Here are my notes and observations from reading the Dune novel for pages 1-254-445. I prefer the cliff note style since I often have a thought for single lines. Book dialogue/observations will be underlined in italics. My observations will be notated with a blue diamond, or in parenthesis. Numbers are page numbers from the Dune version published by Ace Science Fiction.
BG= Bene Gesserit. Book, author, and movie references in bold.
KH= Kwisatz Haderach
254 Jessica wants to continue his (Prana-Bindu) training. He must never panic and let the body do of its own accord. Must control every muscle and fiber of the body (Again, this is reminiscent of the Psychastra and Cyclomancy by Frank Rudolph that Brother Panic was teaching about. Controlling all your emotions and even body processes.
255 There was no need for a paradise of the mind when it was actually all around them on Canadian. They paid the price men always paid for achieving paradise in this life- you go soft and lose your edge.
🔹Sounds like what happened to the Moorish empire. Paradise on earth, what Christian truthers are calling the millennial kingdom. Universal law of rhythm - that back swing is a motherfucker. That's why this world can seem like a trap. You never get to keep paradise outside of the mind, and you are forced to withdraw it back inwardly due to the seesaw of polarity. But the occult lecturers say this is what messed up our kingdoms anyway. God and the Christ energy became these things outside of us when they were within all along. Esoteric turned into exoteric.
🔹Also I was thinking. This desert world they must be quiet and only travel at night. Is this a standing for the quantum world which seems so foreign to earth? The quantum world of potential, which is the Silence, the Triple Blackness of Space?
282 The bat symbol. Way of the Bat told freman Stilgar to house both Paul and his mother when they were originally just going to house Paul alone. (Also, the bat is an ancient symbol of DNA.)
283 Stilgar says here, a man's word is a contract, not like those of other nations whose contract breaks at dawn. They have no need to draw paperwork. A man does not break his word. 🔹Surely this must have been how the old moors operated before the counterfeits took over and forced everyone into this vibration of treachery and fake niceness. Let's you know the freman come from something ancient and advanced from this alone.
284 His mother says BG don't break their promises, either. She is called of the weirding ways and a witch. 🔹These techniques must be ancient Moorish ones. The older, the more advanced.
The BG Missionaria Protectiva planted these religious legends as a safety valve (Again, Aseer, Duke of Tiers, told you a lot of prophecy was just be made up). His mother notes how well prepped and responsive the freman are to BG implanted prophecy. I think, being a spiritual people, they know to hold that of the spirit world above the physical world.
288 Jessica rejoices that the freman are an entire culture trained to military order. Priceless finding for an outcast duke. A quote notes that the freman are masters over the ego. 🔹Yup, masters of ego and it seems they move like a hive mind as well. The symbol of the Bee denoting ancient royalty as said by books like Dragon Legacy.
290 the people are disciplined because they obey the preservation of the tribe. (Again, less ego than our current society all about the individual).
293 Jessica shocked at how balanced Stilgar is. He even considers that he wouldn't risk asking her for a wife to not make his men believe he cares more about desires of the flesh than the tribe. She wonders his ancestry, such superior breeding he has.
🔹I think this to mean the freman originate from a highly cultured people. These aren't just some desert savages. They are just as sophisticated as house of Atreides or any other house. In real life, this would be the former ancient Egyptians became the Dogon and now live in the desert now. Or, as Bobby Hemmitt said, the former advanced Moorish Americans who now seem hidden in ghettos (symbolically the desert or wilderness). When De Vere of Dragon Legacy says the (Moorish) fairies didn't know how to grow food and needed the lesser races, that can't be true. A highly advanced culture that invented everything can manipulate the earth in no time. The freman still suit technology is proof that a formerly advanced people will still retain their technology and know-how.
296 Paul ate spice and saw the past, present, future. Could even see possible consequences of his actions like his own dead body. (This confirms spice is melanin like Bobby said in my blog entry, Bobby Hemmitt Reading List #1. You need melanin to cross the space-time continuum.
297 freman are night/moon people that only move at night.
🔹Yeah, this is the Moor-men /moon-men read about in the Ancient and Modern Britons book by David Mac Ritchie. Dispossessed of their land, but still retaining elements of high culture.
The spice impregnated diet is addictive. (Pale people are addicted to the melanin found in coffee. The Starbucks stereotype exists for a reason.)
298 Stilgar says aggressive Jamis, calling for Paul's blood, could never be a leader because his anger consumes him too easily. He's a good fighter and that's why Stilgar allowed him to stay this long, but his ego is toxic to his people (🔹of course the secret cabal chose this out-of-control freman as the only "black" man actor in the movie with real speaking lines. Their onslaught of mind control is never ending.
But in any case, everyone in this movie should be "black", even the Harkonnens. Dune's setting seems older than some Roman empire shit. This is like the shit from the time of Atlantis, where even the wight proxies didn't exist yet. Or right after. But since Arrakis is all desert now, this might be after Atlantis, as the desert might be the result of nuclear weapons. In the book, they commonly speak of the nuclear weapons each House possesses. So, it's not out of the question.
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Stilgar, from the movie |
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Jamis |
307. Water is wealth. The Muad-dib mouse creates its own water. It's like a microcosm of the macrocosm. Seems small but is powerful, and the spiritually advanced freman know this. In our world, such a mouse would simply be considered vermin.
309 Paul keeps seeing visions of the future, with fanatic legions under him. 🔹Must be crazy knowing you are future Hitler. And in true Luciferian fashion (not the fake secret cabal shit we told today), he is no psychopath and full of integrity and empathy. It will be quite a ride to convert him into the rumored conqueror that must make such difficult choices.
Muad dib quote. God created Arrakis to train the faithful. 🔹Sounds about right. The desert, the wilderness, is the one place to train the soul. That's why we here on this hellish planet, in this country turned hellish. America used to be the center of the beautiful Tartarian empire, but now it's been turned into a desert to train us. So, if we ever wonder why we have to suffer so much and just wanna give up, this is why. There is a meaning in everything. Your suffering is not meaningless.
309 They clearly refer to the doors of the freman cave as plastic. This is an advanced tech. 🔹Again, not something of a bunch of savages. That's how you know the freman is symbolic of an original Moorish people, and not the more recently created wight Arabs.
311 The tone in Jessica's voice forced Paul to re-evaluate about not accepting water from the dead Jamis. 🔹I think of things like the tones that still exist in Mandarin and Cantonese. Do these languages still retain some of the tone that may have been used to command people in previous ages? Probably not, but fun to play around with. Not every language still has tones.
315 Lines of poetry during the freman funeral rite for Jamis invokes the moon. 🔹Told ya, moon men. The freman seem hocus pocus-y. When in reality, they probably know more about the soul than we do. Just like how our modern corrupted society regard natives as simply superstitious and primitive.
319 The freman ultimate goal of making their planet livable where water is available to all. Their belief in a goal is another chess piece for Jessica's ambitions. A dream men would die for willingly. People with a goal that are easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. (This is probably why conscious people find they cannot unite the masses. Besides the fact that you ain't supposed to, anyway, there's the lack of a goal like this worth dying for. Most of the masses just want more material shit in a hazy, pre-programmed way.)
321 Paul realizes his mother is his enemy. She is bringing the jihad and trained him for this very destiny even if she didn't have the entire picture in mind. (Paul is a very interesting protagonist. One of the few protagonists in media that actually struggle with becoming a messiah-type figure. He understands that he has no chance of a simple, comforting life where he wouldn't have to become essentially a genocide leader.)
322 Harkonnen Feyd killed his hundredth slave warrior at age 17. Feyd and the Harkonnens represent the new guard that is going to eventually take over, the more psychopathic Moors that I believe still rule in the background today behind the wight decoys.
The Count Fenrig and his lady note the paranoia of Baron Harkonnen. Baron's keep is highly guarded. he doesn't move without his guards. The price for killing the duke of another house. 🔹No way to live. This Game of Thrones style treachery over simple integrity means a heavy price for those involved.
325 The imperial planetologist Kynes lied and said the southern of Arrakis is uninhabitable and Baron believes him. Due to the sandstorms. 🔹 Looks like Kynes got his revenge after all- that which is hidden has the most power. The whirlwind that can cause total destruction is a pineal symbol. In modern society, what does this South represent? The South of the United States? Or is this more a symbol of the kundalini power that will rise from the southern chakras (root chakra)?
326 Baron slowly being known for doing business violently. Count Fenrig is calling him out for all these unfortunate accidents happening. 🔹 Sounds like the people in power today with their causing of random aneurysms and car accidents to dissidents, yes? Whoever the Harkonnens represent, maybe they are this counterfeit or chaotic line of Moors.
328 Sounds like the emperor wouldn't hesitate to charge his loyal minion Baron with treason, suggests the Count. 🔹No honor among thieves, eh. Too much surreptitiousness. No wonder the empire fell. This backstabbing is getting out of hand.
329 The society of the emperor and the many houses are referred to as the Imperium. 🔹 There was a reason Dorian was darker skinned in the game Dragon Age. Moorish. Wights mad about everything being woke miss clues like this.
335 Feyd uses a word to activate a poison in a gladiator slave. No doubt we have that today with the Manchurian candidate shit.347 Freman underground dwelling reminds him of an ancient tent 🔹Aseer says we of the Moorish empire lived in towns and cities, and not the wigwams and tents they say the "Native AMericans" had (a separate people from the Moors). That being said, the tent is still a symbol cluing you in on who the freman represent. The current American doesn't know about the Tartarian thing but will recognize that the tent setting is for native people.
The freman who are going through the utmost suffering in the desert, are they not the American Moor now? We are the ones who will rise in the holy war jihad Paul is trying to avoid (to me, this represents that kumbaya shit we be on. We talk as if we aren't under constant fire sometimes).
We the ones who wait with bated breath about prophecy, living in the wilderness in enclaves far from water (the coast, as rich wights and others make sure to buy up all the beachfront properties), and are obviously far from glorious origins despite there being obvious evidence of it in the recent past. We are known for the only people consistently calling ourselves Moors, Ancient Egyptians, etc. even if this isn't always taken seriously.
And we are the ones who will rise up out of the ground, literally like the Titans did in the Attack on Titan anime. This shit is about us, because who else had an empire that they are going to take back. They tried to give wight people your story again. The freman are forced to be nomadic like the ancient Moor men of the Ancient and Modern Britons book. We modern American Moors are similarly nomadic, as we have been denationalized and are no longer anchored to our own land for the most part.
351 freman reverend mother mentions their origins- Sunni, Nilotic, Al-Ourouba. Since they fled, they have known flight and death. 🔹Perfect warriors. All that ego been taken out of them.
Also, the origins, we see the word Nile, of Egypt. Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man by Albert Churchward mentioned the Nilotic Negro and showed pictures of many dark- skinned people. Negro is a wrong term, as that refers to the monkey used to create the other races and should not be applied to Moors. Ourouba could easily be Yoruba. Or ouroboros snake of DNA. Sunni refers to Islam, and a link to perhaps Moslem as well. Moorish. Aseer says the Al- prefix is Moorish. We think the people in this story represent some latecomer pale Arabs. No, they are a noble people who just adapted to a harsh setting (Moors of America).
Lastly, this proves, that author Frank Herbert is just taking pre-existing Moorish history and placing pale faces on it. Remember in my first Dune post, how the Washington
Post praised him for creating an "alien" society? These so-called famous authors do not invent anything. They just channeling the past.
353 Jessica given holy water, Kan, that frees the soul. Opens the universe to you. It tastes of spice. 🔹So, this must be like ingesting pure, unadulterated melanin. No wonder there is a risk of death. In his breakdown of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas movie, Bobby told you wights would go crazy in 48 hours after ingesting pure melanin like they did in the movie (when they tore up the hotel room)? Event Horizon movie shows this same concept, when you have multiple dimensions opened to you too fast. The secret cabal has developed safer ways to give the melanin deficient melanin, such as in putting it in coffee, melatonin pills, and other products.
354 When Jessica drinks it, Chani in her ritual position says, "To accept a little death is worse than death itself." 🔹Indeed. Obtaining knowledge, or death in life, like shown in Puella Madoka anime, is not an easy path. You are essentially no longer human and can see in multiple dimensions at once.
Jessica feels like a mote, the tiniest subatomic particle, and her normal adult self in a room at the same time. 🔹Macrocosm and microcosm.
She recoils from looking at a cellular core pit of blackness. Triple Blackness of Space. Potential before creation. Death.
The drug she given says it had dancing particles even when time froze 🔹 Doesn't the Kybalion say the Absolute vibrates so fast it appears still. This must be some really high vibration shit, next to "God" itself!
Atomic molecules, DNA helix, glucose. Methyl protein configuration 🔹 More phrases about melanin.
355 Reverend Mother touches her and it's like being two people at one. She sees that the reverend mother didn't see herself as old, but a forever young maiden🔹 Soul merging? Also, we shouldn't concentrate on age too much. How you see yourself in your mind eye is really what matters.
356 Being pregnant means the drug affects both her and the unborn child. They said it's a good thing the unborn is a daughter. It would have killed a male fetus 🔹I'm telling you. This book knows there's something unique to the melanated woman's genetics. Don't let incels and Jesuits tell you anything different! Not about being better than man or any gender-war like that. Just telling the truth of how the DNA works.
To beat the fear, she can't use her fear dissolving mantra. So instead, she goes to basic emotions, radiated love, comfort, snuggling protection, the opposites of the fear and terror. 🔹Fly shit. You need to do this, too! Using emotions like how Cyclomancy tells you, using opposites like how Psychastra tells you.
358 The old reverend mother and life is within Jessica now. She can see the whole line of reverend mothers up until this point. Akasha. Jessica recoils and feels she could get lost in the sea of oneness. (Bobby Hemmitt says there are still niggas stuck in the spirit world after entheogen usage in the 70s! Gotta be careful and make sure you powerful enough to handle what you consume.
She also sees the freman culture is far older than she thought. They had once been a soft people on an easy planet, easy pickings for the imperial raiders who enslaved them and divided them into random places. 🔹Yep, we came to the conclusion of the freman being advanced earlier. And again, what people you know today were supposedly enslaved and spread around from their ancestral place to the four corners of the earth? While I still see slavery mostly not even have happened, it's like the tents I mentioned before- think on what people are being associated with these symbols? Any Moorish person should know by now that the book is talking about their people.
The water of life comes from the liquid exhalation of a dying worm, a maker. She saw one killed by being drowned. 🔹Really. What's with this worm business? Great serpent in the DNA activated by water? Nagas. Niggas.
361 When the tribe shares the holy water, the memory of the old reverend mother called it an orgy. She says let them have it, they find little joy in living as it is. When the tribe shares the water, they are together. 🔹 So, this confirms oneness is an orgy. The Astral Travel book by Gavin Frost that Panic used to recommend noted the sexuality of the astral world. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Akashic Records recommended by Panic's wife Khadijah also mentioned the sexual aspect of merging. This merging is also hinted at in the ecchi-like anime, Gleipnir.
Chani is afraid of Paul. He makes the freman see things, makes them one with another. She realizes they all have a bit of his psychic talent, or more than a bit, but they suppress subconsciously out of fear. 🔹 Unfortunately, sounds like most "black" people today that are bewitched and afraid of our occult sciences due to religion.
362 Finally, the drug throws away the curtain to reveal the war he been trying to avoid. 🔹 Damn. Can't help but wonder if I'm doing this now with this search for the truth. Imagine if you knew how the future would be. Sounds just as bad as constantly being aware of the past trauma. Both are painful. You can imagine seeing deaths of your loved ones in both present and future, how painful this would be.
Also, it makes me wonder. What if I had a grand purpose, but I wanna put it off to play video games and stare at crypto charts. Dune is more than a fantasy story. It is about the sadness of having to fulfill a predestined role. Knowing your human life is over the moment you wake up, pretty much. Well, we don't have to go this far. Whatever Paul is going through is very advanced. Most people, even most conscious, aren't aware of when they are going to die, when loved ones will die, etc. Maybe. People like Idi Amin, Marvin Gaye, and others knew when they would die. Countless musicians have put their impending deaths in their music. And no doubt many of the other freemasons as well. They know their own future, at least some of it. Maybe it is not so strange, but it is strange to those not psychically in-tune.
Yes, Dune is the "black" occultist's story. Not just the racial memory. But the story of being awake and the pain it causes. What Bobby meant by the Suffering Messiah. Me, I need to stay ignorant. For at least a bit more time. I'll get bored sooner or later and move on to more advanced things. For now, I am choosing rest.
The drug. Causes his future to become memories. He just met Chani yet thinks, so many times she gives him comfort and forgetfulness in the future as if it already happened. (Damn, crazy. imagine feeling your future already in the past. I think a lot of drug addicts accidently stumble into this. No wonder they seem crazy to the normal person. Experiencing the Jeremy Bearimy of the Good Place show for real. Time is like an onion rather than linear, says Dragon Legacy. The now can influence the future and vice versa.)
Very poetic. Happiness in this life comes by forgetting about the future or the past for the moment and just living in the present. Forgetfulness is like ignorant bliss. Happiness for those who know.
374-375 Why the emperor turned on Atreides: Soldiers as good as the Sardaukar are from the prison planet whose true intentions kept under wraps. Apparently, the freman living condition is the same as the harshest prison condition on the prison planet. Why Arrakis matters so much to the entire Imperium. Freman are already conditioned to the bitterest training and have killed more Harkonnens than they have let on. (As I've said before, our suffering is not meaningless and is preparing us. So many Jesuit-bought "black" influencers go on about how "black" people are failures for this or that reason, when it's all part of the plan. We are the freman getting prepped (spiritually) in a hostile environment.
Ever wonder why the news is always focusing on black people, trying to get them to vote and otherwise get involved in the drama and distractions of society? Mad Black TV of YouTube mentioned how the media wants "black" people to get so involved in the Israel and Palestine crisis when those countries don't even concern us. Because we are the alchemical Great Work. We will always be the focus, because we are the world's biggest threat to the illusion of the world simply for our existence.
376 So, the Sardaukar are former freman? Now you can see how the Duke Leto potentially having an army as good as freman/ Sardaukar could endanger the emperor. Which is exactly what Paul will have. (Incredible. Makes you wonder why the emperor would shoot himself in the foot and put the Atreides there to begin with. He meant to pigeonhole them, and it turned out to be their greatest asset. The Kybalion Law of Polarity says failure is the same as victory. The ever-paranoid emperor cannot not avoid the backswing of the pendulum (Kybalion Law of Rhythm) no matter how hard he tries. Why no suffering is meaningless. It will eventually become victory.
382 Paul notes that he fears the world of similitudes, where there is no longer limit of the physical, because there is no point of reference there. The future is a distant memory. He doesn't know what point of time he is and hopes he doesn't get lost in the wrong time. 🔹Damn. That's some deep shit. You know, people studying the occult like me get mad they can't do all the magical shit and superpowers they see in movies. But this book is showing how far such powers could go. Paul is an especially strong case. He will become a legendary leader. This book suggests such people are legendary because they can see the future so well. Makes you think of famous war generals like Genghis Khan. Aseer says he was psychopathic, but I wonder if his madness was this same gift Paul has. We slowly learning the celebs and all that know exactly when they are going to die as mentioned before. The list goes on. Is being legendary simply having powers of clairvoyance, foresight, etc.?
You know, Father Saturn is Death is Time. The only death is Time and losing your perception of the multidimensional. But understandably, you can see why people would rather remain dead or ignorant.
389 The freman start riding worms at the age of 12. 🔹Damn. What does this mean symbolically? This is around the age you start to individuate anyway. But basically, they conquer the fear at death at such a young age. No wonder they are so powerful. Their whole lives involve killing, it is said. They are one with death and don't act all sad and crazy over it like we do today. Bobby told you our morality raised up by these exoteric religions is not the ultimate thing.
392 Jessica feels like she will always be a foreigner in the freman place. 🔹Her and Paul are really going through some severe transformation. They left their entire life behind and pretty much all their friends. No attachments. And must acclimate quickly to an entire new foreign culture. Experiences that are often part of true spiritual transformation.
393 The freman community and it's feeling of oneness, a compensation from the subtle poison of the spice diet they shared. The great masses of freman could never hope to obtain the enlightenment the spice brought to Jessica, for they have not been trained and prepared for it. Their minds rejected what they could not understand or encompass.
🔹 Damn. This is the idea that enlightenment just ain't possible for everyone, even for these people that literally live off pure melanin. Brother Panic, in his ribbing of people who think they have to come to Earth and save everyone, once said that we need to accept that some people down here are just scenery (NPC). Like the background of a GTA game that isn't rendered because your character is facing forward. Dragon Legacy also says enlightenment wasn't meant for everyone down here. The occultist knows not to distract themself with the masses and focus on their spiritual self.
Also, bee and hive mind symbolism. Jessica as reverend mother is basically Queen Bee. The providing force in the background even though males like Stilgar seem to be in the forefront. This book is likely still portraying a true matriarchal society. When we think of matriarchal, we might think women are outwardly in leadership positions. But what if it is more like this where they rule behind the scenes.
395 Jessica's daughter who unborn while her mom was taking the holy water now knows things a 2-year-old not ought to know. Knows the past, saw everything with the past reverend mothers, etc. She acts like no one her age. The other freman thinks she is a demon. 🔹Demon just means genius. See how extreme intelligence and knowing who you are makes you a pariah among ignoramuses?
427 The freman have some insulation against the Voice. Paul must also appeal to them with logic. (Perhaps more melanated people are insulated more from certain psychic attack.)
433 Atreides loyalty is brought with love and Harkonnen coin buys loyalty with hate. 🔹So this is why Atreides flag is partly green. Green is heart chakra, love and integrity, that was torn asunder by deviants and flipped the surviving Atreides people to the other side of the Kybalion polarity spectrum- Jihad, holy war.
436-437 The stunted maker worm that avoids water as a poison. Drowning the maker is the greatest freman secret. It contains the water of life only a reverend mother can change. The spice tolerance has made Paul's visions dimmer and dimmer. He needs to drown the maker to see if he is really KH. (Hm, drowning the maker, what does this mean symbolically? Submerging your melanin, your DNA in water? Again, this recalls what I said about beachfront property before. The masses of melanated people are purposely kept away from large bodies of water that could supercharge their DNA.
The water of life is a poison that gives life, its revelations translated beyond the boundaries of time. The prophecy will be made true that the Lisan al Gaib might be both dead and alive. 🔹Wow. Now that's a contradiction right on target on the law of polarity. A poison that gives life. Makes you think of poisons in our world that are similar. Belladonna, which you cannot eat but is psychoactive. Nutmeg, which is also psychoactive, but you should avoid in large quantities.
And again, you see what death really is. Knowledge. Seeing across time, space, dimension. It really is death of a human, yet Paul still retains his human past. This book makes me respect the path of study and the occult. You wouldn't want to run up on the path too soon lest you go crazy and lose all you have before you are ready.
439. There was jealousy towards Chani when she visited the southern freman. So many women without men. 🔹 Bobby used to talk about this phenomenon that affected Moorish men especially in the 90s after many deadly, covert operations by the government (outright killing, long jail sentences, etc.) Again, something else that sounds like our situation today.
443 Paul after drinking the holy water, which knocked him out for 3 weeks, had a life glow to his body Jessica describes as radiation. 🔹 Aseer Duke of Tiers in his Dark Uraeus lecture talked about radiation, lead, and uranium not being these poisons as we are told.
Damn. Paul said he was only gone 3 minutes, but he was actually out of his world for 3 weeks. He can convert the holy water now. 🔹Hm. Is this like us being able to convert radiation to useable energy. The one thing they don't want melanated people to do. We might actually get some superpowers from that shit! Also, he was tapping into the quantum world, where there is no time or space limitations.
444 Jessica had a moment of merging with Paul, described as lights coming from darkness. The reverend mother and all the others within her are now awakened and questioning what is happening. 🔹Hm. The occult lecturers say the ancestors are within you, still living.
He is the KH, the one who can be many places at once, and it scares her.
445 Paul explains there is an ancient force in each of us, one that takes and one that gives. Man has little difficulty facing that place where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman the situation is reversed 🔹 So, this is what Bobby means by women have more of the feminine side, and men more masculine. For a man to take the giving force by being "Something outside of man", I wonder if this is an answer for Transvestigation and why all the people on influence around the world are inverted? Are they trying to access both the giving and taking force?
Paul represents then the Moorish man who is the original psychic and can be of both essences without needing to become inverted like the secret cabal. No wonder his existence is feared by the emperor and the Imperium, which is analogous to our current government and the counterfeit Moors at the top pulling the strings.
Very powerful and rare indeed. Both Bobby and Panic urged their audience of both sexes to study Robert Anton Wilson books like She, He, and We, among other books. We are here to understand the opposite sex and unite, not fight with them like the inverts want us to.