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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: Other Illuminatus Books
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 18:45:39 EST
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I strongly recommend Robert Anton Wilson's fiction, such as Illuminatus!,
Masks of the Illuminati, and Schrodinger's Cat.  I strongly
counter-recommend his non-fiction except insofar as it pertains to the
interesting (though unproven) neurological models of Dr. Leary.  Wilson is
incredibly gullible, believing in (for example) Uri Geller's psychic powers
and intervention in Earth history by aliens from Sirius.  He also has an
extremely inflated view of himself: for example, he claims that a few weeks'
depression after his daughter's murder is equivalent to having passed the
supreme ordeal of "crossing the Abyss" in Western Magick.  He is a dabbler,
not an expert, when it comes to Magick, and as such his views on the subject
must be viewed with extreme skepticism.
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Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are
but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."
Liber AL, II:9.