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Real Reality Robert Anton Wilson
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Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (April 8, 1859 – April 26, 1938) was a German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology.
His work broke away from the purely positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, giving weight to subjective experience as the source of all of our knowledge of objective phenomena.
For Edmund Husserl, phenomenology is “the reflective study of the essence of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.”
Phenomenology takes the intuitive experience of phenomena as its starting point and tries to extract from it the essential features of experiences and the essence of what we experience.
When generalized to the essential features of any possible experience, this has been called “transcendental phenomenology”.
The Prefix neuro denotes “known or mediated by the nervous system.” All human knowledge is neurological in the sense every science may be considered a neuro-science.
For example, we have no physics but neurophysics and no astronomy but neuroastronomy.
We have no knowledge that does not arrive through our nervous system and become interpreted by our brain.
We are each trapped within our own perceptions.
Robert Anton Wilson recognizes this as individual reality tunnels.
And hand in glove with this idea comes the realization that no one can determine an objective reality. In fact, there is no way to prove the existence of an objective reality.
But it is clear that something seems to be happening.
That is why Robert Anton Wilson says, “The trip is real but everything you see is an hallucination.”
But too many people take their hallucinations seriously. And they insist that you take their hallucinations seriously as well.
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August 16th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Beautiful! Just imagine man having a tool to improve the mental health of mankind, which would enable people to be more peaceful in the world.
Just imagine a tool that could liberate man from many of his fears, because people of “non”like-mind are in dialogue with each other rather than afraid of each other.
I see Robert Anton Wilson’s ideas here as being that kind of tool. One that offers the potential for man to be less judgmental and more peaceful.