Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth
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Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth is the second book in the Cosmic Trigger series, a three-volume autobiographical and philosophical work by Robert Anton Wilson.
First published in 1991, Cosmic Trigger II continues where koans to get its messages across.
The book is made up of ninety-four short chapters, with the main themes interwoven throughout in a non-linear fashion. In part, this volume of the series outlines Wilson’s intellectual development, from his religious education under the (‘sadistic’) nuns at
Catholic school, through to his materialist-atheistic standpoint as an engineering student, and his eventual development of the ‘model agnosticism’ which shapes much of his published work. Along the way he discusses becoming a Trotskyist when he was seventeen, and his time as an Objectivist, while under the influence of the work of Ayn Rand
.
Other recurring themes relate to
Jungian Synchronicity, and the exponential growth of global information
.
Wilson wrote the book while the first
H.L. Mencken
.
Wilson later published the final part of the Cosmic Trigger trilogy, Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death, in 1995.
The trilogy
- Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati
- Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth
- Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death
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Alternative cover design -
Later edition design
External links
- Excerpt from Cosmic Trigger II Archived 2005-04-05 at the Wayback Machine