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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. Why is November 23 sacred to Discordians?

2. What is the common name for the second neural circuit?

3. Who first suggested the Law of Octaves?

4. What does Wilson say is the inevitable fate of all conspiracy buffs?

5. What was Osiris the god of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Timothy Leary help Wilson endure the death of his daughter Luna?

4. Why does Willard Cantelon believe the Illuminati are plotting to wreck the international financial system and cause the disruption or fall of all strong governments?

5. What is COINTELPRO?

6. What did Charles Berlitz have in common with Wilson?

7. What does astronomer Robert Temple learn about the African Dogon tribe that is hard to explain?

8. How is the fifth brain circuitry activated?

9. What is superluminal information?

10. What does Bell's Theorem suggest about the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky demonstration?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Wilson quotes the philosopher Santayana as saying we are much better at believing than we are at seeing. Explain this statement and support or refute it with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Wilson claims that the common understanding of Karma is inaccurate and simplistic. Write an informational essay in which you explain the wheel of Karma and what the common interpretation lacks. Include the example from the text in which the author's daughter was able to stop and reverse the wheel of Karma after being attacked.

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