Bobby Campbell on the Robert Shea anthology

 

One more item, if I may, from Bobby Campbell's latest newsletter: 

"Wanted to make sure I mentioned this wonderful addition to the Illuminatus! canon, an excellently crafted spotlight on co-author Robert Shea. My enthusiastic review is enclosed below:

Meet Bob Shea! The legendary co-creator of Illuminatus!, Hodge to Robert Anton Wilson's Podge, a luminous man of letters, friendly suburban zen buddhist anarchist, and visionary creator of better tomorrows, that you are most welcome to enjoy today!

Tom Jackson has crafted a perfect introduction to Robert Shea's literary labyrinth, a guided tour of his revolutionary ouvré, wherein Shea's unique voice delivers enlightening epiphanies as casually as an old friend discussing the weather.

Make no mistake, the mystic mystery of Illuminatus! continues right here and now!

More on the book here. 

In a comment on my recent post about the latest Hilaritas podcast, podcast host Mike Gathers said the podcast on the Shea book and the Vincent Murphy podcast were two highlights in the 2025 podcasts. I thought the Shea podcast was good, too --- not because I was on it, but because Mike Shea told so many wonderful stories about his father. 

Hilaritas podcast features Vincent Murphy on RAW's 'Forbidden Words'

The latest Hilaritas Press podcast, released yesterday, features AI Context Creator, Vincent Murphy talking with Mike Gathers about the new Hilaritas Press edition of Robert Anton Wilson's Book of Forbidden Words.

"This is one of the most compelling podcasts on AI that we've heard in a long time!" Rasa writes in the latest Hilaritas Press newsletter. 

See the Hilaritas Press page for the new podcast for useful links. 

First week's RAW assignment for '8 Dimensions of Mind'

This has been a good last few weeks for material becoming available from Robert Anton Wilson's old Maybe Logic Academy courses. Prop Anon has now posted Wilson's class assignments for the first three weeks of RAW's "Tale of the Tribe" course at Chapel Perilous, Prop's new website.

And now, from Vincent Murphy, I can post the first week of class assignment's for RAW's 8 Dimensions of "Mind" at Maybe Logic Academy. Here is an interesting sentence about an Aleister Crowley ritual RAW posted: "PLEASE NOTE  that I suggested that you 'contemplate' this ritual, NOT that you perform it. Unless you have at least 10 years experience in Magick ritual of the Thelemic sort, you should not try performing any invocation of Horus. Reasons exist why occultists call him the Lord of Force and Fire."

Thanks, Mr. Murphy!

'This book changed my life,' featuring the usual suspect

Vincent Murphy

In a guest post for a website called "Us vs. Th3m," Vincent Murphy writes about how he decided to give up his lucrative finance job and work with the homeless instead. 

What propelled him to that decision? Well, he ran across a certain writer while browsing in a used bookstore:

Near to my office was a second hand bookshop. The selection was usually piss poor, but in amongst the tatty Sven Hassells and endless ‘Sally Sixpence Sells a Shawl’ type Catherine Cooksons, a weird looking paperback pompously titled ‘Prometheus Rising’ caught my eye. It looked exactly like the kind of hippy-dippy nonsense I wouldn’t touch with a bargepole made of depleted uranium and cold sores, but in its favour the back featured a quote from Philip K Dick:

“Wilson managed to reverse every mental polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity. I was astonished and delighted.”

One of the delights of doing this blog is that I run across pieces such as this sometimes to share with you. Read about how Murphy's discovery of the concept of reality tunnels changed his life. And if you like, compare with Caroline Contillo's account of how reading Quantum Psychology changed her life.

As a "reward" for reading his blog posting, Murphy has posted RAW currency designed by Bobby Campbell. "Feel free to print & distribute," Murphy writes.