[thefixer]

He passed today, Albert Hofmann's 101st birthday btw.

http://robertantonwilson.blogspot.com/2007/01/raw-essence.html

[masondixon]

wow, we were just talking about him on NYE…  a great soul…

[Eklypz]

Yet another leader of my generation fading away, really need some replacements!

I am glad that the community stepped forth to take care of him in the end to make his passing more pleasant.

[devious]

I liked him, I liked reading Prometheus Rising and Illuminatus Trilogy, but as a speaker, he was just short of a ranting and raving lunatic who for the most part in general spoke about unoriginal ideas that were created elsewhere. He did have some good points and I have all of his videos and love watching them every once in awhile. But what he basically boils everything down to is what he got in the end, nothing! hahaha. what a sucker! anyways, whatever he's doing, which I am sure it's nothing just as when he were alive, i hope he's at peace with himself. indeed!

love and light,

-d

[Veck93]

Yet another leader of my generation fading away, really need some replacements!

I am glad that the community stepped forth to take care of him in the end to make his passing more pleasant.

Your generation? Your profile says you're 35! He wasn't even MY generation and I'll bet Im the oldest fart here. I had my first contact with RAW in '73 I think. We were in the Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation which was the pre-net e

[Veck93]

Yet another leader of my generation fading away, really need some replacements!

I am glad that the community stepped forth to take care of him in the end to make his passing more pleasant.

Your generation? Your profile says you're 35! He wasn't even MY generation and I'll bet Im the oldest fart here. I had my first contact with RAW in '73 I think. We were in the Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation which was the pre-net e

typing too fast on laptop results in sending unfinished posts….SRAF was the pre-net equivalent of a message board…members mailed in their correspondence to be mimeographed (yeah for real) and mailed out. as a result RAW for some still unknown reason all his own since he would never acknowledge sending it, mailed me a package of weird newspaper clippings and a book by Aleister Crowley that my wife happened to have just mentioned to me she wanted to get into. It was a mind blower to open that package. Never really got to know the man though our paths crossed now and then.

and responding to another post…far as I can tell there haven't been any significant new ideas in a few thousand years. He put esoteric knowledge into language modern westerners could understand mostly without the metaphysical doubletalk that usually accompanies or veils these same concepts. Crowley said it was all in the Tao Te Ching, Paul Foster Case implied it was all in the Yoga Sutras, other's have said it's all in the “Old Testament”(with kabballistic interpretation of course). They seem to be correct. But in person for a long time, unless it was a mind machine seminar, Pope Bob tended to go into conspiracy theories with dry wit. More entertainment than substance but with a zen attitude of shaking you out of preconceived notions of how the world works. Agree that could be disappointing if you had any other expectations.

[Eklypz]

I guess anyone that me and many people my age looked up to for interesting ideas that made us think is considered a leader to me.  I am sorry you are offended by claiming him 😛

[Veck93]

I guess anyone that me and many people my age looked up to for interesting ideas that made us think is considered a leader to me.  I am sorry you are offended by claiming him 😛

This is the 2nd or 3rd time someone thought I was offended when I posted. Not at all. I just thought it was funny. I read your post and said wow he doesnt look old enough to be of RAW's generation, shit I wish I looked that good for my age and Im not nearly as old as Wilson. I am happy to see there are folks here who appreciated his work and spirit.
I'd really be interested to hear who do you see as up and coming “replacements”? Wilson's gone, Leary's gone, Terrance McKenna left early. Warmed my hear to hear some Noam Chomsky laid over some tracks last fall. But who are the next generation to push the envelope?

[Veck93]

Yet another leader of my generation fading away, really need some replacements!

I am glad that the community stepped forth to take care of him in the end to make his passing more pleasant.

Ok now I see where I went wrong. I read it as a leader who is of your generation not a leader of (as in for) your generation.

That the community helped is very encouraging. There have been other calls to help elders out of serious conditions that met with mixed results but generally the internet has helped people across the world with common interests become a virtual community and allowed donations to be sent so fast it has real effect on lives. Aside from the call for donations there were people helping him sell off his stuff and things like Phil Farber (author/lecturer/NLP teacher and cool dude) pulling an old tape of RAW giving a seminar at his place and getting it out on DVD almost overnight to raise money.
We obviously can't rely on government and family structure ain't what it used to be. There have always been benefits for injured or dying musicians since they generally don't have insurance (and going way way back tot he rent party thing) but now that attitude is needing to spread throughout communities. We only got each other folks.

[agenthurt]

holy fuckenheimers!  i was given a book about 4 years ago now to read (book one of the illuminatus) and i couldnt remember who it was that wrote it and ive been looking all over hell and back to find out who it was so i could read more of these books.  man, thats terrible news even though i'm way behind on it

[Veck93]

holy fuckenheimers!   i was given a book about 4 years ago now to read (book one of the illuminatus) and i couldnt remember who it was that wrote it and ive been looking all over hell and back to find out who it was so i could read more of these books.  man, thats terrible news even though i'm way behind on it

The authors of the trilogy were RAW and Robert Shea. Shea passed over sometime in the late 90's. He had strong Chicago connections too. His memorial was up in Wilmette. The trilogy is chock full of Chicago references and people. Some rather obscure even at the time and moreso since the city has changed a lot but still lot's of fun when you notice it. And of course a good fun esoteric read too.

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