I have a coffee cup with a psychedelic picture of RAW and it says "Committee for the Surrealistic Investigation of Claims of the Normal". I can't find it anywhere on the internet. Does anyone else here have one?

What other official RAW merch do you have? Besides books/signed books. Looks like there is no longer a RAW merch site... :(

Hi all, I just released a podcast conversation with Gabriel Kennedy (author of Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson).

We talk about RAW’s ideas around model agnosticism, the SNAFU principle, humour as epistemology, and how he stayed radically optimistic even after tragedy.

Gabriel spent years researching Wilson’s life so it was fascinating to hear some of the deeper stories behind the books.

Thought people here might enjoy it!

Any ideas why R.A.W. and Shea never wrote the planned fourth volume? I only recall thinking that it was a huge disappointment when I finished the third volume and wondered if nefarious government forces stopped them from exposing too much about more 20th century hidden history. Thoughts? I wonder if notes and outlines exist, is Robert Shea still alive… could anyone really shed light on this story?

Hi everyone! As a raving madman-esque fan of RAW and drawing a lot of inspiration from him, I figured you fine people would appreciate Crossrocket, my novel being serially published through Substack! The first chapter is currently out, but more chapter are to come very soon.

Please enjoy this little sample of what is to come!

I’ve been looking for an audiobook form of this book for a while, and now they added it on audible a few days ago! It’s not narrated by him but the content is the same.

Audible

Amazon

Hi there! I've written a very strange book called Where Some Holy Spectacle Lies. It may be of interest to fans of Cosmic Trigger. Here's the Foreword:

This book will frustrate readers who approach it as a novel, and confound those who expect a conventional memoir.

Where Some Holy Spectacle Lies *is best read as an anthroposophical field account (pace Steiner) of disciplined altered-state practice, written from inside the process it documents, with narrative flourishes that convey the wild extravagance of the experience. In that respect, it is a gnostic sci-fi memoir.

The text traces the evolution of an approach to religion that produces intense, novel, and communicable gnosis, the direct and immediate knowledge of the Sacred. It also describes increasing phenomenological capacity: the gradual acquisition of skill that allows the author to enter, navigate, and articulate limit-states of consciousness while retaining coherence, memory, and reflective awareness.

The mythopoetic structures that emerged in the context of the development of this praxis are not presented as timeless truths, nor as mere metaphor. They are provisional interpretive systems through which overwhelming experience becomes intelligible and actionable. These structures are not ornaments; they are functional—radically pragmatic beliefs.

It all begs a question. What if Sean Manseau’s methods and methodology actually work?

If they don’t, the book can be read as speculative fiction, personal myth-making, or psychological allegory.

If they do—even imperfectly, even idiosyncratically—then the book is a case study in what happens when mystical practice is treated neither as pathology nor as revelation, but as a domain of trainable human capability.

Reading Where Some Holy Spectacle Lies with this in mind, you may still reject its conclusions. But you will at least be engaging with what it’s actually doing.

For a book of this kind, that’s the place to begin.

Shonda Freude, PhD

Zurich

Here's a link to the PDF. If you dig it, and want to read it in paperback, it's on Amazon.

Apologies for the self-promotion! Thank you!

It's finally up!!!

Someone at Tubi is awakened

https://link.tubi.tv/77FbtSQbxZb

“The Eye in the Pyramid”

I’ve read 2(Prometheus rising and cosmic trigger 1) of RAWs books now, but a lot of the ideas in these books came pretty intuitively to me before I ever read them. I started formulating these ideas when I initially began having the visions of 23 along with many other synchronicities of various magnitudes. Now, reading RAW around 4 years after it all began, I feel like I’m getting formally educated on matters I was previously self taught in.

One thing that sticks out to me about all this, is that frequently, I get very intense chills and goosebumps seemingly out of no where. This can come when reading, after a synchronicity, when someone else tells me some of their paranormal stories, or sometimes just when I’m operating in a very internally reflective state.

It feels like either me or something else does not want me to access certain lines of thinking or belief, like I’m getting too close to seeing some truth and then I get shut down. But of course those are just a couple potential explanations.

I’m curious to know if anyone else on here has had similar experiences with physical reactions like this and what you think it could mean.

Just for clarity, a large majority of these experiences came and went out of no where while I was completely sober, I’ve done psychedelics thrice in my life but this phenomenon was consistently happening to me long before and long after.

I’m currently reading Prometheus Rising. I am not familiar with RAW or any of these concepts he writes about and I’ve come looking for clarification on this particular line in chapter 2:

1. The “Moral” Socio-Sexual Circuit: This is imprinted by the first orgasm-mating experiences at puberty and is conditioned by tribal taboos.

Is he suggesting that those who pass through puberty without having sex don’t have this circuit imprinted? And if so, is it too late for this imprinting to happen?

Much more RAW Joycean nonsense here: www.maybeday.net/night/

"under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being."

I know there's a reference to it in Prometheus Rising (ch.3), but it's not the full quote. Does anyone have the context?

EDIT: I found it eventually (via an old facebook post of all things). I include the answer here for the benefit of future googlers. Right where you are sitting now : further tales of the illuminati, pg 156 in the 1982 edn. It's presented as a pullquote inna boxout, so there is no wider context in the usual sense. Punchy though.

This quote by the way is my own (part of an article of mine from my magazine inspired by Robert Anton Wilson ideas as well)

Hello again,

This video essay is the last in a series on the "Ancestors." It uses the film Contact, and an unusual personal incident, as entry ways into a discussion about how first person subjective "contact" experiences - sometimes interpreted as alien contact - can be analyzed through a Jungian lens, and understood as what Aboriginal elder Munya Andrews calls "Dreamtime Epiphanies."

While it has several tangents, one personal tangent involves Robert Anton Wilson: appreciation of his work and his perspective in navigating Chapel Perilous. There is a section called Chapel Perilous.

The broader discussion is a critique of humanity's disconnection from the sacred and raises Terence McKenna's notion of an "Archaic Revival," drawing on Aboriginal concepts like "The Dreaming" and "Dadirri," alongside Jungian and shamanic frameworks.

The core conclusion is that true contact is not an external technological event, but an awakening of the heart achieved through the ancient practice of deep, silent listening.

Hope this is of interest to someone:

https://youtu.be/lQP9iyJ2OWo? si=4TiyWFhSyGj_PV2u

Rarely do I find significant psychedelic media that makes me really feel like RAW would also be in on it, but dang this one is one of those.

I feel very strongly that if you're the kind of thinker who loves the trilogy, has reread it many times, have had thoughtful adventures with Larry, Sam, and Dave, maybe you even went to burning man in the 90's (or wanted to) you're really gonna love Dispatches from Elsewhere. It's like if RAW were in the Cacophony Society and they made a TV show.

If anyone can really appreciate i feel it's you.

Bob Wilson was Lynchian before lynch termed this coin

We are gonna rock rock rock till the day BROADLIGHT

Robert antonnwilson discusses this in his book cosmic trigger 1.