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Introducing Dr. Mungojerry Grindlebone: Week 53 of the Illuminatus! Group Reading

On Page 566 of Illuminatus! we are introduced to a passage from Principia Discordia called “Sink” that is attributed to Ala Hera, E.L., N.S.

Sink as it appears in the Principia Discordia, page 000066.
Original SINK document authored by Bob McElroy sent to Greg Hill aka Mal-2.
Courtesy of the Discordian Archives.

The actual Discordian author of “Sink” was better known as Dr. Mungojerry Grindlebone or just plain “Mungo” (real name Bob McElroy) an active player in the early New Orleans Discordian scene of the late-60s.

Supposed self-portrait of Bob McElroy. Courtesy of the Discordian Archives.

McElroy was apparently a Discordian recruiter of sorts as seen from this blurry advertisement (sorry about the poor reproduction!) that appeared in a New Orleans counterculture newspaper called The Ungarbled Word published by fellow Discordian Roger Lovin (aka Fang the Unwashed.) At the bottom of this recruitment notice we see McElroy’s P.O. Box address in Rayville, LA.

Discordian recruitment notice authored by Mungo
from August of 1968 as it appeared in The Ungarbled Word.

Although I know less about Bob McElroy than most of the other Early Discordians of the period, his contributions to Principia Discordia are noteworthy, which include an Erisian Hymn on page 00019, a poem on page 00026 as well as Sink on page 00066.

An Erisian Hymn as it appeared in Principia Discordia, page 00019.
An Erisian Hymn submitted to Mal-2 for later inclusion in Principia Discordia.
Courtesy of the Discordian Archives.
A poem by Rev. Dr. Grindlebone from Principia Discordia, page 00026.

For more Discordian knowledge as fiction that is fact but fiction contained within Illuminatus!, point your browser to the book’s group reading page at RAWIllumination.net.

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February 2015 Eris of the Month

February 2015 Eris of the Month, 'Our Lady of Chaos' by Dr. K.

Dear Historia Discordia, I humbly present a vision of Our Lady of Chaos completed previously for a school project.

Larger (we’re talkin’ A2) versions can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zn8r5a6uumye0e3/AAC-IAG51uRYZ3JHJfM5FYV3a?dl=0

Chicago delenda est,

Dr. K



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Upcoming Discordian Related Gigs For Gorightly

Discordianism will once again rear its Eristic head at Pantheacon and the sumptuous Doubletree San Jose, which is really located in Santa Clara, California, but don’t let that confuse you—because as we all know (Hail Eris!)—the map is not the territory… nor is the goat, the cheese.

The first salvo—or Golden Apple—to be tossed (or rolled) into this New Age Pagan Wicca festival of fortune tellers and crystal channelers will be provided courtesy of my friend St. Mae and her chaotic crew at Discordian.com who will present at the exalted hour of 11pm (otherwise known in Aneristic-militaristic-clock-time as 2300) on the ever lucky day of Friday, February 13th—an “Authentic Recon Lady Gaga Devotional/Clothing Swap,” which hopefully indicates that people will be taking their clothes off, a longstanding Discordian tradition dating back to at least the late-60s.

A latter day Discordian, indeed.

When I asked St. Mae for more details about this Lady Gaga inspired clothing swap, she replied:

“I am very pleased with the meat costume one of us will be wearing. We found a bacon dress costume, and I am making a headpiece out of a steak dog toy.”

As for yours truly, I’ll be doing a Historia Discordia song-and-dance the following evening, Saturday, Feb. 14 (1+4=5)—once again at the exalted hour of 2300 (2+3+0+0=5)—according to the Law of Fives.

So if you Pantheacon attendees have had enough charka cleansing and bathing your feet in tea by this late hour come check us out!

Preceding my presentation will be Erik Davis with Babalon Rising: Jack Parsons’ Witchcraft Prophecy which sounds like a hoot.

Here’s the complete Pantheacon program guide.

On a related note, Discordianism will go all academic-like on April 23rd (according to the Law of Fives and the 23 Enigma) when I’ll be speaking at CalArts for a series Doug Harvey has masterminded called “Outsider Theory” where he’s presenting for his students the works of such mad geniuses as Richard Shaver, James Shelby Downard, not to mention certain fringe religions.

I may even show up with a rare Holy Discordian text or two.

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Brit Covers of Illuminatus!

Over at the facebook, Geoff Blogg recently posted the images below of the British editions of Illuminatus! (Amazon) paperbacks published by Sphere Books in 1976-77.

Although we haven’t been able to completely confirm it, the covers appear to be the work of artist Chris Foss who illustrated a slew of Sci-Fi titles during this period by such authors as Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin and prog rock album covers by the likes of Hawkwind.

Cover, Illuminatus! The Eye in the Pyramid
Cover, Illuminatus! The Golden Apple
Cover, Illuminatus! Leviathan
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January 2015 Eris of the Month – Erismorphing Project by Cpt. Bucky Saia (Part 00001)

January 2015 Eris of the Month, 'Betty' by Cpt. Bucky.
For this Eris of the Month Club selection we present to you now Part 00001 of Cpt. Bucky Saia’s Erismorphing Project.

As Cpt. Bucky expresses it:

“…this is Bapheris (I call her Betty :D). I think this is a beautiful incarnation of Eris for every Discordian Chaosmagician. Ok the Chao is a little bit rough. The picture bassed on a theory from me that every Period have his own Eris (5 different Eris´s). Call this ‘Levels of development incarnation Theorem’ or in german ‘Entwicklungsstufen Inkarnations Theorem’. with best wishes from the land west of the East (calles Germany) Cpt. Bucky Saia Moonman Winter Dream.”



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January 18th: This Day In Discordian History

We celebrate this day with a “Happy Birthday, Bob!” collage courtesy of Simon Gysin.

Hail Eris! All Hail Bob!

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John Higgs Interviewed by Nick Margerrison: The KLF, Discordianism, Chaos Magic

The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs
From The Cult Of Nick podcast:

In 1994 Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty took a million pounds to a deserted boathouse on the island of Jura and burnt it. The writer JMR Higgs looked at this event from a magickal perspective and came up with some interesting results. The story involves the world’s first joke religion, the JFK assasination, Robert Anton Wilson, Alan Moore and a bunch of ideas collectively known as “Chaos Magick”.

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December 2014 Eris of the Month

Merry Christmas tidings from Sam Fielder in this month's
yuletide edition of The Eris of the Month Club.



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Eris In Space: UK’s first astronaut reveals mission patch!

This has definitely been the Year of Eris.

First the release of Historia Discordia.

Then the Cosmic Trigger Play.

And now this!

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5 to the 5th Power: Illuminatus! Group Reading Week 37

Operation Mindfuck
flyer advertisement:
What Secret Power
Did This Man Possess?
Courtesy of the
Discordian Archives.
On page 368 of Illuminatus! (Amazon), a fellow named Harold Canvera—who in his spare time recorded telephone messages lambasting the Illuminati, John Birch-style—goes through a transformation after unwittingly ingesting a blast of AUM which illuminates him to the point that he actually ends up joining the ranks of his former Bavarian foes after receiving (on page 372) an Illuminati letter with instructions to bury $3125 in his backyard to pay for membership fees into the world’s oldest and most successful conspiracy!

All of this burying $3125 business was a manifestation of the Discordian Society’s Operation Mindfuck (OM) that included faux advertisements such as the one we post here with Hitler doing his infamous sieg heil duck-walk. 3125, as the Law of Fives will allow, is 5 to the 5th power.

Many such OM missives were of anonymous authorship although the best guess in this instance is that either Shea or RAW (or both) were responsible for this mindfucking OM advertisement.

For more Illuminatus! goodies, hit the group reading page at RAWIllumination.net.