"Cosmic Trigger deals with a process of deliberately induced brain change ... This is called 'initiation' or 'vision quest' in many traditional societies and ... [a] dangerous variety of self-psychotherapy in modern terminology. I do not recommend it for everybody ... The main thing I learned is that 'reality' is always plural and mutable." -- From the Preface Wilson managed to reverse every mental polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity. I was astonished and delighted." -- Philip K. Dick, author of Blade Runner Erudite, witty and genuinely scary ..." -- Publishers Weekly Robert Anton Wilson is one of the leading thinkers of the modern age." -- Barbara Marx Hubbard, Committee for the Future Dazzling ... the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway of higher consciousness." -- Tom Robbins What great physicist hides behind the mask of Wilson?" -- New Scientist The man's either a genius or Jesus." -- Sounds (London) We've needed this for a long time ..." -- Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer NOVELIST, TEACHER AND FORMER PLAYBOY EDITOR Robert Anton Wilson is the author of Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth; Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death; The New Inquisition; Reality Is What You Can Get Away With; the Illuminatus! trilogy (with Robert Shea); Prometheus Rising; WiIhelm Reich in Hell; Sex & Drugs and many other works.