Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Reality is mind-made.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.

All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality.

We live in condensations of our imagination

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

The universe is in the experience. It's not just out there. What's out there, we don't know. But for humans it's an experience just like the universe for a dolphin or an insect with 100 eyes is a different experience. Our universe is a human universe experienced in human consciousness and, unless we understand how consciousness operates, we will never actually be able to participate in the creation of our personal and collective reality.

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating out of the infinite flux of being. You don't know anything about anybody else's reality unless they tell you about it. You gotta listen very sympathetically in order to understand them. So it's a limited infallibility.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.