“It’s all true. The land belongs to the landlords, right now, because of magic. People worship the deeds in the government offices, and they won’t dare move onto a square of ground if one of the deeds says somebody else owns it. It’s a head-trip, a kind of magic, and you need the opposite magic to lift the curse. You need shock elements to break up and disorganize the chains of command in the brain, the ‘mind-forg’d manacles’ that Blake wrote about. That’s the unpredictable elements, dads: the erratic, the erotic, the Eristic. Tim Leary said it: ‘People have to go out of their minds before they can come to their senses.’ They can’t feel and touch and smell the real earth, man, as long as the manacles in the cortex tell them it belongs to somebody else. If you don’t want to call it magic, call it counter-conditioning, but the principle is the same. Breaking up the trip society laid on us and starting our own trip. Bringing back old realities that are supposed to be dead. Creating new realities. Astrology, demons, lifting poetry off of the written page into the acts of your daily life. Surrealism, dig? Antonin Artaud and Andre Breton put it in a nutshell in the First Surrealist Manifesto: ‘total transformation of mind, and all that resembles it.’ They knew all about the Illuminated Lodge, founded in Munich in 1923, and that it controlled Wall Street and Hitler and Stalin, through witchcraft. We gotta get into witchcraft ourselves to undo the hex they’ve cast on everybody’s mind.

All hail Discordia! Do you read me?”

Illuminatus!