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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 Kerry Thornley come to believe about the Discordians?

2. What is the 6th circuit called?

3. How does Timothy Leary characterize the first four chemical elements?

4. Why does Wilson suffer from a bad leg?

5. What is the name of the study of the process of aging?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What remark of Oscar Ichazo's helped Wilson endure the death of his daughter Luna?

4. What caused Wilson to become fearless?

5. To what does Wilson attribute the "miracle" of real communication with his adolescent children?

6. How does Timothy Leary describe the emotional circuit of the brain?

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

8. What would pull the "cosmic trigger," according to Robert Temple in the Sirius Mystery?

9. What theory does Dr. Paul Segall believe he was first to develop that is now used by numbers of investigators?

10. How were the pivotal events in Nikolas Tesla's life parallel to events in the life of Gopi Krishna?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many religions describe an enlightened state, satori, or Nirvana. In your paper, describe how you think a person would feel and think who had achieved such a condition.

Essay Topic 2

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.

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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