Cosmic Trigger I deals with Wilson's experiences during a time in which he put himself through a process of "self-induced brain change" as well as vignettes of his earlier life. The main discovery of this process—which, he tells us, is known in certain traditions as Chapel perilous—is that "reality" (although a noun in most Indo-European language systems, and therefore[citation needed] commonly conceptualized as being a definite, unchanging "'thing") is mutable and subjective to the observer.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Trigger_I:_The_Final_Secret_of_the_Illuminati
Cosmic Trigger: self induced brain change, from wikipedia
natural abundance of flowers
...we are all shotdown by the
painstream media
dammed by knee jerk reactions
to the stench of truth
what effect do you wish
to have surpriseshock
and horror awe wonder
mystery suspense
does it entertain lull
at what and at who's expense
to use the word as a massage
and all its meanings and shades
as exotic oils feathers and music
new uses to uncork the soul
and spring the genius out from
within each and every heart
so mote it be
so build playful bridges of
paperclips daisies and spaghetti
yet not past a point
beyond where the ravioli orbits
multiplicity
shoot down hate with
love bazookers
tune into others and
walk a mile
gain insight of foreign
alien knowledge in new directions
from maps and mold
memorable metaphors from
the natural abundance of
nature
purple flowers on bodies
disaster strikes and all thinking people
sigh another dumb ass destroys
life direct hit to every humanitarian
circumstance differs
death horror destruction are hard
to make rational sense of today
varying emotions arise
and fall around the planet
in step with graphic images and
graphic details bouncing into the
eyeballs of billions
chatter in the streets
web searches later before
tweets what is the question again
who how why for what
what can the news reports
tell us
what of the lead up
what next mind the present
the ever present grief and sadness
of violence greed corruption
and abuse at all levels
going on right now
what about the lead up this
event specifically who benefits
who profits who looses and
who gains what
whooooooooooo
and on and on spinning and
twisting through gazillions of
neural networks data crunching
networks analysis and probably
probabalistic feedback on pretty
possible outcomes
leading to a headline
[insert bogeyman here]
did it
the wreakage and horror
of crash sites illustrate the
destructive force of weapons
no matter which primate fired
we feel the result of military
weaponry manufactured
marketed and sold
and for the victims families
and loved ones and friends
i point to the description
of delicate purple flowers
and lush grasses surrounding
the grave and to the soil and
the surrounding flora
motionless silent and simply
soaked in the traces of
sentience dispersing out
into infinite space
into the hearts and heads
of billions of people
around the globe
may the sympathy overpower
the rage for revenge
may you have strength to
tune out from the painstream
media and into
the tangible
flowers and grasses
stars and clouds and the
natural world where the
souls of their loved ones
and all of us may go
a little word to recycle
snatched souls into
worlds of natural abundance
and the eternal memory
with budding language
let the future bloom
and forgiveness blossom
worldwide...
--Steve Fly 22/07/14
www.cosmictriggerplay.com
Make it new: Panorawma and the tale of the tribe
MAKE IT NEW (Originally Panorawma & The tale of the tribe (July 2011)
Over the last ten years together with a sleepless band of independent researchers, the author has been tuned into “The Tale Of The Tribe” (TTOTT), developed exclusively by Dr. Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007)
At RAW360 we embark on a whole new way of communicating some parts of TTOTT, introducing new ways of seeing and navigating information. New spaces that reflect primary innovations of key historical figures who deeply inspired RAW and his works.
The multi-sensory experience of interacting with the new ‘info-process tools’ and embedded media, ploughs the language for the appropriate new message. I walk in the footsteps of those writers whom wish to show delight in the limitations and boundaries of the textual art form. Visit any major writers website and be confronted with audio, video, texts and hyperlinks, the sum total of which, I feel, often overshadows the individual textual medium by which we show up here.
A new synthesis has emerged amidst the convergence of information technology, social networking and the will to share, and what we aspire to with RAW360 includes making a new synthesis explicit and demonstrable by example. Look and see, click and watch, read, listen process. What better place to build a comprehensive foundation than something rooted in RAW?
Together the ‘programming’ (that maybe defined as the principles and methodologies distilled from the works of RAW) and the ‘programmers’ (in this special case scenario the dozen or so characters from RAWs TTOTT) produce a remarkable comprehensive super-computer: an operating system. A mixture of innovations plucked from best minds of our age, a new global epic including history with innovative poetics. Singing matter, shouting matter, dancing matter.
RAWs TTOTT condenses a lifetime study into what I, and many other scholar activists consider the most important and critical ‘information skills’ to help world-around humanity ‘make it together’ and stop fighting each other and go explore mind, earth, space (inner/outer) and each other in harmony, and with laughter and smiles.
Dr. Wilson read and processed each of the characters in his tale of the tribe over a period of approx’ sixty years. Over half a century developing a taoist modernist method of processing these characters and their works, and hundreds more, with a balanced suspended judgement, multi-valued logic, poetic surprise and mathematical terrorism.
RAW exhibited a sizzling 21st century ‘programme’ of humanitarian mind-aid, with a witty creative edge that helped define ‘comprehensive thinking’ with Bucky Fuller, and ‘the eight circuit model of consciousness’ with Dr. Timothy Leary. Tooling up the reader for swimming in 21st century chaos.
I think that the least we can do might consist of correlating some of his favorite innovators and humanitarian artists into a RAW universe, (PANORAWMA: a place that reflects RAW through the people he expressly named running together in a sleepless krewe consisting of magicians, historians, writers, poets, film makers, linguists, media theorists, design scientists, comedians, heretics, all engineered into cyberspace by the great visionary artists actively building the PANORAMA: RAW360.
The new 360 spaces bring in a new opportunity for synthesis between the characters from RAWs TToTT, the innovations and principles they contributed to the collective human knowledge base (2011).
The precise and equalibrius writing of RAW naturally provides such a synthesis, and his books and articles remain testament to this comprehensive holism deployed through the medium of literature. RAW360.net reflects the process of making a movie in comparrison with writing a book. We are building an interactive Universe where activities and events take place through multi-media synthesis: video, image, text, audio, game play.
In my opinion the key to building a harmonious Universe lies in the inter-connectivity between all of its parts, and the tale of the tribe by RAW seems to have been developed to exploit this inter-connectivity, where any of the charcters can be processed and permutated with any other to produce meaningful and complimentary mixtures. The art of mixing and of juxtaposition, however, often requires a very special touch, a rhythm and timing and sense for improvisation, to then travel the posible pathways, the choices, and analyse the path of least resistance, or that which resolves the immediate sense of opposing forces. Enter the poet, enter the painter, enter the photographer, enter the programmer, creating together to balance the equation: language vs. The equation.
Television Blues with John Sinclair
Television Blues Episode One June 2014 from Start Productions on Vimeo.
Television Blues episode 1, with features & music from Trampolene, Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band, Alan McGee, Nev Cottee & John Sinclair.
Thanks to Tony Linkin, Matt Lockett at shacknet.co.uk, John Read & Matt Bristow at Cherry Red, Sean Newsham, Mark Sampson at Iron Man Records, Chu, Jon Mojo Mills & The Briton's Protection pub in Manchester.
John Sinclair 360 degree artwork c/o Chu at schudio.co.uk/blog.
John Sinclair 360 degree artwork c/o Chu at schudio.co.uk/blog.
For more information & news please go to televisionblues.com
Cosmic Trigger, steve fly agaric 23 and acrillic figa
Hi,
In 2009 Eric Wagner crafted an stimulating on-line class, hosted by the Maybe Logic Academy and titled 'Chapel Perilous' The class was based around the book 'Cosmic Trigger' by Robert Anton Wilson, and during the class i contributed a number of posts and items. One of which i will reproduce here for the purpose of describing my own cosmic coincidences when encountering this text. Enjoy.
Steve Fly
Cosmic Trigger Play: Musical Director
Steve Fly
Cosmic Trigger Play: Musical Director
Please listen and share my album together with John Sinclair: Mohawk.
John Sinclair – “Mohawk” cd
Released Monday 24th March 2014 by Iron Man Records
John Sinclair, the renegade poet, scholar and cultural revolutionary releases his new album on Monday 24th March 2014. John, has been described as an Archetype of the 1960's art, music and literary synthesis, and who today, is still kicking with both feet on his trajectory for cultural transformation. His new record features ten tracks from his book of verse: always know: a book of monk. Twenty poems planted firmly in a single-shot session, and carefully trimmed down to ten exhibits for this album. Beatnik poems, great odes and personal reflections of the Be-Bop jazz persuasion, all flowering together.
First conceived of in Detroit City, spring 1982, and developed throughout the 1980s with streaks of fresh edits leading right up to the session itself, John navigates some of these texts for the first time in over twenty years, free-styling his energized sincerity and attention to every word, transforming the text on the page into his unique unmistakable spoken word.
The music was written and arranged by Steve Fly who mirrored John’s poems in the music by initially combing the tempo of the original songs recorded by John ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie, Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker and Thelonious Monk.
Steve The Fly is a native of Stourbridge UK, now an Amsterdam resident who plays drums, spins vinyl, writes novels and literary and cultural commentary. He also maintains a flock of websites and works in various other art forms without visible restraint. His other music projects have included New Flesh, Garaj Mahal, Temple Dragon band, of course he is now full time with John Sinclair.
These songs are further utilized by John’s poetic method so that each title and the rhythm of his poetry can piggy-back upon the same song title, and rhythm, of an original composition set in history, for extra rooting. Steve put down drums, turntables, cello-bass, flute, and glockenspiel, shooting to play around the vocal lead lines and diverse expressions from John.
“to take the hair off
the sides of the head
& leave just a strip
along the top,
scalping pretense
for the baldness of statement
building a new music
on the bones of the old”
— John Sinclair from the title track “Mohawk”
The album was recorded diligently by Tim Egmond at Ei Studios, Amsterdam and passed along to Simon Reeves at Framework Studios, Birmingham for mastering.
Tim Egmond is a music producer, engineer and studio whizz, based in Amsterdam, who has worked with scores of international and locally based artists on a wide variety of projects.
Simon Reeves has completed many projects for Iron Man Records already and he has been described as one of Birmingham’s finest independent studio engineers who has worked with bands from Napalm Death to Police Bastard, and a host of other brutal metal and punk bands.
All artwork was cradled and visualized by the post-industrial imagination of CHU; The Black Country, tech savvy, rule-breaking, progressive wordsmith and thinker – an ardent advocate of aerosol painting and its vanguard for over 30 years with global public works and murals, 3D perspective illusions and many group shows, under his Walsall leather belt. CHU’s work has included projects with Banksy and Jamie Hewlett among many others, and he has been described as the ‘Escher of UK street art’ and founder of Graffiti Bastards.
The album is to be released by Birmingham based Iron Man Records whose releases have included The Nightingales, Howard Marks, P.A.I.N (Propaganda And Information Network), and Police Bastard, amongst others.
The album will be beautifully packaged in a double gatefold cd wallet with artwork by CHU in full colour and a ten page booklet. John Sinclair will be appearing in November through to March to promote the new album. Mohawk illustrates the kind of care and attention a John Sinclair record deserves. After all, he kinda helped start this underground art explosion.
All Press Enquiries Sean Newsham: sean@mutante-inc.demon.co.ukJohn Sinclair – Mohawk CD released on Iron Man Records 24th March 2014
Watch the short film: WHITE PANTHER: A Legacy Interview with John Sinclair
http://ironmanrecords.net/2013/10/white-panther-a-legacy-interview-with-john-sinclair/
ARTIST: John Sinclair
TITLE: Mohawk
LABEL: Iron Man Records
FORMAT: CD Double Gatefold Sleeve / Digital Release to follow
RELEASE DATE: 24th March 2014
FILE UNDER: Rock
Cat No: IMB6022
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Ed Sanders: FUG YOU
Ed Sanders, author of "Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side" (Da Capo Press) reading at St Marks Bookshop NYC on May 28 2012.
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Multi Model Agnostic Geometry: MMAG by Steve Fly Agaric 23
His philosophy was one of multiple model agnosticism - not just simply about the existence of God but agnosticism about everything. With MMA, there is no point getting hung up on the models themselves because that’s all they are – models.—John Higgs, KLF. pg. 258.
Multi Model Agnostic Geometry.
by Steve FlyTo make a joint between the open feeling of awe, with a little melancholy doubt, seems to me a healthy mixture for getting by in 2014 without totally loosing your wig. As the author ages, he develops a critical doubting faculty too, equally.
I sit here ready to write something about sacred geometry, confronted with the wallpaper of doubt all over my room, can the author clearly express whatever is on his mind to share now? Now doubts double, doubts about the internal logic and consistency of the writing and the ideas, doubts on the scientific interpretation of the signs and symbols invoked, the rational logic interplay, or frigid lack of it, the question of how on earth to deal with contradictions, both grammatical and personal? I do not wish to tell you what to think, or to collapse your state vector regarding whichever bunch of signs and symbols you use to employ. Bill Drummond said: 'embrace the contradictions' best advice when you think about it.
However, the crux of my investigation into agnostic geometry, remember, revolves around having a higher and broader skepticism for blind truth. Truth in the singular, single sight and Newtons sleep and all that, with a particular eye/nose/ear for pulling buzz words like 'divinity', 'holy' and 'Gods' into a reasonable framework of logic. I will argue, on the one mitten that as soon as God or the divine, or the holy turn up, some but not all rationality departs. Where does it go, i don't know, maybe into the null void of the meaningless and indeterminate. On the other mitten, perhaps the Gods never left us, if we want them they are right here now, everywhere in potential spacetime, awaiting some creative mind to make contact?
Sacred geometry, at least on the surface, appears to me to use arbitrarily assigned holiness to differentiate sacred geometry from a godless, non-sacred geometry. After all, it follows that sacred geometry would be the most precise, correct and self consistent geometry, the bleeding edge of geometry. The edge, if anywhere seems to me to be where we might find sacred geometry, closer to the cutting edge of Gods garage.?
While recently combing the inter webs for ideas, novel innovations in technology and the language used to describe such innovations, I do not often come across the use of terms such as sacred, spiritual and holy, or if I do they often display what I perceive to be lacking in basic scientific method. A handful dare to cross academic boundaries, while they retain a methodological integrity and sense, often due to a relatively simple linguistic hygiene practice, so floss your stinky Aristotelian tongue. A reminder: what you are reading is the product of a singular human being amongst billions, and any truth hauled in by your meat puppet will shortly be cast back out to the depths again. Please go dig on RAW, Dr Timothy Leary, Dr John Lilly, Bucky Fuller and Aleister Crowley for some wicked examples, great fishing spots and techniques.
This process, to me, reflects both the realm of Quantum Mechanics and the process of Taoism, and has to do with the forces of Yin-Yang, each containing the seed of its opposite. When looking into order chaos emerges, and when studying chaos, order emerges, as if the principle around the concept of the resolution of opposites gets at the unknowable and thoroughly unpredictable nature of things, like the light particle/light wave duality, and the damn missing plane. RAW brilliantly synthesized a collection of historical characters who were all touched by this principle in different ways, from the early great Hermeticists Giordano Bruno and Giambattista Vico, to James Joyce, Carl Jung, Claude Shannon and Marshall McLuhan, in the 20th century. This resolution of opposites, inherent in the principles of these innovators maybe a clue to RAWs question concerning what the above people and their innovations have in common with Internet?
The nature of life, not least a process important to any search for the answer to the age old question about meaning and life. As Alfred Korzybski said: “everything you say it is, it isnt”I feel swept over to the point where I try to distinguish between good agnostic geometry and good sacred geometry, and demonstrate how non-sacred geometry can be equally, if not a tad more holy that its sacred sibling. If you can take my holyometer, or proposed measurement of the divine without laughing out loud?
As far as I can see Buckminster Fuller was a agnostic geometry innovator, and perhaps his quote ‘God is a verb’ can stand as testament, next to the thousands of Geodesic domes across the planet. He sided with the scientific community, yet also managed to allow space in his methods for consciousness, and for intuitive mind to find solutions to specific problems when they arise, that's what mind does, it solves problems using the whole of human experience and technology together, if it can override the animal instinct to fight and shop at Tesco supermarket. And so often requires a boot in the arse - a war or a global crisis, an excuse to implement the solutions, or perhaps more urgently find a new way of thinking about the problems.
Buck exemplified techno-optimism at its most comprehensive, and demonstrated through design science innovation what religiously inclined people might refer to as miracles, or magic. Bucky crafted poetry too and developed into a distinguished linguist, creating a rag bag of new terms and often compound words, such a Dymaxion [Dynamic Maximum Tension] which presents evidence to show that he did not refuse to acknowledge that language and words are equally charged technologies that may bring about positive change both in the user of the language and within the environment. As Benjamin Lee Whorf once exclaimed: ‘a transformation in language, can lead to a transformation in the cosmos’.
Together with his writing and equations and theory, Bucky performed by example, making the solutions real tangible things, houses, cars, maps. Personally speaking, if any religious leader also happened to have made numerous useful, practical contributions to science I would be quick to listen and learn. Not to deny that Dzogchen Buddhism, for example, behaves as a practical psychological system on a par with the scientific method, featuring rigorous experimental conditions, attention to the instruments used (the mind) taking careful notes, and staying awake to the possible hidden variables. (also for more on this see Carl Jung, James Joyce, Giambattista Vico, Wolfgang Pauli, founding principles of Taoism and founding principles of Quantum Mechanics)
Although many people find satisfaction, enjoyment and a kind of enlightenment through adopting rather bizarre ideas about specific kinds of geometry, usually what is more appealing to the eye, you do not find many joining the church of special relativity and building an alternative spiritual movement on the principles of Einstein. But why not? How can any Scientology disciple sleep at night knowing the they worship L. Ron Hubbard and his ideas, when characters like Einstein and Bucky Fuller demonstrate a much more solid kind of scientific knowledge system, and in Bucky’s case with dozens of practical innovations that obviously help individuals, communities and planetary systems co-evolve together. Not just a psychological strategy for self-discovery combined with the usual trappings and flights of fantasy associated with institutionalized religious doctrine.
In the some sense then, the sacred scripture, or symbol system of science is mathematics. A meta programming tool-kit, that maybe allow for an infinite variety of problem solving equations, based on a decentralized system where anybody who can calculate, holds the keys to understanding. Organized religion, and Scientology, and a lot of sacred geometry schools, on the other hand use scripture as scripture. I mean to say, the system is centralized and controlled due to the fact that there is a symbol system deemed to be the only true symbol system, and very very special, or Sacred due to it coming from a very special or Holy individual. See Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, L. Ron Hubbard.
Mathematics is open source friendly and loves new data, and updating, like good science. On the contrary, organized religion and Divinely guided individuals want you to only concentrate on a controlled slice of scripture, and develop a new centralized control system. A new father figure, a new boss, usually accompanied by a congregation of invisible beings, often, interestingly reflecting the culture that manufactured them: angels, demons, space aliens, fairies, critters.
On the bright side, like Alan Moore states ‘the gods exists in our minds where they are real beyond refute’ but the major difference here is that Alan, unlike the Pope, may contact hundreds of Gods and Goddesses, perhaps thousands in all forms, a great pantheon of Gods of all sorts. The Catholic Pope, however, along with most other religious leaders, seems stuck worshiping just one God, usually with a big dick, one scripture, and often just one way. At least any serious occultist or magician will have at some point encountered the warnings and advice on believing anything they encounter or contact, a lifelong motif throughout the works of RAW. ‘you are the master who makes grass green’
The one place that Gods unarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity.—Alan Moore as William Gull, From Hell.
I find the idea that before the constraints and/or expansive opportunities emerged in human culture due to the lack of a universal symbol system adequately developed, humans lived in a totally different universe, a world without words. Can you imagine that? Like the principle that you cannot find or have the condition of dyslexia in a non-alphabetical culture! the symbol system you use can modify your entire cosmos for better or worse, dependent on which side of the fence you may graze.
On one side the traps and untruths forwarded by Aristotelian --dualistic systems--lead to disharmony in the human physiological system, and currently, amplified by the military-industrial-corporate-media complex, billions humans are at unnecessarily high risks of contracting disease, starting in the mind and manifesting within the body. Take note of the excessive use of dualistic, closed-minded religious terminology in pop culture and politics. This idea is somewhat along the lines of the psycho-physiological ideas put forward by Wilhelm Reich in ‘The Mass Psychology of Fascism’ and Alfred Korzybski in ‘Science and Sanity’, both brought to my attention once again, by our man Robert Anton Wilson, Read him. RAW wrote about all this much better than the present author, and more than 50 years ago. Get digging.
On the other side, symbol systems used to express multi valued logic, of anything more than two change the game, introduce new ways to connect and co-operate. To not have access to these important and helpful symbol systems would throw any culture into a new paradigm shift, literally unimaginable. The invention of programmable computer software code, and advancements in A.I. systems relate to multi-valued probabilities, decentralized field approaches, reasoning, and at the same time they generally avoid religious jargon. Although, ‘spiritual machine’ is a term sometimes used to get a conversation going about A.I. A more meaningful term, in the current context is consciousness, the final frontier? I’ll leave that for another post.
To conclude, perhaps at this point it is wise to take a kind of pan-psychist approach and say that yes, everything is sacred, sentient and conscious, in a tiny tiny degree, in part due to it being under our light of consciousness. But I think that to isolate one particular model, no matter how true it seems to you, leads to trouble down the road, and many charlatans out there are looking for that trouble specifically, ways to shine light on some things and eclipse others, without letting anybody know about all that other stuff in potential, or what is not yet tuned in. Any word used to denote extra special qualities in a thing, that are typically unquantifiable, such as ‘Sacred’ ‘Holy’ ‘Divine’ ‘Royal’ ‘Righteous’ work as a distraction and aversion from the noble goal of balancing the language, or symbol systems used…with the equation of life, the calculations and division turned into knowledge.
Art and Magick seem interchangeable terms to me too, as they do to Alan Moore if I can be so bold as to point at him and simply and say: what he do. And furthermore, what he has demonstrated without a shadow of a bats wing of a doubt, he has understood and mastered both realms with a rare and equal balance. Not dogmatic science and not dogmatic religion, but willing to investigate both, and giving examples of multi-model agnosticism. deployed successfully with the aid of advanced art and magick. Yes mate.
I bring up Moore here as an important individual, and atruly great Englishman, who practices a delicate blend of art-magick-geometry, in some sense, in the best sense reaching back to the Hermetic scientists and mystics of the Renaissance period. He presents living evidence that--based on the above theory somewhat aimed at debunking the use of terms like sacred, divine, holy, as distinguished from the probabilistic language used in good scientific method—a middle way exists, a magickal way, that preserves the wonder and mystery of consciousness and creative imagination and the manifestation of symbols signs and scripture, yet, at the same time can apply disciplined scientific method. For example taking strict notes while utilizing the 'operationalist language' of defining the instruments used, the conditions of the experiments, and the important practice of strengthening contradicting criticism and arguments, keeping change constant with a healthy flexible process of updating based on the latest information.
In the case of exciting new Geometry the amplituhedron fits that description for me, another exciting new development in geometry that can be viewed as being an extension of Buckminster Fuller innovations. such as synergetics together with the continued growth of Fullerenes, of which I think Carbon 60 takes the crown of creation and deserves very special attention and study.
The magical thinking of the mind fails, more often than not, when it tries to move beyond the immaterial and affect the material world. Likewise, objective materialism has proved to be a fat lot of good at explaining or predicting the mental worlds we inhabit. Once we are aware of those limits, the idea that these two models are incompatible falls away. Using multi-model agnosticism, we no longer have to take sides and nail our colours to one or the other.”—John Higgs, The KLF, Chaos, Magic, and the band who burned a million pounds.
--Steve Fly
Amsterdam 5/4/14.
Sacred means revered due to association with holiness. Holiness, or sanctity, is in general the state of being holy (perceived by religious individuals as associated with divinity) or sacred (considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspiring awe or reverence among believers)-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred
“Geometry (Ancient Greek: γεωμετρία; geo- "earth", -metron "measurement") is a branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space.-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry
For more maybe try these writings by fly:
1. ETTT: Icosahedron by Steve Fly
2. Alan Moore on RAW
3. John Higgs on RAW
4. Robert Anton Wilson & The Tale of the Tribe
5. Hermetic structure of Pounds Cantos
6. Toward a RAW A.I.
p.s Please support the Cosmic Trigger Stage Production, pull the trigger, get into trouble with us.
Alan Moore unlocking safety latch and taking a clean head shot.
John Higgs: paying tribute to Robert Anton Wilson at the Horse Hospital.
Nappy Muvers Dei 2014
Nappy Muvers Dei 2014
(Especially for my own mother Adelaide (Della) and for all mothers living and past.)
Mother earth defines
you well. The longest rivers and
largest mountains get to the heart of you. Mother of all mothers who I
gargled
my very first sounds for. Mum, the first imprint that put me together,
the
garden of mum I grow in, the rich soil and the vast sky and fresh life
water that made me real, in the flesh and in the mind, i think. Cheers
for that.
For the countless thousands of hours spent tolerating my
little bossy boots stomping about your house like a screaming demon, I am
sincerely indebted. For my territorial pissing and poop markings, and for my
emotional terrorism around the terrible twos, I commend you on not making that
my career: metaphorically pissing and/or shitting on people. Thanks for not
returning my many declarations of war made against you, like Lao Tzu, you kept
the peace and did not fall for my infant black-mail and emotional hijacking operations. Smarter than an eye for an eye.
By demonstrating your infinite compassion for me you win
every vote and always come up top trumps. In a ruff and tuff' world i imagine that
unsaddled sympathy cuts through the bullshit and gets to the very heart of the
matter. Mother, the great reasoning, the oral tradition, all languages and
tongues of the mother, and in you, my mother. A listening ear and a improvisational skill at speaking
to me in her special way, her own way, each word full of
sincerity, burning like good poetry into the symbol processor, into my brain. Mind meets first
word at the mothers mouth, usually love, baby, oh, 'ouchi-ku' etc. I respect you for
leaving enough space in my life to re-knit the semantics and the symbols together, or
bind the meaning, and the symbols together.
Furthermore, to me you reflect the open source
ideal of generally matrist traits in society, open, and so opposed to
the current centralized closed authority crazed,
war-mad, patrist traits in contemporary society, really, you do. And
this is all credit to
Dad too of course too, for not over-riding your advice to me and your
own ways of dealing, simply based
upon his male strength. The open society is where freedom and individual
rights
are cherished, and where powers of authority and government are limited
to
protect against greedy super-powerful states shitting on everybody with
bombs, soft-drinks and celebrity brainwashing. This idea reflects
your tolerance of my own social explorations and your balanced mixture
of good
advice with allowing for a large amount of freedom to go and more or
less do what I liked, when I had demonstrated that I could
survive out there without you and dad. You were always kind and sweet to
friends and girl friends I invited into your house, you never put me on a
guilt
trip concerning sex. Similar to a generally matrist society at large,
sex is
treated openly and without taboo. A mothers mother knows how the circle
of life
works intimately, as Paul Krassner once put it: fuck socialism.
What man can know what it must be like to be a
mother and see her child
grow into a young adult, often reverting back to infantile tactics and
strategies but now deployed from a much larger body and a louder voice?
Mother encourages conversation and communication, river flows free.
Talking
about it can work it out, she says, this reflects the motherly oral
tradition, opposed
to writing things down into lists and fixing ideas onto a page in
alphabetical and grammatical cages, but instead speaking them, playing
with
the speech and finding a way to express it in the moment. Keeping your
wits about you,
as she would say. Still, here I fixed this writing up for your contemplation and enjoyment on mothers day. It is just as relevant tomorrow and any other day mind you.
I am ever grateful to you for turning me onto the wonders
of science and astronomy at an early age, kicking off my fascination with
mystery, the unknown universe and questions like ‘where did we come from?, together with
a loose Darwinian model wrapped up in your own special way of putting it,
often landing splatt in the face of God. Way to go mum. Yeah, your love seems
far greater than that of any God or mystical entity invoked from old dusty scripture.
Thank the soul of Elvis and the Beatles for showing God the door in a way that
maybe Nietzsche might have enjoyed, leading us into mums kitchen for a cup of
tea, and then off into a Hawking universe. Like mount Snowdon or like the great
river Severn, the water and the air and the earth, you are everywhere at he root
of all the good stuff, the life cycle, the life affirming principle, the chaos.
I see a connection between you and the positive
stereotype of the compassionate mother figure in the way you reason with
altered states of consciousness. You broke away from the pervasive thinking of
your generation which states that altered states are bad, anti-social and lead
to criminal behavior unless they are sanctioned by the government, like
alcohol, tobacco and sugar. For a non-cannabis user to come around to a
tolerant and liberal attitude towards it seems like a great achievement and
exemplary stance. And not just your own son but all people who choose to alter
their consciousness in any which way they please, as long as they do not
interfere and do harm to others. Many so called highly educated and intelligent
people do not hold this compassionate view and show no sympathy for anybody who
does not abide by the laws, teachings and doctrine they believe to be true, and
not just regarding altered states of consciousness but alterations of anything
and everything in society.
Mothers are generally friendly to mutation, no
matter what you may turn into, a mother knows intuitively it will be a
temporary trend and what lies underneath the cultural clothing we dress
ourselves in: the naked vulnerable and impressionable baby ape.
So the term mother
probably best sums up everything really, if it came down to just one word, which it rarely does. The ultimate
holistic entity, more omnipotent than God, the mama matrix most mysterious contains the
reproductive fertility magic of recursion, of recycling magic that make
nourishment and life out of nothingness. You really are my everything. Mwah, that's a kiss x
Nappy muvers dei, steve
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Cosmic Trigger Stage Play. Links, News, Details
Hi,
The Cosmic Trigger Stage Play is best described at the website, please visit and get involved. I did, and i am. Hope to see you.
From the website:
There have been a number of blog posts and news items about the play, plus the usual facebook page shenanigans. Take a look, it seems to be taking off....
Steve fly
The Cosmic Trigger Stage Play is best described at the website, please visit and get involved. I did, and i am. Hope to see you.
From the website:
The Discordians Are Coming
In 1976 Ken Campbell staged Illuminatus in Liverpool. This production and the novel that it was based on irrevocably changed the lives of all who were involved, both performers and audiences, and wound up opening The Cottesloe at the National Theatre.
Conceived backstage by Ken and The Goddess of Chaos and Confusion, Daisy Campbell now proposes to re-invoke that mythic production, but this time telling the story that surrounds Illuminatus: the extraordinary life and times of its co-author, Robert Anton Wilson as the central thrust; the unstoppable force that was Ken Campbell; and some key scenes from Illuminatus woven through. As Ken would say, “this is an enthusiasts’ production”.
There have been a number of blog posts and news items about the play, plus the usual facebook page shenanigans. Take a look, it seems to be taking off....
Steve fly
Fungal Economics (2007) by Fly Agaric 23
Fungal Economics
branching words and
money walk
the shit into our future
your words
our words and their
words of air-sound-sutra
why is money and
how did it get all stinky
who issues it and how?
a coin for a cow
paper for gold
our money their money
overnight
who has the magic wands
the words and the rite
disorder of things and stuff
multi-ordinal terms fed to
herds like worms to morning
birds
credit/debit digit edit
where is the source
the root and sacred well
spring of your knowledge
our nohledge and their
scholedge
who issues shit
and how holy dung
holy chao
money exchanged
for words language and
economics co-ming-ling
honey does not grow on trees
the bees bring it to each
branch
the river bank connect
with moon goddess via
the rising and falling water
levels
make every river bank
a bank you can trust
and the fungi
facts decompose rotten
money theory
a natural fungi force
consumes carbon dioxide
and releases carbon
monoxide
like wise a new natural
economic order will
start with fungi
and mycelium as the
fiscal roots and financial
fibers that in the buginning
fed
all the money by
the process of decomposing
using smart drugs
depreciating truffle skins
the truly regenerative and
maximum interests inherent in the
fungal feeding
of the planetary and
inter-planetary bio-sphere
make most but not all forms
of banking and international
financial doings on this planet
seem deceptive
at best and damned sadistic
and apocalyptic at worst
new webworking tools
help to communicate more
scientifically how and
why mycelium networks
have spread into earths biosphere
in turn the field of fungal
economics seems less
of a joke to me
and more of a biological
fact observable in nature
for fly this fungal
economic reorder fits with
the animal and plant kingdom
and the propensity for doing more
with less
and maximizing information
output to the benefit of all
no dropping carcass seed
or shell left behind not
even zero is wasted
the whole biological spaceship
earth recycles energy freely
between species and
kingdoms of living systems
some very influential humans
on the other hand seem to
have a propensity for hoarding
life support
in all its forms
for a few chosen people
or a few International syndicates
at the expense of the many
--the Majority of humanity on
planet earth
who issues it and how
what is money and how did
it get that way, to paraphrase Ez
the fungal metaphor
maybe the most eloquent
and beautiful metaphor to
employ in 2008
pitched against unrestricted
global capitalism driven
by private interest and
crooked double crossed
intelligence tsars
depreciating currency
imitates the fungal process of
breaking down biological matter
making more room at the
bottom by recycling
transform and keep the process
moving along
if you stay in one place too
long with your savings
chemical compound interest
you will rot at the bottom of the pile
without jumping into a new
state of energy
by the magic transform process
see transbutation
holy communion and
the u.s fed bank of england
the deception and trickery
of the global banking
fraud-gamer community
is also mimicked
on a global scale within
fungal communities
in fact mushroom myceilium
germinate those very orchids
that so many banksters
are infatuated with
even penicillin and all its
synthesized relatives
are fungal entities
claimed patented and
exploited by global pharmo
corporations
the dream-drug in its
penicillin incarnation
fungal intelligence
has already penetrated the
money maze
not to mention all the
other medical applications
and drugs synthesized
from mushrooms and/or
fungal bacterium
but the poet with mould-money
and mushrooms spilling
from his mouth does not stop
here
mushrooms and fungus
metaphors deployed to
synergize human
financial intelligence
just the sprouting tip
of a swarming underground
body of evidence
sometimes sprout a fruiting
bodyblog and spilling
billions of its viral meme
spores into earths atmosphere
every second of every day
for a billion years to come
once the poet has sharpened
his gaze and the haze of terrestrial
primate politics and economics
has vanished in the maze
we can begin to revision
our future past present perfect
days all-at-once
an enpsychlopedia Fungi
galactica a languaging entity
a self-replicating fungal blogject
spore of the words
money and wind and
seeds and stars all-at-once
--fly agaric 23.
Amsterdam.
branching words and
money walk
the shit into our future
your words
our words and their
words of air-sound-sutra
why is money and
how did it get all stinky
who issues it and how?
a coin for a cow
paper for gold
our money their money
overnight
who has the magic wands
the words and the rite
disorder of things and stuff
multi-ordinal terms fed to
herds like worms to morning
birds
credit/debit digit edit
where is the source
the root and sacred well
spring of your knowledge
our nohledge and their
scholedge
who issues shit
and how holy dung
holy chao
money exchanged
for words language and
economics co-ming-ling
honey does not grow on trees
the bees bring it to each
branch
the river bank connect
with moon goddess via
the rising and falling water
levels
make every river bank
a bank you can trust
and the fungi
facts decompose rotten
money theory
a natural fungi force
consumes carbon dioxide
and releases carbon
monoxide
like wise a new natural
economic order will
start with fungi
and mycelium as the
fiscal roots and financial
fibers that in the buginning
fed
all the money by
the process of decomposing
using smart drugs
depreciating truffle skins
the truly regenerative and
maximum interests inherent in the
fungal feeding
of the planetary and
inter-planetary bio-sphere
make most but not all forms
of banking and international
financial doings on this planet
seem deceptive
at best and damned sadistic
and apocalyptic at worst
new webworking tools
help to communicate more
scientifically how and
why mycelium networks
have spread into earths biosphere
in turn the field of fungal
economics seems less
of a joke to me
and more of a biological
fact observable in nature
for fly this fungal
economic reorder fits with
the animal and plant kingdom
and the propensity for doing more
with less
and maximizing information
output to the benefit of all
no dropping carcass seed
or shell left behind not
even zero is wasted
the whole biological spaceship
earth recycles energy freely
between species and
kingdoms of living systems
some very influential humans
on the other hand seem to
have a propensity for hoarding
life support
in all its forms
for a few chosen people
or a few International syndicates
at the expense of the many
--the Majority of humanity on
planet earth
who issues it and how
what is money and how did
it get that way, to paraphrase Ez
the fungal metaphor
maybe the most eloquent
and beautiful metaphor to
employ in 2008
pitched against unrestricted
global capitalism driven
by private interest and
crooked double crossed
intelligence tsars
depreciating currency
imitates the fungal process of
breaking down biological matter
making more room at the
bottom by recycling
transform and keep the process
moving along
if you stay in one place too
long with your savings
chemical compound interest
you will rot at the bottom of the pile
without jumping into a new
state of energy
by the magic transform process
see transbutation
holy communion and
the u.s fed bank of england
the deception and trickery
of the global banking
fraud-gamer community
is also mimicked
on a global scale within
fungal communities
in fact mushroom myceilium
germinate those very orchids
that so many banksters
are infatuated with
even penicillin and all its
synthesized relatives
are fungal entities
claimed patented and
exploited by global pharmo
corporations
the dream-drug in its
penicillin incarnation
fungal intelligence
has already penetrated the
money maze
not to mention all the
other medical applications
and drugs synthesized
from mushrooms and/or
fungal bacterium
but the poet with mould-money
and mushrooms spilling
from his mouth does not stop
here
mushrooms and fungus
metaphors deployed to
synergize human
financial intelligence
just the sprouting tip
of a swarming underground
body of evidence
sometimes sprout a fruiting
bodyblog and spilling
billions of its viral meme
spores into earths atmosphere
every second of every day
for a billion years to come
once the poet has sharpened
his gaze and the haze of terrestrial
primate politics and economics
has vanished in the maze
we can begin to revision
our future past present perfect
days all-at-once
an enpsychlopedia Fungi
galactica a languaging entity
a self-replicating fungal blogject
spore of the words
money and wind and
seeds and stars all-at-once
--fly agaric 23.
Amsterdam.
Footsauce:
Giles Chase: Shanigums Wave, Oillyseas, Publiners, A Sculpture of the Banker as an old man, Excommunicated and the albums Ballads and Strange Folk. Epiphenome’. Faben & Faben.
Ira Pod: The Dantales, ABS of Revolutions, 17 Stereotypes of Damnbiguation. Videoglyphic method. History is not a dream from which I am trying to awake. No Direction Press.
Martin McLure: The Gutterverb Autopsy, Misunderstanding Money, The road to Shennanigums Wave
James Shermon: Mystical doctrine of sports and greedy behavior
Nesta Venossa: The Wildstyle Grafitti Character as a Medium for Math.
J. Nathan Shaft: Skully Von’s Travels.
Sonny Cob Laughlin: Blooming Magnus Trilogy, Neuro-Trigger, Flasks of the really hot tea, The Windows Sunshine, BOG: Bogus Occupation Government, Quantum Theology,
Ali Fowley: The Book of flies, The book of the wall, poetry without tears, 111 and other writings.
Jacky Muller: Nine Joints to the moon, Operating manual for Shennanigums Wave, Sin-Energy-Zetitics, On the Path, Planet Terry Sociology.
Carson Wools: Citizen Murdoch, War of the Words, McGriff, C For Cake, Touch of Usury.
Manfred Humanski: Religion and Insanity, General Pendantics, X’tenshun Method.
--Steve Fly Agaric 23
Amsterdam.
Thursday, July 17, 2008/Saturday 11th January, 2014
The birth claws and death of santa by Steve Fly
THE BIRTH OF SANTA
snowdon falls
king kong is out hunting
mynah birds
blizzard strikes
kong shelters in a barn
where merry mary
is giving birth next to
a mare also giving
birth to two colts
the next morning
kong awakens
at new-grange
the barn has gone
child and colts remain
child is called santa
arguments begin
in the village about
who will be foster
father
a decision is made
on several dwarfs
SANTA AND HIS LITTLE WEAPONS
santa aged 9
overhears dwarf nick
speaking to his pals
about the future police
state
santa decides to
design some survival
weapons
kong's weapon of
brute strength is the only
one capable of withstanding
the santa spasm
age11 santa returns
from America where
he raged for 90 days
still in his battle fury and
everyone afraid
women reveal breasts
perform bum shaking
and twerk
to ease the frothing frenzy
santa catches
glance of a large pair
he stumbles
and quickly townsfolk
wrestle him into a
trash can full of cold
deer piss
which explodes
HOW SANTA GOT HIS CLAWS
at 14 santa
begs to join the boy-scouts
but is refused and runs off
hiding in chimneys
and barns
santa arrives at a
football field
he joins the game
takes the ball to his feet
and nobody can get it
back from him
eventually the other boys
gang up and attack santa
he goes into a red
hulk spasm and
beats them all upside
the head
shortly after
king kong spots santa
from the hill
and invites him to his
solstice barbecue
but kong forgets
after going fuzzy over
a girl called fay
and when santa arrives
at the kong palace
a guard dog is loose and
attacks santa
thinking him a red
faced intruder
santa kills the hound
in self-defence
throwing the dog down
a well
santa makes a vow to take
the dogs place as
guardian of the palace
a druid poet called penny
announces santa
will have a new name
santa claws
SANTA SCRUBS UP PRETTY GOOD
his hair was
blue at the base
blood-red crimson
in the middle and
a crown of emerald
green
a triple helix
flaying out
shining strands rappelling
the shoulder
78 neat red-blue curls
around his neck and head
covered with one
hundred crimson
threads encrusted with
gems and weird fungus
four dimples in each cheek
yellow green crimson
and blue
seven bright pupils
eye-jewels in each
his feet have seven
toes and each hand
seven fingers
his nails shaped
like a hawks claw
SANTA CLAWS AT DEATH
santa was fed reindeer meat
stolen from reduced food
isle at Tesco by an old crone
tired and on the road
santa dropped his guard and lost
his magical red
spasm power
his reindeer and
his sleigh-driver were killed
outright by police horse
meat poison
santa was badly wounded
and entered the death trip
he tied himself to a rock
covered in lichen
he starts the perilous journey
through the bardo
questioning death
and the beyond
immortality and presents
flash-backs descend on his brow
the well
the dead dog
suddenly a crow lands
on his shoulder and whispers
the word rudolph
in his ear
which kills him with grief
and dispair
li sao
for sorrow
after one brief
reincarnation in a
bottle of sugar
santa came back again
in a cauldron
when a group of
kids started spitting
and singing to the
bubble-full elixir
new santa climbs out
the cauldron
only to be attacked
by more angry dwarves and
brutally cannibalised
his blood was drained
into two separate socks
frozen and put into storage
in the old kitchen next to
a dark wooden barn
as the snowdon falls
--Steve fly agaric 23
Amsterdam
23/12/13
CHU 3D Graffiti Cube 2010
CHU 3D GRAFFITI CUBE
Uploaded on 25 Oct 2010:
Uploaded on 25 Oct 2010:
OPENS 6pm, THURSDAY 28TH OCTOBER at CORDY HOUSE, CURTAIN ROAD, SHOREDITCH, EC2A 3BS. Then every Saturday & Sunday 2pm - 6pm until Sunday 14th Novemeber.
This is a walk in one person experience. Shoes off, glasses on, step inside the 3rd dimension! (Glasses provided).
Artwork by Chu. Cordy House by Mutate Britain.
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Lo saturnalia
Lo saturnalia
drink new flesh
news flash
equiknocking em
back with kwantum
mechanix
Fliegenschwamm
through Mukhomor
flowing on about many
moments
drunken bard pist
somber past
summert'
felt like tao-mouche
Amen EAT!
born from
nothing
woids into la
picene
drink new flesh
news flash
equiknocking em
back with kwantum
mechanix
Fliegenschwamm
through Mukhomor
flowing on about many
moments
drunken bard pist
somber past
summert'
felt like tao-mouche
Amen EAT!
born from
nothing
woids into la
picene
dark mother
Earth:
early autumn
Δtummy full
mummiflied earth
nourishing dark belly of
night
Δrise
receptive southwestern
mother mother
plant
Weak yielding
and democratic mother
Dharmadollar ghosts
Holy dung
holy graal leg
Ξnds grow
sovereignty
To brew Tea
sacred ceremony
rise you fruiting
bodies
Great Eastern Sun
saves and radiates
all perception as gamb
owl mixed
and matched inside
our skull
inside and outside
our wombowl
and under the
almond-trees
goods
Lo!
lands of Cyberia
Siberia and Peteurasia
raise ya.
Persian Haoma plus
➄ indole Eztheotextz
plus
Chinese written
characters plus pranayama
may equal "stoned"
perception
concrete mixture
Steve Fly - World Piss Chapter 21.
(line edit 21/12/13)
early autumn
Δtummy full
mummiflied earth
nourishing dark belly of
night
Δrise
receptive southwestern
mother mother
plant
Weak yielding
and democratic mother
Dharmadollar ghosts
Holy dung
holy graal leg
Ξnds grow
sovereignty
To brew Tea
sacred ceremony
rise you fruiting
bodies
Great Eastern Sun
saves and radiates
all perception as gamb
owl mixed
and matched inside
our skull
inside and outside
our wombowl
and under the
almond-trees
goods
Lo!
lands of Cyberia
Siberia and Peteurasia
raise ya.
Persian Haoma plus
➄ indole Eztheotextz
plus
Chinese written
characters plus pranayama
may equal "stoned"
perception
concrete mixture
Steve Fly - World Piss Chapter 21.
(line edit 21/12/13)
360 Panorama Flight of the navigator
In London, on my last visit
next to Victoria station
sits a square glass
metal and mirror
area
with a few shops
and some offices
The mirrored object
presented a great chance
for a pano'
love, steve fly
Flight Of The Navigator in London
Flight Of The Navigator in London
MAYAN MAXIMUS ARKESTRA
Steve The Fly is following up on the amiri Baraka treatise comparing the work of Charles Olson & Sun Ra with this episode featuring recordings by the principals plus selections by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Archie Shepp, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, and William Butler Yeats.--John Sinclair.
http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/mayan-maximus-arkestra-fly-by-night-with-steve-the-fly-38/
Steve
The Fly is following up on the amiri Baraka treatise comparing the work
of Charles Olson & Sun Ra with this episode featuring recordings by
the principals plus selections by Robert Creeley, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Archie Shepp, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, and William
Butler Yeats. - See more at:
http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/mayan-maximus-arkestra-fly-by-night-with-steve-the-fly-38/#sthash.6iPrfemY.dpuf
The Garden Giant & Mycototes
Paul Stamets uncovers one of his developments in the mycoremediation field. "Mycototes" offer a mobile/expandable cultivation structure. The mycotes can be used for capturing E. coli, breaking down hydrocarbons, and that the mushrooms that form are "clean" with the caveat that if heavy metals are in the substrate, that would render them inedible.
Make a NEW mountain by Steve Fly
sweet mountain
sprawling giant
big enough to move
sprawling giant
big enough to move
hearts to
top to peak the top story
elegant
mountain top
from which views to the
four corners are processed
clear sight
for every
eye
brave bulge
of sheer rock
spurting out from
the ground
towards the sun
upwards, higher
reaching outword
released spells
snow capped
cloud
banked
hugged
mount' of marvelous
awesomeness
the world hq
of snowdon
national
parks
open source
whistle-blowing
activity weekend
family research centre
mount Snowdon
is our vision
our headquarters
shamanic entities gather
about these rocks and trees
we rain psychic acid on
the
NSAGCHQ
curse to cripple
our ecosystem
snow what
everything comes out
NOW
we make it NEW
you cling to the
OLD
we make it NEW.
you cling to the OLD
we
make it
NEW
--Steve Fly
top to peak the top story
elegant
mountain top
from which views to the
four corners are processed
clear sight
for every
eye
brave bulge
of sheer rock
spurting out from
the ground
towards the sun
upwards, higher
reaching outword
released spells
snow capped
cloud
banked
hugged
mount' of marvelous
awesomeness
the world hq
of snowdon
national
parks
open source
whistle-blowing
activity weekend
family research centre
mount Snowdon
is our vision
our headquarters
shamanic entities gather
about these rocks and trees
we rain psychic acid on
the
NSAGCHQ
curse to cripple
our ecosystem
snow what
everything comes out
NOW
we make it NEW
you cling to the
OLD
we make it NEW.
you cling to the OLD
we
make it
NEW
--Steve Fly
Microbiome of the upper troposphere: Species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications.
Abstract
The composition and prevalence of microorganisms in the middle-to-upper troposphere (8–15 km altitude) and their role in aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions represent important, unresolved questions for biological and atmospheric science. In particular, airborne microorganisms above the oceans remain essentially uncharacterized, as most work to date is restricted to samples taken near the Earth’s surface. Here we report on the microbiome of low- and high-altitude air masses sampled onboard the National Aeronautics and Space Administration DC-8 platform during the 2010 Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes campaign in the Caribbean Sea. The samples were collected in cloudy and cloud-free air masses before, during, and after two major tropical hurricanes, Earl and Karl. Quantitative PCR and microscopy revealed that viable bacterial cells represented on average around 20% of the total particles in the 0.25- to 1-μm diameter range and were at least an order of magnitude more abundant than fungal cells, suggesting that bacteria represent an important and underestimated fraction of micrometer-sized atmospheric aerosols. The samples from the two hurricanes were characterized by significantly different bacterial communities, revealing that hurricanes aerosolize a large amount of new cells. Nonetheless, 17 bacterial taxa, including taxa that are known to use C1–C4 carbon compounds present in the atmosphere, were found in all samples, indicating that these organisms possess traits that allow survival in the troposphere. The findings presented here suggest that the microbiome is a dynamic and underappreciated aspect of the upper troposphere with potentially important impacts on the hydrological cycle, clouds, and climate.
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