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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 Dr. Jacques Vallee believe about extraterrestrial communication?

2. What does Timothy Leary name his studies?

3. What is the motto of the Firesign Theatre?

4. What three factors does Timothy Leary believe are critical to correct use of mind-altering drugs?

5. What does Brad Steiger say one must have before beginning a study of the occult?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Wilson believe that immortality is an actual physical possibility for human beings?

3. What were the Starseed Transmissions?

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

5. What are the dog days?

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

7. What is Chapel Perilous?

8. What was Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law?

9. Does the philosopher Santayana believe that humans are better at seeing or believing?

10. What effect did research into the Bavarian Illuminati have on Wilson's life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Select one of the experts quoted most often in this book: Timothy Leary, Aleister Crowley, Carlos Castaneda, Aldous Huxley, Neils Bohr, Marshal McLuhan, etc. Research that person's writing to write a further analysis of his contribution to paranormal research.

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