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Sunday, April 26, 2026

Progress being made on RAW magick book


I own most of the books in the Hilaritas Press catalog. This is one of my favorites. 

Hilaritas Press has had a book in the works for awhile that will reprint some of Robert Anton Wilson's most significant writings on magick. I recently got an email from Oz Fritz that mentioned he has been "been reading a lot of old RAW articles" to help the other editors working on the book and that the material is "a lot of fun." Oz added, "A lot of good material there."

I know sombunall of you have been waiting for the book and this sounded like encouraging news so I wrote to Rasa for an update, and he obliged: 

"Three editors and myself have been working a lot on the project (Mike Gathers, Dave Skelton and Oz Fritz are the editors). It will be a collection of some 30 essays. The working title is: Maybe Magick: Notes from an Evolving Nervous System. It occurs to me that it will be a nice complement to Sex, Drugs and Magick and Lion of Light."

That sounds encouraging, too. Rasa never announces a publication date -- he works on the book until he thinks it is ready, and then he puts it out -- but it sure sounds like things maybe are taking shape.

In the meantime, check out the large online catalog of available Hilaritas Press books, which I think suggests that Rasa won't delay the title once it's ready. There's also a PDF document of the catalog that visitors are invited to download. 

I see 30 titles, not all of them by RAW, and I think I own all but 3 or 4. And of course, I had a lot of RAW books before Hilaritas even began as the publishing imprint of the RAW Trust. 


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