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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 is the slogan of the cryologists?

2. What fact does Nuit say is actually a lie?

3. What does the Book of the Law say is "the whole of the law"?

4. Why was Timothy Leary fired from teaching at Harvard?

5. What does Timothy Leary believe those who alter their consciousness should do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What three factors does Timothy Leary claim are essential to experimentation with psychedelic drugs?

2. How does Wilson evaluate the California Medical Facility in Vacaville where Timothy Leary was imprisoned?

3. What value does Timothy Leary teach LSD can achieve for mankind?

4. What are the seven factors Timothy Leary uses in comparing all human interaction to a game model?

5. What reason does Wilson postulate for the public ignoring scientists' reports of extraterrestrial communication?

6. What does Wilson claim a person would have to do to refuse to believe in telepathy?

7. How was the experience of Joseph Simonton typical or atypical of UFO contactees?

8. What were the Starseed Transmissions?

9. What is Chapel Perilous?

10. What does Timothy Leary believe is the purpose of the higher neurological circuits that are turned on by use of psychedelic drugs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Wilson argues that disinformation - the deliberate dissemination of untruths by government and other institutions - led to a state of widespread paranoia in the U.S. during the Nixon administration. Support or refute his argument with facts from the text and your own research.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Wilson contends that paranormal experiences can be explained as influences from other planets, influences from other times or dimensions, influences from our own brain circuitry, or some combination of those things. Which explanation do you find most convincing? Why?

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