Brainsturbator to USA: WE ARE WINNING THE FIGHT

Back in kinder, gentler times, I would apologize for even mentioning all this, because I know a number of readers will go seek it out and there’s really nothing waiting for them but months of horror and depression.  Shucks.

“Fear seems to be most effective when your target actively participates.  Rather than explicit threats, provide distributed and ominous clues, mixed with staged anomalies, and allow your target to fill in the details themselves.”

Probably the best introduction to Magick, it’s logic and strategems, would be Peter J. Carroll’s Liber Null and Psychonaut.  Sadly, that’s a title I have yet to find for the Brainsturbator Library, so you’ll need to track it down yourself.  Well worth the effort, though.  In the absence of someone else to quote, what follows is a Short Guide to the New Paradigm:

1. Entanglement and “Spooky Action At A Distance”

Quantum Physics, much like the Bible, is a great tool for morons to prove whatever morons want to prove.  Being a moron myself, I’ll just lay a quality quote and leave you to your own moronic (but different) conclusion.  This is from an interview with Nick Herbert, physicist and “quantum tantric”:

DJB: Do you see Bell’s Theorem, and our understanding from astrophysics that all particles in the universe were together at the moment of the Big Bang, as being a possible explanation for mysterious phenomenon such as telepathy and synchronicity?

NICK: Yeah, I do. But I think that it would be too easy to say that because we’re all connected we have telepathy. Because, again, why do we feel so all alone?

DJB: Doesn’t it have something to do with the recency of the connection?

NICK: Yeah. If you make a connection, separate, and then make any other connections, those later connections will dilute the first connection. It’s just as strong, but now you have another connection that’s speeding into you. So it’s a. little bit like what’s been called the coefficient of consanguinity, which measures how close people are linked genetically. Your mother is the closest to you, then your grandmother, and so forth on down. You’re all linked by connections, but the more recent connections are the strongest. But even then, even when you’ve just met somebody, and separated, the telepathy between you is not really readily apparent. It would be be something, wouldn’t it, if we lived in a society where the last person you met you had a telepathic contact with, until you met somebody else. That doesn’t seem to happen, though, at least on the level we’re aware of.

So the real question is why is telepathy so dilute? I would expect a proper science to explain that fact. Then, of course once we had that explanation, we could increase it, make it greater, or overcome the diluteness if you didn’t want to have telepathic contact with certain people. So that tome is the biggest mystery. Bell’s Theorem could explain telepathy, but what explains the lack of telepathy? That’s something I don’t think anyone has really addressed. There are a few people who have addressed this fact on the level of psychology, but not physics, as to why we don’t have telepathy. The most convincing answer that I know about is that it would be just too terrible to look into the hearts of people, because there’s so much pain around that it would be excruciating to tap into that.

For further understanding and meditation on the reality-based implications of QT, we highly recommend Hakim Bey’s poetic piece on Nick Herbert’s work.

2. Get To Know Thyselfs. Thy many, many selfs.

First of all, take a listen to this mp3 recording of Grant Morrison speaking at the 2000 DisInfo Convention on “The Individual”.  If you are totally unfamiliar with the “8-circuit” model of human psychology, there’s really no polite way to put this: you’re way behind the times.  Psych students who are still being taught Freud and Skinner should be actively assaulting their teachers for wasting their money and their lives. Explaining this would take another 16 paragraphs at least, but the Brainsturbator Library does offer a copy of Robert Anton Wilson’s truly superb books on the topic, both of which are interactive workbooks containing exercises that will help you “get it” on a level that will energize and terrify you. In order of progression:

Prometheus Rising

Quantum Psychology

3. Send the Robot Clear and Consistent Instructions.

The two most important tools in your arsenal are Mantras and Sigils.  If you live anywhere in the Western World, your entire reality is a manmade enclosure of mantras and sigils, so this ain’t exactly eso-f***ing-teric information here. Advertisements, news, magazines, corporate logos, the viral catchphrases that infect your social circles and stay there for years—all of this is proof positive, as if any more was needed, that magick is very real and effective. 

We will close, then, with an extended and outstanding riff from the Appendix to the Illuminatus! Trilogy which will hopefully be most instructive:

The most important idea in the Book of Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage is the simple-looking formula “Invoke often.”

The most successful form of treatment for so-called mental disorders, the Behavior Therapy of Pavlov, Skinner, Wolpe, et al., could well be summarized in two similar words: “Reinforce often.” ("Reinforcement," for all practical purposes, means the same as the layman’s term “reward.” The essence of Behavior Therapy is rewarding desired behavior; the behavior “as if by magic” begins to occur more and more often as the rewards continue.)

Advertising, as everybody knows, is based on the axiom “Repeat often.”

Those who think they are “materialists” and think that “materialism” requires them to deny all facts which do not square with their definition of “matter” are loath to admit the well-documented and extensive list of individuals who have been cured of serious maladies by that very vulgar and absurd form of magick known as Christian Science. Nonetheless, the reader who wants to understand this classic work of immortal literature will have to analyze its deepest meanings, guided by an awareness that there is no essential difference between magick, Behavior Therapy, advertising, and Christian Science. All of them can be condensed into Abra-Melin’s simple “Invoke often.”

Reality, as Simon Moon says, is thermoplastic, not thermosetting. It is not quite Silly-Putty, as Mr. Paul Krassner once claimed, but is much closer to Silly-Putty than we generally realize. If you are told often enough that “Budweiser is the king of beers,” Budweiser will eventually taste somewhat better—perhaps a great deal better—than it tasted before this magick spell was cast. If a behavior therapist in the pay of the communists rewards you every time you repeat a communist slogan, you will repeat it more often, and begin to slide imperceptibly toward the same kind of belief that Christian Scientists have for their mantras. And if a Christian Scientist tells himself every day that his ulcer is going away, the ulcer will disappear more rapidly than it would have had he not subjected himself to this homemade advertising campaign. Finally, if a magician invokes the Great God Pan often enough, the Great God Pan will appear just as certainly as heterosexual behavior appears in homosexuals who are being handled (or manhandled) by Behavior Therapy.

The opposite and reciprocal of “Invoke often” is “Banish often.”

All this, of course, is programming your own trip by manipulating appropriate clusters of word, sound, image, and emotional (prajna) energy. The aspect of magick which puzzles, perplexes, and provokes the modern mentality is that in which the operator programs somebody else’s trip, acting at a distance. It is incredible and insulting, to this type of person, if one asserts that our Mr. Nkrumah Fubar could program a headache for the President of the United States. He might grant that such manipulating of energy is possible if the President was told about Mr. Fubar’s spells, but he will not accept that it works just as well when the subject has no conscious knowledge of the curse.

And on that last note --- voodoo curses on Presidents --- we have a most interesting Brainsturbator post on the way for you.