Ishtar Rising: Why the Goddess Went to Hell & What to Expect Now that She’s Returning

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“And herein lies both Wilson’s typically mischievous nature and serious intent — in its original, weaponized form, the book that became ‘Ishtar Rising’ is nothing less than a mytho-feminist screed masquerading as an antique stroke book; a brilliant, compact summary of ‘matrist’ attitudes, their cruel demotion and degradation, their struggle for survival, and their hoped-for triumphant restoration.” ‘Ishtar’ is a book of revealing — the undressing of the Goddess as she descends into the Underworld, where, shorn of the accoutrements of Divinity, she must confront her True Naked Being to survive the ordeal. It speaks also of the return of the repressed. The journey of the now-enlightened Goddess back from the murk and mysteries of the Nether World to Get Some Shit Tidied Up.

It speaks from its rear-view mirror times of a still-overdue resurgence of co ectivity, kindness, sex-positivity, respect for Nature and for Life. It wonders what a world ruled by the Goddess would look like, in contrast to those Dark Satanic Mills and centuries of slaughter presided over by an unforgiving God. – Grant Morrison, from his Introduction to Ishtar Rising Author Robert Anton Wilso Author Info Author of some 35 books including Cosmic Trigger, Prometheus Rising, Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy, and co-author of the Illuminatus!

Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson (RAW or Bob) was a futurist, author, lecturer, stand-up comic, guerrilla ontologist, psychedelic magician, outer head of the Illuminati, quantum psychologist, Taoist sage, Discordian Pope, Struthian politician . . .

maybe. Bob described his work as an “attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with different perspectives recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth”. His goal being “to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything.” His “Maybe Logic” inspired the creation of the Maybe Logic Academy.

Google “Robert Anton Wilson” for mosbunall info. The Berkeley mob once called Leary and me “the counter-culture of the counter-culture.” I’m some kind of antibody in the New Age movement. My function is to raise the possibility, “Hey, you know, some of this stuff might be bullshit.” The Berkeley mob once called Leary and me “the counter-culture of the counter-culture.” I’m some kind of antibody in the New Age movement.

My function is to raise the possibility, “Hey, you know, some of this stuff might be bullshit.” ISBN-13 978-1734473506 Publisher Hilaritas Press Publication Date January 23, 2020 (Originally Published 1989) Edition 2nd Reprint Binding Paperback Condition New Page Count 316 Pages