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[Online] Starting Mon Aug 10 5pm Book Club XXVII Eye in the Pyramid

$20.00

Book Club XXVII: The Eye in the Pyramid (Part I of The Illuminatus! Trilogy) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Mondays beginning August 10th, 5-6:30pm PST
5 weeks: August 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st, September 14th
No bookclub meeting September 7th
Facilitated by Jessica Chappell
Location: Online via Zoom
Recorded for absentees: Audio recording available for all participants

Our 27th convergence of the 22 Teachings Book Club presents The Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, the first part of The Illuminatus! Trilogy.

Part satire, part conspiracy novel, part occult initiation, part psychedelic mind experiment, The Eye in the Pyramid is one of the strangest and most influential countercultural texts of the late 20th century. It moves through secret societies, political paranoia, Discordianism, conspiracy theory, ritual, symbolism, sex, drugs, magic, media manipulation, and the unstable nature of reality itself.

This is a wild, adult, irreverent, nonlinear text. It is funny, offensive, brilliant, chaotic, and intentionally disorienting. Our work will not be to “solve” it, but to enter its symbolic field together and ask what it reveals about perception, power, initiation, and the modern magical imagination.

The reading layout is as follows. Please have these read before the meeting and be ready to share.

Week 1: Monday, August 10
Opening orientation
Part I: The Eye in the Pyramid
Book One: Verwirrung
The First Trip, or Kether

Week 2: Monday, August 17
The Second Trip, or Chokmah

Week 3: Monday, August 24
The Third Trip, or Binah

Week 4: Monday, August 31
Book Two: Zweitracht
The Fourth Trip, or Chesed

No bookclub meeting September 7th

Week 5: Monday, September 14
The Fifth Trip, or Geburah

Please note:

Those who register late will receive access to the previous week’s recordings.
Payment of $20 grants you access to all 6 weeks and the Zoom link is the same each week.
Download PDF with Zoom link from the confirmation screen at checkout.

The book is most commonly available as The Illuminatus! Trilogy, which includes The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, and Leviathan. For this book club, we are only reading Part I: The Eye in the Pyramid.

The book is available online through our affiliate link here: https://amzn.to/4ytk56q

As always with our bookclub, we record audio only, no video, and this is sent to everyone who is signed up. We do not sell the audio later on the website. This is a participation based event, designed for all to share and feel safe to ask questions, share experiences and learn together.

This discussion will be facilitated by professional Tarot Reader, ceremonial magician, and long-time student of 22 Teachings Jessica Chappell of Tarot de Baja.

Jessica will reach out to everyone signed up a few days in advance of week 1 to check in.

At 22 Teachings, Jessica leads the Book Club and creates tarot-based ritual classes that invite students to step inside the symbols so that what is read on the page becomes lived, embodied magic. Jessica has always been a seeker, and motherhood initiated her into a new octave of magic. Becoming Bisou’s mother gave her an even clearer sense of why spiritual practice matters in real life, in real time, with tiny hands tugging at the hem of ritual.

Her relationship with the unseen began in childhood, collecting crystals and reading tarot as a way to listen beneath the surface of things. In 2017, she began formal study with Naha at 22 Teachings, where her work in Hermetic Qabalah, ritual magic, and tarot became a dedicated path. She approaches the tarot as a living book of wisdom, a mirror for our human experience, and a practical tool for choosing the next right step when the soul is quietly asking for change.