RAW semantics

'RAW maps, models... frames?' - NEW POST in which I promote my 2023 book while showing RAW's lexicon to be broadly synonymous with that of cognitive frames. #RobertAntonWilson: rawsemantics.home.blog/2023/02/15/raw…

'New RAW images (2026)' - new blog post with some fresh photos & artwork. #RobertAntonWilson Link: rawsemantics.home.blog/2026/03/17/new…

'RAW political #5 – global / local / po' - NEW substantial post on the global-local axis in #RobertAntonWilson writings. With Po & SNAFU & Scandinavian model. rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/raw…

New post - my review notes for the new #RobertAntonWilson anthology of political writings: rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/10/28/rev…

So far, my most "successful" post - but also, according to blog stats, one of the least read (which isn't saying much, but it says something about my non-"market" success criteria). Link: rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/03/20/cos… (image isn't link)

'Physics as Metaphor' & RAW -- new long post on a rarely mentioned book that influenced Wilson. "Is space-time really real?" Outside the materialist/idealist EITHER/OR. #RobertAntonWilson Link: rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/09/03/phy… (the image isn't link)

Folks, I've moved to BlueSky rawsemantics.bsky.social I'm not using Xitter anymore.

@jacksontom @RGC777 That's true. I sometimes have a much stricter regime with going offline.

@RAWsemantics @RGC777 You must have been pretty offline -- I plugged it on the blog. Moral: Never miss a post! :)

Looking at the Maybe Day 2024 site, I noticed @RGC777's *Maybe Night 2023*, which I think I must've missed during my long period offline last Winter. Wow!! - take a look if you haven't already: maybeday.net/night/

Matt Taibbi gets 6-figure sums & zillions of followers writing Substack screeds that appeal to MAGA folks & alt-'dissenters' alike. I get no readers & no money writing screeds for Tom's excellent RAW blog comments (rawillumination.net/2024/05/raw-an…) Surely I'm doing something right? Right?

MAYBE DAY 2024 IS COMING :))) Details here: maybeday.net

On translating "isms" between different authors - RAW & Lakoff/Johnson in this case (comment posted to rawillumination.net/2024/05/raw-an…, worthy of recycling on xitter - in quantity of words if not quality of thinking).

Liberal is the most confused and confusing word in the English language.

@GeorgeMonbiot @jamesmorris24 For some broader insights than might be found in the sci literature, I'd recommend the intro to HarperCollins encyclopedia of conspiracies, 'Everything is Under Control' by author of the ultimate satire of conspiracies (relevant with Adam Curtis link too): samim.io/dl/Robert-Anto…

I read quite a few papers, and all of the recent Uscinski (ed) book, but strangely I felt that not one of them got to the heart of the matter. I found NK's book far more useful as a means of understanding and contextualising, especially the political aspects. Not sure why this should be. In every other discipline, the scientific literature tends to nail it for me.

Whenever we begin to wake up to how we're being screwed, conspiracy fictions distract and confuse us and send us back to sleep. So why DO so many people obsess about false stories, but ignore the real ones? In the hope of finding out, I wrote this theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Featuring articles by (and/or conversations with): #RobertAntonWilson, Tim Leary, Terence McKenna, John Shirley, Todd Rundgren, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Vernor Vinge, etc, etc. Cyberpunk issue. This was an actual 160-page printed magazine in 1989. @2000_mondo

@jacksontom Yes, with some help from AI of course. I fed it a ridiculously convoluted and not very specific prompt, expected nothing - and it returns this, complete with a sage who looks like RAW. Quite spooky, as if it read my mind!

@RAWsemantics Brian, did you make this artwork?

From right at the end of chapter 6 of The New Inquisition, where RAW writes about Schrödinger's “the sum of all minds is one” (see my latest blog scrawl). Bob then adds: "Did you get it that time?" (Non-plural implies non-local in this context).

@TheRAWTrust Excellent!

New Hardcover Edition of Prometheus Rising! Hilaritas Press has published a hardcover version of Prometheus Rising. Click here: amazon.com/Prometheus-Ris…

Interesting comments thread developing on the RAWIllumination.net post about my Schrödinger "sum of all minds" piece. A few more still to appear? (certainly another from me posted): rawillumination.net/2024/04/raw-se…

'Sum of all minds' - updated/extended (practically new) version of post - originally from April 2020. On the philosophical significance for #RobertAntonWilson of one of his favourite quotes (from Erwin Schrödinger). rawsemantics.home.blog/2024/04/25/sum… (image isn't link)