Category: 2014

  • John Sinclair: ‘Bloomdido’ and ‘An Oscar For Treadwell’ at the Cosmic Trigger Launch Party

    Recorded, Edited and Uploaded by Complexity LTD. Cheers Nic.

  • 2014 highs

    The Artist Taxi Driver relentless
    daily feedback on behalf of
    the silent majorities

    Heathcote Williams and UK
    historical poetry activism
    in fine fucking form

    Russel Brand trews and
    social activism in the face
    of painscream

    James Corbett and the
    Corbett report consistent
    open source research

    Bruce Sterling lectures
    and on going socio-cybernetic
    prose

    Cory Doctorow every note
    Plus all great work by
    the EFF

    Chaos Computer Club
    lectures and shared
    feedback all mutants
    come home in glory

  • Rawillumination on Cosmic Trigger Replay

    Thanks once more to Tom Jackson over at Rawillumination, for the heads up.

    –steve fly

    http://www.maybelogic.net/about-menu/faculty/upcoming/cosmic-trigger-re-play


    Reminder for new Maybe Logic course on RAW

    Bogus Magus, aka Toby Philpott

    The new Maybe Logic Academy course on Robert Anton Wilson is just around the corner — Sept. 23 — and features Bogus Magus (aka Toby Philpott), Bobby Campbell, Propaganda Anonymous and Steve “Fly Agaric” Pratt, a kind of Anglo-American all star team.  The official announcement and more details are here; you pay whatever you can afford.

    Pratt organized the course and recently emailed me about how it came about.

    “When i got news of the ‘Find The Others’ festival, scheduled for the day after the Cosmic Trigger stage play in Liverpool, (23rd November) i saw a doorway of opportunity to reignite the MLA community, and ride shotgun with the rising tide of RAW activities. The MLA MGT also shared the vision, so it goes.

    “Bogus, Bobby and Prop were in typical kindhearted agreement to create something new, and each shaped up a two week prescription to trigger cosmic integrity in the minds of the people. I would also like to thank the MLA webmaster, for engineering the back-end of the class and bringing valuable feedback. Bobby provided all visuals without missing a beat, in the tradition of the community spirited artist movement of the 1960s.

    http://www.rawillumination.net/search?updated-max=2014-09-20T01:23:00-07:00&max-results=7

  • Cosmic Trigger Replay: Maybe Logic Class. Sept 23 to Nov 23

    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 here 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!

    SECTION 1: 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 place like dome

     


    SECTION 2: Perilous Lessons from the Chapel of Ill-Repute
    Presented by Propaganda Anonymous

    WEEK THREE: 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 FOUR: A TRADITION OF EXPLANATION

    Workshop: The Anthropological Approach to Conspiracy Theories
    Presentation: More Discussions and Cussin about the ‘Illuminati’ Conspiracy Motif, plus more!



    SECTION 3: The Latest Model
    Presented by Toby Philpott aka Bogus

    In which we examine the language we us to describe the world, and the models we develop to try to explain it, or at least find our way around.
    WEEK FIVE:  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 SIX: 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.”


    SECTION 4: 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

    http://www.maybelogic.net/about-menu/faculty/upcoming/cosmic-trigger-re-play#

    http://t4qs.fm/replay

  • natural abundance of flowers

    …we are all shotdown by the
    painstream media
    dammed by knee jerk reactions
    to the stench of truth

    what effect do you wish
    to have surpriseshock
    and horror awe wonder
    mystery suspense
    does it entertain lull
    at what and at who’s expense

    to use the word as a massage
    and all its meanings and shades
    as exotic oils feathers and music
    new uses to uncork the soul
    and spring the genius out from
    within each and every heart
    so mote it be

    so build playful bridges of
    paperclips daisies and spaghetti
    yet not past a point
    beyond where the ravioli orbits
    multiplicity
    shoot down hate with
    love bazookers

    tune into others and
    walk a mile
    gain insight of foreign
    alien knowledge in new directions
    from maps and mold
    memorable metaphors from
    the natural abundance of
    nature

    purple flowers on bodies
    disaster strikes and all thinking people
    sigh another dumb ass destroys
    life direct hit to every humanitarian
    circumstance differs
    death horror destruction are hard
    to make rational sense of today

    varying emotions arise
    and fall around the planet
    in step with graphic images and
    graphic details bouncing into the
    eyeballs of billions

    chatter in the streets
    web searches later before
    tweets what is the question again
    who how why for what
    what can the news reports
    tell us

    what of the lead up
    what next mind the present
    the ever present grief and sadness
    of violence greed corruption
    and abuse at all levels
    going on right now

    what about the lead up this
    event specifically who benefits
    who profits who looses and
    who gains what
    whooooooooooo

    and on and on spinning and
    twisting through gazillions of
    neural networks data crunching
    networks analysis and probably
    probabalistic feedback on pretty
    possible outcomes
    leading to a headline
    [insert bogeyman here]
    did it

    the wreakage and horror
    of crash sites illustrate the
    destructive force of weapons
    no matter which primate fired
    we feel the result of military
    weaponry manufactured
    marketed and sold 

    and for the victims families
    and loved ones and friends
    i point to the description
    of delicate purple flowers
    and lush grasses surrounding

    the grave and to the soil and
    the surrounding flora
    motionless silent and simply
    soaked in the traces of  
    sentience dispersing out
    into infinite space
    into the hearts and heads
    of billions of people
    around the globe

    may the sympathy overpower
    the rage for revenge
    may you have strength to
    tune out from the painstream
    media and into

    the tangible
    flowers and grasses
    stars and clouds and the
    natural world where the
    souls of their loved ones
    and all of us may go

    a little word to recycle
    snatched souls into
    worlds of natural abundance
    and the eternal memory
    with budding language

    let the future bloom
    and forgiveness blossom
    worldwide…

    –Steve Fly 22/07/14
    www.cosmictriggerplay.com

  • Ernest Fenollosa 2014 and TTOTT

    “Ezra Pound was no starnger to Oriental art when he met Mary McNeil Fenollosa, the widow of the American Orientalist Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908), in London in late September 1913.”–Zhaoming Qian, Orientalism and Modernism (1994)  pg. 9.

     

    Fenollosa 2014 and TTOTT

    by Steve Fly

    “Fenollosa [1853-1908], wrote an essay on
    The Chinese WrittenCharacter as a Medium for Poetry” which vastly influenced
    Ezra Pound and, through Pound, modern poetry generally;
    said essay also anticipates some formulations of General Semantics
    and NeuroLinguistic Programming [NLP], and foreshadows
    modern critiques of “linear” and “alphabetical” thinking. –Robert Anton Wilson, Recorsi 2005.

    Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908) found a place in the chain of human innovation, and the lineage of modernism as defined by Dr Robert Anton Wilson in his unfinished project called ‘the tale of the tribe’. Please read some of my others posts trying to get at TTOTT and what it all means to me.

    Fly On The Tale Of The Tribe: A Rollercoaster Ride With Robert Anton Wilson

    by Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/gOGNKyV

     

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