Travis Eneix

Years ago, in a land a lot like where I live now but not quite as old, I came across the Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Anton Wilson. It was a very good read, and managed to melt a bit of my brain loose from societally imposed habitual thinking. I then discovered The Cosmic Trigger on the shelf at a used book store I used to haunt, and the whole reality construct was blown apart. What a rush!

A few months later I was in the same used book store and I came across a copy of the forth edition of the Principia Discordia with an introduction by, you guessed it, Robert Anton Wilson. Again with the reality melting. I converted. The beautiful thing abut being a Discordian is, it really doesn’t mean anything. Or, rather we get to make it mean what we want it to mean. Quite a refreshing change from the more mainstream Religions available to choose from. Additionally, being a Discordian does not preclude one from being anything else. In fact, it is encouraged! So, that’s what I did. I explored, and am continuing to explore, the practices of the ancient Taoists, and the not-as-ancient Buddhists. I’ve also poked around with a slew of other faiths, Christian Mysticism, Jewish Mysticism, Kabbalah. I’ve studied several different branches of philosophy from Taoism to Stoicism, Buddhism to Existentialism, AQAL to Advaita, Mohism to Neo-Platonism. And, I have read the works of philosophers from, from Socrates to Aristotle, Epictetus to Han Shan, Kierkegaard to Wilber, Ramana to White, Ghandi to Kant. Discordianism embraces them all.

I recently came back across RAW, as the readers of Robert Anton Wilson affectionately call him. His simple, raw, straight forward take on the mystical experience is still refreshing and alarmingly beautiful. You can get a good feeling about him at the video here. RAW was a big time, long time, pundit of Discordianism. He was also a fully invested Pope of Discordianism. Being a Pope is a bit easier than it might seem, and for that reason perhaps a bit more profound. The card at the top of the post says it all. Yes, I am a fully invested Pope of Discordianism as well. The details are spelled out on the back of the card illustrated to the right.

As a bonus I have included the original card as shown in the Principia Discordia below. Feel free to print out a copy and begin to rework the Erisian Church to suit your particular life and reality tunnel. Any changes you wish to be spread to a larger spread of reality tunnels, you are free to add them as comments below. Hail Eris! And, if you don’t believe that Discordianism is seeping into the roots of the world’s reality tunnel, check this out.

Heck, I didn’t even really know about Google Cash ever being around in the first place.  I came across an announcement for the revamped Google Cash Detective and thought I should at least spread it around.  Essentially the free e-book is an explanation about how leveraging Google AdWords fro profit is done, and how to become a middle man for advertisers.  Basically, you make money for spreading other folks advertisements around the net.  There is, of course, a sales pitch in the e-book, in fact that whole thing is a sales pitch, but since the product being offered is only $67 (and you do not have to buy a damn thing to read the informative bits in the e-book) its not all that egregious.  Enjoy if you can!

It has been a long time dream of mine to become a professional writer.  Well, thanks to Helium I have become one.  And it all happened while I wasn’t looking.  Helium pays you to post articles on subjects, based on the frequency of your articles being read and their rating.

I wrote an article about Why dieting doesn’t work.  I hadn’t looked at the site in a while but got an email from the system informing of some service updates.  Well, I checked my account and on a lark clicked the earnings link.  That’s right boys and girls, my Helium account is in the black.  A whole $0.15!!  Woot!  That may not be much, but it does mean I have been paid for my writing.  I’m a pro!

Over at the ZenHabits blog I came across a very cool post, 3 Steps to a Permanently Clear Desk, while groggily checking email in the wee hours this morning. Read it. Love it. Maybe it was the hour, maybe it was my growing realization of how hopelessly bad I am at managing my life, and time, on numerous levels, but I was inspired. So, at work today I did this. It’s an amazingly liberating feeling. Looking now across my desk I see no pending scribbles on scraps of paper. No stacks of forms already handled. Nothing but my plastic slinkies, rubber duckies, and a couple of note books turned to fresh pages full of note taking possibility. Oh, and my NaNoWriMo mug of coffee. I like it bunches.

In the midst of making neat at work I also revisited some resources I had encountered before for using the GTD system online. My favorite, and the one I have been tinkering with today, is the GTD specific wikis you can host free over at tiddlyspot.com. The layout I like best is the MonkeyGTD 2.1 alpha version. Lots of neat, simple features, and a snap to use once you get your head wrapped about it. The best bit is that it is hosted, and therefore accessible from anywhere the internet reaches. I guess I finally need to read the original GTD book.

In my ongoing project to reduce my Gmail inbox to actual current items I came across a link to AnxietyCulture.com, I remeber reading some groovy stuff in there.  I’ve added a link to my sidebar here and will be picking through the articles over the next inreminable time period.  Enjoy!