“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
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Cosmic Trigger Re-Play
Come join a crash course cosmic adventure through the lives
and ideas of Robert Anton Wilson!
The Maybe Logic Academy is once again opening its invisible
doors for an intensive 8 week RAW workshop, which leads directly into the
premier of the highly anticipated stage adaptation of RAW’s Cosmic Trigger by
Daisy Eris Campbell!
The workshop is divided into four 2 week sessions, presented
by MLA Alumni: Steve Fly Agaric, Propaganda Anonymous, Toby Philpott aka Bogus,
and Bobby Campbell.
Whether you are a new initiate to the Maybe Logic chaosmos,
or a fully vested Ascended Master of all things maybe, there will be an
abundance of RAW delight!
The secret society reconvenes on September 23rd, come find
the others at: maybelogic.net
(Suggested donation $23, but pay what you will shall be the
whole of the law)
For more info check out this smorgasbord of flying lasagna!
RAW Artists Workshop
Presented by Steve Fly Agaric
Presented by Steve Fly Agaric
A collaborative jimjam of like minded mutants and MLA
critters creating new meps and mapaphors to help find the others just in time
for space migration.
“The
biosphere—Gaia—the DNA script—is more intelligent than all individuals.
Gene-pools and species. It has survived everything thrown at it for nearly 4
billion years, and is getting smarter all the time.”--RAW, Prometheus Rising,
pg.181.
WEEK ONE: RAW RENAISSANCE
Presentation: RAW & the tale of the tribe
Workshop: Language of poetry & eggshells
“The instrument that
measures all other instruments—the human nervous system—has its own laws, and one
of them involves always seeing the results one wants to see until and unless
something really startles the brain enough to reframe its experiences.”--RAW,
Dangerous Experiments, Cosmic Trigger III, pg134.
WEEK TWO: REPLAY
Presentation: RAW360.net
Workshop: No place like dome
The Latest Model
Presented by Toby Philpott aka Bogus
In which we examine the language we use to describe the world, and the models we develop to try to explain it, or at least find our way around.
WEEK THREE: THE MENU IS NOT THE MEAL
Presentation: Language as a virus
Workshop: Using E-Prime for a week – an exercise to help us evaluate the words we use, and communicate more clearly
WEEK FOUR: 8 DIMENSIONS OF MIND
Presentation: Models of the Mind, with special reference to the 8 Circuit Model
Workshop: Discussion of the model, experiences with it, variations and alternatives – "all models need revision, when new information comes in."
Perilous Lessons from
the Chapel of Ill-Repute
Presented
by Propaganda Anonymous
WEEK FIVE:
Neurogeography of Conspiracy Theory
Workshop: RAW's 8
Elements of Conspiracy Theory
Presentation: Lots
of Cussin and Discussin this presentation of Wilson's analysis
WEEK SIX: A Tradition
of Explanation
Workshop: The
Anthropological Approach to Conspiracy Theories
Presentation: More
Discussions and Cussin about the 'Illuminati' Conspiracy Motif, plus more!
The Cosmic Giggle
Factor
Presented by Bobby Campbell
Wherein we will endeavor to use the whimsical magic of art & technology to unleash the RAW power of change in ourselves and the world. PULL MY FINGER!
Wherein we will endeavor to use the whimsical magic of art & technology to unleash the RAW power of change in ourselves and the world. PULL MY FINGER!
“The world is not only stranger than we imagine, it is
stranger than we can imagine.”
– J. B. S. Haldane
WEEK SEVEN: COSMIC
TRIGGER HAPPY
Presentation: The Great Magician
Workshop: Metaprograms & Sigils
WEEK EIGHT: THE FINAL
SECRET OF THE ILLUMINATI
Presentation: Operation Mindfuck
Workshop: RAW Memetics
Saturday, September 06, 2014
Monday, August 18, 2014
AGNOSIS! #1 – #FINDTHEOTHERS (NOW AVAILABLE!)
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By Bobby Campbell
& Marcelino Balao III
FEATURING 12 NEVER BEFORE SEEN PAGES
Or read the web version for free!
(The 12 new pages will be serialized and posted every Monday in SEPT at weirdoverse.com)
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Ten Years After - Welcome to The Dog Days
Just ten years ago today (by the Gregorian Calendar) the Maybe Logic Academy opened its doors, so that students from around the world could study with Robert Anton Wilson [aka RAW, or just Bob], and he wouldn't have to move about so much to do his workshops (as travelling had become harder for him, however much he enjoyed it).
When the doors opened a motley crew strolled or tumbled in: dopers, smokers and midnight tokers; people into music or magick or writing; pranksters, jokers and tricksters; rappers, jugglers, drummers and all sorts of other entities and critters.
The whole project might have worked differently these days (due to the acceleration of technology), with Skype and such, but the classes in 2004 operated through a series of forums.
Without face-to-face signals, communicating only in text, it seems easy for online study groups and forums to invite trolls and hecklers, and fall into negative thinking and other forms of stupidity.
Ten years on, the MLA remains in memory as the most intelligent, funny and interesting group of people I [aka Bogus] have mingled with online. It seems sad (but perhaps inevitable) that it faded somewhat, especially after Bob died, and people drifted away.
Bob's only guideline for his study forums still seems valid for online communications:
Many of us remain in touch, and some of us have since met up. We still collaborate on projects. At the time we created 14 editions of an online magazine, and one hard copy - we also created our own currency, just to make Bob smile.
As part of the planned festival for RAW, surrounding the launch of the Cosmic Trigger play in Liverpool in November, some of us decided we might run a sample nine-week course, a taster, just a glimpse of the variety of things we feel lucky enough to have studied together with RAW.
We plan to maybe revive the MLA website, and put together a collaborative course, of which more news sooner or later. Hopefully, some of the old alumni may re-appear, and we can introduce some new faces to the whole area of study we managed to work through in those precious 30 months with Robert Anton Wilson.
A glimpse at the history of the MLA.
When the doors opened a motley crew strolled or tumbled in: dopers, smokers and midnight tokers; people into music or magick or writing; pranksters, jokers and tricksters; rappers, jugglers, drummers and all sorts of other entities and critters.
The whole project might have worked differently these days (due to the acceleration of technology), with Skype and such, but the classes in 2004 operated through a series of forums.
Without face-to-face signals, communicating only in text, it seems easy for online study groups and forums to invite trolls and hecklers, and fall into negative thinking and other forms of stupidity.
Ten years on, the MLA remains in memory as the most intelligent, funny and interesting group of people I [aka Bogus] have mingled with online. It seems sad (but perhaps inevitable) that it faded somewhat, especially after Bob died, and people drifted away.
Bob's only guideline for his study forums still seems valid for online communications:
"In this area of cyberspace we only have one rule: If you can't achieve tolerance, at least attempt courtesy".
Many of us remain in touch, and some of us have since met up. We still collaborate on projects. At the time we created 14 editions of an online magazine, and one hard copy - we also created our own currency, just to make Bob smile.
As part of the planned festival for RAW, surrounding the launch of the Cosmic Trigger play in Liverpool in November, some of us decided we might run a sample nine-week course, a taster, just a glimpse of the variety of things we feel lucky enough to have studied together with RAW.
We plan to maybe revive the MLA website, and put together a collaborative course, of which more news sooner or later. Hopefully, some of the old alumni may re-appear, and we can introduce some new faces to the whole area of study we managed to work through in those precious 30 months with Robert Anton Wilson.
A glimpse at the history of the MLA.
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