Customer Reviews
A genuine genius at his best. - By: , 07 Mar 2001 
For anyone new to the genius of Robert Anton Wilson, stand by for something very different! This is more factual & less occult than Cosmic Trigger I, & more easily understood than Cosmic Trigger III. For me, Wilson gets the balance just rightin this one.
Cosmic Trigger II is semi-autobiographical, presented mainlyin short sections of one or two pages which can mostly be read separately from each other. It is a good book for opening up at random now & again, & pondering on one of these short chapters. You might get some sobering observations on the human condition, or a bit of enlightenment & a really good laugh! There are also however, many interconnecting themes running throughout the book. Along the way, just about every belief systemin human experience is called into question. A whole range of political, religious, scientific, & philosophical points of view are embraced and/or seriously challenged, not to mention the mechanical thought patterns of the reader as well. By continually shifting his & your perception, Wilson gets you to WAKE UP!
A brief selection from the table of contents might give newcomers at least some idea of the range of this book: A Sociological Horoscope, Attack of the Killer Spider, Cosmic Economics, The Square Root of Minus One & Other Mysteries. The author suggests that the important lesson of Cosmic Trigger II can be summed up as follows: "1. Never believe totallyin anybody else's Belief System. 2. Never believe totallyin your own Belief System." Excellent. Read this book & free your mind!
Watch Out - By: , 22 Feb 1998 
This book is a collection of very short essays that (as a whole) does not even come close to approaching the quality & originality of the first bookin the series. Vol. 2 is a decent read, but if you are expecting more of Cosmic Trigger Vol. 1, you will be very disappointed. This book is much more biographical than Vol. 1 & less "out there". RAW details growing upin a sheltered neighborhood, livingin Ireland, the Mafia connections to the Vatican & the CIA, & many other things. Allin all, it was interesting, but after the excellent Vol.1, I was expecting something a little more cosmicin scope.
