"Just Because You're Not Paranoid Doesn't Mean They're Not Plotting Against You." Conspiracy Theorist Robert Anton Wilson to Publish with HarperCollins.

NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--October 7, 1998--What do the Freemasons, the Kennedys, and Queen Elizabeth all have in common? All are at the center of gigantic conspiracy theories with incredibly complex and perpetually multiplying twists and turns. At least this is the case presented by conspiracy theorist/author Robert Anton Wilson, whose new HarperPerennial book, Everything Is Under Control reads according to compact and provocative entries (which include both cross-references to other entries in the book and provide also the addresses to related sites on the Web). This book is truly interactive--you can dip, read through, or follow one of the URL's from an interesting entry onto the Internet.

Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups covers the range of Robert Anton Wilson's (author of the classic cult favorite The Illuminatus! Trilogy) kaleidoscopic knowledge. Everyone and everything from John Adams to the Veronezh (former Soviet Union) UFO sighting, the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu to the Mothman prophecies (and the whole shebang in between) can be found in this convenient and modern alphabetization of Wilson's investigative work.

A few good conspiracies, cults, and cover-ups in Everything Is Under Control:

-- Abductees Anonymous is an organization which serves as a support group for persons who believe that extraterrestrials have kidnapped and sexually molested them--one of the largest subgroups in the recovered memory community, trailing behind only the incest survivors and the Satanic abuse survivors.

-- CIA LSD Research: In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency began a series of experiments with LSD, the most potent mind-altering drug known at the time (or now). The LSD research was part of a larger program called MK-ULTRA, which also included CIA-financed studies of hypnosis, electroshock, lobotomy, and sensory deprivation.

-- President Bill Clinton: please see: A-albionic, Bilderbergers, Council on Foreign Relations, Princess Di's Death, Vince Foster

-- Heaven's Gate: In 1978, in Houston, the present author was giving a lecture when a man and a woman in the audience got up and walked out. They were later identified as Bo and Peep, leaders of a typical UFO contact cult, and later we heard that they had changed their names to Him and Her. The female died of natural causes, the male changed his name again to Do, two decades passed, and then he and 38 disciples committed suicide with vodka and goofballs.

-- Mosquito Conspiracy: In 1956-58, the U.S. Army conducted field experiments in Savannah, Georgia, and Avon Park, Florida, in which mosquitoes were released into residential areas. Many people were "swarmed" by the mosquitoes and later fell ill; some even died. U.S. Army personnel posed as public health officials to photograph and test victims. Although details of the experiments on unwitting citizens remain classified, some conspiracy buffs think that the mosquitoes were infected with yellow fever.

The author, who sees himself as a Futurist, conspiracy theorist, and stand-up comic, regularly gives seminars at Eslan and other New Age centers. A former editor at Playboy magazine, Wilson's ideas can be further experienced through his award-winning website: www.rawilson.com