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23 July 2004 - MLA Academy launches
"In this area of cyberspace, if you can’t achieve tolerance, at least attempt courtesy."
Robert Anton Wilson tutors all the initial courses - and the General Forum has a lot going on, too.- Ideogrammic Method
- 8 Dimensions of Mind
- Illuminatus!
- Conspiracy, Coincidence and Code
- Pete Carroll (?) Was there an early Pete Carroll class?
- Quantum Psychology with RAW January 2005?
- Crowley 101
- Tale of the Tribe with RAW 15 Aug - 6 Nov
- The Map is not the Territory: An Exploration of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Program and reprogram with NLP and the guidance of Phillip H. Farber September 19 - November 18
- Chaos Magick Peter Carroll is back by popular demand October 3 - November 27
- Question Authority Project Focused and dynamic activity with media rouser RU Sirius October 10 - December 4
- Incandescent Ruins: Modern Visionary Art Surrealist visions led by Erik Davis October 17 - December 11
- Chance and the Laughing Buddha The roll of Zen dice with Luke Rhinehart (Postponed then cancelled)
Only Maybe (student blog) started in June 2005
2006
- Non-Euclidian Politics:Beyond Left and Right Robert Anton Wilson Jan 23 - March 19, 2006. 8 week course
- Angel Tech: The 8-Circuit Brain in Theory and Practice Antero Alli 8 week course from March 13 - May 7, 2006
- Neurologic - RAW’s last workshop got cancelled (did he leave any notes?)
Bob fell ill in June - eBay auction of paraphernalia, Tarot Cards, Patatows, etc
October - Douglas Rushkoff starts an appeal for funds for RAW
Over $68,000 arrives in a couple of days…!?!?!?!?!?!
Over $68,000 arrives in a couple of days…!?!?!?!?!?!
- The Science of Sex and Drugs David Jay Brown August 14th - Sept 24th.
- Meta-Magick: Magick and Neuro-Linguistics Philip H. Farber October 23.
- Running Your Own Cult: The Church of the SubGenius, Rev Ivan Stang beginning November 20.
2007
- Inner Compass Starhawk Jan 29 - 11 March
- Timothy Leary : Personas, Medias and Messages R.U. Sirius is ready to serve up his third (?) MLA Enrollment is $120 and the course runs from February 26 - April 27. The course promises to delve both into Leary's bio and persona as well as exercises based on the 8-circuit model and other of Leary's work.
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MLA get-together in Belgium and A'dam |
Illuminatus! Audio book launched
For the first time in audiobook form, Illuminatus! charges on into the 21st century. Read by Ken Campbell (who directed Illuminatus! for the London stage in 1976) and Chris Fairbank (a human of 100 voices), THE EYE IN THE PYRAMID is sure to fire up the mental circuits and reveal new layers couched and waiting. Available exclusively as a download via DeepleafAudio. fnord indeed.ILLUMINATUS! PODCAST
Delivering Illuminatus! to the masses. If you've never subscribed to a podcast, here's your chance. The first 20 weeks of Illuminatus! Podcast features ILLUMINATI PROJECT MEMOS from Illuminatus! Part I followed by a year's worth of Illuminatus! excerpts from Part II and Part III. If you feel the calling, please email, call, tell, graffiti everyone you know to subscribe to the podcast. Somewhere there's a dormant Illuminatus! initiate waiting to hear the magic words of Shea and Wilson's masterpiece.
- Maverick of Medicine : Exploring Unconventional Medical Research, Alternative Medicine, and Practical Life Extension
Week 1: What’s Wrong With Modern Medicine?
Week 2: Silent Inflammation, Diet, and Chronic Disease
Week 3: Herbal and Nutritional Supplements for Optimal Health
Week 4: Life Extension, Longevity Research, and Anti-Aging Medicine
Week 5: Maximizing the Placebo Effect and the Secrets of Mind-Body Medicine
Week 6: Medicine and Spirituality
- Earth as Teacher Starhawk 23 Apr - 3 June
- Angel Tech Antero Alli 21 May - 15 July
- Buddhist Tantra Jonathan Landaw 18 June - 29 July
Maybe Quarterly #10 was dedicated to High Pope Robert Anton Wilson.
July 23 2007 represented the 3rd Year Anniversary of Maybe Logic Academy (and of course 07/23 was also Robert Anton Wilson Day in Santa Cruz, CA!).
July 23 2007 represented the 3rd Year Anniversary of Maybe Logic Academy (and of course 07/23 was also Robert Anton Wilson Day in Santa Cruz, CA!).
Audiobooks
On the Robert Anton Wilson audiobook front, we are delighted to announce an early September audiobook release of Illuminatus! Part II - The Golden Apple. Featuring a full cast ensemble, The Golden Apple will surely entertain, confuse and enlighten another grateful generation. Audiobooks of Illuminatus! Part I as well as The Earth Will Shake are also now offered on iTunes. Like all iTunes audiobooks, the files are DRM (copy-protected) and the quality is a little lower than that offered via Deepleaf Audio Downloads, but RAW Audiobooks have now merged with the global digital slip-stream!- Crowley Tarot: Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot Lon Milo DuQuette / August 13 - September 30 / $135
Join author and Crowley expert, Lon Milo DuQuette, for an in-depth (and relatively painless) look at the classic and revolutionary structure of the Thoth Tarot; its artistic mysteries; and the secrets of sexual alchemy hidden within the stunning imagery of its 78 mini-masterpieces.
- The Goddess Path : Myths, Invocations and Rituals Patricia Monaghan September 3 - October 28 / $125
- The crazy wisdom of Philip K. Dick Erik Davis September 17 - November 11 / $120
Erik Davis is the author of Techgnosis and The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape. Erik consulted on the script for A Scanner Darkly, and was recognized by the New Yorker for his expertise in PKD’s work. He has taught courses at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is working on a book about PKD.
- Astrologik: Astrology Without Tears Antero Alli October 29 - December 22
- Technologies of Persuasion: From Propaganda to Paranoia Douglas Rushkoff Oct 1 - 25 Nov
- Altered States Philip H Farber Nov-Jan
Self-Directed Courses
"After rigorous preparation and development, Maybe Logic Academy is now pleased to offer MLA Self-Directed Courses! Essentially S-D Courses resemble "live" MLA courses but tend to be a little more in depth and do not include direct instructor and student feedback - and at nearly a third of the price, they're more affordable! Our first two S-D offerings are Robert Anton Wilson's Tale of the Tribe and Philip H. Farber's Meta-Magick.Tale of the Tribe has been in development for over a year and contains the best from Wilson's MLA courses on The Ideogrammic Method and Tale of the Tribe. All course material was written and/or assigned by Wilson and contains the blueprints and hidden agendas from his never-completed book of the same title."
- MLA Self-Directed Course - Tale of the Tribe An Interactive Exploration with Robert Anton Wilson (10 week access to S-D Course Site)
- MLA Self-Directed Course - Meta-Magick: Where Magick Meets the Brain - Philip H Farber 10 week access to S-D Course Site $55
2008
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European MLA get-together in Paris |
- Pranks and Pranksters, Tricksters and Tricks RU Sirius February 11 - March 23
- RAW's Prometheus Rising Eric Wagner Sept 8 - Oct 19 $120
- Astrologik Antero Alli Sept 22 - Nov 2 $120
- Meta-Magick Philip H Farber Oct 6 - Nov 30 $140
- Crowley Tarot Lon Milo DuQuette Oct 20 - Nov 30 $135
- Corporatized Douglas Rushkoff Nov 3 - Dec 14 $145
2009
- Chapel Perilous Eric Wagner
Week One Cosmic Trigger Preface to the New Edition, Forewords, pg. 3 – 52
Conspiracy of the Week: Subterranean Worlds
Late Beethoven Pick: The Hammerklavier Sonata, Op. 106
Introductions; memorize the Crowley quote on page 18.
Does Apocalypse Now provide a useful model of Chapel Perilous? Dobbstown?Possible meanings of “Rising organ music.”
Agnosticism, Angels and Demons and the Illuminati, etc.
Week Two Cosmic Trigger pg. 52 – 114
Conspiracy of the Week: Tampa Bay: Chemical Warfare
Late Beethoven Pick: Piano Sonata in E, Op. 109
Korzybski, Joyce and the economy, etc.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Permanent Fifth Circuit, casting spells and Info-cinema, etc. Alan Watts, D. T. Suzuki, zen and the eight circuit model, etc.
The Cup of Sympathy
Week Three Cosmic Trigger pg. 114 – 180
Conspiracy of the Week: The Terra Papers
Late Beethoven Pick: Piano Sonata in A Flat, Op. 110
John Lilly, dolphins and limits, etc. Dr. Leary and the 21st century, etc. Why Beethoven? Egypt, Crowley and the Grateful Dead, etc.
Week Four Cosmic Trigger pg. 181 – 247
Conspiracy of the Week: THELEMA, yup, welcome to Chapel Perilous
Late Beethoven Pick: The Ninth Symphony (of course)
Crowley’s relevance today. Sufis, fake Sufis, kabbalah and quantum mechanics, etc. Sirius, Mumbo Jumbo and Pynchon, etc. The tarot, The Game of Life, Jess Karlin and education, etc.
The Sword of Reason
Week Five I, Wabenzi pg. 1 – 113
Conspiracy of the Week: Kerry Thornley
Late Beethoven Pick: Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111
I hope you’ve gotten a copy of I, Wabenzi.
Have we any Wabenzi in the class? Not I, alas. Illumination, the lack thereof, 2012, etc. The Cosmic Schmuck Factor.
Week Six I, Wabenzi pg. 114 – 227
Conspiracy of the Week: The Three Tramps
Late Beethoven Pick: The Missa Solemnis
“How was your time on earth? What did you do there?How did it feel to you at the time?” Storytelling: Chapel Perilous as narrative process.
The Wand of Intuition
Week Seven I, Wabenzi pg. 228 – 351
Conspiracy of the Week: Tobacco Wars: Genetically Engineered Tobacco
Late Beethoven Pick: String Quartet Op. 130 and the Grosse Fugue
The heart and the third eye, etc. What do you think of Beshara, Bulent Rauf, Rafi Zabor, etc.? Bliss and ease, etc. Historicism, “a great unstoppable wave,” the 60’s, the present and the future, etc.
Week Eight I, Wabenzi pg. 352 - 472
Conspiracy of the Week: Trilateral Commission
Late Beethoven Pick: The Ninth Symphony
The role of the teacher at Beshara or Maybe Logic. Abū abd-Allah Muhammad ibn-Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-`Arabi al-Hatimi al-TTaa'i (أبو عبد الله محمد بن علي بن محمد بن العربي الحاتمي الطائي). One reality versus many. Chapel Perilous, the musical.
Course texts:
Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati
-- Robert Anton Wilson
I, Wabenzi
-- Rafi Zabor
8 week course
May 18 - July 12
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European meet-up in Berlin |
2010
- Share this Course - Mark Pesce
- 420 Kabbalah - Eric Wagner
- Global Village: RAW Media Workshop Bobby Campbell
PRESENTATION: Jumping Jesus On A Pogo Stick
WORKSHOP: Tools of the Tribe -
(FTP, HTML and Bit-torrent)
WEEK TWO - SPACESHIP EARTH
PRESENTATION: Here Comes Everybody
WORKSHOP: The Social Medium Is The Message -
(Weblogs, Wikis and Feed Aggregation)
WEEK THREE - OPEN SOURCE CULTURE
PRESENTATION: The No "Mind"
WORKSHOP: Dada Is Not Dead -
(Cut Ups, Collage and The Public Domain)
WEEK FOUR - REALITY LABYRINTHS
PRESENTATION: Who Is The Great Magician That Makes The Grass Green?
WORKSHOP: Ineluctable Modality of the Visual -
(Images, Comix and Animations)
WEEK FIVE - PROMETHEAN OVERTURES
PRESENTATION: The World Turned Upside Down
WORKSHOP: Radio Free Arcadia -
(Digital Audio, Podcasts, and Live Streams)
WEEK SIX - GLOBAL THEATER
PRESENTATION: Reality Is What You Can Get Away With
WORKSHOP: Movie Magick -
(Digital Video, Vidcasts and Live Streams)
WEEK SEVEN - GUERRILLA ONTOLOGY
PRESENTATION: Dream@wake!
WORKSHOP: Operation Mindfuck -
(Trends, Memes and Viral Media)
WEEK EIGHT - FIRING THE COSMIC TRIGGER
PRESENTATION: The Great Work Accomplished
WORKSHOP: D.I.Y. -
(Self Publishing for Fun and Profit)
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The Oxford get-together 2010 |
- Email to the tribe - Fly - September 20th through to November 5th
EMAIL TO THE TRIBE: WEEKLY PRESCRIPTION.
WEEK ONE - WHEELS AND CYCLES (Sep 20-26)
The wheels of the tribe go around and around.
WEEKLY DOSE: Decentralized and Rotational Map Warfare.
WEEK TWO - GENERAL EPIPHANY (Sep 27-3rd October)
Hologrammic Prose and meaningful common speech
WEEKLY DOSE: RAW-FLY interviews. (Oct 4-10)
WEEK THREE - IDEOGRAMMIC FULLERENE (Oct 11-17)
The synergy of history
WEEKLY DOSE: Vicosahedron and Canto LXVI. Open Source History.
WEEK FOUR - GLOBAL FEEDBACK (Oct 18-24
If its not connected its useless
WEEKLY DOSE: Shannanigums Wave and Future Present.
WEEK FIVE - CINEMA OF UNITY (Oct 25-31)
Moving pictures to TV/Internet
WEEKLY DOSE: Maybe Logic and RAW Multimedia.
WEEK SIX - THE TALE OF THE CYBERNET (Nov 1-5)
My-wiki-face-twitter
WEEKLY DOSE: Work of the tribe. email to the tribe.
COURSE TEXTS: Recorsi by Robert Anton Wilson.
- 'the god has found me' October - Propanon Political Wilson. Postponed.
12 comments:
Very, very cool. Thanks you guys. I was always on the periphery of MLA courses due mostly to penury.
Now I need to "prove" I'm not a robot, and the number is 3141...pi?
great work. my first class was Erik Davis' one on PKD. loved all the mla classes. hope you're all well
damn near to complete, and something that did not exist before, wow. And decorated with taste. Thanks for the clarity.
Thanks, folks!
I still have lots of unanswered questions.
* How many people joined each class (I found a reference to 100+ students in Crowley 101?)
* How did people hear about MLA? (I can't remember where I got the clue)
* Who were the first 15 members (they got the perk of exchanging 12 weekly emails with RAW himself). I got lucky, but who else?
* Which software did each of the MLA incarnations use? Currently it uses Joomla
* The oldest question - in spite of the issues with intellectual property, etc - do all those old forums (fora?) still exist anywhere?
Nice work Meester Magus - I think there was over 100 for the TOTT course, sadly the only one I did.
Terrific job, Bogus. I think Ivan Stang taught a few courses.
Crowley 101 occurred in 2005 .
Thanks for the Crowley confirmation, Eric. I will continue to tweak this as new information arrives...
Very cool!
* How did people hear about MLA? (I can't remember where I got the clue)
I first heard about MLA via an email blast from Deepleaf Productions that was presumably sent out to everyone who bought the Maybe Logic Documentary DVD
* Who were the first 15 members (they got the perk of exchanging 12 weekly emails with RAW himself). I got lucky, but who else?
I was also one of the 15
* The oldest question - in spite of the issues with intellectual property, etc - do all those old forums (fora?) still exist anywhere?
Borsky was really good about saving stuff, from him I've got parts of: 8 Dimensions of Mind, Conspiracy, Coincidence and Code, Quantum Psychology, and MLA 2 & 3.
Thanks, Bobby! Perhaps I did get an email (?) I thought I had bought the DVD after joining MLA...
Sounds as though Borsky has more than I do, but will go look through my old hard drives first...
MLA was amazing in its heyday! I took a couple of courses with RAW, plus Crowley Tarot and a Stang course. I would love to be a part of bringing it back to life!!
Sadly, Ricardo, the site itself seems to have fallen over - or become unavailable. It had certainly fallen victim to spam, recently, and possibly other forms of misuse - so perhaps a DoS attack, or simply a failure to continue paying a subscription.
It remains unclear whether we can revive it (my preferred option, as we can't get to Maybe Quarterly magazine, for instance) or will have to migrate.
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