In pre-internet times, reading books was my preferred way to gather subversive and entertainingly educational information. After my friend Brian turned me onto Robert Anton Wilson, I first went through all the referenced authors in the Illuminatus series. After that, Loompanics Unlimited was a great source for dark materials. All of my John Waters books as well as my Anarchist Cookbook came from there.
One of the books that I got from there was the Principia Discordia which I took quite a shine to. I’m an athiest, but if pressed, I will admit to being athiest-discordian. However, one of the problems that I always had even with “practicing” Discordians was their over-reliance on the source material. To me, the tome was intended as a starting point. Unfortunately there are not a tremendous amount of people inventive enough to elaborate on the existing work. Indeed, I started my own cabal briefly, the Theodore Geisel cabal, and sent out random musings via (snail) mail and initiated people that declared they were interested. I tried to expand upon the mythology and think I did okay….all things considered. I saw something that reminded me of all this so I need to dig out some of that stuff again.
Recommended reading: Zen without Zen Masters by Camden Benares.
Hey man! Caught this on my Discordian feed. I wanted to point you to some more modern Discordian works – when you get a chance, google up the Et Cetera Discordia, the Chao Te Ching, the Black Iron Prison, and Intermittens magazine. There are a lot of Discordians who feel the same way you do – the Principia is starting to feel like some overquoted monty python bit, now we need to lay down some new ground.
Cool – thanks for the info, I’ll check them out.