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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · 20h

So far, my most "successful" post - but also, according to blog stats, one of the least read (which isn't saying much, but it says something about my non-"market" success criteria). rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/03/20/c...

Cosmic Trigger 4 “is” you

RAW’s “blueprint” analogy for different kinds of “truth”, analogues in Buddhism & current political relevance…

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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 4d

RAWIllumination.net: Andrei Codrescu on Robert Anton Wilson www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/andr...

Andrei Codrescu on Robert Anton Wilson

Andrei Codrescu (Creative Commons photo, more information here). I had no idea that writer Andrei Codrescu has a Substack , much less that ...

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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 4d

Every Day is a Good Day by Robert Shea, edited by @jacksontom.bsky.social - Review by @r-michael-johnson.bsky.social - open.substack.com/pub/overween...

Every Day Is A Good Day, by Robert Shea

A collection by the Illuminatus! co-writer, edited by Tom Jackson (Hilaritas Press; 2025; 347 pages)

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23Rasa.bsky.social @23rasa.bsky.social · 5d

Einstein was creating a system that describes space ships (among other things) the year before the Wright Brothers got their first monoplane off the ground for a few seconds.

– Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger 2

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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · Jul 10

Glenn Greenwald now saying Trump admin = fascism, after spending last decade mocking those who warned of *precisely* this. I've come to regard Glenn as Operation Mindfuck personified. See also the book 'Owned' by @eoinhiggins.bsky.social on GG's trajectory. newsframes.wordpress.com/2020/02/26/s...

The strange case of Glenn Greenwald – part 1

This article is also available at medium.com Guccifer 2.0 – arbiter of “public good” 26 Feb 2020 – In October 2016, Glenn Greenwald had a conversation with Naomi Klein, in which Klein tried t…

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R. Michael Johnson @r-michael-johnson.bsky.social · 14d

Yet another Thesis on History: why are we so damned miserable? Why hasn't this panned out? Why do so many wealthy people seem not to actually have creative...I dunno "lives"? Where are we going? I'm spitballin' and baffled. Someone enlighten me, por favor?

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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · 8d

And while I'm at it (briefly breaking my break from social media) I may as well link to this (a very recent & rare post to my old blog on media framing) discussing, among other things, BOOKS, why they're my main vice, and why I'm no "scholar". newsframes.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/2...

2025 updates – £0.77 book & new article on metaphor

2025 updates: my £0.77 book on political and media framing, plus new article on metaphor in science, and a celebration of books…

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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · 8d

Briefly breaking my break from social media, as I see this Robert Shea anthology is now available (ed. Tom Jackson @jacksontom.bsky.social). Aside from his co-authorship of Illuminatus!, I'm not too familiar with Shea's work. But the blurbs here seem warmly endorsing: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FQRNL8VP

Every Day is a GOOD Day: Robert Shea on Illuminatus! Writing and Anarchism

Every Day is a GOOD Day: Robert Shea on Illuminatus! Writing and Anarchism eBook : Shea, Robert, Jackson, Tom: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Bobby Campbell @bobbycampbell.net · 28d

LAND HO! The penultimate update on Tales of Illuminatus! #2 :)))
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Golden periscope peeking out of a blue sea on a beautiful day

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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 28d

RAWIllumination.net: RAW Semantics on physicist Roger Jones (@rawsemantics.bsky.social) www.rawillumination.net/2025/09/raw-...

RAW Semantics on physicist Roger Jones

A new post from Brian Dean, "‘Physics as Metaphor’ & RAW." It begins: "Here’s a book that Robert Anton Wilson cites intriguingly: Physics ...

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · Sep 8

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 29d

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Manifestos and Memories

(Genesis) Breyer P-Orridge and visions of the early nineties SF

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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · 29d

Had same idea as Rasa (on FB) to enhance this old image of RAW (from @propanon.bsky.social), inset - and took the ball and ran with it:

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Gabriel Kennedy aka Prop Anon @propanon.bsky.social · Sep 9

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What does Robert Anton Wilson have to do with the 2022 Nobel Prize?

How a far-out underground writer like RAW scooped every other writer on Quantum Entanglement!

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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · Sep 9

Second installment of Michael Johnson's fascinating musings on plagiarism and its possible taxonomies: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Musing on Plagiarism II

The Taxonomizing

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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · Sep 3

'Physics as Metaphor' & RAW -- new long post on a rarely mentioned book that influenced Wilson. "Is space-time really real?" Do Wilson's chair & Jones's table have the answers? Find out here! Plus bonus DIY-Dada montages! rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/09/03/p...

‘Physics as Metaphor’ & RAW

Some thoughts on Roger Jones’s ‘Physics as Metaphor’, a rarely mentioned but influential book for Robert Anton Wilson…

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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks, appreciated!

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advantardeodus ⧖ @advantardeodus.bsky.social · Sep 1

Tales of Illuminatus!
By @bobbycampbell.net

Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Shea
Illuminatus
#ComicSky

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Tales of Illuminatus! #2 "The Invisible Crown"

Second issue of the official comic book adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's Illuminatus! Trilogy

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Steve Fly @flyagaric23.bsky.social · Sep 1

#deepscratch now on kindle, with hefty free sample.

#novel #sciencefiction

Thanks for amply flying the signal.

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Deep Scratch

Deep Scratch - Kindle edition by Pratt, Steven James. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Deep Scratch.

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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · Sep 3

'Physics as Metaphor' & RAW -- new long post on a rarely mentioned book that influenced Wilson. "Is space-time really real?" Do Wilson's chair & Jones's table have the answers? Find out here! Plus bonus DIY-Dada montages! rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/09/03/p...

‘Physics as Metaphor’ & RAW

Some thoughts on Roger Jones’s ‘Physics as Metaphor’, a rarely mentioned but influential book for Robert Anton Wilson…

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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · Aug 30

Michael Johnson continues his epic erudite exposition (long may it continue!): 'Thoughts on the Structure of Illuminatus!' substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Thoughts on the Structure of Illuminatus!

How paranoid is this sprawling novel, anyway?: An Anatomy

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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · Aug 29

My capsule review of two films, using the ALT-text feature (hey, I never said social media doesn't have its odd uses!). The films: "I Care a Lot" (2020) and "The G" (2023).

The two films have a common theme: an old woman is a victim of a US caregiver "guardianship" scam, leaving her isolated and powerless. The real horror of that situation, which then veers - in both films - into twisty, fun, OTT, violent plots (both women have distant criminal friends/associates in their backgrounds, who emerge to help them). "I Care a Lot" seems more satirical, bright saturated colour palette, POV mainly of "guardian" (Rosamund Pike). "The G" more a revenge film from victim view (Dale Dickey); gritty, dark but humorous tone. Both smart, sly, hugely entertaining films, imo. The caregiver scam (a vulnerable old person forced into "care" under false pretenses so their home and assets can be taken by the "appointed legal guardian", usually acting as part of a company working with doctors, etc, all seemingly lawful, at a stretch) quite powerfully & ominously conveyed by both films. "I Care a Lot" would get easy 5 stars from me, if not for its later tone-shift into sort of "Mission Impossible" hijinks. Still one of my favourite recent films.

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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · Aug 29

Gabriel Kennedy (@propanon.bsky.social) posted a historical account of Buddhism's role for RAW last month. In podcast-interview form - but luckily for those who get "podcast exhaustion" (I prefer reading) he's provided a fascinating synopsis: gabrielpatrickkennedy.substack.com/p/what-happe...

What Happened to Buddhism?

An interview about Robert Anton Wilson's view of Buddhism and a 2003 interview with Wilson!

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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · Aug 28

Coming soon-ish (in full colour!), new post on RAW & Roger Jones's 'Physics as Metaphor', a rarely mentioned but influential book for Wilson.

B&W version of illustration by Brian Dean for forthcoming blog post on RAW & 'Physics as Metaphor'. Montage of RAW and science paraphernalia etc

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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · Aug 28

No details given about the nature of the book, or the degree to which it'll interest RAW fans specifically. But the commenters (who seem more in the know than me) indicate something good! bsky.app/profile/rawi...

Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · Aug 27

RAWIllumination.net: Hail Eris! There's a new Bob Shea book on the way! www.rawillumination.net/2025/08/hail...

Hail Eris!

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