The conditioning of a society pt1 the tree of lies
In an age of wisdom the cycle of unrealistic expectations programmed by society, controlling the social structure and development for ages theses are some of the keywords of society
While we desperately yearn for the exotic and wondrous
our first act on meeting it is to turn it into ourselves.
— Hyatt
To have neither great desire nor great despair—
This — this is the goal of all "great" civilizations.
— Hyatt
When the world was made binary
man began to live in paradox.
With paradox came the priest,
the politician and the psychologist.
These three thieves of the soul
became the maker and solver of riddles,
making the poet and artist seem profound.
— Hyatt
Before this binary world—
the fearful was also sacred,
now the fearful is only fearful.
— Hyatt
You use names for things as though
they rigidly, persistently endured;
yet even the stream into which you
step a second time
is not the one you stepped into before.
— Heraclitus
Man is the only being
who can overcome himself.
His method is the Lie.
What makes one man
different from another
are the glorious possibilities
his lies contain.
We have reached a point where most of us would destroy
the world in order to keep our "POINT" of view. Weak
men must destroy, not for the joy of renewal, but for the
catechisms of their tradition.
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. God is
dead—but what has taken his place?
We are now seeing the children of transition. A new
walking wounded, more vengeful, and hateful than lustful.
A new race of Zombies—not the living dead, but the dead
living. These creatures are the offspring of our dead God
and his tradition. In this sense their presence is a hopeful
sign. Something new is about to be born. But first we must
live through an ugliness—a world of rotting corpses.
Unless our modern attitude is tempered by the irrational,
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. This new
God can be likened to a piece of fruit that has a skin of
proper shape but when squeezed, collapses—empty of
juice.
The universal compulsion to gather and exchange "information"
has led to a short-hand, a technical language,
which has all but exterminated the object that it has attempted
to describe. We now live more in image and form
than in the complex realities we claim we "understand."
We have begun to mistake our fictions and labels for life
and are taking these conveniences as truths, rather than
living within our complexity and insecurity. 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. If God is not dead, man's refusal
to live in his plenitude (insecurity) will drive Him to
commit suicide.
THE ANTI-ZOMBIE THESIS
The foundation of all pathology is nihilism as a general
psychological state of experience.
Nihilism occurs when all ideological systems collapse—
and this includes the cereal meanings generated by culture.
The normal person avoids the extreme feelings of nihilism
by desperately clinging to those meanings and values implanted
by culture, childhood and a weak biology, regardless
of how irrational, painful and dull these meaning systems
seem to be.
Healing occurs when the person regains his feelings of
power and reinstates his ability to create meaning structures.
This theory is based on Friedrich Nietzsche's observation
that the world is a work of art, created by the self.
The "pathological" person is a failed artist, while the
"normal" person has accepted consensual art and, in this
sense, does not own the concept of personhood. In this context
it is important to constantly keep in mind that the person
himself is the work of art.
Healing occurs in the will to create and form the world
and self as one's own creation. The feeling of power, and
the rational application of it to the ends of one’s own creation,
is the primary reflection of health.
WORKING THE ZOMBIE
The greatest danger of rationality and logic is not in the
method but in substituting the method for life. 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.
Life, with all its hell and joys, must be an adventure in
order to remain human.
Life inherently is a-rational. It is whole and chaotic. It can
only be "taken apart" for a peek. What we see is only a
dislodged part—how we live is whole. The attempt to make
life safe for breeding and for the meager indulgences of
housewives has created this new race of Zombies.
Division is simply a convenience for fulfilling the desire
to control—to have more for less. But it is this "less" that is
the lie, the ultimate illusion. This "less" is a lie greater than
any lie ever told. There is no way to have "more" for
"less." Even God gave up his solitude for "more." The
earth and the sky and the heaven are one. To divide them
for convenience is one thing—to act as if this division were
truth is another.
The facts are that with all this "more" we have "less." We
have become so rational, so logical, so full of self-satisfaction
that we are empty.
Yet, in this search for more individuality—more form—
we find even less and less of life. People are as empty in
their individuality as they are in their collectivity.
People feel an absence to the point that they must drown
themselves in a world of addictions. An interesting quality
about addiction, however, is that it offers the person a
chance to have the experience of re-birth. It allows him to
change—with justification. 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. (Keep in mind that most people do not want
anyone to change.) He has hit bottom. He must learn to say
no. Much like a transpersonal crisis, recovery makes a person
special and unique. He has overcome. He has done
something special.
Addictions are created in order to be cured. People need
to feel and not to feel—desperately they want more in order
to pay for their debts of the past. The addiction I am referring
to is called—form.
The process of substituting form for essence can only
continue for so long—ten years, twenty or one-hundred
years. Sooner, rather than later, the machine collapses and,
with the collapse, comes the potential for recovery.
We see the emptiness of dogma, the emptiness of ritual,
the true Pharisee—the middle class—lost in form and circumstances,
clutching desperately to symbols. We begin to
realize that form cannot replace substance. We begin to
realize that grand ideals, assertions and "acting-out" are not
enough. We begin to realize that the Zombie is not just
within but also without.
Still, we do not yet fully appreciate the depths of this
depression—this emptiness—waiting not so silently behind
us and in front of us. Yes, there is a new force on the horizon—
a new cry for life. There is a strong desire to put an
end to this non-living—this powerlessness—this non-purpose.
The Zombie is waiting for a great thunder-storm—to
be reborn.
However, 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?
BECOME WHO YOU ARE
THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES
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