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Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jun 29, Tomj rated it really liked it. Essential reading for serious fans. Jan 10, David Seneschal rated it really liked it. May 10, keys rated it liked it. Aug 12, Richard Lawrence rated it really liked it. Essential reading for every RAW fan.
As a fan of RAW for years I've wanted a good biography of him. This is exactly that and more. It adds a much needed cohesion between Wilson's life and his writings.
More importantly it gives you a great bibliography of the writers and books that influenced his thinking. If you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber you can read it for free. I gave it 4 stars because I wish it was a bit longer and went into some of Wilson's ideas a bit deeper.
Feb 09, 23 rated it liked it. Even as a huge RAW fan, this book can get really dense. Jun 27, Paul rated it liked it. Decent read, and seems to have had Wilson's approval. It would have benefitted from having a biographical section, and parts of the book are spoilt by the author's attempts to write in the style of Wilson. Mar 21, Shawn Dickinson rated it really liked it. Lsmft23 rated it really liked it Jul 19, John rated it liked it Oct 01, Torsten rated it liked it Mar 30, David Cellers rated it it was amazing Feb 25, Andrew Horton rated it it was ok Mar 15, George Grivas rated it really liked it Dec 22, Ray rated it it was ok Jun 11, Kbuxton rated it liked it Mar 14, Davezilla rated it really liked it Nov 30, Liam Griffin rated it liked it Jan 02, Jonathan Culver rated it liked it Oct 11, This statement of faith is playful: the first point recalls the Islamic profession of faith shahada ; the third point mocks dietary restriction; and the fifth point mandates skepticism in place of blind faith.
In the case of instinct, Discordians are told to consult the pineal gland as a more reliable source of knowledge than either the brain or the heart. One other major teaching that requires discussion is the conspiracist nature of the Discordian worldview.
Trilogy The historical Bavarian Illuminati was an order founded by the scholar Adam Weishaupt He, with four others, initiated the order in , and numbers grew after Baron Adolf Franz Friederich Knigge, a Freemason, joined in The order was suppressed in , but lives on in conspiracist circles to the present Cusack The Illuminatus! Kennedy assassination, the occult interests of Nazism, rock and roll music and H. Celine reveals that true members of the Illuminati seek only to liberate all.
In the late s he descended into paranoia, believing his friends had been replaced by look-alikes and that he was living in the reality of Operation Mindfuck. These are available on YouTube, and the full text of the interviews, titled The Dreadlock Recollections, was released in Thornley Thornley by then regarded Discordianism as essentially Zen Buddhist in nature, and it is true that its worldview is non-dualist, a monistic view of reality in which all is underscored by chaos.
To counteract the Curse of Greyface, Discordians are told to perform the ritual Turkey Curse, which summons eristic power to interrupt the Curse of Greyface, which is aneristic anti- life. It seems probable that dancing while making turkey noises would raise the spirits of any person who is overly serious or otherwise alienated from play Cusack This is an essential challenge [sic] to all basic concepts of western occult thought, and POEE is humbly pleased to offer the first major breakthrough in occultism since Solomon Malaclypse the Younger As Discordianism is broadly located within Paganism, and Pagans worship deities that are personally meaningful to them, eclectic Discordian rituals are commonplace.
It is worth mentioning that the Illuminatus! Trilogy draws other fiction-based religions into the mix, as Shea and Wilson employ the Cthulhu Mythos invented by H. This contemporary field research suggests that Discordians engage in an ongoing process of innovation and development in terms of their ritual life. Later, all menbers were given the status of pope, and to become a member of the Discordian society was a simple process of self-identification.
Discordians do not have to join a cabal, but members often do. In the early twenty-first century many cabals are online Narizny There is evidence that Hill and Thornley came to accept the reality of Eris. Margot Adler interviewed Hill in Drawing Down the Moon , where he admitted that he identified as an atheist in the s and Discordianism began as a parody of religion.
By thes, his worldview had shifted, and he admitted that: Eris s an authentic goddess … In the beginning I saw myself as a cosmic clown. I characterized myself as Malaclypse the Younger. But if you do this type of thing well enough, it starts to work. In due time the polarities between atheism and theism become absurd.
The engagement was transcendent. And when you transcend one, you transcend the other. I started out with the idea that all gods are an illusion. The trip will be different, but they will both be transcendental Adler Adler was unable to interview Thornley, who was increasingly paranoid and reclusive by the mids, but Hill assured her that a similar transformation of Discordianism had also happened for Omar.
Although Malaclypse the Younger occupied the position of Polyfather of the religion until the mids, contemporary Discordianism is a religion in which leadership and formal organizational structures are largely irrelevant.
Discordians regularly combine their religion with elements of other spiritual paths, or even atheism or agnosticism Cusack The reasons for lack of serious research on Discordianism, and for suspicion of its bona fides, are threefold.
First, religion is serious, thus Discordian parody and jokes are inappropriate. Second, its founders admitted that it was a fiction and their later professions of faith are not to be trusted or believed. If the model of Zen Buddhism that Kerry Thornley developed with Camden Benares is used as a prism through which to examine the religion, it is found to be appropriate. For the Beats in the s, Zen represented the rejection of wage-slavery and convention, and the pursuit of the spiritual path of a hobo, uncomfortable in this world and seeking enlightenment Prothero Discordians concur that the sacred is secular, and the secular is sacred.
Discordianism as a religion is attracting a higher degree of serious academic interest in the twenty-first century, and although it will probably never be numerically significant, it is broadly recognized by those interested in fiction-based religions, the invention of modern Pagan religions, and a range of esoteric topics, as the earliest and most important of the small family of invented religions Cusack Boston: Beacon Press.
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