The Book of Eris
0. Zen Story
1. Birth of the Erisian Movement
2. The Five-Fingered Hand of Eris
3. What We Know About Eris
4. The Apple of Discord
5. Omar's Epistle to the Paranoids
6. A Sermon on Ethics and Love
7. The Honest Book of Truth
8. The Apostles of Eris
9. Greyface
10. Zarathud's Enlightenment
11. Cosmology
12. The Sacred Chao
13. Cosmogony
14. The Law of Fives
15. Starbuck's Pebbles
16. On Occultism
17. The Curse of Greyface
18. Nonsense as Salvation
19. The Passing of the Honest Book of Truth
15. Starbuck's Pebbles
Which is real?
Do these 5 pebbles really form a pentagon?
Those biased by the Aneristic Illusion would say yes. Those biased by the Eristic Illusion would say no. Criss-cross them and it is a star.
An Illuminated Mind can see all of these, yet he does not insist that any one is really true, or that none at all is true. Stars, and pentagons, and disorder are all his creations and he may do with them as he wishes. Indeed, even so the concept of number 5.
The real reality is there, but everything you know about "it" is in your mind and yours to do with as you like. Conceptualization is art, and you are the artist.
Mal said: Starbuck's Pebbles should have been preceded by the Myth of Starbuck which was being saved for something else and never got used.
The intrepid Dr. Jon writes that he has discovered an antecedent to the long-lost Myth of Starbuck: The Myth of Ichabod