The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture

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e. sowing the seeds of chaos as a means of achieving a higher state of awareness - is a perpetual game, better known in some quarters as 'operation mindfuck'. In the beginning there was VOID, who had two daughters; one (the smaller) was that of BEING, named ERIS, and one (the larger) was of NON-BEING, named ANERIS.

In early 1959, Thornley served for a short time in the same radar operator unit as Lee Harvey Oswald at MCAS El Toro in Santa Ana, California. When the media continued to insist there was ample evidence that Oswald, and Oswald alone, shot the President, I quickly changed my mind.He was also a key player in the history if independent zines, printing his own one-page "wall newspapers" in the mid-'70s, well before the zine craze caught on in the '80s. Besides that, I was extremely proud of Oswald for getting himself accused -- although I suspected he was innocent, since in the service he had displayed a talent for getting blamed of things. Can his mental condition be blamed on an oppressive father (a convenient scapegoat in this generation)?

Bringing a mischievous sense of Prankster-Discordianism to the zany world of fringe culture, once Gorightly connects his dots, readers are plunged into alternative universes which forever alter their view of 'reality. Wilson’s ingenuity shines through every page that he ever wrote, and he had such an abundance of it that he became intensely skeptical of where it led. trilogy back in the early 80s, I assumed that Discordianism was a fictional religion invented by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea for the books. When asked how Kerry responded to the disclosure of his homosexuality, Stephens replied: As a good friend would: very tolerant.By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform.

So the book is a bit sad, but nonetheless fascinating for anyone interested Discordianism, 60's counterculture, or conspiracy theories. By November 1963, according to his own account, Thornley was living in a New Orleans apartment he rented from John Spencer.According to Principia Discordia, it was around this time that he and Greg Hill—alias Malaclypse the Younger or Mal-2—shared their first Eristic vision in a bowling alley in their hometown of Whittier, California. He went to Thornley's apartment, number "C", and found that paper had been left over the entire floor, torn up into small pieces like confetti. No telling what kind of Trojan war her question would have caused if she had chosen to roll it into the mix at the time.

He depicts a man who was a philosophical and comic genius, but also a raving lunatic (and -perhaps more importantly- an unhappy one). Finally, the subject that became Thornley's 'albatross' was his association with the Lee Harvey Oswald and several seemingly random coincidental meetings with such notorious players in the Kennedy assassination saga such as Guy Banister, David Ferrie and possibly even E. The Principia is quoted extensively in and shares many themes with the satirical 1975 science fiction book The Illuminatus! If there ever was a perennial scapegoat of the 60's counterculture it would have to be Kerry Thornley, one of the founding members of the patently anarchist Discordian Society. There were times in my life that I was lost, but without Kerry things would have been much, much worse for me.They say that there is a fine line between genius and insanity and Kerry Thornley is a classic example. The Marines fight drink and sex their way around the world as the Oswald character becomes disillusioned with the military.