pp. 102-126 Summary and Analysis

A message from Cosmic Central?— Wilson is corresponding with Timothy Leary in prison. By now, Wilson is involved in the Discordian Society, a sort of farce and so-called new religion. Leary writes that he is protected by the warden, meaning he is often in solitary confinement. Leary also sees parallel between his life and that of Aleister Crowley. Leary writes a book with four other people called Terra II, where he talks of a message from outer space called the Starseed Transmission. There he says that a comet is coming as a sign. A few months later the comet Kohoutek lights up the skies.

Some Egyptian gods — Aleister Crowley is described with his then wife Rose in Cairo, Egypt, where Rose gets messages from the beyond. After testing Rose with a series of questions, Crowley decides that...