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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 Book of the Law say is "the whole of the law"?

2. What is the Discordian mystic sign?

3. What is a Satori?

4. What is a synchronicity?

5. What is the Socratic approach to Discordian evangelism?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the different forms taken by Mescalito in different myth systems?

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

3. According to Wilson's interpretation of Sufi teaching, when is the moment you are closer to Illumination than at any other time?

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

5. What are the rules for the Socratic approach in Discordianism?

6. What does Wilson consider to have been Aleister Crowley's major achievement?

7. What were the Starseed Transmissions?

8. What faculty did Wilson develop while doing a Tarot card divination for his daughter Karuna?

9. Why does Timothy Leary claim in a letter to be pleased with the prison administration?

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

In describing the concept of a self-created reality, Nietzsche said, "We are all greater artists than we realize." What does this statement mean? Do you agree that one person's reality differs from another's, or is there such a thing as an objective reality that exists independently of you and me?

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

What does Wilson mean when he says that research into the occult eventually leads into "Chapel Perilous?" Using quotations and examples from the text, explain the concept of Chapel Perilous, and what happens to an individual who goes there.

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