Hilaritas Press Podcasts

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  P...

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 Reeve...

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 • • • H...

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 essa...

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 Yo...

In this episode, we chat with flotation enthusiast, consultant, and publisher Graham Talley on physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer, and inventor John C. Lilly, MD, author of over 125  scientific papers and 19 books including Programming and Metaprogramming of the Human Biocomputer and two autobiographies, Center of The Cyclone and The Scientist. John C. Lilly,...

In this episode, we chat with writer and historian Adam Gorightly on the life, work and ideas of Kerry Thornley, aka Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst or simply Lord Omar, Jesse Sump, the Grand Caliph of California, and Ho Chi Zen; author of Zenarchy and The Idle Warriors; co-founder of Discordianism and co-author of the Principia Discordia. From AdamGorightly.com : Adam Gorightly has been chronicling fring...

A rising star in the field of clinical psychology in the 1950s, Dr. Timothy Leary published his book, The Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality in 1957. Dubbed the "most important book on psychotherapy of the year" by The Annual Review of Psychology, Leary's research led to the development of Transactional Analysis, popularized by Eric Berne in his 1964 book Games People Play. Behind the scenes,...

Nicholas Murray is a freelance author and journalist based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool, he is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Bruce Chatwin, Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold, five collections of poems, and two novels. His biography of Matthew Arnold was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997, and his biography of Aldo...

In this episode, we chat with Dan Lowe about the life, work and ideas of Wilhelm Reich. Dan works as a counsellor, therapist and educator in London. He has been studying Reich since discovering him through Robert Anton Wilson over 25 years ago while at university. Dan’s clinical work as therapist is heavily informed by relational therapy and Reich’s somatic therapy.   In this episode, we chat with...

For our first episode we talk with artist Dom Heffer of the Institute of General Semantics about the life and ideas of Alfred Korzybski and the implications of general semantics on every day life. • • • Hilaritas Press Podcast :  Host/Producer Mike Gathers  Producer/Engineer Richard Rasa Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves