Maybe Day!

Maybe Day was yesterday!  I wrote a comic that was included in the days festivities.  Here is a link to the days festivities.  Maybeday.net

The comic is full of Robert Anton Wilson inside 'jokes'.  But, I believe that you can still enjoy it.  It is a simple tale of quantum information exchange.  The art kicks some serious butt!  Zoom in for some cool Zendrites Easter eggs, if you are into that sort of thing. 

Around and around we go

"The alarms have been going off...We just keep hitting snooze." - Fatty Starbuckles (Not the first to have said this for sure, but that's were I got it from. - The mgt

"What goes around, comes back around again" - Grand Puba

Not much has changed in the last several years.  Could be based on current events and not events over 50 years ago. 

"Illuminatus!" Issue 3 (1991)

Based on the Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson

And a 23 to go:

A trip down the weirdness path

I've been reading 'High Weirdness' by Erik Davis.  The books tag line:  Drugs, Esoterica and Visionary Experience in the Seventies sums up the strangeness of the book.  In exploring these concepts, Erik Davis focuses on three of my favorite authors (Robert Anton Wilson, Philip K Dick and Terence Mckenna).  The book is dense, but I am really enjoying it. 

In discussing the strangeness of quantum physics, Erik Davis mentions that it was a 1976 issue of Analog magazine that first drew the public's attention to Hugh Everett's 'many-worlds' interpretation of quantum foolery.  That lead me (in this world) to googling around in which I discovered that the 1976 issue with the aforementioned article was the December issue.  With that knowledge I ran to Ebay and found that I  could purchase that issue.  Of course I couldn't just buy that single issue when someone was selling a lot of 21 different issues, including the one I was looking for!

Analog December 1976 Cover by Rick Sternback

The article in question.

The other 20.

Dug this cover by Mike Hinge from February of 1977.

Anyways, I am looking forward to exploring these worlds of wonder.  Thanks Eric Davis for leading me down this path, I look forward to some further discoveries.    

"The possibility of 10^100+ universes, all imperfect copies of each other and all totally unaware of each other's presence, has awesome implications. Here is a system of parallel or alternate worlds beyond the manipulative skill of any science fiction writer. [editor's note:  I feel Robert Anton Wilson did a good job with this in his Schrodinger's Cat trilogy.]  In Schrodinger's experiment, for every cat that survives in our universe, in another universe one dies.  Not only does every quantum mechanical event in our universe cause an indefinite - a number so incomprehensibly large that it cannot even be called infinite! - number of divisions, but perhaps all possible realities exist simultaneously.  In such a garden of the forking paths, the solution to the dilemma of indeterminism may be a universe in which all possible outcomes of an experiment actually occur." - Analog December 1976 'Quantum Physics and Reality' by Michael Talbot and Lloyd Biggle Jr.

High weirdness indeed. 

July 23rd is Robert Anton Wilson Day

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The Precious Gift

Artwork: "R_Evolution" by Guillem Mari


"Graham Hancock and Joe Rogan discuss our current situation on the planet. The audio was taken from Joe Rogan Experience podcast episode 417." - OmegaPoint

July 23 is Robert Anton Wilson Day

Not that I needed a reason to post a RAW video...


Happy July 23rd (according to some calendars, for another take on the date check out here)

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A RAW Comercial Break

Cosmic Trigger Broadcast 01// Visual Propaganda meme for the Robert Anton Wilson based, audio visual stage performance extravaganza that is cosmictriggerplay.com by Daisy Campbell

1 of 5 : CTB_01// Network23 from amoeba on Vimeo.

And a pleasant song with some Robert Anton Wilson samples:

Robert Anton Wilson - Trajectories

'Trajectories' was the name of Robert Anton Wilson's newsletter which was published highly irregularly. The book "Chaos and Beyond" is a collection of some of the best articles.  Some of the issues would arrive in paper form, as a video tape or as a cassette.  Recently found of youtube were two of the video issues.  In these, RAW talks over a video of an aquarium. 

Issue 13

Issue 15

The great fan site Rawilsonfans.com has several of the other trajectories in PDF format.  A great read if you've got time to kill. 

Trajectories Spring 1979

Trajectories Fall 1981

Trajectories March 1982

Trajectories Spring 1993 12

Trajectories Spring 1995 14

Trajectories Autumn 1996 16/17

The map is not the territory

"The map is not the territory" is a phrase that was often used by Robert Anton Wilson.  He got that from one of his favorite linguists, Alfred Korzybski.  "He is remembered for developing the theory of general semantics. Korzybski's work argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and by the structure of language. Korzybski thought that people do not have access to direct knowledge of reality; rather they have access to perceptions and to a set of beliefs which human society has confused with direct knowledge of reality."(wikipedia.org)

From the wikipedia article on Map-territory relations:  "The map–territory relation describes the relationship between an object and a representation of that object, as in the relation between a geographical territory and a map of it. Polish-American scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski remarked that "the map is not the territory", encapsulating his view that an abstraction derived from something, or a reaction to it, is not the thing itself. Korzybski held that many people do confuse maps with territories, that is, confuse models of reality with reality itself."

Jason Silva tweeted this article on Maps:  

How the north ended up on top of the map

by Nick Danforth

"Why do maps always show the north as up? For those who don’t just take it for granted, the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top. But there’s really no good reason for the north to claim top-notch cartographic real estate over any other bearing, as an examination of old maps from different places and periods can confirm."  Read the rest here

I certain enjoy a good map.  Here is a link to the video game map atlas.
So I will leave you with one of my all time favorite maps:

RAW Collage

I love this!

"RAW" by Mazzu

Schrödinger's Cat - 60-Second Adventures in Thought

The Wisdom of Robert Anton Wilson

Pretty awesome talk about Robert Anton Wilson by John Higgs. 

Robert Anton Wilson Quote

“I’m not an anarchist any longer, because I’ve concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian. I suppose an anarchist would say, paraphrasing what Marx said about agnostics being “frightened atheists,” that libertarians are simply frightened anarchists. Having just stated the case for the opposition, I will go along and agree with them: yes, I am frightened. I’m a libertarian because I don’t trust the people as much as anarchists do. I want to see government limited as much as possible; I would like to see it reduced back to where it was in Jefferson’s time, or even smaller. But I would not like to see it abolished. I think the average American, if left totally free, would act exactly like Idi Amin. I don’t trust the people any more than I trust the government.” - Robert Anton Wilson

Image from:  The Guns and Dope Party

We advocate
[1] guns for those who want them, no guns
forced on those who don't want them (pacfists, Quakers etc.)
[2] drugs for those who want them,
no drugs forced on those who don't want them (Christian Scientists etc.)
[3] an end to Tsarism and a return to constitutional democracy
[4] equal rights for ostriches.

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
-- George Washington

Happy Robert Anton Wison Day!!!

July 23 is Robert Anton Wilson Day. 

Here is a video that I found on the old youtube: 
"Recorded live in San Francisco/Haight-Ashbury comedy club, The Other Cafe, as part of its Comedy Showcase series. Includes a question & answer segment during second half. A humorous and illuminating examination of churches, cults and faiths from around the world by philosophical entertainer, Robert Anton Wilson."

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Reality Tunnels Robert Anton Wilson

Chapel Perilous - Along the Way to the Mystery

Politicians, Peptides, and Stupidity: An Evening with Robert Anton Wilson

zendrites #8

zendrites #7

Don't Believe In Anybody Else's BS

There is a little mistake in this video.  'Roger Neich' is supposed to be Rajneesh.  I believe. (Maybe?)