A little yellow book of philosophy, silliness, and the Goddess. If you get impatient with the first several pages, skip directly ahead to page 49-50, then go back and compare what you “know” with their framework.

This book, according to some of the elders I know, had some significant influence in the pagan/wiccan movement after it was published. I appreciate the chance to catch a little bit of our history. While there were a few parts that I had to re-read several times, I found that this book went about explaining the “religion” in a much simpler manner than many organized faiths do today.

“I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are free.”

“All things are perfect to every last flaw, and bound in accord with Eris’s law.”

“(little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.”

“The words of the Foolish and those of the Wise are not far apart in Discordian eyes.”

I wonder if Rowling read this, and if she’ll incorporate the Turkey Curse into HP#6 (mandrakes and sexy giantesses, om I)

Random thought from my husband (even though he hasn’t read this yet): “this reminds me of one of those B-movies where a scientist stimulates his victim’s pineal gland, and they grow a third eye on a stalk in the middle of their forehead.” [update 2/9:name of the movie was “From Beyond”]

http://www.eur.nl/fw/staff/lokhorst/pineal.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/pineal_gland.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/thirdeyepineal.html