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This is my attempt to make a personal sandbox. I tried to follow the instructions, but I've no idea how well I did. I wish I had a mentor on Wikipedia use. The rules is vast. Someone should create just such a project:

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Mythic themes with enduring young charms are made sometimes deliberately ambiguous, and why? "To force our contemporary domesticated primates into performing a most unmammalian task: learning to think for themselves." So thought-spoke our Mr. R Anton Wilson, co-author of ILLUMINATUS, a sci-fi trilogy.

                             SITO


THE HIGHER INTELLIGENCE QUIZ


Robert Anton Wilson


1. Do you believe the concept of Higher Intelligence is a useful concept?

Emphatically. According to Koestler's The Case of the Midwife Toad, mathematical information theory has demonstrated what many of us long suspected intuitively: 3% billion years is too short a time for pure chance to have produced the amount of negative entropy (organization) found in the evolutionary script. Even death-by-senescece (normal "aging") no longer seems stochastic or random, according to U C Berkeley biologist Paul Segal and others, but rather appears, like adolescence, a pre-programmed part of the DNA script. I can hypnotize myself into believing that Spaceship Earth is just a lucky accident, but when I come out of the hypnosis I am again struck by the incredible details of intelligent design everywhere, which has historically "justified" every religion. A search, minus religion and superstition, for the designers of this planetary drama seems to me a most profitable scientific venture. "Materialism" so-called is just one possible theory about matter, and not the most plausible theory by any means. Gurdjieff and the pioneer 19th Century 'Spiritualists were "materialists" without limiting themselves to the most dismal mechanistic theories about matter. Einstein's matter-energy equations, Reich's orgonomic functionalism, the direct experience (as distinguished from the dogma) of 30,000 years of shamanic-yogic investigators, LSD research, plant-human telepathy in the wake of Backster's Effect (Secret Life of Plants, Bird, Tompkins), etc., all converge around something close to pantheism (or, at minimum, Transcendental Materialism) rather than the clockwork mechanism of 19th Century dogma.


2. How would you define Higher Intelligence?

As in mathematics, "higher" must imply higher order, i.e. more inclusivity and complexity. Structure being multi-ordinal, Higher Intelligence would be revealed by relating to, involving oneself with, communicating to, levels of structure (in space-time) still invisible (unpredictable) to lower intelligence.


3. How would you define intelligence?

Intelligence is manifested by the reception, accurate decoding and transmission of. energy. Consciousness is manifested by mere reception of energy. Expansion of consciousness (psychedelic or metaprogramming experience) is dilation of neural reception to ingest more energy; escalation of intelligence is accurate decoding of the new energies so received. Aleister Crowley's formula for the traditional Illuminati goal of "Perfect Wisdom and True Happiness" was "! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ?," an endless series of expansions (symbolized by ! ) in alteration with integrations (symbolized by ? ). Pure consciousness, Oriental Samadhi, is pure expansion ( ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ), and might be called the highest or most benign form of stupidity.


4. It has been said that the human brain is an instrument which humanity does not understand how to use. Comment.

The human brain, like Spaceship Earth, came without an operating manual. The designers evidently intended us to write our own manuals.


5. Do you believe that the wide variations in human intelligence are due to differences in neural wiring (i.e. genetic) or due to social-educational differences? Or both?

This remains to be discovered. Temperamentally, as a non-dualist, I tend to suspect that the answer will be "both," but the evidence to date is silly-putty and can be molded to fit anybody's racist or behaviorist theory. The historically dreadful consequences of racist theory should not prevent us from thinking objectively about the matter, however. See below.


6. Do you think that neural differences among individuals or racial groups define different sub-species?

Only if one wants to use that semantics. Evolution seems to proceed by variation and self- selection, not by uniformity; therefore, every difference makes a difference, i.e. has a function. The most idiotic form of racism (or sexism) is the attempt to abolish differences. The Hermetic maxim, "God hath need of every human soul," can be translated into modern language as "Evolution hath need of every deviation. "


7. Do you think that the very concept of intelligence or differences in intelligence is elitist or anti-democratic?

No way. Despite my rejection of Pure Chance as a panchreston (an attempt to explain everything), I recognize that hazard exists. The DNA script provides for variation (deviation, ever "perversion" if you feel that way about it) in order to provide for contingency. The great teachers who wrote the fairy tales arrange for the Fool or the "inferior" third brother to marry the Princess at the end; they were teaching a lesson that racists and fanatic eugenicists still haven't learned. Penalizing differences (as in institutionalized racism, sexism, classism, casteism, etc.) and attempting to abolish differences (as in anthill socialism) miss the whole point of evolutionary variation. Genes are passed on one by one at random; therefore, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Or, as Blake said, "One law for the Lion and the Ox is Tyranny."


8. The average IQ. (however measured) is assigned the index of 100. This means half of the population is below IQ 100, i.e. just barely literate. What are the implications of these statistics?

Authoritarian society (class-caste games) has been a fact for several milleniums. This discourages the intelligence of those assigned the serf or slave positions. Anything they see, hear, smell, taste, guess, intuit, reason out, etc., is irrelevant and immaterial to the ruling elite. The rulers therefore bear a burden of omniscience as they attempt to do all the seeing, hearing, smelling, thinking, etc., for the whole society; and the proles bear an equal and opposite burden of nescience as they are conditioned to ignore their own seeings, hearings, thinkings, etc., and act only on orders from above. Communication is only possible between equals, and thus both rulers and serfs gradually develop a progressive group disorientation. Unwelcome information usually results in burning at the stake, the rack, the Iron Boot, confinement in a cage, or whatever form of torture is locally known as "enlightened modern penology" in the given society. The ruling elite thus being armed and dangerous, they only hear what suits their previous beliefs. SNAFU is the norm in any authoritarian pyramid, not just in the Army. (For more on the burden of nescience, see Dumb Blondes, Uncle Tomism among blacks, Good Soldier Schweikism, etc. For burden of omniscience, see Nixon, Richard,

career of.)


9. Do you think that a level of intelligence exists that is as to the human as the human is to the ape's?

I feel sure that many such levels exist.


10. If so, in what form does it exist?

Many forms. Every unusual perception (expansion of consciousness to ingest new energy structures) is apt to be classified as "hallucination" by skeptics, including the investigator him/her/self if he/she retains intelligent skepticism. Nonetheless, after twelve years of experiment with shamanic, yogic, Sufic, and more recent techniques, I believe some of my contacts with Higher Intelligences, roughly corresponding to the "angels" and "archangels" of Cabalistic-Sufic tradition. Like Dr. John Lilly, I have wondered if They are time-travelers from the future, very advanced human adepts now on earth helping other students along the Path, extraterrestrials, or something else. Like Dr. Leary, I tend strongly to suspect They are extraterrestrials. Like Dr. Jacques Vallee, I conjecture that They might be beyond any thought-form or category we have yet invented. On my own, I have fantasized that They might be the giant whales or dolphins, whose enormous brains must be doing something non-mechanical, since they lack hands for human-style technology.


11. Do you think Higher Intelligence exists on other star systems in the galaxy?

Intuitively, yes. My experience of the life-mind or genetic uncon­scious seems to correlate with the theory that life is omnipresent, rather than with the theory that life is accidental and rare. If omni-present, it must statistically exist in many higher forms throughout space-time, as well as in many lower forms.


12. What are the chances of our contacting Higher Intelligence in your lifetime?

Excellent. It seems increasingly plausible to me that certain specially-trained individuals have been making such contacts for 30,000 years now, and that this underlies the "allies," "gods," "angels," "fairy folk," "devas," etc., of the various occult traditions. That is, "hallu­cination" explains many, but not all, of such contacts.


13. Do you consider DNA as an intelligent entity? Why?

Yes. Because .the data of psychedelic research, Jungian psychology and history of religion and magick all make sense with this assump­tion, and don't make sense otherwise. For instance, it is easier for me to believe that Socrates' "daemon" and Jesus' "Father" were real experiences than to assume that Socrates and Jesus were half-crazy. The experience of Higher Intelligence within is as common among investigators of consciousness as the experience of Higher Intelli­gence without.


14. Do you consider the nucleus of the atom as an intelligent entity?

Yes. Because it increasingly makes sense to me to assume that life and intelligence are omni-present and multi-ordinal.


15. Do you believe humanity will evolve to a higher level of intel­ligence?

It always has. I assume it always will. More specifically, the intersec­tion of Greek logic-and-dialectic, from the monkish class, and craft technique-and-empiricism, from the medieval guilds, produced mod­ern science, or logical empiricism, the most revolutionary force in history, which has (in 300 years) transformed the planet more than all previous evolution. The intersection of modern science and tradi­tional shamanic-yogic arts, via the psychedelic revolution and the blossoming of parapsychology, will produce a higher synergetic prod­uct, even more revolutionary.


16. If so what form will this take?

We are graduating from miserable terrestrial mortality into ecstatic cosmic immortality; from robots into self-aware entities; from earth to the stars. The "wild talents" of saints and shamans will become subject to conscious control. Brain-change, immortality, and Space Migration will change our philosophies more radically than the im­pacts of Copernicus, Darwin, or Freud.


17. Do you think intelligence can be raised?

Sure. Americans being less paranoid about machines than about chemicals, it will happen chiefly through bio-feedback, not through LSD, at least in this part of the world. But it will happen.


18. Do you believe that the raising of intelligence levels should be defined as a national priority project comparable to raising the level of energy resources?

Yea, verily! Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; as Buckminster Fuller quite correctly insists, there is never a real energy shortage, but only a technique shortage, i.e. an intelligence shortage. Indeed, authoritarian society, the Coercive State, wedded to an omniscience-burdened ruling elite and a nescience-burdened slave-serf class, represents a perpetual intelligence shortage, or as I elsewhere call it, a Snafu Principle.

A sane world would get logic, semantics, scientific METHOD, and bio-feedback into the grade schools; retire every worker who can possibly be replaced by a machine; start retooling to replace all the other workers by machines (since UNEMPLOYMENT SHOULD NOT BE CURED, NOT BEING A DISEASE: it IS the cure); establish a guaranteed annual income to replace the idiot Welfare system; stop persecuting original thinking; end the dinosaur arms race, putting the credit-energy into Space Migration, Immortality research, and Neurologic. It is time we stopped operating like Permian reptiles and synergetically combine for Extraterrestrial Immortality. What other game is worth our time?

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an alt.fan.rawilson biography of RAW by RMJon23

A compilation of Frequently Answered Questions and Frequently Unanswered Questions. Also containing some Frequently Questioned Answers and all this of course "being" true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningful in some sense and meaningless in some sense. (elmyr)



frequently answered questions

 ?                Does RAW read this newsgroup (alt.fan.rawilson)?

Yes, at least sometimes. (ewagner382)



? Does anyone know Robert Anton Wilson's e-mail address?

Sombunall of us think he posts here infrequently. If you have around 100 messages on your alt.fan.rawilson "unread" list, one of them might have emanated from Our Man. His style seems unmistakable, to me at least. If you've read his books, I'm mildly surprised you haven't guessed it yet. There's a chance I may be wrong, I dunno. Someone may be pranking by being very good at resembling his remarks. Beyond that, I must remain silent. (RMJon23)

The One who I have taken as Him has not posted for over a year. He hath better Things to do, I surmise. (RMJon23, January 4th, 2000)

You can write to Bob care of New Falcon Publications. Note that the Impermanent Press address at rawilson.com has returned marked "Forwarding Order Expired" as of December, 2004.



? What?s next?

Tale of the Tribe

Email to the Universe



       ?                What?s up with Trajectories?

Trajectories has come out erratically since its inception. The last issue, a videotape issue, came out in 1998, just after Everything is Under Control. (ewagner382)



? What the hell is really going on about The Illuminatus! Sequel (Bride of Illuminatus!)?

Wilson & Shea planned this book before Bob Shea's death. Wilson published an excerpt in Trajectories (see issue #14, part 3 in writing). (ewagner382)



? Will there be another part of the Illuminati Chronicles?

Perhaps. Tentative title The World Turned Upside Down, named after a song from the period of the American Revolution. Wilson has had bad luck with publishers with this series & doesn't seem in a rush to write this book. (ewagner382)

yes, this book is scheduled to be published in early 2000. its tentative title is: Here it is You alt.fan.rawilson Fuckers, Book Motherfucking Four, Finally. (jkr)



? What the hell is really going on about The Illuminatus! play?

Ken Campbell made it into a ten hour play about twenty years ago. (ewagner382)




? Did RAW write The Principia Discordia?

No. The Principia Discordia was written by Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (Kerry Thornley) and Malaclypse the Younger (Greg Hill). However, RAW did the introduction to the 4th edition of the Loompanics Principia. (elmyr)



? What about the other Bob?

1933 Robert Joseph Shea Jr. is born at New York City on February 14th,

          son of Robert Joseph Shea (a physician) and Ruth Dolores Kobell

1954 Receives a B.A. from Manhattan College

          Serves in the U.S. Army (through 1956)

1958 (through 1959) Advertising copywriter, Ronald Press.

          Receives M.A. from Rutgers University

1959 (through 1960) Managing Editor, Magnum Pubs.

1960 (through 1963) Editor, West Park Publishing Co.

1963 (through 1965) Associate Editor, True Magazine

          Marries Joyce Christine Hurley (divorced 1965)

1965 (through 1967) Editor, Cavalier

1967 (through 1977) Editor, Playboy

          Meets Robert Anton Wilson in the Playboy offices.

1970 Marries Yvonne June Bremseth on March 7th

           by whom he has one son, Michael Erik


1975 lluminatus! Trilogy

1981 Shike: Time of the Dragons

1981 Shike: Last of the Zinja

1986 All Things Are Lights

1987 From No Man's Land to Plaza Del Lago

1989 The Saracen: Land of the Infidel

1989 The Saracen: The Holy War

1991 Shaman

1994 Robert Shea dies of colon cancer on March 10

           at Glencoe, Illinois, aged 61 years.

    (from Seven by Seven, edited by Neal Wilgus)



frequently unanswered questions

 ?                What the hell is really going on?


THINK FOR YOURSELF, SCHMUCK!

    (Robert Shea, Robert A. Wilson, Illuminatus!, p.86)

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search A table of correspondences is a table or list of objects, beings, or concepts thought to be linked through supernatural connections. Tables of correspondences appear in modern books on magic and the occult. They are provided as reference tools in creating spells and casting magic circles. At its most basic, a table of correspondences can be a simple list of colors with their spheres of influence. A complicated table or set of tables can grow to book-length and co-ordinate deities, spirits, and symbols from religions and mythologies around the world. The Wikipedia article on the four humours contains a table of correspondences based on ancient Greek medicine.

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[edit] History The belief that apparently unconnected things share a mystical connection is common to most cultures; it is one of the principles of sympathetic magic identified by anthropologist James George Frazer in The Golden Bough. Examples of the theory of interconnectedness in Western culture include the concept of macrocosm and microcosm in the philosophy of the followers of Plato, expressed in Hermeticism by the aphorism, "as above, so below"; the doctrine of signatures advocated in the Renaissance by Paracelsus; the Jewish mystical practice of Kabbalah, which Renaissance humanists attempted to Christianize; and the doctrine of correspondence in the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg.

Lists of correspondences are very old and are not limited to books on spellcasting. Gnostic books in the Nag Hammadi Library contain lists of aeons and archons (good and evil beings), correlating them to different virtues and vices. The First Book of Enoch lists fallen angels and their spheres of influence. Medieval grimoires included lists of correspondences.

Magic underwent a revival in the Renaissance partly due to its association with Neoplatonism. In 1531 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa published his Three books of occult philosophy, which contained many lists of correspondences. Francis Barrett's The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer (1801, frequently reprinted) repeated many of Agrippa's lists.


[edit] Organization A common organizing principle for tables of correspondence is number.

Two: the binary concepts of Yin and Yang, black and white, left and right, etc. Four: the Western classical elements, the suits of the Minor Arcana in Tarot decks, magical weapons, the canonical gospels, the archangels, etc. Seven: the planets, the days of the week, etc. Ten: the sefirot of the Tree of Life of the Hebrew Kabbalah. Twelve: the months of the year, the signs of the zodiac, the Twelve Tribes of Israel, the twelve Olympians, etc.

[edit] References Bill Whitcomb, The Magician's Companion, Llewellyn's High Magic Series. (Many tables of correspondence with some discussion and overview).

[edit] External links 'The Occult Science of Talismanic Correspondences' by David Cramb Wilson Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_correspondences" Category: Magic


1) transitional A Wizard, a True Star caught the beginning of this trend, which came to fruition in 1974's Todd and 1975's Initiation. His music during this period addressed cosmic themes, showed a strong interest in spirituality (particularly Far Eastern religion and philosophy), and displayed the musical influence of psychedelic rock as well as the avant-garde jazz fusion of contemporary acts such as the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Frank Zappa.

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M:Foundation issues Wikipedia:Tutorial Wikipedia:Cleanup resources Wikipedia:Help desk Wikipedia:Five pillars Alchemy Web Site A great resource maintained by GNOSIS contributing editor, Adam McLean. It has over 28 megs of information on alchemy, including the Alchemy Virtual Library.

Alexandria: Cosmology, Philosophy, Myth and Culture Web site for the distinguished annual cosmological journal edited by GNOSIS contributing editor, David Fideler.

Anthroposophic Press An excellent source for information on the works of Rudolf Steiner and other exponents of Western esoteric teachings.

Michael Cremo Web site for the coauthor of the provocative Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race, reviewed in GNOSIS #35.

Gnosis Archive A treasure trove of documents and links related to gnosis and Gnosticism in all its varieties. Affiliated with the Ecclesia Gnostica, Stephan A. Hoeller, Presiding Bishop.

Hermetic.com Web site of assorted hermetic and magickal texts.

Hermetic Fellowship A non-profit organization dedicated to all aspects of the Hermetic tradition. Plenty of links and resources.

International Association of Sufism Web site of IAS and its journal, Sufism. The IAS sponsors the annual Sufism Symposium.

Meditation HQ A comprehensive spirituality and meditation resource directory.

Phanes Press Web site of the premier publisher of hermetic and esoteric books. David Fideler is publisher.

Philosophical Research Society Founded by occult scholar Manly Palmer Hall and dedicated to preserving his works and research, the PRS is a significant source of esoteric information.

Quest Books Quest Books is the imprint of the Theosophical Publishing House, the publishing arm of the Theosophical Society in America, dedicated to promoting understanding among all peoples of the world. Their purpose is to heal, enlighten, lift, encourage, comfort, educate, open, and delight the mind, body, and spirit. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://searchenginewatch.com dmoz|Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Usenet|Usenet servers dmoz|Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers|Public News Servers http://www.big-8.org/ The Big-8 Management Board http://www.newzbot.com/ A search engine for NNTP/Usenet http://web.archive.org/web/20060428060056/www.magma.ca/~leisen/mlnh/ http://web.archive.org/web/20060208063938/www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/lamont/append.htm http://weyr.argentcross.org/scieno/archive/dict.html

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