Category: MLA

  • 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

  • email to the tribe: a Maybe Logic Class by Fly Agaric 23

    email to the tribe: a Maybe Logic Class by Fly Agaric 23

     

    Fly Agaric 23

    September 20 – November 5
    email to the tribe
    Homogrammic Prose

     

    The tale of the tribe approximates a tale of humanity, or ‘tales’, a new global epic that must capture illuminating details from humanity and juxtapose them in a special way using special language (Hologrammic prose, the Hermetic style, Ideogrammic method, Joyce’s ‘epiphany’ etc.) Dr.Robert Anton Wilson crafted his tale of the tribe to suit, among other definitions; the architects of post-modem’ cyber-culture, reaching back to the renaissance and pulling up-tense to our decentralized–hyper connected–future present. 
     
    During a six week period, I-fly will share his open interpretations of the tale of the tribe, performing an on-line multimedia vortex of signals, dialed into James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Giordano Bruno, Marshall Mcluhan, ‘Bucky’Fuller, and RAW himself.
     
    email to the tribe will reprocess communications from across time, and produce new maps, new metaphors, and mold new memes that help forward the tale of the tribe and the RAW wisdom oozing out from all quarters.
     
    Each week fly will provide a spread of multimedia for you to process, generally keeping in step with the program, encouraging a wide variety of conversation and focused feedback. Feel free to drop in and drop out, as you like.
     
    EMAIL TO THE TRIBE: WEEKLY PRESCRIPTION.
    WEEK ONE – WHEELS AND CYCLES (Sep 20-26)
    The wheels of the tribe go around and around.
    WEEKLY DOSE: Decentralized and Rotational Map Warfare.
     
    WEEK TWO – GENERAL EPIPHANY (Sep 27-3rd October)
    Hologrammic Prose and meaningful common speech
    WEEKLY DOSE: RAW-FLY interviews. (Oct 4-10)
     
    WEEK THREE – IDEOGRAMMIC FULLERENE (Oct 11-17)
    The synergy of history
    WEEKLY DOSE: Vicosahedron and Canto LXVI. Open Source History.
     
    WEEK FOUR – GLOBAL FEEDBACK (Oct 18-24
    If its not connected its useless
    WEEKLY DOSE: Shannanigums Wave & Future Present.
     
    WEEK FIVE – CINEMA OF UNITY (Oct 25-31)
    Moving pictures to TV/Internet
    WEEKLY DOSE: Maybe Logic & RAW Multimedia.
     
    WEEK SIX – THE TALE OF THE CYBERNET (Nov 1-5)
    My-wiki-face-twitter
    WEEKLY DOSE: Work of the tribe. email to the tribe.
     
    COURSE TEXTS: Recorsi by Robert Anton Wilson.
     

    • $Pay-What-You-Can$ – Enroll Now •
    [$50 recommended minimum price] 

    http://www.maybelogic.org/courses.htm 

  • Maybe Logic and the tale of the tribe: a no-place place.

    The following ‘testimonial’ is edited from a post I made at the Maybe Logic Academy some months ago when I was inspired by ‘evolver.net’ calling for members to make testimonials to their social network, I wanted to write a testimonial to the open learning network encircling the ‘Maybe Logic’ meme, and dashed something off that I felt on re-reading required some editing, and clarification. Thanks, steve fly.



    Maybe Logic and the tale of the tribe: a no-place place.

    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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  • BJ is for BERLING JAM

    Berlin 22-25th
    July 2009.07.26

    ”What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logio-Philosopicus.

    Hot Coach Eurolines
    To swerve of Olympic Stadium – swimming,
    Yoga, Novel video recording, sunshine
    HemJoymint and fuzz.

    Diving board – splash,
    Out and off on U2 train East!
    To Spittlemarkt and naked lunch.

    Good cheer, Laffta
    Play on (words)
    Drop jokes not bombs.

    Deconstruction of off pist‘ subject matter
    Syntax and form of what we
    Cannot speak about, with friends

    Eye contact, smiles, a mutter
    Who? what? and the wrestler
    Of sense.

    Three became four, five, six and seven, eight!
    BorskyChristyChrisFuzzTonsMacaBogusFly
    Experienced in the life.

    English was spoken and shook up
    Whole societies, people and tribes in the wind
    Of deep sea black smoking thermal vents.

    High City Eyeline, and light pale rants
    Sky, breaks in the digital weather forcast
    The pintter-patter of Blackberry maps.

    Heavens crunched Earshots
    But no damp or gush of wet
    – Sunshine on a rainy day.

    Alreadymade Laptop Pissa’
    Off the net felt good thought
    With web buddies.

    Forgetting Wittgenstein
    In every breath, I want to say
    I love you all, and feel honoured to be
    Present. Flexible minds,
    Distinguished thinkers

    Friends, maybes
    Even my teeth were saved by
    Friends and nutrient knowledge

    And the encyclone’ styles of cutting kickback
    Banter. I, chasing
    Wittgenstein until I look
    Away towards what “is”, what maybe?

    And lifted once more by a friend
    A word, a description of place, time
    Moment.

    A Long Pleasant Day
    Out of time.
    Korzybski in the air,
    So hard to anchor.
    Dillinger Rules Pool.

    How many words lost?
    And fielded back for another home-base run
    Around of the unspeakable. Wisdom and sincerity (SINCERITAS)
    Humour, (HILARITOOTH) wild trills’ and calm waves of
    Maybe thread-workers.
    Live interknitting. (HUMANITAS)

    Free minds cast into a non electronic
    Stage space,
    My head between a wall
    Of dutch soup beer waffle
    I talked plenty and listened not nearly enough
    And talked of playing and listening
    All-at-once, with PLUCKING AIR
    music.

    Synchonous “aha’s” “wow’s” and
    Names after noons after places after traces
    Of BOB.

    Tales of place and story, mine,
    His, her’s, his and’
    Some of their’s – Belgium, Germany, England, Netherlands

    And loving perceptive feedback.
    differences
    Oh jolly great Europe,
    Here’s Congratulations Elffolk

    Walking and talking
    Sitting and drinking, smoking
    Eating words over delectable food A lifting punk spirit of the street
    Housing Caligraffed Everywhere

    East street art, stickers, overgrown
    Sidewalks of memory
    Graffiti on Churches, in Chapels

    Handmade Chapel Emulsion
    Writing in technicoloured text
    No Starbuck, KFC, Burger King in sight,
    But they are close by rumour has it.

    Heavenly Corporate Exstinguishing
    On the street, on the Street – people and many distinguished
    Bicycles.

    Happy cats and shrubbery blend street corners
    The concrete with glass:
    Light pink and grey, cream of mushroom soup

    B is for Beer H is for Hash
    V is for vegetable
    E is fur’ Escher

    No Skype, No Mouse, No Moustache’
    No connect capatain, but SUN RA played Rings around Saturn
    And (Detroit riots 67′) in the mouth.

    Dillinger Rules pool
    A day out of time, again.
    Sitting in seat number 23.

    Watching mini Norse rockers.
    Time and space changed, I thought
    Each 5 minutes another incredible
    Piece of ‘cannot say speak’
    B’ham, a joke…

    Scrambles image and word, LO!
    TV, movie, book (invocation of foot plot notes)

    Wild cards and spilt beer served back with spin
    Imaginations ping pong
    Bouncing from screen to screen

    Drop names not bombs
    To quote or not to quote?
    Literally – saying and speeching a trunk full of
    Humanitas!

    Suspense, riffing on a whim – truth,
    Sincere, On the edge of eternity, talk and chat,
    With old friends…Sparks dart Walking up and down in the heart

    Norse female rock band one night,
    Rico Loops – a one man music showman the next,
    Beatbox, Synth sampler multi instru’
    – The Iggy Pop of Live electronica – I thought.
    The A-Ha of fembot pop?

    Groove music, Free world word music. Mothman pool table landing.
    Shem and Shen and Iraq
    A stolen wall, dodgy business for
    City Space developers.

    The Phone,
    The loud strange
    Conversations and crossed wired
    Laughter, carrots, strawberries & Tea, coffee and friendlyness.
    The laughter, cracking yokes.

    Pushing temporary clusters of meaning
    Out, up and over my head.
    Temporary Clusters of meaning in the drinks
    To spreek the cake-walk.
    To almost pot seven from a break.

    Us and them became we, maybeee’s
    Most tollerant of each other
    Dylan and The hero’s with a thousand
    Faces.

    Habits, likes, dislikes and rants
    All of them fielded masterfully,
    Snowboarding over the Wiener Schnitzel ridges

    Some Talk of NLP, Joyce and Grant Morrison
    Talk of Arlen – and the many BOB’s
    Had Fun everyone….

    –Steve Fly.