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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the author come to believe is present in all things, living and non-living?
2. What is Chapel Perilous?
3. What does Timothy Leary say is the message?
4. What does the author learn from giving divinations with Tarot cards?
5. What personage appears to most children contacted by extraterrestrials?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Wilson note may be the final secret of the Illuminati?
2. What caused Wilson to begin to suspect that Our Lady of Guadalupe, identified as the Virgin Mary, was the same person as Nuit, the Egyptian goddess of the stars?
3. What three factors does Timothy Leary claim are essential to experimentation with psychedelic drugs?
4. What faculty did Wilson develop while doing a Tarot card divination for his daughter Karuna?
5. What are the three submodels for Bell's Theorem that all things are indivisible?
6. Why does Wilson believe that immortality is an actual physical possibility for human beings?
7. Does the philosopher Santayana believe that humans are better at seeing or believing?
8. According to Wilson's interpretation of Sufi teaching, when is the moment you are closer to Illumination than at any other time?
9. What was Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law?
10. Why does Timothy Leary claim in a letter to be pleased with the prison administration?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Wilson quotes the philosopher Santayana as saying we are much better at believing than we are at seeing. Explain this statement and support or refute it with examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Nikolas Tesla is referred to as a "secular seer" by Wilson. What does the author mean by this title? What was unusual about Tesla and his contribution to science?
Essay Topic 3
Timothy Leary is quoted by Wilson as quoting Haeckel's saying that "ontology recapitulates phylogeny." The individual's development repeats, step-by-step, the evolution of the species. In your essay, analyze and explain this idea.
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