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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 1h

RAWIllumination.net: 'Vineland' reading group links page now complete www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/vine...

'Vineland' reading group links page now complete

I am now caught up on the page that has links for all of the reading group posts on Thomas Pynchon's Vineland written by Oz Fritz and Eric...

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Gabriel Kennedy aka Prop Anon @propanon.bsky.social · 1d

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!

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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 22h

RAWIllumination.net: An interesting psilocybin grant www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/an-i...

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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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 1d

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

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)

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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 2d

RAWIllumination.net: New 'Tales of Illuminatus 2' comic book released www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/new-...

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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23Rasa.bsky.social @23rasa.bsky.social · 11d

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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Bobby Campbell @bobbycampbell.net · 2d

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

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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 2d

RAWIllumination.net: New Terence McKenna biography www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/new-...

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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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 3d

RAWIllumination.net: What we read last month www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/what...

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

RAWIllumination.net: New documentary coming based on Adam Gorightly's UFO book - @agorightly.bsky.social @sskmovie.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/new-...

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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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 6d

RAWIllumination.net: Chicago area news site covers new Robert Shea book www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/chic...

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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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 6d

RAWIllumination.net: Jesse Walker on 'Shadow Ticket,' the new Pynchon @notjessewalker.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/jess...

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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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

RAWIllumination.net: A recommendation for 'Prometheus Rising' www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/a-re...

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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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 9d

RAWIllumination.net: 'Vineland' online reading group, Chapter 15 www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/vine...

'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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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 10d

RAWIllumination.net: Michael Johnson on my new Robert Shea anthology www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/mich...

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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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 11d

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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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 12d

RAWIllumination.net: Recommended reading from Jechidah www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/reco...

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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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 13d

RAWIllumination.net: Pynchon links www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/pync...

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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RAW semantics @rawsemantics.bsky.social · 14d

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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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 13d

RAWIllumination.net: News on the new Robert Shea book www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/news...

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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Gabriel Kennedy aka Prop Anon @propanon.bsky.social · 19d

Dope Review of 'Chapel Perilous" from DJ Fly
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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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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 15d

RAWIllumination.net: Eric Wagner to do live podcast interview Friday www.rawillumination.net/2025/09/eric...

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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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 16d

RAWIllumination.net: 'Vineland' online reading group, Chapter 14 www.rawillumination.net/2025/09/vine...

'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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