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.

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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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