COSMIC TRIGGER: FINAL SECRET OF THE ILLUMINATI - Robert Anton Wilson 1978 OCCULT

Book Details + Condition: And/Or Press (Berkeley, CA), 1978 (Second printing). Softcover. 270 pages, with b&w illustrations. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; light wear to covers; foxing to text block; interior is clean and free of markings. Cosmic Trigger deals with Wilson's experiences during a time in which he put himself through a process of "self-induced brain change" as well as vignettes of his earlier life. The main discovery of this process—which, he tells us, is known in certain traditions as Chapel perilous—is that "reality" (although a noun in most Indo-European language systems, and therefore commonly conceptualized as being a definite, unchanging "'thing") is mutable and subjective to the observer. Wilson employs several models for his experiences, such as the interstellar ESP connection, during which time Wilson enters what he refers to as a 'reality tunnel', in which he claims to communicate telepathically with extraterrestrials residing in the Sirius star sy