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

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In many respects—just a normal lad growing up in 1950s America—Kerry engaged in such typical activities as building model cars and airplanes, and flying box kites. They show, he says, how "conspiracy theories are born and bred and in time work themselves into the cosmologies of the paranoid and enlightened alike. I bought ‘The Idle Warriors’ and ‘Zenarchy’ when these were finally published in the early 90s, and even wrote to Thornley once in the mid 90s, receiving a letter back enclosing a John Dillinger Died For You Society membership card and credit card. Loompanics Unlimited published a version (the "yellow cover version") in 1979, adding an introduction by Robert Anton Wilson, an afterword by Malaclypse the Younger, and the aforementioned "Fifth Edition".

During the late 1950s, Thornley became friends with Lee Harvey Oswald when the two served together in the Marines, and was actually writing a novel based on Oswald three years before John F. While attending CalHi, Kerry won a number of public-speaking competitions, and became an accomplished public speaker, a skill which he continued to hone after high school. Looking like a betrayed Caesar—as Kerry later told the Warren Commission—Oswald shouted Not you too, Thornley, and stomped away, pouting. I cannot vouch for the authenticity of the story but it has appeared on one of the JFK Forum's other than this one.In other words, Wilson was a libertarian transhumanist with an interest in space travel, seasteading, and life extension, including cryonics. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections—they may also appear in recommendations and other places. to be interviewed for my book, although she did hook me up with a few other important players in the story, who I interviewed. The heavenly body was nicknamed Xena after the character appearing in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess.

It also turns out he served in the Marine Corps with Lee Harvey Oswald, and was later in New Orleans in 1962-63 during the time that some folks claim a CIA-affiliated plot to assassinate JFK was being hatched. As he described it, sometimes Spencer visited Shaw, the director of the International Trade Mart, and sometimes it was vice versa.The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. So the book is a bit sad, but nonetheless fascinating for anyone interested Discordianism, 60's counterculture, or conspiracy theories.

While raised Mormon, he explored atheism, anarchism, Objectivism, neo-paganism (a term some claim he coined), Kerista, and Buddhism. The affidavit was mailed to me before Rosselli's name surfaced during the Senate's 1975 investigation of the C. So it was that Yellow Canyon, was born, as well as Lonely Tree, and The Painting, which consisted of a spot overlooking the rolling panoramic hills, crisscrossed with never-ending orange groves. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising.The sterile Aneris becomes jealous of Eris (who was born pregnant), and starts making existent things non-existent. Although a practicing psychiatrist told him that he was schizophrenic, Thornley refused any type of treatment. And I frankly don’t associate any of these qualities with most of the public figures driving our current conversation about the future, who hate and resent being questioned.

Looking it up, I discovered that Paladin Press “picked up the reins”, but was dismayed to learn that it too is defunct. Now Gorightly has delivered another tantalizing glimpse into the fringe of society, this time with the colorful counterculture hero (or anti-hero? The first edition was allegedly printed using District Attorney Jim Garrison’s Xerox printer in 1963.In the mid-1970s when I was in the private practice of law, Thornley sent a lengthy, almost biographical, 50-page affidavit to me describing, among other things, evidence he had encountered in New Orleans of "Nazi activity" in connection with President Kennedy's murder.