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Part Four: A Complete History of the Illuminati

Behind the Bastards

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Operation Mindfuck

By the early 1970s kerry hill in robert anton wilson have a name for this combination prank act of political terrorism that they've sort of lapsed into committing. They start to call it operation mindfuck jm r briggs writes the aim of operation mind fuck was to lead people into such a heightened state of bewilderment and confusion that their rigid beliefs would be replaced with some form of enlightenment. It is worth noting that the discordians are not the only anarchist weirdos thinking along these lines at the time  in 1967 another group of anarchists on the uc birkley campus had formed a group called the baverian illuminati who started sending out weird press

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