Robert Anton Wilson

Very Happy to Announce that my book, "Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson" is this year's winner of the S.I. Hayakawa Book Award from the Institute of General Semantics!

An interesting psilocybin grant Psilocybe semilanceata (Creative Commons photo, source) .  At the Astral Codex Ten Substack, Scott Alexander has announced his latest round ...

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Chapel Perilous Wins IGS Book Award! Chapel Perilous Wins the S.I. Hayakawa Book Award from the Institute of General Semantics, plus new Article about RAW and the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC)

Congrats to @propanon.bsky.social!! gabrielpatrickkennedy.substack.com/p/chapel-per...

New 'Tales of Illuminatus 2' comic book released Bobby Campbell's ongoing adaptation of the Illuminatus! trilogy in comic book form has taken another step forward with the release of the...

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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

Tales of Illuminatus! #2 is complete :))) Digital pre-orders going out tonight. <3<3<3

New Terence McKenna biography At Reason magazine's website, Travis Kitchens reviews a new biography of Terence McKenna, Strange Attractor.  The book is written by Graha...

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What we read last month Mark Brown has posted his list of what he read last month: Fly on the Tale of the Tribe by Steven Pratt 9/24. Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 9/...

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New documentary coming based on Adam Gorightly's UFO book https://bsky.app/profile/sskmovie.bsky.social/post/3lyvwlhaqyk2j     I enjoyed Adam Gorightly's Saucers, Spooks and Kooks book , which arg...

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Chicago area news site covers new Robert Shea book Robert Shea with a stack of pages from a novel manuscript. Photo provided by Mike Shea. The Record North Shore, a Chicago area news site tha...

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Jesse Walker on 'Shadow Ticket,' the new Pynchon At Reason magazine, Jesse Walker reviews Shadow Ticket : "There is often a scent of madness around Thomas Pynchon's fan base, and I say tha...

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Cosmic Trigger 4 “is” you RAW’s “blueprint” analogy for different kinds of “truth”, analogues in Buddhism & current political relevance…

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...

A recommendation for 'Prometheus Rising' I can assure everyone this is a real book, not an AI hallucination.   "7 Books So Wild You'll Be Rethinking Reality" is the title of an a...

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'Vineland' online reading group, Chapter 15 "with fog still in the hollows" By OZ FRITZ Special guest blogger "Shadow Ticket is brisker than Thomas Pynchon's other work, but it's f...

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Michael Johnson on my new Robert Shea anthology Cover by Rasa.  I was a fan of Michael Johnson's old Overweening Generalist blog. I've noticed that in the new incarnation, on Substack, M...

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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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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)

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...

Recommended reading from Jechidah At the Jechidah blog, Apuleius Charlton writes about his new fiction addiction, the Dungeon Crawler Carl series  by Matt Dinniman. Cruel in...

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Pynchon links "Notes on Robert Anton Wilson and Pynchon's Vineland," a new Substack newsletter from Michael Johnson.  Tyler Cowen reviews "One Battle Afte...

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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

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

News on the new Robert Shea book Taking note of the new Robert Shea anthology issued by Hilaritas Press, Every Day Is a GOOD Day ,   RAW Semantics writes on Bluesky, "Bri...

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Chapel perilous review “Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson” by Gabriel Kennedy, also known as Prop Anon, is a meticulously researched biography presenting primary sourced mate…

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Eric Wagner to do live podcast interview Friday Eric Wagner will be doing a live podcast interview on Friday to promote his new book, Straight Outta Dublin: James Joyce and Robert Anton Wi...

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'Vineland' online reading group, Chapter 14 By ERIC WAGNER Special guest blogger Mucho Maas, a character from Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 , gets mentioned on page 307. “Absquatulati...

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John Higgs to discuss William Blake in U.S. appearance Portrait of William Blake by Thomas Phillips, 1807 John Higgs, who has written two books about William Blake, will discuss Blake at an event...

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Notes on Robert Anton Wilson and Pynchon's Vineland The perennial enigma of influence or coincidence?

The OG adds some luminous color to the RAW / Pynchon discussion :))) open.substack.com/pub/overween...

'Sex Magicians' discussion group wraps up Over at the Jechidah blog, Apuleius Charlton has finished the online discussion group for the Hilaritas Press edition of The Sex Magicians ...

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An 'Illuminatus!' reference in 'Vineland'? Richard Nixon (public domain photo).  From Illuminatus! : The real bread was in the Colossus of Yorba Linda Foundation, which had been succe...

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John Higgs discusses new book David Lynch. Creative Commons photo by Alan Light. John Higgs on his new book, Lynchian: The Spell of David Lynch: "It's a  book...

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Hilaritas podcast features Vincent Murphy on RAW's 'Forbidden Words' The latest Hilaritas Press podcast, released yesterday, features AI Context Creator, Vincent Murphy talking with Mike Gathers about the new...

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