“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
I currently have the highest bid on the RAW/Harvey drawing I gave Mr. Wilson when I was 23. Please feel free to outbid me or even just jack up the price, its all for a great cause!
"This is a wonderful original drawing on cardboard stock of Bob and the "Pooka." It was drawn by a friend, and was much loved and hung in various places on the livingroom wall. There is scotch tape on the edges (Bob's favorite method of hanging...) which could be removed carefully. Or, by putting a frame with a matte to cover the tape, you would have a really remarkable "one of a kind" RAW Artifact. it measures 17 inches high and 11 inches wide."
We just got the great news that the RAW website has had a complete makeover.
Bob's daughter Christina invites you to visit, maybe take part in the auction of Bob's 'stuff', read some excerpts, contribute to the blog, check out an awesome set of links.
And if that intrigues you enough, as ever, we recommend you go check out the best resource we know of for obscure RAW material - all kinds of hard-to-find articles, audio samples, links and other goodies, over at RAWilson Fans.
i GOOGLED Douglas Hofstadter today and found some video from THE SINGULARITY SUMMIT held at Stanford University. His introduction and his sceptical questioning had an echo of RAW's concerns at times - sceptical investigations into REALITY and the gutters and valleys between science fiction and technological scientific progress were just begging, i thought, for BOB to clear up with a sprinkle of poetic humanitas, hilaritas and maybelogic.
I think that a sharp definition would help us understand Ray Kurtzweil and many around the A.I crowd by introducing what Bucky Fuller called livingry and killingry to compare and evaluate, from an added humanitarian point of view. The mixing of humanitarian shared values with those different greedy values often related to military-industrial-corporate techno-pharma-nano so & so... seems to me to be a global problum to be tackled at these debates. NOW! (Nice toys boys, but who's allowed to play and who makes the rules?) It may be enough to say simply that we can all live forever and ever, or blow ourselves to tiny pieces for ever and ever. All men. Have none of these speakers read COSMIC TRIGGER I? And what of applying the Hindu/Leary/Wilson 8 circuit model to these questions? Smart folks at Stanford, but something's missing for me when i watch these high brow video's, sex, drugs and pirate utopias?
Meanwhile, a Dr. Harrison suggests that we may have to abandon Aristotelian logic, i.e. give up classifying things into only the two categories of "true and real" and "untrue and unreal." In between, in Aristotle's excluded middle, we may have the "maybe" proposed by von Neumann in 1933, the probabilistic logics (percentages/gambles) suggested by Korzybski, the four-valued logic of Rapoport (true, false, indeterminate and meaningless) or some system the non-Hibernian world hasn't found yet. The Kerry farmer would handle all of this better than the typical graduate of any university outside Ireland. - http://www.rawilsonfans.com/articles/CelticRoots.htm
"Fuller also invented the word "livingry," as opposed to weaponry (or "killingry"), to mean that which is in support of all human, plant, and Earth life. " -- R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER.
22ND APRIL 2009. WILD BUILDING. DIGBETH. BIRMINGHAM UK. 8.00 PM.
CHU has a full exhibition of various new ART work of his in Birmingham, UK. CHU on various new mediums: canvas, aluminium, paper prints, stickers, and THE impossible "CHU" CUBE. I was kindly asked by CHU to DJ for the launch and had many epiphany-experiences with the precise aerosol art worlds crafted by CHU. A reminder of how GRAFFITI art and culture reflects IDEOGRAMIC culture, and how STREET art and artists seem to be reaching beyond limits.
GRAFFITI BLUES – BLUE MITCHELL IF ITS GOOD TO YOU – EDDIE BO TAKE IT ALL OFF – BO DIDDLEY SILLY SAVAGE – GOLDEN TOADSTOOLS SOUL POWER – JAMES BROWN BUMPIN’ BUS STOP – THUNDER AND LIGHTNING LOOK-KA PY PY – THE INVADERS HEY BO – EDDIE BO BO DIDDLEY-ITIS – BO DIDDLEY THERE IT IS – JAMES BROWN STREET PARADE – EARL KING BO DIDDLEY – ART NEVILLE JUST KISSED MY BABY – THE METERS. LIGHT MY FIRE – SHIRLEY BASSEY LIGHT MY FIRE – MASSIVE ATTACK. BACK HOME – YUSEF LATEEF PEOPLE SAY – THE METERS. LONDON – DAVID AXELROD SHOO FLY MARCHES ON – DR. JOHN FEAKS FOR THE FESTIVAL - RASHEED ROLAND KIRK THERE WAS A TIME – JAMES BROWN DIRTY HARRY – LALO SCHIFRIN FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES – SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON. SOME MOTHERS SON – SANDRA PHILIPS. LOVER AND A FRIEND – EDDIE BO & INEZ CHEATHAM DOIN’ THE POPCORN – KIM MELVIN I’M A GREEDY MAN – JAMES BROWN MIRROR – CHARLIE MARIANO. AFRICA – THE METERS. BRING DOWN THE BIRDS – HERBIE HANCOCK LICKING STICK – JAMES BROWN LOOK AT GRANDMA – BO DIDDLEY CRISS-CROSS – THEOLONIOUS SPHERE MONK TAKE THE ‘A’ TRAIN – DUKE ELLINGTON COSMIC SEA – MYSTIC MOODS NIGHT TRAIN – JAMES BROWN BULLIT – LALO SCHIFRIN HEY JOYCE – LOU COUTNEY AT THE SOUL IN – COUNT YATES AND THE RHYTHM CRUSADERS. MAKE IT FUNKY – JAMES BROWN QUALIFIED – DR. JOHN GROOVY BABY – KIM TAMANGA CHICKEN STRUT – THE METERS HOWLING FOR JUDY – JEREMY STEIG ARE YOU TOGETHER FOR THE NEW DAY – THE LOVE EXPERIENCE. I’VE HAD IT HARD – BO DIDDLEY I NEED HELP – JAMES BROWN WHO STOLE MY COOKIE – THE PHILIPS BROTHERS. TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN BUSINESS – DAVE HAMILTON. SWEET POTATO GRAVY – MAURICE SIMON AND THE PIE MEN. WALK TALL – CANNONBALL ADDERLEY PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER 1 – JAMES BROWN SISSY WALK – BILLY BALL AND THE UPSETTERS CISSY POPCORN – PRESTON LOVE. CISSY STRUT – TRINADAD TRIPOLI STREET BAND ZA ZU – WALLY COX AND THE NATE BRANCH FOUR CORNERS – LEE DORSEY THE RUBBER BAND – EDDIE BO AND THE SOULFINDERS SPONTANEOUS SIMPLICITY – SUN RA JAZZ CATS - MADLIB RHYTHM-A-NING – THEOLONIOUS SPHERE MONK DISTANT STARS – THE HELIOCENTRICS LIFE – DR. JOHN
The concept of Chapel Perilous, a weird kind of limbo, period of transition, purgatory, etc turns up in RAW's work a lot, but (rather like the Grail) it proves illusive when you try to research it.
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
"This is a wonderful original drawing on cardboard stock of Bob and the "Pooka." It was drawn by a friend, and was much loved and hung in various places on the livingroom wall. There is scotch tape on the edges (Bob's favorite method of hanging...) which could be removed carefully. Or, by putting a frame with a matte to cover the tape, you would have a really remarkable "one of a kind" RAW Artifact. it measures 17 inches high and 11 inches wide."
