Dear Bob,the world seems so messy without you, and we all miss your social commentary and King Kong like presence on the underground. Raw heads still turn to you for the clearest perspective on any particular issue, be it concerning intelligent signals from outer space, the perils of totalitarian government, any conspiracy you can think … Continue reading A note to Bob
Category: Dr. Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson & Steven ‘fly’ Pratt: A Serial Killer In The Whitehouse
A teaser from my full audio interview with Dr Robert Anton Wilson, recorded at his humble home in Capitola/Live Oak/Santa Cruz, California (looking out over the Monterey Bay). This recording was rediscovered in a jumble-bunch of mini discs--if you can remember that flash-in-the-pan format--only last week. I made my first round of rough chapter … Continue reading Robert Anton Wilson & Steven ‘fly’ Pratt: A Serial Killer In The Whitehouse
The Medium is the Massage–Marshall McLuhan (FULL FILM)
A member and nodal point within the tale of the tribe, Marshall McLuhan made a great impact on the thinking and writing of Robert Anton Wilson. McLuhan, like Wilson performed by example the role of an 'intellectual celebrity' (sadly missing in 2015 pop culture?) as Richard Metzger put it, at Dangerous Minds. McLuhan speaks VOLUMES … Continue reading The Medium is the Massage–Marshall McLuhan (FULL FILM)
Robert Anton Wilson’s Pulp Illuminations by Erik Davis
Robert Anton Wilson's Pulp Illuminations A talk at the Esoteric Book Conference, September 2014 By Erik Davis illuminatus Here is a talk I gave at last year’s wonderful Esoteric Book Conference about Illuminatus!, the occult, and the tension between high and low magic in the 1970s.http://techgnosis.com/robert-anton-wilsons-pulp-illuminations/I highly recommend the EBC: the perfect (for me) Venn Diagram … Continue reading Robert Anton Wilson’s Pulp Illuminations by Erik Davis
Cosmic Trigger Play and The Tale of The Tribe
PART 1: TTOTT and PLAY "Fuck God In The Ass"--Ed Sanders"If you can't say FUCK in public, then the terrorists have won.--D. Scott Apel.Towards the radical abolition of time as history, in favour of a more flexible playtime where 1994 and 1977 (for example) feedback to each other through the porthole of stagecraft. The Strange … Continue reading Cosmic Trigger Play and The Tale of The Tribe
The RAW-OTO-Illuminati Rabbit Hole
Over the years (as RAW notes in Cosmic Trigger) some suggested that he was the Real Head of the Illuminati, which of course RAW would never actually confirm or deny—not because it was either true or false—but because it was more amusing to let people believe whatever they wanted to believe… and it probably didn’t hurt book sales … Continue reading The RAW-OTO-Illuminati Rabbit Hole
Starseed Transmissions intersection point: July 23
Starseed Transmission intersection pointThe following are some notes i made while revisiting the RAW high weirdness around the date July 23, 1973, and some of the influences and experiments he mixed together during those weeks. EXHIBITS EXHIBIT: Crowley book 4."It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which a man may attain to the … Continue reading Starseed Transmissions intersection point: July 23
Press play. Go. Pull it. The Cosmic Trigger Play.
http://cosmictriggerplay.com/Daisy Eris Campbell and a merry band of Discordians (including Steve Fly) are on a mission to stage Robert Anton Wilson's auto-biographical musings "Cosmic Trigger" as an original theatre production.
The Dam conspiracy conspiracy conspiracy
The Dam conspiracy conspiracy conspiracy“what the thinker thinks, the prover proves”—recurring theme in the book Prometheus Rising, by Robert Anton Wilson.Everything seems connected. Some things seem more interconnected than others. Networks connect. New information travels fast. Novelty powers the meme-space race. Reality, from the whole tribes perspective, maybe only what trends on twitter when the … Continue reading The Dam conspiracy conspiracy conspiracy
Robert Anton Wilson: further musings by steve fly
Robert Anton Wilson: further musings by steve fly Robert Anton Wilson spent over 50 years producing original thoughts and ideas, criss-cossing academic boundaries like a flock og migrating birds. All-at-once an independent scholar, social critic, comedian, playwright, poet and novelist. RAW lived through WWII, the cold war, the 1960s counter culture explosion, the digital technological … Continue reading Robert Anton Wilson: further musings by steve fly