Guerrilla ontology

Guerilla ontology is a practice described by author Robert Anton Wilson in his 1980 book The Illuminati Papers as "the basic technique of all my books. Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?'"

Practice

The goal of guerrilla ontology is to expose an individual or individuals to radically unique ideas, thoughts, and words, in order to invoke cognitive dissonance, which can cause a degree of discomfort in some individuals as they find their belief systems challenged by new concepts.

The ultimate goal of guerrilla ontology is to promote positive brain change and new ways of experiencing and adapting to reality.

Robert Anton Wilson

Fiction	The Sex Magicians (1973) The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy (1979–1981) Masks of the Illuminati (1981) The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles (1982–1991)

Philosophical and non-fiction	Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words (1972) Sex, Drugs and Magick (1973) The Book of the Breast (1974) Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977) Neuropolitics (1978) The Game of Life (1979) Prometheus Rising (1983) The New Inquisition (1986) Natural Law, or Don't Put a Rubber on Your Willy (1987) Ishtar Rising (1989) Quantum Psychology (1990) Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth (1991) Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death (1995) Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups (1998) TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution (2002)

Plays and screenplays	Wilhelm Reich in Hell (1987) Reality Is What You Can Get Away With (1992) The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1997)

Essays	The Illuminati Papers (1980) Right Where You Are Sitting Now (1983) Coincidance: A Head Test (1988) Email to the Universe (2005)

Related	Semiotext(e) SF Discordianism Operation Mindfuck Principia Discordia Guerrilla ontology Fnord Hagbard Celine Celine's laws Ewige Blumenkraft Reality tunnel 23 enigma Chaos magic Church of the SubGenius Ivan Stang Discordian works Association for Consciousness Exploration Timothy Leary Eight-circuit model of consciousness E-Prime "The map is not the territory"

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