He's gotten a bit repetitive lately, but his overall body of work (prior to this) has been excellent. Thought-provoking (eccchh) but funny. Highly recommend Schrodingers Cat Trilogy as a first read. [Prometheus Rising] for Brain Training.

http://www.rawilson.com/

Many links at DisInfo.

Defines his [Belief System] or philosophy as Model Agnosticism.

Actual wrote a book called Natural Law (or Don't Put a Rubber on your Willy), which I thought was in favor of such a model. But then I read this excerpt : Natural Law metaphysics can accurately be described as a verbal construct that, like a hypnotist's commands, creates a trance state in which experience is edited out and the verbally-induced hypnotic revery becomes more "real" than sensory-sensual stimuli. Natural Law appears to be a map that does not correspond to any real territory, but like other Idols it becomes almost "real" when the worshipper stares at it long enough with passionate adoration.

1995 interview

I attended a half-day event back in the late 80s where he did a spiel on human Knowledge Growth acceleration (see Singular Ity, though I don't remember whether he used that term), then we did a group session with a Mind Machine.

An amusing bit of his knowledge-increase talk was defining a unit call The Jesus, where 1 Jesus represented the total amount of human knowledge at 1AD. I have to go back and figure out who his source was for his doubling data (Knowledge Growth). Was it Nick Bontis?

• Not Nick Bontis, but French economist Georges Anderla (someone posted)

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Friends with Tim Leary.

Was heavily influenced by General Semantics. Has crossed paths with the Discord Ian and Sub Genius crowds.

Lots of influences/tools: I don't think one system works for everybody. I have found great value in LSD, Aleister Crowley, Reichian (Wilhelm Reich) body work, NLP, brainwave machines, some SuFi and yoga exercises, General Semantics etc. Other people will find some of these irksome or stressful. Everybody has to find their own path. Some seem to have found value even in psychoanalysis, but I don't know why. Some even follow Scientology (Scientolog Ist), which puzzles me even more. Different scenes for different genes, different lanes for different brains.

[Maybe Logic] is a documentary about RAW scheduled for release Mar'03. The producers have put together a library of wilson-related online texts.

[Meditat Ion] technique

• Thoth exercise of Gnostics. Imagine vividly the astral field around your body. By imagination and will, change this field into the form of a divinity (Christ, Pan, Krishna, etc.). 10-15min x 2/day.

• Record sentence "You can be anything you want to be, this time around." 50 times. Altnerate it with custom sentence "I can be ____, this time around." ("positive"?). Play the tape while going through the Thoth exercise.

• interview - Chiefly, I use it to relax and stop worrying - two things I need to work on these days, due to medical problems afflicting people near and dear to me. I use a combination SuFi listening exercise (which gets you into relaxation and near trance) and Bandler's mighty mantra, which you repeat every time you start going back into worry or anxiety. The mantra is slow and spaced and it says to the voice of worry, "Shut... the....fuck... up." After a few tries you get very good at making that damned voice shut the fuck up.

R.A.W. is da bomb. The explosion,however,is a place in time in spacetime I will not be able to report to the overall computation in any other way but to fucking and laughing forever then and there.

ignoring awareness leads to stupidity ala castaneda.

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