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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kerry Thornley come to believe about the Discordians?
(a) They are supernatural beings.
(b) They assassinated President Kennedy.
(c) They are extraterrestrials.
(d) They have been infiltrated by the CIA.

2. What does Wilson believe will happen by 1986?
(a) Visits from extraterrestrials to Earth.
(b) Human life extended to hundreds of years.
(c) Human landings on other planets.
(d) Death eliminated from human experience.

3. What is the result of the existence of parallel worlds?
(a) Man gradually becomes aware of alternative possibilities.
(b) Everything that can happen does happen.
(c) Man controls his own destiny.
(d) There is an alternative universe.

4. What was Osiris the god of?
(a) Resurrection and eternal life.
(b) Order and harmony.
(c) Warfare and chaos.
(d) Fire.

5. Why does Wilson feel like a failure as his 42nd birthday approaches?
(a) His wife has left him.
(b) His book Illuminatus is still unpublished.
(c) His children disagree with him.
(d) He can't achieve enlightenment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the level of the third neural circuit?

2. Why is a non-local universe meaningless?

3. What did Buddha teach about karma?

4. In daily speech, what is the 4th circuit known as?

5. How is Isis typically portrayed.

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the four brain circuits have in common that has dominated Western thought?

2. What does the blazing star represent in Freemasonry, according to General Albert Pike, a thirty-third degree Mason?

3. What is the function of the third circuit in Timothy Leary's construct of brain function?

4. How does Timothy Leary describe the invertebrate part of the brain?

5. What effect did poverty have on Wilson's understanding?

6. Which paranormal phenomena does Wilson believe can be accounted for within the possibilities of quantum theory?

7. How did Timothy Leary help Wilson endure the death of his daughter Luna?

8. What does Dr. Paul Segall conclude makes immortality possible in his view?

9. What caused Wilson to become fearless?

10. What is COINTELPRO?

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