[1987 Natural Law book p62-68]

All that we are is the result of all that we have thought. It is founded on thought. It is created by thought.
—Gotama Buddha, The Dammapada

I stated at the beginning that this booklet concerns hypnosis and self-hypnosis; I shall now explicate that remark.

If you are arguing for racial equality with a man who keeps using the word “nigger,” you will eventually discover that you are making headway and that some barrier prevents clear communication. If you are discussing censorship laws with a lady who keeps using the word “smut,” you will experience that same sense of banging your head against a brick wall. If you attempt to reason with a Marxist, the word “bourgeoise” will eventually be invoked to banish any coherence or logic in what you have been saying.

It is a truism in social science that human beings can be defined as the language-using class of life. Buddhists, semanticists and hypnotists know that we not only use words but are also easily mesmerized by them. Hypnotists in real life seldom have to use glittering jewels or shining mirrors as they do in films; the ordinary domesticated primate can be hypnotized quite quickly and easily with words alone, spoken in proper cadence and with abundant repetition. Advertisers try to hypnotize us all the time, and judging by the fees they collect from satisfied clients, they are doing very well at it. Having used hypnosis in my psychological seminars for nearly 20 years now, I am-quite prepared to agree with G.I. Gurdjieff and Colin Wilson that most people can be said to be hypnotized most of the time, and that the professional hypnotist only switches them from their habitual trance to a different trance.

In fact, when I first started using hypnotism I was astounded that so many people went into deep trance quickly when I was only attempting to induce light trance. It was many years before I understood fully Gurdjieffs insistence that most people are sleep-walking in a deep trance state most of their lives. Now I am only astounded that many people actually come out of their trance often enough to remember, occasionally, what they intended to buy at the supermarket.

If you have to deal with neurotics regularly, you will eventually observe that most of them say aloud once or twice a week something to the effect, “They won’t give us a chance,” “You can’t win,” “The smart boys have it all sewed up,” etc. The odds are that such a neurotic is silently repeating these sentences sub-vocally — in the “interior monologue” of ordinary consciousness — many, many times a day. This form of self-hypnosis is known as a Loser Script in the language of Transactional Analysis. Read the rest

One thing is clear, though: my normal life style isn’t healthy. This doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that requires a break to learn. I imagine people with unhealthy lifestyles know they’re unhealthy. They come home after work and say “I can’t go on like this,” they cry randomly in elevators. But I didn’t know. Life online is practically the only life I know. Sure, I guess things were different when I was very young — I remember, after getting my first email account, wishing someone would email me so I’d have an email to answer (even then I knew I’d soon be missing those empty-inbox days) — but for most of my life, this has been it: a jumble of interruptions and requests and jobs and people, largely carried out alone. It never let up, so I never saw anything different. How was I to know there was anything wrong? Read more

Welcome to the Black Iron Prison.

Explore the mysteries of life in a body. This week’s class is loaded with exercises, concepts, and thought experiments to leave you energized, electric, and feeling deep appreciation and love for your own body.

Radical Yoga will get you in touch with your body, mind, and the inner workings of your brain and consciousness. Each week, we will explore an organic blend of exercises, movements, techniques, concepts, and experiments. Our purpose: to gain strength, to increase appreciation for all that is, to exude and witness more beauty, and to expand the spirit of love, adventure, and creativity in our lives and yours.

Experience the fullness and joy of tuning in to your body-electric and all that surrounds it within and without. Warning: Radical Yoga contains extremely powerful techniques that invite sudden powerful changes in your life. The concepts and experiments, while light-hearted and joyous, can lead to serious changes in your life, outlook, and perspective on everything, especially ideas you have about yourself.

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Few people have the strength and fortitude to stare directly into the eyes of the future forms which are preparing to take our place.
~ ~ Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt

Do not take anything in this book literally! Wait, on second thought, take it all literally! — Joseph Matheny, author of Ong’s Hat the Beginning and Game Over

Psychopaths have usually been regarded by the public as either cartoon-like (Eminem, Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst) or a threat to the prevailing social order (Quake video-game junkies). For a brief period in the mid-1990s, the fascination with suave serial killers and film characters like Dr. Hannibal Lecter suggested that the psychopath was undergoing revision, being transformed from murderous villain to flawed yet admired hero.

Christopher S. Hyatt’s book, originally titled The Toxick Magician (1994) and revised as The Psychopath’s Bible, offers some introductory remarks on how to make friends with your Inner Psychopath.

Although he cites the DSM-IV definition of Antisocial Personality Disorder, and the lesser known World Health Organization guidelines (F.60.2) of Disocial (Antisocial Personality Disorder (18), Hyatt, a licensed psychotherapist, is not interested in studying the motivations of the one-dimensional ‘slasher’ killers who have achieved press coverage. He is interested, instead, in “the sort of person who cares nothing for the ‘advancement’ of the species” (11).
Hyatt’s vision closely resembles the ‘Solve’ process of the alchemical ‘Solve et Coagula’ formula: ossified forms are destroyed in order for the void where new creation can take place. “Toxick magick, then, is the direct use and application of one’s power and abilities to speedily bring about the destruction of mediocrity and stupidity” (37). It is also about buying time (40) in a world that has gone Hyperculture.

“The hero-psychopath is,” Hyatt writes, conscious of his values and deliberate in his actions” (13). He echoes George Gurdjieff and the Malamati (Path of Blame) of Islam-oriented Sufism when Hyatt stresses that the hero-psychopath will work intentionally and deliberately against social conventions in order to achieve specific goals (23). He stresses that Toxick Magick this is a focused form that can require laser-beam like intensity (79). Elsewhere, Hyatt warns: “Remember it is a natural tendency to be dark and self destructive. The trick is to do it well – very well” (44).

Hyatt explains that the hero-psychopath, unlike the ‘mindless’ film counterpart, is driven by four strivings (105):

(1) Vengeance
(2) Obsession
(3) Expressing the ‘Will to Power’
(4) Doing your own ‘True Will’

This quartet reveals the historical and philosophical sources for Hyatt’s study – Jacobean revenge tragedies, Romanticism, Friedrich Nietzsche and Aleister Crowley (the ‘ill to Power’ and ‘True Will’ are long-misunderstood philosophical concepts). The shadows of Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavaelli loom over this book, as Hyatt is also concerned with how people can survive and prosper in a society that has, until recently, been defined by resource scarcity and the remorseless struggle against Death.

The influence of Hobbes, Machiavelli and Social Psychologists becomes more apparent when Hyatt summarizes their thoughts on humanity as the most advanced social animal. An observation such as “the entire structure of the world is a food chain of infantilizing” (66) could be taken from the pages of Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651).

When Hyatt claims that “the normal man can be defined by his repetitive routines” (70), he is drawing upon a view that became enshrined in Frederick Taylor’s management studies (Hyatt name-checks the Peter Principle) and Herbert Spencer’s Social Darwinist school. “People are so familiar with abuse and misuse that they are unaware of it” (97) is a cornerstone of Freudian psychoanalysis. “The generic victim needs to be the victim” (32) could have come from the mouth of Satanic magus Anton LaVey.

But quibbling over Hyatt’s sources misses the point . . .

How the System Really Works

What separates Hyatt’s writings from the occultnik pack is his awareness of psychological development. Hyatt understands that magical thinking appeals to people during certain life crises. His most well known book, Undoing Yourself With Energized Meditation and Other Devices (Tempe AZ: New Falcon Press, 1993), has gone through six revisions. It’s an eclectic volume with some unusual pictures, embracing Tantra, Chaos Magick, Hypnotism and Absurdist insights. My other Hyatt fave is Tree of Lies (Tempe AZ: New Falcon Press, 1992), which begins with a self-scoring test that is designed to show how societal rules have shaped your worldview. I file them both under ‘early influences.’

There are flashes of Hyatt’s humor throughout the book, from pithy Discordian aphorisms like “Discord is the politics of mobility” (47) to a sober reminder that “paranoia is a simple misdirection virus” (39). Hyatt is at his best with a line that “the Toxick Magician always views his adversary with his head in the toilet bowl” (36). In a single line, Hyatt offers Absurdist humor, a one-upmanship technique for beating the pecking order, an example of perceptual re-framing and a parody of an Aghori meditation.

Psychology, more Humanist than Freudian, is at the heart of Hyatt’s writings. Surveying the magisterial DSM-IV (fourth edition), Hyatt contends that the American psychotherapy establishment has stopped pursuing the chimerical state of “mental health”, preferring instead to believe only in differing levels of psychopathology. This view is at odds with Freud’s contemporary, Josef Breuer, who is credited with beginning the taxonomies for mental illnesses. Hyatt’s views aren’t exactly revolutionary anymore: there is still fallout from the mid-1990s “Freud Wars” that engulfed the psychoanalytical establishment, yet it’s a message that many people still need to hear. Freud is still very much alive, however, his legacy is now viewed as a partial solution to the Post-Human Condition.

The other dilemma that Hyatt alludes to is the Existentialist critique of a society bereft of meaning, a society that has not invested in the resources that are needed to face the looming problems of existence. “Remember,” Hyatt advises in one of the most important lines of the book, “every solution leads to more complex and involved problems” (35).

Sometimes the solution may be to “scan the environment for appropriate enforcers” (90); to look for the feedback loops and recurring patterns in the landscape. The “unwritten rules of the game”, if you will. Hyatt understands that these are the tools that are at the magician’s disposal. “It is the quality and nature of the forces set in motion for which the Toxick Magician strives” (36).

He also grasps that sometimes the solution is to modify your perceptual structure, not get lost in analyzing the labyrinth of endless content and re-experiencing trauma. Hyatt makes references to “inter-woven neucloid-correlation matrices” (35), an allusion to Chaos Theory and structural dynamics, but he doesn’t shed any further light on how this paradigm can reveal the deep forces at work in our lives and social interactions.

The most startling omission from this book is Hyatt’s own battle with the psychoanalytical establishment regarding the Satanic Ritual Abuse scares. According to Bill Heidrick, Grand Treasurer General of the Ordo Templi Orientis, when Hyatt faced a 1987 mandatory licensing seminar in California to renew his credentials, he was told:

“You are required to report child molestation in instances where the person consulting is a member of the Golden Dawn, Ordo Templi Orientis, Temple of Set, or Church of Satan. Aleister Crowley founded the Order of the Golden Dawn. Membership in these organizations constitutes cause to believe that the member is involved in child abuse or molestation.”

Since Hyatt had just founded a new charter of the Golden Dawn, with permission from Israel Regardie, that meeting would have been priceless . . . Read the rest here

Matthew Rossi has an ingenious story concept for the Joker,

Why did the Joker steal the costume from a local college team’s mascot and wear it while robbing the Gotham Stock Exchange, and for that matter, why did the Joker break into the Gotham Stock Exchange just to steal three stockbroker’s wallets at gunpoint? Why is he paying street gangs to slash the tires of every Audi 5000 in the city?

The Joker as a practitioner of Chaos Theory would completely confound the Detective who relies on following clues to solve crimes and looks for meaning in details. Villains like the Riddler who deliberately leave clues play to Batman’s strengths, but Batman’s attempt to impose order on an intentionally random series of crimes would necessarily fail if not drive him insane.

I love the thought of Batman insisting on drawing meaning out of clues that turn out to be dead ends. He would inevitably become a pathetic conspiracy theorist, like a Tom Hanks who can find something in anything but discovers at the end of the story that there is no Da Vinci Code after all. Sure, it might be a pessimistic conclusion implying that there is no continuity in the world, but it would at least be an authentically Noir ending for that darkest of private dicks.

The built-in metaphor of randomly shuffled playing cards would also make better use of the Joker’s name than merely his being a clown whose special pathology is telling jokes that aren’t funny. (original article)

The charge was “to think the unthinkable.”

This mythological force has functioned as a free service think tank to the Army ever since. As an instrument of creative thinking it has found its way into various current Army projects. Most recently, principle Academy Fellow Jim Channon, Lt. Colonel, US Army (Ret.), visually summarized the OBJECTIVE FORCE WARRIOR findings and teamed up with Army Chief of Staff Pete Schoomaker to open the mindset of future Army leaders at the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) course at Command and General Staff College (CGSC). Jim also helped shape the future vision efforts of the new Secretary of the Army using his summarizing strategic graphics techniques.

Jim has led the World Business Academy fellows for three years on a quest to create the most positive future vision for the planet for the next 100 years. There is a direct correspondence between the academy’s vision and focus on the “whole planet” and the efforts of the world’s most effective action agent and institution, the United States Army.

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It was true then, it is true now

Today therefore I am adamant both to correspondents and visitors alike that to obtain the greatest benefit from Magic which is as it were a post-graduate study there should be some undergraduate work in a personal therapy. The dividends are enormous. -Regardie

These principles guide the EII as much as they guided Reagrdie in the Golden Dawn. If you come to us with baggage, you will never get off the porch. If you’re looking for an “occult order”, conspiranoia commiseration,  relief from your alien implants or government mind control technology, a crying shoulder or a guru, go elsewhere. You will not get past the door.

We do not allow those who are running ‘victim scripts’ into our group, we do not encourage the running of those scripts among our members, nor do we tolerate those who enable or exploit said scripts in others.

If on the other hand, you are a individual who is looking for a group of other individuals to help you fully realize your potential, you have landed in the right port.

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