Cosmic Trigger trilogy

His ideas traveled further than his name did.

Robert Anton Wilson wrote about Lilly's contact experience in his amazing book, Cosmic Trigger, and a generation of readers met the material there first.

Terence McKenna worked downstream of the same territory.

The whole vocabulary of the psychonaut decade, programming yourself, metaprogramming, running a belief as an experiment rather than a creed, traces back through Lilly to that one preface.

I'm Jeffrey Mishlove.

Today we are going to take an in-depth look at Robert Anton Wilson's book, The Cosmic Trigger, Volume 1, The Final Secret of the Illuminati.

This book covers Wilson's life, largely covers his life in Berkeley, California in the mid-1970s.

The interesting thing for me in doing this interview is I was there.

Hi, Jeffrey.

It's great to see you again.

So we're going to be talking about his book, The Cosmic Trigger, which has a sort of a special place in my heart because I lived through those years in Berkeley.

That's the period of time when I knew Bob.

26,000 cycle is one of numerous cycles that are coming to a head.

Robert Anton Wilson interestingly describes this in a book that he wrote some years ago called The Cosmic Trigger that the point of 2012, as it's discussed in several different cultures and traditions, Numerous cycles come to a head literally in the same moment, and then begin yet another.

So this cycle of great time is ending, and as we move into this new cycle of time, we are moving into a new vibrational envelope of light, or a new energy frequency of light also.

I also believe it's the time of peace and joy and love that has been long been predicted in many religious writings.