Jesse Walker in Reason magazine: The time an "acquaintance informed me that he had met a member of the Illuminati at a Grateful Dead show ... Every now and then, one of them would approach him at a Dead show just to check in on how he was doing and how well he was working toward his innate potential. Then another Deadhead piped up to say that he'd had the same experience."
This is part of a roundup reviewing two books: Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today, by Phil Tinline and Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson, by Gabriel Kennedy.
About Chapel Perilous, Jesse writes, "Gabriel Kennedy has drawn on everything from Wilson's early journalism to his cameos in the Chicago Red Squad's surveillance files. Not just an in-depth look at Wilson's life and career, Chapel Perilous is an ably conducted tour through the many milieus that Wilson passed through—worlds of mystics and atheists, scientists and Playboy staffers, the antiwar and civil rights and libertarian movements. Not to mention pranksters and conspiracy theorists."
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