An in-house document from the Institute where the first Breakthrough was attained (probably in the late winter or early spring of 1979) — therefore, although it makes no overt mention of Travel or the Egg, the Catalogue is of prime importan…2) The World Congress of Free Religions, a brochure-manifesto arguing for a “fourth way”, a non-authoritarian spiritual movement in opposition to mainstream, fundamentalist and New Age religion. The WCFR is said to include various sects of …
Max Stirner
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Without a clear Wikipedia entry, Stirner appears here primarily as a philosophical touchstone for anti-authoritarian thought—his radical individualism likely informing the "fourth way" spirituality and non-hierarchical movements cited in the WCFR manifesto. The readings invoke him to establish genealogies of resistance to institutional control, whether in religious structures or technological systems, positioning his critique of the state and collective authority as foundational to understanding alternative epistemologies in cybernetics and AI. His presence suggests the seminar is tracing how 19th-century anarchist thought becomes weaponized or reimagined within late 20th-century countercultural and computational contexts.
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