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Robert Shea

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Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.


— Robert Shea


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Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.


— Robert Shea


#beings #both #combination #every #human

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.


— Robert Shea


#degree #department #every #extraordinary #happens

Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.


— Robert Shea


#consciously #founder #history #indeed #influential

Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.


— Robert Shea


#brighter #cultivate #energetic #how #individuals

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.


— Robert Shea


#computer #creativity #decline #fun #idealism

Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.


— Robert Shea


#like #military #organization #paradigm #religious

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.


— Robert Shea


#functions #human #human inventions #interdependent #inventions

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.


— Robert Shea


#club #down #end #freedom #garden

The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.


— Robert Shea


#christians #driven #hierarchical #orthodox #out






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The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Anton Wilson) Full Trilogy printed December 1 1983 by Dell: ISBN 0-440-53981-1 ISBN 978-0-440-53981-0
The Eye in the Pyramid (1975) Dell
The Golden Apple (1975) Dell
Leviathan (1975) ISBN Dell

Shike (January 13 1992) Two in One version: Ballantine Books ISBN 0-345-36046-X ISBN 978-0-345-36046-5
Time of the Dragons (June 1 1981) Jove ISBN 0-515-04874-7 ISBN 978-0-515-04874-2
Last of the Zinja (July 1 1981) Jove ISBN 0-515-05944-7 ISBN 978-0-515-05944-1

All Things Are Lights (April 12 1986) Ballantine Books ISBN 0-345-32903-1 ISBN 978-0-345-32903-5 [1]
From No Man's Land to Plaza del Lago (October 1987) Amer. His novels include: Shike set in medieval Japan; All Things Are Lights a story that entwines the fate of Cathars of southern France with the occult traditions of Courtly Love and the troubadours; The Saracen describing the intricate politics of medieval Italy through the eyes of an Islamic warrior; Shaman tracing the fate of the survivors of the Black Hawk War in 19th century Illinois; Lady Yang a tragic story of an idealistic empress of medieval China.

It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere. Robert Joseph Shea (February 14 1933 - March 10 1994) was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus!. In 1986 it won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.

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