Author: flyagaric23
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Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century
Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st CenturyISBN13: 9780195079104ISBN10: 0195079108 Paperback, 240 pagesPrice:
$19.99
Description
Extending the visionary early work of the late Marshall McLuhan, The Global Village , one of his last collaborative efforts, applies that vision to today’s worldwide, integrated electronic network.
When McLuhan’s groundbreaking Understanding Media was published in 1964, the media as we know it today did not exist. But McLuhan’s argument, that the technological extensions of human consciousness were racing ahead of our ability to understand their consequences, has never been more compelling. And if the medium is the message, as McLuhan maintained, then the message is becoming almost impossible to decipher.
In The Global Village , McLuhan and co-author Bruce R. Powers propose a detailed conceptual framework in terms of which the technological advances of the past two decades may be understood. At the heart of their theory is the argument that today’s users of technology are caught between two very different ways of perceiving the world. On the one hand there is what they refer to as Visual Space–the linear, quantitative mode of perception that is characteristic of the Western world; on the other hand there is Acoustic Space–the holistic, qualitative reasoning of the East. The medium of print, the authors argue, fosters and preserves the perception of Visual Space; but, like television, the technologies of the data base, the communications satellite, and the global media network are pushing their users towards the more dynamic, “many-centered” orientation of Acoustic Space.
The authors warn, however, that this movement towards Acoustic Space may not go smoothly. Indeed, McLuhan and Powers argue that with the advent of the global village–the result of worldwide communications–these two worldviews “are slamming into each other at the speed of light,” asserting that “the key to peace is to understand both these systems simultaneously.”
Employing McLuhan’s concept of the Tetrad–a device for predicting the changes wrought by new technologies–the authors analyze this collision of viewpoints. Taking no sides, they seek to do today what McLuhan did so successfully twenty-five years ago–to look around the corner of the coming world, and to help us all be prepared for what we will find there.
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I FIRST MET DR. WILSON… (from September 2006)
Introduction 2010:
Hi, I met BOB a number of times between 2000 and 2005 in the USA, and regret not being allowed back into the U.S due to VISA issues, to see him again before he passed on. While he was still with us I already started a piece of writing that started to describe his influence upon me and how that amplified since traveling to America to meet him and having a most excellent adventure.
The following is what I wrote in mid 2006 while living with my parents at their home near Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England. I thought it was about time I put this up, as its just sitting on my hard-drive gathering moss, enjoy, love, steve.
P.S I now have the audio recording I made from the Prophets conference I can share here.
http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F4485761&secret_url=false Universe Contains a maybe monday by rawmemorial
I first met Dr. Wilson on the 17th December 2000 A.D at the Prophets Conference in Palm springs, California, only 4 days after Al Gore said “”This is America, and we put country before party.” conceding to Bozo the clown in what might have been the most crooked election in U.S history, although the 2004 election may prove to even topple that. RAW opened his presentation titled “The Universe contains a maybe” with the line “George W. Bush is the president of the United States…maybe?” and continued to keep the audience smiling and in high spirits all throughout his epic, encyclopedic sit-down comedy cornucopia.
Six years on, and RAW seems as optimistic and cheerful as he ever was, perpetually glossing the world and its “other” with practical and scientific solutions, models, metaphors for our human condition. His alchemical unity of science and mysticism through the lenses of social psychology, humor and poetry illuminates, to me in (2006), the observation that language and the “other” places beyond language will provide us, the stewards of spaceship-earth, with new portals of discovery that can help nurture communication between different people’s, nation’s and species. His humble wisdom and teachings are an immortal kind of “Timespace capsule” as any bookshop or internet search will indicate his increasing presence throught the mediasphere, to not speak of his rather under acknowledged shadow as countercultural legend and outer head of the inter-galactic super Illuminati.
I would like to extend my gratitude to Dr. Robert Anton Wilson for his time and patience towards his merry tribes of interacting readers and processing patients everywhere. I will also take this opportunity to thank my family, friends and fellow poets for their critical support and optimistic humour that helped sustain me, as an independent artist within various challenging environments. – I first met Dr. Robert Anton Wislon in Palm Springs California at the Prophets conference where i was fortunate to have been asked to provide assistance to Bob throughout the conference, we enjoyed dinner together and had a Manhattan or two together with Paul Krassner and his wife.
Later in different company we shared a fragrant bit of Marijuana – a recent cannabis-cup winning weed called Williams Wonder which transformed Bob into the image of Yoda before my eyes, wise, old and green. The wonderful weed was provided courtesy of Richard Metzger. Earlier that day i had offered Bob some Liberty Cap mushrooms i had carried some 6000 miles with me in my pants, Lovingly picked from the Wychbury hills in the West Midlands of England close to where i grew up, alas Bob turned down my offer but seemed to enjoy my wry smile and laughed with surprise when i produced the mushrooms.
AHA! At the Prophets Conference 2000 A.D in Palm Springs i had gave Bob a copy of a book called the Stargate Conspiracy by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince and he was reading it while at the conference and even talked a little of his initial impressions of the book. I gave this book to him because he was mentioned in the book and i felt an author should at the very least have a copy of any book they are mentioned in. Two and half years later i gave another text to Bob at his home in Santa Cruz, the book was “The Cosmic Serpent” by Jeremy Narby that i had with me and wanted to leave with Bob when i discovered he had not read it plus the fact that it had recently come up in an e-mail Bob received. Another 2 years later – September 2004, myself and over 50 other critters were exchanging blooks, essays, poetry, art and music with Bob during various courses he led at the new internet based Maybelogic Academy.
In San Francisco i saw Bob on four occasions, two at the learning annex San Francisco and one of these events i was an assistant in video taping the event for Soundphotosynthesis archive. I also worked upon some editing of this presentation afterwards but am unsure if the recording is finished and available at Soundphotosynthesis. Another in S.F event was called Pantheon conference 2001, held at the Renaissance hotel – i sent a Manhatten to his table as i knew what his favorite drink was.
On september 10th 2002 i travelled to Bob’s home in Capitola and spent three or four hours that felt like several days in fascinating conversation with him. A partial textual transcription of the recording from this afternoon has been published in the online magazine (Maybelogic Quarterly Vernal Equinox 2006) co-created by members of the maybelogic academy. Considering that i turned up to Bob’s house with no credentials, without flashing an I.D card, or waving a press pass or PHD.
I introduced myself as Fly Agaric on BOB’s intercom and he simply asked me if i wanted to come up. He treated me with upmost respect and trusted me in his own personal home space, he allowed me to set up some recording equipment and fiddle with his electric plugs, drink cans of Guinness and smoke weed on his balcony. I mean… What a Giza! And to then continue to entertain me with his razor wit and encyclopedic trademark intelligence, me, a nobody from England, a young cosmic Schmuck with a passion to know more about what the hell is REALLY going on, and a lad who had found the living oracle and was now engaging with him, laughing a lot, feeling comfortable and having fun.
You might ask yourself how many other 72 year old celebrity writers, comedians and philosophers would tolerate such things, i mean imagine tracking down Dan Brown to his house, getting buzzed in and then only 20 minutes later drinking Guinness, smoking pot, eating Marijuana brownies and having a right good chin wag? More reasons to read Robert Anton Wilson, i discovered that day another secret of the Illuminati – be humble.
The next time i met Bob was at the launch of his first and only biographical Movie premiere in Santa Cruz on the auspicious date 23 July 2003 (30 full years after his first telepathic experiences with doggies from the double star system Sirius.) On this occasion i was also celebrating my own contributions to this movie project and the very generous title given to me by Deepleaf productions of “Associate Producer”. I felt ecstatic! After the show i saw Bob briefly while getting into a jaguar and riding off into the Santa Cruz night like the final scene from the Usual suspects. This was the last time i saw Bob in the flesh, he had the physical attributes of a Chan Buddhist monk, an Irish Bard and a witch. He also looked to me like Xavier from the X-men in the year 2023 but with wild Einstein-white hair. Always well dressed in a dinner jacket and a ruffled enbroidered silk shirt, his Celtic spiral ring beaming off his large blue eyes, his speech slightly slurred due to a recent pair of teeth i believe, he must have wore out his last pair on that senator from Washington D.C? Yeah, i suppose Bob was like a grandad figure to me because of his age and appearance but also his influence upon this particular journey (all the way from New orleans) and my current life in America to some extent, having originally came to America to hear his presentation “The Universe contains a maybe” at the Santa fe Prophets conference, but he became Ill and could not make it.
This incident led to me being asked to help Bob at the next conference in Palm Springs – Dec 2000 A.D, and so it goes. My own journey into Chapel perilous had begun. Fortunately i was among kind family in the Bay area and got treated with much love and respect by the inhabitants, i was given food, lodging, access to the internet, gigs and the kind of trust and respect you might expect from close neighbors of fifteen years.
The Utopia i had only imagined was real, San Francisco, Oakland, California, with all the creative forces and cultural waltzing, i was living in a novel, and my friends reflected for me the kind of hero’s and positive forces within classic stories and myths, tales – lending a helpful hand, asking you to come to the party, the show, the art opening. I began to feel and tune in the vibe, you know the VIBE, it seemed everybody was from somewhere else on the map, all around the world. I could feel the same kind of optimism and technological embrace and multicultural celebrations that i often get from reading RAW in some sense, although my gloss is skewed or maybe not skewed in a RAW fashion because i read him so damn much.
Steven James Pratt (September 2006)
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c60 Buckminsterfullerene’s and 2012 Geodesic Revolutions
I have a hunch, a Grunch, about Buckminster Fuller’s innovations.
Lets make a new TTOTT football, based on the Buckminster Fuller “Carbon 60” structure, and featuring a new Hologrammic Language… that’s what I think, or thought just earlier today after work.
A Football, everybody plays with a football, no? Lets make a TTOTT football and construct a TTOTT team (tribe), place them on a TTOTT field (map) and have them play the kind of games Herman Hesse envisioned for his ‘Glass bead game’, or.. whatever you like. Just play. Let us play.
The structure of buckminsterfullerene is a truncated (T = 3) icosahedron which resembles a soccer ball of the type made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons, with a carbon atom at the vertices of each polygon and a bond along each polygon edge. — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene
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Two new rants: Where’s Frank and Who Killed Kelly?
RANT 1:
“The existence of the secret mind control programme of the CIA and the Army only came to light after Nixon’s resignation in 1974, when a fresh wind of “openness” seemed to flow through the opened windows of the Washington governmental offices. American journalist John Marks requested, using the Freedom of Information Act, several documents on the subject, which would result in Senate Hearings that occurred in 1977. A can of worms had been opened. Were there any references to Puharich in these documents? One of the projects that was part of this programme, BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE, ran from 1952 till 1956, roughly coinciding with the period when Puharich was assigned to Edgewood.–Philip Coppens, Beyond the stargate.
‘Where’s Frank?”
1953-56
A Can of worms or
A barrel of Cobras or
An Oil tanker, full of Killer halibut?1953-56, while be-bop blazed
Inside the heads of a whole new language
A Bluebird ate an Artichoke in Maryland.What devilry possessed the authorities
To break the first rule of psychic engagement?
They altered the mind-scape of psychiatric patients
At Powick 1953-56.
Sheer coincidence?Puharich’s book ‘The Sacred Mushroom’
Can be found
In a library quite near to that famous Hospital
Called Powick, where Elgar found inspiration.
And where John Rowland Reece, and
Doctor Ronald Sandison gave LSD,
And WHO KNOWS? whatever else,
To inmates, patients, subjects, whatever you like
To call those people without medical training
At Tavistock, Harvard, Camp-X? etc.Yes, you guessed it,
You have arrived in my conspiracy
A number of dots, nodes, junctions in history
That tie together a bunch of loose laces,
And not just any old boot,
These are in fact Wellington Boots,
With deep Amazon jungle vine, latticed
Across and around them.
Here we simply show how similar ideas and practices
Of a particularly secret and sordid species,
Were taking place AT THE SAME TIME.Yet, in modern historical studies,
Political, psychiatric, cultural and lingual we find no
Official record of these things ever taking place
As a part of a bigger, more Unified, cross-Atlantic
CONSPIRACY.
You dig?
Here, once more, fly agaric 23 presents:
Beyond 2012 and the Storgate Conspiracy.
Where’s Frank?I’ll get back to my tiresome intellectual pursuits
That center around uncovering beauty and symmetry
In language and culture, and sharing.
Making music, poetry, and fun, for the most part.Helping other artists and individuals discover
Poetry, music and ‘new questions’,
I’ll get back to ‘art for social change’ after
I write my piece leading directly into
‘The social’,
Yet operates
To nullify and ‘void’ the sad atrocities we have seen
perpetuated by Military Industrial pharmacological
Complex.Church and State departments seem to me
To have sat around
Thinking of new ways to trick, torture and steal from
THE PEOPLE,
The serfs, the rest of US, not serving
Them directly or on the pay roll?
Imprisoning us in State Department Stores
And Church led psychiatric shops.Drug stores and more stores than anyone
Even Orwell or BILL HICKS could have imagined.
ALL THIS mockery of the great human potential
And power for ALL-AROUND-THE-WORLD
Co-operative collaborative systems!Inter-accomadative systems
Like those defined by the great
Buckminster Fuller, who, between the years
1953-56 seemed to be perpetuating LIVINGRY
And with POETRY.And with attention to LANGUAGE. And to STRUCTURE
Clear and well defined.
Technical, mathematical, and simplified
EQUATIONS,
Bucky mixed all styles of textual communication,
Combined with his vast Omniverse of
DESIGN REVOLUTIONS.And Bucky was mostly ignored, for the most part
By the special PSYCHIC-DRUG lords,
Busy tampering with mind-altering drugs
In the name of National Security, and the usual
Illuminati agenda of control, manipulation and
Masks.1953-1956, where’s Frank now?
What were they up?
Them same old company tricks?
We can only guess that the smoke thickens
Light disappears and Oxygen leaves the room
“Breath once more, son, and your history”
The spook said in my ear.Don’t ask, don’t mention it,
“An Iraqi super gun full of sea-monkeys?”
The round table conferences
The Wasson trips and Life magazine,
What year, what year was it now? huh?Wiki the decade 1950-1960.
See what’s up?
Wiki Powick, wiki Mk-Ultra
Wiki John Rowland Reece
And James Jesus Angleton
Wiki ‘Dr. Timothy Leary’
And compare your Government employed
Agents, and those self-employed.Would they, could they
Did they, dey they?
What else did they do to us, drugs and experiments
Do you feel it yet? the pressure
Of having something terrible to describe
Like torture and scenes of abuse, the worst kinds
Of atrocities that ‘take away’ what defines humans,
In my view: the ability to say NO and mean it.Maybe I am wrong on all accounts
Possibly…
a. There were no LSD experiments at either Powick or in Maryland during the period 1953-56.
b. There were experiments but with the intention of purely medical and research based experiments, to improve our collective understanding of the unconscious and help humanity and the individual better their communication, or some such ‘positive’ goal.
c. The experiments were only conducted using Mescaline and/or other psychoactive drugs, and/or methods such as Electro-shock so no LSD was used.
d. The secret services were not involved with the naive search for a ‘Truth serum’ and have had no interest in drugging people without their knowledge and observing them for the purposes of ‘intelligence gathering’ in the tradition of the more well known ‘Nazi Doctors’ and their in-human experiments.
e. I am an LSD casualty myself, and due to encounters with this marvelous medicine have developed an entire historical hallucination based upon a fictional Universe where nobody, not a soul, other than ‘I’ inhabit? None of these ‘things’ I write of are real. I invented them in a drug induced ‘psychic’ break with reality, in the singular.And to Camp X-factor we run
Motor-way’s and ‘fish n’ chip shops’ flash by.
Alone, a thinker on the street, a self-employed
Agent dedicated to evolving all-around-the-world
Humanity,
And not just one company coffer.I want the truth,
You can keep the serum,
Where’s Frank?
I’ll walk the plank scale for this my lovelies
James Bond dealt the acid, but never ate himself,
You dig.Like Batman’ s psychological warfare belt
Of drugs and potions,
1953-1956, come now, tell us, tell us all
I want to know your tricks and I want
To learn your trade, mate.
Is Frank here yet?
Where’s FrankRANT 2:
Who didn’t murder David Kelly?
Who who who?
Somebody tried not to kill David Kelly, who?
David Kelly killed David Kelly?
Who didn’t want him dead?
Who wanted David Kelly ALIVE, and why?
Who got blood on their hands, and who put
Blood on the Tele’?Who who who?
An Iraqi weapons trade group?
Who want’s him dead, who wants him alive?
Dead or alive, the question remains…
WHY DID TONY BLAIR OVERSEE FAKE INTELLIGENCE?
Why did the UK Government send hundreds of soldiers
To their deaths, based upon ‘sexed up intelligence?”
Who who who benefits?
What wouldn’t YOU have put past BUSH and BLAIR?If D.K killed himself due to an honor principle
I would be honored if the other lying bastards behind the
Intelligence ‘lies’ concerning weapons of mass destruction’
Did the same thing, like how Bill Hicks might say it
“Kill Yourself, really” one less moron.
One less spook motherfucker!So far, only David Kelly has done the honorable thing
Killed himself for what he had been a part of:
The manufacture of consent, the ‘hoodwinking’
Of an entire nation, for the purposes of a continued
TRADE in weapons, poison, germs, guns and steel.Tony Blair and his FAITH
In Lord Hutton, and Lord Hutton’s faith that
70 years should do it, 70 years should be enough time
For humanity to forget, WHY, David Kelly killed himself
or Murdered himself? Murdered himself, huh?So, it follows, if Kelly killed himself
We may look into the complex of factors that
Pushed him into the act, may we not?
Journalistic harassment, work pressure,
An unhealthy diet, psychiatric imbalance?
Lets not rule out any of these contributing factors
To his death, based on the ‘suicide’ model.Maybe David didn’t eat enough Artichokes?
What inquiry would find the media corporations
And Military itself ‘guilty’ of murder?
Like the JKF inquiry, you don’t think these
Intelligencers are foolish enough to not have
THEIR MAN heading the so called inquiry?Go back and look at the 911 commission
The 7/7 inquiry, the IRAQ WAR TRIALS,
The expenses scandal and, in fact, most Government
Investigations and inquiry’s, even at the local level,
The courts have been ‘packed’
The council ‘stacked’ with
THEIR men and their women,
Pretending to ‘represent’ us as some kind of
Autonomous ‘free agent’ whereas, in fact
They remain chiefly whipped into order by
Executive powers, spooks, investors,
Religious scripture.Who who who?
Who can break this spell,
Who can show us the relative truth,
In such a way that we’ll never forget again,
The power of motivated individuals to transform
Humanity through peaceful, non-violent means.
Who who who?Ray Kurzweil, the Dali Lama?
Madonna, Oprah, Robby Williams
Who who who?
Mick Jagger and Paul Mcartney?
Ken Wilber, Alex Jones?
Arianna Huffington, Stephen Hawking?
Who who who, who can lift the great ball of crystal
Julian Assange?Suicide or Murder?
What’s the difference?
The question is WHO helped deceive the British people
Into buying a WAR and supporting a group of serial killers
In their on-going international ‘shopalypse’ campaign?Who killed him, who killed Diana?
Who poisoned the Russian agent,
Who set the underground bombs,
Who befriended Hitler’s buddy
Who invented the ‘spy’ game?
What’s their name, rank, and file?Who befriended the American spooks?
And invited them into town, Vatican contacts and all?
Who who who?Who killed senator Wellstone,
Who set the building seven ‘bomb’
Who hired Diabold
Who wanted John Lennon shot?
Who paid Trent Lott
Who hired terrorists?
Who runs a flight school
Who dealt the ‘promis’ software
Who flew those planes
Who builds the weapons, the guns, the poison?
Who tops the pop charts,
Who hosts the XX factor.Who killed David Kelly, and who forces us to
Stop thinking about it by releasing ‘papers’ that say
Keep calm and carry on?
Ignore the Kellenedy assassination.
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SYNERGETICS: BUCKY BUCKY BUCKY
The essay Reading Synergetics: Some Tips offers useful help for anyone struggling to read Synergetics.
Synergetics: A metaphoric language for communicating experiences using geometric concepts.
Thinking is the tuning in/out of systems. Systems are spherical networks of interrelated points of interest. The density of points is a measure of a system’s “frequency” — super high frequency systems approach sphericity.
The minimal system with the fewest possible points is a tetrahedron — four points make a primitive volume with an inside and an outside. The canonical tetrahedron has a volume of one.
The tetrahedron may be sliced into 24 irregular tetrahedra (12 left handed, 12 right handed) called “A modules.” The octahedron is comprised of 48 A and 48 B modules of equal volume = 4 x the volume of the tetrahedron. A and B modules may be used to assemble the cube (3 tetravolumes), rhombic dodecahedron (6 tetravolumes), and the Coupler (1 tetravolume). The Coupler, with the same volume as the tetrahedron (1), is an irregular octahedron that packs together to fill space without gaps.
Please, read on….
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RAW Illumination: "Maybe Logic": The movie For many people who take …
RAW Illumination: “Maybe Logic”: The movie
For many people who take …: “‘Maybe Logic’: The movie For many people who take the time to read this blog, it will not be news that a documentary about Robert Anton Wils…”
DEEP SCRATCH 