"Considering the political capital that President Clinton could make out of using the bombing as an excuse to lead a witch-hunt and smear all his political enemies - and/or his political "critics" - I think he has shown remarkable restraint. I can't explain it. At times I suspect that he is a man of integrity despite being in politics. (Is that the first sign of senility appearing in my aging brain?) I hate to sound naive, but I think Clinton will try to avoid a witch-hunt and just set the police on the nuts who did the bombing. Of course, by the time the anti-terrorism bill gets out of Congress, it will undoubtedly have some nasty and dangerous clauses in it. I still don't feel quite ready to run for Canada. I just increased my monthly contribution to the American Civil Liberties Union, to help them fight any excesses that may get into the anti-terrorism bill, but I am not ready to flee or hide yet."

RAW's interest in conspiracies in disguise and conspiracies within conspiracies evolved into his "guerilla ontology" phase of work during the late 1970s and early 1980s. He collaborated with Timothy Leary on several books, including Neuropolitique (1977) and Game of Life (1979). His analysis of our reality tunnels synthesised many aspects of human knowledge including the General Semantics of Count Alfred Korzybski ("the map isn't the territory, the menu isn't the meal"), Zen poetry, references to Beat writers like William Burroughs, and other cultural icons.

RAW suggests as Gurdjieff and Burroughs did, that man lives in a kind of hypnotised state, hardly 'existing' at all and changing from hour to hour, a victim of events that pull him along. Occasionally he receives flashes of intensity and freedom, but mostly lives a routine, habit filled existence, occupied by trivialities. Burroughs suggests a kind of language-virus (as Ludwig Wittgenstein did), leading RAW to examine political/religious fanaticism, mind-control experiments, psychiatric manipulation, propoganda, irrational science, and other traps that create non existant problems to be exploited by politicians, priests, the media and other authoritarian figures. With Philip K Dick, Timothy Leary, John Cunningham Lilly and others, he became interested in Information Theory, and the idea that people's nervous systems have been wired inefficiently into a "low level fear" configuration, reinforced by benign deceptions such as media rapid fire information; illogical socio-religious concepts; psychotherapy that creates the need for dependency on institutions; and knee jerk authoritarianism. These keep people from realising their true creative powers and keeps the sleeplike masses in constant confusion, to be manipulated and controlled by an elite few who restrict the flow of pure information signals by distorting them to others. (RAW's Situation Normal All Fucked Up Law - "Communication is possible only between equals.")

Echoing the study of fascism in our family, political and social structures by Wilhelm Reich, RAW sought to exalt the individual over the State, and to make people aware of the subtle, often hidden influences that control and distort their lives. As Antonio Gramsci stated, "We are taught to desire our own psychological imprisonment." RAW's correlation of many seemingly separate fields of experimentation and study often yielded surprisingly coherent models and new concepts.

Taking the next step from rational study into action, RAW began to fuse scientific techniques with those of ceremonial magick ("the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in comformity with Will," according to Aleister Crowley) at the same time as Timothy Leary was conducting LSD research on William Burroughs, Allan Ginsberg and others, as well as later developing his 8 circuit model of human consciousness.

Whilst Leary was lecturing across America on the Politics of Ecstasy and later escaping prison with the help of the Weatherman radicals, RAW tried most of the major methods of brain exploration, bringing the new paradigms and manuals into the Space Age; the next stage from Leary's experiments at Harvard using the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead).

When asked what techniques were most beneficial, RAW replied, "I really don't know what techniques have helped me most. I mean, really, you do 6 months of A and 6 months of B and you feel you've learned something organic. Do you attribute it to A or B or both? I've tried dozens of systems and think I learned a little from each, but I don't like picking favorites. Well . . . a few favorites . . . the Acoustic Brain Research tapes; General Semantics; yoga meditation; cannabis; scientific method . . . but some things that didn't do much for me may do wondersor others. I never liked isolation tanks, but I don't doubt that they have opened doors and new brain paths for many of their users.

"None of the "smart" drinks have impressed me much so far - but I absolutely 100% support that line of research. I have been more impressed with the brain-training tapes produced by Acoustic Brain Research.But I am keen, as always, on any new technique that accelerates or expands awareness.

"Most advanced shamanistic techniques such as Tibetan Tantra or Crowley's work in the West work by alternating faith and skepticism until you get beyond the ordinary limits of both," he told Science Fiction Review in May 1976. "With such systems one learns how arbitrary are the reality maps that can be coded into laryngeal grunts by homids or visualised by a mammalian nervous system. . .Most people are trapped in one static reality-map imprinted on their neurons when they were children."