After encountering the vastness of the mysterium tremendum, the “Great Mystery,” Robert Anton Wilson maintains there are only two outcomes—you either go insane or become an agnostic. Think of this list that follows as a meta-metaphysics. It suggests an agnostic gnosticism—one that allows that a direct initiation into the nature of reality is not only possible but potentially desirable (that’s the gnostic part), but holds back from asserting any fixed or definitive statement of What It All Means (the agnostic part).
