robert anton wilson the eye in the pyramid

I read the trilogy in the 1970's when it first came out. I enjoyed it most when just focusing on the book and nothing else. In a world filled with online hate fuelled by extreme groups, social media messing with democracy and rumours that Covid was made in a lab, it is a refreshing change to hear so many conspiracy theories put into a blender and turned into the wonderful nonesense of this book, leading to its own form of enlightenment. Try to listen to the description of the sex scenes in the way the narrator gives them and not laugh. This results in the closest thing to an oral acid trip you can get and it makes the sex scenes hilarious. The narrator describes things in a detached, slightly bemused sense of someone who is not quite sure that they are talking about. It makes me feel like going through my other Audible reviews and taking a star off performance for them. In a book that is meant to be a postmodern satire of conspiracy theories, fuelled by porn and acid, this is perfect. Some people have stated their dislike of the narrator, but I think that he is an inspired choice for this book. What you end up with is brilliant nonesense and, for me, the perfect antidote to taking conspiracy theories or myself too seriously. Since they were editors at Playboy, there are also some sudden sex scenes that pop up at unexpected times. Illuminatus! book 1 is a brilliant mixture of all the conspiracy theories sent to the authors whilst they were editors at Playboy. In 1976, Ken Campbell adapted Illuminatus! for the stage, creating a 10-hour epic that went on to open the Royal National Theatre in London under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth II.īrilliant nonesense, excellently narrated Part I: The Eye in the Pyramid is performed by the incomparable Ken Campbell and Chris Fairbank. The trilogy tackles all the cover-ups of our time, from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on the one-dollar bill, and suggests a mind-blowing truth. In a breakneck race against an awesome deadline, Goodman plunges down the trail of the ultimate conspiracy as the days fall away toward Apocalypse.įilled with sex, violence, and rock-and-roll, in and out of time and space, Illuminatus! is only partly a work of the imagination.

The Illuminati, an inside joke? The lunatic fringe? Or a vast conspiracy hidden for centuries, unleashing it's power on a naive, defenseless world? It was the lousy luck of Saul Goodman, a tough, streetwise New York detective, to smell the trail in a bombed-out office - the heavy case he'd always dreaded. For the first time in audiobook form, the unabridged epic is presented in all its grandeur, spookiness, hilarity, and brilliance. So begins this original trilogy of conspiracies, Illuminatus!. 'It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton'.

Robert anton wilson the eye in the pyramid