Eight Basic Winner Scripts

by Robert Anton Wilson

I. The biosurvival winner:

"I will live forever, or die trying."

II. The emotional-territorial winner:

"I am free; you are free; we can have our separate trips or we can have the same trip."

III. The semantic winner:

"I am learning more about everything, including how to learn more."

IV. The sociosexual winner:

"Love, and do what thou wilt." (Anon. of Ibid)

V. The neurosomatic winner:

"How I feel depends on my neurological knowhow."

VI. The metaprogramming winner:

"I make my own coincidences, synchronities, luck, and Destiny."

VII. The neurogenetic winner:

"Future evolution depends on my decisions now."

VIII. The neuroatomic winner:

"In the province of the mind, what is believed true is true, or becomes true within limits to be learned by experience and experiment." (Dr. John Lilly)