Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati

by Robert Anton Wilson

During the prisoner rehabilitation project of 1961-62, for which Dr. Leary was commended by the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, Timothy refused to let any coworkers speculate on whether their cons were getting “sicker” or “better.” “Where are their bodies in space-time? What signals are they exchanging?” he would ask again and again. He had developed a seven-dimensional game model and insisted on analyzing all behavior in terms of the (1) roles being played (2) rules tacitly accepted by all players; (3) strategies for winning (or for masochistic winning-by-losing); (4) goals of the game, purpose served; (5) language of the game, and the semantic world-view implied; (6) characteristic space-time locations, and (7) characteristic movements in space-time. “If you can’t describe those seven dimensions of a group’s behavior, you don’t understand their game,” Leary told the Reporter.