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Only Media Events 19 25 67 71 77 81 87 91 93 95 97 101 . Lie One and One/Half The Worst Lies of A l l Are About You—Your Mind Belongs to the Priests Lie Two Joy Is Your Duty? Your Body Belongs to the Priests Lie Two and One/Half. Responding to Metaphors Lie Three The Earth as a Nursing Home Lie Four Aristotle as Greek. Aristotle as Anti-Christ Lie Five The Model Is the Message Lie Six Feudalism Everywhere Lie Seven Rebellion as Instinct Lie Eight There Is No Reality.TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface : 13 To Lie Is Human. Learn To Be A Question Mark? Introduction By Robert Anton Wilson. Ph. Not to Get Caught Is Divine. Lie Zero The Tree of Lies The First Lesson in Lying The Way to Learn to Lie Is to Assert.D.
Souls In Bodies Belong To The Priests.K. and Both Belong to the Politicians Lie Twenty-Two Overwhelm Yourself with the Luxury Lie Twenty-Three High Anxiety 163 165 .Lie Nine Learning How to Faint Lie Ten Hope Is the Currency of the Weak—I Am Not an Optimist or a Pessimist 105 109 Lie Twenty-Four The Tree of Lies Revisited Lie Twenty-Five A Dead Man's Journal Lie Twenty-Six Violence Lie Twenty-Seven The Information Trap—Gun-Fight at the O. Newman The Magic Pill of Enlightenment By John Demmitt Categorical Imperators By David P. For a King. It Is an Adventure Lie Twelve 117 Civilization Is Like a Condom—It Gives You the Impression that You Have Made Love Lie Thirteen The Hero Today—An Oxymoron for Tomorrow Lie Fourteen What If Hitler Was Accepted Into College? Lie Fifteen Jesus as Hero Lie Sixteen Surrender or Else Lie Seventeen Higher Learning Means Higher Lying Lie Eighteen I Had Many Candles but No Cake Lie Nineteen How This Book Will K i l l You Lie Twenty Every Sentence Is a Death Sentence H9 121 123 127 135 139 157 159 Lie Twenty-One 161 Bodies in Space Belong to Physics. Wilson 173 775 181 189 193 199 209 217 221 Lie Eleven 115 A Decision For a Bureaucrat Is Loss of Job Security. Corral Lie Twenty-Eight The Nature of the Beast Power in the World By Nicholas Tharcher Some Methods of Creation By James D.
These three thieves of the soul became the maker and solver of riddles. persistently endured. Not Getting Caught Is Divine. With paradox came the priest.PREFACE To Lie Is Human. — Hyatt You use names for things as though they rigidly. — Hyatt When the world was made binary man began to live in paradox. — Heraclitus The Tree of Lies 13 . making the poet and artist seem profound. the politician and the psychologist. — Hyatt To have neither great desire nor great despair— This — this is the goal of all "great" civilizations. — Hyatt Before this binary world— the fearful was also sacred. yet even the stream into which you step a second time is not the one you stepped into before. Learn To Be A Question Mark? While we desperately yearn for the exotic and wondrous our first act on meeting it is to turn it into ourselves. now the fearful is only fearful.
D. not for the joy of renewal. but the dead living. Something new is about to be born. If this process continues we will soon de-mystify ourselves—and create a de-humanization that will make the years of Hitler look like a rehearsal for a bad play. a technical language." DEAD A of ZOMBIES . But first we must live through an ugliness—a world of rotting corpses. A new walking wounded. which has all but exterminated the object that it has attempted to describe. These creatures are the offspring of our dead God and his tradition. man may become the servant of a new and even more horrible God—a binary scientific bureaucracy—whose primary purpose is the illusion of control and order. 15 We have begun to mistake our fictions and labels for life and are taking these conveniences as truths. — Hyatt Christophers. A new race of Zombies—not the living dead. His method is the Lie. man's refusal to live in his plenitude (insecurity) will drive Him to commit suicide. The universal compulsion to gather and exchange "information" has led to a short-hand. Ph. We have reached a point where most of us would destroy the world in order to keep our "POINT" of view. We now live more in image and form than in the complex realities we claim we "understand. rather than living within our complexity and insecurity. If God is not dead. Humanistic and scientific definitions that saved man from blind faith and dependence have placed him in the hands of a "devil" more horrifying than the God he murdered. collapses—empty of juice. and hateful than lustful. more vengeful. God is dead—but what has taken his place? We are now seeing the children of transition.14 To Lie is Human Man is the only being who can overcome himself. Weak men must destroy. In this sense their presence is a hopeful sign. This new God can be likened to a piece of fruit that has a skin of proper shape but when squeezed. but for the catechisms of their tradition. Hyatt. Unless our modern attitude is tempered by the irrational. What makes one man different from another are the glorious possibilities his lies contain.
What we see is only a dislodged part—how we live is whole. He must learn to say no. painful and dull these meaning systems seem to be. does not own the concept of personhood. is the primary reflection of health. recovery makes a person special and unique. To divide them for convenience is one thing—to act as if this division were truth is another. so logical. — Hyatt T H E ANTI-ZOMBIE THESIS The foundation of all pathology is nihilism as a general psychological state of experience. Division is simply a convenience for fulfilling the desire to control—to have more for less. The attempt to make life safe for breeding and for the meager indulgences of housewives has created this new race of Zombies." We have become so rational. childhood and a weak biology." Even God gave up his solitude for "more. so full of self-satisfaction that we are empty. must be an adventure in order to remain human. . Addictions are created in order to be cured. with all its hell and joys. Much like a transpersonal crisis. 77 I challenge the reader to discern if anything Hyatt has said. The normal person avoids the extreme feelings of nihilism by desperately clinging to those meanings and values implanted by culture. regardless of how irrational. created by the self. WORKING T H E ZOMBIE The greatest danger of rationality and logic is not in the method but in substituting the method for life. while the "normal" person has accepted consensual art and. It is whole and chaotic. He has overcome. The facts are that with all this "more" we have "less. It can only be "taken apart" for a peek. But it is this "less" that is the lie. People need to feel and not to feel—desperately they want more in order to pay for their debts of the past. The "pathological" person is a failed artist. In this context it is important to constantly keep in mind that the person himself is the work of art.16 To Lie is Human Christophers. Yet. and the rational application of it to the ends of ones own creation. Healing occurs in the will to create and form the world and self as one's own creation. Life inherently is a-rational. Life. Nihilism occurs when all ideological systems collapse— and this includes the cereal meanings generated by culture. People feel an absence to the point that they must drown themselves in a world of addictions. Hyatt Ph. It allows him to change—with justification. This "less" is a lie greater than any lie ever told. the ultimate illusion. Recovery from an addiction allows a person to change and "gives" him permission to do things which would ordinarily disrupt his relations to those around him.D.) He has hit bottom." The earth and the sky and the heaven are one. An interesting quality about addiction. in this sense. He has done something special. or for that matter anyone else has said. The addiction I am referring to is called—form. This theory is based on Friedrich Nietzsche's observation that the world is a work of art. however. is that it offers the person a chance to have the experience of re-birth. The feeling of power. Healing occurs when the person regains his feelings of power and reinstates his ability to create meaning structures. People are as empty in their individuality as they are in their collectivity. (Keep in mind that most people do not want anyone to change. There is no way to have "more" for "less. in this search for more individuality—more form— we find even less and less of life. took place while they were standing on their head. To apply rational and logical processes to solve a problem is one thing—but to try to live within a rational model is not living.
Toward the end of the film there was a scene in which the Wicked Witch of the West. staring at the movie screen. with the collapse. We see the emptiness of dogma. we do not yet fully appreciate the depths of this depression—this emptiness—waiting not so silently behind us and in front of us. but it was traumatic in the Freudian sense. Today. I had crossed the line between "reality" and "fantasy"—a line that is not nearly as firm for a child as it is (or seems to be) for an adult. We begin to realize that form cannot replace substance. there is a new force on the horizon— e w cry for life.18 To Lie is Human The process of substituting form for essence can only continue for so long—ten years. twenty or one-hundred years. and I must have annoyed all the adults in the theater. The Zombie is waiting for a great thunder-storm—to be reborn. The airplanes always wrote the same strange message—I. assertions and "acting-out" are not enough. riding her broom. over 50 years later." I felt a reflex shudder pass through me. I watched the Frankenstein monster BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES 19 . Sitting in the dark. FOX FINE FURS—but the Wicked Witch wrote something far different and absolutely terrifying. Even today. the machine collapses and. Well.J. I remember the first time I entered Alternate Reality and accepted a lie as fact. Yes. was more "real" than my safety. She wrote: SURRENDER DOROTHY I was so frightened that I burst into tears. Sooner. There is a strong desire to put an end to this non-living—this powerlessness—this non-purpose. I was five or six years old at the time and my parents had taken me to see a wonderful movie called The Wizard of Oz. rather than later. up there on the screen. neither crying nor waiting will help— It is the time to be bold—to dance on the edge of the abyss—to fly again—where? a n INTRODUCTION By Robert Anton Wilson. clutching desperately to symbols. This may or may not qualify as an imprinting experience in the Lorenzian sense. I understand better what had happened. the emptiness of ritual. down in the dark audience. We begin to realize that the Zombie is not just within but also without. wrote in the sky like one of the mysterious skywriting airplanes that I was accustomed to seeing. Still. However. the true Pharisee—the middle class—lost in form and circumstances. We begin to realize that grand ideals. Ph. a few years later I was able to distinguish movies from "real" reality. My parents had a hell of a job quieting me down.D. as I typed the terrible words "Surrender Dorothy. Dorothy's danger. comes the potential for recovery.
life was far more terrifying than any "horror movie. school began with a prayer. That was my real goal—getting out of the Catholic nexus. Who the hell knows enough. or forebrain. A movie theater is the best place to learn the true meaning of Plato's parable of the prisoners in the cave. I convinced my parents I wanted to be an engineer. in which we memorized the catechism. at seventeen. Hyatt Ph. is a bit of a hypnotist.which consists only of looking at pictures projected on a screen.. . September to June every year. before they let us go. Every artist who moves us. Watching adult audiences these days. 27 wreak havoc on the villagers. That was hot stuff in New York in the late 1940s. The hypnosis was performed by the good and pious nuns at the school to which my parents sent me. or we thought we were. After lunch. the Central Committee made a good substitute for the Vatican. King Kong run amok in New York. too. who presided over the charbroiling and roasting and toasting. there was another prayer. I would wager. He was called God.D. Between the two of them. of course. parts of their old brain. I didn't want to become an engineer at all. At seventeen I became a Trotskyist. and breathe hard. was immune to the hypnosis." I was entering a deep hypnosis created by another Virtual Reality called language. Nobody can sit through Alien. when things get rough up there on the silver screen. This hypnosis was a worse nightmare than the Wicked Witch of the West or King Kong or the Wolf-Man or any of their kith and kin. turn into a werewolf. these prayers formed my consciousness into a Catholic mold. Jr. That persuaded them to send me to Brooklyn Technical High School. and none of it fooled me. God and Satan. Lon Chaney. In this sense that seemingly stupid and mechanical contraption we call "society" must rank as the greatest artist on the planet. and of their bodies." As a result of all the lies the nuns told me. when I was seven or eight. and have similar physical reactions. We had to pass examinations on that. called Satan. for eight years. or closed their eyes "in the scary parts. in caverns that honeycomb the hollow Earth. or even in Batman and Joker. from a movie maker to Beethoven or Shakespeare. I see that. Five days a week. It allowed me to feel modern. I can still see these reactions in myself. Of course." Still—only my conscious ego. still enter hypnosis easily. The result of all these prayers and all that memorization was that I came to dwell in a Virtual Reality in which a nasty old man living on a cloud a few miles above Earth was watching me all the time and would probably charbroil me or roast me or toast me if he ever caught me doing anything he didn't like. I still jumped when the director pulled his shock scene. as if the two subjects were equally valid. When it came time for high school.20 To Lie is Human Christophers. Every day. and feeling superior to the kids who closed their eyes "during the scary parts. or our "selves. containing all the dogmas of the church. but it made me a "member of society"—and "a member of the Body of Christ" as well. there was another prayer. They were reinforced by Religious Knowledge class." is able to resist the lies of a good artist. even nastier. none of whom believe literally in Indiana Jones or the Temple of Doom. I was lying to myself again.. For instance. Only a small part of our brains. I became a pretty good liar myself. He had a partner. scientific. and cringe. When lessons were finished for the day. We Trots were more radical than anybody. just like we did in arithmetic. and I didn't have to listen to the nuns drone on about God and Satan and Hell and all that horror movie stuff anymore.. whatever they think they know. That's why they gasp. to make an intelligent or informed choice among competing political ideologies? I had picked Trotskyism because one part of my mind was still Catholic and needed a hierarchy. without at least one sound of fear or distress escaping their lips during that "ordeal". I was amused at the younger kids who screamed during these films.. who accept shadows as reality.
and that it is made of electrons. always convinced I had at last escaped group conditioning and finally started "really" thinking for myself. 1990. in fact. language always lies. I said. occurred within the network of language—the Virtual Reality created by the strange symbolmaking capacity of the upper quarter inch of our front brain. however. Sufi jokes. that our eyes cannot see the whole universe. Hyatt also makes that gallant effort to use words to transcend words. The following book by Dr. W i l l it work for you? I don't know. and do not remember all of them consciously. in my childhood. or to accidentally give the impression that we are trying to speak. and not all of that. 23 "altruistic. Ph. It is obvious. I pledged allegiance to the principles of individualism. the works of Aleister Crowley. At eighteen I quit The Party just before they could expel me. I then spent over 20 years following various intellectual and political fads. free thought and agnosticism.. words can. but the right reader at the right time. They can't even see the whole room in which we happen to be sitting (they only see what is front of us. I bounced from Existentialism to New Left Activism to New Age Mysticism and back to Agnosticism.D. Language created God and Satan and Hell. for example. meditating all the while on the following two propositions: 1. but Zen riddles. With the right reader at the right time." and in the mild hypnosis of this Virtual Reality we then promptly forget that the rose is more and other than red— that it is fragrant. before the shock and awakening can occur. for further examples of how language creates a Virtual Reality experienced as just as real as a bottle of beer and a ham sandwich. I will not by hypnotized by groups: I will think for myself. once one considers the subject at all. which are made of quarks. but the odds of a favorable outcome increase if you do not "browse" or "skim" but read and re-read carefully.. etc.. and that it "is" only red to creatures with eyes like ours.22 To Lie is Human Christophers. language programs us to try to speak. 2.) Nonetheless. ergo. I went from Agnosticism back to dogmatic atheism. just because it over-simplifies. Words can never say what words can never say. and it did all my thinking for me. New Falcon Publications. and our brain cannot "know" the whole universe (they only know the signals they have received up to this second. Can you see which one it is? . every time we open our mouths to speak.) Similarly. and that it is temporary and will wither soon." brave. say what they can never say. as if we possessed the kind of infallibility claimed by the Pope or the Central Committee of a Marxist party. A l l this. The carousel turned around and around but I never found a way to stop it and get off. Success in this field does not depend on the author alone. and it created Liberty and Equality and Justice and Natural Law and other fictions that obsessed me at other stages of my "development. and then to Buddhism. rebellious etc. From now on. (See my Quantum Psychology.) Is it is possible to use language to undo the hallucinations created by language? The task seems impossible. Dworkin) we proceed from one fiction to another.. One of those propositions is the most dangerous lie in this book. our stomachs cannot swallow the whole universe. That is. and a few heroic efforts by philosophers such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein seem able to jolt readers awake—shake them out of the hypnosis of words. It requires not only the right words. Every over-simplification becomes a lie quickly (if we are not very cynical about language). Naturally. language allows us to say things like "The rose is red. From "The rose is red" to "The National Debt forces us to raise taxes again" to " A R K A N S A S M O M RAPED B Y MIDGETS F R O M M A R S " to "Pornography is murder" (A. Hyatt. mind you." Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us.
INSTRUCTIONS When you read the Lies that follow. Feel free to make as many copies of them as you wish. For example. the number 1 indicates that you had a weak reaction to a particular Lie. The number 3 indicates neither a strong nor a weak reaction but somewhere in the middle. After your first reading wait at least one week and go over the Lies and your reactions again. choose a number from 1 to 5 to indicate the strength of your reaction. These reactions may indicate areas where personal 25 . Use your responses to build a journal around your moods and state of mind. This indicates that some fundamental "nerve" is undergoing transformation. Rate them again. Really get to know yourself. Rate the Lies when you are feeling strong.LIE ZERO The Tree of Lies To Take Joy In Yourself Is The Greatest Crime. Please keep in mind that it makes no difference that your reaction is positive or negative. Lies with ranks of (1) or (5) should be studied again and again. The number 5 indicates that you had a strong reaction to a particular Lie. I am only concerned about the strength of your reactions. Note in particular any Lie which has a change of 2 points or more. Rate them again when you are feeling weak.
thus explaining why he had. Who is its father? 1 W e a k 1 W e a k 2 3 4 2 3 4 5 Strong . knowing that most promises assume a constancy that doesn't exist in the real world. Hyatt. An example might be useful to demonstrate the idea of "personal benefit. For example. if you rated the second Lie (5). 5 Strong 4) The spiritual health of a man is diagnosable to the degree he relies on morality as an explanation for his actions. you become stronger and stronger. no matter how uncomfortable. This idea made him feel anxious. just so long as they are envied. in the past. how does your reaction benefit you? Does it help you avoid dealing with your desire to be seen or envied? Remember. 1 W e a k 2 3 4 5 Strong 7) The anatomy of the sexes is simple: women are all soul and men are all heels. Begin to ask yourself how you might benefit from your reactions." I have done my best not to steal any of these Lies and if in the future it is found that I am a thief let me now ask for forgiveness. built an entire morality on extracting promises from others and himself. Each phrase I utter unlocks the gates of heaven and hell The purpose of every Koan is to free you of all Koans I am—others are—life is? If you can answer these questions honestly you have discovered the fountain of change. W e a k 1 2 3 4 5 Strong 8) The desire for constancy is the mother of morality." Bill gave Lie number three a rank of (5). When you repeat your own personal Lies.D. The majority of the Lies presented below come from my own "self-talk. 5 Strong 2) Everyone desires to be seen. T H E LIES 1) My ultimate goal is to perish in the pursuit of myself." His second response was more to the point: he didn't like the feeling of insecurity he experienced. 27 work is required. 5 Strong 6) You know you have found the right answer if it first offends you. most people react from an unconscious and emotionally based "moral philosophy" which they have not explored in detail. he said he "didn't like it. Conversely.26 To Lie is Human Christophers. When he was asked why. W e a k 1 2 3 4 1 W e a k 2 3 4 5 Strong 3) Every promise is a lie. each time you get to the roots of your Lies. W e a k 1 2 3 4 1 W e a k 2 3 4 5 Strong 5) Religious freedom is an oxymoron." The "parties" involved in these internal conversations have been influenced by many "outsiders. think about their origin or the purpose they serve. Ph.
1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 17) What I pray for most is a fit God to worship. 9) The father of the lie is childhood.Christophers. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 16) Only a man who can choose from whom he receives applause is worth applauding. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 11) Shame is admitting that we desire applause from people we despise. 1 2 3 Weak 4 29 5 Strong 10) What teeth are to a tiger deception is to women and children. 1 2 3 4 Weak 5 Strong . 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 14) Just because men are similar doesn't mean that they are the same.D. Hyatt. You have to be born into it. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 12) The ultimate price for male superiority is femininity. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 15) Teach nothing to anyone unless you're willing to suffer from it later. Deception is always the price of slavery. Ph. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 13) There is no easy way to become ordinary.
however. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong Weak S 19) There is nothing like a footnote to give a fool a place to stand. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 31) If you desire to be raved about never ask anyone to do it unless you pay them. 31 18) The value of a shepherd is determined by his flock.D. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong . 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 30) No other animal on this planet is so desperate for something to compare himself to that he invented god.S. Constitution can be ruined by bad company. 1 2 3 4 Weak 33) There are no paradoxes in nature. 1 2 3 4 S t r o n 5 28) Who can worship a God who knows His next Move? 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 29) Those desperate for applause can never hear it. it is not sufficient. 1 2 3 4 S t r o n 5 Weak S 23) The sins of the father are heaped on the son by way of the mother. 1 2 3 4 S t r o n 5 Weak § 22) Morality allows the exploited the opportunity to feel noble. Hyatt. no leader is worthy of envy. 1 2 3 4 S t r o n 5 32) Self acceptance is based on self contempt. 1 2 3 Weak 4 Weak § 24) The best way to measure a man is to give him what he wants. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong 5 Strong 5 Strong Weak S 21) We are all asked to participate in the same crimes. In addition to pain. Thus. This we call law. 1 2 3 4 S t r o n 5 Weak § 25) Punishment is a crutch which morality must endure. Ph. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak g S t r o n 34) When I compare myself to another man I am either feeling superior or searching for justice. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong 5 Weak g 20) Even a brilliant idea like the U.30 To Lie is Human Christophers. what is necessary is the victim's consent that it is justified. 1 2 3 4 S t r o n 5 26) Pain is a necessary condition of punishment. 1 2 3 4 S t r o n 27) The most humane thing to do for a dying man is to convince him that he served a noble purpose.
Hyatt Ph. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 45) The question. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 43) When I am feeling strong I have no need to ask questions of myself. What is that lie? A) That truth is necessary and B) That a description is an explanation. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 41) Morality soothes the pain of life by providing the victim with a sense of superiority. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 38) To name someone is to claim them. MJRy AOT i oF MEN HAVE BEEN 33 35) What is the relationship between morality and orality? The mouth. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 36) The belief in truth began with a lie. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 44) The majority of men have been dealt cards to a game which they do not know how to play. "What future can we expect?" is a guarantee that the future is not possible. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong . 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 37) You know nothing unless you can apply it. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 39) What does a sheep know of wool? 1 2 3 Weak 4 5 Strong DEALT CARDS DO NOT KNOW To A GAME THey HOW TO PLAY 40) Do not fear the serpent who needs to bite more than once. thus the power of parenthood. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 42) There is a fine balance between people feeling grateful or contemptuous when in the presence of someone they regard as superior.D.32 To Lie is Human THE Christophers.
Why? It sends them to the unemployment line. 1 Weak 2 3 4 35 5 S t r o n g 46) I am angered that anyone from the Mid-West thinks they understand those of us who live on the edge. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 51) The stupid and the brilliant believe they are the standard for everything: thus my fear of democracy. 1 2 3 4 Weak 59) One thing which makes man different from animals is he is forever comparing himself to his inventions and finds himself wanting. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 strong 57) There is no issue until you propose one. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 56) The fool. the next one is always heresy. We know who is on his left side but who is on his right? 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 strong 61) Men flock together to protect themselves from wolves. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 50) Knowledge is the original sin for the priest and the politician. Ph. the priest and the bureaucrat are fascinated with averages. 1 2 Weak 3 4 5 Strong 5 58) Concepts are like helium balloons. Hyatt. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 strong 62) Whether there are two choices or a hundred. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 54) Lies are closer to the point than truth. of course. they float Strong higher and higher until they shrivel and fall.34 To Lie is Human Christophers. it is. 1 W e a 2 ^ 3 4 5 Strong . 55) Everything I despise is a statement of my esteem.D. never realizing that their greatest enemy is the shepherd and the flock. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 52) Never trust a man shuffling without a full deck. They convey what someone is trying to hide. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 49) There is only one universal social law—obedience. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 47) Why are people so terrified of strangers? Most have forgotten that they were raised by two of them. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 strong 60) Man is the missing link. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 53) In order for an inequitable system to survive it must be believed to be ordained by God: which. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 48) The best cure for misery is to learn to endure pain.
1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 66) Credit.To Lie is Human 63) It is up to each person to decide to whom he owes the truth. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 67) To believe that pain can be avoided not only causes misery. Hyatt Ph. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 70) To believe that love is more than proximity is to deny the reality of war and adultery. but makes you weak. Thus all morality relies on the sense of smell. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 65) In order for an inequitable system to survive it must be believed that most people will turn their heads away.D. Alcohol and Christianity—three legal drugs in America. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong . Christophers. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 69) A humanist is one who cannot tolerate being violated without advance notice. 37 64) By pulling the leaves off a tree you won't expose its roots. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 68) Everyone who claims that he is an altruist is guilty of counterfeiting.
79) Capitalism works for those with capital.D. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 74) Who can love a God who pities and loathes his finest creation? 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 75) Morality is sowed at the Breast and reaped on the Body. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 strong 86) The greatest danger to a budding genius is the middle class who are pulling him up by their boot straps. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 77) The only difference between hiring a thug or a lawyer to settle your affairs is of the senses. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 72) To reproduce is the only imperative. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 76) Every plan assumes constancy: thus the belief in progress. Hyatt. 1 Weak 1 Weak 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 strong 5 Strong 5 Strong 73) What most people want guaranteed is poison to a hardy soul. Thus.38 To Lie is Human 1 Weak 2 Christophers. 2 3 4 83) Beware of the man who claims to be free. Ph. 1 2 3 Weak 4 5 Strong 80) Freedom of the press belongs to those who own a press. The final payment for this insurance policy is slavery. 2 3 4 82) To be in awe of Life is the only true religion. one is unsightly and the other smells. He is about to commit suicide. 3 4 39 5 strong 71) It is amazing how biology transforms itself into philosophy. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong 84) The entire base on which Western Civilization and its religious humanism rests is the prevention of pain and the guarantee. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 81) Justice belongs to those who make the scales. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong 85) The value of a man's word or for that matter a government's currency are determined by how well they can tolerate uncertainty. weak currency and fascism sleep in the same bed. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 78) When someone tells you that they trust you be on guard. you are soon to be violated. 2 3 4 5 Weak strong 1 .
Hyatt. what might the next lesson be? 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 91) In order to understand Hitler you simply have to understand your neighbor. thus. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 97) Like sleeping pills most opinions are designed to put the user to sleep. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 94) If the weak and helpless didn't exist lawyers and politicians would invent them. Thus. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 93) Justice for the man in the street is simply someone to blame for his most recent discomfort. Ph. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 96) The ultimate goal of Christianity and Socialism is: Earth as Asylum. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 98) The halls of divorce courts are paved with high hopes. What claims do any of these have on human decency? 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 99) Civilization is nothing more than a disguised form of genocide. How else could the middle class be exploited? 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 95) For most men the veil between opinion and hope is opaque. yourself. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 89) To respect a man's opinion is to simply acknowledge that he had a mother. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 92) Laws allow lawyers to send their sons to Harvard while yours go to City College.D.40 To Lie is Human Christophers. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 88) My greatest pain? When a woman rejects me for God. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 100) The criminal is indispensable to a society dominated by the politician. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong . 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 90) It is now obvious that Hitler was unsuccessful in awakening us to the horrors of which normal men are capable. romantic feelings and promises. the need for pity and bureaucracy. My next greatest pain? When a man rejects me because I am Godly. or for that matter. if we believe in progress. 4J_ 87) A man who learns how to benefit from pain and adversity becomes stronger and stronger.
42 To Lie is Human Christophers. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 106) When someone says. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 104) Once you give something a name you have made it public and all at once everybody thinks they know what you mean. has given us the atomic bomb and the electric chair." means "I need to say something." 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 108) Expect everything and nothing from everyone. 4_3 101) Where Christianity goes. however. Science. Hyatt Ph. This way you will not be disappointed: you will just be alive. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 103) Just because you find a fly in the ointment doesn't mean it won't soothe your wounds. If you cannot tolerate disappointment you cannot tolerate life. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 107) Saying "I hear you. "it's your problem" it means that they can't bear their own.D. the Hangman follows. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong . 1 Weak 2 3 4 S t r o n 5 g 102) Those who need to trust are either infants or cowards. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 105) When someone is in pain over your decision—blame them.
1 W e a k 2 3 4 5 Strong . 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 116) Like a beggar. and like a beggar get up early. write and communicate are the basis of consciousness and slavery. There are even fewer of us who do not turn necessity into free will. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 115) Man cannot claim to be an animal: they couldn't stomach him. 1 Weak 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 S t r o n g 117) Most questions are the intrusions of a coward. 2 3 4 5 strong 118) What makes man different from other animals? No other species can create concepts which enslave them. If this is true. 45 109) If you need to trust others you lack confidence in yourself.44 To Lie is Human Christophers. 2 3 4 122) Self reliance is the enemy of all men in power. We can blame human misery for the philosophies which condemn man's survival instinct. 1 Weak 1 Weak 1 2 3 4 5 strong 5 strong 5 strong 121) The system works if you benefit from it. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 110) There is nothing more dangerous than a person who believes he is independent. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 112) Ethics and justice were created to expedite dealings between equally greedy and powerful people. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 strong 119) The need to verbalize. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 114) We cannot blame the survival instinct for human misery. what is the common man doing with it? Taking revenge on his enemies! 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 113) I have been fooled the most by people who have helped me. Hyatt Ph. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 strong 120) There are very few of us who do not turn our habits into virtues. Weak 2 3 4 123) We only create moralities. Man cannot claim to be a God: they have already excreted him. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 111) Fine philosophies reflect more the need to feel good than how anyone has lived their lives. learn to ask.D. ethics and philosophies when we are out of touch with our instincts.
1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 129) It takes a special kind of species to substitute pen and ink for blood and get better results. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 127) When people are strong they can enjoy each other. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 135) Death has no fear of man.46 To Lie is Human Christophers. When they are weak they simply resent each other. 1 2 3 Weak 4 5 Strong 5 Strong 138) What would you call a man who creates Gods and then claims they deceived him? Ordinary. Now you know why I live in shame. Hyatt. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 136) Believing in good and evil is cynicism. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 128) I am always amused by those who claim to love mankind. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 139) What would you call a man who charges for his services and mistrusts you because you charge more for yours? Ordinary. they are forever figuring out new ways to enslave him. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 132) Constancy and predictability are illusions required by other people. The proof of this is the time he spends appearing confident. 47 124) Man lives in constant terror of death. Ph. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 125) Never believe your own marketing plan. 1 2 3 4 Weak 5 Strong 126) I can guarantee nothing.D. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 133) I pity women who believe that in order to be free they have to imitate men. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong . 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 131) If men were not guilty of crimes against women they wouldn't have difficulty in saying "no" to them without asserting their maleness. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 134) The stronger the State the weaker the culture. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 130) I am defined by those I look up to and by those I look down on. it simply wants to avoid him for as long as possible. 1 2 3 4 Weak 137) The brotherhood of man is death.
yet everyone is drunk on it.48 To Lie is Human Christophers. 1 Weak 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 strong 5 strong 151) Recession is nothing more than indecision. Hyatt Ph. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 141) An inferior man is one who needs to know why you like him. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 142) A l l arguments are simply disagreements on who needs more attention. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong 149) Inflation is the result of getting others to pay for your sins. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 144) The more rules a person needs in order to live. the weaker the person. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong 150) Depression is the result of paying for someone else's sins. 1 W e a k 2 3 4 5 Strong . 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 146) Without morality deception and truth-telling are unnecessary. He then decides whether he is deceiving you or you are deceiving him. This is the mystery of language. "you get nothing for nothing. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 147) The illusion that we understand each other is created by making the unique common.D. Extraordinary men shudder at the thought of being a standard for anything. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 143) The worst pain I have seen is when an extraordinary man desires to be ordinary." 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 strong 153) Language has the uncanny ability of distilling the spirit out of life. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong T H E ECONOMICS OF SIN 148) What would it take for one Christian to pay off all his debts? The bankruptcy of the world. 2 3 4 152) It is often said by conservatives that in life." Rarely does anyone tell you that it is often more true that you get "nothing for something. 49 140) Ordinary men are the standard for all things. Might this also apply to Nations? 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 145) Man is at his best when he is actively striving not to be man.
1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 159) If you need to be forgiven you will steal again. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 158) To take pride in serving as a well-dressed function is the ultimate goal of the middle class. the latter out of lust. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 160) The ego is the self-reflective part of us which has the power to make alterations in someone else's plans. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 162) The ego and the body are one.D. } W e 2 * 3 4 5 Strong . 51 154) The word "I" refers more to a hope than a reality. Hyatt Ph. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 156) The ego is the part of us which makes promises which the rest of the body can't pay for. THEN you WILL STEAL AGAIN 164) Some men are forever turning others into resources and claiming that they are seeking friendship.50 To Lie is Human Christophers. The first is born out of hope. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 155) In America even authenticity is a means to an end. one is a liar. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 157) There are no hierarchies in nature: only relationships. 1 W e a k 2 3 4 5 Strong IF YOU NEED TO BE FORGIVEN. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 161) If you wait around to be validated you will wait a long time. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 163) Everything becomes less important after I have obtained it.
forgive them for believing that they do know what they do. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 176) To feel obligated to another is to negate their true will. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 169) To regret a decision is to believe that you already knew the future. Why? You have divided falsely. He is serving something he loathes and soon you will pay his debt. fear is your next step. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 167) Only a few people can truly give without feeling taken from. The solution? Learn multiplication. 53 165) America died when it made heroism illegal. Ph. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 175) When you place someone before you. 1 2 3 4 Weak 166) A weak leader needs many rules. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 174) If I showed you my enemies you would not respect me. The reason? Their fullness pains them. 1 2 3 4 Weak 179) Saving face bears no interest. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 177) People like people who make them feel good. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 170) I have never met a man with tenure that I liked. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 173) Self-hate is the highest form of egotism.52 To Lie is Human 5 Strong Christophers. 1 2 3 4 Weak 178) Grateful people will surely pay you back. they rarely trust them. however. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 168) Never trust a god or a man who claims he has made a sacrifice. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 171) Next to the priest. the professional and his wife live off the pain they have created. And a weak Nation needs many leaders. Hyatt. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong .D. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong 5 Strong 5 Strong 180) Never forgive someone for not knowing what they do. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 172) The greatest weakness is the demand to be considered by others.
1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 188) Hedonism and Puritanism sleep in the same bed. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 184) A man who needs to be trusted doubts himself more than anyone else. Thus. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 194) It is amazing how far we have come while knowing so little.54 To Lie is Human Christophers. What's next? 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 1 . Hyatt. 55 181) The inferior man's method of extracting consideration is always at someone else's expense. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 183) Man is so self-centered that he spends more than half of his life resenting others and the other half resenting himself. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 193) What scares me most about humans is the belief that they are. You have to do it every time you meet. Why? Both wish to be free of the pains of life. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 185) Simply because you can predict or control an event doesn't mean you understand it. but simply frustrations. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 186) I have neither plans nor goals. When that failed he tried science. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 189) Labels are a hypnotic. one in this world and the other in the next.D." 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 191) It will be horrifying to find out that our greatest philosophies are the result of a constipation. both are life negative. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 187) To believe in opposites is to ignore differences. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 190) The tools of a politician and a car salesman are the same: fear. Ph. It is even more amazing how little we have changed while believing that we know so much. they delude you into believing that whatever was scaring you is now under your control. When that failed he tried religion. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 195) It has been said that man first believed in the powers of magic. greed and the "guarantee. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 182) Forgiveness is like a handshake. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 192) If you wish to understand how history is made observe how you live.
Hyatt. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong . Religion holds that only God knows the truth and that man must plead with God to spare him from it. 1 2 3 4 Weak 5 Strong 5 S t r o n g 202) A man willing to argue at the drop of a hat is a man in need of constant reassurance. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 197) Religion opposes both magic and science. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 200) Peace is for the dead. Ph.D. 204) Does a true skeptic leave a place for truth? 1 Weak 2 3 4 57 196) Man's attraction to ritual magic and science is the belief that he can discover the truth and manipulate it according to his will. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 198) My greatest "altruistic" acts have been the result of instinct. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 203) Those who have the power to define have all power. One of these is a lie. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 199) Equality is the vision of a man frustrated by the breast of his mother.56 To Lie is Human Christophers. Is this the fifth lie? 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 201) I only trust myself when I am silent. strife is for the foolish and tranquillity is for the wise.
59 205) Every judgment is simply the result of a value system held in place by violence. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 214) Is it a coincidence that life improves with the loss of memory? 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong 208) If a man could have every desire gratified instantaneously he would be a horror to behold. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 212) Every blessing becomes a curse. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 209) What makes the law legal? Guns.D. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 216) Justice and causality are the drugs of choice for insomnia. Thus it is possible for one vote to decide an election. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 217) The American economy should thank God for Newton's law of inertia. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong 210) Man has the uncanny ability to make accident and necessity into a choice. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 218) It takes little more than silence to make most men tremble. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 211) You will die—unless science says differently. Is there any significance to this? 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong . but rarely does a curse have the potential of becoming a blessing. 1 2 3 Weak 4 5 Strong 213) The trouble with asking a man to rely on his experience is similar to asking a caterpillar to fly: you have to rely on metamorphosis.58 To Lie is Human Christophers. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 206) How can you claim that men are equal in the eyes of God and claim that God exists? 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 207) Reason is the whore of desire. Hyatt Ph. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong 219) In a democracy each opposing vote cancels each other out. 1 2 3 Weak 4 5 Strong 215) Who requires the belief that they are in control? Someone who is not in charge.
1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 225) The only way you can take daily life seriously is to suffer from a bad memory. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 228) Only Gods and men are foolish enough to make promises. Hyatt. every lie. Ph. The balance are simply consumers who believe that they have the right to the creator's genius. 1 Weak 1 2 3 4 5 strong 5 Strong 233) A lawyer is a moral bulimic. Thus. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 224) The type of solution proposed by government to remedy a problem exposes the depravity and ignorance of its citizenry. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 223) Only those who have failed to live need to have virtues. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 227) I would much prefer to be murdered with passion than killed by a briefcase. They are the ones who are fearful of starving or living in the street. Man is the only creature who believes that it is a conscious choice. 1 Weak 2 3 4 5 Strong 231) Every living thing on the planet is compelled to reproduce itself. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 229) I have been asked over and over again who are the weak of the world. They are not the ones starving or the ones living in the street. every deception is reflected in the body. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 230) The middle class are those who think they have a lot to protect and believe they have the right to rely on someone else to protect it for them. we can war against flies and pills. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 232) Less then 1% of the world's population are creators. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 222) As I get weaker I have less and less to prove and more and more to show for it. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 221) No one can hide anything. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 226) Greedy men have a difficult time in overcoming a first impression. 2 3 k W e a 4 .D.60 To Lie is Human Christophers. 61 220) Self-importance can be defined as building a giant fortress believing that its size is keeping others away rather than their lack of interest.
Ph. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 237) A man with nothing left to lose has everything to gain. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 239) Once this book is published it will be on its own— you will only know it by its smell. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 238) Only men require women to be unfathomable. Hyatt. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 240) What is dirty about the word power? Its conditionality. Power can only be beautiful when it is unconditional— dependent on no one.D. 63 234) Class is the ability to treat your servants with an air of kindness and respect. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak S t r o n g 235) The types of criminals a society creates betrays the depth of its virtue. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 241) Heroism is for the survivors.62 To Lie is Human Christophers. its dependence on others assent to it by their weakness. I am even more overwhelmed by people who have no sense of accident. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 236) I am overwhelmed by people who have no sense of history. 1 2 3 Weak 1 A LAWYER IS A MORAL BULIMIC 4 5 Strong 5 Strong 242) Every man is immortal until his mother dies. 2 3 4 Weak .
1 2 3 Weak 244) Our body is incapable of doing what our mind desires. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 249) When you lack purpose you will either become an optimist or pessimist.D. But most individuals have not followed the instructions to rank each one. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES . 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong Some individuals have read these Lies and laughed. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 246) One of the distinguishing characteristics of pride is death. Ph. Did you? If you follow the instructions and come back to your responses in a few days you will begin to see how your reactions have changed. Only those who live from the belly CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF BOTH ENDS 65 243) Mourning is only for living. If you know yourself. you know what everybody else is "hiding. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 245) While the body dies only the ego is preoccupied with death. others have read them and cried: some have liked a few while others have liked a lot of them. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 247) There are no secrets. 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 250) When death is conquered only then will we be more than animals." 1 2 3 4 5 Weak Strong 248) The truth is simple—everything IS as perfect as it can be for a species such as this. Hyatt. Your reactions will tell you where you stand and why you stand there. This procedure will provide an opportunity to know yourself better.64 To Lie is Human 4 5 Strong Christophers.
.A SYSTEM There is no better way to learn than by doing. we assert. NERVEENA T H E FOUR SUPREME TRUTHS 1» A l l is Joy 2* The Origin of Joy Is Division 3» Joy is the Result of Union 4» The Infinite Fold Path Leads to Joy 1« A l l is Joy 2* The Origin of Joy Is Division 3« Joy is the Result of Union 4» The Infinite Fold Path Leads to Joy 1* A l l is Joy 2» The Origin of Joy Is Division 3» Joy is the Result of Union 4» The Infinite Fold Path Leads to Joy 1* A l l is Joy 2* The Origin of Joy Is Division 3» Joy is the Result of Union 4» The Infinite Fold Path Leads to Joy If you are not yet convinced..THE FIRST LESSON IN LYING The Way To Learn To Lie Is To Assert AND SO. Or.. First. WE START WITH. better yet." 67 . so come into the process of making the lie. just go to your computer and push "PASTE. simply assert this louder and louder..
2. Pity is Disrespect.) Then a part of the brain uses language to communicate the scene to itself and others. 12. The brain does not experience the actor—the act—the object. Action is the only Sacrament. Jack did not fall down the hill. There is a series of words which have 8 letters which gives the whole "gag" away. A l l particles come together in love yet remain separate. Take Great Risks. the media has become the message. Or more 1 simply Love Under Will. Turn every obstacle into your advantage. A l l things are unequal thus everything is in harmony. Communication is always—the black mirror. Hence. The tropistic formula is the message. 6. Our motto: Sin often. If we wish to survive with dignity the message must remain the message. Nothing is Good Enough for Me. If you practice this formula everyday for a year you will become one of the first humans on this planet. Every Hebrew letter is also associated with a numeric value. Be Willful and Deliberate 13. Suffer only in action. 3. Discharge (Vau). The method of communication is not the scene: K i l l the Zombie. Worship the Chameleon. Everyone is the Center of the World. Do not Lament over Division. It experiences the whole scene. 8. Heh. We have been taught to respond to the language (the media) rather than the message. Tsaddi. . 1 Y o d Heh Vau and Heh (IHVH) are the Hebrew letters which represent the secret name of God in the system of mysticisim known as Oaballah. 10. Mem = Tree of Life. Sally did not see Spot run. 4. unless of course you have substituted language for your heart and guts. Yod. Kill the media. Nothing is hidden in language. (This includes filling in what led up to the scene and what will happen afterwards. Cheth. 5. There is no intrinsic wisdom in language. Yod. words which "add up" to the same numeric value are associated with each other. Charge (Heh). 11. The application of this formula leads to: Nerveena— however Nerveena is Active and Passive.) Unfortunately. 15. memorize the following and apply it everyday: (T)-tension-(C)-charge-(D)-discharge-(R)-relaxation = 233: Ayin." T H E SUPREME PATH 1. The study of the most divine formula of TCDR proves the point: All that man can know is known through his Nerves. Have Great Desires. The key to myth is that by its use you can make slaves. To make images—to imagine—is Sin. at this point we must be very careful. Through the mechanism oi Gematria. 14. Now... Learn Silence. the act and the object are only devices.D. Choose well—between a beautiful woman or God. Communication is always tense. Now 233 reduces to the number 8 meaning in Hebrew To Will and the Hebrew word for Pleasures of Love. They are—it is as if These 8 letters can change the whole world. Communication is always—the other. The actor.68 To Lie is Human Christophers. 7. and Relaxation (Heh). Do not let the Zombie—stand in the way of your brain. 9. From this comes the word Jehovah. Hyatt Ph. into the "system. Joy and Love are enemies of I H V H . (John did not go to the store. 69 And now. Life cannot be expressed by the subject-verb-predicate— myth. The communication of the scene is responded to as if it were the experience of the scene. self as other. There is no death— only orgasm. The Formula of Love is Tension (Yod ).
" The most critical lies were told about you when you had minimal critical faculties—when you were young. No one knows what humans are and no one knows what humans should be—without God there is no standard. Anytime anyone said anything about you they lied. you have been made. They are shallow and academic. Others only know what appears on their "computer screen. They are lies that live in the body and are later reinforced by words." You only know what appears on your "computer screen. — Hyatt. These models are 71 . we are all the monster. This does not mean that consistency and logic exist in the scene in the way lan(gauge) has presented it. These are non-verbal lies. The States. We call these scripts "traditions. This is your chance—to be Zombie or not. They lack power and inspiration. " A l l likes are alike —is true. Your Parents or. More powerful lies were "performed on you" before you even knew about lies. 1977 The worst lies ever told have been about you. System building is fun—whether it is true or not is of no importance. For example. Like a coffin they contain only the withering remains. Sooner or later the group becomes simply form. If you have understood what I have just written you have missed the point. Once the leader is gone his spirit does not remain for long. Like Frankenstein's creature." But no-thing is like any-thing.70 To Lie is Human With lan(gauge) we establish logic and consistency. System building (organized lying) applies to all groups which spring up around dead men. Thus. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIE ONE A N D ONE/HALF The Worst Lies Of All Are About YouYour Mind Belongs To The Priests If you wish to be loved Dare not put your will before Gods. Non-verbal lies are the building blocks that allowed other People to build models of you. you are not inherently your experiences or conclusions. These are the scripts others wrote for you. look at the groups which have followed in the footsteps of Nietzsche and Crowley. for that matter. worshipping petty rules and regulations. talking to a person who feels unloved. Anyone. No one can truly know anything about you—including yourself." While it is difficult to know otherwise. Note: here the word true can only be referring to consistency.
These conclusions about self are without independent existence. we find ourselves arranging these experiences into pre-existing models that have been implanted in our head. a model is difficult to remove because it has become associated with the feeling component. An unpleasant experience is compounded by an unpleasant conclusion.defined by other people's subjective needs and . The first experience is wholistic. Our salvation. Therefore. Not only are these models difficult to change. the second is a combination of past models. As feeling cannot be completely denied. A l l conclusions (generalities) based on specific experiences are lies. The feeling components of these two experiences can become indistinguishable. This further "proves" to the person the validity of the model.72 To Lie is Human Christophers. desires—tell us more about other people's needs then our own-self. you know that the experience is being upheld by a model which has meta- A l l humans interpret events in terms of metaphysical models. and anxiety. The notion of a metaphysical self that is either good or evil-. attribution needs. When repeated long enough they appear true. Models can't be made to coincide with positive thoughts because of the simple fact that "bad" things happen no matter what thoughts a person has. Since bad and good things will still happen regardless of what we do. A pleasant experience is compounded by a pleasant conclusion. The solution to this is simple—-accept bad experiences without having to have an explanation or a conclusion. "Positive thinking" cannot be effective unless the underlying metaphysical "feeling" models are in accordance with the positive thoughts. the model often becomes independent of further experience and "causes" the feeling. Although thoughts do not "cause" feelings they do elicit them. 73 the basis of all self-fulfilling prophecies. yet they deeply affect how we interpret the world and ourselves. the models which interpret the meaning of the feeling also cannot be denied." At a minimum there are two levels of experience which are confused by almost everyone: direct experience—like a brick falling on your head—and the interpretive conclusion of the event. Models run on automatic. If the unpleasant feelings do ot disappear within a short period of time. "I don't know. Hyatt. We have all been molded of clay. We can save ourselves by saying. Ph.D. however. is at hand. We are all handicapped by our traditions and conclusions.
This is fine. Almost everything people believe as grownups consists of lies they were told as children.74 To Lie is Human Christophers. Every individual is superior to any disembodied concept used to describe him. For example. 75 physical implications about your self-worth and your competency in the world. are the common drugs of the masses—they are a poor substitute for a strong stomach and a good right hand. Like justice. things are not so simple. Children are the primary victims of these lies. Others have only affirmation or non-affirmation possibilities. Not only are they told lies time and time again. As a species we have not easily learned to think contextually or probabilistically—instead we think in discrete categories. since both groups (and the mixed group) are simply Zombies of a different flavor. by a process of elimination. Other individuals flip/flop between high affirmation and high damnation. the next they are nothing. A strong feeling or emotion about one event can bring a whole array of other thoughts and feelings into awareness. Every conclusion is a lie. Nothing is ever over with and nothing is ever put to rest—things linger. Model building is an exciting activity. alternating fashion when responding to specific behaviors. note that my conclusion about conclusions is at a different level of abstraction—a meta-level. disregarding context and time. they make them up. One moment they are everything." This division is false. Generalities about self and life give us an illusion of security regardless of the error and misery they cause us.) Logic asserts that like cases are alike. Nothing ever damns them. Culture is nothing more than agreed upon lies. Nothing ever affirms them. Metaphysical damnation. since I give the individual priority over any and all concepts. I say superior. We generalize these models to the universe at large. Every event feeds one or the other metaphysical notion—damnation or affirmation. as well as metaphysical affirmation. even though the model may be in error and we still don't have what we want. This is frequently associated with parents who used all-or-nothing metaphysical statements in a confused. Hyatt. The latter group is frequently regarded as "normal. the metaphysics of personhood is nonsense—serving. This causes no end of grief.. We hold on to these models even when we know cognitively that they are flawed. Ph. When we have a model—any model—we feel better. (If you sense a contradiction in this statement. A failure in the present can bring forth an array of failures of the past. not superior and inferior. Some people only have damnation or non-damnation possibilities. to come up with the one right answer. the models we build as children are too personal. however. our attempt to prevent "bad" experiences is futile. It has also led to what we now call "civilization"—which is nothing more than organized cowardice and laziness. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES . The very fact that we are alive is somehow seen as proof that these models are valid. we have a difficult time coping with disappointment when we don't have a satisfactory model to explain it. Most people would rather "understand" than live. like justice." while the former group is frequently regarded as "pathological.D. However. It is this desire which has led to the worst dictatorships in history. an illusion to quiet the souls of those who have to label themselves and others metaphysically to reduce anxiety and feel at peace. but in reality there are no "like cases." We only assume like cases for convenience. In open systems logic fails—and rightfully so. Logic applies to closed systems that allow us. While all too human. No rule is greater than the context which violates it.
2. and is from the Body. A l l Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors: 1. is alone from the Body. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. do so because theirs is weak 77 . Those who restrain desire. heaven and hell. are necessary to Human existence. call'd E v i l . and that Reason.. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil.. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul .. is alone from the Soul. Evil is the active springing from Energy. call'd Good.of Energy 3. That Man has two real existing principles: V i z . reason and energy. 3. 2. .. and Reason is the bound.LIE T W O Joy Is Your Duty? Your Body Belongs To The Priests Are men living at all? Blake shows us how he has described the world with language. That Energy. Reason and Energy. : a Body and a Soul. Love and Hate. yet does he understand that language is simply lan(gauge)?—the thickness of the tongue? How can we gauge Blake's understanding? By how he lived his life? THE LIFE FORCE Without Contraries there is no progression. Energy is Eternal Delight. Attraction and Repulsion. Energy is the only life. But the following Contraries to these are True: 1. we find such words as hate and love.. His word-smithing goes unsurpassed.
only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold.. But to have lived with him would have been better: that is. Socrates or Napoleon as examples of "giving style" to oneself. even when they have to build palaces and lay out gardens. Here a large mass of second nature has been added. but to separate them. The Mysteries DO YOU R E A L L Y WANT THIS BODY? We "live" in . Conversely. Self-style is self-discipline and not obedience. These two classes of men are always upon earth.. there it has been reinterpreted and made sublime.. Sorrows bring forth. labor.. they demur at giving nature a free hand. His ability to convey what he has observed has yet to be surpassed. One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression...they hate to serve.D.. Note: Jesus Christ did not wish to unite. Yet we are checked and thwarted on each side By the world's flux and swept along like sand: In this internal storm and outward tide We hear a promise.. — William Blake... breeds pestilence.' Opposition is True Friendship.. Thus we can destroy the mystery of masochism along with paradox and leave them and reason in the dust. 'Giving style' to one's character—a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason. Thus. Such spirits.. — Goethe. but a Sword. Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not! Exuberance is beauty. there a piece of original nature has been removed: both by long practice and daily ... One thing is needful. — From Hyatt's dream where he was killed. his freedom finds...and he says: i came not to send Peace.. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is always ready to revenge himself therefore... The reader should underline the phrase "law of their own" in the following piece. it is the weak characters without power over themselves who hate the constraint of style.." — Hyatt.. reacting physiologically to a college professor.. Who overcomes himself. The level of arousal is a function of internal states and external stimulation..78 To Lie is Human enough to be restrained. The entire world is set to respond from the traumas of the past.. Joys impregnate. — Nietzsche. Often he would use Goethe. and they should be enemies: whoever tries to reconcile them seeks to destroy existence.fantastic.. Religion is an endeavor to reconcile the two. and even weakness delights the eye. if you could have tolerated his habits. "You respond to contemporary events without awareness that your past rather than the present is the basis of your reactions. conquered and serving nature. Nietzsche provides us with a glimpse of the meaning of a self-artist. I pray with this truth that the Moolahs of the middle class—the hypocrite—shall perish from this earth. we others will be his victims.the most expedient form of terror...are always out to interpret themselves and their environment as free. For one thing is needful: that a human being attain his satisfaction with himself.. the passion of their tremendous will relents when confronted with stylized. Here the ugly that could not be removed is hidden. all contemporary situations are void of independence. someone who has made himself..only in this way do they please themselves.. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Christophers.. Hyatt Ph..arbitrary. The Gay Science 79 Goethe finds no difficulty in telling us simply what must be done. Most people are 'set' to respond to present situations based on their level of psycho-physiologic arousal. in such constraint and perfection under a law of their own. What is experienced as real is simply one's own level of arousal-tension and what is experienced as relief is whatever relieved the tension in the past. disorderly. What people 'choose' are those acts which don't push a familiar state of arousal beyond its normal pattern for too long.nature—wild. He who desires but acts not. A l l force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand. It will be the strong and domineering natures who enjoy their finest gaiety in such compulsion. hard to understand: From the compulsion that all creature binds..
People act exactly like animals when they drink. In simple language a society is a construction. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIE TWO AND ONE/HALF Responding To Metaphors Our society is an animal with the head of a camel and the rear of a lion. John acts like a bull in a china shop. When we speak in metaphor we convey feeling. These are all metaphors which attempt to describe what a person sees and what a person feels under certain conditions. To understand what we call a society we simply have to look at its fictions.80 To Lie is Human My nightmare freed me from thinking I could understand anyone without knowing their level of arousal and tolerance. When someone challenges us rationally we sometimes will slip into explanations to cover our asses. They are ideas that are associated with certain weak definitions and "personal" feelings. A society is really a group of cliches based on selected fictions. It does not have the same quality of "existence" as the individuals which make it up." "culture. Yet we respond to words with more intensity and feeling than we do to the sight of blood. spouting assertions gets people moving. culture and mind do not exist at the same level of concreteness as a swift kick in the ass. Success can be a killer. I felt like a limp rubber band. Like waving a flag. It freed me from my frequent observation that good things can and do cause bad things. I was freed from the binds of love and hate—greed and need—acceptance or rejection. I left my apartment feeling good—as the Zombie turns." and "mind" we believe we are speaking factually and not talking in metaphor. When we speak of society we speak of a set of assertions which are publicly shared. When we use such words as "society. The statements themselves are non-scientific. But before we study fictions in detail the first fiction we are told is that a particular set of fictions are not fictions. reaction and image. Society. 81 .
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As Americans our fictions are truths. Have you ever wondered why victims are sometimes blamed even more than the perpetrators? Well, the victim is the residue— proof of the imperfection of society's fictions. Fictions are solutions which don't work except as fictions. Most any set of fictions will do as long as it is accepted as non-fiction. Victims are fiction—failure. Thus, victims must be paid back for exposing the failure of the fiction. Fictions tell us what to do, what to think, how to behave and what to feel. So far so good. However, things are not as simple as that. Fictions are often complex and contradictory. " A l l men are equal." "Everyone is an individual." These are contradictory at face value. The way they become non-contradictory is by creating a new fiction. "Everyone has equal rights in the eyes of the law." Once we invent a new fiction we can keep the fiction that "Everyone is an individual." Once this is done we can all go back to sleep— or can we? Anyone with a mind (or experience) knows that everyone doesn't have "equal rights under the law." Everyone knows that due process is simply metaphysical jargon which refers to the act of processing—of form. (That is, in due time you will get yours.) It means nothing more. How about the fiction of punishment? Does anyone hear from the government unless they are about to be punished? Very rarely. How many pretty blue and pink cars do you see with beautiful men and women handing out free lottery tickets for driving safely? How many letters and phone calls do you get telling you that you did a good job? You only know about the government in bad times—your bad times. Why is it that you only need negative input? How come it is believed that you should rely on yourself and family for positive input? How come some people believe that people don't need input at all (except to be told that they are doing wrong—semiZombie.) Why doesn't the government give you a free
lottery ticket for paying your taxes early? Why, because there is no lottery. But we all know that positive reinforcement is dangerous—we will take advantage—we the people will... This example illustrates that fiction is really believed. Citizens will not obey unless threatened. That is the truth. Citizens and governments have dissimilar interests. You only require punishment when you have to make someone do something against their best interests. Positive feedback is the exception and not the rule. Even big business pays lip service to positive—authentic—feedback. Why is it that "no news means good news?" Is it simply a popular cliche? As fictions become greater in number and more and more of the fictions become known as fictions people become anxious and restless. When fictions begin to collapse new fictions are required to reduce the anxiety caused by the loss of older fictions. For example, today we have Satanists and drugs undermining our youth. The problem is never the original lie, but someone or something undermining the "perfect order." We never discuss the error of our fictions. A society is nothing more than a prescription for the human condition known as existential presence. The prescription is nowhere to be filled. There is no pharmacist. A l l we have are fictions to keep us safe. We have our humble beliefs and fantasies, our four walls and the sound of traffic. We strive day to day for the fulfillment of our hopes, each day evaluating our success—often by the fact that we survived. But the fictions go on! Quietly we work, age and die. In between we have our few pleasures, a feeling of strength from time to time. Most often we have the simple things to soothe the desperation of our soul. Our skin gets older, our belly fatter, our frame shorter, but we have our fictions to keep us warm. Every once in a while, we have fiction wars, battles paid for in blood to ''prove" whose fictions are blessed by God. But we do not
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have to wait for war—death is all around us everywhere. One thing a society does know for sure is to remove "the dead" as quickly as possible. Appearance is everything for fiction addicts. Today, in our modern world, we have introduced the fiction of addiction. Everything is addictive, including society. (One fiction upon another fiction.) What is not addictive? Living a normal life. What is that? Never substitute one need for another, always over-centralize, cope in constructive ways These fictions seem to get heavier and heavier. Every lie requires more lies. And society is the greatest lie. A normal life is satisfied with fictions and anonymity. It means saying one thing and doing another. It means that you are satisfied with very little. So normal people have a house, a partner who never dies, (then they become a widow(ER)), children who are never a problem, a job they go to everyday even though they hate it, a partner they sleep with even though they bore them. However, with all this "chosen" normality, more and more researchers are finding more and more people who are addicts or victims or perpetrators—or? As we go deeper and deeper into normality we find adulteries, drug fiends, alcoholics, bulimics, gamblers, criminals, sex fiends, child abusers, child sex abusers, pornography, nicotine and coffee addiction: sweet addictions, T V , music, relationship, family addictions, sports, animal addicts, human rights addicts, work addicts, food addicts, computer addicts, prescription drug addicts, religion addicts, sleepwalking addicts, shoppers, credit card junkies, etc. Most everyone is an addict and everything is an addiction. Most everyone is a victim, a perpetrator, or all of the above. If you do not have an addiction you are pathological. If you are not a victim you are left out. If you are not a perpetrator you must not be male. Well, let's be serious. What I am saying is that we are all being discovered—but the system and the Moolah still hold on to their fictions—
their history books—and of course the book of bad deeds— the bible. It is comforting to have something in your hand. I much prefer my... BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES
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In the late 1700's Goethe predicted that the planet Earth would become a nursing home. But before Goethe's quote Nietzsche says,
One has one's tiny pleasure for the day and one's tiny pleasure for the night—but one has a regard for health. One herd: each wants the same, each is the same—and whoever feels different goes voluntarily into an asylum.
Today's advertisements concerning mental health and addiction confirm Nietzsche's prophecy. The goal of the planet is to become a Nursing Home. Is this the " W i l l of Nature?" Why is it that most Utopias (including Hitler's Utopia) appeal to the weak and the lame? And why are there so many who wish for nothing more but relief? Is this what it takes to buy votes—a promise to do away with life? To kill the body and replace it with a computer chip? The way I wrote the first paragraph gives the impression that Nietzsche lived before Goethe. As a writer I must give the reader the impression that I am accurate. One error could destroy my credibility and make empty my hope to achieve immortality through my writings. Error allows the man secure in facts to criticize the man who is able to tolerate more rejection. Remember what V a i hinger said in 1911, "...the most expedient form of error." What Vaihinger meant by error was, of course, a distinction between "truth" and what makes it easier for "us" to survive: fictions. The Moolah calls every comfort a truth.
everyone is competent immediately. . Ph. To sum up. What came to mind is this: In a good nursing home everybody is pampered all the time. Hyatt. and everything is easy and without blood.D. I simply remembered the feeling it created in me. This accident took seven months to the day—after reading 313 pages. I think it true that humanity will triumph eventually. But before being judged too harshly remember what Nietzsche said about truth. The reader will immediately detect how my memory distorted Goethe's quote to fit my peculiar spirit. 1787. the inhabitants of the Nursing Home—an abortion of Egotism and Weakness—a new child has arrived in Bethlehem. "all truths are for me soaked in blood. At last I found the quote by accident—in two places. Having given up on finding Goethe's exact quote I began asking myself what are some of the qualities of a good nursing home. June 8. I believe this is a good description of the ideal nursing home as well as much of the philosophy of the New Age. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES 89 I confess—I have deceived my reader—I couldn't find Goethe's quote. Now for Goethe: Also." Does this mean that Nietzsche was blood thirsty? Or was he saying that all truth had to be suffered—lived—loved— made love with? Kill the Zombie and watch me bleed. I eagerly re-read Goethe's passage and compared it with my "memory. —from Goethe's letter to Frau von Stein.88 To Lie is Human Christophers." I was anxious to find out if someone would have discovered my error and punish me by publicly humiliating me. only I fear that at the same time the world will become a large hospital and each will become the other's humane nurse. I must say myself. everyone else is to blame for any unhappiness or frustration. This child has No-Body.
for this is not what he merits.... yet all the same he will deign to accept their honours... because the former is a mark of superiority and the latter of inferiority.. for no honour can be adequate to the merits of perfect virtue. but ashamed to receive them. He therefore to whom even honour is a small thing will be indifferent to other things as well..LIE FOUR i "A person is thought to be great-souled if he claims much and deserves much. Great honours accorded by persons of worth will afford [the great-souled man] pleasure in a moderate degree: he will feel he is receiving only what belongs to him. because they have no greater tribute to offer him. He is fond of conferring benefits... Honour rendered by common people and on trivial grounds he will utterly despise. He returns a ser97 . or even less. The truly great-souled man must be a good man. but most proud men have no good ground for their pride. Greatness of soul seems.. Hence great-souled men are thought to be haughty. He that claims less than he deserves is small-souled...a crowning ornament of all the virtues.... The great-souled man is justified in despising other people—his estimates are correct..
" Most everyone who has read Aristotle's brief on Great Men feels uneasy. but courteous towards those of moderate station.. Assertion: The better a man feels the less complex his models. Such then being the great-souled man. unless a friend. except when he deliberately intends to give offence. Look at what has been done to the whole brain model. This must be expected since their defenses are primitive. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIE FIVE The Model Is The Message The Model Is The Message—the image is devoid of fact. Why? The Greatest Revenge Is Success.not given to speaking evil himself. This type of "mind" does not even recognize that they are talking about a model. The whole brain model has 4 primary components. since concealment shows timidity. left limbic system. even of his enemies. Weak minded people say that there is a left brain and a right brain. A stronger person says... since to do so is slavish. What do I really mean by this? As a rule weaker people think primarily in discrete one dimensional binary terms. except when speaking with ironical self-depreciation. or only with reluctance.. since this will put the original benefactor into his debt in turn. but rather to overlook them. whereas they desire to be superior). He must be open both in love and in hate. the corresponding character on the side of deficiency is the smallsouled man. They are left cortex. and care more for the truth than for what people will think. The great-souled are said to have a good memory for any benefit they have conferred. He does not bear a grudge. and make him the party benefited.and to adopt a high manner with the former is not ill-bred. and right limbic system. The model(s)—paradigms—men use to tolerate their existential presence tells you more about them than the content of their message. The worse he feels the more complex his models.. The real question—do complex models explain more of reality than simple ones? Or is complexity a poor model for describing the issue of models? Or am I misusing the concept? What we need to look at is elegance. especially the wrongs they have done you. He is.. as he does to common people.." Which person is 93 .." And what might a vain man be? "Someone who deserves little and demands a lot... .he is outspoken and frank. "a model of the brain based on Herrmann's work consists of 4 factors and not 2. but to render aid willingly. and on that of excess the vain man. right cortex. It is also characteristic of the great-souled men never to ask help from others. He will be incapable of living at the will of another. The weaker a person the more binary his models.. for it is not a mark of greatness of soul to recall things against people.92 To Lie is Human vice done to him with interest.. a model of the brain is A stronger and more knowledgeable person says.. They are stuck in a fascistic state of mind. but it is vulgar to lord it over humble people. and to be haughty towards men of position and fortune. Trust more in a man's moods than in his thoughts. but a bad memory for those which they have received (since the recipient of a benefit is the inferior of his benefactor..
A whole brain person might be interested in the book. weakness and model complexity apply? If they do apply how do they apply? Or is my model simply based on poor observations and definitions? Which model of the brain will sell more books and to whom? This might help us understand my model better. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIE SIX Feudalism Everywhere If I have only one message to offer the world it is— Feudalism is alive and well—everywhere. but not believe it. Their tolerance for existential presence is low. A person high in mathematical ability and analytical reasoning would find the book a joke. Cowardice has become a virtue and elevated to a "moral necessity. The facts are that most of us live in a one dimensional. Complexity becomes a simple art form. What sells is the model—not the product. Politicians and advertisers rely on the fact that most people only respond from a yes/no matrix. As people become more complex they add maybe. Safety and security are the watchwords of the whitemiddle class—the wonder bread people. and how. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES 95 . Sooner or later they become organic and they look simple again. As they become more complex they add more and more factors. As the body becomes more and more an "object" the feudal lords will simply pull more and more pieces from it. I will predict that the two brain model will sell more books and the people who buy and believe it will be more right brain and less left brain. model discrete (yes/no) universe. Some people can even tolerate maybe." DEMOCRACY IS THE BEST FORM OF FEUDALISM (OWNERSHIP) EVER INVENTED. where. How many people can tolerate a multi-factor interacting model? Very few. It is cheaper to control everything the slave has and does and call it safety.94 To Lie is Human stronger? Which person is in a better mood? Do my assertions concerning moods. the Zombie people and their kids. This is too much for most people. IN THE END THERE WILL BE NO SACRED OR PROFANE—ONLY THE HARMLESS AND THE USEFUL. buy it. who. The Neo-Lord knows that it is not necessary to own the person. It would require that they specify conditions of when.
Lindner believed that rebellion was normal and not a pathology. long before the pioneer Dr. The purpose of psychology as practiced today is to make the person in trouble "passive." And this definition is fully in accord with Neo-Feudalism. depression and co-dependency. Timothy Leary published his Space Migration. He felt that in time both the public and the psychology profession would begin to believe that psychotherapy had more to offer than it did.LIE SEVEN Rebellion As Instinct Way back in 1952 Dr. His prediction has come true—unequivocally. Lindner was one of the first to directly warn that psychology would become a whore of the State and business. Robert Lindner was one of the first modern psychologist to suggest that rebellion was an instinct and as necessary as the sex instinct for the survival of the species. ignorance and mortality. Look at psychology today—with its ads for addictions. for humanity to realize its true potential. Lindner wrote this circa 1952. Compare this idea to the one held concerning adolescent rebellion not to mention the rebellion of adults who refuse to live the dead-end cowardly existence of the wonder bread class. it had to overcome the "triad of limitations": gravity. Increased Intelligence and Life Extension "goals" sometime in 1977 97 . He also felt that psychology had become part of the "plague" of adjustment. But Lindner's most important contribution was his statement that.
I found correspondence between Lindner and Regardie. Hyatt. Ph. But the question remains—what was I rebelling against? Was it discipline? Or was it the demand that I give up my body's knowledge of itself and the world for someone's slogan? I close this section with another quote from Lindner: "..98 To Lie is Human Christophers. Regardie's papers. In 1991.. Apparently. In fact Regardie was quite taken with Lindner's ideas. "Anything— thought or deed—which enables man to pierce the threesided cage described by the triad of limitations is intrinsically good. who said he had forgotten that he had it in his library and confessed that he had only "looked" at this book.the various psychotherapies have as their job the recovery of individuals and groups for evolution so that those whose lives would otherwise be wasted can also contribute toward the same end: the coming glorious breakthrough into. anything which prevents him from so doing is intrinsically bad. but I had never conceptualized it in just the way Lindner did.. Rebellion has always been a prime issue for me. the rascal Guru. His phrasing ("rebellion as instinct") seemed to hit me right where I lived.) Lindner also proposed a new morality." He felt that this "new morality" was completely incompatible with the morality of the Moolah and the wonder bread people. Israel Regardie. For those who do not understand these parasites let me say that they are the ones who claim to be serving higher principles when in fact they are simply serving themselves. (In reading the Lindner-Regardie letters in detail we found that they exchanged information on a topic which bothered Dr. Lindner complained that his book had been ignored. In essence they are cowards who seek power and status through conceptual deception.D.What?" 9 BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES .. Regardie until the day he died. New Falcon Publications. while looking over Dr. Regardie "forgot?" that he and Lindner had exchanged a number of letters. but simply didn't want to discuss the relationship since it brought up some unpleasant feelings.) Most great works go "unnoticed" particularly if they threaten the hypocrisy of the upper-middle and middle class parasite. I had borrowed Lindner's book from my dear friend and mentor Dr. 99 in Exo-Psychology (now revised and published as InfoPsychology. It appears that Regardie did not forget Lindner at all.
Then I read about Jesus who felt forsaken by God at the time of his greatest need. I learned that auditory symbols "cause" autonomic reactions (emotions) and were the fundamental basis of human behavior. As my arms drew Her to my chest I awoke from my dream holding my pillow. At that moment I knew that belief was even more horrible than truth. I tried and failed. Only Media Events The solution to fiction is always more fiction: thus god invented man to listen to his stories. I was told that I should tell the truth for "truths sake. A l l at once I realized that truth. As time went on I was told that to tell the truth in the hope of a reward meant that I was without moral fiber. belief.LIE EIGHT There Is No Reality." I concluded that Truth was a jealous and horrible God. I have been sworn "to tell the truth" We Owe Authority Everything I was told to tell the truth even when it meant punishment. and love were only sounds resonating in my pathetic brain. 101 . I abandoned truth and belief—and fell in Love. They had no reality but brain-reality.
Y o u see. I concluded that emotions could be made into "brain" walls simply by manipulating the sounds and symbols people respond to. What they received was a smile.D. Eyes clicked from left to right. The parent asserts—the child defends. I smiled again and walked away. We all claim superiority when we find a victim to suffer for us. Why is there so much interest and anxiety when someone makes an accusation? Our minds have been trained to tacitly accept an accusation as a truth." We are all guilty of not being Christ-like. Whoever accuses best wins. Who would want to accuse? Someone who is wronged. This did not suit them. Every assertion promotes fear. Regardless of how bright or intelligent. poor hearing. But the accusation became public. an artist or a philosopher. I became a man of the moment. "What an accusation!" I said to myself. the idea of "innocent until proven guilty" is only a principle—it is not organic. 703 Emotions convey a sense of solidness—a three-dimensionality to the brain—like a brick wall. regardless of how developed. the one claiming victimage elicits a response from the crowd. Each of us is guilty of knowing that every accusation is a negotiation strategy. Someone who didn't get what they "think" they deserved.702 To Lie is Human Christophers. Hatred and anger keeps empathy in check. This is what they wanted most of all—my reaction. I have learned to "choose" my fictions wisely. Our sins go unnoticed for awhile. bad eyes and an aging sex drive—has made me very unreliable. Thus. however. And we are taught that the best defense is a strong offense. We are taught to meet every accusation with a defense. Regardless. Thus. People mistook me for a Zen Master—until I yelled at them! My inherent lack of reliability is only balanced by an equal resolve to suffer eternally from every promise that a moment of joy or terror has caused me to make. We are all guilty of not living up to the images of our childhood. Every accusation is a lie. Many came to her defense. We have all wronged and been wronged. they accused me again. a man afflicted with moods. "It is him and not me. I turned away— presenting them with my ass. We react this way because of the structural relationship of parent and child. We are all guilty even after we are proven innocent. They waited for my reaction. Many had been waiting to have reason to torture someone else. The whole truth can't be seen lest we forgive everyone. we live in a world of accusation and counter-accusation. This is an example of how form is substituted for fact. Ph. When we hear an accusation our eyes light up. How to feel empathy and still kill? Be honest with yourself first. I hold out no desire to be saved at the moment of my cmci-fiction. After three times—they stopped accusing. I decided that I was either a saint. Humans are so weak that they require someone else to be guilty of the same things that they have done. The only truth left was that I was always lying. Know that everything is . After a month or two. we all suffer from our desire to extend ourselves in time by making promises—a horrible substitute for immortality. Thus. We feel safe when someone else is being punished. This awe/ful fact—a "bad" memory. They have. We wait for someone to punish. When someone says you wronged them—it is your duty to react and defend yourself. This time I again smiled and turned away. Yet. So what. They confronted me again. I once saw a woman who later accused me of not being kind or understanding. Hyatt. many of us feel that the guilty party has gotten away. they smiled. If we feel empathy then we become weak. He Who Screams First!!! NO-ONE IS INNOCENT To assert is to prove. When my accusers told me what I was guilty of. Thus. Everyone sat up in attention.
For example how do you feel when you use the concept Divine Providence. Yet. publicly we claim innocence. We feel sorry for ourselves privately... There is no mind without its body. We neither live well nor care well.704 To Lie is Human a violation of some principle. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIE NINE Learning How To Faint To understand an abstraction Simply look at who uses it and how. Both activities are lies. For most of us life is simply form. We are all guilty of the crimes of childhood. Does the concept of "justice" make you feel strong when you have been harmed? Does believing in a forgiving God make you feel warm and cozy when you have broken your marital vows? Does believing in a revengeful God make you feel good when you are seeking revenge? To understand an abstraction. And what is this crime? Being a child. If you wish to understand any concept ask yourself how it affects you. Being human means going deep—it means going beyond form—. but only in moderation. For the middle class slavery becomes a vice. Freedom for the great is unnecessary. of course. Love. Justice. we are really guilty of something worse—remaining a child—not in our innocence—but in our laziness. Learn to humanize your violations of others. But. It is easier to react like a beast. Freedom for the middle class is both freedom from and freedom to. In our culture we live off each other while pretending to care for each other. etc.. and who would prefer a God who takes revenge? What kind of spirit prefers which abstractions? 705 . Freedom for the weak is simply freedom from. ask who would prefer a God who forgives. For the great slavery is simply a given. We are too lazy to be human.. WHEN THOUGHT IS PURE IT IS DEAD For the weak slavery becomes a virtue. We are too lazy to go deep enough into anything.
when do you use a particular concept? When you feel strong? When you feel weak? When you feel helpless? When you have harmed someone? When someone has harmed you? When you have the flu and wish you were dead? When giving birth? When dying? WHEN THERE IS A PROBLEM L O O K AT LANGUAGE AND NOT AT "REALITY" The ability to reflect. who for that matter defines natural and unnatural? What is the history of the use of the terms "natural" and "unnatural?" Who has used these terms and for what purposes? Who suffers from the mind/body problem? A man with neither? WHEN A BAD MEMORY CAN'T FAIL To label one quality of man natural and the other unnatural is proof of a very innovative labeler—to torture oneself over these labels is proof of a bad memory—. Ph. to make metaphor. We are the inventors of the ideas that create the problems that we feel helpless to solve. Hyatt. As Korzybski has put it—natural and unnatural might better be described as assisted and unassisted nature. W7 Who would like to sit next to God in an afterlife and watch their enemies punished? Who needs to be granted liberty? Who needs rights? For that matter. Who feels power and comfort in believing that we are living in "paradox?" Someone who makes money by solving riddles.D. to paint pictures is as natural as the sex instinct. psychologists and priests.706 To Lie is Human Christophers. who needs concepts? Next ask. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES . Many of man's sorrows are the result of being hoodwinked by his own melodies. But. These people are called politicians. philosophers. to lie.
I have despised both philosophies for so long that I have concluded that I am a closet advocate. We need our own organisity. I learned to let go of losing situations—quickly. I require guarantees and forgiveness. I overcame inertia. 709 . I believed that by fighting this disease in others I could ignore my own illness. When I realized my folly I refused to be made a Zombie by the workings of my mind. There is nothing wrong with suffering—it is an existential condition. I did this by turning every misfortune to an advantage. I learned to win. I learned to lose. We need to become an Art-Form. We do not need Buddhism or Jungian Psychology or Positive Thinking or Leaders. psychologist and philosopher remains employed—in power—because people have been trained to believe that there is something wrong if they suffer. politician. Finding these abhorrent qualities in myself led me to the conclusion that my instinct for life was weak—I had the Zombie virus. After a short period of time my internal condition improved.LIE TEN Hope Is The Currency Of The WeaklAm Not An Optimist Or A Pessimist Christianity and Communism. My cure consisted in learning that suffering was inevitable—and then saying "so-what?" Every priest.
They simply can't handle a body punch. Living from a body of strength is not something most men can do. What a man says has nothing to do with what he feels. They confuse attitude with "cause and effect. For example most people who state they are optimists are really pessimists. those who require an "attitude" in order to function.7 70 To Lie is Human Christophers. T H E BEST LIES I'VE HEARD T H E PHILOSOPHIES OF OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM Why would anyone need to be either an optimist or a pessimist? Well. When my view changed I experienced tension again. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES .D. Soon I became depressed—another word for being tense and tired. I noticed that having a positive attitude was more important during the late afternoon and late evening. I began watching the clock. When I gave up being an optimist and a pessimist I could not tolerate the anxiety. They require a way to "look" at things. During the early morning and late morning I didn't need any labels. Then an agnostic. I have met people who claim to be pessimistic who fundamentally react from a place of hope. Finally. Then an occultist. a Zombie. Many people believe that their attitude affects things and situations which can't be affected by attitude. 111 My lies were getting better—more useful and powerful. Some people have put me in that category—someone who has never overcome being disappointed." People who need to discuss positive attitudes are normally depressives who are trying to get out of their depression. such as a check arriving in the mail. People who need to emphasize their pessimism or cynical attitude are usually very hopeful people who have felt devastated by disappointment. So I labeled myself a realist. As long as I had a label I was comfortable—for a while. Hyatt. Conclusion: the stronger you feel the fewer labels you need. Ph. They simply have difficulty in dealing with disappointments.
I am a writer and do not get paid well! The ability to create and perceive conflict and then provide solutions has led to occupations that provide security and respect.LIE ELEVEN A Decision For A Bureaucrat Is Loss Of Job Security For A King.D. Live in the immediate Its not so much that pain hurts What is worse is the meaning you give it BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES 113 .) The illusion of "inevitable conflict" has been transformed into a well paying profession for priests. It Is An Adventure Everyone with a Ph. Conflict only exists in a binary Universe. (Note: begin to pay attention to your reactions to my assertions. is a binary fascist. philosophers and more recently for those who call themselves psychologists. It is unfortunate that women are finding more and more opportunities in these once primarily male professions. politicians. Women would "fare" better in the future if they looked toward the arts and sciences.
Utility is the ability an individual "has" to function "as" a service. EVERY WEAK MAN MUST BELIEVE IN THE MORAL NECESSITY OF HIS CATEGORIES. What lets me know that I am unessential? When I remember that my body looks like an ape's. I must warn the reader that I regard self-mastery and discipline to be as fundamental as the sex drive itself. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES 115 . THIS IS BASED ON HIS INABILITY TO RELY ON HIS STRENGTH TO ENFORCE HIS OWN DESIRES ON HIMSELF. do differentiate the absolute innate desire for self-mastery from the horrors that civilization calls obedience. however. I for one am totally unnecessary. Docility is simply the payment an individual makes for being allowed to serve as a function. I. I do not regard self-mastery and discipline as alien or imposed from without but rather as requirements for art.LIE TWELVE Civilization Is Like A Condom: It Gives You The Impression That You Have Made Love Civilization (pays for) utility and docility. Rejoice in your unessential nature—if you can tolerate the freedom you feel. Every exploiter assures us of his necessity.
The man in the city has his heroes too:—young police officers in pursuit of criminals—fair maidens—Wall Street Billionaires with slick greased hair and over-sized condoms. Make it easy for me. The moment I stop praying and act I have made Love with God. the hero is a man with no face (his face) who has upheld the values of the farmer. Everyone is an individual. Country and Family in the face of the inevitable. everyone is important and the cry of everyone is the same: "YOU—give me more—now." I have lied again. What I have just said is not true—the farmer in the M i d West still holds to the ideas of God. In today's modern world the idea of the hero has become an oxymoron. For the farmer. YOU KNOW A MASTER BY HIS DISCIPLES THIS IS WHY I LIVE IN SHAME In the face of all these heroes how can my statement that "heroism in the modern world is an oxymoron" be true? You will know this answer when you can answer the question—whose hero are youl 117 .LIE THIRTEEN The Hero TodayAn Oxymoron For Tomorrow? I pray over and over again to perish in the pursuit of a worthy goal.
What was Hitler's regime—The—We Mentality. The study of Hitler reveals one simple fact: once you study Hitler there is no longer any need to study politics." What embarrassed mankind so much about Hitler's existence? He showed them how capable they were. Humans can't tolerate insecurity. YOU ALWAYS KNOWA MAN BY THE CHARITIES HE KEEPS I GIVE MY MONEY TO BIO-CHEMISTRY Certainly. Security Programs—Identification with a Hero—Guarantees—Someone To Blame for Misfortune—Freedom as Obedience—Enemies—A Sense of Superiority Based on the "We"—Sacrifice for the "We. 2. 3. humans believe they are individuals with a free-will and a mind of their own. or for that matter everyone you know. a teacher. a mate. Knowing for whom you are a hero—can be a source of great shame. Hitler knew this fact very well. or frustration very well. Similar to domesticated sheep and cows they contentedly and proudly strut to the market to be slaughtered. a parent. a friend. Please list three virtues before you go on: 1. There is no way of knowing how a disappointment will affect history. The Hitler episode is the one and only "course" necessary to understand the very complex subject called "political science. Like many others. Unlike other herd animals. however." Another phrase for political science: overcompensation for an inferiority complex. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIE FOURTEEN What If Hitler Was Accepted Into College? The reason why most people do not change is because they do not hate themselves enough. 119 . disappointment. He showed them what an inferior person could do when sufficiently angered. there is someone who looks up to you? Who admires you? It may be a child. Most members of the human species are herd animals. No doubt you are a hero for someone—think about it for a moment or two—who are you a hero for? The next question is why are you thought of as a hero? There are as many answers as there are people.118 To Lie is Human Don't become too horrified when you find out.
He showed us how the most normal and decent man could be made to run a gas chamber. When I heard of his gesture. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIE FIFTEEN Jesus As Hero For whose Sins did he die? A strong man requires no one to die for him. This too is a lie. TERRORS OF T H E HERD EVERY HERD ANIMAL HAS GIVEN UP HIS BODY FOR A FENCE What terrifies an animal who has been declawed and defanged? An animal with claws. Hitler turned the idea of a rational. "who in the hell asked him?" I have it on good report that he was executed for his own sins. Yet. Who would require someone else to die for them? Jesus the hero? Is this an Oxymoron? Jesus? Where does his heroism come from? Dying! Well we all do that. their kindness is simply a necessity—for what else can a frightened animal be? What terrifies the herd animal? Everything. Herds want to feel safe.120 To Lie is Human He showed the Moolah what he would do to protect his house. What is the herd animal's argument against living? Everything. humanistic mankind into a joke. I felt that I had known a God. The herd has been told that it is honored for its servility and loyalty. But I missed him. I say." Jesus a hero? He died for the sins of the world sayest the slaves. Maybe he thought he could beat the howling waves of the Hawaiian coast. fangs and a can opener. 727 . It is told that it is superior because they spout the philosophy of pity and kindness. his rebellion against the prevailing authorities. To die voluntarily? Well. "By your deeds ye shall be known. Once the herd loses utility or docility they are of little value. What makes the herd valuable? Utility and docility. my physician died when he dove into the raging Pacific Ocean trying to save his two drowning daughters. Maybe he didn't know that his gesture was doomed to failure. Maybe he couldn't live with himself if he didn't try. No one is loved "for themselves" in a herd. I don't know what I would have done.
I once saved a little girl (makes a sacrifice or risks) for someone else. He didn't get 50% of the vote. as in the case of Jesus. children and animals? How many people deliberately die and claim they did it As you can see. football or murder people in different colored clothing (military heroism). For example. a group. How many mothers use Jesus in the same way? Old women. and/or are thought to benefit from uals having extraordinary skills or abilities. can we say that Jesus was an immortalist? mean that I don't have to die?As the king of endarkment. Does that Thus. Why would a human being want to worship someone like Another purpose of the hero death convey immortality Jesus? What kind of human being would do this? If you sacrifice your life for a value you uphold how can your is to be sacrifice? If you sacrifice your life for someth (indestructibility) for the people who admire him. Or a victim.D. What values did he uphold by his death? Intellectual or scientific heroes are less important to the The ability to resist the senses? masses. Jesus is a failure. Hyatt Ph. popularity is an important factor in heroism. But who in hell asked him? The more extraordinary and the greater the number of Heroes are often thought to be military types or individpeople who know of you. whether this from drowning. Give me a warm body—not a corpse. maybe Jesus' dying for the sins of the world got Jesus died for 18% of mankind. him a good mark in his Father's Book? So. In fact people require heroes whether their heroes play He was a hypnotist. then ? I know I am grateful that Jesus died for me. What skills did Jesus have? He was a carpenter. compare Salk with the average footThe ability to hate the body? ball star. someone else is a person. Maybe Jesus was save a dog from being run over by a car? The dog's owner. a God. So. the greater the hero you will be.722 To Lie is Human Christophers. so one must always ask the question—hero to whom? for someone else? Thus. heroism may be simply a function of the "physics of And why does dying for your own values become a mass. Or compare Einstein to Jesus. but that was in a swimming pool. Jesus became an ideal wonder just a bad copy of Dionysus? Or was Jesus story for Paul etc. The force and power of the hero is always transferred to the people who create him. your act. Einstein is often a Oh! He was a Jewish physician who didn't charge. a Jew who read the same book on Hebrew tradition that I maybe? did." It may also be. to build another empire for the slaves. Does this explain Jesus' heroism? People's need for someone to love and be loved by? Who needs unconditional love? A baby or an old person. 723 A hero is someone who does something extraordinary Probably something different. . a compensavirtue? tion for boredom and organ inferiority. or a country. model Jewish parents use to make their sons feel guilty and Who worships the man without a penis? inadequate. According to Hebrew tradition I didn't get a good mark But who would remember a man who sacrificed his life to for this since my life wasn't in jeopardy.
125 . 1996. fame. But how does a mortal surrender to love when fear is so pervasive in our lives? Without love life feels empty and meaningless. Like many of us Jesus needed to prove something to himself. Frequently the use of love substitutes is not simply an attempt to deaden pain but is also an attempt to bridge the gap of separateness and join with the Beloved." The desire to consume the love object and thereby merge with the beloved has been a romantic image that poets and lovers throughout ages have struggled with. drugs. endless affairs. In Western Civilization the preoccupation with these "substitutes" is "proof that our society doesn't really concern itself with love and surrender.Was Jesus the first Zombie? If I offered immortality to Jesus would he take me up on it? No. Tantra & Tarot: The Way of the Secret Lover. In a desperate attempt to fill this void people become addicted to alcohol. This fear is based on a deep primal feeling that to love and be loved is a form of "cannibalism. fortune and. It is unfortunate but true that most of life's miseries are caused by our inability to surrender to love. food. In fact much of Western psychology regards the desire to unite with the Beloved as pathological. S U R R E N D E R IS N A U G H T One of the primary obstacles to surrendering is the mistaken belief that you can actually "lose" yourself. I wonder if he did? BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIE SIXTEEN Surrender Or Else (From Sex Magick. In the West love is dangerous until it is licensed like a car. New Falcon Publications. sex.) Intuitively we all know that to love and be loved is both the spark and fuel of life. of course.
Thus. Many murders and suicides have at their foundation the frustrated will to surrender. 727 Though the boundaries of the individual must necessarily fade away. The association of pain. These violent acts are often attempts to be released from the hardened boundaries of one's private hell—to feel union with the "Other" or the Universe. shamed or even worse. the will to surrender has been exploited by religion. And this love is beyond anything any one individual can satisfy. bondage or brutality to love is not happenstantial. The world still yearns for a love which few of us know. there is no way in the world that you can lose your Self. Much of psychopathology and many physical ailments are the result of the inability of the individual to surrender.to merge momentarily. foster the anti-life morality of collectivism and sell "pornography" as love. Ph. in our society this is not uncommon and frequently serves to harden or embitter a person toward life in general. The assassin of John Lennon is an example of a pathological attempt to merge with the beloved through the act of murder. Hyatt. The facts are that in our culture love has been so intertwined with pain and loss that the so-called "pathological" are often simply expressing the truth of how love really feels. They peddle their perverted ideas of romantic love and sexual union as ecstasy but their fiat currency cannot fill the hearts and loins of their viewers.126 To Lie is Human Christophers." When this occurs there is an insatiable and wrathful desire to be cared for as a child is cared for and the horrid fear of loss of independence. on the other hand being deeply hurt in the act of surrender can lead to angry and painful "cries for help." This is one purpose of this book. Most so-called "sexual perversions" are abortive attempts at love and surrender. Radio and television are constantly attempting to exploit the desperate need for love.. although the person surrendering opens himself completely to the moment. Far too frequently when little children surrender to their parents they are humiliated. for most humans the act of surrender has meant the loss of autonomy. They express a greater degree of honesty than the "average" person who in fact can express nothing about love and surrender. to help you discover your will to surrender. and does run the risk of being deeply hurt. Or worse—loss of one's own mind. When they become adults they. One real danger in love relationships is that most people secretly believe that they must control the love object in order to feel safe in loving and being loved. to let go completely. be it with a person." In fact many socalled pathological or perverse individuals are closer to understanding the true need for surrender and the willingness to experience it than those considered "normal" by society. Often people who are unable to surrender place themselves in situations which force defeat—a pseudo surren- . Surrender is neither control or morbid dependency and can't be made contingent upon giving away your "soul". Sadly. They feel the pounding force of life Pushing through their skin and they are horrified of losing what sense of autonomy they do have. divinity or one's own "secret lover. The cause of this is simple—children are made to feel that they must "give themselves up" if they are to be loved. This is particularly true in "sadomasochistic" relationships where the inability to voluntarily surrender is dramatically "overcome. in turn. Similar to the innate will for self mastery. do the same to their children.D.. Your true Self is hard-wired in and even if it were possible to lose one's self or be possessed it would have to be the result of one's true will. government and even the family. Most people feel unable to surrender or be in the presence of someone who is surrendering because of the pain it brings to the surface. In their perverse forms of "entertainment" they create hysteria. Or. yet at the same time this love can only be actualized through the love of another living person.
This issue cannot be overemphasized. learned when they were too vulnerable for differentiated defense. Individuals firm within their autonomy are more capable of surrendering. This provides some sense of relief from the obsessive feeling of having to hold on to their tenuous sense of autonomy. Giving love. showing compassion are as necessary as receiving them: none are a morality. These "mystics" see themselves in the service of love and humanity. This is one of the greatest lies. People who require strict bounds of individuality (guardedness) are usually the least capable of surrendering. anxiety and guilt. They are a result. They are guilty of the greatest megalomaniacal maneuver—believing that they can love while all the time seeking esteem and power often by the most cowardly means. once the person realizes that in reality they can only truly surrender to their Secret Lover. Hyatt. it is the Magician more than the Mystic who knows . This act of surrender can do nothing but add to one's autonomy and power. The "mystic" as described here has shrouded himself in the prophylactic of spiritual Pride. Yet. They can let go but only in a sham fashion. of complete surrender. Magic and Mysticism— The Will To Self Mastery and The Will To Surrender—are two sides of the same coin. makes it next to impossible for them to drop their guard long enough for love to come in or for love to come out. 729 der. Their sense of autonomy is so fragile. pseudoMystics see Magicians as power hungry individuals uninterested in love. being tender. Here control means "control" of anxiety.728 To Lie is Human Christophers. they are incapable of giving love or receiving it. This is identical to the notion that one must actually have a viable ego before one is qualified to lose it. but it is important to keep in mind that the benefits brought about by love are always a consequence—a result—of surrender and never the reason for surrendering. Their habitual defensive posture. smallness and the feeling of falling apart which an impaired sense of autonomy has created. You can almost rest assured that in his case—nothing will get in and nothing will get out. The need to surrender is "caused" by life fulfilling itself. contradicts the result people believe "control" might yield—self-mastery. They cannot be enforced. held together by pain and suspicion. Ph. individuals such as these are often those who talk the most about love yet treat their relationships as an endless chain-reaction of negotiations centering around the issue of control. As it is often the case. He is already thought of as an egotist. They cannot be legislated. These fears and maneuvers are unfounded and unnecessary. MAGICK AND MYSTICISM: A FALSE DIVISION The concept of surrender has become so distorted that many believe that "surrendering" is in opposition to power. As people in the West are so suspicious of Magick little has to be said about the "false" Magician.D. Surrendering is a necessary experience for complete living and the will to surrender is the ultimate realization of this fact. sex and self mastery. Ironically. In the afterglow of utter failure they allow themselves to indulge temporarily in an illusion of surrender." in this context. Exposing this lie is another important point of this book—self mastery is not possible without surrender. The entire idea of "control. Frequently failure of this type is "caused" by the person himself in a desperate attempt to consolidate diffuse feelings of anxiety. not a cause. Thus. In fact their attempt at superiority by appealing to those who can neither love nor use power is proof of their lack of both. Those who have had their primal sense of autonomy severely impaired by an environment which stressed chronic self-defense in order to maintain their autonomy are all but incapable of surrender. that the idea of surrender brings forth intense feelings of shame.
" Later. As the music swelled in volume the Paramahansa opened his eyes and looked around him as if he were in a strange place. We didn't hear a sound from him for an hour or more.130 To Lie is Human Christophers. 131 that when power or love are taken to their extreme they become one. Ten such people have much greater power than a thousand people working from morning till evening not knowing the purpose of their life." almost angelic. He excused himself and went to his room. He repeated the word Nirakara two or three times and then quietly passed into samadhi. he would say: . There was no twitching of the muscles or nerves. During the time that Dr.. Regardie and Dr. he was having a conversation with his Holy Guardian Angel. Sri Ramakrishna: Something similar to this happened to the famed Western Mage Israel Regardie.. Then he looked at some of the faces around him and spoke at length on the indications of character by physiognomy.. you must first surrender. The music stopped.. 1984) he went to his usual chair and had a few cocktails. The Anahata (Heart) Chakkra of the Hindu system is traditionally opened in the act of divine surrender and the parallel experience in the Western tradition. no movement of any limb. There was something in that wonderful smile which no photograph was ever able to reproduce. The lips were parted in a beatific and indescribable smile.. asking "him" to use him (Regardie) in anyway he saw fit just so long as "he" used him. A few moments later he "awoke. ..We intently watched Ramakrishna Paramahansa's samadhi. the "home" of the Secret Lover. The whole body relaxed and then became slightly rigid. He looked as if he had "left this world. The idea of love and power is very disturbing to some people who require external controls to feel safe as well as to those who desire nothing more than to control others. In other words they teach love and power and not simply love or power. The importance of knowing your true will is beautifully conveyed by Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan: However unhappy a man may be. Regardie was in an ecstatic state. Often this false distinction between magick and mysticism gives rise to strong prejudices against certain practices such as sex magick or the "Tantra of the Left Handed Path.He explained that it was impossible to express in language the ecstasy of divine communion when the human soul loses itself in the contemplation of the Deity.. the moment he knows the purpose of his life a switch is turned and the light is on. The Paramahansa looked at us and asked. It is from the Anahata Chakkra. Every feature of the human face was expressive of some particular trait of character. "I have no memory of it." and was told what had happened. to "light up" with the divine. we heard a shout.. as the diver slips into the fathomless deep. Hyatt Ph. He replied. that each individual finds their own true will and purpose in this life. This is the first time that (it) ever happened to me that way.. he does not mind so long as he knows what the purpose is. (Falcon Press. disclosing the gleam of the white teeth. Hyatt were putting the finishing touches on Regardie's Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic. In order to know your true will (to be the master). a yell in Hebrew.. We looked in on him..." The reason they have such bad reputations is that they teach surrender and self mastery. THE HEART OF THE MASTER It is more than a colorful figure of speech to say that true surrender takes place in one's heart.D. If he has to strive after that purpose all his life. 'Who are these people?' Then he slapped the top of his head vigorously and cried: 'Go down. is an experience of Tiphareth (the Qabalistic Sephirah corresponding to the heart Chakkra).. .. the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. go down!' ||| The power of surrender is divinely expressed by describing one of the many samadhic experiences of the great mystic. he was talking to his Holy Guardian Angel. in awe and amazement. And so the marvelous monologue went on until the Paramahansa began to speak of the Nirakara (formless Brahman). Suddenly.
Instead of working. I asked myself. too much in the head. Truth can't exist for those who don't require lies. He is beginning to worry about how he lived his life. they talk too much BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIE SEVENTEEN Higher Learning Means Higher Lying Truth is one of many propositions used to hold together a system based on violence. why did he say such a silly thing? Then I remembered that we were both born into the same religion.132 To Lie is Human This should happen more often to those in the Western Tradition. but individuals.) He demanded that I believe in the sanctity of tradition since it gave him a sense of power over my irreverent attitude. Most humans don't believe that they have ape bodies. One day a middle class intellectual told me that the religion I was born into was a fact. which keeps herd animals tame and quiet. but they are too blocked. It served him to hold on to his traditions as it served me to let go of mine. More importantly it shored him up in his declining years. Truths are simply fictions or metaphors created by tricksters and illusionists to help control the interactions among animals who cannot overcome their desire to herd. He didn't like my attitude since it violated his notion of tradition. Believing that they are not part of the herd. (Tradition is simply the metaphysics of bad habits. This illusion was best served by the notion of democracy—the religion derived from the belief that people are "human" and because they are "human" 133 . It is time to caution the reader—even the idea of individuality is a lie. Most herd animals do not even realize that they are herd animals. is a "necessary" illusion.
When they saw the butcher coming to slaughter a sheep none of them would panic or run. The morality of the herd animal is always incomprehensible to a human being. The danger the herd animal senses when he meets a true individual is real for him and the moralities he requires to contain his neighbor are necessary for him. A herd animal requires consensus morality because he is not a master—nor can he be satisfied by anyone including himself. Some of you might be familiar with the story of how a Shepherd kept his flock of sheep from running away when they saw the butcher coming. I had a few who ran away as soon as they got a scent of me. He can and will do anything to keep his safety—to pay the rent. The weaker we are the more we require someone to remind us that the present has been built on a logical development of "divine purposes" and "natural consequences. BE CAREFUL WHEN SEEKING HELP: A L L HEALERS ARE HERD ANIMALS Any person seeking help is always helped back into the herd—although at the time he is being told he is becoming himself." .734 To Lie is Human Christophers. Now. Secretly he is proud of his cowardice—he believes he can survive at any cost—to you. every society and every individual is always discriminating in its best interests—never yours. In the end you must be responsible for yourself even if you do not know who you are. A l l "morality" is irresponsible and cowardly. It doesn't take much to turn almost anyone into a Nazi." Conversely. Being morally superior to the normal shepherd. 'Wo thy Self?" Never be fooled by the herd-animal's mysticism or philosophy—they are always serving themselves first. The herd animal is terrified—but he is horrifying in his pretense of being human. This fact alone horrifies the middle class since it uncovers who they really are—Nazis in the making. It does not require independent thought or action or responsibility.D. But remember. necessity is never a virtue. The Nazi in the death camp was an ordinary man who was paying his rent and protecting his family. Thus. This is the same behavior as the Nazis. but they are always disguising their interests by stating that they are serving you. Do not seek to know yourself because there is no self. I could not stand their smell. I always serve myself as well as my herd. Later they will punish you for what they are doing. Morality is nothing more than cocktail glasses clanking at a Christmas party. Instead. When I was in practice I sent devout Christians off to the Jungians. Hyatt. Even Gurus are not concerned with you. Those who require unconditional love should worship the dead. 735 they "think" rather than react. Ph. Herd morality is for cowards. If what I said is true did Socrates lie when he said. However. think about what I just said: "The morality of the herd animal is always incomprehensible to a human being. I love no one unconditionally." which means unmasking group fictions. The herd animal is different in kind. the "lack of morality. Most of them are concerned with supporting their system and expanding their influence and power. You will always lose even if the other person thinks they are helping you. The only thing unique about most individuals are the statistics used to process them. Maybe he is? Becoming yourself is a most frightening thing and there are few healers who can't be stopped in their tracks by something which truly offends them. If you observe yourself you will find this out. horrifies the herd. they would smile peacefully knowing that it wasn't them who the Shepherd would dine on tonight. Your worth or value is always determined by how you will benefit the herd. They want Zombie love. He told each of them privately that they were a lion.
I tried to read Nietzsche but I was put off by his refusal to explain—his refusal to educate—his refusal to let me feel comfortable. I was still i l l with the disease I contracted as a boy. At that time I did not realize how much Zarathustra liked to dance. but I was attracted to his spirit. Every time I began to believe I understood something. Observing my reactions to his words I immediately knew that most books could be written in less than one page. academic christian-jew possessed by the values generated by fear and hope.136 To Lie is Human LIE EIGHTEEN BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES I Had Many Candles But No Cake Listen To His-Story When I was twenty one years old I happened to pick up a book by Frederick Nietzsche. I was too fearful of freedom—I was assured since I was 137 . uptight." At that time I needed to be one of the elect and I soon simplified my life and began to study him seriously. For a period of nine months I tried until I no longer could tolerate my isolation and celibacy. I do not even remember which one. Nietzsche continually reminded his readers of the importance of the "right reader. I felt stupid after reading him. A lot depended on the reader. serious. Soon I found out that I was better off trying to live Nietzsche as I perceived him at that time. he stabbed me. I was still a solemn. He never let me rest.
morals. and finally also his only piety. I exhausted myself in lust. having forgotten to dance. forget and then act as if your "creations" were forced upon you from without—a "necessity. " Ideas from the sleeping man become "necessities" that both protect and stifle him. And the truth is that freedom and joy do lead to hell. Amen! Nietzsche emphasizes the joy of life when he says. 139 young that real freedom or joy would lead to hell. order. Nietzsche cannot be studied successfully. Hyatt Ph. our turn.and I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. When the forgetting is complete the mortar hardens and he is trapped in the security and horrors of his Gods." But. He looks for power over himself and his environment. justice. Now it is our time. but a "necessity. He concludes that error more than truth has served man. Nietzsche's work is first a study of the human condition.. Thus. He is so creative—he invents ideas about himself and nature and bestows upon them an existence independent of himself. he begs and prays to be free again." but I can say that he is one of the greatest physiological psychologists that has ever lived. I am now forty-nine and I have read most of Nietzsche's books. He believes his ideas to be true— independent of his need and will to create them. The formula is to create. this brings him to a temporary nihilistic "conclusion. In overcoming himself it appears necessary to forget. In essence he studies and exposes the use of the lie—the metaphysics of meaning.D. some as many as six times. values. endings. In the reality of the moment man is naked. If he remembered that he invented these "essential" categories of thought his pain would be overwhelming. the bitterest is this. . L E T US DANCE WITH JOY TO THE CURSE OF T H E ZOMBIE Nietzsche's "cure" for the ills of man is a painful one. his 'service of God. No longer living in the moment. things in themselves. It is difficult for him to realize that freedom is conveyed by himself right where he is now—but this type of freedom is also a horror. What disturbs him most is the idea that there is no one to give him freedom. that one should have consciousness of much.' After my nine months at "being" Nietzsche I couldn't tolerate my life any longer so I put Nietzsche away and began to live again. I am still not the "right reader. time. He creates beginnings. Man is very creative in the area of metaphysics. "Of all the sorrows that afflict mankind. . He observes how men have used concepts and how they react to the concepts they use. In order to understand Nietzsche you must first apply his methods to yourself. laws. What is this "cure?" The realization that mind creates meaning and then forgets its act of creativity." His position is that man creates meaning and this desire to create meaning is the intrinsic quality which allows man to overcome himself. What is the greatness power? The ability to forget your power. Herodotus is dead. but control over nothing." Nietzsche's methods are brilliant and to understand his ideas fully you must live them. It has been said by Herodotus. For the dance is his ideal. However. wrong and then forgets that they are his inventions. causes. this desire to overcome oneself is not simply a choice. to perish through our own excesses. . Man is a powerful joyous fool. right. also his art.738 To Lie is Human Christophers.
Buddhism says no to life by positing Desire as the cause of suffering and then following this up by demonstrating how suffering can be terminated by certain actions and attitudes. everything in love. happiness. instant. how your pity for others is simply a device to cover up your own vulnerability. what and how does an idea benefit? From this he gains an understanding of the type of spirit behind the "curtain" of reason. Why. religions. individual tranquillity and much more—once we strip away its "seriousness. Ph. if you ever wanted one moment twice. You support weakness because you are too weak to stand the blade of the knife as it passes through you—yet you yearn endlessly to live—to kill the Zombie. then you said Yes to all woe as well. "BUDDHA AND CHRIST SAY NO TO LIFE" Nietzsche saw Buddhism as life-negative—A Nay-Sayer to life." In many ways Nietzsche saw Buddhism as a psychotherapy or a physiological cure for the misery of existence. And what is it that Buddhism delivers? Non-vicarious.740 To Lie is Human T H E GREATEST SACRAMENT IS ACTION Christophers. Your sighs and groans of concern are simply your wish for a guarantee. What happens to "all is sorrow" if we become the Gods we imagine? On the other hand Nietzsche is not concerned with the termination of suffering. everything chained. but return!' For all joy wants — eternity! Nietzsche regarded Buddhism's development as a symptom of a culture which had reached its peak and was now tired and on its decline.D. for example. On the contrary Nietzsche's hero was on the assent. etc. because she is all too aware of it. Nietzsche says it this way: Did you ever say Yes to one joy? O my friends. It values obedience and weakness in this life and revenge and power in the next. Christianity reflects the quality of life that is desired by its adherents. loved it eternally. BUDDHA WORKED FOR DOMINO'S— HE DELIVERED In comparing Buddhism to Christianity. A l l things are chained and entwined together. Hyatt. for her. He saw Christianity as a curse. O that is how you loved the world. How come so many theories. all things are in love. 141 Nietzsche always asks: who. This love is demonstrated by vowing to relive life with no changes. And what is the physiology of this illusion? Forgetfulness—that your instinct to overcome yourself has enslaved you—unless of course you realize that self-overcoming is endless. if you ever said: ' Y o u please me. In fact. in his discussion of "eternal recurrence. Buddha's medicine is the result of Buddha's meditation and understanding. and for all time: and you say even to woe." he defines the Yea-Sayer as one who would gladly accept all of life's suffering. moment!' then you wanted everything to return! you wanted everything anew. you everlasting men. Danger is her enemy. . Yet. 'Go. Nietzsche's idea of living "dangerously" is no where found. superiority and greed. the other NaySaying Religion. are based on the fear of suffering? Worse yet. entwined together. Nietzsche commented that Buddhism promises little and delivers a lot while Christianity promises a lot and delivers nothing. The Yea-Sayer says no to the cessation of suffering. willing to endure again and again the pains and joys of existence. everything eternal. why have so many fallen for it? Is it that life is a dead end? Or has it taken this long until we have the tools to say NO to all limitation. Security is for the professor's wife and. mankind lives in illusion—the illusion of the shopkeeper. Nietzsche's "cure" is to show you. Anyone who values Christianity is against life.
They lack both. In order to understand this negative view we must ask ourselves who holds it.142 To Lie is Human DUALISM SPEAKS FOR T H E NEED OF A DANCE PARTNER Christophers. the politicians. Once you know this then you will have to face "nothingness"—nihilism—meaninglessness—the limitation of belief. Not simply the desires of the shopkeeper and fame-reaper. What they have is need. He refuses all definitions—thus—the true criminal. Yet. the academics. Thus. Those who desire to overcome themselves also wish to overcome the abstract self—the historical self—the ego ideal—the societal self—the definitional self. When what you call yourself dissolves—disappears—the whole will still be the whole—filled with rapturous hideous love. of the self? Not simply the constant struggle to join the herd." Division is the snare—the illusion of suffering itself. but simply describe. Of course. The first overcoming is of the ego because its suffering is very limited and artificial. it is the glorious middle class—those who live in a world of revolving doors. The suffering of the ego belongs to others. The happy Hermit is the Zombie reborn. This has been referred to as the crossing of the Abyss—sometimes called madness. What is unique to man is The Saying of Yes—in spite of the horror that every Yes is simply a new limitation—a new Zombie that must be killed. Duality is simply a game—a creative act—a getting to know—a joyous dance—an interesting lie. Zarathustra obeys no rules—for he knows too much. Division is also the means from which suffering itself dissolves. knowledge and your melodies. his knowing is alive. The spoiled. A l l division is a device. the psychologists. At the bottom of this overcoming is the life of the happy Hermit. Realize that misfortune is only an event—often nothing more than the anticipation of failure—often nothing more than not getting what you think you need—then—. . Division allows us to dance ourselves into madness— Oneness. They have no right to use such words for they have neither compassion nor ego. There are no guarantees. The surface of the ego is an implant and entirely relational. science can never know. simply a way of men working "magic. It is the invention of the priests. Hyatt Ph. those who require weakness in order to be "useful. of course. The Zombie of form dies.D. Realize that misfortune is only an event. the weak—those unwilling to exchange value for value—regard Nietzsche's "self-overcoming" as compassionless egotism. But suffering never will dissolve—because men like to divide. is life itself. all division—only to create them again—laughing and crying—alive. We heroes set our own snares—and they are same ones set by the slaves—except we have not forgotten—we can now do it consciously because we have destroyed all values. Learn to call your errors—truth." KILL THE ZOMBIE—BECOME AN ART FORM Be exactly as you are with all your nonsense—. Life can only be "known" when it is no longer living. 743 An aspect of "yea-saying" is to ask oneself the question—who is the one that is living this life? The answer. T H E EGO AS ZOMBIE What is this overcoming of the hero.
In fact. Hyatt Ph.744 To Lie is Human ONCE YOU FIND T H E TRUTH—KILL IT We ultimately know a person's true nature by the concepts he employs to command the unknowable — CSH Christophers. In other words. The ego is not object. Yet. particularly when placed in a hierarchy of someone else's values. to create conflict through the artifact called consciousness is the first definition of man. instead I posit that man's fear to live in the infinite luxury of life is the prime root of his misery. 145 LIMITATION I propose that enough time has been spent on suffering and limitation. If you allow yourself to be without division how can you fight? Yet. . war and violence. Man is the Divider. A l l division is necessary.D. the desire for control is natural and originates from the Self. It is man's sense of uniqueness which "paradoxically" always develops in relation to others. IF YOU KEEP ON DIVIDING YOU WILL APPROACH 0 The ego as object is one of the crucial factors which leads to conflict. Learn to say "so what" to pain. to divide. This is the great joke played on the ego—the more it tries to be in control the weaker and more dependent it becomes. uniqueness and independence. but plasma. The fortress ego is built on the shifting sands of division and comparison and thus contradicts the ego's desire for control. And what is this ego? It is the fortress by which the whole planet has gone mad. Kill the Zombie. Why is man so fearful of abundance? Abundance is unpredictable—out of the ego's control. is not every statement a comparative one? LIMITATION IS SECURITY Everything a person thinks is relational and every feeling and thought is limited by a matrix of comparative elements. A l l descriptions and assertions of individuality are delusional. how a person attempts to control his life and environment tells us all.
Confusing? For example.D. on continua.146 To Lie is Human THE FEAR OF LUXURY Christophers. 147 The desire to be an object is the desire to limit the infinite which sooner or later destroys every fortress man builds. selfish/unselfish. For example. pain and pleasure are necessary conditions of pursuing one's destiny. truth/lie. how could he beat his wife? How could the Sunday School teacher have sex with his daughter? If he loves animals how could he be a research scientist? How can a doctor cheat his patients? . what does the red of an apple mean to a person on the lookout for Reds? Why would a normal person think it paradoxical when a mother kills her child? For the answer to this question look at the phrase "ought to!" IN T H E BEGINNING MAN CREATED PARADOX Any category. What creates the illusion of conflict and paradox is the way language describes and categorizes differences and similarities. the category "parent" doesn't exclude the reality of first being human.) is an act of creativity to which man will sooner or later plead guilty. to experience either one or both conveys nothing about a morality which might exist in "another world. Pain is a necessary result of the pursuit of pleasure. DO NOT BE T A K E N IN BY P A R A D O X E S ONLY NEWSCASTERS AND OTHER CRIMINALS M A K E THEIR LIVING ON PARADOXES How could a good Christian cheat us on the used car? How could the chief of police be taking bribes? How could a good American betray his country? He is a minister. (which is nothing but an arbitrary label to group specific attributes of objects and actions regarded similar or different by selecting and ignoring attributes— qualities and quantities—of the objects or actions being classed) can become partially or wholly identified with the attributes which go into or are excluded in making up a category and vice-versa. pain and pleasure are not opposites. One method used to control the fear of the infinite is to reduce life to forces in opposition. The same holds true for other paradoxes. In other words. masculinity and femininity are not opposites." Opposites cover up the fact that characteristics exist in degrees: that is. And even more importantly. Hyatt Ph. The mistake of allowing a lower order category on the knowledge tree (parent) from erasing an earlier or more primal category (human) creates paradoxes and priests. Or to say it differently. For example. Continua requires thought. Opposites do not exist independent of the type of mind which requires them nor do they convey valid representations of experience. They are not in conflict. For example. The belief that opposites really exist and have substance (good/bad." It is not paradoxical if a parent kills it's child. etc. hard/soft. They are not opposites separated from each other. The way we scale a characteristic determines it's reality for us. When faced with life's luxury humans invent problems. Problems provide the opportunity to regain a sense of limitation in face of something which even God must hide—The Infinite. Why? Being a parent first requires that you are a human being which includes the attribute of killing other human beings. They are intertwined. They do not oppose each other. murdering your child is excluded from the arbitrary category "parent.
They love systems no matter how foolish they are. Finally. then he posits the concept of idea as their synthesis. A simple mind to believe in a system that conveys power upon its user—what an act of juggling to answer every question with the same answer. Now there is something for the academic to "sink" his gums into. graduate students and lawyers. for that matter. What is necessary about Hegel's dance? The answer. even after the system is shown to . However.D.. 749 A D D A FEW OF Y O U R OWN. intertwined living process. The philosopher Hegel was an expert in believing how evolution and the "necessary" emerge. There are simply intertwined differences and similarities. Other people oppose these Universals with exceptions which the originator answers by further acts of convolution until a system is built. psychologists.. evolution or. then he posits nature as its opposite.? Might we instead say that Spirit pleases a dying man.748 To Lie is Human Christophers. By necessity any attempt to IS EVOLUTION NECESSARY? More often than not what is "necessary" is nothing but hope. thus any answer must also be a result of division.. What makes Karma an explanation? Can it really be an explanation or is it just a wish for some. academics still study it. anyone has conceptualized the multifaceted. enough people accept these "comings and goings" and the entire "system" becomes ordained by God or becomes Natural Law.. Language can't convey reality. ever changing. educators. These neat little packages are sold as Universals. politicians. But does this "model of history or progress" really convey anything but Hegel's need to have an "understanding" of change? What good does it do for the mind to call it progress. Let us for a moment explore the necessary.? What Is Really Necessary And For Whom ? The conflicted and "necessary" qualities of thinkers such as Hegel provide occupations for priests. Nature pleases a physicist. philosophers.. and Ideas please Hegel? There is no opposition or conflict or necessary evolution except by the way Hegel or. problem solvers. and a nightmare for others? WHICH C A M E FIRST: T H E TOILET OR THE. or Laws. Did Hegel come up with this while standing on his head? Or was Hegel a Zombie.. In the end it is always weakness that demands too much understanding and not enough doing. Ph. authors. Any question is the result of division. Hegel posits spirit. be non-sense. They are too weak for life's luxury. Hyatt. these "appearances" are not enough for most men. According to him it is a necessary synthesis. Philosophical problems are created by asking questions which presuppose that an answer is possible in the same format the question is poised. The funny thing is.
Instead of a King we have specialists who at this moment are deciding what's best for you. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? WE! THERE IS NO WE ONLY Y O U AND ME Problems do not exist. every answer is a " W E " answer.D. academics and most everyone in authority are making decisions for you right now! It is the expert gone mad. Therefore the answer. a discomfort. A l l categories are simply whimsical conveniences—filled with joy and horror. Or is a problem simply complexity—the lack of clarity? But most often a problem is "WE. Philosophical questions are the result of distilling experience into language. a compromise for the herd. a primitive method for the manipulation of attributes and not a condition of real life. doctors. Thus. since one effect of language is to structure experience so "it" may be communicated to others. Our thinkers have stopped living. translate it into words and communicate it to the "other" we have lied.150 To Lie is Human Christophers. 151 communicate requires that "things" be left out and "things" be put in. Thus. all BECOMES A DICTATORSHIP phiLosopHY EVENTUALLY WHY IS THERE SUCH A SIMILARITY BETWEEN T H E WORDS 'COMMUNICATION" AND "COMMON?" The way we describe "reality" creates problems which demand answers which for the most part create more prob- . By its very nature language doesn't represent the essence of experience. Lawyers. all philosophy soon or later becomes dictatorship—a We. And for that matter what is a problem? Most often an unfulfilled desire. And you know what? There are millions of people demanding and paying for these services. instead of an I. every teacher is a liar. a contoured whim. They forget that dissecting life into pieces is only a technique. like the question. Language always implies equality in experience and understanding. an itch." Thus. Hyatt Ph. is always a lie. Another great lie? Once life has been distilled into language we begin to respond to language and not to experience. As soon as we reflect upon experience.
The question remains: dangerous to whom? The answer is sim- pie—to those who benefit from drowsiness—the manufacturers of the Christmas gift. Say yes—to life. but how can "passion" be dutiful? These principles apply equally to the Master." giving them what they need or want. Every reaction to pain is simply a statement of whether one is up to life. Enlightenment is dangerous to someone else's tradition. We are taught that if we feel discomfort or pain something must be done and this something must be more than simply stopping the pain or enduring it—we must find the culprit known as "The Cause. WHAT DOES A DANCER NEED OF SHOES? We require a boat only until we have crossed the river. His life is real because it expresses his own highest instincts. yet sincere and joyful—willing to live with pain and discomfort because it is his own? How can a "somebody" view a "no-body" who can dance at his own funeral? The newman knows that his life is real. not as a means to annihilation but as a means to becoming a newman. Compassion for the weak is duty. They were too far away from the living to face the abyss: that their meanings. We should not carry our boat with us once we have reached the other side. They did not know how to laugh or to dance or even to cry." We must legislate life out of existence. Say no—to tradition. The same lies I used for myself. rather than the horrid fact that most people are simply not up to life. Why are enlightenment and compassion frequently associated? Like the Sufi master who never forgets but always forgives—an enlightened master has compassion while he beats you to death. the middle class. Humans are so weak that they have given up the luxury of life for the false security of sorrow.D. because he is real. their "manners" were the cause of their misery and the source of their limitation. The theme of my work is simple—the newman overcomes his conditioning—his canned mind. 153 lems. I never allowed them to be with- . Ph. Hyatt. Compassion for the weak-minded simply means making things "easy. yet this form of self-delusion could also be the path to ultimate freedom—only if their misery was viewed as belonging solely to them and they still had enough strength to bear it. The " C A U S E " of the dark black school of life is Life itself. How else can a fearful man view a man who is not worried. " W E " always equals security and for the " W E " there are always problems. The newman lives from his own experience which is given back to him by nature when he overcomes his pitiful condition. We were all part of the herd and my license to "steal" was the proof. Evil is simply the path to the greatest Joy. not serious. If the truth be known. the lame. He is hated because the herd is forced to view their instincts in comparison to the newman—for what they are: pathetic. Overcoming our origins is the task of each and every responsible person.752 To Lie is Human Christopher S. It has been said by many that to become enlightened without a morality for the common good is dangerous. their traditions. the academic and the spoiled. He gives you what you need while starving you to death. I made up many stories (boats) for my patients until they were ready to have their skin removed. During their greatest misery I comforted them with lies which gave them hope and meaning. We require a nursing home called THE CAUSE. For the dead man—the shopkeeper and his wife—our hero is a psychopath. His compassion is spontaneous—alive and not the kind defined by the weak. My experience as a psychotherapist confirms this notion.
Now that I am free from my obsessions there are no patients to treat. But remember. This is one of the methods I use to help those who wish to stop being crazy and achieve Madness. The essence of this book is your response to the aphorisms at the beginning of this book. Without further stories. A l l I can do is help destroy you—to prepare you to receive. The Western Koan method—and two others which I present in my other books—make up the general methods incorporating the work of Nietzsche. The gift that "comes" belongs to no one." The remainder of the work is Nature's.154 To Lie is Human out their lies. They are as deluded as their patients. I call these methods "The Foundations Of Transition. At that time I was blinded by my own needs and self-delusions. However. you must first recognize exactly how Crazy you are. however. The reader might ask why I say this? The answer is simple. This is "nature's way" of saying things are going well for me now. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIE NINETEEN How This Book Will Kill You People are at their own evolutionary level because it is the limit of what they can tolerate of themselves. To do this. If patients appeared at this point of my life I would know that something had gone wrong. they do help their patients to become complacent in their mediocrity. except they believe they see the truth. I am disloyal to each of these men. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES 155 . all of psychotherapy is a lie and all psychotherapists are common liars. Buddha and Reich as they flow through me. let us get to the Truth.
consistent behavior and singular identity. We are molded and mold ourselves into our idea of matter. What is necessary is a desire to herd. The 157 . every good man is dead. but is unworthy as a human being. The fact is that most humans demand it. Change is a horror because it leads to death. These factors alone are insufficient to make the process successful. A good man must be solid as a rock. The great problem for men is to be alive and not die. or unsteady is not only unworthy for the purpose of a loan. Every man must be made into an object. And no matter how hard we try to make death a group event it is an Individual Matter. Someone who is changeable. Truth is always a function of the needs of the herd. unpredictable. For a moment we feel safe—then the wall falls down again—where is Humpty Dumpty when there is no-one to see him fall? The idea of managing individuals as units and numbers is based on the belief in the solidity of objects. Thus.LIE T W E N T Y Every Sentence Is A Death Sentence Humans are secretly envious of objects. This delusion provides us with a sense of being like objects. Human society (an illusion) begs for an ordering based on perceptions of outdated and misunderstood laws of physics. Once we believe we can control objects we believe that we have reached their essence and understand them.
the fascist. Souls In Bodies Belong To The Priests. Separating parts from the whole and then forgetting the whole leads humans to believe that they can destroy "evil" while still having "good. Technology will not help man to free himself from his cowardice. Attribute isolation is a primitive technique of the propagandist. Our greatest pastime is to create idols and later destroy them Most men want to be insects 159 . The notion of limitation rests on the desire and terror that the old laws of physics will be suspended. Computers used by stupid people "become" stupid computers—much like stupid voters electing stupid leaders. what I just said is truly metaphysics. Thus. They simply used the models to achieve their ends and continued dancing. we are all responsible for Jesus as well as Hitler. Now. Plato's caves and Aristotelian logic never hindered a living being." Man is torn between his fear of hell and his greed for heaven.O N E Bodies In Space Belong To Physics. Isolating qualities from the whole and giving them independent existence is simply a convenient device that allows us to worship or slaughter each other.158 To Lie is Human model of society is the bee-hive. Advances in technology have not been paralleled by human behavior. Sooner or later the planet earth will be a complete asylum unless we begin to say Yes to Life and No to Slavery. the professor and the priest. The highest goal for most humans is to live like an insect. The joke is that Newtonian physics. It will simply build a better prison. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIE T W E N T Y . In the end you must create yourself. And Both Belong To The Politicians When enough people repress or deny the same quality the attribute appears as either a god or a devil.
There is no end to selfovercoming. My books are simply controlled laughter. but he is frightened of finding himself face to face with this terrible reality. dancing and joy. It does not worry him that his ideas are not true. Ortega Gasser says it this way: For life is at the start a chaos in which one is lost. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES 161 .160 To Lie is Human Y o u cannot avoid the ecstasy-terror of existence no matter how creative you are. he uses them as trenches for the defence of his existence. his son? They are miserable creatures and in their misery the flock take refuge. of course—his web of ideas and abstractions which allow him to squelch ecstasy and anxiety. and tries to cover it over with a curtain of fantasy. As a matter of intestinal relief I am forced to share my foolishness with others. What is the fool protecting? Why his foolishness.T W O Overwhelm Yourself With The Luxury Every fool thinks he has something to lose. where everything is clear. And for that matter every fool has something to lose. as scarecrows to frighten away reality. tears. screams. Never be fooled by a long face or a quick tongue—it doesn't mean you know anything. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIE T W E N T Y . The individual suspects this. Have you ever heard of Jehovah having a good belly laugh? Or. for that matter.
before solutions to perceived problems can be effective. the base level of arousal must be reduced or raised to an appropriate level. In a similar manner. People will—and must—ignore cognitive rational solutions to the specific issue because the mind is over-aroused. for that matter. you might think that you should have paid attention to what you added. the water will overflow. In reality it is more important that you note was what was in the glass to begin with. Let's say you have two ounces of water in an eight ounce glass. the obvious qualities of anxiety and fear are really not so obvious at all. worry. emotional reactivity has more to do with the arousal base lines of the system than with most immediate conditions. the emotional component is obvious. as in worry. but one of interest is cognitive processing. When the glass is running over. The person is focused on the glass running over. Yet.LIE TWENTY-THREE THINKS HE HAS SOMETHING TO LOSE EVERY F o o l High Anxiety Probably the most misunderstood relationship is that between the cognitive process and emotion. Thus. problem solving or issue resolution does not necessarily remove the discomfort a person feels if the arousal base line is continuously high. But if the glass starts with seven ounces of water in it and you add the same two ounces. The reasons for this are many. In fact many 163 . While thinking can be enjoyable as an exercise. When the motivation is fear-based. thinking is always motivated. Thus. If you are prevented from seeing the amount of water in the glass before adding more. the glass will not overflow. the person is not able to process the internal state of high arousal. and. If you add two more ounces of water.
Thus simple cognitive intervention has a minimal effect. the perception of self may change when additional charge is added and/or when the charge is reduced.D. The net result is that the A N S becomes "good" at responding to internal cues and images. the fact that children can neither run nor fight back. it is perceived as both peculiar and normal—for him. When this type of learned reaction is coupled with the child's own hostile fantasies or "taboo" desires. The person lives in. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is commonly known as the flight-or-fight bio-survival system. In addition to this. anxiety itself is something to fear. In fact. but will have an altered sense of self if the charge is decreased. Hyatt Ph. It is designed to help organisms respond rapidly to life threatening situations. Thoughts about the past create a "past physiologic" reac- . and a real crisis can become a catastrophe. making many humans poor candidates for normal types of verbal therapies. These easily elicited dangers to the self-system create a vicious circle which is frequently difficult to extinguish without the use of drugs or alcohol. the person has strong emotional reactions to thoughts. In some people normal defenses to counter anxiety simply do not work. some people feel anxious— feel a sense of impeding disaster—when they relax. his sense of tension is felt as "normal"—as self. These people may be called chronic or life-style "phobics. the entire autonomic system begins to feed on itself. the onset of anxiety simply breeds more anxiety. The person has fight-or-flight reactions to phantoms. but their readiness to be anxious. The child feels intense anxiety over its own thoughts and feelings. it becomes either hyper-active or dulled." The important thing to keep in mind is that it is not the object or situation which frightens them. Thus a person can be beset with a multitude of problems for which no set of solutions appear to work. "little" things can become gigantic issues. When this child becomes an adult. or it remains active for long periods of time before resolution is allowed. That is. For example a child who must wait three hours for his father to come home to punish him. Thus. When the autonomic system is inappropriately "taught" to respond to symbols. assessing reality can become a difficult job. Anything. also develops into an overactive anticipatory fantasy life. In other words.764 To Lie is Human Christophers. which adds to their already high level of "readiness" is experienced as "dangerous" and cause an anxiety reaction. When the A N S baseline is high. the ability to reduce a specific anxiety is difficult. Sometimes this is due to high levels of charge and other times due to the fact that reducing charge creates a type of anxiety (perception of loss of identity) worse than the tension caused by the specific problems. People are not who they are. Whatever a particular person's baseline level of charge. they are "archaic figures" loaded with potential danger. Sometimes a person will not have an altered perception of self when the charge is increased. and an over-reactive nervous system makes a debilitating combination. develops a chronic state of flight/fight reactivity. repressed fears and desires. thoughts about the future easily create "future physiologic" reactions in the present. However. 165 problems are not problems at all—when the baseline arousal is at a low level. When working with people—or yourself—it is important to keep in mind that specific issues feed general charge levels and general charge levels determine the reactions to specific issues. Because of the high levels of arousal. fantasies and other internal states. The A N S is primarily a non-cognitive system. if a person is tense and charged most of the time. The interaction of an over-active fantasy life. When there are high levels of arousal. and I mean anything. So much for positive thinking? A proneness to high arousal levels is often a necessary condition to the experience of anxiety at a drop of a hat. and responds to. an over-reactive nervous system (his own reactions) and not to reality.
most experiences are a disappointment for them. H A R acts as an over-readiness to respond. every culture desires a particular BANS. Not only are they destructive to themselves. Nothing is ever enough. Their B A N S are so high that they are prone to various symptoms as well as to various forms of destructive self-medication. Not only do particular parental reactions affect B A N S . confounded and confused. shy. children raised in such environments are fundamentally dysfunctional. emotionally flat. A therapist. childhood training and interpersonal reactions. they cause unnecessary pain to their loved ones. Freudian." as well as the "past. Behaviorist or whatever. It becomes difficult for individuals to "give" themselves to the moment. violence. patients suffering from H A R have been labeled as ultra-sensitive. The here and now is continually blurred by these "physiologic" prejudices making the individual respond more to these "generated physiologic reactions" than those "caused" by the present. Depending on the types and the durations of threats. For these people the "future. although psycho-physiologically the organism reacts "as if it does. This baseline can be raised by the circumstances in which a child develops. 167 tion. they cannot flee). Some children respond more heavily to one type of stimulation or bodily condition than another. They are wrapped up in their own feelings. socially incompetent." are always heavily shading the now.. Alcohol. unmotivated. The baseline A N S can be elevated at any particular period within the child's development process. . Regardless of their apparent outward success. and secondarily to punish or reward the environment or self. The present is blurred. Each child is born with an autonomic nervous system (ANS) which has a particular hard-wired genetic baseline. A culture such as ours prefers a higher baseline than a traditional Polynesian one. (BANS). Neither H A R nor its reactions have a present tense survival value. If this occurs for a long period of time and over many developmental stages. Ph. Except in rare cases. dishonest or manipulative. child abuse and a myriad of addictions and compulsions. fearful. suicide. numerous external and internal cues will be classically and operantly conditioned to this level of arousal. In other words. since children can neither fight successfully with grownups.166 To Lie is Human Christophers. belief systems. can spend an entire lifetime providing insight and behavioral change with little fundamental change in the Baseline ANS. Because H A R is so high. The process is circular and self-perpetuating. nothing truly satisfies. nor can they get along successfully without adult assistance (i.D. Hyatt. depressed. hostile. After a period of time this state of chronic guardedness "slips" into the unconscious and is regarded as normal and natural by the person. the A N S baseline can be distorted to such an extent that the child begins to live in a state of chronic preparation. High Autonomic Reactivity (HAR) refers to the increased probability of an undifferentiated non-thinking emotionalthought reaction to a given set of internal and/or external factors. dull. highly anxious. Everything is highly charged with potential dangers and rewards. Frequently. It is our view that most forms of self-destructive behavior are primarily attempts to reduce the painful feelings associated with a high B A N S . since the origin of H A R is primal.e. most children's inborn A N S baseline falls within a healthy and functional range. Their internal state consists primarily of interactive physiologic reactions to the past and anticipation of the future. an environment which continually threatens them will lead to a very high A N S baseline. it is difficult for them to see things for what they are. Yet. As a group Americans have a higher baseline than might be desirable as measured by our levels of psychosomatic illness.
drugs. reason. Some individuals are easier to condition than others. the -1. H A R can inhibit and facilitate learning and learning can reduce or increase H A R . Minor and non-threatening situations can be built up into a catastrophe simply because of the high level of H A R . This doesn't imply that re-conditioning cannot alter H A R . Broadly speaking the funneled-confined type tends to restrict input. This makes normal behavioral re-conditioning of habits and self-defeating attitudes difficult at best. or sex compulsions. Such people are forever responding to internal cues and fantasies over which the therapist has little or no control. The level of tension is experienced as normal and natural and so is the self-medicating behavior whether it is excessive social contacts. alcohol.168 To Lie is Human Christophers. While this is true. sex. (We ." What he is resistant to is losing his sense of himself.5 standard deviation should be considered the theoretical ideal. in practice "life incompetencies" as well as H A R levels are treated at the same time." Logic. Average or normal H A R should be considered unhealthy since the population itself is pathological. since significant baseline changes in the level of H A R create a "rejection phenomenon" similar to organ rejection." but even these forms of self-medication do not relieve the pain of "ever-readiness. and the learning of new behaviors can be inhibited by H A R . This implies that learning new behavior can generalize to some degree and reduce H A R . Ph. This unfortunate fact makes it particularly difficult to help the patient and gives many clinicians the idea that the patient is "resistant to change. complexes. Thus H A R is an interpersonal event. The barreled-reactive has difficulty in restricting output. however. shopping sprees. and thus continue operating and are automatically reinforcing. until the general level of H A R is significantly reduced—although. The difficult issue is getting the co-operation of the patient. Very high levels of H A R create an internal environment where minor external changes take on significant consequences. although the reactions have been internalized into a detailed and elaborate fantasy life. The person experiences H A R reactions as natural and necessary rather than learned and happenstantial. The "automatic and habitual" quality of H A R and its correlated defense structures creates the belief that both H A R level and the defense structures are the person. food. H A R is normally distributed. Conditionability is also a function of autonomic reactivity and is different for various individuals. H A R is frequently painful and the organism develops defenses to reduce the pain. and insight have little lasting effect. and other such "addictions" provide some relief from the pain of being "ever-prepared.D. the general state of the person cannot be significantly altered by the learning of new behaviors. particularly if the therapist pays too much attention to the details of the environmental stimuli and the patient's explanations. 769 drugs. Statistically. Hyatt. Patients who suffer from this are very difficult to treat. It is difficult to "get a hold of the person" to help him learn. since the level of the flight-or-fight response is continuously high. but does suggest that careful consideration must be given to the various types and patterns in working out a particular program. and situations can be next to useless. the treating of specific symptoms. The majority of these H A R ' s are expressed in social interactions. Individuals who suffer from H A R are self-medicators and make-up the majority of the population now known as addicts. These defenses are most often developed automatically without critical evaluation or cognitive intervention. Defense structures fall into two very broad categories known as funneled-confined and barreled-reactive. In other words.
the goal of therapy is to reduce H A R to acceptable levels without severely disrupting the creative responses of the patient. and present level of organization. Compare your results.770 To Lie is Human assume the pathology of the masses on the bases of psychosomatic. the typical American family must be regarded as unhealthy. even though it is the statistical mean. others have read them and cried: some have liked a few while others have liked a lot of them. INSTRUCTIONS Go back to Lie Zero. But most individuals have not followed the instructions to rank each one. Diagnosis and treatment is a function of contextual defense structure. Only those who live from the belly CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF BOTH ENDS Some individuals have read these Lies and laughed.) In other words. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES 171 . type.F O U R The Tree Of Lies Revisited To Take Joy In Yourself Is The Greatest Crime. Your reactions will tell you where you stand and why you stand there. Regardless. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIE T W E N T Y . This procedure will provide an opportunity to know yourself better. Take the test again. Did you? If you follow the instructions and come back to your responses in a few days you will begin to see how your reactions have changed. stress-related diseases and the frequency and degree of interpersonal and family dysfunction and addictions.
I am responsible but I am not responsible. I am a father but I am not a father. I am a religious man but I am not a religious man. Other than this I am nothing. They are horrid because I have de-humanized 173 . I am a fool but I am not a fool. I am a category(s) only for other people's needs. I am a psychologist but I am not a psychologist. I am a devil but I am not a devil. I am a writer but I am not a writer. End of dream. I am a husband but I am not a husband. I am a liar but I am not a liar.LIE TWENTY-FIVE A Dead Man's Journal THE CATEGORY AS DEATH SENTENCE Every dream is a neural journal. I am a guru but I am not a guru. I am a man but I am not a man. I find them horrid. I am a doctor but I am not a doctor. I am a weakling but I am not a weakling. I am an occultist but I am not an occultist. I am a lover but I am not a lover. I am a businessman but I am not a businessman. I have a few enemies who help me stay awake. I am a criminal but I am not a criminal. What follows rolled about in my brain as this book came to an end: I am a philosopher but I am not a philosopher.
but something which I and others endure. If nature has a plan I don't know what it is. Legitimacy is always necessary after a blood bath. angry. but unlike most of us they believe they are truthful. I mistrust anyone who thinks they know nature's plan. Men have laws. When I am weak I feel vulnerable to everything. Very few people can tolerate my penetrating nature. I have done it for as long as six months. It seems that facts disturb people. I find nagging as a negotiation strategy despicable.774 To Lie is Human Christophers. "I can't pretend that I am humble. What follows are the journal entries of one of my most interesting enemies. I dislike having dinner with academic types. When I find myself on the ground I get depressed. The way I am is neither a virtue or a vice. It's what you do in spite of the existential condition that makes life interesting for yourself. I think that nothing is good enough for me. Sad to say I am not a hero for myself. Hyatt.. When I make up a story they feel better. I think that is impossible for anyone who lives in a skin. I get a thrill from true believers finding out that life doesn't care what they believe. I enjoy telling graduates of prestigious Universities that their great School is legitimate because it is built on the skeletons of dead Indians. When I am weak 1 make promises I can barely live up to. I resent people who write so small that you're forced to use a magnifying glass to read their writing. I hate pull over faded sweaters and think the 50's were a horror. Overall I can only tolerate so much. they flip. Ph. Some days I require pity and support and other days I require none at all. I don't like loud sounds or being yelled at. particularly when they are wearing their sweaters. No one can. No one in the world can provide me with what I need. Like myself they are corpses. What makes it tolerable for me is men who make something out of it— heroes. I can't. He recorded these remarks after working with my 250 Lies. I have contempt for humble people who have something to say. Smugness and humbleness go together for most men. I can't stand people who need to extract promises from me because they are anxious. I seem to see through words but I am blinded by 1 beauty. When I reflect on this I feel embarrassed. At that moment I hate the people who "made" me promise..D. I think that women who act as if their vulnerability to a male's violence gives them a sense of moral superiority are . Other days I will give my soul away not to be yelled at." I enjoy watching people who believe in the system losing what they value most. Some days I can fight like a Lion and not be bothered by the stress. They are filled with self-deceit like all of us. When I am strong I feel immune from everything. Humble people should remain silent. that my wings have been clipped. 175 them. I know that everything great was built on violence and blood. At one time I achieved true balance. I know how to make every reaction disappear. nature at best has "consequences. I am understanding and intolerant. I don't think the way I live is special or superior to anyone else's bad habits. I am a great joy and a pain in the ass. When I feel humble I am feeling vulnerable and weak.believing that I can fly. There is no such thing as natural law. I have a lot of fun. The only victories which I claim are those few over myself. I feel that the human condition is absurd. Some days I make up very good stories. every mood. When I tell someone that I didn't give them what they wanted because I wasn't interested in their needs today. After awhile I found that I was happier bouncing off ceilings and walls.
I'm not impressed by people who have to die. I have learned a lot from other people but had only one true teacher-friend. Hyatt Ph. Everyone I meet offends me. experiences. I dislike being rejected because I do not live up to someone else's desires. for he too is a center and forever reminds me how I hold on to my delusions to make "me work." A l l of what I have just said are simply experiences. hopes and fears. thoughts. I don't like people touching me unless they love me. I enjoy watching self-righteous people. I am very unaccepting of roles and appearances. I am my view points. I am impressed by people who make things happen. I soar the heights and sink to the depths. they are not the way I live or even think. I am forever amazed at its power. moods. but unfriendly. But they are reflections. It is amazing how powerful laughter is. I like the feeling of death close by—unless it's too close. I like to be held and hold others I love. The most self-centered person is always the one who is looking down at his shoes when he walks. What is fascinating about people is how they go about hiding their secrets and how they go about exposing them. That's only a half-truth.176 To Lie is Human Christophers. 777 fools." Well. I hope you are not depressed by these journal entries. I am basically kind. What their depression reveals is the refusal to admit that in the end they are not alone in their delusions. Everyone is struggling with the same issues in one form or another. Most everyone is hiding the fact that they are the center of the world. I laugh a lot. I do not have view points. yet I reject people because they don't live up to mine. As I said. Yet. The power of social rejection and ridicule is more powerful than violence.D. I know in the silence of the moment each person is naked and vulnerable. The more horrible a person feels about themselves the more self-centered they are. Very few people are capable of "seeing" when they are talking. Any woman who lives with a violent man is a coward. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES . I need enemies and who better than myself to wrestle with. Protecting my self-image has cost me more than anything else. The reason they hide this fact is because somehow they know that everyone else feels that way too. I am very moody and changeable. Their sense of moral superiority is fascinating.
A l l human behavior is violent. Remember lies are useful as well as dangerous. the act of collecting space. Violence." 179 . In reality all living things are doing the same thing—living off of other living things. The more complex and confusing the standards which motivate lying the more cowardly (though possibly) creative the liar. sick slaves. Making violence moral simply politicizes the making of weak. Civilization and the social contract have at their base the exchange of personal violence for collective violence repackaged as deception. The social contract exchanges the "right" of physical violence of the individual. the killing and transforming of energy sources is not a moral concept but a biological and psychological one. the act of living itself. We must ask ourselves who requires what set of lies to function. What makes humans different and possibly more dangerous is that we lie about it. Even digestion is violent. We agree to let other people be violent for us. the act of competing and negotiating.LIE TWENTY-SIX Violence The greatest cause of violence is the refusal to label violent behavior violent. It is time that some of us have the stomach to face up to what we are really doing. the act of getting more. for collective violence known as "justice. The use of the word violence in this context is usually reserved for physical violence against other people. By violence I mean.
are "unessential" in their content. There are no thieves—dishonest men—a priori. The upper-middle class (UMC) label these laws as necessary to protect weaker people from being exploited. For the doctor and lawyer it is called "service. like all groups. The worst of these is the upper-middle class. Direct exploitation runs a risk of revolt and a reduction in gross profits. "More" is what is wanted. We are then faced with the question: whose survival? Forced now to ask the question. as described by the Bible: the lawyer and the educationist. are allowed—up to a point—to steal. They thrive on regulatory agencies who are staffed by lesser (middle and lower-middle class) individuals who have nothing to lose if their regulation fails. As the "necessity" of these values—their "other-worldly" quality are simply assumptions. the secret to all this is to make these relativistic values "necessary" for life to continue—in other words. America was founded on violence and has survived on violence. They make the weaker minded impotent by using metaphysical concepts such as right and wrong. Nothing more or nothing less. Hyatt. But. Blood is too expensive for the strong. This they call education. they use law to steal and they use law to make impotent those who might rise against them. Boiled down. The truly strong find it inefficient to exploit weak individuals by physical violence." Too much competition is dangerous so they create more laws and regulations making it more difficult to compete with them. the whole procedure is a "club" with various levels of initiation." For the shopkeeper it is called "merchandising. like any other values. a man of virtue. This subgroup is intellectual. It is claimed by those who benefit most from the "social contract" that one of it purposes is to protect the weak from being exploited by the strong. "For whom?" For a man without a pan- . or whims—we are forced to ask the horrible question: "who do these values serve?" These values. rob and murder for profit. What they want is "more. When physical violence is seen as necessary and the goal is reached. They only become so within a system of relativistic values which change as the wind blows. The only differences are that they do it on a small scale and the label it differently. "More" is the answer. Then the leaders tell the victims that violence is not a solution to their problems. Ph. Law is the ultimate act of camouflage. That is the idea of an honest man. They use law to commit murder. This assertion is the bait which most everyone can agree with because everyone from time to time feels weak and dependent. cowardly and inflated. etc. and prefers lawyers and slight of hand to guns. moral and immoral. This is the middle class. it is violence. Everyone is a thief. The social contract allows the development of a class of individuals which act as a protective buffer between the upper and lower classes. necessary for survival. Like all governments. Insurance policies are cheaper and more profitable." Whatever it is called. 787 In other words.780 To Lie is Human Christophers. the first act of the victor is to outlaw the use of further physical violence. much like the strong. It is important to note that all that I have said is true only if we assume that the lies of the propagandists are true. They use law to steal from each other. The nice thing about this plan is that everyone is doing it to everyone else. no one likes to be stripped of his camouflage. Yet when individuals act violently to assure their existence they are beaten-up by the system. It removes the guilt and shame from the individual for not "fighting" his own battles and "justifies" his cowardly and sneaky behavior.D. "What is necessary for survival?" I reply. This is a gross deception. Thus we are left with a relativistic picture making the moral tone of my discussion simply misleading. To make such harsh statements as this will not make me popular. The intermediate class. There are no honest men. The social contract allows the strong to exploit the weak without fear of their own blood being shed. good and bad. the concept of justice is "necessary" for the practice of collective violence.
assume this to be true. and some of the upper-upper class nervous. the means for "more" is restriction and not freedom. Now is the patient interested in paying for . "More" is also self-defined. The purpose of law is first and foremost to prevent those in power from losing it. psychoanalysis is allowed to be labeled a treatment. As men are different. What is "necessary" for "more?" For one thing. For a man without lungs an artificial breathing device is necessary." The majority of the population requires more safety without the concern of price. a three letter word for violence.782 To Lie is Human Christophers. "More" control can only occur by reducing variability (individual differences). as a rule. the "mores" which they desire are different in kind and in degree. This is created by law." If we can. used properly. A "golden mean" is created.D. If the end was "more" the means to accomplishing "more" is creating "less. Hyatt. It keeps the upper-lower class." In fact. Yet." What I am positing is that the means have become "more" important. LIES BUILT UPON LIES BUILT UPON M O R E LIES Psychoanalysis is a prime example of lies built upon lies. what we observe is that the "essential and more" of civilization is now creating "less." Thus. but felt. The street poor understand this too. but are unable to apply it beyond certain limited situations. remove the same phobia in five years for a cost of $50. man is interested in "more" and not simply in staying alive like other animals. albeit necessary propaganda for those who require massive amounts of illusions. many psychoanalysts understand this and justify their "profession" by calling it "research" into how the mind works. Those who really understand the problem of information and wealth are fortified by the underground. Yet. "more" essential than what they are supposed to resolve." and the only way around the "less" is to violate the "more" factor of civilization. In other words we have a means-ends reversal. time. the lower-upper class. But is this all that civilization promises? Less painful and horrifying ways of dying and having unused goods? No. a treatment which fails almost consistently should not be called a treatment. Civilization means safety for those who require it and from our analysis they seem to far outweigh the ones who prefer freedom and "more. A psychoanalyst cannot. And what is the payment? The possibility of having "less. They know what it means to live off of refuse. Man survives to make "more. the foundation of life itself is a value system which might have its basis in the nature of man himself and not in other worldliness. there is conflict and the purpose of civilization is to provide bloodless means of resolving these conflicts and allow for the creation of "more. But. as we said earlier. they know that information. For one man "more" can mean "more" lovers. the entire middle class. 783 creas insulin is necessary. And this is something we would expect from the "more" hypothesis. They know what it means to kill or be killed.000. What is wanted is "more" control. allowing for "more" control. I knew one fellow who spent his entire life figuring out ways not to be hurt by other people. A l l other explana- tions are propaganda. a world not seen. A more interesting question is "What is necessary for life to expand" since." The majority of the population demands "more" without payment. for a moment. Ph. It takes years of training to do nothing but provide an environment where change takes place simply because of time and a change of "scenery. Yet there it is. No matter what plan he came up with he always found "more" ways to improve it until he reached a point when he figured out that he couldn't afford the money it would require to build his ultimate fortress. Yet. the question I have asked concerning survival is misleading. the middle-upper class. creates wealth and that true wealth creates information. Now. what about those who require less illusion and more freedom? This desire is the beginning of the underground. However. for another "more" can be safety. A behaviorist can remove a phobia in a few months for $1000.
as long as the Doctor is qualified by some qualifying agency. The longer an institution exists the further it is separated from the blood it shed to establish itself. To call it treatment is like calling blood-letting a treatment for fever when an antibiotic is cheaper and more effective. Of course. The labels make it both attractive and workable. be they Freudians or Jungians or whatever? They are the upper-middle class." And what is their evidence? Well? Who are these psychoanalysts. There is no blood.184 To Lie is Human this? Of course not. it hides the blood. They say it is not a cure and new symptoms will occur. the profession of psychoanalysis creates psychopathology and patients—eternal patients—some staying in "treatment" for as long as 20 years. What is the evidence for this claim? "Freud or so and so said it. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES LIES BUILT UPOM LIES BUILT Upon MORE Lies . And what qualifies the qualifying agency? Law. There is little scientific evidence available to show that the "treatment" called psychoanalysis is any better than "maturation" or time itself. Time not only heals wounds. Their hands are clean. this form of violence is done legally and morally. psychoanalysts have much to say about more effective treatments. where did the law come from? From those who had the power to enforce their will upon others and then outlaw the possibility of someone doing the same to them. Thus physical violence is filtered through enough labels and procedures that it no longer appears as violence. As laws create criminals. Yet. those who get "more" by acts of deception. Psychoanalysis is simply a holding intervention at best. of course. Psychoanalysis is safe because it can do little harm to a person except separate him from his money and prevent him from getting a treatment which might be of value. the more "legitimate" it appears to its "graduates" and to the public. Yet.
more and more people are becoming outlaws— not because they want to—but because they are made to by the State's creation of more and more laws. As humans owned by the State this entails. They apply everything to their limited perspectives and goals. your body is owned by the State. a few computer whiz kids can outsmart the State's computers. Today. among other things. Corral Do not be fooled by technology or the information explosion. Insects do what insects do. Today.LIE TWENTY-SEVEN The Information TrapGun-Fight At The O. The town sheriff and the outlaw were more or less evenly matched. True. can be tracked instantly. No one had to carry holographic computer encoded driver licenses with them. If people didn't like an area or violated a law they simply moved on. As always there will be "good" 187 . Compare this to the outlaw-rebel of 100 years ago. being kept track of. Proportionally. cash will all but disappear in the near future. Thus information and technology alone are not enough to free man from his enslavement. In fact slavery has increased since the days of the Wild Wild West. and your location. but when you compare the equipment the State has with the equipment any one individual has. Every one of us is considered a "Human Resource. Now everyone is kept track of. more people had freedom then than now. the difference is overwhelming. your purchases. With credit cards. more than ever." We all know that resources are owned and the owner has the right to do what he will with his resources.K.
Death has not been conquered. the State becomes obliged to care for them. "The meek shall inherit the earth. As the burden of this becomes more pronounced and as individuals demand more security. With new frontiers there is hope for people to have a life of their own again. The collision between insectoid values and the human forebrain has so far been won by the insects. and in other places. More and more slavery. responsible for so much human misery will find its place along side the dinosaur in the Museum of Natural History. But those of us who wish to suffer the consequences of our own "mistakes" and triumphs will be free to leave. With new frontiers there is adventure and with adventure there are possibilities which only science fiction appreciates. Nothing will remain the same. The process of enslavement. it has also created more docility and slavery. this filthy evil.S. when the system collapses of its own weight. Since the parent is in severe debt it can only remain in its role by printing money or by cutting costs or by raising taxes. however. This era of slavery will have passed and those of us with vision and fortitude will be remembered as the first "men" of tomorrow. Those willing to take the risks will leave and those who require parenting will stay behind." This will be the legacy of the insect. not in the role of the slave. The planet Earth is only a way-station floating in space. the State of necessity must surrender its control or perish. You can see how this process occurs in the demise of the U. This is so ironically expressed in the phrase. As the State raises more and more funds to fulfill its role as the Ultimate Parent." Instead the State will begin to spend money on frontiers. but as the Gods we imagine. This is so because nothing has been created which puts an end to fear and trembling. Humans will have the opportunity to explore the vastness of the Universe. Our whole archaic system will collapse—and this includes the . Every new device remains in the service of the hive. A l l these methods will lead to disaster. If humans are property of the State. He will have his hive. BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES reasons for this. not because of the State's virtues but because of its fears. its children will become more and more dissatisfied with the little bit that is returned.S. but as always the result is the same.188 To Lie is Human atomization of the nuclear family.R. This sacred cow. can only continue up to a point. There is no need for riots or revolution since the burden of debt itself will cause the State to "get out of the child rearing business. Although technology has created more leisure. a tremendous change will take place. When death is conquered (which in my view w i l l happen within fifty years).
they do not even serve their own interests. Each is hard-wired to believe that his or her experiences are primary and "necessary. It is difficult for it to view its learning as accidental. Each believes that it is civilized because it wears clothes. "Humans" are more ape-like than they would like to believe. early programming remains with the organism almost regardless of cortical feedback. modeling. Not only do they not serve the interests of the planet. For the most part they do not think but rather— have thoughts.LIE TWENTY-EIGHT The Nature Of The Beast I am not going to pull any punches here. beliefs and training stay with most people until they die. This argues for a tribal form of intelligence. they are nothing more than different styles of doing 191 . Their vision of the whole is extremely limited. While cultural differences seem profound to some. While they use the technique of logic they are not rational. has shelter. For example. Regardless of the cortical processes or "consciousness. dedicating most of its life to this function. Almost every member of the species does the same thing within a set limited range." The organism views happenstance as a necessity. The nature of the beast is quite depressing. Each organism is fundamentally set to re-produce itself." early childhood trauma. the fact that early childhood training affects the organism to the degree it does argues for a very primitive species. Each believes that it has free-will when more often than not it is responding to limited and distorted hedonic and biological needs. drives a car and can talk.
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the same thing. Cultural differences are primarily due to geography, genetics and experience. To sum it up the human being is not quite so human after all, but is an animal with speech, larger cortex, etc. What makes the human being dangerous to itself and the planet is that it can only compare itself to apes and "gods." Thus its perspective is extremely limited. It has a difficult time changing itself regardless of all the technological advances it has made. In my view these "advances" are minimal and late in coming. Very little has been done to change man's out-of-control breeding patterns to fit with developmental and planetary goals. There is very little brain technology to develop the cortex, to aid in re-programming the brain and overcome the early imprinting and conditioning of the lower brains. The so-called educational system is a joke. The majority of Ph.D's. can neither think nor apply their knowledge. The beast is insecure, frightened and aggressive. It is dangerous to itself, the gene pool, and the planet. I view the human as a developing system with the potential to become more than what it currently is. I only see this potential as an opportunity—I do not view a potential as a necessity. In other words, the human being is a question mark. Neither optimism nor pessimism can account for the energy and force required to enhance human potential. Courage, power, intelligence and hard work are necessary. These attributes alone can overcome the limitations of gravity, stupidity and death. I repeat the quote from Dr. Robert Lindner. As you read, replace the word "psychotherapy" with "brain-technologies" and replace the word "recovery" with "aiding of individuals and groups." If I am accused of being optimistic because I have utilized this quote I can only say that neither optimism nor pessimism has made a rose grow. My point of view comes from my inability to tolerate my own energy in a highly restrictive world.
"...the various psychotherapies have as their job the recovery of individuals and groups for evolution so that those whose
What's Left Over? How Much Fun And Status Can You Have?
BY NICHOLAS THARCHER A l l your life you've been told that if you "work hard" you will "succeed"—you will have "money and power." Do you really believe that if you work hard you will succeed? "Of course not," you say, "any fool knows that you can work as hard as you like at street sweeping and all you get is a clean street." And, of course, you are right. Working hard, by itself, is not sufficient and may not even be necessary. So now we ask: what can you have by trying to live out the "American dream?" Is it possible for you to be "useful and harmless" and still have any fun, status and power? Let's see. So things don't get too complicated, we'll make a few simplifying assumptions. (As honest men, we cannot help but to reveal assumptions; we abhor "assertions" made under the guise of "truth." Another lie?) The income figures are deliberately at the high end of "middle-" to "upper-middle class." This is not simply to make our case stronger (it does), but because we assume
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This chapter is strictly for those of you in, or aspiring to be in, the "middle class." If you are truly poor you already know the lie of the "American dream"; and if you are truly wealthy, you don't care. These words are being written in 1992 using U.S. dollar income and expense figures. If our expectations of financial conditions in the next few years come to pass, readers in the future may find these numbers "quaint."
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So let's say you have "worked hard" and. etc.) Fuel 50 Repairs 50 Food 300 Utilities 50 Phone 60 Clothing 100 Dry Cleaning 100 (Not cheap to keep an office job. "I'm comfortable.) Total $2.. (And.000 for an "econobox" to $200. Hyatt.000 for the year—$2916 each month. That gross amount shrinks pretty quickly through the magic of "deductions.D. W e ' l l be fairly frugal here." (Or are you? According to the federal income tax rate structure.672. a single person making this much is getting pretty close to "rich. I got a good job. / make $55K!" Sure you do.000. And there may be more deductions for health insurance. pension plans and more. So let's say you spend some of it on current pleasures: One dinner at a better than average restaurant for two each month is $100. Two cheap dates each month is $50 (A movie ticket is $7." "Blue collar workers" quote an hourly wage.672 for the year. and lawyers) quote annual income to non-professionals and hourly to each other and to customers (especially true for shrinks and lawyers). dental insurance. Most of us need some enjoyment now. shrinks." What kind of power.) 1 So how much do you have left after all of these "deductions?" Maybe $35. Here's a monthly budget for your basic needs: 199 that if you are at all interested in fun.) How you quote your income tells people your "class. The list can seem staggering.S.) Insurance 150 (For the car.. with an income of $55. Add more if you carry other insurance. and sometimes deductions for city income taxes. is it?) Medical 50 (Not everything is covered by insurance. lower level "white collar workers" quote monthly gross and middle/upper level "white collar" types quote annual income. and power and have an average dose of creativity and smarts. etc. in 1992. a concert ticket is lots more. he may be talking about you. usually deductions for state income taxes. a down payment of $3000. This is called "disposable income. stereo etc.. disability taxes. W e ' l l pick an "average" car: cost about $17. "Oh yeah. security.g. The income and expense figures are more or less typical for a middle class neighborhood around a large city in the U." Remember that the next time some politician talks about "soaking the rich". You could save it all. as such." There are deductions for federal income taxes. and financed over 5 years.198 To Lie is Human Christophers. Truly wealthy people do not deal in any of these terms and use a qualitative vocabulary—e.g.000 or so for an "exotic" sports car. most people simply ignore them all together. such as Los Angeles or Chicago. but that gives you a monk's life with no fun or status until later—you hope. you are thirty years old and single with a Gross Annual Income of $55.. Ph. After all. Now you need to live on this.000 you're not "rich. fun or status can you have for $9. doctors. there are deductions for social security taxes.50." Remember this the next time you want to give someone a particular impression of your economic class. disability insurance. status.) Miscellaneous Loans 200 (Furniture.) 1 . "Professionals" (e.110 You are left with $806 a month—$9. you probably can find a way to earn at least this much.000. Joe. 1 Rent $700 (A modest one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles) Car Payment 300 (Car prices range from $8.
Looking better. you might appeal to the Great Goddess Hope. you're rich!!) Monthly net income: $2.000. Let's say you save $3.200 To Lie is Human Christophers.000 this year.000 Vacation $5." So you might want to save some of this for your future security. if you set it up as an annuity for ten years.800 on modest entertainment. Go to Las Vegas. a 4% inflation rate and no taxes on the income from these investments. the number is about $573. if you don't take out any principal. Not much of a retirement fund is it? (If we didn't factor out inflation.300—less taxes.340 Disposable income: $2.) When the year is done.500 Maybe you support some causes and/or people that you care for and give some modest gifts over the year: $500 Disposable income left: $4.100 per year—less taxes. Play the commodities markets for a few days.000 And that leaves $14. Hyatt. Sounds better. Now you can start feeding some of your status needs. annually. ("What about Social Security. .872. Now you probably have $0 left.872 By the time we get to age 30 most people feel a need to "provide for the future. your annual income will be about $9. (If you continue to do this for the next thirty-five years. So how much do you have at age 65? Just over $228. Go on.904 for the year. Live it up.000." you ask? Don't ask. Take out: Entertainment $3. Couple's gross is $110. had a little fun and made some provision for the future.832 (Taxes and other deductions are about the same). On the other hand. (Wow. What kind of status or power or fun can you have with that? What to do? Well.916x2 = $5.492 per month x 12 = $29.000 Gifts $1.) Two Car Payments 500 (One's a cheaper car) Car Insurance 250 Fuel 100 Car Repairs 100 Food 500 Utilities 70 Phone 120 Dry Cleaning 200 Clothing 200 Medical 100 Miscellaneous Loans 300 Total $3. What's left? $1.000. After taking out inflation your gross return is 4%. Check it out for yourself.000 Retirement funds $6. you spend $1. 201 So. No good. you've lived modestly. take some chances. how much will you have at your "retirement?" W e ' l l assume an 8% return. you can get $28.000.D. Let's say that each of you earns a gross of $55. Ph. doesn't it?) Now. Here are your expenses: Rent $900 (You do need a bigger place.904 disposable. Aha! How about getting married! Now you have the possibility of two incomes and the entertainment of the relationship besides! So let's find someone you can stand being around for more than five minutes and who's also interested in supporting your ideals of fun and power. Take a vacation: 2 weeks at $2. Have fun in your old age. We doubt there will be much for you thirty-five years from now.
if you are the average lower. dentists. clothes.S. You might borrow the down payment from your parents. wait a minute. Immortality! "Wait a minute. school. If you're a car buff. repairs and insurance will strain the budget a bit. all of this is highly simplified. there's still something left that can give you an enormous sense of meaning and a tremendous feeling of power for the rest of your life. How about buying a house! Isn't that the key to the American Dream? A house could be just the ticket to status. otherwise. Hyatt Ph.D. look at your 1 Of course. but with your hopedfor better-than-average salary raises over the next four years. most people with Rolexes never wear them for fear of being robbed. you should be able to scrape by. You might find a low. You have your dream house and spend your weekends and holidays and vacations gardening and mowing and fixing and improving. like most people.904 plus the rent of $10. What else might you do? You're still living in a modest no-status apartment. "What about my work. And. . drugs. Property taxes.000 for a 20% down payment plus "closing costs. Y o u ' l l need a down payment of $20.000 (you'll manage that "somehow") and payments of about $1. sex. What's that? Children. Think of it! Eighteen or more years of every kind of decision and confrontation and moralism. In rural areas.or no-down payment "deal" with owner financing.400 a month (for the next seven years). of course. But don't dwell on those costs too much. you might get a lot of satisfaction from this choice. Maybe even great grandchildren. for cash. Instead look forward to the joys of being a homeowner." you say. You're saving up for the room additions and kitchen renovations and maybe a pool. Look at your parents. How much money do you need? For a slightly better than average house in Los Angeles figure a price of $350.202 To Lie is Human Christophers. Toys may give you some fleeting status.000 per year.) Y o u ' l l need $70." To cover that you'll need to save all of your disposable income for about the next four years. of course. at a total cost of about $100. Don't I get any satisfaction or status or power from that?' Well. 203 What to do? What to do? Do you get something right now or save up and get something more substantial later? What are some of your options? How satisfying will each of them be for you? Right now you can buy. (How much will you need each month to pay for this house? Assuming a 9% mortgage for thirty years your 1 payments will be about $2. you'll need new furniture and carpeting and drapes. You probably won't be able to wear the watch very much these days. Because soon you'll feel the same emptiness you've felt after the shine has worn off any new toy. Of course. But don't look too closely at that end of it." no. some of these options could mean higher monthly payments. but where's the power? Well.000. Diapers. a couple of medium priced Rolex watches. You 're getting a lot of action! You have a sense of purpose and maybe even a little sense of meaning.) You are now 34 years old. the same price could get you a near mansion. doctors. plus the additional income tax deduction from the mortgage interest payments. Not quite enough.250 a month—$27.or middle-class "worker. (Currently there's a lot of variation in the cost of the same house in various parts of the U. too. And in your "golden years" you can look forward to grandchildren. How about "upscaling" the cars? (I just love Yuppietalk?) You could trade in your inexpensive. the excitement will wear off years before the payments do. low-status cars for a high status matched pair of Mercedes Benz's. Y o u ' l l have the $14. You might qualify for special financing.000. you don't get much of anything from your work except a paycheck. music.800 you're currently spending. you might lose hope and get depressed.
Live off the fictions of others. work is slavery—figuratively and literally. Any variation from the program is rebellious. A l l three excesses are shallow. you must feel "gratitude" for the "privilege" of having been born. there's a neverending parade of sharks and parasites waiting to take it from you. and insist upon the worship of pre-existing forms. Become a politician. On the other hand. the worship of randomization leads into obscurity. adolescent and psychopathic. the world's feedback. and feedback processing—all under the direction of the creative identity—your discretion. So this is life—life as you've been trained to live it. By itself." When you have been properly "socialized. 1 SOME METHODS OF CREATION BY JAMES D.. by right. NEWMAN Humanity's most delightful potency is that of the creative response. designed to break down the fear of new information. The check on this process. It is not a formula for the creation of BECOME WHO YOU ARE THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES Better yet." In this worship of images they lose touch with reality's dynamic aspect.204 To Lie is Human colleagues and friends. and to breed. you have to find another way. the worship of the new leads easily into dilettantism. Your masters demand that. If you want real power. Do what they do. They only see what is and refuse what is coming to be. and the fear of the world's response to your individual creative endeavor. Learn from them. and through the world around them. when to piss and where to shit. like any good slave. many adults restrict their creative response. naming them "God. necessary to prevent dynamism from disintegrating into chaos. We are born with the ability to look upon a blank page and fill it with patterns from our imaginations. read Christopher Hyatt's The Psychopath's Bible: For the Extreme Individual (New Falcon Publications. 2003) and learn. and there are plenty of guns— governmental and theological—to back up their whining. the undue respect given to established systems. or to look upon existing patterns and imagine new ways in which they can be combined and interpreted. What kind of power and status can a slave have? If you do get close to any real power. There are those who already have power." and "Reality. Look at those who already have power. The process described in this essay combines gathering. Out of fear and shame. They force you to go to a "school" where authoritarian strangers indoctrinate you in "getting along.. They "teach" you how to talk and how to eat. If your masters have done their jobs properly. they can count on you to train your offspring to do it all over again—and then it's time for you to get out of the way and die. they see you as a threat to their power. and the worship of feedback leads to slavery to popular opinion. Do they wake up each morning yearning to work? Do you? What kind of joy or meaning can you get from working on an assembly line or behind a desk? For most people. all three fail the creative spirit. your decision. Two powerful methods of breaking down the worship of false gods are the acquisition of new information and the randomization of existing information. both as expressed through themselves." it's time for you to work. there are the inadequate and incompetent who claim anything they "need" as theirs. is productive creative work expressed into the world. but not surrender to. and honest assessment of. randomizing. It is an exploration. 1 205 .
. start the exercise by visualizing your harshest critic clearly in your mind. 4) The worst thing about the world is. By hand. (This simple step separates magicians from book collectors and dilettantes. it's perfect. If it exists. you are probably 15 minutes away from a library with a reference section. These exercises are for you. 207 art. you are not creating art. Satisfactory completion of the .206 To Lie is Human Christophers.. I invite you to push beyond! PHASE I Gathering Dead Wood a) Get a journal.D. copy the entire listing for your words out of an Unabridged Dictionary and the Dictionary of Etymology.. You are gathering dead wood with which to build a fire. 3) My favorite thing about myself is. and why. Hyatt. grammar. your hyper-critical best friend.. b) A passage selected randomly from my least favorite book. The reference librarian will be happy to show you the Unabridged Dictionary. These are the big branches that need to be chopped into kindling. 5) The most interesting sexual game is.. A moderately intelligent person with some effort and a reference library could take over the world. use it.e.. Select some words that look neat out of the Thesaurus's listing.. no attention whatsoever to rules) on one of the following premises: a) The strongest emotion I felt today and the circumstances which gave rise to it. Each phase of the overall exercise has advanced workings for further development. Never read a dead wood essay critically. Perform the Banishing Ritual of the Middle Finger and bellow the following space claiming formula at the image: "This is my fucking exercise and I don't give a good God Damn what you think of it!" Clearly see the image of your critic dissolve into a little pool of slime to be washed away by a gentle rain (or monsoon. change the flashing 12:00 on the V C R . there are no wrong answers—from your dead wood pile and list them in your journal. A really creative person should be able to capture the feel and sense of these exercises and apply them to other kinds of expression and work.. and look them up. write a brief (three to five page) essay in your journal with the dead wood rules (i. etc... morality. You are not writing poetry. It is an exercise for the exploration of the extension of the creative identity. it just needs to burn. end world hunger. Ph. 2) The person I hate the most is. coolness. c) My most fulfilling daydream/fantasy and the situation immediately around me when I was having it. not for your tenth grade English teacher. . When you get free power. Select the five most interesting words—your choice.. start a new religion. and Roget's International Thesaurus. If it helps you to get the ball rolling.. Dead wood need not be pretty or original. d) What would I do if I had sufficient power to change one thing about the world finally and absolutely. or any other self-appointed god of good writing. the Dictionary of Word Histories (also called the Dictionary of Etymology). Advanced Exercise At the end of each day.) Treat yourself to something fun when you are finished. Ignore any internalized rules: originality. PHASE II—STEP I Cutting Kindling If you are lucky enough to live in an industrialized nation.) b) Write two pages on each of the following (be totally uncritical): 1) I believe that. Give each word a page to itself.
Let the natural explorer inside you come alive. Advanced Exercises a) Select five reference volumes at random. etc. This method has been adapted from the works of William S. Revise your first attempt a couple of times. mathematics. analogy. It is important that you try your best. but don't rely solely on random forces for your poems. your random wandering through the research bins. 209 exercise demands only two copied listings for each of your five words. Advanced Exercises a) Purchase a good rhyming dictionary that contains a section dedicated to poetic forms (i. These are highly specialized and difficult volumes full of neat information.e. Any two ideas can be related. sound. Jot down anything interesting that you find. complete sentences. based solely on your cut-up exercise. Don't worry about cutting words in half. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. and ideas that you don't understand. Look up the results and put any interesting correspondences or new information that you find into your journal.D. Delve into arcane branches of physics. to the best of your ability. you are allowed to make up new words whenever you want. your kindling pile.) Try to write a poem that fits the forms. start four more simultaneously. admire the results of your labor. relate your words and ideas from a dead wood paper to the subject matter covered in the reference volume. and type the finally completed form. PHASE II—STEP II Photocopy your journal pages (maximum of eight. haiku. Piling too much wood on a tiny flame will only quench it. but lots and lots of word groups.. Beware ye unwary practitioners of this most deadly and dangerous magic! An infinite universe is opening before you! PHASE III Lighting the Fire Enter stage left. if any. elegies etc. Utilize your new research skills to add complexity in moderate doses. Do your best with your understanding of rhythm. Advanced students should check out their other methods for empowering the creative response. sonnets. and tape together a resulting page or two. symbols. and linguistics. Select from the kindling at random. When you have five poems. it is not important that your critical self approve of your results. Photocopy it all and cut it up if you wish. Don't worry about whether or not you understand what you read. adjust wording which you find awkward. Remember not to expect too much or to be too hard on yourself. title them by opening books randomly until you find a phrase that you like. Don't . allusion. These poems are going to be magical formulae which you will utilize for one of the most feared and powerful rituals in the arsenal of a magician: "Prophesying from the Mouths of the Dead. Use your dead wood pile. the first sustained effort on the part of the creative identity: Write a poem. Learn to tolerate ambiguity and frustration." Correct the poem's spelling. Resist the temptation to believe that aliens are communicating with you. Try to look up words. or five that are unfamiliar to you. Hyatt.) Cut up the pages so that there are very few. Resolve to explore a minimum of ten new journals or reference volumes a month. including your word research. When you finish the first edition of one poem. b) Go to a University library and venture into the section where the research journals are kept. not for this exercise anyway.208 To Lie is Human Christophers. so look for unusually elegant or clever relations. By any means necessary. Ph. Copy it into your journal and underline the parts which tickle you. or which seem particularly strange and interesting.
in that they act as channels to other more creative people (saints. Ph.D. priests. Tape-record the session.. 277 worry about the quality or inspiration at first. This transformation of twaddle into art. is the key to living free in a hateful and hostile world. biases that are obvious from their emotional reactions. Work over your conversations in terms of what you wish you had said." Most people have pretty firm ideas about things. and place one copy in your own journal. or the lack thereof. shoot for accuracy. Do not tell them that they are reading your poem. with their permission. still others that they have the only ideas. in terms of what you wish the other had said. pick any two at random and attempt to combine them. Don't worry about relevance. contributing nothing of themselves.) By learning the One True Doctrine. It shows how to creatively interpret input from non-creative sources. prophets. Include general rules that your zombies hinted at.270 To Lie is Human Christophers. talk show hosts. When you are done. and so become vehicles for the One True Doctrine. we recognize this inevitable phenomenon as neither good nor evil and concern ourselves only with how we can take advantage of it. Always put the latest edition of whichever poem you are working with in your journal. and so forth. A frightening number of these people go so far as to believe that they are right! Some even think that their ideas are God's ideas. Take your five "essays" and from them playfully derive rules for the criticism of poetry.. Hyatt. they eliminate the need to struggle with uncertainty which is faced by the rest of us mere humans. From a combination of all five recordings. Give yourself a few days with this exercise. contemporary issues. politics. they speak! "That's not art!" (in a groaning whining voice) "That's immoral!" "That's not good enough!" As magicians. Correct the spelling on the final edition. While normally these impotent souls wander the face of the earth producing and consuming. They surrender the creative identity and their right to be wrong. Type one copy as if for publication in a literary journal. b) Try to rewrite conversations you had during the day. religion. Don't consciously mock your critics—develop with all possible sincerity the Only Right Method for interpreting poetry. any strong opinions that they actually expressed. which transforms the inane babbling of the world's wraiths and zombies into still further creation is called "Prophesying from the mouths of the Dead. under the direction of the creative identity. Advanced Exercises Play the same game as you did with poetry interpretation with sex. transcribe the interesting parts of the interview into your journal. Take your five channels and tell them (one at a time) that you are doing an exercise for a writing class. This exercise. This part of the exercise is very important. which they have picked up here and there. Once you have about ten short conversations in your journal. Have fun with it. derive a single passionate (if self-contradictory and absurd) theory of literary criticism. Ask them questions about poetry in general. PHASE IV Prophesying From The Mouths Of The Dead The creative fire of a magician has the most amazing effect on the uncreative dead. like social diseases. and that you want their help in interpreting a poem you have culled from a contemporary literature journal. and direct its energy in creative directions. when they behold the creative fire. Hopefully you can find five people who have been told by God that they are Right. These people are a wonderful resource. Collect the most vehement and absurd opinions in . People who invoke these considerations too much before settling down to work are just looking for a reason to cop out.
however. this work was in vain. Not dedication to some group. let alone perform the entire operation. you decide what you accomplished. than not to do it at all by making too much of it. more difficult. or system. idea. The best results come from truly pompous and self-righteous people. It doesn't matter which one. most people find this hard to do. But science has shown us that immortality is a simple biochemical problem (even if they seem unwilling to solve it). For most of them. The goal is not to actually publish something per se. When the responses come. You may wish to do this under a pen name. Send your five poems to another journal. 213 . cut up photocopies of them into your poems. The world is filled with people who cut themselves off unnecessarily from the bounty of information and opportunity which surrounds them. Overcome restriction. In reality.) Learn to deal with being an object for someone else's criticism. these types of methods will only succeed in putting you further and further into hypnosis. and analyze it according to the theory which you made up in the previous section. and send it to the literary journal. Immortality is another story. Personal change is not so simple. Write me with your success stories! THE MAGIC PILL OF ENLIGHTENMENT BY JOHN DEMMITT Dr. PHASE V Cooking Your Food and Keeping Warm— Publish or Perish ? Don't get all caught up in this part of the exercise. demand $50 apiece for them. Strangely. I am well aware of the fact that 95% (Am I being generous?) of the people who read this book will not even take the time to go through the aphorisms even once. Now. but merely to get over the fear of submitting your work (there are analogies beyond writing here. if anything. and congratulate yourself on being one of the few with the guts and the energy to see through a difficult project to its completion. Hyatt has said in several of his works that the Law of the New Aeon is DO IT. try to publish these as letters to the editor in the local papers. Learn to stand naked! Find a journal of contemporary poetry at your local university library or the closest thing to which you have access. Select an interesting poem. The rest of the way requires hard work and dedication. But a very few of them actually were willing to dedicate themselves to good. Demand $500 for the right to publish your work. It is better that you do it poorly and get it done. The thought of a magic pill reminds me of the alchemists of old (and new) who were seeking the elixir of life. tape them into your journal. and were able to achieve some change in their character structure. considering that this is one of the simpler exercises capable of creating real change. Just reading this book can only take you so far. My message is simple: THERE ARE NO MAGIC PILLS! Anyone or anything that claims to be an easy way or an easy path is just a way of catering to your Zombie self. Synthesize widely varying but equally emotionally intense positions into opinion papers or political platforms for non-existent parties.272 To Lie is Human your journal. but dedication to yourself. Write up your analysis. practical work. couple it with a statement of your theory. practices. My assumption makes me wonder how many of the 5% who do the exercises will then go on to other. It is sad.
No magic pill is going to cure this. where everything stays constantly the same.D. anxiety. Feeling depressed? Go see a shrink. No book is going to cure this. achieve what? Only a deeper hypnosis. Flu? Go get a shot. if it makes you feel both "good" and "bad.e. and lots of time. the cycle continues. I ask. So the vicious cycle begins. Which of course leads to other symptoms which "society" views as "abnormal. where everyone is happy. 215 It is understandable that most people are looking for this magic pill. Only good.. violence. And why so much fear? Because they believe that it is not "normal." suicide. and not symptoms of abnormal function. rape. Virus? Penicillin. if it makes you feel "good. So if the premise is wrong. might also be the conclusion? Our "irrational" natures are not supposed to be there. it died because it failed. in most cases. Not only does that reality not exist anymore. It took a very few years in childhood to create this fear of being yourself. How is one to know what is good and what is bad.214 To Lie is Human Christophers. In this age of science. and anxiety itself. however. anxiety. and the so-called theories that they are based on. a psychic. Well firstly. especially in America." then maybe you have found something. Well. they attempt to repress it more. In other words. Most will admit that these are only temporary solutions— as they swallow that pill—and most will realize that it takes many years to actually achieve something with the shrink." It seems that this notion of what is "normal" is based upon ideas about what a highly evolved and rational race should be. take some valium. guess what? It is no longer the 50's. lithium. child abuse. But what to do? If it's easy. If it actually requires you to put forth effort. and anxiety which causes this behavior." and being "abnormal" is very "bad. where problems get resolved in a half hour. Anyone who actually examines the role of socalled therapy today. violence. or better yet. and are afraid of their reactions. addiction. crime. It is the TV-Hollywood 1950's family. and react violently against the fear of violence. violence. a priest. the psychic and the priest will patch you up enough to face a little more upset. So what if it doesn't work? Many forms of human misery and suffering are alleviated this way. and therefore don't recognize that the violent outward expressions are just a reaction against the attempt to repress normal feelings. So if fear. and fear most of their lives? This illusion of normality is based upon an idea that is worshipped as a god. The problem is that few people want to recognize anxiety. but the fear. until we have created a "society" where everyone lives in fear. fear and anger as being normal. But the fact is that they are. and in fear of violence. and in fear of fear. anger. hard work. Fears are created about being afraid. is it not "rational" to believe that these ideas of how a rational race should behave are irrational? Now the question remains. Part of the problem is that there are so many "solutions" out there for one to choose from." then it is probably just putting you back to sleep. and the valium will make you feel nothing at all. Hyatt Ph. that we hear (and maybe see) so much is a more accurate reflection of human normality than the Leave It To Beaver model. you go to the drug store and get some medicine. But who is to say that the middle-class has any idea of what is normal." So what does society try to cure? Not the repression of the natural fear. are natural. when they are all experiencing depression. you will never know if you just keep looking and never doing. we have learned that when you have a cold. that they are rational. etc. . prozac. mental "disease. And once again. The violence. and the rest of your life has been spent reinforcing those fears. Now this is based upon two fallacies: firstly. will see that the disease is being not normal—i. being other than what every Moolah thinks you should be like—and the cure is to suppress those "antisocial" urges. The shrink. etc. that humans are highly evolved. and secondly. what can we do to get back in touch with our "natural" selves? The key word in this sentence is DO.
JASON B L A C K The Staff of New Falcon Publications 277 . You must first overcome the fear of starting (overcome. you have not taken advantage of it. but not one of them will be found to be easy. Dr. Maybe it will be easier for you to go on to other work. if you are not interested in real change. not repress). But if you are really interested in change." Chances are. Hyatt's other works. Or can it? CATEGORICAL IMPERATORS ILLUSTRATED BY S. If you have not read Dr. then DO IT! There are other methods.216 To Lie is Human If you have ever read any of Dr. and only one good reason to go on: real change. Then again. and you are interested in real change. other practices. however. but it can't hurt. you can start with Undoing Yourself. that even with this lucky opportunity. have you done the exercises in this book? Start there. Hyatt's other works. anxieties. So many excuses not to continue. you have been lucky enough to stumble upon some of the methods that can accomplish this "cure. and then you must overcome the fears. Either way. and other "negative" feelings that you will experience and re-experience as you do the work. and not just some reading material to use as pornography for your mental masturbation. and you may just overcome that fear of starting something new. Hyatt's other books are also excellent pornography for mental masturbation. Probably not.
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