Also, this might be the only book that graphically describes a man having sexual relations with a giant golden apple. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Aleister Crowley, and the somewhat fictitious cult of Discordia. I first read this book when I was 19 and it was my gateway drug into William S. ISBN 9780440539810 - Get FREE shipping offers and dollar off coupons with our price comparison for The Illuminatus Trilogy The Eye in the Pyramid The Golden. 'Trust no one!' is the name of the game in this mental landscape.
The authors (Robert Shea as more transcribing Robert Wilson's pseudo scholarly rants on the Illuminati and other drug blasted notions) shift constantly between time lines and characters to the point where time looses its meaning and everything from a squirrel eating a nut to resurrected Nazis attacking hippies are connected into one organic 3-D picture in your head. Am I me, or are you not you, or are you me, and other gibberish. A work of literary fiction (but is it fiction?) that induces not only extreme paranoia but confusion of self as well. Laugh or rage at it or with it…you won’t be able to put it down."Confusion. In 2006 One Act was tapped by Deep Leaf Audio as the troupe to bring to life The Golden Apple, Book Two of the Illuminatus trilogy, Robert Shea and Robert. “Funny, savagely sarcastic, definitely anarchistic…wild and irreverent…(Shea and Wilson blend) a marvelous amount of fact and inspired fiction (together to weave) one of the most dizzying tales I’ve come across in years…. Based on the actual incarnations of the mystic Illuminati sects, which include the Hashisin, the Knights Templars, and the Masons, among others, the novel ties together everything you’ve ever dreaded about Watergate, the Mafia, UFOs, all the recent political assassinations, Atlantis, Nazi Germany, giant rock festivals, the CIA, pyramid power, John Dillinger, LSD, yoga, the FBI, and the last words of Dutch Schultz – for starters – in a hilariously raunchy style.” - Village Voice “The ultimate conspiracy book… the biggest sci-cult novel to come along since Dune.
In 2006 One Act was tapped by Deep Leaf Audio as the troupe to bring to life The Golden Apple, Book Two of the Illuminatus! trilogy, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's conspiratorial classic in counter-culture mysticism. Recorded at What You Say Studios, San Francisco Cast
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