I love conspiracy. I read a book by Robert Anton Wilson a long time ago and his introduction was really interesting.
Yeah, I love Robert Anton Wilson. I consider him a modern philosopher. You ever see Robert Anton Wilson Explains everything?
This is a short version but there is a full available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cENyPmDXdVsI like when he talks about the hermetic tradition. Find out what happens when you do this...
"Many Christian writers, including Emerson, Lactantius, Thomas of Aquinas, Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Campanella and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola considered Hermes Trismegistus to be a wise pagan prophet who foresaw the coming of Christianity."
Newton and his failure in alchemy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_occult_studies"Due to the threat of punishment and the potential scrutiny he feared from his peers within the scientific community, Newton may have deliberately left his work on alchemical subjects unpublished. "
Feel like bitcoin is partly like that at least in the beginning (find out what happens when you do x).