A non-combative, non-participatory, no-politics approach to anarchy intended to get the serious student thinking.' Summa Universalia The book describes Thornley's concept of Zenarchy 'a way of Zen applied to social life. A selection of the material was later reedited and expanded by Thornley and republished in paperback by IllumiNet Press in 1991. Zenarchy was first self-published by Thornley, under the pen name Ho Chi Zen, as a series of one-page (or broadsheet) newsletters in the 1960s.

There are references to this story in The Illuminatus! Trilogy, as well. 'Enlightenment of a Seeker' from this book is also present in Principia Discordia as 'A Zen Story'. It includes tales of several early Discordians including Hill (as Mal) and Thornley (as Omar and Ho Chi Zen). Zen Without Zen Masters is a book by Camden Benares (The Count of Five), published in 1977, of koans, stories and exercises of a Discordian nature. So, we created an opposition within the Discordian Society, which we called the Bavarian Illuminati So, we built up this myth about the warfare between the Discordian Society and the Illuminati for quite a while, until one day Bob Shea said to me, 'You know, we could write a novel about this!' Zen Without Zen Masters We felt the Society needed some opposition, because the whole idea of it is based on conflict and dialectics. In a 1980 interview given to the science fiction magazine Starship, Wilson suggested the novel was an attempt to build a myth around Discordianism: It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology and Discordianism. The narrative often switches between third and first person perspectives and jumps around in time. The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story a drug-, sex- and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, which hinge on the authors' version of the Illuminati. One of the most influential of all Discordian works, The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson purportedly between 19, and first published in 1975.

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