New venue for the ONLY MAYBE ARTS LAB

 

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 of sorts, and see about using RAW's legacy as the launch pad for new trajectories of thought & language :)))

The preservation of RAW's ideas, as he expressed them, seems to be on rock solid ground, with the RAW Trust and Hilaritas Press meticulously and wonderfully producing definitive editions of his books and facilitating new media adaptations. Also, with places like the RAW Illumination Blog, the RAW Semantics Blog, and 2 RAW Fan Archive sites (US & DE), it's safe to say that RAW's oeuvre is safe and secure.

And with that being that case, I kinda want to do some joy riding, because the neuro-semantic context of the sensory-sensual continuum has changed considerably in recent years, with all signs pointing towards increased acceleration, and so I think some new models, metaphors, and methods might be just the thing.

As a proof of concept, I edited a 77 page digital zine called NEW TRAJECTORIES, with contributions from 23 wonderful RAW exegetes, released on MAYBE DAY 2020.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD NEW TRAJECTORIES 2020

A promising look of things to come... Maybe!

Live from Chapel Perilous

 A new podcast got launched recently, that might appeal to RAW fans.

Live from Chapel Perilous with LeRoy and Maz.

Daisy Eris offers advice for creating a show

 "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.

For full details of the course(s) go to The Cockpit Theatre site.

[taught on Zoom]

Happy Maybe Day!

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 works, proofread, with new intros and afterwords, new covers, everything new - and the money goes towards RAW's family, unlike previous editions.

Alternatively, just dive in!  New Trajectories (pdf)

A lost RAW text due for publication by Hilaritas

"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

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 forum to help facilitate communication & collaboration:

https://onlymaybe.boardhost.com

Do please feel free to pop over, make an account, and say hello!

Approximate deadline for submitting zine content is July 1st

& July 15th for video presentations.

LMK if you have any ideas, questions, and/or concerns!

You can contact me at the OM Arts Lab or at RGC777@gmail.com

Information = Surprise

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 us the illusion of a physical world and there is an illusion of time – if this is the case, then you can expect coincidences. It’s like putting a keyword into Google or Yahoo!; you put it in and get a lot of relevant information back. That doesn’t seem strange to me because that is the way that information has been organized. Maybe the universe is the same way. If it is this way, then coincidences are nothing strange. It is just an indication that this is the way that the universe functions.

Maybe Logic Academy revisited

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 anyone scraped the whole of the Academy forum material, all those ephemeral  and wonderful conversations between students from all over the world, with always the possibility of RAW joining in...

Still, any bits and pieces you find on your old hard drives might contain nuggets of gold, so if you find some, why not add them to the collection?

Meanwhile, to evoke memories:

• An incomplete history of the MLA - some details on all the courses...
• A brief memoire of the times, on the Hilaritas Press site - interacting, processing
• A page in development of other RAW syllabi on a rejuvenated R A Wilson fans website

The Discordian Jubilee

Maybe Quarterly recovered

[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, got broken.  I decided to rescue what I could, using the Internet Archive (The Wayback Machine).  I found most of the contents, although some images have gone missing (presumably stored elsewhere), and inevitably some links don't work.

You will find some amazing contributions, however, so I will launch this post, and probably finesse it as time goes by (linking to individual articles, etc).  You should be able to read the magazine in sequence, using the "Next" button at the foot of the page, or click on the index on the first page(s) to go to specific content.   I will add authors later.

Vol. 1 - Issue 1 / Winter Solstice 2004

MQ#1

Cover art by Nick Helwig-Larsen

Edited by Kentroversy

• MQ Mission Statement • Editor Welcome • Hocium Pokium• Crowley's Cat • Ellipses vs Spheres • MQ RAW Interview • Involution• Cellular Criticism• Conspiracy, Coincidance & Code • Creating the Center of the World • You Might Call Her Tiamat • Lamen and Sigil 741• Start of a War • Occult Theocracy• The End of 18 • Canto XXII & The Waste Land as Modern Infernos • HOLeY BIBLE• Believe That, and You'll Believe Anything• Are U, R?• My Stumblings in Chapel Perilous• Untitled 1.0 • MQ Colophon

Vol. 2 - Issue 1 / Spring Equinox 2005

MQ#2 Cover Art by Nemo

Edited by Kentroversy

• Leroy Valentine• Agent of Evolution• Fires Burn Dead Would• Self As Metaprogrammer • I've Made My Bed• HOLeY Bible, Part 2• Four Steps Forward• Plato Play-Doh• Kevin Booth Talks About Bill Hicks• Escape Velocity• Spaceship of Consciousness• New Game Rules• Wu Wei• Prose Logic• Lamen and Sigil 741: A New Magickal Life• The Dream Quest • Maybe Quarterly Submission Guidelines• Colophon 

Vol. 2 - Issue 2 / Summer Solstice 2005

[Apology: our editor at the time, Kentroversy, did not share quite the same values as myself, and he included in this issue an interview with Michael Tsarion.  As this all now lives on the Internet Archive, we cannot remove such obnxious content, but please pass over it, if it may offend.     Bogus Magus October 2020]

MQ#3 Cover Art by Bobby

Edited by Kentroversy

• Aye, I Captain• Kevin Booth Book Review • Flybog O'Crillic• The Gavel• Tsarion Interview• Soma Day, Same Love • Maybe Logic DVD review• 23, That Goddamn Number • U.S. Economic crash research • Hollywood• The Stairs • Colophon

Vol 2 - Issue 3 / Autumn Equinox 2005

MQ #4 Cover Art by Zachariah Hoffman West

under new anarcho-syndicalist editorship (whatever that means) particular thanks to Acrillic...

• Editor Welcome • History Plurality• Time• Disneyland Memorial Orgy • A Painter Ponders• EKozmic Renaissance Interview • Why Trance • Departure • MLA Chaos Magic • Jazz Octave • Time Piece • 17th September 2001• Autumnal Angel • The Magick of Maybe • In the Windows of My Youth• Four Seasons • New Science of HipHop Culture

Vol 2 - Issue 4 / Winter Solstice 2005

MQ#5 Cover Art by Bobby Campbell

Wrangling by BogusMagus

 Editor Welcome • Albert & the Horus Aeon! • Karmic Economics: Pure Capitolism • Finnegans Wake as/i fly agaric •Let's Dream Awake • Towards a 'patakabbal • A Well Meant Fragment • Amulet for the Caged Dove • Falling On Deaf Ears • Pygmy Hut Architecture • I Wouldn't Want to Play Cards with Him• Creation of the Magickal Motto • Rich V Wealth• Tired Old Tips

Volume 3 - Issue 1 Spring Equinox 2006

MQ#6 Freeform editor FlyAgaric23

Cover Art by Chu

 • Editor Welcome • Ghost-Monkey-Robot• War In Pieces • Further Weirdness with Terence McKenna • Always Assuming • Most Treasured Souvenir • Me Am Smile• Race Across Water • Royal Bookbinding • Melody of Dynamism• Osirius Jones • Its Alright Matter

Volume 3 - Issue 2 Summer Solstice 2006

MQ#7 Cover Art by Betty DeRespino

• Pookie • Peter Carroll Interview • Neurotarot • Unfamiliar Places • Pinchbeck Interview • Giving Cynicism A Bad Name • Some People's Kids • Howordz Way • Freeman Perspective • Phaistos Comic • Miscellanous Chaos

Volume 3 - Issue 3 Autumn Equinox 2006

MQ#8 Cover Art by Antonija Anic-Antic

• Robert Anton Wilson Meets Fly • McLuhan • Psychedelic Experiments• Some People's Kids • Thelema Coast To Coast • Digital Time Capsules • MiniProp • Self Portrait Card Game• Code-Breaker Interview • Putiphars Azenine Garden • Rare Crowleyana Reviewed • War In The Sun • Canto LXVI Hyperlinked

Volume 3 - Issue 4 Winter Solstice 2006

MQ#9 Cover Art by Bobby Campbell

• Just Like Everyone Else• Hands In Solemn Praise• What Rough Magic• Liber Al Commentary 1• World Piss• Some People's Kids III• Coming Round Again • All You Can Be • Interview With God • Virgin & Pigeon

Volume 4 - Issue 1 / Spring Equinox 2007

MQ#10 Cover Art by borsky
sombunall MQ10 music by Trimtabulous Cabal / Kokopelli Foundation

Special RAW Meme-orial edition

• A Little Light • Bob Haiku• Ewige Bloom and Craft • Flights • What About Bob? • In Memoriam • RAW E-mail Exchange • RAW RIP • A RAW Stone • Patapsychology & Maybe Logic • RAW Data Comments• London RAW Wake

  

dove sta memora

[No cover image available for #11]

Volume 4 - Issue 2 / Summer Solstice 2007

MQ#11 Cover Art by Fly 23

• Inundation of the Nile• A MLA Primer V.1 • 5 Haikus for RAW • Hondo's Big Sister • The Mind Playing Tricks On Itself• Work of the Tribe 001 • Big Justice • Inspired by the structural analysis in von Neumann and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior Mirror

Volume 4 - Issue 3 - Autumn Equinox 07

MQ#12 Cover Art by Bobby Campbell

• Bhumi Sparsa • Nine Characters in Search of an Author • None-Word Sense • F For Fake Reviewed • The Pelican and the Rose: A Templar Angle • Truth & Soul • Beyond E-Prime • Hermetic Bruges• Ideogrammic Massage for the Universe• 23 x 17• Stagnancy

Volume 4 - Issue 4 - Winter Solstice 07

MQ#13 Cover Art by Purple Gooroo

• Maybe A Metaphor • A Tribute to Robert Anton Wilson• Food Fight • Magical Matters • Year One • Flower of Life • PKD Crazy Wisdom Notes • Liber AL vel Lols• For Qu Yuan

Volume 5 Issue 1  Spring Equinox 2008

MQ#14

• Cough It Up • Fattening Flies For Frogs For Snakes • Maybe Astrologics • How Scrappy The Dog Became Schroedinger's Cat • The State Of The Art• Teo Macero And The Art Of The Cut-Up • Khizr Kachoo • 1 Saturn• After the Tricycle It Comes Always The Bicycle • The Living One

And then we managed to make a hard copy (MQ #15) - a magazine that still exists here and there in the real world.  I have a few in a box at the old house.