The Seattle psychic channel Bob met in the late 1960s (Bob calls him "Dave Worcester") — the second voice of Cosmic Awareness and the source of the "Rhyee" cosmology that seeds the Tiny Note Chart's five columns. Bob presents him as a hinge figure in his own education: a McLuhan-reading channeler at the center of a Pacific-Northwest occult, LSD, and New Age milieu (Al Hubbard, Anton LaVey, Alan Watts, L. Ron Hubbard). New to the series in dialogue 13; nearly all the material about him is biographical and personally sensitive.
Across the dialogues
Introduced as the Seattle channel behind Cosmic Awareness — his biography and the "Rhyee" myth frame the Tiny Note Chart's columns
What qualified Worcester for Bob was not the channeling but the McLuhan literacy — the "marker" that made a psychic worth taking seriously.
"the first psychic channel I met, and I found him to be very intelligent. And he had read McLuhan."
Worcester models the reflexive stance Bob would make his own — reading the news as a mirror of one's own private activity.
"he was the first person I ever met who saw himself reflected out there in the news, not in a silly way."
Bob's recurring pattern-claim — Worcester repeatedly did privately what later surfaced as a mass phenomenon (LSD "set and setting" before Leary).
"So that was an example of Worcester doing something, and then it shows up and becomes a big phenomenon. So this happened regularly with him"
Connections
Cosmic Awareness's second channel (from 1967), the source of the "Rhyee" cosmology behind the Tiny Note Chart's five columns.
The first psychic channel Bob met; Bob took the group's development course in 1969 but dropped out at session 10 to avoid the cult.