the term 'cargo cult ' whirled past , and was followed by a short dissertation on the hypothesis that all water , everywhere , knows where all the other water is , some interesting facts about hyphenated silicon and what happens to it in the presence of cheese , the benefits and hazards of morphic resonation in areas of high background magic , the truth about identical twins and the fact that if the fundamental occult maxim 'as above , so below ' was true , then so was 'as below , so above ' ...