A letter I received from RAW in 1995. It comments on a few of the things I wrote about in a zine I DIY-published at the time...
Conspiriologic! #3
It has the makings of what RAW called the "Really Big Conspiracies" - the ones with "a Strange Loop in their construction"...
‘Starseed’: the neuro era
I intended reading only part of ‘Starseed’ over the weekend, but read it all. RAW’s urgent, passionate prose takes you straight back, 45 years...
A case against “reality”
What fun-loving guerilla ontologist could resist a book titled ‘The Case Against Reality’ – particularly when written by a professor of cognitive science...
Secrets of Power
My first sampling of RAW was 'Secrets of Power' - a cassette tape bought from a London record shop, around 1986. At the time, I'd never heard of RAW...
Wilson’s metaphor
The "central" importance of metaphor in Bob Wilson's writings on reality tunnels seems apparent when you go looking for it (as I do)...
.net magazine interview
This 5-page interview with RAW hasn’t appeared online before. Originally published in ‘.net’ – a glossy UK newsstand magazine...
Tyranny of Words
The Tyranny of Words, by Stuart Chase, published in 1938, was the first popularisation of Korzybski’s General Semantics...
RAW political #1
In an ominous twist to the notion of brain software upgrade, we've seen social media algorithms engineered to downgrade...
Jean Cocteau
In the prologue to Cosmic Trigger III, RAW gives a special acknowledgment to Jean Cocteau. This post explores why that might be...