We have never sought power. We have sought to disperse power, to set men and women free. That really means: to help them to discover that they are free. Everybody's free. The slave is free. The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences. 'Fear is failure.' 'The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.' "Thou hast no right but to do thy will.' The goose can break the bottle at any second. Socrates took the hemlock to prove it. Jesus went to the cross to prove it. It's in all history, all myth, all poetry. It's right out in the open all the time.

The book was intended to poke fun at the conspiratorial frame of mind. C. The Cosmic Trigger series and other books
In the nonfiction and partly autobiographical Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977) and its two sequels as well as in many other works Wilson examined Freemasons Discordianism Sufism the Illuminati Futurology Zen Buddhism Dennis and Terence McKenna Jack Parsons the occult practices of Aleister Crowley and G.

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Wilson described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations to look at the world in a new way with many models recognized as models or maps and no one model elevated to the truth". Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson January 18 1932 – January 11 2007) known to friends as "Bob" was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist philosopher psychologist essayist editor playwright poet futurist civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.