Nature's God

Mr. Wilson, (not to be confused with that cantankerous abomination that lived next door to Dennis the menace), would do us a big flâva fave if he would 'git his ol' booty fininishin' and submittin' the fourth book he mentions as forthcoming at the end of this excellent book "Nature's God"! At the end of this book RAW says to look forward to the fourth book in the Historical Illuminatus Chronicles series and even gives us a title, Volume IV - "The World Turned Upside Down". So what happened? FYI in case the reader doesn't know, this is RAW's best artwork to date and yeah I've read pretty much everything so why he would let a big fan like me down by not finishing the series makes one want to say "Git' your flabby old tired geezer of an ace up and finish the series!" Not the most articulated formed sentence attempting to garner favor from Mr. Wilson and solicit his involvement in FINISHING THE FOURTH BOOK. Seriously, great book and Thank you dear brother Robert, may peace and joy reign throughout the remainder of this incarnation. Your fan, joey

The third in the Historical Illuminatus Trilogy. As good as the other two, and they were great. The only problem I see is that thus far, this is the last one. There should be more. I hope the Robert Anton Wilson reads this, and writes some more in this series. Robert Anton Wilson left this plane on January 11, 2007. He will be sorely missed.

I found Robert Anton Wilson's Three Volume Historical Illuminatus Chronicles an amusing read. I read these in the early 1990s and one quote stuck. 'Intellectual laziness and common sense are the same thing. Common sense is just the tradename of the firm.' It has helped me laugh laugh off complacent people for the past ten years. I have applied this quotation in much of my published writing as well as my PhD thesis. I often bring it out during business conferences when people say to me 'That's just common sense'. I have been using this for over ten years and I always get a laugh from the other people in the room and a degree of compliance and dissent from they who try to dismiss and stymie my efforts to help people deal with new ideas.Read the three books and find it.I reckon Nature's God should be as well known as Persig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.My only complaint is that Robert refuses to engage in any sensible discourse about his ideas.

It seems like I read this is the last book of this series he will putout. I believe I read something from him that he said he had writtenthe fourth book, and decided not to release it. No reason to keep them going if the author himself doesn't want them to. As for the review, here goes. The Historical Illuminatis series is my favorite of all that Wilson has written, and I hope he releases the fourth book. All so far have been great, and in this one the chapter that is Sigismundo's Wilderness Diary is not to be missed. It borrows a lot from Nietzsche's "Maxims and Arrows", but gives them a new twist. Very good, and if you are a fan, find this book somehow.

This is a really good book that has more thought provoking nuggets than 95% of books on spirituality..see chapter 7. It is also a helluva good story, which really gets one involved with the characters. We are told that " The World Turned Upside Down" will be "coming soon." Where the hell is it ? This stuff is great. RAW is one of the true visionaries of this genre, ranking with Dick and Heinlein, in my humble opinion. I truly hope he will finish this series.