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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. According to the author, his data is in direct conflict with what?

2. What does the goddess Nuit claim to have done for the author in his childhood?

3. How many scientists does Saul Paul Sirag claim have received extraterrestrial communication?

4. What phenomenon did Freud call "projection?"

5. In the Babylonian myth, how did Ishtar have to enter Eternity?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the dog days?

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

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

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

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 are the three submodels for Bell's Theorem that all things are indivisible?

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

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

10. What is the Discordian Law of Fives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Wilson contends that the War on Drugs has led to more unregulated drug use and actually created hazardous situations rather than protecting people from dangerous drugs. Support or refute his argument with facts from the text and your own research.

Essay Topic 2

Wilson frequently refers to the Rosicrucians as an occult society. Research this organization and explain its basic tenets in an informational essay.

Essay Topic 3

Select one of the mythic characters discussed by Wilson, such as Ishtar, Nuit, or Horus. Research what has been written about them and explain why Wilson believes these myths have importance for understanding our own situation in the world.

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