The Definitive Book List of Discordia

[AFK]

Can we nominate a comic strip, or a comic strip compilation?  If so I would add The Prehistory of The Far Side by Gary Larson.

If any of the newspaper comic strips were to be considered Discordian, it certainly, in my mind, would be The Far Side.  I like The Prehistory of Far Side because you see the evolution of his work and get a small glimpse into how his mind works.  You also get to see where he liked to screw with the paper editors and also mindfuck the readers.  The example of the "Cow Tools" strip is a perfect example.  It was almost a reverse Starbucks Pebbles in that what Larson was aiming for in that strip was very simple.  He drew a cow standing over four tools that were all oddly shape, because, well cows probably suck at making tools.  Except, he made one of them look like a saw, so readers were racking their brain to figure out what the other three were. 

Anyway, I throw it upon the mercy of the book jury. 

[hooplala]

RAW: Prometheus Rising b/w Quantum Psychology -- Ok, so it's a duet.  But they are pretty much two sides of a coin.  The reason I found them important was because, unlike so many esoteric "your experiential reality is subjective" books, they eschew most of the New Age crap, and offer ways you can actually prove it to yourself.  Of course, they are not perfect, nor always accurate... But as a starting point, you could do a hell of a lot worse.

I do find that they both tread over a lot of the same category, which can make whichever one you read second a little tedious sometimes, but I agree... helpful and succinct.

[Phox]

Can we nominate a comic strip, or a comic strip compilation?  If so I would add The Prehistory of The Far Side by Gary Larson.

If any of the newspaper comic strips were to be considered Discordian, it certainly, in my mind, would be The Far Side.  I like The Prehistory of Far Side because you see the evolution of his work and get a small glimpse into how his mind works.  You also get to see where he liked to screw with the paper editors and also mindfuck the readers.  The example of the "Cow Tools" strip is a perfect example.  It was almost a reverse Starbucks Pebbles in that what Larson was aiming for in that strip was very simple.  He drew a cow standing over four tools that were all oddly shape, because, well cows probably suck at making tools.  Except, he made one of them look like a saw, so readers were racking their brain to figure out what the other three were. 

Anyway, I throw it upon the mercy of the book jury. 

Perfectly acceptable.

[Telarus]

RAW: Prometheus Rising b/w Quantum Psychology -- Ok, so it's a duet.  But they are pretty much two sides of a coin.  The reason I found them important was because, unlike so many esoteric "your experiential reality is subjective" books, they eschew most of the New Age crap, and offer ways you can actually prove it to yourself.  Of course, they are not perfect, nor always accurate... But as a starting point, you could do a hell of a lot worse.

I do find that they both tread over a lot of the same category, which can make whichever one you read second a little tedious sometimes, but I agree... helpful and succinct.

I agree as well. But Prometheus Rising was written as a first attempt at getting that info across to an academic level audience. The second book was written specifically to use as a "Book Club" workbook. Both are worth reading, PR for the detail, QP for the succinctness.

Edit: Another of his works that went through a similar evolution are "The Book of the Breast / Ishtar Rising" and "Sex, Drugs, and Magick", which are great companions to PR/QP.

[BadBeast]

RAW: Prometheus Rising b/w Quantum Psychology -- Ok, so it's a duet.  But they are pretty much two sides of a coin.  The reason I found them important was because, unlike so many esoteric "your experiential reality is subjective" books, they eschew most of the New Age crap, and offer ways you can actually prove it to yourself.  Of course, they are not perfect, nor always accurate... But as a starting point, you could do a hell of a lot worse.

I do find that they both tread over a lot of the same category, which can make whichever one you read second a little tedious sometimes, but I agree... helpful and succinct.

I agree as well. But Prometheus Rising was written as a first attempt at getting that info across to an academic level audience. The second book was written specifically to use as a "Book Club" workbook. Both are worth reading, PR for the detail, QP for the succinctness.

Edit: Another of his works that went through a similar evolution are "The Book of the Breast / Ishtar Rising" and "Sex, Drugs, and Magick", which are great companions to PR/QP.

I've read "Sex, Drugs, and Magick" and found it very helpful in understanding Crowley.
Less weighty and far more easy to get your head round, it made me approach Crowley with a more sceptical mind.
I think that was the way Crowley wanted his work to be read anyway, but he didn't want to make it too easy for the reader, preferring that they do some serious thinking for themselves. The pompous old trickster.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

RAW: Prometheus Rising b/w Quantum Psychology -- Ok, so it's a duet.  But they are pretty much two sides of a coin.  The reason I found them important was because, unlike so many esoteric "your experiential reality is subjective" books, they eschew most of the New Age crap, and offer ways you can actually prove it to yourself.  Of course, they are not perfect, nor always accurate... But as a starting point, you could do a hell of a lot worse.

I do find that they both tread over a lot of the same category, which can make whichever one you read second a little tedious sometimes, but I agree... helpful and succinct.

I agree as well. But Prometheus Rising was written as a first attempt at getting that info across to an academic level audience. The second book was written specifically to use as a "Book Club" workbook. Both are worth reading, PR for the detail, QP for the succinctness.

Edit: Another of his works that went through a similar evolution are "The Book of the Breast / Ishtar Rising" and "Sex, Drugs, and Magick", which are great companions to PR/QP.

I've read "Sex, Drugs, and Magick" and found it very helpful in understanding Crowley.
Less weighty and far more easy to get your head round, it made me approach Crowley with a more sceptical mind.
I think that was the way Crowley wanted his work to be read anyway, but he didn't want to make it too easy for the reader, preferring that they do some serious thinking for themselves. The pompous old trickster.

I've come to a similar thought on Crowley, not just from RAW's views, but from Crowley's own writing ("The Solider and the Hunchback" for example)

Actually I think that should be on the Discordian list too

"The Solider and the Hunchback" by A Crowley

Its an excellent view of mindfucking as a lifestyle... as well as some interesting esoteric thinking.

[the last yatto]

Liked Angel Tech over Prometheus Rising

[Telarus]

Antero has his own insights that he has strapped on to the 8 Circuit Model. Some of the language he used is much more new-agey, but if you read past that it's a great addition to the theory.

[hooplala]

Also:  "The Room" by Hubert Selby Jr.