Confessions of a Hope Fiend

some context and a summary
more context behind the book
zip of Confessions of Hope Fiend.epub

zip of Jail Notes.epub
Jail Notes.epub provided unedited with minimal formatting.
see the source Jail Notes.pdf here

Timothy Leary’s Neurologic, 1973

Then, starting in late 1969, Leary was convicted, imprisoned, escaped, smuggled to Algeria, exiled there with the Black Panthers, escaped that into exile in Switzerland under the patronage of a Swiss-French arms dealer, then suddenly kidnapped by the United States Government at the airport in Afghanistan, and returned to the same prison in California he escaped from three years prior. Shortly after arriving back in prison in the US in January of 1973, his wife, Joanna, was circulating a proto version of what would become Neurologic. Written with a stubby pencil under a single 20 watt light bulb, Leary later wrote,“It was one of those inspired clear-channel transmissions. I had been thinking about the classification of brain circuits for years, and now in a slow, tidy handwriting, with almost no corrections, the words poured out.” The complete version was partially serialized in the Berkeley Barb in May and June of 1973 with the full publication in limited printings out later that same June. 

While short a couple significant tweaks that were soon to come, Neurologic lays out the basic framework of the Eight Circuit Model as we know it today combining imprinting and reimprinting theories with a multi-leveled circuit system that built from the ideas of “consciousness is energy coded and by a structure” presented in the ETC essay. He drew from Erik Erikson’s developmental psychology stages for the imprint periods of the first four circuits, but repackaged them in a psychedelic, evolutionary framework that extends the progression of consciousness into three upper circuits. Leary named the seven bio-survival, emotional-locomotion, mental-manipulative, socio-sexual, rapture, ecstasy, and neurogenetic. He goes into the decoding of DNA and how that will unlock the full transmission of the neurogenetic circuit which will guide us off the planet to “contact other manifestations of the same amino acid seeding… to escape and come home,” thus exposing us the reader to our first glimpse of SMI2LE — Space Migration, Intelligence Increase, and Life Extension.

– from a brief history of the 8CM, Mike Gathers

zipped Neurologic.epub or Neurologic.pdf

zipped StarSeed.epub or StarSeed.pdf

The Periodic Table of Energy recovered

Neurocomics.pdf

Leary’s Ph.D. thesis.pdf

Michael Horowitz’s An Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary.pdf

Maybe Days (ongoing)

For Maybe Day 2023, check out my Eight Circuit essay “Unplugging from the Matrix,” and my past Maybe Day writing projects on the Eight Circuit model: “Freud, Jung and a Platypus get an MRI” and “Two’s Company, Eight’s a Fnord” and/or follow this link tree to see all my stuff in one place. -Mike Gathers (quackenbush)

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Welcome to RAWilsonFans.org

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After a short disappearance, we’ve reemerged with a new domain.  To keep current with all things RAW, we suggest Tom Jackson’s RAWIllumination blog, and Martin Wagner’s rawilsonfans.de for all the archives we’ve missed.  Tom Jackson had a nice interview with me explaining the history of this website over at RAWIllumination.

Happy Maybe Day

Join me in celebrating a day of not being sure about anything. But don’t expect the Certain to thank you for it

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Today is Maybe Day, a day inspired by the late writer Robert Anton Wilson. It was his hope that on this day people of all creeds and beliefs would come together and chant, “Jesus is the only son of God, maybe” “Hear O Israel, the Lord thy God is one, maybe” and “There’s no God but Allah, maybe, and maybe Mohammed is his prophet.” At this point the world would suddenly become a far saner place.

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What’s new?

It has been a long while since this site has had an update and many of the links below may have already crossed your path.

One of the most requested items (2nd only to The Sex Magicians) I’ve had over the years is the Mystic Fire movie Borders, with Steve Buscemi, which has only very recently been uploaded to YouTube in one full, uncut video by the prolific RAWarchive channel.

I’ve completed and published a long anticipated index of the Realist Archive Project.

If you’ve never been to Tom Jackson’s RAW Illumination blog, set aside some time prior to venturing into the featured contents including a dozen new essays, two new interviews, and a handful of collected letters.

Other videos incude the Prophets Conference from Dec, 2000 and a gig with Leary from 1998 in LA.  Meanwhile, 3 new interviews have been added to the roster:  Obscure Research Interview  1991, Rabbit Warren Report  1997, and Future Life Interview, Sept 1981.

Last but not least, we have an audio interview on Finnegans Wake and Joseph Campbell.

 

RAW Week at Boing Boing

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In honor of the 5th anniversary of Wilson’s departure from the physical plane, Boing-Boing is celebrating RAW Week with contributions and remembrances by Paul Krasner, Douglas Ruskoff, Antero Alli, Jay Kinney, R.U. Sirius, Erik Davis, Ivan Stang, Richard Metzger, David Jay Brown, RAW blogger Tom Jackson, and more.

Robert Anton Wilson Remembered

RAW Remembered

Fond remembrances of the life and work of Robert Anton Wilson, featuring Douglas Rushkoff, Antero Ali, Tiffany Lee Brown, David Jay Brown, Zac Odin, and Joseph Matheny.

Amazon/Audible info

And on Archive.org for free

 

Farewell, Bob!