International Smiley Zippy Party - Reality & Guerilla Ontology

The International Smiley Zippy Party

Guerilla Ontology:
Choose your own Reality

'It used to be thought that physics describes the universe. Now we know that physics only describes what we can say about the universe.'
Niels Bohr

'Reality? We don't got to show you no steenking reality'
Dr Nick Herbert (Physicist)

'A secret and benevolent society arose to invent a country. Its vague initial programme included 'hermetic studies', philanthropy and cabala...
In 1824, one of its affiliates conferred with the ascetic millionaire Ezra Buckley. The latter, somewhat disdainfully, let him speak - and laughed at the plan's modest scope. He told the agent that it was absurd to invent a country and proposed the invention of a planet. Buckley suggested that a methodical encyclopaedia of the imaginary planet be written...
The nations of this planet are congenitally idealist. Their language and the derivations of their language - religion, letters and metaphysics - all presuppose idealism. The world for them is not a concourse of objects in space; it is a heterogenous series of independent acts...
The international press infinitely proclaimed the 'find'... Almost immediately reality yielded on more than one account. The truth is that it longed to yield...
The contact and habit of Tlon have disintergrated this world. Already the schools have been invaded by the language of Tlon; already the teaching of its harmonious history has wiped out the one which governed in my childhood...
The World will be Tlon'
Jorge Luis Borges - Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

'Arthur!', he said, 'this is fantastic! We've been picked up by a ship powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive! This is incredible! I heard rumours about it before. They were all officially denied but they must have done it! They've built the Improbability Drive! Arthur, this is... Arthur? What's happening?'
'Five to one against and falling...' she said, 'four to one against and falling... three to one... two... one... probability factor of one to one... we have normality, I repeat we have normality.' She turned her microphone off - then turned it back on with a light smile and continued' 'Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. Please relax.'
Douglas Adams - Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

'Thus radical psychologists ask us: does not the "reality" of schizophrenia or art remain "real" to those in schizophrenic or artistic states, however senseless these states appear to the non-schizophrenic or non-artistic? Anthropologists even ask: do not the emic realities of other cultures remain existentially real to those living in those cultures, however bizarre they may seem to the Geriatric White Male heirarchy that defines official "reality" in our culture?

This variability of humans can function as the greatest evolutionary strength of the human race, since it may allow us to learn from persons imprinted and/or trained to see and hear and smell and think those things we have learned not to see or hear or smell or think.

Due to our habit of premature certainty, however, this variability seldom serves that beneficial evolutionary function. More often, when meeting somebody with a different gloss or umwelt, we merely label that person "mad" or "bad" - crazy or evil - or both.
This may explain most of the hostility on this planet and most of the wars.

Apologists for certain authoritarian/dogmatic groups (the Vatican, the U.S. State Department, CSICOP) spend most of their time constructing "proofs" that anybody who does not share their reality-tunnel has serious mental or moral defects or "is" a damned liar.

Again I call this book Quantum Psychology rather than Quantum Philosophy because understanding and internalizing (learning to use) these principles can decrease dogma, intolerance, compulsive behaviour, hostility etc. and also may increase openness, contimuous learning, "growth" and empathy - sombunall of which represent goals sought in most forms of psychotherapy and sombunall forms of mystic religion.
Robert Anton Wilson - Quantum Psychology

For in and out, above, about, below,
Tis nothing but a magic shadow show,
Played in a box whose candle is the sun,
Round which we phantom figures come and go.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (XLVI)

Most of our social reality is composed of fictions, systems that were created many years ago by those in power and which are perpetuated by those who continue to hold onto it.
Become the film director of your own life, frame every shot, choose your sound-track, the dialog, ideas and characters, make your hopes and dreams the story-line. Don't waste the experience; fill your senses with beauty, wisdom, poetry and laughter.
Reality is nothing but shared perception and by focusing on our own desired world through our own personal experience and through our actions and art we bring that reality into being and can share it with others.

Links:
Fortean Times - The Journal of Anomolies
Robert Anton Wilson's Homepage
Disinformation
Wired Magazine
Omni Magazine
The Lyceum of Entheogens

Books: