“You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.” - Robert Anton Wilson
Enclosed please find a cache of documents from the Michael Horowitz collection on Timothy Leary from the New York Public Library, collected under the title: The Periodic Table of Energy (Correspondences Among: the Periodic Table of Elements, the Neurogenetic Theory of Evolution, the Tarot, the I Ching, the Zodiac) - Transmitted by Joanna and Timothy Leary with Robert Anton Wilson. Vacaville…
Enclosed please find a large collection of letters, articles, poetry, prose, and Discordian junk mail created by Robert Anton Wilson, usually under a variety of pen names and aliases, and all sent to, and preserved by, the poet and activist Ed Sanders . (There is also material by Robert Shea, Arlen Riley Wilson, and even a cameo by Mal 2!) This material was discovered by the brilliant esoteric…
A Special Maybe Night conversation with scholar Michael Johnson by Bobby Campbell :))) bc: Robert Anton Wilson described the language used by James Joyce when writing Finnegans Wake as holographic prose, an ur-hypertext comprised of multilingual portmanteaus with a branching network of meanings and associations. Indeed it is sometimes easy to find the whole in each part of FW's "chaosmos." Just to…
A Special Maybe Night conversation with author Eric Wagner by Bobby Campbell :))) bc: Your highly anticipated new book on the influence of Finnegans Wake on Robert Anton Wilson, known colloquially as Straight Outta Dublin , has reportedly moved closer to official publication, and given that this is the most frequently asked question I receive about Maybe Night, I'm hoping you can tell us more…
I'm psyched beyond belief to have leading RAW exegete Michael Johnson, the Overweening Generalist himself, join us for a rollicking tour of the Illuminatus! idea space! Go get yourself a cup of coffee, find a nice place to sit, and prepare to stretch your mind into a Bavarian pretzel :))) bc: How did Illuminatus! find you and what impact did it have on your life? MJ: It was around 1992. I have it…
I'm absolutely honored to have Eric Wagner, the original RAW scholar, author of An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson and the upcoming Straight Outta Dublin , join us to share some secret, esoteric, clues to the mystery of Illuminatus! Put on your sleuthing caps, light your pipes, and prepare to ruminate :))) bc: How did Illuminatus! find you and what impact did it have on your life? EW: I…
DON'T PANIC. DO NOT.....ADJUST....YOUR BRAIN! REALITY IS MALFUNKTION-NING....NING..... ALL WILL BE REVEALED ON JULY 23RD ALL WILL BE REVEALED JULY 23RD ALL WILL BE REVEALED JULY 23RD https://talesofilluminatus.substack.com/ bc contact@talesofilluminatus.com PO BOX 416 Audubon, NJ, 08106 USA (Mark correspondence "OK TO PRINT" if you'd like to be featured in the letters column) THX for reading TALES…
Find a multimedia collection of material from a wide range of folks, around the theme of Finnegans Wake.
By Mike Gathers Simulation : a representation or imitation of a real-world process, system, or situation. It involves creating a model or virtual environment that behaves similarly to the actual system it is simulating. Simulations are often used to… predict outcomes. Are we living in a simulation? We now know that we invest an awful lot of mental resources into creating and maintaining mental…
"Unprepared young burdened with records" – Canto CXVI Behold a blast from the past! Way back in 2008, a group of Maybe Logic Academy alumni endeavored to produce a print publication, spinning off from the web based Maybe Logic Quarterly , which ran for 14 issues from Winter 2004 to Spring 2008. Presented here in digital form for the first time: MAYBE ZINE (2008) [PDF] Featuring work by Toby…
A second Laws of Form conference will start shortly. August 3 - 6th. Find a registration form by scrolling down on their Home Page. If you can't attend in Liverpool, you can participate through Zoom (when registering, opt to participate remotely). It does not cost to attend, although they do invite contributions. For reference, we have posted about LoF in the past, so for some context, please…
Click here for more info! Member of the NEW TRAJECTORIES WEBRING
The ONLY MAYBE ARTS LAB has found a new home in the venerable PD forum . Click here to check out our new digs ! This was a project that started over the summer in support of the virtual Maybe Day event on 7/23/20 . The idea being to bring together some of the innumerable creative people influenced by the Discordian lives & ideas of Robert Anton Wilson, and establish a mutually beneficial art scene…
A new podcast got launched recently, that might appeal to RAW fans. Live from Chapel Perilous with LeRoy and Maz.
"So if you too are struggling with a part-written show, or would like to try your hand at writing a show for the first time - this is the course for you! Perhaps this invitation is just the kick up the backside you've been praying for...?" We were too slow off the mark with this information, as the first class has already SOLD OUT, but apparently they are working on offering another, concurrently.…
Publishing this a little late for the EU and the UK, but a few hours of the 23rd July 2020 remain in the US of A, etc. For details of some collected material from the old MLA graduates, please visit http://www.maybeday.net/ For people new to the MLA and its history, you can find a brief account here , written for the Hilaritas Press , who have taken on the task of creating new editions of RAW's…
"Starseed Signals: Link Between Worlds" will appear soon. Read about it at Adam Gorightly's site "Historia Discordia" - you can read his Foreword here . You can find more about it at RAWIllumination.net : here and here and here
MAYBE DAY 2020 A virtual celebration of the lives and ideas of Robert Anton Wilson. It will go live on July 23rd 8:08 AM EST at www.maybeday.net We'll be putting together a zine, a collection of video presentations, and whatever else we dream up in the meanwhile. Working title for the zine is " NEW TRAJECTORIES " I'd also like to arrange a couple of panel discussions. I've set up a discussion…
For Jacques Vallée: ...synchronicities possibly provide evidence that reality is based on information, and how consciousness interacts and accesses it: If you believe that the universe is a universe of ‘information’, then you should expect coincidences. You should expect, since we are an information machine – that’s what our brain is, it’s primarily an information machine and consciousness gives…
The MLA came up in discussion, and in particular, the courses that Bob taught. You can find the syllabus of the 12 week course on the Illuminatus! trilogy , on the website dedicated to those books (the three volume version seems more complete than the omnibus). Even better, it stimulated the resurrection of similar material for the other courses that Bob taught, which you can find here . I doubt…
[work in progress - will get tidied up, and improved] When the Maybe Logic Academy ran, under Bob's direction, we evolved this as a student blog, and that led to us creating a magazine, Maybe Quarterly , which ran for 14 online editions, and one actual paper copy. The magazine got stored on the academy server, so when that failed, we lost everything, and all the links here, to material contained,…
A most astonishing announcement, a well-kept secret for some years, a tv version of Illuminatus! You can find ongoing details about this plan, over on RAWIllumination.net , and this post contains the complete press release , with details of the production company, etc.
In the last post I mentioned studying "The Widow's Son" with an online reading group, but did not add a link to it, partly because we have already reached Week 10. However, the introductory post, and subsequent comments from the group remain a resource for future reference. Start at Week One, here. The very same site ( RAWIllumination.net ) has all kinds of other resources worth looking at. Among…
I find myself working with a reading group, currently “The Widow’s Son” (the second of the Historical Illuminatus trilogy). Buy the new edition from Hilaritas Press , or work from an old one, if you wish. We have reached maybe halfway. In the process of looking closely at the text, a fleeting reference came up to “The Laws of Form” by G Spencer Brown. We have a couple of posts in the past of this…