While I was studying Sociology, some of us from class got together as a group during the weekend with the professor. Our group had a special book we called “The Do Book.” The reason why we got together was because our professor said that it’s “knowledgable” to learn sociology out of a college text book; but it’s fun if we experience it, and from that experience we acquire something we can’t from a book.
The Professor was this bearded ex-hippy in a sweater, slacks, and loafers. He was mellow, unconventional, and still smoked dope secretly. Our little secret group would meet up at his house. We were allowed to bring cool friends who wanted to participate, so I brought Chloe. We walk in to him always him playing on his drums. His wife… a blonde Jewish flower power lady with a raspy voice… was our host. She’d call us into her study to “get ready” before we went out to do our experiments. She’s spark up a joint and it would be pasted around in a large circle of some of the weirdest collage of people. The Professor would enter the study, and take the roach, and in calm and mellow way say- ‘Guys, watch this…’ He clipped the roach and does what he calls a “nose hit” sucking what was left of the roach up his nose… ‘Let’s party.’
We’d drive into town with out Do Book and when we got to our location, we’d do this ritual where one of us closed our eyes and randomly open the Do Book for our sociological “mission.” The book was just a collection of short experiments you can do… most were “far out” as he puts it.
One of those days, some one picked a weird mission for us to do… we had to stand in public and do absolutely nothing for 30 minutes. The Perfessor goes- ‘Your mission, should you choose to except it, is to stand in public and do nothing… alright go!’ He told us all to stand far apart from each other and just stand there, without looking aat anything in particular, and not to talk to people unless absolutely needed.
I don’t know if you’ve just stood there on a sidewalk of a busy city and not do anything, but it’s weird. The longer you do it, the more the Matrix movie comes into mind. At first people just walk passed you like usual. Then people start to stop and look at you for a second with that curious look. Then they’ll look at you and walk away shaking their head… like they were saying to themselves- ‘crazy bitch.’ Then they start asking you questions- ‘Miss, are you lost’… ‘do you need help crossing the street ma’am’… After youu pass the point where people ask you questions to register what your are doing, you enter this stage of hotilility. People start to react to you not doing anything in a hostile manner- ‘I can’t have you loitering in front of our business…’ they’ll say, or something like that. Some people even threatened to call the police on some of my friends. After our mission, we’d talk about our experience at a restaraunt. The weird thing we all realized with that experiment was that somehow everybody around us reacted to us in stages as a collective group… as if they were “thinking” with some invisible group mind?
Anyways I learned a lot from taking that class about people. I’m still friends with the Professor. When I finished the class the Professor gave me this little book called “101 Philosophical Experiments” because he knew I loved philosophy. The book was like our Do Book, but it fit inside your pocket and the missions had more to do with philosophical things rather that sociology.
At the time of me getting 101 Philosophical Experiments, I had already freshly just read some ONA MSS on what Anton Long called “Insight Roles” which I found to be a very interesting concept, although I could quite see what purpose it served.
I opened the little book and a certain chapter caught my fascination. It was about the amorphous nature of time and truth. It quickly said neither truth, the past, present, or future exists outside the mind, and because the mind can be manipulated, truth (facts), history, the present, and the possibilities of the future is amorphous and can be manipulated. It gave a quick experiement- get a new job and invent a character for yourself with a made up history, and spend a few months at the new job in character. I immediately thought- Insight Role!
I went and got a job at a popular retail store for awhile and went on my philosophical insight role mission. I invented an entirely make believe Kayla… I could change my name, since it was on my driver’s license. My character I played was the complete opposite of me… a liberal democrat… even an anachist or something. The character was also a chola, so I died my hair brown to accentuate my Mexican half. A chola by the way is a Mexican gangter something. Both me and Chloe are half Mexican so we have cousins who are into that stuff. My character even came from a different city way outside OC in shitty Riverside county called Jarupa Valley. I said my girl gang was called the Jarupa Valley Girls lol… and that I got busted for shanking a bitch. It was a stupid character, but that’s not the point. I got all of my close friends to play along to help re-enforce my character.
I stayed in character, and at the job for a year. As the months roled by, my lies would get more elaborate. I had to write everything down in a secret folder in code to remember everything. Then when the year was over, i just quit my job, and went out of character, and never talked to any of those friends I had made again.
It might seem like a cheap experiement because my character wasn’t some exciting hooker, or terrorist or anything. The point is… or insight I learned… is that even thoe there was a “true” Kayla, with a true identity and a true histroy… that “Truth” didn’t matter. In the mind’s of the people I was manipulating, all that mattered… what was REAL to them… was what they themselves BELIEVED to be “true.”
It was like I had stumbled upon a secret that nobody else knew. I could take anything I wanted, and if I was good enough with my glamour, I could change it, and as long as “the people” believed it… it was real. Anton Wilson once said- “He who has the power to define, has the ultimate power.”
This insight I had discovered opened my own eyes to how politics, history, and the world works. It doesn’t matter what the truth is, or if a truth existed at all. What mattered was what those people believed. It doesn’t matter what the past of a person or nation, or organization was. The past is amorphous and can be changed.
I took what I had learned and realized, and I took a closer look at the ONA with my new eyes. I took a closer look at the mind that was “working behind the scenes”… beneath the writings… and I saw and understood.
When I first came on line to research the ONA I found all this stupid debates about if Anton Long was real, or if the ONA ever actually existed, if David Myatt really left it all behind. I saw these few sincere people trying hard, to aimlessly defend what they saw value in, what they believed to be real… trying to aimlessly debate and argue or present as much proof as they could find to prove to “unbelievers” the “truth.”
I saw that those few people who believed, had not read Sun Tzu’s Art of War, or did not study Long’s writings carefully. I saw they were waisting valuable effort and energy combating, arguing… forcing a certain truth or reality onto a people, when there was an easier Method.
I saw that they didn’t understand that everything that exists, exists in a state of amorphous illusion because all things ultimately exists… is beheld in the mind… and the mind can be manupulated. I had learned from that sociological experiment long ago that those people out their are causal units of a “collective acausal mind” and that they think and react as groups. I learned that people who are successful in life. In whatever arena of life, be it business, politics, or religion, have a certain power to manipulate this “collective acausal mind” of the heard, and solidify these amorphous illusions into hard “truth” and “reality” which the people believes, and from that belief, makes those things real.
How do you teach things like this to people on line to understand, when it requires experience? I wanted to gather every ONA initiate I could find, and somehow tell them, what I knew… but back then, I was unknown, and my voice would have been drown in a sea of debates and arguments anyways.
I figured, I and my little group… armed with that “secret insight” was just going to “enter the fight” and do things our own way to help. Hoping that those with the Second Sight who can see the essence-esoteric work, will understand and harmonize themselves to the work.
It certainly is a beautiful sight to see all of these ONA nexions active… writing… presencing… co-existing… with one another; and recognizing each other.
There isn’t much to this short article that is written… but if you have the Second Sight to read between the lines… you’ll understand the insight. Having understood the insight, we will know what moves we will need to make, to manifest what aims were written. It’s not chess moves. It’s a game of Go… few, intelligent stretegic moves, to gain the most ground.
Kayla
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