S1E17 -Chapter Seventeen: The Eye In The Pyramid! (The First Trip)
On THE ILLUMINATUS! TRILOGY by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
This is a big one, man. I mean it's for real, this is like the one that explains EVERYTHING, like how it's all connected, you picking up what I'm putting down? World governments, secret technologies, the lost continent of Atlantis, drug culture, the significance of the number 5, the whole big master plan to immanentize the eschaton--it's all here, man. It's all connected, and it all makes sense, you dig? But better not listen to this in public--they're listening...
This time around Phil and I are tackling Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's seminal counterculture tome The Illuminatus! Trilogy, ground zero for pop culture paranoia! It's such a fertile subject we had to do it as a two-parter. This one covers the intricate lore the authors wove together as the background for their manifesto, with a second half on its way very soon!
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