Wilson’s career was, of course, eclectic. He was a classical studies major at Columbia University, but he dropped out. He helped start a psychedelic church and briefly about his anti-war activist career (an attempt to bomb draft headquarters with red paint) before many of his companions traveled the Middle East to hit the hippie hashish path. I thought about it. East Asia and South Asia.
He visited all the usual places and had all the usual adventures before settling in Tehran to study Persian Sufism. After the expulsion of Iran’s Shah in 1979, he returned to the United States and moved to an apartment on the Lower East Side.
He resolved his disillusionment with the failed promise of the 1960s, a revolution that never came, and wrote provocative writings that appeared in avant-garde journals such as: Semiotext (e)French intellectuals like Michel Foucault with American beats like Ginsburg and William Burroughs, and radical feminists like post-punk novelist and performance artists Kate Millett and Kathy Acker. It’s a mixed place.
With all the explanations, Wilson was familiar with recondite, the prolific author of about 60 books on topics ranging from angels to pirate utopia to religions of all kinds of rebellion. He has been an East Village fixture for many years and has been “Radio Crusaders of the Moore Orthodox Church” Midnight program WBAI, Manhattan’s counterculture radio station. In his show, he advocates more advanced mathematics, plays Sufi chants and esoteric music like Greek Rebetiko, and may review zines, a DIY journal that flourished in the late 1980s and 90s. Maybe.
However, he was controversial because his writings often contained erotic images of young teenage boys.
“I’ve always been in a pretty contradictory position about how to handle problems,” Fleming said. “Whether to downplay it or try to protect it in some way. I’ve identified him as gay, but I have a sexual partner, or a real sex life. I didn’t know that. His sexual practices were what I call Whitmanesque and were only imaginary. “
Peter Lamborn Wilson was born on October 20, 1945 in Baltimore. He was the only child of Army officer and English professor Douglas Emory Wilson and high school teacher Laura (Puckwood) Wilson, and grew up in New Brunswick, NJ.