In this episode, host Mike Gathers chat's with underground sound engineer Oz Fritz on the deeper influences of Aleister Crowley and James Joyce on Robert Anton Wilson’s fictional prose. RAWIllumination.net’s Tom Jackson interviews Oz and includes a detailed bio of Oz’s sound career. Oz’s blog and his essay Robert Anton Wilson: Transmission of Baraka -  Oz’s album of recordings from around the world.  Liner notes. Oz’s plays himself in a brief cameo in Les Claypool’s Jam Band mockumentary Electric Apricot. (movie trailer)  Hilaritas Press Podcast Host/Producer Mike Gathers Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves

In this episode, I chat with biographers Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni about Claude Shannon. A Mind at Play: the book "11 Life Lessons From History’s Most Underrated Genius" "Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark" "One of the fathers of modern computing used this 6-step process to solve any problem" biographer Jimmy Soni's website  The Bit Player (movie) Hilaritas Press Podcast Host/Producer Mike Gathers Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves

In this episode, I chat with Andrew McLuhan, director of the McLuhan Institute, about his grandfather, Marshall McLuhan. Andrew at Gray Area Self paced course on Understanding Media, Part 1 The McLuhan Institute Youtube Channel McLuhan, Auden, and Fuller The Playboy Interview with Marshall McLuhan, 1969 “Notes on Burroughs” by Marshall McLuhan   Hilaritas Press Podcast Host/Producer Mike Gathers Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves

In this episode, we chat with magician, author, and youtuber Lionell Snell, aka Ramsey Dukes, about magical thinking. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-NwOu0WV5Qd_U4zOP33sw https://www.amazon.com/Ramsey-Dukes/e/B001JP7UKI http://ramseydukes.co.uk/    Hilaritas Press Podcast:  http://www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/ Host/Producer Mike Gathers:  https://linktr.ee/mgathers23 Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves:  https://ryan4reeves.wixsite.com/ryanreeves

In this episode, we chat with teacher, author, and RAW scholar Eric Wagner on Beetoven and Robert Anton Wilson. Eric's book, Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson Eric's blogs   Hilaritas Podcast Host/Producer Mike Gathers Engineer Ryan Reeves

In this episode, we chat with Meta-Magician Philip Farber on Magick, NLP, Crowley & Robert Anton Wilson.  Phil is the author of several books, including "High Magick, a guide to Cannabis in Ritual and Mysticism.  He’s also a regular speaker at the Starwood Festival and other events. Phil's website Meta Magick Phil's books on Amazon • • • Hilaritas Press Podcast:  Host/Producer Mike Gathers  Producer/Engineer Richard Rasa Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves

In this episode, we chat with Jesse Walker, author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory and Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America. IN AMERICA. He is an editor at Reason magazine, and he lives in Baltimore. Jesse on Twitter “Cult Country” essay articles from Reason.com Jesse's books on Amazon   Hilaritas Podcast Host/Producer Mike Gathers Engineer Ryan Reeves   “In researching occult conspiracies, one eventually faces a crossroad of mythic proportions (called Chapel Perilous in the trade). You come out the other side either stone paranoid or an agnostic; there is no third way. I came out agnostic.” -RAW

In this episode, we chat with underground film maker, professional astrologer, paratheater ritualist, teacher, writer, forest walker, dreamer and no form engineer Antero Alli on Chapel Perilous, paratheater, and the Eight Circuit model. Antero Alli:   Facebook Vertical Pool Productions ParaTheatrical ReSearch Underground Cinema Books and DVDs Rapper Mike's Eight Circuit playlist on YouTube • • • Hilaritas Press Podcast:  Host/Producer Mike Gathers  Producer/Engineer Richard Rasa Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves “Chapel Perilous is a stage in the magickal quest in which your maps turn out to be totally inadequate for the territory, and you’re completely lost. And at that point you get an ally who helps you find your way back to something you can understand. And then after that for the rest of your life you’ve got this question: Was that ally a supernatural helper, or was it just part of my own mind trying to save me from going totally bonkers with this stuff? And the people I know who’ve had that kind of experience, very few of them have come to an absolutely certain conclusion about that.”  -Robert Anton Wilson, “Maybe Logic”

In this episode, we chat with Loic Wright on Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, and literary critic James Joyce, author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Loic is a PhD candidate in 20th century Irish fiction and culture and an Irish Research Council Scholar, formerly of the James Joyce Center.   "Joyce and Tao" - one of RAW's first two published essays, both sold on his 27th birthday. RAW essay on James Joyce and Ulysses RAW Essay: "The Celtic Roots of Quantum Theory" RAW essay on Ireland: "The Land Where Bulls are Pregnant" RAW on FW and Joe Campbell, YouTube ----------- Loic on Twitter James Joyce Centre ----------- Hilaritas Podcast Host/Producer Mike Gathers Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves ------------- “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” “Shut your eyes and see.”       ― James Joyce

In this episode, we chat with inventor, writer, producer, and educator Kurt Przybilla on American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, critic of work, and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller.   Kurt Przybilla invented Tetra Tops, the world’s first spinning top with more than one axis of spin, which were inspired by the works of Buckminster Fuller and have been featured in the New York Times, Popular Science, Baby Einstein, Child and Discover Magazine, as well as at the Smithsonian Institute. He is co-creator, writer and producer of the Molecularium Project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he has produced and co-written Molecules to the MAX!, a 3D animated film for Giant Screen IMAX theaters, Molecularium, an award winning digital dome feature, and NanoSpace, an game-based online theme park to teach kids about atoms and molecules. The Buckminster Fuller Institute Robert Anton Wilson’s Interview of Buckminster Fuller The Molecularium Project Tetra Tops “New Ultrahard Diamond Glass Synthesized Using Carbon Buckyballs” ----------- Hilaritas Podcast Host/Producer Mike Gathers Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves ------------- “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.” “The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.” - R. Buckminster Fuller.