The SECOND REVISED EDITION of this remarkable book brings together some of the most talented, controversial and rebellious people of our time including William S. Burroughs,Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare,Jack Parsons, Genesis P-Orridge,and many others.The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become ;one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions;: a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.