Maybe a little present for yourself, for the new year. Buy, or download it here.
“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
Friday, December 26, 2014
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Happy Winter Solstice!
December solstice 2014 is today, Sunday, December 21 at 23:03 UTC.
More facts about Solstices, etc. (and thanks to this site for the above two images)
And yes, in the Southern Hemisphere it may drift into Monday 22nd.
And yes, in the Southern Hemisphere it may drift into Monday 22nd.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Monday, December 08, 2014
Review of the London performance of Cosmic Trigger
“A Perfectly Finished Work of Art Right Where I Am Sitting Now.”: Cosmic Trigger -The Play
by David Whittaker | in Reviews | Sun, 7 December 2014 at the Sequart Organization
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Cosmic event in London
The previous post has received a few updates, as reviews and other stuff has arrived, but we lacked a programme in Liverpool, and now we have one.
Seems someone else may have played Burroughs in Liverpool and London (?) and so on, but this gives a rough guide, and certainly more information than we had at the Find The Others festival.
Seems someone else may have played Burroughs in Liverpool and London (?) and so on, but this gives a rough guide, and certainly more information than we had at the Find The Others festival.
Again, this post may get updated with further information, reviews, etc - as they come in.
[updates below]
Beccy Strong (who played Ishtar) - photographer
(It’s not true unless it makes you laugh; you don’t understand unless it makes you cry).
And this is more or less a summary of the whole show...rather than a review:
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
This just in... events in Liverpool last weekend
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Early reports of the Wilson festival imply that it counts as an astonishing moment in time.
Our Reporter, Bogus, remains a bit inarticulate at the moment (he claims he got possessed by a Pooka) but tells us that the play previewed on Friday night, when the cast and technicians had still not completed a full run of the material, to a knowing audience of maybe 80-100 (?). He says it knocked everybody out - and a buzzing atmosphere of glee, fatigue, elation and success pervaded the later part of the evening.
Given that brilliant start the atmosphere on Saturday, with the show going on in the afternoon, felt electric - as more and more people mingled in the bar of the Camp and Furnace - old friends and new.
By the time everyone had settled themselves in, and the place felt jammed, it seemed like we would just take off. For the actors, I guess, playing it to a crowd in the preview had given it that that final edge, to go for it, and what had been a great show the night before just went through the roof - the actors excelled themselves, Scott MacPherson's projected scenery from Amoeba blew people's minds, and the music (both recorded and live - our own Steve Fly on drums) carried us along on a wave; the audience listened intently to catch every word, unless in the mood to participate, and the jokes lifted the roof, especially the in-jokes. And, of course, Alan Moore as F.U.C.K.U.P. turned up unexpectedly ("Come not in that form!")
Again, Saturday night (the Papal Ball) filled with celebratory moments, hilarity and new friendships.
On Sunday, for the Find The Others conferestival, the whole building opened out, with an art gallery (Doris, Ken Campbell's parrot, as artist-in-residence, with three of her pieces on display), a cinema, a big room for talks, and the main hall with interactive spaces like the Maybe Logic Academy dome (from Immersive Theatres), a stall from the News From Nowhere bookshop of Liverpool, performances and workshops on both the main and side stages, Chapel Perilous, a herbalist, etc.
Sadly, our reporter failed to fill a notebook with proper cast lists, names of performers, artists, etc, so we await coherent details with interest. You will find some pics and other great stuff on the Facebook page for the play. Also here, on Jonathan Greet's Flickr page, which contains hundreds (literally) of fantastic images of the play. Here you can see the cast at the end.
Ecstatic review from the Psychedelic Press UK.
Interview with Daisy from the Psychedelic Press
Review from Liverpool Confidential
Greg Wilson's reality tunnel (Liverpool DJ)
Audio interview on Litopia, with Daisy Campbell and John Higgs... Very funny 50 minutes.
The final, surprise event, occurred after Robin Ince's hilarious set to a packed house, when John Higgs told us that the announced talk and panel had been cancelled because he wanted to send us the the main hall, where Daisy Eris Campbell and Greg Donaldson had impulsively decided to get married (and why not?)
You can find the text of John's planned speech on his blog, with some wonderful new pictures of RAW.
And the party continued. By the end of it, even Harvey looked a bit overwhelmed.
Early reports of the Wilson festival imply that it counts as an astonishing moment in time.
Our Reporter, Bogus, remains a bit inarticulate at the moment (he claims he got possessed by a Pooka) but tells us that the play previewed on Friday night, when the cast and technicians had still not completed a full run of the material, to a knowing audience of maybe 80-100 (?). He says it knocked everybody out - and a buzzing atmosphere of glee, fatigue, elation and success pervaded the later part of the evening.
Given that brilliant start the atmosphere on Saturday, with the show going on in the afternoon, felt electric - as more and more people mingled in the bar of the Camp and Furnace - old friends and new.
By the time everyone had settled themselves in, and the place felt jammed, it seemed like we would just take off. For the actors, I guess, playing it to a crowd in the preview had given it that that final edge, to go for it, and what had been a great show the night before just went through the roof - the actors excelled themselves, Scott MacPherson's projected scenery from Amoeba blew people's minds, and the music (both recorded and live - our own Steve Fly on drums) carried us along on a wave; the audience listened intently to catch every word, unless in the mood to participate, and the jokes lifted the roof, especially the in-jokes. And, of course, Alan Moore as F.U.C.K.U.P. turned up unexpectedly ("Come not in that form!")
Again, Saturday night (the Papal Ball) filled with celebratory moments, hilarity and new friendships.
On Sunday, for the Find The Others conferestival, the whole building opened out, with an art gallery (Doris, Ken Campbell's parrot, as artist-in-residence, with three of her pieces on display), a cinema, a big room for talks, and the main hall with interactive spaces like the Maybe Logic Academy dome (from Immersive Theatres), a stall from the News From Nowhere bookshop of Liverpool, performances and workshops on both the main and side stages, Chapel Perilous, a herbalist, etc.
Sadly, our reporter failed to fill a notebook with proper cast lists, names of performers, artists, etc, so we await coherent details with interest. You will find some pics and other great stuff on the Facebook page for the play. Also here, on Jonathan Greet's Flickr page, which contains hundreds (literally) of fantastic images of the play. Here you can see the cast at the end.
Ecstatic review from the Psychedelic Press UK.
Interview with Daisy from the Psychedelic Press
Review from Liverpool Confidential
Greg Wilson's reality tunnel (Liverpool DJ)
Audio interview on Litopia, with Daisy Campbell and John Higgs... Very funny 50 minutes.
The final, surprise event, occurred after Robin Ince's hilarious set to a packed house, when John Higgs told us that the announced talk and panel had been cancelled because he wanted to send us the the main hall, where Daisy Eris Campbell and Greg Donaldson had impulsively decided to get married (and why not?)
You can find the text of John's planned speech on his blog, with some wonderful new pictures of RAW.
And the party continued. By the end of it, even Harvey looked a bit overwhelmed.
And you can still catch performances in London in the coming week.
Amor et Hilaritas!
Tuesday, November 04, 2014
Find The Others!
“Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others”
– Dr Timothy Leary
Daisy Eris Campbell & Co. will stage the Cosmic Trigger play very soon, first in Liverpool and then in London.
– Dr Timothy Leary
Daisy Eris Campbell & Co. will stage the Cosmic Trigger play very soon, first in Liverpool and then in London.
To accompany the grand opening, an extraordinary gathering of heads called the Find The Others conferestival will manifest.
Then the play will migrate to London for a few performances at the LOST Theatre - tickets through this link.
I think he has something like this in mind...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Kerry Thornley double?
Over the coming weeks
we're going to be profiling some of the characters you'll be enjoying in the
Cosmic Trigger play, and thought it apt to begin with Kerry Thornley because we
will be holding:
A LIVE AND PUBLIC AUDITION EVENT
FOR THE PART OF KERRY THORNLEY
CO-FOUNDER OF THE CHURCH OF DISCORDIA
AT LIVERPOOL EVERYMAN ON OCTOBER 23RD!
FOR THE PART OF KERRY THORNLEY
CO-FOUNDER OF THE CHURCH OF DISCORDIA
AT LIVERPOOL EVERYMAN ON OCTOBER 23RD!
So please, if you think you or someone you know could be right for this fantastic part (and is available for the bulk of November), get in touch. The idea will be to turn up as 1970s Kerry Thornley, so do your research and come prepared for High Chaos...
So, Kerry Thornley, please step forward...
One of the 1960 Counterculture's most fascinating characters, Kerry Wendell Thornley was a writer, philosopher, Zen dishwasher, enlightened prankster, and, possibly, an Oswald double with disturbing ties to the Kennedy assassination.
A lifelong provocateur, Thornley was linked to many of the fringe elements of the time. He co-created The Discordian Society which worships Eris Goddess of Chaos, and its tract, the Principia Discordia. He coined the term "paganism", befriended Robert Anton Wilson, inspired the Illuminatus, and gave his anarchic support to the Bavarian Illuminati, a brilliant prank.
But Thornley's path also crossed Lee Harvey Oswald's. It's a fact that the two served together in the Marines and that Thornley wrote a book about Oswald before the assassination. Were they both used by foes of JFK? Jim Garrison came to think so, driving Kerry through the gates of Chapel Perilous and into a world of paranoia - or not...
"If I'd known it was all gonna come true, I'd never have chosen that bitch Eris, I'd've chosen Venus!"
The above adapted from "The Prankster and the Conspiracy" by Adam Gorightly, Discordian expert and special guest speaker at Find the Others Festival.
Next featured character: Dr Timothy Leary.
Hail Eris!
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
A quick hit of RAW doing a hilarious presentation
At The Prophets' Conference - December 2000 in Palm Springs - if you have another hour...
According to Richard Metzger, in Wilson and I
"The RAW fans contingent in Palm Springs were totally distinct from everyone else present (goths and cyberpunk vs New Agey senior citizens who wanted to hear about Pleiadian prophecy and 2012 Mayan stuff, which Bob just hated). Bob got really ripped on hard alcohol before his talk and swore like a sailor, which seemed to deeply offend the organizers of the event. We ended up hanging out in his hotel suite, smoking pot. A young guy had given him a bag of these black psilocybin mushrooms which he’d managed to smuggle into America from Ireland, which Bob didn’t really seem to want and gave to me (my god were they strong). It was in Palm Springs that I got to see firsthand how bad his post-polio syndrome had gotten. He was getting pretty wobbly on his feet, but this did not seem to dampen his enthusiasm in the least for copious amounts of Marlboro reds, whiskey and weed.
Mentally he was certainly as sharp as ever, that never changed, but his health seemed to go downhill quite fast in the years I knew him. The aforementioned “enthusiasms” were often consumed with rapacious gusto for a man of his age and he once revealed to me that since nearly everyone who he had ever loved in his life was already dead, he was going to smoke as many cigarettes and pound back as much Scotch as he damn well pleased. Bob’s your uncle!"
According to Richard Metzger, in Wilson and I
"The RAW fans contingent in Palm Springs were totally distinct from everyone else present (goths and cyberpunk vs New Agey senior citizens who wanted to hear about Pleiadian prophecy and 2012 Mayan stuff, which Bob just hated). Bob got really ripped on hard alcohol before his talk and swore like a sailor, which seemed to deeply offend the organizers of the event. We ended up hanging out in his hotel suite, smoking pot. A young guy had given him a bag of these black psilocybin mushrooms which he’d managed to smuggle into America from Ireland, which Bob didn’t really seem to want and gave to me (my god were they strong). It was in Palm Springs that I got to see firsthand how bad his post-polio syndrome had gotten. He was getting pretty wobbly on his feet, but this did not seem to dampen his enthusiasm in the least for copious amounts of Marlboro reds, whiskey and weed.
Mentally he was certainly as sharp as ever, that never changed, but his health seemed to go downhill quite fast in the years I knew him. The aforementioned “enthusiasms” were often consumed with rapacious gusto for a man of his age and he once revealed to me that since nearly everyone who he had ever loved in his life was already dead, he was going to smoke as many cigarettes and pound back as much Scotch as he damn well pleased. Bob’s your uncle!"
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.
Thursday, July 03, 2014
Cosmic Trigger - locked and loaded
This morning one huge contribution from James Midgley took the Indiegogo funding over the target amount, with two days to go!
If you want the perks, you can probably still contribute (the project can never have too many bio-survival tickets, I reckon).
If you want the perks, you can probably still contribute (the project can never have too many bio-survival tickets, I reckon).
Friday, June 27, 2014
Incomplete History of the Maybe Logic Academy
The history of 'Academy 23' may never get completed but all suggestions, corrections, additions and links welcome.
Post in Comments or email to onlymaybe@gmail.com.
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
MLA 4.0 begins the semester system. It's pretty simple:
there are 6 courses from 2007 January - June; and six from July - December. If
you take a Semester One course, you have full MLA Student Access through
Semester One. If you enroll in a Semester Two course you'll have student access
through Semester Two. Full 2007 student access is granted if you enroll as a
full time student to either of the semesters.
2007 MLA Semester One
Inner Compass - Starhawk, Jan 29 - March 11
Timothy Leary - RU Sirius, Feb 26 - April 27
Mavericks of Medicine - David Jay Brown, March 19 - May 13
Earth As Teacher - Starhawk, April 23 - June 3
Angel Tech - Antero Alli, May 21 - July 15
Buddhist Tantra - Jonathan Landaw, June 18 - July 29
2007 MLA Semester Two
Goddess Path- Patricia Monaghan, July 16 - Sept 7
Crowley Tarot - Lon Milo DuQuette, Aug 13 - Sept 30
Visionary Art - Erik Davis, Sept 10 - Nov 4
Technologies of Persuasion - Douglas Rushkoff, Oct 1 - Nov
25
Astrologik - Antero Alli, Oct 29 - Dec 22
Altered States - Philip H Farber, Nov 26 – Jan
- 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
MLA 2010 Fall Course Schedule
Enochian/Vision Magick • Lon Milo DuQuette • September 6 •
$140
Program Or Be Programmed • Douglas Rushkoff • October 11 •
$150
Bob Dobbs
Secret History of the Church of the SubGenius • Rev. Ivan
Stang • October 25 • $120
Magical Experiments • Philip H Farber • November 8 • $130
MLA 2010 Fall Alumni Seminars
Fall 2010 Alumni Series (all 3 courses) • All 3 courses •
Fall 2010 • $100
Email To The Tribe • Fly Agaric 23 • September 27 •
$pay-what-you-can - recommended price: $50
Hip-Hop & Shamanism • Prop Anon • October 17 • $50
Global Village • Bobby Campbell • November 5 •
$pay-what-you-can - recommended price: $50
Scholar Access: Five MLA Courses • $500
- 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.
Bogus hasn't really hung out during 2011-13, so doesn't really know what has been going on. Many of us wandered off to meet elsewhere, etc, and the Evolver site opened to continue with the model. We did some group writing, etc.
2012
2014
- 8-Circuit Brain Antero Alli
Sept 2014: 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 byDaisy Eris Campbell! [Nov 2014]
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)
RAW Artists Workshop
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
“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
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
WEEK FOUR: 8 DIMENSIONS OF MIND
Perilous Lessons from the Chapel of Ill-Repute
Presented by
Propaganda Anonymous
WEEK FIVE: Neurogeography of Conspiracy Theory
WEEK SIX: A Tradition of Explanation
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!
“The world is not only stranger than we imagine, it is
stranger than we can imagine.”
WEEK SEVEN: COSMIC TRIGGER HAPPY
WEEK EIGHT: THE FINAL SECRET OF THE ILLUMINATI
Sept 2014: 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 byDaisy Eris Campbell! [Nov 2014]
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)
RAW Artists Workshop
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
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!
“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
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