The Illuminati Papers

1-57951-002-7

The Illuminati Papers is a collection of essays and other works by Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1980 (ISBN 1-57951-002-7).

Overview

The book expands upon characters and themes from his earlier The Illuminatus! Trilogy (written with Robert Shea) and most of the essays are written from the point of view of the characters in Illuminatus! Topics Wilson writes on cover politics, science, the future, hedonism and consciousness. The book's essays and stories are illustrated with line drawings, message banners, cartoons, office memos and interviews. "The RICH Economy" presents Wilson's economic thoughts on Basic income. In it Wilson synthesize several concepts and gives them the acronym RICH. An online version is available.

The essay collection appears to recapitulate an idea presented in James S. Albus's 1976 book: Peoples' Capitalism: The Economics of the Robot Revolution, although Wilson proposes to prevent inflation through a gradual phase-in of a National Dividend rather than Albus' idea of a mandatory savings plan.

The Illuminati Papers is sometimes referenced as a sequel to Illuminatus! as are other works such as Masks of the Illuminati and the Cosmic Trigger, and The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles series of books. The Schrödinger's Cat trilogy is similar in length, writing style, plot devices and the use of parallel universes for the novel's settings.

External links

Excerpt from The Illuminati Papers Archived 2005-08-29 at the Wayback Machine
The RICH Economy by Robert Anton Wilson from The Illuminati Papers

Robert Anton Wilson

Fiction

The Sex Magicians (1973)
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)
Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy (1979)
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)
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)
Everything Is Under Control (1998)
TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution (2002)

Cosmic Trigger	Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977) Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth (1991) Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death (1995)