{"id":5781,"date":"2023-04-19T19:57:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T00:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2023-04-19T21:16:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T02:16:47","slug":"eris-the-dwarf-planet-and-goddess-and-illuminatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/eris-the-dwarf-planet-and-goddess-and-illuminatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Eris, the dwarf planet and goddess, and Illuminatus!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Robert Shea and his son, Michael. (Photo from Bobshea.net, maintained by Michael Shea.)<\/em><\/p>\n

If you are reading this blog, there is a reasonable chance you have read Illuminatus!,<\/em> the literary work originally published as an original paperback trilogy by Dell books and later collected into a one volume omnibus. It was written by Robert Shea<\/a> and Robert Anton Wilson<\/a>, and it was awarded the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 1986. (Robert Shea was actually a member of the Libertarian Futurist Society. Shea’s acceptance speech is available here.)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nThe role that the invented religion Discordianism plays in Illuminatus!<\/em>, and the part that the Greek goddess of discord Eris<\/a> plays in Discordianism, is explained in a new article, “Kerry Thornley: Dwarf Planet Eris, Discordianism and the John F. Kennedy Assassination,”<\/a> by Alden Loveshade.<\/p>\n

The article also explains the role Discordianism played in the naming of the dwarf planet, Eris<\/a>. (Kerry Thornley,<\/a> also mentioned in the article, was the co-founder of Discordianism).<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Hat tip to William H. Stoddard, president of the Libertarian Futurist Society, for calling the article to my attention.<\/p>\n

My blog RAWIllumination.net<\/a> has news and information about both Wilson and Shea.<\/p>\n

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IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE:
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\n<\/u><\/strong>* Prometheus winners:\u00a0<\/strong>For the full list of Prometheus winners, finalists and nominees \u2013 for the annual Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) categories and occasional Special Awards \u2013 visit the enhanced\u00a0Prometheus Awards page\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>on the LFS website, which now includes convenient links to the full set of published appreciation-reviews of past winners.<\/p>\n

* Read\u00a0\u201cThe Libertarian History of Science Fiction,\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0an essay in the international magazine\u00a0Quillette<\/em>\u00a0that favorably highlights the Prometheus Awards, the Libertarian Futurist Society and the significant element of libertarian sf\/fantasy in the evolution of the modern genre.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>* Watch <\/strong>videos <\/strong>of past Prometheus Awards ceremonies, Libertarian Futurist Society panel discussions with noted sf authors and leading libertarian writers, and other LFS programs on the Prometheus Blog\u2019s\u00a0Video page.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

*\u00a0Join us<\/strong>! To help sustain the Prometheus Awards,\u00a0join\u00a0<\/strong><\/a> the Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS), a non-profit all-volunteer association of freedom-loving sf\/fantasy fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Shea and his son, Michael. (Photo from Bobshea.net, maintained by Michael Shea.) If you are reading this blog, there is a reasonable chance you have read Illuminatus!, the literary work originally published as an original paperback trilogy by Dell books and later collected into a one volume omnibus. It was written by Robert Shea … Continue reading Eris, the dwarf planet and goddess, and Illuminatus!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,1585],"tags":[1942,1938,716,1940,326,1937,706,1941,1939,254,28],"class_list":["post-5781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-updates","category-fiction-in-the-news","tag-assassination","tag-discord","tag-discordianism","tag-dwarf-planet","tag-eris","tag-greek-goddess","tag-illuminatus","tag-kennedy","tag-kerry-thornley","tag-robert-anton-wilson","tag-robert-shea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8nGl-1vf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5785,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}