shall meet with you again...but not yet, not yet...fnord!

love always, anima
January 13, 2007
Rainbow Demon said...

Missing you, but now you are in a better place.
Thank you for everything.
I've dedicated my last show to you, my Brother.

Fnord in the Sky.
Peace,
=RD=
January 13, 2007
JPT said...

Farewell and thank you for all you have written
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

Farewell Bob, and thanks for all the brilliance you send our way when you walked among us.

May your books continue to be printed for as long as this planet lasts, because this world needs to hear your voice of reason and Total Agnosticism.
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

Ah, shit.
January 13, 2007
Brett McKee said...

Thanks Bob. As you taught us, words cannot adequately express what we feel. And this moment is no exception. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for pointing me in the "right" direction. The only complement I feel I can give is to take what you gave me and work to further and apply it. Thats all any of us can do.

Now, I really need to do those damn exercizes dont I!!!!!
January 13, 2007
Mockney Rebel said...

Research trip for the next book Bob?

Thanks for the reality check. Without your books i'd be a bigger cosmic schmuck :)
January 13, 2007
fallenmonk said...

Thanks for the lessons. Travel happy and well. All Hail Eris.
January 13, 2007
Archaeonews said...

Just a plain goodbye
January 13, 2007
N said...

Thanks for everything, see you on the other side...
January 13, 2007
DJS said...

Rest In Peace, good man.
January 13, 2007
planet-tom said...

I am already pining for the fnords.
January 13, 2007
Andy said...

Now THERE went a cool dude.
January 13, 2007
Raeven said...

May the stars (and the fnords) sing tribute to your passing...

Farewell, and thank you for being my teacher and my inspiration.

Have fun on the next plane, old man...but don' t forget us, cause this one misses you already.
HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

It may be just my naive optimism... but I can't stop hoping that Bob decided to officially check-out prematurley... so that he could spend his real last moments reading what would be said after he's gone.... but it still feels a little bit colder in the world now... and what ever happened to the Babcock family?????
Thank you for having been...
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

ta-raa chuck
January 13, 2007
Garnhamghast said...

You opened my eyes with your books, you'll be sorely missed.
Lots of love to you and yours Bob
January 13, 2007
Rev. Joshua P. Panter said...

Wow. What can I say, see you when I get there, Uncle Bob...
God bless your journey
January 13, 2007
Linda said...

Goodbye for now!

Thank you for everything you shared with the world.

We'll never forget you.
January 13, 2007
DYSKORDIANIE Z POLSKI said...

HEIL ERIS!!!

GUL GUL GUL!!!
January 13, 2007
sindrum said...

You have inspired me in a great way.Good bye
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

a deity
January 13, 2007
RevDok Alan/Ann said...

G'bye old friend.
January 13, 2007
raindog said...

be seeing you in the next incarnation
January 13, 2007
Mark Badger said...
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January 13, 2007
Mark Badger said...

Hail Eris!
Peace
cheers!
January 13, 2007
Cactus Bob said...

Rest in peace, Bob.

You will be missed.
January 13, 2007
Angel of Elvis said...

Thanks Bob. Thanks.
January 13, 2007
srm said...

requiem in memoriam
January 13, 2007
metafora zero said...

I'm still shocked ¡¡ It's like losing a dear dear friend ¡¡

You are in all of us ¡¡

Huge Hug ¡¡
January 13, 2007
Stencil said...

Happy Trails you feingan bastard... see you at the Wake.
January 13, 2007
fr.novumorganum said...

RAW: your effect on this world is proof that magick does work--the world is better off as a result of your time here--you touched so many lives
23 skiddo
everyman and every woman is a star
January 13, 2007
EGS said...

So Man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown. Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal, 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

We thank you, sincerely. I've turned into nearly a Gideon, passing out copies of Prometheus Rising. You'll be a Loa soon.
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

But how could he write this message? He is alive!
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

See you next lifetime, Bob (if you choose it.) And so the essence of RAW continues to spread out into the multiverse...
January 13, 2007
Peter 'Clarry' Clerinx said...

To Bob's family and friends, thank you for loving him and being there for him. Take care of yourselves.

In Prometheus Rising (p.258) Bob quotes the Belgian physicist Ilya Prigogine:
"A dissipative structure is highly complex and therefore highly unstable. The more complex it is, the more unstable it is, mathematically, certainly; and the more unstable, the more likely it is to change--to evolve.
All dissipative structures are teetering, perpetually, between self-destruction and re-organisation on a higher level of information (coherence)."

Farewell Bob, we'll miss your wise and beautiful words. You taught us to take nonsense seriously, or was it the other way around? Your work will live on, at a higher level of information, guiding us all forward.
I'm sure, one day our pineal glands will find the right frequency, and we'll hear from you again.

Goodbye Robert Anton Wilson, and give Eris a big kiss for me...

One sad Belgian physicist.

(Fliegende Kinderscheisse, WIECZNY KWIAT WTADZA)
January 13, 2007
DucKButR23 said...

Sir Robert- Sleep well and we'll see you out on the golden submarine somewhere in Atlantis...

-x
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

The most Holy Gods of all heaven and all the Earth, of the Firmanent, of the Stars, of the Abyss, of the Sun, of the Moon, of all the Wise, of all the Good, of all the Just, of all who walk in the Light, of the Righteous, of the Brave, of the Intelligent, of the Courageous, of the Merciful now wait no longer, they have their comrade. Hail Eris! 93 93/93.
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

Farewell, thank you Bob for all.

Like Ryan Lawrence said, we will carry on your work.

At First day in Chaos in year 3173 you have enter to the next part..have a good journay!

Greetings from Switzerland
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

Fuck! This is very sad indeed. My name is Ruairi Conneely and Robert Anton Wilson helped change my life very much for the better. It's sad to think that he'll never write another book, draw another shockingly lucid analogy or crack another joke. Good luck, Bob. Give our regards to Arlene and Lil' Jimmy Joyce. Love and support to Bob's immediate family in their mourning. Namu Amida Butsu
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

Fare Thee Well.
January 13, 2007
Ingo said...

The great teacher is no more.
Farewell Robert Anton Wilson.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom.

My condolence to his family and friends.
January 13, 2007
Aquila said...

One of the biggest influences on my life and thinking is gone.

Bob, not only did I read nearly every word of yours published, but had the pleasure of seeing you speak several times, and actually sharing a conversation with you once. Truly there was no figure on Earth who combined intelligence, compassion and (most markedly) humor in such a brilliant way as did you.

My prayers go out to your family and friends, and I hope to meet you again some time in the Eternal Now.
January 13, 2007
diarmid said...

Immense gratitude for your great mind, deep honesty, crazy humour. You helped this world make more sense and more nonsense to me, perhaps more than anybody else has. I honour your life, I aspire to your wisdom.

Farewell Friend
January 13, 2007
vollutant said...

Obrigado por tudo.
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

We'll miss you Bob. The world is a darker place for your not being in it.
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks for showing me the fnords.
January 13, 2007
Child Of Fire said...

Blessed Part my friend. Enjoy the Summerlands.
January 13, 2007
nonky said...

Since 1976, your books and your brilliance have been part of my life. Thank you so much.

Happy voyaging!
January 13, 2007
Antagone said...

Goodbye. You were my Virgil thorugh the illusion haunted realms of Choronzon. You have left the Age of Lies with your reputation and ideas in tact. Bravo.

Raise A Glass Sorors and Fraters.
January 13, 2007
Jorah said...

Grief. Tears. I met you once in Providence, and I told you that your books had made it harder to talk to people. You told me that your books were all about helping people communicate better. I said that I'd changed so much from reading your books that I couldn't talk to anyone who wasn't changed the same way. You said you were tired and were going off to bed. Thanks for everything, and thanks for the incredible laugh I had at that pizza place in Norwood, where I tried to read that story of the Texas "Yellow Dog Democrat" sheriff who decided to kill his wife with nightshade. I kept falling off the chair. 5 17 23 Thou art goddess.
January 13, 2007
omninmo said...

Thank You RAW...
January 13, 2007
QuoterGal said...

Thank you for what you have written; thank you for who you are. And let's all remember to Stick Apart, in the Name of Eris. Good-bye.

"Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress’, everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority." -- Robert Anton Wilson, with Robert Shea, Illuminatus! Trilogy

"It was Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley who founded the Discordian Society, which is based on the worship of Eris, the Goddess of Chaos, discord, confusion, bureaucracy and international relations. They have no dogmas, but one catma. The catma is that everything in the universe relates to the number 5, one way or another, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter. I found the Discordian Society to be the most satisfactory religion I had ever encountered up until that point, so I became a Discordian Pope. This is done by excommunicating all the Discordian Popes you can find and setting up your own Discordian Church. This is based on Greg's teaching that we Discordians must stick apart." -- Robert Anton Wilson
January 13, 2007
Gabriel said...

Farewell, thank you Bob for all.
From Argentine,

Sirio 23 - O.23
January 13, 2007
barry said...

i will revisit your wisdom and humour for the rest of my days

thankyou so much for the pearls you have left us
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

ive never thoughtlaughed so hard...
...
January 13, 2007
tomislav said...

Go well, Bob.
January 13, 2007
Michael said...

so I read the obit in the NYTs today & share it with friends far and near. later, at home, I flip open the Collegiate dictionary randomly to test out a pair of new reading glasses at a higher diopter and come down squarely on the entry for "Osiris," first mention of which in Cosmic Trigger is -- both naturally and unnaturally it seems -- page 23: "In each trip the Body was Resurrected, Osiris rose from his tomb; I was godly and eternal for awhile."
January 13, 2007
Stephen M said...

Reading about the death of Luna in the Cosmic Trigger 1 was one of the most moving things I ever read. Now RAW can be with her again.Happy thoughts.
January 13, 2007
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January 13, 2007
J said...

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!"

oh you'll probably get past JW, but the jub jub bird: phuck

buona fortuna
January 13, 2007
Marcus said...

You will be missed in the form of you body.

i will meet you up there with Tim.

See you soon.

http://mbcpoetry.wordpress.com
January 13, 2007
Osa23 said...

i would like to say thank you -

i discovered you through the wonders and joys of grant morrison's mind-wrecker 'the invisibles'. he would beseech readers through his letter columns to read and absorb your works bob...

and like a good mind with a strong investment in expanding my territorial mind-grids - i read you and i absorbed you, and i started to apply some of your concepts and thoughts most of/some of/the times....

your words were strong and heady wines: your writing never failed to disappoint me and your mind i found a strong force against a world too afraid to shake themselves loose from the miseries they had chosen to eat and drink 24.7 -

i do not mourn thee for your passage into that mist wonderous and mysterious. i am glad to have celebrated you and shall continue to celebrate and study you.

thank you robert. thank you so very much.....

Osa.
January 13, 2007
Anonymous said...

Time to Die

Ikkyu, the Zen master, was very clever even as a boy. His teacher had a precious teacup, a rare antique. Ikkyu happened to break this cup and was greatly perplexed. Hearing the footsteps of his teacher, he held the pieces of the cup behind him. When the master appeared, Ikkyu asked: "Why do people have to die?"

"This is natural," explained the older man. "Everything has to die and has just so long to live."

Ikkyu, producing the shattered cup, added: "It was time for your cup to die."
January 14, 2007
Travolda said...

Has learned about this grandfather only when it has died. The remarkable person! It agrees with that that a zen-master
January 14, 2007
Tomek said...

Hail Eris and ALL DISCORDIA!

Good Bye! See ya latter.
January 14, 2007
Anonymous said...

Goodbye, Bob. Thank you for saving me from fear, and for teaching me to giggle at reality. Have fun out there.
January 14, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thank you for your insight, your playfulness, your inspiration. What you have given us will never die.

Fnord.
January 14, 2007
Anonymous said...

no wife no horse no mustache...adios my friend...
January 14, 2007
Archpope Oskar V said...

Farewell, and may you rest in fnord. You were a great woman.
January 14, 2007
leah e! said...

thanks for the fnords and the 23s

e!
January 14, 2007
deedee said...

ewige blumenkraft, bob.
your books have changed my life. and for the better, I might add.
you will be missed.

12 tons of flax!
January 14, 2007
Oberon Obsequie said...

He will be missed, and just for those of us that need our 23s--he passed on 1/11...Day and Month are the first 2 parts of our traditional date structure. 1+1+1 = 3...so, 23. Also, it's now 2007 according to the papal system, and 7-2= 5.

I was listening to LWIIIs song "Hank and Fred" about Hank Williams and Fred Rogers (two other saints) and was randomly flipping around some webpages when I saw the news. While not unexpected, part of me is glad I found the news while practicing chaos.
January 14, 2007
Greg W. in Ohio said...

See you later!
Thanks for everything!!!!
January 14, 2007
am i a bodyfascist? said...

only learned about it now.

farewell ...
January 14, 2007
Anonymous said...

"My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today."

Wave hello to the Pooka for me.
January 14, 2007
Schoggo-TV said...

That's not my reality!

Robert is still alive, can't you see?

Great man, good job - may Don Juan bless you.
January 14, 2007
Sepand said...

miss you
January 14, 2007
grutko said...

Damn, you're dead again?

Now I must go celebrate your terrestrial departure with a handful of flax.

Make sure to notify New Falcon Publications your new email address.

LOVE
January 14, 2007
Michael said...

You touched so many lives, Bob.
Farewell, and well lived.
January 14, 2007
c3fyn said...

"...Metals corrode, organisms die, everything is in a process of continuous change."

Goodbye sensei, second father.
January 14, 2007
Nic Stage said...

:)
January 14, 2007
Nic Stage said...

"It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past..."
-Frank Herbert-
January 14, 2007
Angry Sam said...

Kallisti. Give 'em heck in the next one, Bob.
January 14, 2007
Joe said...

So long and thanks for all the fnords!
January 14, 2007
Crazy D said...

I know not, I
What men together say
How lovers, lovers die
And youth passes away

Cannot understand
The love that mortals bear
For naitive naitive land
When all the lands are theirs

And why at grave they grieve
For just one voice and face
And not, and not recieve
Another in it's place

I alone above the cone
Of the circling night
Flying, never have I known
A more or lesser light

Sorrow it is, they call
This cup from whence my lip
Woe is me, ever in all
My endless days must sip

-C.S. Lewis
January 14, 2007
Barry Riffs said...

I find it synchronous that I'm finding out about RAW's passing as I just finished watching the DVD "Maybe Logic" minutes ago. Maybe it means something... maybe not. =)

Some say "to lead by example" is the noblest/best way to teach. RAW has certainly taught me to laugh and enjoy the universe more than I used to, and also how to break out of my pre-set reality tunnels. Lead by RAW's example and be suspicious of your B.S. as well as other's.

preach,
---23---
January 14, 2007
helen said...

To Bob's family and friends,

Thank you for sharing your loved one with the rest of us.

We will all miss his wit and wisdom.

He will continue to be a guiding light.

Much love, Helen xxxx
January 14, 2007
Cpt. H. Celine, KSC (ret.) said...

Just heard the news, so here's a prayer for everybody except myself:
May the sacred **** take your blessed **** into ****, so you can finally meet **** and **** a **** together!
Oh, and give regards to the wifey, she'll be happy you made it in time. But seriously folks, there goes the H.E.A.D. capstone of the Pyeamid! Woe, now my tears don't ever appeal in Court again. But let me at least say this behind his back, in the Illuminati's secret mothers tongue:

Fliegende Kinderscheisse, O Bruderwesen Bob, auf immer und ewig. Wir werden dich vermissen.

And yes, you never inspired me, indeed! Almost never. Now, back to work, slaves.
January 14, 2007
Anonymous said...

Farewell Friend

All Hail Eris!

I saw the fnords, and they were us.

Thanks in advance.

Your books

Are

Much

More important

Than

The bible
January 14, 2007
Mandt said...

A wild flower at any age, and now another season. Goodby noble spirit
January 14, 2007
Paul said...

Goodbye Rob.

I'll remember you with love.

Thankyou thankyou.

Paul
January 14, 2007
Matty said...

You have given so many of us joy and wisdom that will be with us forever, Bob.. I will do my best to carry on your spirit of inquisitive insubordination and perverse amusement, living life to the fullest (as I believe you did). May our paths cross again.
January 14, 2007
Anonymous said...

In binary, 01 is 2, 11 is 3.

You picked a good day to die, Bobby.

May all your fnords be realized in the halls of Valhalla.
January 14, 2007
Bizzaro Sephiroth said...

Please insert Disc 2.
January 14, 2007
contranym said...

Mr. Wilson: We'll miss you. I'm glad it stopped hurting.

Family: Thanks for sharing him with us. Let us know if you need.

"The fear of death is the beginning of slavery."
January 14, 2007
Gary said...

No wife, no horse, no moustache.

Thanks, and goodbye.
January 14, 2007
Anonymous said...

I miss you already, Mr.Wilson...

I thank you so much for all that you have done for those of us with the eyes to see, the ears to hear, and the nose to smell the b.s. :-)

Hurray for the Optomists!

(Awaiting the second coming of BOB.)
January 14, 2007
Dr Owl said...

oh for now i must tell you a storie that is old,
for that which grows and grows will never get that old.
for ever you will be loVed my me and thee
now your are set free on a see of smelly pee
untill its time to not be you will live on in me
January 14, 2007
Shining Love Pig said...

Have fun over there, and don't trash the buffet.
January 14, 2007
Anonymous said...

May you find questions to your answers, and may your family be as well as possible in dealing with their, and our, recent loss.

Thank you for your thoughts, Mr. Wilson. Be well, Sir.
January 14, 2007
Anonymous said...

Wow. Your mind expanding legacy will be passed on to all those lucky to come across your work. Awesome run.
January 14, 2007
Ivan grozny in China said...

...and we promise not to let them immanentize the eschaton.....
January 14, 2007
Protecting Terrorists said...

There goes somebody.
January 14, 2007
Joe said...

I know that this is not an official place for such things, but what will become of such wonderful sites as rawilson.com, Official LAMP, and The Guns and Dope Party?

I personally am willing to pay for the domains and hosting of at least one if not all of these sites to keep them online for the rest of my life.

if anyone who reads this has information about how they will be maintained, or if moneys are needed to keep them maintained, please send it to deusilluminatus@gmail.com
January 14, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks.

He went with style, offcourse....
please check out the link.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBufVx0_VE
January 14, 2007
Anonymous said...

BYYYYYEEEEEEEEOOOOOIIIIIEEEEOOOOOIIIIIIYYYYAAAAAARRRRGGGGGAAAAIIIIIIEEEEOOOOO. BLARG. BURP.
January 14, 2007
HIMEOBS said...

Agent Wilson is alive and well getting upgrades at station 8.
January 14, 2007
Natvralism said...

I met R.A.W. once, at a lecture held in the Scottish Rite Auditorium.
I was a bit nervous and didn't know what to say to him. He looked over at me, surrounded by many people that wanted to talk to him, and he said..

"Enjoying the Game?"

I didn't really understand what he meant, but smiled, nodded, and laughed a bit, falling back into the crowd unsure.

These days, many years later, I'm just starting to learn how to enjoy "the Game." But, I don't think I would have realized there were no rules without to my game of life if I hadn't found R.A.W.

Thank you for, everything Robert Anton Wilson.
January 14, 2007
gmengel said...

We'll miss the auld savage!
Now we have to do the rest ourselves -

"Never Born, Never Died. Only Visited this Planet Earth..."
January 14, 2007
amt said...

fare thee well along the corridors of space and time, my friend, my guide and cosmic joker
January 14, 2007
Maxwell said...

I give my condolences to all who knew him, my regards to all who read him, my congratulations to RAW: may your death prove as fruitful as your life.

Hail Eris, the great pineal gland of the solar system.

r.i.p. r.a.w.
January 14, 2007
Luis Abbadie said...

May Auld Dame Fate gathers home her trickster child; rise in horn and fire, Robert, and laugh at the great punchline you were dying to reach. Fnord.
January 14, 2007
Anonymous said...

Mr. Wilson,

You opened my eyes.

Goodbye.
January 14, 2007
Francis said...

ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED OR DESTROYED. YOU HAVE CERTAINLY MASTERED THIS LIFE...I THANK YOU FOR CHANGING MY LIFE.
January 14, 2007
Anonymous said...

The circus has left town....... May you bathe in the light of truth. Or is that just a sun lamp.

ALL HAIL ST BOB OF FNORD...

I'm now looking for the pastry that is an effigy of St Bob.
January 14, 2007
enere said...

You touched us all deeply.

You will be remembered and missed.
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

thanks
January 15, 2007
Esben said...

Au revoir.
Btw I live in house no 23 with the code being 3132... And my daughter was born on march 23. I was 23 at the time. Hahaha! Well I guess you have other things to do now but I can't help but missing you, allthough you're still here, in us. We'll carry on! Say hello to Eris. See you later Bob. Sbn
January 15, 2007
Walter said...

i won't help but shed a tear every time i perform the turkeycurse.

you said it yourself:

in conclusion, there is no conclusion.
things will go on as they always have,
getting weirder all the time.
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

Bob,

You enchanted us with your humour like no other philosopher in history and, in my opinion, presented the golden key for humanity in these insane times. To be selfless enough not to take yourself seriously by giving up the ridiculous 'I am right' position would practically end all wars.

Love ya Bobby boy,

Al
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thank you for all!
January 15, 2007
Jamie said...

Goodbye, goodluck, hello!
Good to see you on the other side.

You are one of the biggest inspirations to me. No other has had such an impact on my learning, be good.
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

Im searching for the next genius, visionary, inspirational eye-opener to pick up a pen and laughingly remove the blinds..
RAW conveyed to me that which noone else could. Ideas and attitudes to advance this backwards heap of rock, and all of its inhabitants. In that we are all wardens of the planet, RAW is a warden of humankind who has achieved immortality through written word and influenced minds.
KEEP IT ROLLING!
January 15, 2007
al-x said...

Σε ευχαριστο?με πολ?.
Καλ? Ταξ?δι.
Χαιρετ?σματα σε ?λους...
January 15, 2007
Cottonwoodhill said...

Good-bye. Tiredness. Please take a rest restfully.
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thank you and goodbye.
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

Fare well and thank you.
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

Sad
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

Have a nice trip! May you get where you hoped for!
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

Danke und gute Reise!
January 15, 2007
M4R1O said...

Thanks for showing me the glyph of eternal life. It has opened infinite doors for me.

0x17
January 15, 2007
Grant said...

Goodbye - your thoughts remain as we think them.
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

see you on sirius
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

With your writings I could handle my depressions about the world.
Thank you so much.
Fraterfrey
January 15, 2007
spectralwizard said...

Next movement Nataraj Hail to the Cosmic Dancer Hail Eris Go where we Will Empower and Enjoy Next
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi, "What happens after death?"
The Roshi replied, "I don't know."
Wavy protested, "But you're a Zen Master!"
"Yes," the Roshi admitted, "but I'm not a dead Zen Master."
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

Wir werden Dich vermissen!
Danke für alles, triff Dich dann später!
January 15, 2007
Higbad The Bad said...

You fucked with my head
And now you are dead
What will I read instead?
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thank you for firing me through a Russian roulette of reality tunnels towards the infinite road of wisdom. I'm doubtful that this would have happened had you not introduced me to my beautiful donkey.

Thanks for everything!

Farewell, all the best in your new adventures!

All Hail Eris!
January 15, 2007
Chandira said...

Good Lord Bob! What a crazy thing to go and do.

Thanks for keeping me sane when I 'remembered' my 'alien abductions', that was much appreciated.

And I'm sorry those fuckers that made millions with the Matrix movie never credited you and Robert Shea for that one!

I wish I'd known you had a blog before you left.

I have a million things I could say to you, but the main one is that I hope you presently find yourself rushing full speed towards the Burning Heart of the Infinite my friend.

Much, much love to you.
January 15, 2007
c_z ? said...

...

Thanks, Bob.
Greetings from Bulgaria!
This is coming from a dozen hearts whose beat was kinda cheered by your laughter, inspiration, love.

Head up high, Bob! No one is 'dead' today. You the least.

Love,
Ivan
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

Wow Bob,

I can't believe you're gone. I had the tremondous priviledge of meeting you a few times in Dallas, and then in Massachusetts, back in the 80's and early 90's.

You were the psychologist's psychologist. You helped me figure out some of the main puzzles of my life.

What a wonderful, gentle charming, intelligent man you were, (and still are, somewhere).

You and Tim Leary are probably having a heck of a laugh a how silly we are down here, with our petty worries and concerns.

Much love, and you will definitely be missed.

Love, love, love, so much love to you and your family.
January 15, 2007
Minerva Grumble said...

Hail Eris & happy trails!
In absurdity,
Pope Minerva

sniffling fnord
January 15, 2007
Neil' said...

It's so great to see the comment count have gone past 1,000. I do have a question. At the main site, we see: "RAW Memorial February 07
date to be announced" - So, that Feb. 07 means the date is already announced, I suppose.
January 15, 2007
moonshake said...

you helped shape my world by helping to unshape my world. fnord indeed.
January 15, 2007
dada said...

It was with some sadness that I learned of the passing of Robert A. Wilson this morning. Much like the Dadaists, Wilson helped to enlarge the reality tunnel in which I now reside. And he did it mischeiviously and most always very entertainingly. Yet his messages were not only thought provoking, they were deadly serious.

Strangely, a week or so ago, I went in search of my Cosmic Trilogies to patch up the walls of my reality tunnel. Finding vols. II and III, volume I eluded me.

But after this morning's news, I felt compelled to search again and, *cosmically*, there it was, leading me to ponder (as RAW always did), if lasagne might indeed fly!
January 15, 2007
A Soror in So.Cal. said...

Farewell, friend. You will be missed.
January 15, 2007
Antonio said...

Hail Éris !

You are missed, but your work continue with us.

I´m very sad to write anything more.
January 15, 2007
The Jolt Master said...

It was with surprise and sadness that I discovered that you died, Bob. Your Schrodinger's Cat trilogy provided a very practical application and understanding of quantum mechanics and reality, which really altered my view of how I see things in life.

I often will amuse myself by thinking how different my life is because of choices I didn't make for this eigenstate.

So, I delight in the fact that, in another eigenstate, you are alive as Roberta Antonia Wilson, mother of five, grandmother of two, a happy homemaker in Iowa, living in relative obscurity.

Thank you for expanding my mind to the possibilities...all of them.
January 15, 2007
Malaclypse the Tertiary said...

Old Bob is not dead.

Can't you hear him laughing?
... off over the horizen
January 15, 2007
kadin said...

bon voyage to bob, condolences to us, lasagna for everybody. we have work to do.
January 15, 2007
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January 15, 2007
Jack Henry said...

Here's an excerpt from one of Bob's webpage posts from about nine years ago (got to 'previous thoughts' to find it):

"Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know "all" about the rest of space-time.

Every day is full of wonderments to me: Death will probably come to me as the greatest wonderment of all."
January 15, 2007
rafa said...

one love.
January 15, 2007
Brian said...

Thank you, dear Bob, for the laughter,
Save a seat for me in the hereafter.
My pint's raised to you
(And your dear Arlen, too)...
'Twas an honor to've read words so daft, sir.
January 15, 2007
Swami said...

Farewell
January 15, 2007
John the Savage said...

Thanks for everything

see you on the next level
January 15, 2007
Anika23 said...

A friend turned me onto the Illuminatus Trilogy in 1997. When I read the books RAW wrote early on that the books would re-program my mind. They surely did. Everything in my life changed. RAW changed the course of my life forever and I am eternally grateful.

I met him twice: the 1998 Prophets Conference in Port Townsend, WA and my favorite, the 1999 Prophets Conference (I think it was that year) in Palm Springs. I loved it because Mr. Wilson terrified the elderly folks with his prolific cussing that he very calculatedly threw out at the new-age audience. Scandalous and perfect. I loved how he "took the piss out of" the scene and made things very, very real. And I loved when I met him the second time and he had just met up with Paul Krassner for the first time many years. I felt privileged to be able to sit there and witness their reminiscences.

I loved the way he loved Arlen and cared for her. I love his wit, wide-ranging mind, candor and ineffable sense of humor. He changed my life and altered forever the way I look at life.

His passing is a lark, a walk in the park of eternity.

Anika
January 15, 2007
Tino said...

Hmm what should i say , it is hard to loose such a genius.I will never forget you,I hope you open so many eyes and minds on the other Side like you did it here.
all Hail Eris
and i wish you a wonderful jurney.

Best wishes from Tino
in
Thuringia
Germany
January 15, 2007
Laughing Muse said...

He was merely pining for the fnords...

Eris rest ye, merry gentleman.
January 15, 2007
Dan D said...

Fare thee well, from one primate to another. Thank you for all that you have done.
January 15, 2007
Rafael said...

Farewell...

Guess im not going to meet you on this life, maybe another.....

All Hail ERIS!!!!!
January 15, 2007
BaNoyes said...

Hard to think of this world without your good wit
and keen insights
You made Maybe logic a part of my life
Say Hi to Tim Oleary for me
I am sure you are having a wonderful time
Peace Bob
You made a difference
January 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

Farewell Bob -
Gate Gate Para-gate Para-sam-gate Bohistvaha!
January 15, 2007
babblemur said...

Thank you so much, Robert, for everything you wrote and did. You changed my life.

Love,
Ron
January 15, 2007
Jay said...

Farewell Robert. You will be sorely missed.
January 15, 2007
Adam said...

We never met and now we never will, but your has death hit me like the loss of a close friend.

Thanks for opening my eyes to the wealth of possibility the world has to offer.

You'll live on in this world through us, the children of your knowledge, while I hope you've gone on to cause chaos in the next.

Farewell RAW, peace be with you.
January 16, 2007
Anonymous said...

This life has lost a great force.
Farewell and thank you.

J S Wilson
January 16, 2007
Numinus said...

I just discovered you as you slipped away...Thank you for holding up the light in this darkness.
January 16, 2007
Smeg said...

Hola St. Robert.

It was tremendous to know you, your work and your compassion for mankind. I saw the Buddha in you.

Ewige Blumenkraft
January 16, 2007
RocketJam said...

Bob, you gave me direction when I abandoned my childhood belief system. I'm eternally grateful.

5
23

Praise "Bob"
January 16, 2007
Anonymous said...

dammit! another great person I never got to meet on this plane! Oh well, I'll catch thenext one.
January 16, 2007
Anonymous said...

thank you mr wilson
you will be missed by thousands
January 16, 2007
Janic said...

farewell bob....you are truly and forever a cosmic schmuck now....in every sense of the word.

23skidoo.

and out.
January 16, 2007
Elf said...

Last time I was on the site months ago-and such news...

Thank you, dear Teacher for opening and expanding my mind... for showing me other reality channels.
Thank you for being here and all you have done.

Send a message some time from other worlds and infinities!
January 16, 2007
Mike said...

Wasn't sure what to post till now. Then I remembered this from The Earth Will Shake:

HE HAS GONE WHERE FIERCE INDIGNATION
CAN NO LONGER LACERATE HIS HEART
GO, TRAVELLER: IMITATE HIM IF YOU CAN
HE SERVED LIBERTY

Thanks for everything Bob, you may yet have helped us get these apes to the stars.
Hail Eris! Hail Mordecai Malignatius!
January 16, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks for everything..........
January 16, 2007
Anonymous said...

"Ch..ch..ch..changes,
turn to face the strange"

The only "Bob" I'll ever know continues to hide among the words you've written.

Say, can I share some of your leftover acid with my friends?

Keep in touch ...
January 16, 2007
richard said...

I look forward to being you again.
January 16, 2007
Jason said...

farewell and thanks for freakin me out!
January 16, 2007
Phil said...

I want to thank all of you who have posted here and those who made donations and wrote letters. I don't think that Bob realized how much he was loved before that, but he certainly came to understand that before the end.
January 16, 2007
mightydoll said...

Guess I'll have to be my own hero from now on...

Everything is Under Control
January 16, 2007
Anonymous said...

RAW IS NOW
January 16, 2007
Steve said...

you'll be missed...never did get the chance to correspond, maybe next time around?
Fnord.
January 16, 2007
Michael said...

Going to miss you.
January 16, 2007
Melissa said...

farewell and hello. We shall se each other again or will have in the past.
January 16, 2007
Melissa said...

farewell and hello. missed perhaps, forgotten never. May eris give you all you deserve
January 16, 2007
Gniewomir ?wiechowski said...

Farewell, you give me new point of view. I will look for you when i became dead POPE. I have to say "thank you".

Hail Eris!

Gniewomir, Poland
January 16, 2007
Electric Panther said...

Maybe We'll meet again, Robert. Just maybe.

We are all surround by a network of love.

Peace, Dylan
January 16, 2007
Al said...

So long...you were a real help, and gave me several second chances at rationality and enjoyment.

Thankyou and Goodbye.
January 16, 2007
Tadhg said...

Thanks for everything, goodbye, and Hail Eris. You contributed a great deal, and you will be missed.
January 16, 2007
gadgetgirl70 said...

thank you so much.
January 17, 2007
Poet Reid said...

He was my Whimsel Brousel
(poem at my own blog)
January 17, 2007
urbancore 5 said...

thank you, farewell
January 17, 2007
Anonymous said...

Danke R.A.W für Deinen großartigen Humor. Danke daß du da warst
January 17, 2007
Anonymous said...

Wir Discordianer müssen auseinander halten!
Heil Eris!!
Ewige Blumenkraft!!!
Wir werden deine Arbeit fortführen

Krieger des Lichts
January 17, 2007
kenneth krabat said...

Well, Bob - I guess you're really outside the box now, eh?

Thanks for being. As well as IS'ing.
January 17, 2007
Kevin said...
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January 17, 2007
Kevin said...

"My heart has joined the Thousands, for my friend stopped running today"

Dance on, my brother. You are loved.

See you on the Other Side,

K
January 17, 2007
ariel said...

Miss you, Bob. -Ariel
January 17, 2007
D. Meredith said...

Just a minute. If RAW's dead then that means at some point I'm gonna die too! What about the Nanobots Bob! The NANOBOTS!!!

All my love to you Bob. I enjoyed your point of view and you SEEMED like a nice guy!
January 17, 2007
Dee said...

Thank you Bob! Your wisdom and humor are a source of great joy!
January 17, 2007
Statik said...

Godspeed, Mr. Wilson. I can't thank you enough for everything you've said and done for the betterment of mindkind, but I'll try anyways...every day...

“The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you've lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at it.” - RAW
January 17, 2007
23-skidoo said...

Wenn wir überhaupt einen Feind haben , dann ist es der Kontrollprozeß. Es ist von lebenswichtiger Bedeutung, diesen kurzzuschließen.

Farewell, brother in mind...
January 17, 2007
Glaznoz said...

So shalt thou conquer space and time
and lastly climb the walls of time,
and by the golden path the great have trod, reach up to God.
January 17, 2007
Fish-Eye said...

Thanks for opening my mind!
RAW, you'll stay in my heart till my last day. You did a good job, mate!

Peace!
Good bye and.. please, come back :)

Russia, Moscow.
January 17, 2007
abech 23 said...

Farewell. May be you are sensing my gratitude. Thanks for the in lighting meant... I meade it through a lot though yer righting.

Salud
January 17, 2007
clay cotton said...

...eternal gratitude, my brother - our love is with you, as always...
January 17, 2007
Anonymous said...

Just found out - God speed.
January 18, 2007
Ben said...

Mr bob,

Thank you for being you.
January 18, 2007
Bowler said...

Enjoy your final reward, Bob....
January 18, 2007
Anonymous said...

i'm from derry and my friend is from londonderry, except he isn't and neither am i. thanks bob.
January 18, 2007
Rev. Kevin said...

Happy Birthday Bob.
January 18, 2007
Piter said...

Anton Wilson is dead.
No, no, no, no he is outside looking in.
January 18, 2007
Jack Henry said...

Happy Birthday RAW. I'll toast you tonight.

I'm reading Coincidance for the first time now.
January 18, 2007
biggus said...

Your books influenced me more than anyone elses, you taught me to think for myself, that nothing is certain, no fears or confusions are forever beyond an open mind. And you were funny as hell, too. Love to you Bob, wherever you are. I hope Arlen and Luna are there too.
January 18, 2007
Dom said...

...
January 18, 2007
Paul Alan Taylor said...

Goodbye Bob,you've touched so many lives and I'm proud to be just one of those. Love is the Law, Love under Will.
January 18, 2007
Anonymous said...

You unshackled my chains, and stole the keys to my heart.

Thank you for the mutation, Mr. Wilson!

True
January 18, 2007
Eligos said...

Adios Bob

Thanks for everything

FNORD!
January 18, 2007
Anonymous said...

Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday, dear Bob!
Happy birthday to you!
--And many....
January 18, 2007
Annerose said...

Thanks, Thanks, Thanks
January 18, 2007
Tom said...

Rust in vrede Bob. Al je inzichten waren zeer behulpzaam...
January 18, 2007
Zarathustra said...

Ewigeblumenkraft!
January 18, 2007
sascha said...

I really loved your works.

Rest In Peace!

Hail Eris!
January 18, 2007
Aztec-Star said...

No words can describe what legacy you have left... Your death has inspired me to actually read all your books. Hail Eris!
January 18, 2007
twit said...

Later, Bob.
January 18, 2007
God of Earth (esq.) said...

Dear puny human,

About time you finally abandoned this disease-ridden fleshsuit, hence I might as well inform you that, because of your unprecedented spiritual development and persistant intelligence enhancing labors, you have been promoted to god-creator status, meaning that you'll soon be able to create an entire new Universe all by yourself. That should teach you mocking mine.

Love, God
January 18, 2007
Leapday said...

Pardon my Polish, but "Oh, fuck"

The most brillilant writer of my generation, I eagerly devoured everything he wrote and have several shelves of his books sitting in my library at home. He tought me how to look at the world for what it is - a screwed up collection of nincompoops trying to one-up each other, but he also taught me that you cannot have a meangingful conversation with an opponent until you first assume his position and understand why you are opposed to it.

"Uncle Bob" would be pleased to know that it was just last Thursday that I sat hunched down in front of my library of his books and pulled down The Illuminatus Trilogy and thumbed through it - marvelling at the passages I had underlined. Coincidence? Probably not.

Whatever parallel universe he's inhabiting now, I hope to visit sometime soon for a good smoke and a large glass of warm brandy.

I'll miss you, Bob :>(

All Hail Eris!
January 18, 2007
Anonymous said...

"Brightness falls from the air..."
January 18, 2007
Jimi Hackfleisch said...

erm i think samajckaman might possibly have partaken in one too many ales when he posted his oh-so-eloquent tribute to the mighty BOB a few nights ago. Here's why I suspect this:
1. he misspelt his own name (always a bit of a give-away, that)
2. He failed to use the word "INSPIRATION"
3. He neglected to point out that his daughter was born on the first day of the 23rd week of the year (6/6/2004) (an event which had not been meticulously planned, as if you plan these things; she was 5 weeks early)
4. He humbly beseeched assistance in a matter when he should really be assisting his own sorry arse
5. Worst of all, he saluted half the known world and some other random deceased folks without mentioning Bob's family and friends who've been left gazing at the space where he once was and he has asked me to convey his deepest sympathy and love to them. Compared to their loss we're just a bunch of gloaters.

Bob, I just wish I'd written to you earlier, but I have faith that that my inadequate ramblings and thoughts will reach you somehow. Thank you for everything.
Sending you Love (because it's the Law!) from Sam in the increasingly stormy High Peak
January 18, 2007
rvdh said...

happy birthay
January 18, 2007
Scott A. Wilkes said...

Bob you are a big star that shines in all our lives, Thank you for everything!
HAIL ERIS!
HAIL BOB!
IAO!
-your children everywhere miss you- noon blue apples...
-we await the sign of the flying lazanga-we will be ready! 93!
January 18, 2007
Fredrik Lindholm said...

Bye, Bob. Thanks for your time
January 18, 2007
moonlightwok said...

I have laughed and I have cried, and throughout it all, I have always had your crazy wisdom as my constant companion.
Rest well, you indomitable spirit, and when you're ready, send us an e-mail from the other side...
January 18, 2007
momomoto said...

Farewell,Bob and thanks...

?I ?r ?Q???????y?y ?u?????? ?|???t?y, ?{???????????u ?? ???r???y?} ??c??o?N???t???} ??n????-???? ???????u????e?|?y...
January 19, 2007
Anonymous said...

Farewell,Bob and thanks...

?I ?r ?Q???????y?y ?u?????? ?|???t?y, ?{???????????u ?? ???r???y?} ??c??o?N???t???} ??n????-???? ???????u????e?|?y...

momomoto
January 19, 2007
Δα?δαλος said...

Χα?ρε Μπ?μπ!!
January 19, 2007
Harponet said...

93 - RAW - 93!
January 19, 2007
mightydoll said...
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January 19, 2007
Anonymous said...

to an inspired human being

-much love
January 19, 2007
leandro said...

Grandma!!
Thanks for talking to me even though you never met me..
Thanks for your words, the only ones capable of changing lives.
Farewell
All Hail Eris!

Gracias y adios querido amigo
January 19, 2007
325t said...

Much love and regards
January 19, 2007
la_roja said...

I love you, bob!
Thanks for all the fish!
Hail Eris!

Miss you already.
January 19, 2007
Remember RAW said...

Hi!

I've spent some time organizing a wake in toronto to coincide with Bob's memorial service.

This is a not-for-profit event and any donations will be given to a charity of Bob's family's choice.

I'm also willing to help anyone set up a wake in their own city or town, please visit the blog, at Raw Remembered for more information
January 19, 2007
Anonymous said...

So, Bob took a step outside.

I love you Bob. Come back soon, ok?
January 19, 2007
pixiequix said...

Don't worry Bob, we'll keep that lasagna flying. Although it does enjoy flying all on it's own... We'll be missing you here on Earth, it just won't be the same.
We love you Bob. Thank you, brother, for setting my mind free.
January 19, 2007
Zires said...

I´ll never forget you...
January 19, 2007
Cthulhu said...

RAW, you were one leg of my tripod of influence: Terence, RAW, and Bandler. If you can read this, say hi to Terence.

Later
January 19, 2007
Anonymous said...

I'll see you on Monday for coffee.
January 19, 2007
Andreas_Kraft said...

"Ich war auf Dich angewiesen,
aber Du nicht auf mich!
Merk Dir das!"

- farewell from Germany, near Stuttgart
January 20, 2007
Pip said...

All these Wilsons dying. First Woodrow, then Harold, Dennis, William Carlos ... what's going on??

Thanks for everything, RAW.
January 20, 2007
Anonymous said...

Goodbye, RAW. You taught me a lot about the world, and I had fun learning it. I regret I only had the opportunity to meet you once, while I was yet far too young to appreciate it.

I hope you are happy and together with your loved ones, wherever your soul has gone.
January 20, 2007
srini said...

death is just a graduation

see you on the other side someday robert !!!
January 20, 2007
Anonymous said...

So it goes. Bon Voyage!

Eeeeiieieiiiyyyeeeeaaaaaah!!!

Love and Apples
mander
January 20, 2007
Anonymous said...

goodbye bob, thanks for everything =)
January 20, 2007
tsktsktsk said...

Thanks for helping me finally see the fnords.
January 20, 2007
Anonymous said...

HAIL ERIS!!!!!
January 20, 2007
David said...

We never met, but you certainly met me.

Take care bro.
David K.
January 20, 2007
Jonathan said...

Goodbye, Bob!

Your spirit stays with us through your fantastic writing.
January 21, 2007
Nemesis said...

Prometheus Rising was an ENLIGHTENMENT experience for my humble brain neural cells.

Keep up the mind-workings on the spiritual realms you are travelling now, teacher Wilson..And keep up listening to Beethoven's 9th.

In my spiritual and self-realization journey you had been one of the main fire-starters that burnt down the old circuits.

Too bad you were rejecting all the Perfect Masters.
"What the Thinker Thinks, the Prover Proves"

I am bit sad you had not been progressing in the meditation area.
Next time Robert Anton Wilson. Maybe!!!

May you will conquer the 8th Non-Local Quantum Circuit.

Intellectu-Elle from Greece
January 21, 2007
Oscar said...

Please enjoy Death as you seem to have enjoyed life.

The Bob is dead, Long live the Bob.
January 21, 2007
Markus Krakus said...

So the fnords have finally got ya eh?

Thanks for the reality tunnel vision, the epiphanies, chuckles and moments of confusion.

Your work will echo throughout the ages.

Till we meet again...
January 21, 2007
miss fish said...

Sometimes the chaos of this creation can overwhelm, and RAW's words could pull even the most despondent me into paroxysms of laughter. What a gift it has been to share this orb with him. His brilliance could not be tethered here long.
January 21, 2007
The Rev Dr Sherwood Forrester said...

Fortunate was I to have seen RAW thrice, and get to meet him on one of those occasions--one of a million for him and one in a million for me.

Gonna miss that mischievous twinkle in your eye. So I won't say goodbye, just 23 skidoo...
January 22, 2007
Greeny said...

Dear Bob

Born in another culture, on another continent, thousand kilometres away, in an empire that has collapsed not long after and for years living in country 90% won't find on the map it was nearly an enlightment reading your books...

Come back as soon as you want, here in our tunnel we'll miss you much. you were the one with light and smile. now it's getting darker and colder...
January 22, 2007
Hybrid Hornet said...

Requiescat in pace, Mr. Wilson.

Thank you, Mr. Wilson for positively broadening and progressing my thinking. My life just hasn´t been the same since I first read your book.. I really learned a lot from your unwavering optimism, humor and free-thinking attitude.

You will be missed, Bob.

Best regards

Hybrid Hornet
January 22, 2007
Cris said...

So long, and thanks for all the fish. Bob's writings changed my life, and I am ever grateful.
January 22, 2007
Mark Day said...

Thank you
Robert Anton Wilson
for everything

you are still with us
through all your work
you are a saint-- you
wanted better for all
of us
You kept your heart chakra open
you showed the way
thank you
January 22, 2007
Frank Willemsen said...

This is another of your jokes right? you just looove to read all these obituaries and sendoffs.

Prankster gods don't die. Wherever you are now, resting in peace is so totally not like Robert Anton Wilson.

Thanks for the inspiration. Guess it's up to us to raise some heck now on this small planet.
January 22, 2007
fnord@panix said...

Thanks for helping me see the fnords.

I swear I will never whistle while I'm pissing.

The numbers 5 sand 23 will never cease to influence my life, and

Please say hello to my Cousin Cliff Heller, without whom I would never have heard of you.

See you on the other side.

Craig
January 22, 2007
Anonymous said...

Thanks Bob. Happy trails. Cosmic Trigger!
January 22, 2007
oliver said...

Heil Diskordia,

Mr. Wilson was such an amazing person, his work gave me so many new ideas and thoughts.

I'll never forget him !

ALL FUCKED UP
January 22, 2007
Richard said...

Thanks for everything, Bob - most of which I have yet to discover.
January 22, 2007
Ben said...

thank you for making it more interesting, bob

...

goodbye
January 22, 2007
Anonymous said...

A great man. One of the greatest. Bob's books, especially Prometheus Rising, left a huge impression on me as a teenager. I am almost 32 years old now and it is clear that his ideas had a formative effect on my own philosophy. Farewell, and thank you, Old Man and brother.

CLC(26.04.1975)
January 23, 2007
Ryan said...

See you in a bit Bob.

You're an inspiration so many others:

Richard Metzger
http://www.dazeddigital.com/broadcast/

Grant Morrison
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5589263822022732006&q=grant+morrison

And me.

Thanks
January 23, 2007
Phil said...

You were one of fnord those who opened me up.

There is no enemy anywhere

All hail Discordia
January 23, 2007
Sunny Jim said...

A haiku for Bob, who has gone before, in the traditional 5-7-5, 7-7 form:

I was told today:
Robert Anton Wilson’s dead.
Ha! Impossible!

You fools! Don’t you realise? That’s
JUST WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK!!!
January 23, 2007
Anonymous said...

Just found your gone Bob
Have fun on youR Jouney.
Hail Everthing.........THANKS A BRAZIAIN
January 23, 2007
Peter Michely said...

Goodbye Robert. I want to thank you for everything you changed in my life.
You will be missed, may Eris be with you wherever you are.
Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!

See you later...
January 23, 2007
Ralph Fucetola said...

When I heard that Bob had passed, early afternoon on 01/11, I offered a peace pipe and remembered Bob's book signing trips in the '80's (and before and after) when he would sometimes stay with us in Morristown.

And particularly one time in '82, I think, when he used our Commodore 64 for an online chat -- one of the first of these ever. We were all amazed, watching Bob sitting in our living room, responding to questions from people thousands of miles away. This was before graphic interfacing, so we all watched the cursor spell out questions and answers in little white letters on a blank field.

On 01/11/07 Kathy and I had participated in the worldwide peace meditation that occurred from 11 AM to noon (EST) and noticed that the Global Consciousness Project EGG summary dot changed from green to red at 11 am and stayed red until noon. Haven't seen it stay red that long before - www.noosphere.princeton.edu

Wonder if we were seeing some energy swell through global consciousness synchronistic to Bob's passing.

Certainly... Bob is not here, but not gone. Missed, and remembered.
January 23, 2007
Anonymous said...

I really loved Robert Anton Wilson. His who persona and sense of humour has been an inspiration my whole adult life.

Thanks so much for a marvellous accomplished life.
January 23, 2007
Seb said...

deep in snowy bavaria life is a little colder and the sky weeps tons of snow, whereever You may go, cheerio!
In tiefer Trauer und einem wohligen Schauer sag ich auf Dauer: Servus Bob!
January 24, 2007
Andy Philpott said...

Not sleeping, but dead. Thanks for the mirror for looking around the corner with.
Please to be writing 'kick me' on St. Peter's back so I know which bastard to single out when I get to the pearly gates without an invite.
Wishing you Love, light and peace and a decent pint of guinness or two.
Andy
xxx
January 24, 2007
Fergal said...

bye bye bob..."Consume my heart away; sick with desire/And fastened to a dying animal,”
January 24, 2007
kboom23 said...

All Hail Bob!

I always enjoyed knowing you were around. Thanks for all the great books, I'll think of you every time I find a quarter...
January 24, 2007
Anonymous said...

Funny thing happened in australia last night. I was flipping through the free to air channels at about 12:30 am when on the ABC they had a movie about the life of Sister Kenny. Now when I worked out that the movie was about her and it made me then think how that method helped him get over his childhood polio. I then had a feeling to take a look at my mobile and the date on my screen was the 25th. Which made me chuckle. Then it hit me that Bob died on the 11th, 14 days before (1+4=5)!!!!!. I know time differences between Oz and US doesn't make this synchronistically perfect but it is enough for a RAW fan like myself to warm my heart that is still saddened by the loss of such a great mind.
P.S. Still looking for the Pastry that looks like bob.
January 24, 2007
Seb said...

The sky cries tons of snow in Bavaria tonight. Kids smile, Adults writhe. Farewell and Cheerio.
In tiefster Freude über Deine Erkenntnise verbeug ich mich. Servus
January 25, 2007
shaimee11 said...

?C?g1?\??f?S?
January 25, 2007
Byron said...

So long teacher, mentor, inspiration, you will be missed
January 25, 2007
Johnny Favorite said...

You are my hero, Robert.

Bless us from above.

Life Extension and Superman Chemistry is what I fight for

ergogenesis
January 25, 2007
Anonymous said...

http://tenthousanddays.blogspot.com/2007/01/i-have-seen-fnords.html
January 25, 2007
Jerry Threet said...

My one Hero and Mentor. So long, Bob.
January 25, 2007
Anonymous said...

This is quite a tribe. Apparently RA Wilson's Maybe Logic Academy www.maybelogic.com just went public - maybe that's a good place for cyber shin-dig. Bless you, Bob.
January 25, 2007
wal said...

Thank you so much, Bob,
I am feeling blue tristesse and true discord.
Farewell brother...
January 26, 2007
Rhys F & Jake R said...

Farewell pilgrim
January 26, 2007
Anonymous said...

kann jeder bloggen??
January 26, 2007
Ole Blue The Heretic said...

I saw the fnords
They were all around
The Illuminati danced
The Discordians frowned

Reality gasped
When the philosopher died
Because that is the one thing
We thought he would never try

See the fnords
Make lasagna fly
Eat a hot dog with no bun
Because a great philosopher did die
January 27, 2007
Off_line said...

Hail Eris.

The lasagna will keep on flowing. We shall take care of that, deeply.
January 28, 2007
Jonathan said...

I never knew you, but your writings guided much of my life.
January 28, 2007
Jonathan said...

I never knew you, but your writings guided much of my life.
January 28, 2007
clypse said...

RAW was a big influence on maturing my thought processes.

Farewell, and Thanks!
January 28, 2007
Susi said...

life is eternal - death is only a rising.
thanks for the wisdom you gave us!
January 28, 2007
junebug said...

dang. thanks for turning my mind inside out and back again. dang. stupid lack of adequate funding for longevity research! :(

you are missed.
January 30, 2007
Bwana Honolulu said...

Heute die Welt.
Morgen das Sonnensystem.

Nächste Woche der Rest.
January 30, 2007
Aaron said...

I can never thank you enough for saving/decimating my (in)sanity.

you live on in all of us who drank your lovely tomato juice.

we will find the others....
January 31, 2007
KoPiLit said...

I just haven't the words for what you've done for me and others.

See ya man.
January 31, 2007
M. Apple said...

"Do not weep at my grave
I am not there
I did not die
I am become 10,000 winds."

My brother Jared drowned in 2001, 3 months prior to 9/11. For solace I turned to RAW.

Who does RAW turn to? dewa naku,
Who does RAW turn into? to itta ho ga ii kana...

Hail, Eris! Hail, Goddess! Hail, Kali!

Farewell, Bob. See you in another reality. Say hello to Jared.
January 31, 2007
Wilse said...

Robert was the guy that really kicked the whole thing off for me. Before that it was super-heros,
football and witchcraft. But after finding a battered Cosmic Trigger Vol.2 in the bottom of a
battered leather suitcase, underneath lots of notepads covered with byro drawn reapeating symbols
while cleaning out a cupboard on the psychopath ward as a student psychiatric nurse, the lid was
blown forcably off my head. The battered copy came with cryptic side notes from the patient. I
was hooked. What followed was more Bob, and Crowley, Astral stuff failed, meditation and Yoga.
Thanks Bob, life is a lot more interesting thanks to you.
February 01, 2007
oysters rocks'n'fellatioer said...

his hokiness the poop bob wrote in "everything is under control" that "The late Mae Brussel, more originally, claimed I worked for the Rockefellers. I cheerfully confessed to the last, adding that David Rockefeller personally comes around once a month to deliver the filth lucre in gold bars, which I keep stacked in my basement. I thought that would improve my credit rating, but evidently nobody but Mae believed it."

and didn't Gerald Ford have a Rockefeller, Nelly, for a veep?

and who just died and was viewed lying in state in the white house?

so maybe FnORD n FORD are the same thing...
February 01, 2007
eth said...

thank you

farewell!
February 01, 2007
fluent said...

RIP to a brilliant mind and a great person

fluent
February 01, 2007
Anonymous said...

you really made a difference in my life.

thank you so much.

cya:)
February 01, 2007
deutschlandnetz said...

Die 23 ist ein Tunnel durch unsere rationale Wahrnehmung hindurch zur göttlichen Quelle des Seins. Ein Wurmloch, welches aus der uns bekannten Realität hinausführt und unsere inner Freiheit offenbart. In diesem Schwingungsmuster erscheint das Strickmuster des Verstandes selbst und wird für sich selbst erkennbar und beweist seinen eigenen illusionären Charakter innerhalb der Welt der gedanklichen Definitionen. Unsere Realität ist also selbst aus einer Matrix der Schwingungsverhältnisse der 23 gestrickt. Diese Erkenntnis kann zur Befreiung aus den eigenen Konditionierungen genutzt werden, wie dies zum Beispiel auch von den Diskordianern beschrieben wird.

Danke RAW für diesen Kanal!! !!!

http://quelle23.de/23-das-echo-der-stille.html
February 02, 2007
richie_dagger3339@yahoo.com said...

bobspeed god, i mean godspeed bob,ciao
February 02, 2007
Anonymous said...

dude is dead
dad is dead
dead is dud
long live dude
February 03, 2007
jon said...

ciao
February 05, 2007
Paul in Norfolk said...

In August 83 young, broke, naive and ignorant, I caught the Magic bus back from Athens to London, the guy I was sitting next to handed me the The Illuminatus Trilogy, he told me I really should read this. He was right.

Thanks for waking me up Bob, before I read your work I was asleep.

You will be missed.

Hail Eris! Hail Discordia! and Hail Bob!
February 05, 2007
Dave said...

Tonight I stumbled upon the news
The loss could leave us with the blues
Its just another step on the golden road
His burden is now a lighter load
If you ask why my eyes are bright
I'll give you a hand full of RAW sunshine.
I know I'll laugh with you among the stars
Now that you have become a full blown Avatar

So long Mr Wilson, may the force be with you!
February 06, 2007
Helga Cruel said...

ahoi!
February 08, 2007
Anonymous said...

You ALWAYS are SO funny, Bob.

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February 09, 2007
God's Monkey said...

RAW showed us how to think differently. RIP, RAW.
February 09, 2007
youtube said...

Great news

I hope everybody read this article

forex
February 09, 2007
Michaelmage said...

Farewell Bob

Save me a seat

fnord!
February 09, 2007
Anonymous said...

just because you can't see the RAW doesn't mean he isn't trying to f**k with you. fnord indeed.

onward though the fog.

it's like that other guy said:
the more you know, the more you know you don't know what you know... now and zen you goof again, you never blow your trip forever.

be seeing you,
okelnard sirius
February 10, 2007
Anonymous said...

I just found out...don't know what to say...what is this thing called 'language' that you kept talking about? I never got to meet you...Your disciples will finish the Historical Illuminati series for you, or was it already finished?! Was that your ultimate joke and message, are we living the Historical Illuminati?!...Damn these reality tunnels.

I know you're busy with Arlen but when you have time please say hi to my mom for me. I know you'll like her, she is humble and gentle. Try not to blow her mind too much.

I can just imagine the free form poem and jazz freak out that will be taking place with you, Joyce, The Lizard King, Blake and Tim etc. with Jimi and his All Star Cosmic Back Up Band.

The End. Fini. Goodbye. Hello.
February 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

I forgot to mention. One night when I was communing with mushrooms I received a message from Sirius in the form of DNA and RNA matrices. Obviously I couldn't translate it. You'll have to tell me what it means when we meet. I suspect it said something like, 'Please move your planet a little to the right.'
February 11, 2007
Anonymous said...

FNORD!

Farewell, Bob. I've just felt I have to visit your blog today..

Thank you for everything you gave me in my life!

Pavel
February 11, 2007
croak elixir said...

I feel as if my wavefront has collapsed. May you continue to illuminate us from the starry belly of Nuit, or wherever you are. I had just seen Maybe Logic and now I have to accept that I'm going to have to fight the TSOG without you around. I see the fnords, and they're freaking wonderful.

XXIII - Thank you for helping me see the way through Chapel Perilous.
February 14, 2007
joscha said...

thank you bob for lighting up my life .
farewell
February 14, 2007
AM1 said...

Thanks for the dream visit Bob. It was very enlightening.
Interested people can read an account of the dream on my blog.
RAW Dream
February 15, 2007
Phil Hall said...

My Papal benediction to you Bob.

Love
February 15, 2007
Ishouldapologise said...

I give you my papal blessing Bob, though you never slipped me the card saying:

"I hereby declare this man to be an authorised Pope."

Bless you.
February 15, 2007
Anonymous said...

RAW's Cosmic Meme-Orial Poster!

poster by hillerman.biz

To honor Bob.

Thank you for the inspiration.
February 16, 2007
Anonymous said...

tom lennon said

Thank you, Bob. Your courage, wisdom and good humour have been a constant inspiration for most of my adult life. You opened my eyes, nudged me towards enlightenment and often made me laugh so hard I farted. Your time bending semantic circuit dexterity helped transform my life and make the world a much more joyous and wondrous place to explore. I never met you Bob - never had the chance to shake your hand or personally contribute to your limerick collection - but you were like a spiritual uncle whose thoughts, dreams, wit, optimism and intelligence are hard-wired into my soul.
February 16, 2007
Lightice said...

The world has lost a great man.
It's a shame he couldn't live for ever. Lets try to do a little better with his memory.
February 17, 2007
Olga said...

Dear RAW!

Thank you for your books.
They meant much to me.
You were great!
February 21, 2007
MonoMan said...

thanks for everything.
i hope you will carry on with your work.
bye for now.

greetings from the Swedish delegation
February 23, 2007
Wick said...

Thanks for speaking up and open!
February 24, 2007
Neil' said...

Bob transitioned *five* days after he said he might be going that way.
BTW, if anyone went to the Meme-orial, pls. tell us more stories. Say, the movie "The number 23" is out now. Did it debut on Feb 23?
February 25, 2007
hooligan-viagra said...

Intresting site! Thanx!...
February 27, 2007
T.Klindt said...

...I didn't know until I typed RAW into Google today. Funny, I started rereading Illuminatus Trilogy about the middle of January. First ready it in mid 70's. I didn't realize how deeply it influenced the way I see everything. I couldn't have picked a better mentor.
February 27, 2007
Anonymous said...

Farewell, and thank you.

lessik_boris
February 28, 2007
Marshall said...

Thank you.
February 28, 2007
Marshall said...

Thank you, Robert Anton Wilson, for helping me to open my eyes, and for giving all of us some of your boundless light.
February 28, 2007
Fernando said...

I say hello,

and you said goodbye,

something told you so,

you now know why.

P.S. 37 thanks, Bob!!!
March 01, 2007
Jurie Horneman said...

Farewell, and thanks.
March 02, 2007
Koko said...

To post a farewell
Would be to admit he's gone
RAW will always live
March 02, 2007
Nic said...

Bob was one of THE most original thinkers. I sadly only became of aware of him and his work in the late 1980’s. He had this great ability to stir up debate in people, and force them to completely re-think their place in the world. A great man.
March 04, 2007
M. V. Vile said...

Seeing not believing and believing was unseeing. Thanks Bobgone, you messed me up something fierce.
March 06, 2007
Massimo Spiga said...

Thanks, Bob. If thought is a river, you were Charon to me (and I'm still exploring new lands every day!). We'll keep evolving and diffusing your culture, omnidirectionally, laughing all the time, with 23 flaming giraffes as our ride.

One of the most important thing you taught me is that there can never be a dull day.

You're alive in our hands and words, because "in quella parte dove sta memora, prende suo stato".
Pump up the Negentropy!

Love with no horse, no wife and no mustache,
Massimo Spiga
March 07, 2007
Anonymous said...

Goodbye Bob - oh and don't let Wavy Gravy pester you 'kay.
March 11, 2007
poee said...

See you on the other side, Bob. It's been one helluva trip.au
March 18, 2007
Anonymous said...

Just learned about it now after watching the Maybe Logic DVD, and admiring RAW's optimism and wisdom in spite of all of his trials... Decided to check his website...

I'll be missing you so much, Bob.

Haven't cried for a long time
But today I did
Though I'm in tears I know
I'll see you in a better place.

Thank you for everything you've done to me and all not-so-conditioned people here in Russia and entire world.

Sure you'll go on enlightening us in Western Heaven, oh Bob-hisattwa!

?R???p???y?q?? ?x?p ?r???u.

Hail Eris!
March 19, 2007
Jendrik P. said...

I've loved your stories and your ideas. Goodbye!
March 20, 2007

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