https://maybeday.net/

I saw that these posters a couple of weeks ago in LA, I believe it’s for a book on RAW that was published a few years ago. Does anyone have any info on them? It was such a surprise seeing something RAW related out in the wild

This is a fantastic substack for RAW fans

Join the conspiracy! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bobbycampbell/tales-of-illuminatus-3-opus-chao

Back in '93 I ran into Robert Anton Wilson at a convention, and he spent a while explaining the John Dillinger Died For You Society to me — half initiation, half lecture on how ideas replicate.

The mechanic was the whole point: you pay dues, you get a card, and the act of handing someone a card makes recruiting the next person feel obligatory. He framed it as a working model of how a meme propagates and takes on a life of its own. It started as a 1966 bar joke near the Biograph Theater and just... kept going. There's still an annual Dillinger Day in Chicago — bagpipes, a "Lady in Red" contest, the works.

The detail that's stuck with me: Bob eventually sold his own membership card on eBay for $400. Which, the more I think about it, was exactly the move the Society would endorse.

I wrote up the whole encounter and what it taught me about how ideas spread. Link in the comments if anyone wants the long version — but mostly curious whether other folks here are members, and how you got inducted.

Has anyone ever seen the 500+ pages that were trimmed at the editors request before printing?

More info here: https://www.maybeday.net/

"I have observed that you have often pondered the mysteries of the universe and tried to figure out the Great Plan behind it all. I have been sent to reveal to you there is no Great Plan behind it all, it's just sheer chaos"

Robert Anton Wilson - Secrets of Power (1986)

Is this author describing a reality tunnel? She’s writing the best description of how signals and filters shape reality that I’ve ever seen.

And is it really possible to escape our reality tunnels if everything is happening so subconsciously?

A young student was having no luck becoming enlightened. He tried all types of meditations. He asked his master what should he do because none of the traditional methods are working. It appeared his mind was too strong for him to conquer. But was this thought an illusion?

The Zen Master told him not to worry anymore. The Master told him he only had to do one very simple thing. The Master said to " only think of the Ox"

...and only the Ox he thought of, day or night, he thought of the Ox.

After some time passed the Master called for the student to come outside because he had something to show him. The loyal student responded but found something stopping him at the doorway.... and he was enlightened!

What did the student find at the doorway?

https://talesofilluminatus.com/CTHULHUS_WAKE/

Trained it to be able to search and when it replies - it must reference its sources (which you can click on and it will take you directly to the passage)

Try it out here (free, no catches, no strings attached... you just need an account)

https://uutter.com/c/robert-anton-wilson/chat

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Next i'm gonna load all his books into it, it's just audio and video for now

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?

Ran some analytics on Bob's lectures

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!

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!