The Science of Presencing
There are to me three styles or methods of Presencing/manifesting. The first would be Internal Presencing which deals with the inner field within oneself. The second is External Presencing which deals with manifesting Results in the real world outside of oneself. The third style is Subversive Presencing which deals with social change by the implantation of memes inside other people within one’s field of influence.
Internal Presencing is like getting an education or learning a skill, such as business. External Presencing is using what skills you have learned or have manifested within to produce measurable results and benefits in the real world. Then as you get better at business you will eventually come to understand that no matter what you do, as a single person, you are limited by the very limits of your own energy, resource, time, and money. Thus, if you want to take the business up a few levels, you must Duplicate your Efforts via other people, other people’s energy, other people’s resources, other people’s time, and other people’s money: OPP [Other People’s Property].
One of our family friends is a self made man who is like a mentor to me in many ways. He once told me that no intelligent business person uses their own money to invest in a business they are starting. You borrow that money or you raise it by going to other people. This way if the business fails your personal assets are kept in tact. The second thing he told me that stuck in my mind was that “an employee works, a businessman makes others do the work.” Third things he told me is “time is money: other people’s time makes you money so you have time to play golf.”
Internal Presencing
There was a time when I asked our self made family friend how he became successful in life and he simply said: “Burn baby!” He talks like a character from a mob movie and talks like one too. I asked him what he meant by that. He said that to me that “we are successful with things we passionately burn for.”
Since I was still not very smart back then with very little life experience he used something I – and we all – should understand. It’s like falling in love with somebody. This person captures our minds and hearts so that we can’t think about anything but the person. The more we think about the person, the more everything around us fades into insignificance. Then, when a passion builds up and we begin to burn with a determination to be with that person, our burning determination possesses us with an obsessive drive. That burning drive causes us to do anything imaginable to get that person. If you are a guy you will work out and body build to look more attractive. If you are a girl you will spend money to get a makeover and work out to look nice. In the end – for those of us who have genuinely burned deeply for someone – we always get what/whom we want.
Unfortunately for most people the burning determination stops here or doesn’t ever leave the arena of love and romance. After explaining this to me my “mentor” pointed at me and said something I still remember: “BUT: I can never give you that burn or teach you. No school or book or person can teach you how to burn for something. You must to find it on your own.”
I have had the wonderful experience of deeply burning for someone. That burning determination once possessed me and I can say that after relentless determination and a lot of effort I did end up with my “dream person.” But such romantic achievements may be petty to many materialists who desire superficial things in life they believe will bring them happiness. I’m not a materialist myself, but I have wondered for the longest time how one passionately burns with determination for other things besides love? If you desired success in life, how would you start the spark that will grow into a burning determination?
Last month was Chinese New Year’s. My family celebrates three different new year days. One in January for being American. One in February for the Chinese in us. And one in April which is the Thai/Khmer New Year’s which also doubles as Theravada’s Birthday of Buddha. In January we have a family gathering. For the other two we usually go to the temple; a Chinese temple for the Chinese day and a Thai wat in April.
So last month a group of our friends wanted to meet up at the Chinese Buddhist temple by one of our houses. We all met up at Hsi Lai Temple which is up the hill. Hsi Lai is a huge Chinese Buddhist temple in Hacienda Heights. I think it’s the biggest in America. It’s very beautiful, but the Chinese Buddhists do things very different from us Thai Theravada Buddhists, so I only go to the Chinese temple to look around and burn a stick of incense.
After walking around the temple complex and eating lunch at the vegetarian eatery they have on the complex, we all looked at each other and wondered what to do next, as we had the rest of the day. One of our friends randomly suggested we go to the beach. Which was a good idea. I said: I dare us to walk there! [~20 miles away]. I was thinking of using the opportunity to train for one of the things you have to do in the Seven Fold Way [second degree]. So, after looking at each other and shrugging to ourselves we went and parked our cars in the street below the temple and started to walk to the beach thinking it wouldn’t take long since it only takes 30 minutes to drive there.
Getting to the beach from the temple is easy in theory or as it looks on a map or from inside the car. You walk out the temple complex and go left on Hacienda which winds and twists through this beautiful wooded area. Then when you get to Whittier you go right to the first stop light which is Beach, and you go down Beach until the street ends at Huntington Beach. I really thought the Second Degree ordeal was going to be a piece of cake.
I thought I was doing good on Hacienda, but when we got to Beach my ass had to stop and rest after every other bus stop. Luckily one of our friends was out of shape too so he sat with me at every bus stop. I thought I was going to faint before we even passed the I-5 freeway bridge. I was sweating like a water buffalo. Me and our chubby friend were about to call it quits and take the bus back, but the others kept on pushing us. They said I couldn’t bail out because it was my idea. The others had to entice me and our chubby friend with lunch, which we’d get when we reach Knot’s Berry Farm, which was our “half mark.”
I get really quite when I am ass tired, so as we walked I didn’t say much, since I was trying to breathe. Every time one of us felt like quitting or resting too long, the others would go into this group pep talk mode by clapping and cheering us on by saying “C’mon, you can do it! Don’t be a bitch, bitches!” And talking shit about how we were out of shape. But the pep talks and pushing worked gradually to instill in me – us – motivation and determination to get to the beach. And I could feel the Spark of Determination begin to burn inside to finish this goal whereas before during the first half of the trip I didn’t have that feeling. But in my mind I was thinking to myself how utterly pointless this all was.
Not just the crazy impulsive walk to the beach being completely pointless, but the ordeals of the Sinister Way; and the whole of life too. Everything seemed totally pointless? Why try? Why strive and put in so much effort into life when you’re just going to die anyways? It’s like when my mother gets lazy to go out too dinner she yelp a complaint saying: “Oh god, why bother eating when it’s all going to come out the other end anyways!?” Then my stepdad will say to that jokingly: “I know, why bother breathing in when you’re going to breathe out? Buddha was right, life has no meaning, let’s die.”
The other half of our trek to the beach was like boot camp, or so I imagined [I’ve never been to a boot camp]. The walk was just pointless. But the motivational pep talks were there and so was the determination. Or at least I was determined not to appear as out of shape as our chubby friend. That’s just unbecoming. I’m nowhere near fat or chubby.
Beach ends right on the beach. Well, it ends with a small parking lot on the other side of the perpendicular street, and the beach is on the other side of the lot. This feeling of triumph was beginning to run up my spine as we walked past the estuary. Then I set foot on the sand and smelled the beach as the sun was going down. It took us 6 hours but we did it! I felt like Rocky! That one old movie where Rambo is a boxer and he’s training and running triumphantly up a flight of stairs.
We had fun during our brief stay but for me the moment was a philosophical realization of something. Everything all fell into place. I had at that moment intimately understood – via experience – what my mentor meant when he said that neither he nor any book or person can ever give me that burn or teach me how to be determined for something in life. I also learned that day that even though the walk itself may have been pointless, the fruit that it bore wasn’t pointless. The fruit was the intimate understanding that with determination, anything can be accomplished in life. I have head that said to me in so many different ways before, and I have read it written hundreds of times. But to put yourself into direct experience to come to intimately realize this is something very different which can never be conveyed in words. You cannot say or write into the heart and mind of another person or pupil the Feel of burning determination and the realization that with that determination anything can be accomplished in life. It must be experienced.
We could only stay for an hour because we had to walk all the way back. The way back was a different experience. It was like we were soldiers returning home after a triumphant war campaign. Comrades with hands around each other’s shoulders shooting the shit and laughing all the way back in the dark. It was in the late evening and the sun had long set. We have to pass Little Saigon were we stopped to grab dinner. At the dinner table I listened to everybody else take their simple experience that day of determination and philosophically and intellectually apply it into other venues in life as they understood life. We were all basically “on the same page” because we all seemed to have obtained the same insights from our simple experience that day. Walking through Hacienda Heights at night is dangerous. It’s a very safe area. It’s just that the area we were walking through is wooded and has no street lights. There is a cliff to the side of the winding road and it’s so dark you can’t see a foot in front of you. We had to stay on the yellow line on the road and not walk on the dirt or we’d risk slipping off the cliff. But we made it back safe.
The experience that day helped me understand intimately a few other things. On the way back during the night I recalled a Zen story frequently told. The story goes that one day a Buddhist monk was bathing in a stream and a young man walks by. The young man seeing the monk and ran into the stream and bowed saying to the monk: “I want to be enlightened. Please teach me.”
The monk says in return to the young man: “Go away, you’re bugging me.” Thinking this was a test, the young man comes closer to the monk and kneels and says: “No, I’ll stay right here. I want you to teach me.” The monk gets annoyed and not saying anything grabs the young mans head and submerges it. He sits on the man’s head so the man can’t breath. The young man struggles to not drown and fights for his life. When the man emerges from the stream he says in anger: “Crazy old man! I asked to be enlightened and you try to kill me!” The monk ends the conversation saying: “Unless you desire enlightenment as much as you wanted air down there, you will never get it. You are thus wasting my time. Go away.”
This notion is shared by Theravadins too, as my own Bhikkhu grandpa once called me out on this. I was still in high school and during that time I believed myself to be a smartass know-it-all. So I asked my grandpa one time when we went to visit him to teach me what he knows and understands about Buddhism. Being my grandfather he didn’t hesitate or question my intentions. So he immediately began to give me a simple lecture. He was briefly saying to me that there isn’t much to Buddhism but knowing that suffering is a part of life and karma is something one must learn to understand.
When he had finished saying that I said back: “But I don’t believe in karma. How do you know it exists?” My grandpa said back irritated: “You come to me with a full plate and ask me to fill it up, how can I do this? You give me no room. Do you want to know how I understand things, or do you want to show off what you think you know and what you already believe? There is a difference between learning and arguing. One takes us here to there. The other only pushes us back and forth. Come back when you have grown older and are empty.”
It took me a long time to figure out that my “ego” was getting in the way. I didn’t want to actually learn anything. I just wanted to challenge him. It wasn’t until later when I realized that all I knew or thought I knew and believed were superficial trinkets of ideas and opinions blanketed over a reality I had no understanding of. I then realized that I didn’t “know” anything. Empty, I went back to my grandpa. Who would briefly give me a simple lecture, ask me a bunch of question, and told me to go away and find the answer to them. Or he would ask me about my experiences in life, and then use what I gave him as analogies to explain certain ideas.
There was then – in emptiness and with experience – no need to argue or debate. When my grandpa explained to me the simple causal mechanics of “karma” I didn’t have to question him or debate him for validation. Because in my own life, I had the experiences needed to understand the nature of unfoldment of the causal fruits of my own thoughts and actions in my own life which effects the lives of others around me. Whereas before, I secretly desired to challenge his belief in karma and all I had to work with were two dimensional opinions born from agreeing with what I may have heard others say or from what I may have read.
So this is my own first lesson in “Inner Presencing.” That one never really learns anything without a genuine desire and determination to learn. And that before one can “learn,” one must be empty, devoid of the intention of arguing and debating. This is pretty self evident in your average college student. They go into college stupid, and they come out stupider, in more debt, and pregnant.
It can be asked: “Well, what’s wrong with arguing and debating?” It’s like you were to go up to a black belt martial artists or a soldier who is a veteran and asked him to teach you his skills. So when he teaches you certain moves which he himself has learned from experience; you say to him: “Well, I have too disagree here, that block you’re teaching me seems kind of ineffective in a confrontation because I saw in an episode of COPS, such and such.” And then you believe that such argument adds to your stock of knowledge? The very fact that the teaching stops and some back and forth debate between opinion and experience-born wisdom ensues should show that the flow of information from on mind to another has stopped.
And that is the very basic idea of learning: Flow. Recognizing that there are things out there you do not know. Or people out there with more experience. Or other with a different perspective and angle of understanding then you. Then opening yourself to the Flow of data WITHOUT impeding that Flow. Then you test that data. Not with opinions you have collected. But test it with experience in the arena of life. If you have a hard time agreeing that karma is real, go out and randomly punch somebody, preferably somebody twice your size. And observe carefully if your actions manifests causal Fruit. Then, after you have tested the data – when you are lying semiconscious on the sidewalk – can you analyze your results to validate such data. That’s the Three Legged Stool of Science: 1) Hypothesize; 2) Test/Experiment, 3) Analyze. You don’t challenge a hypothesis [Opinion/Guess] with another hypothesis. You cancel the hypothesis with a test that shows and proves Otherwise.
If you are burning with a determination to learn or be “enlightened,” in such conditions, you will naturally set debates and arguments aside so as to not impede the potential flow of information between your mind, and the object you assess as a source of what information you desire. The Honourable thing to do is to absorb what they teach or give As-Is. In the Understanding that no two people are identical in body, mind, perception, thought, and experience. You must learn to tailor in your own mind what information you receive according to your own experiences and tests of validation. The ego doesn’t need to learn. It knows everything already. When ego desires to learn, its desire is not born from determination for self growth. It is born from hubris and arrogance, a superficial belief that it knows better: that it is better than others. A dialectical argument or debate between two honourable equals does manifest/presence new insights. A debate or argument between two egos is a dick fight, its an assertion. It is the ego saying: “My opinions are better than yours because I am better than you.” Like two male monkeys fighting during mating season: minus the actual female; the “winner” really doesn’t win anything.
The other thing I learned that night walking back from the beach is the usefulness of something like the Seven Fold Way, and Life in general. I thought that life was pointless. But it really isn’t. Because what we learn today in life from our trials and errors, we can put to use in future to get better results out of life. The experiences and struggles in life themselves teaches us our lessons which can never been truly written or expressed in words. How do you teach someone what it is like to cry and hurt over the loss of a loved one? How do you write in words or speak to someone what it feels like to quietly watch a sun rise at the beach in the morning, wrapped in a blanket with someone you love so that the other person can feel what was felt? You can write and speak, and the other person can superficially know. But they will never “know” until they have themselves experienced it.
And we all learn this the hard way. My birth mother grew up hating her culture and mother. She rebelled during her teenage years and gave my grandmother a lot of trouble and heartache. But life has a funny way of teaching us. She became a mother herself. And when she did, she experienced everything that comes with the territory of being a mother. Which was when she empathetically understood her own mother. It would be so simple to write on a piece of paper: “Mother is always right” and give it to my mom back then. She would read it, and know the meaning of the words; but the essence of the words would be completely meaningless to her. We each unravel like flowers in time and experience, and come to our own understanding of things in their proper season.
The Seven Fold Way has often been questioned. I have questioned its usefulness. Before I saw the Seven Fold Way as being a sort of boot camp and set of tribal rites of passage. But now I see more to it. It teaches you, or imbues in you something – or somethings – that can never be taught via spoken or written words.
Such as determination. What the burn of determination feels like. What that burn can accomplish. If you knew what that burn felt like, and had the masterful skill to command that burn into existence inside you at will, such that you were able to passionately burn for your life’s dreams and goals; you’d be successful in eventually presencing them. Most often we have dreams and desires but hardly a single one ever materializes. We all want to be multimillionaires, look the prettiest, have the most perfect pecs and abs, own our dream car and dream home, and so on. But is there a blinding burn of determination behind those fleeting dreams? No. 70% of Americans don’t even burn with a determination to burn off their obesity. Yet ironically I hear quite a few fatasses talk about surmounting themselves into some “Ubermensch,” or being their own gods.
What is the most basic meaning or understanding of a “god?” The bible opens up with the very essential meaning: “In the beginning God CREATED the heaven and the earth…” He SAID “Let there be light, and there WAS light.” A God in most of the world’s major religions is a creator. Usually such gods just speaks and things manifest. Vishnu Commanded the world into existence. What kind of a god are you – or believe yourself to be – when you can’t manifest shit in life? Most of these self deluded mundane Satanists can’t even manifest their own thoughts, ideas, opinions, paradigms, and worldviews. If it weren’t for LaVey writing the Satanic Bible, those “gods” that populate the subculture of Satanism wouldn’t have a pot to piss in. They don’t create. They can barely debate themselves out of a paper bag let alone speak things into being. How are you a god when all you have done is be a consumer to somebody else’s pre-fabricated Box Reality? One that comes completely with a worldview and set of beliefs and opinions to agree to? They just agree. What god agrees? Allah doesn’t agree with shit. He speaks, and you either do the agreeing or you’re an infidel.
Sometimes the greatest lessons one can learn are those which are not taught. And that’s exactly what the Seven Fold Way of the ONA is like. That may be hard to understand unless you’re a Buddhist or Taoist. It’s like you were 15 and you came to me and said: “Chloe, you’ve been in several relationships, can you teach me about them?” Then I said: “Sure, but you have to follow my instructions exactly as I give it to you: 1) Smile at guys; 2) Say hi to all the ones that smile back; 3) Sleep with the one that tells you they love you.”
You see the lessons taught are not in the steps themselves. The steps only help to create the proper Condition for the lessons to be learned. Because if you are naïve enough to follow my three steps and you sleep with the first boy that tells you he “loves” you, you will be in for a very hurtful experience. Then you’ll come back to me and tell me how fucked up I was. All I did was help you to intimately understand from your own direct experience that love hurts and will hurt and that you cannot trust any man to make you happy. Happiness and self worth comes from within. Men are not vending machines where you can just put in a few kisses and hugs and get back the love, affection, attention, and happiness which you need. But I can’t tell you these things. They’re meaningless to you in word. You must experience them on your own term, and grow to realize their meaning on your own time. All I can do is help set you up for those experiences by giving you a list of arbitrary steps to follow.
The wisdom of science is not contained inside the four steps of the Scientific Method. You can’t teach wisdom and enlighten people via instructions and lectures. It must come from experience and an intimate observation. The four steps of the Scientific Method only help to set up the proper Condition for insights and discoveries to arise, everything else is up to you. But we can also say that we can never be truly sure what each person will discover and learn from applying the scientific method. The mind that may have put together the Method in England long ago could not have ever dreamed that his steps would one day “teach” people about the wild nature of quantum phenomena.
So from these two illustrations of love and science and the steps that set up proper Conditions for direct and intimate discovery and genuine learning, we see that first the steps don’t actually teach anything. Meaning they don’t force/assert/impose a prefabricated opinion, idea, concept, belief, dogma, view on you. The second thing we should notice is that although the steps or set of instructions [sasana] were put together at a certain frame of time in some past, the unwritten lessons and potential for the unfoldment of wisdom and insight transcends Time. Simply because the lessons learned arises from within each person who each exist in their own reference of Time.
The key point is that the steps or instructions only sets up a Condition or environment conducive to Self-Born insight, wisdom, and dis-covery. Self-Born meaning arising from within oneself [Sambuddhi]. This concept is the opposite of religious indoctrination where a set of beliefs, doctrines, opinions, paradigm, worldview, is offered which supplants or covers an individual’s self-born insights, self understanding, self apprehension of life, self sovereignty and self growth. Mundanes are a breed who are bred to learn only from indoctrination. You must give them their ideas, beliefs, worldviews and opinions. If science had not shown them pictures of a round earth, most of those mundanes would still believe the world to be flat and they’d debate it too. The fact that marketing and advertizing is a trillion dollar industry proves/exposes such mental condition of mundanes. The product itself can be shit. As long as the ads are good and the marketing tactics is good, the crap will sell. And mundanes will spend their time debating on crap shoot brands they use. Never realizing that the both of them bought shitty crap and did not produce anything themselves. They are Consumers manipulated by “brand propagandists” to simply buy. And they do the same thing with their ideas, beliefs, and religions. It’s called debate, and religious wars.
And so you ask me: “So what is the Seven Fold Way?” It’s a method or set of steps. What do they teach? Nothing in and of themselves. They are just instructions. It’s like looking for a wealth of esoteric meaning in the instructions for putting a computer desk together. You just follow the god damn instructions because they were put together to manifest a certain Condition. I can’t – nor can any person – give you or teach you the experience and feel [“qualia”] of putting a computer desk together. But you can cultivate the right Conditions when you follow the instructions. And it is what you actually learn and gain from the actual experiences that are the heart of the matter or the Essence.
I can only speak for myself and about the beginning degrees of the Seven Fold Way. When you put yourself inside the proper condition and environment which the Seven Fold Way produces several things are learned gradually. First is that every task and objective in each degree of the Sinister Way is a Process which has a beginning point and an end goal which is actualized via practical deed and action. Second is that the tasks and objectives of each degree is grounding. By that I mean they are based on activities based on the real world which refocuses your mind away from the clouds and back onto the real world. Third it requires determination to execute each task and ordeal. The task and objective themselves may feel pointless. As pointless as waking up at 3AM in the morning at boot camp to jog up and down a hill. But it is the unwritten experience and what is not being pointed at which is where the real value is to be found.
It breeds a culture and state of mind where you are goal oriented and where you come to understand that it is with the fire of determination that such goals – all goals in life – are actualized. Things like determination, will power, and morale are not separate things, but things which are linked and influence each other. Nowhere other than the battle field of war is this more apparent. When an army’s morale is low, their passion/determination is weak. When their passion is weak, their will power is weak. Without the force of Will, the army cannot exert its influence onto the real world and they will all die. It is via force of Will that the nebulous idea and objectives of an army changes and alters the real world. Even the Buddha says that the secret to Power depends on Chitta Samadhi: the coherent focus of Heart. Passion can make or break an army. On the battlefield – soldier or gangbanger – passion determines whether you live or die. And when your nation depends on military force, passion makes or breaks your nation.
But in the everyday urban condition, the average person rarely has passion for anything. Can you even say that you are master of your own Heart? In such a way that you have full command of your emotions? To make yourself burn for something at will? The more crazy you are about something, the more likely you will have it. Enlightenment, inner growth, and self surmounting doesn’t come easy. You don’t read a book and become changed inside. You only add ideas. It’s like adding a hundred dollars a week to your bank account and believing that such increase in funds somehow changes and evolve your actual bank account into something different. Enlightenment isn’t a thing to obtain from reading or being taught. It is a nature you develop into gradually. It makes more sense in the original Pali: You use Buddhi to Become Buddha. Buddha is a state of being [bhava] not a resultant condition of reading and debating. In the same sense that the elevated state of mind of Homo Sapiens is not something that came from reading or learning. It develops gradually as a Nature of Being. That inner nature comes only from long spans of struggle. The Ariya is a breed apart from the Anariya. That inner development is a long struggle and process that works with the same elements as war: morale, passion, will power.
The Seven Fold Way simply gives you the Condition in which those elements can be cultivated. It produces over time in you a “culture” of knowing how to call into being the right state of heart and mind to manifest real inner change as well as real outer change. But the end goal of inner/self change and development begins with morale. In common lingo we call morale “being psyched out.” It’s like sex, if you’re not in the Mood, you’re not gunna do it. Action follows passion. If you’re not psyched out about getting buff, you’re not going to lift a pound. If you’re not psyched out about looking hot, you’re not gunna spend $10,000 on cosmetic surgery. If you’re not psyched out about enlightenment, you’re just dabbling, collecting, reading, and memorizing.
I used to know this friend during college named Richard. He was the assistant manager of an apartment complex across the street from campus. My friends and I used to hang out at the lounge of this complex because it had 3 pool tables and the manager and her husband were really cool people. So over the years as we played pool in that lounge Richard got to know us all and he became a friend. I often would sit in the office with him and listen to him talk about his only interest: Christianity. He was a chubby soft spoken guy who was very religious and he loved to share his Christian ideas with people. He gave me a tour of his apartment once because he likes to show off his bible collection. He had this wall packed with book shelves and every book was a different kind of bible. He says he loves to drive to Christian bookstores and buy bibles. But after years past I got to know the real Richard as I slowly questioned and attacked his weak spots in his character.
The real Richard was a pervert. He was a frustrated man because he was lonely and wanted female companionship. But he believed premarital sex was sinful. I got him to shamefully admit that he masturbated to pornography. He said he wasn’t proud of it. He cried once in front of me when he shamefully admitted that he occasionally buys prostitutes. But I also noticed there was a part of him that got off from shamefully revealing these things to a girl who reflected his religiosity yet mirrored his secret desires; or so it seemed. Here was this guy who could quote bible verses off the top of his head, had hundreds of bibles, he was an expert on different publications of bibles, he went to church; but nothing about his inner nature has changed or is different from any normal secular guy. He was just dabbling and collecting ideas and bibles. He somehow believes that collecting all those bibles and superficially presenting a façade of Christian knowledge makes him a Christian. Like how those occultniks out there think that collecting as many grimoires as they can changes them into a different kind of person from the average guy off the street.
Richard’s roommate was more fascinating to me though. His roommate had these thick glasses, and fluffy pepper hair, like a 40 year old nerdy Jew scientist. This guy was the first real live schizophrenic I ever met. Richard had told me his roommate is crazy and hears voices and was laughing. So I asked Richard to introduce me to his roommate named George. George was intelligent. He told me that he was fine when he took his medication but that he still heard the “voices.” But on medication the voices were just background noise. Off medication the voices takes over and he starts blurting out obscenities and perversion. He also said that off medication all the cars on the street vanish to him. George tunes pianos for a living. I asked him if he ever had a girlfriend once. He said no, but he gave many girls piggy-back rides. I was like “What? Piggy back rides?” He said that the only way he can get sexually excited was to give girls piggy back rides. George’s medication doesn’t change his inner nature: a nutcase; his medication only covered up his inner nature. In the same way that Richards bible collection and Christian façade covers up his inner nature and does not change it. It takes more than dabbling and collecting to bring about genuine inner change.
External Presensing
There was a time in our human past when our own grandparents and tribe mates past on the wisdom and culture of the tribe to you so that you had the culture and knowledge to not only survive but to succeed in life. But this way of passing wisdom and accumulated practical skills has been lost. Today we depend on schools to teach us. And usually what we learn in school has very little to do with life and living life successfully. It has more to do with gradually training you to be a good employee.
If not school, we go to religion and political parties to fill us up with “wisdom” and knowledge; all of which has absolutely nothing to do with the real human side of living life and getting the most out of life. Religion may offer myth and doctrines that are mentally stimulating to some. And politics may offer gradual political change. But school, religion, and politics neglects the most basic aspects of human existence: life, relationships, fulfillment, and getting the best out of our life and relationships. The average person today barely has the practical knowledge and skills to keep himself out of financial debt, to have a meaningful and healthy relationship with family and spouse. And the average person has close to zero skills in manifesting positive end results in their lives. As in getting the things you want out of life, as opposed to manifesting a dysfunctional debt ridden life.
It is within a religion’s best interest to have you mentally dysfunctional so they can offer you their life changing services. It is serves the interest of the State to have you dysfunctional so they can offer you their service of governance. Why do judges exist? Because people can’t be adults and come to agreements on their own. Why are there law makers? Because people can’t be adult enough to simply govern themselves and treat others fairly and justly. Social service workers are the stupidest service. It’s like as a Western society we are so socially dysfunctional that we need a government mediator to just socialize and get along. It serves the corporate sector’s interests to have you financially dysfunctional, this way they can offer you their jobs. When there is a service offered, it means there is a lack of know-how or dysfunction somewhere. When you cannot function [live your life] on your own and need others, you compromise your own sovereignty and self autonomy. All that dysfunction in life is the result of a lack of will power. A lack of the power to exert real influence and change on life according to your will. That power of will arises from determination, which comes from a strong sense and feeling of morale. It all comes back to Heart and Passion.
There are two ways to making things happen [manifesting/presencing] in the real world: 1) The easy way & 2) The hard way. The difference between the two lies in the understanding of how the natural causal mechanics of the phenomenal world of experience works, and where in that causal chain reaction you start.
We can say that manifestation is like a train. A train has a definite departure point, a middle point which is the length of the track, and a definite end point. If the train begins where it is suppose to begin this train will almost effortlessly move to its end point without much force. But, if this train were parked in the middle of the track and you wanted to move it, you would need to exert a large amount of force to move it. It’s like a Hindu in India trying to push a cow out of the road. It’s not going to move if you are ignorant of how a cow works. You can push all you want. But if you know how a cow works, you just entice it with food or salt in your hand and manipulate it off the road without much effort. You learn to understand the Nature of things, and you learn to use its own inherent Nature to your own advantage. It’s like learning to understand the Nature of air, wind, and aerodynamics, and using what you have learned to make very heavy metal crafts fly in the air almost effortlessly.
So the process of action-manifestation also has a departure point, a middle point, and an end point. The departure point or train station is the Heart and Mind. The length of train track is the real world and our actions. The end point is the materialization of thought. The closer you start at the beginning of the chain reaction, the less force and more momentum the thought-form/desire has to actualize. The further down the chain reaction you begin, the more force you must exert and the less momentum it has to manifest coherently.
Staring in the “middle point” is like you desired to start up your own business. So you go out and borrow 20,000 dollars and rent a spot. You may be able to produce a shop with items to sell; but the whole process will take a lot of effort to keep it going. You will eventually tire and then quit with negative losses. There is an easier way: start before the action.
All things with us starts of inside in the Heart/Citta/Psyche, where thought and desire arises from into conscious awareness and recognition. That feeling of desire when it burns and ignites properly with a passion influences Mind, in such a way that its thinking and function becomes fixated and focused. Meaning that instead of the Mind’s thoughts and awareness going about in different directions, with burning passion the Mind is obsessed over one single objective. If you have ever been in love or infatuated with somebody, you’ll know what I mean. Or if you are nerdy then there may have been a time when you were wholemindedly passionately obsessed with a math equation, Star Trek convention, or computer program, I don’t know what nerdy types get all worked up for. It’s like Christmas when we were kids. You stay up late at night and can’t stop thinking about Christmas day.
That obsessive state of Mind influences and fuels everything else, especially the way you behave, carry yourself, act, perform, function, do, and interact with others. If you are racist or know a racist then you will eventually know how your obsessive thoughts influence your body and its physical expression and action. You hate the other race, you obsessively think about the other race, and so when you encounter this other race, you act and behave under the influence of those strong emotions and thoughts. And from there your actions and behaviour produces consequences and causal reactions which you will experience.
That Obsessive State of Mind is where I initially got my idea of “Resonance” from. There is a word for it in Buddhism and it’s an entire method of meditation. The word the Buddha used was “Sati.” Sati is the Pali version of the Sanskrit word Samriti [smrti] which means “Remembrance,” “Mindfulness,” as well as “Tradition.” The original idea of “Mindfulness” has devolved in the West to mean something like carrying a thought in your brain around everywhere, when it had a different meaning long ago before New Agers.
Resonance Factor is when you take a big bell and strike it once to cause it to ring. Then you allow that ring to draw out unimpeded. That drawing out aspect of a bell’s ring is its resonance factor. So we take that idea of resonance and use it with a tuning fork. You strike a tuning fork over a table of crystal goblets. When the fork resonates it will crack those goblets with the same frequency as the resonance. The question is then: Where in that process does the Potency or Power to shatter crystal lie? In the striking and exertion of force onto the tuning fork or in the effortless flow of the tuning fork’s resonance factor? It is in the resonance and quality of resonance. Not in the striking or applied force. That resonance factor of the tuning fork is Sati. Sati is a word which feebly tries to capture a “remembrance” or “lingering” affect/sound of the first strike. Don’t hold onto the strike, hold onto the resonance. Don’t think of the thought, hold onto the resonance of the thought. The potency does not lie in the thinking or visualizing. It lies in the quality of Mindfulness/Resonance. What do I mean by that?
Before I was “corrupted” by bad friends I used to be geeky. During junior high I was a member of this one thing our school called a “Pentathalon.” The Pentathalon is when different schools in a school district collects all of their geeky kids and competes them in these nerdy competitions involving math, spelling, vocabulary, etc. Those were my shameful years. I think I was the only member of our school’s pentathalon team that didn’t wear glasses, didn’t drool, didn’t have buck teeth, and looked pretty. My whole fobby family was terribly proud of me back then. I only joined it to escape P.E. [physical education] because I hate sports. Orchestra and Choir were all full, so I had no other alternative. The real members of the pentathalon team were boys that actually wanted to be members of it.
The cool part of being on the pentathalon team was that you get pulled out of class to “train” and to compete. Training is when your pentathalon “coach” teaches you a mess of math and grammar that will be used in the next competition. Then we’d take a bus to the other school and along the way our coach would get really into it and tell us to close our eyes and visualize being the best we can be an winning the competition and to just dwell on the great feeling of winning. I was bad at spelling, but good with grammar and punctuation. My strong point was remembering the meaning of words or figuring out the meaning of big words. Math amazingly was also one of my strong points. I wasn’t into it at first, until we went to this one school which has three pretty [non-geek] girls on the team. All that time I thought I was the only cool non-geek girl on the pentathalon. When those other girls looked at me funny, that just changed everything from then on. Because you can look pretty, but you can’t be both pretty and smart at the same time like me, I’m Asian. That’s how we roll.
So anyways I did end up using my brains for the first time that day to help my team win thus humiliating those other girls. I got this sadistic satisfaction deep inside from out smarting and out thinking other people and making them look stupid ever since then. Which was when I started to do what our coach was telling us to do: Visualize winning and being the best I can be and dwelling on that feeling of satisfaction. And the longer I dwelled on that feeling, the more I could feel an itch or burn inside to get all into it. In other words, I discovered that you can psyche yourself out just by thinking of the feeling of winning. Once you’re psyches out, it’s like your high and you have all this energy and anxious feel to compete and kick. You fidget and become restless, like you’ll explode if they don’t hand you your pile of fraction division.
I have several cousins who practice martial arts and they compete in sparring competitions with other teams. They also do the same thing before their competition. They will close their eyes and first visualize the competition and winning that competition. Which is the striking of the bell that causes to arise a feeling and state of mind or altered state of conscious awareness where they are psyche out and fixated on that one thing. Then they stop visualizing and “ride out” that crucial and stimulating feel for as long as they can to maintain that altered state of awareness. This is the resonance factor of the thought/visualization. It is there that the potency lies. Not in the thinking or visualizing itself.
You have to think about it. When we are excited, stoked out, or psyched out about something, that state of mind and elevated emotional condition is not a thinking or intellectual process. It is pure feeling and awareness sans word and thought and intellectualization. Animals don’t “think” in word and thought like us. They are aware and they feel. And they can manipulate, refine or fine tune their state of awareness and feelings to heightened states. You can see it in the eyes of a cheetah completely fixated on a target it has picked out to kill. There is no think involved. It’s pure concentration of a feeling/emotion/burn and an elevated/refined state of awareness. Then it rushes full speed for the kill, without thought, yet with intelligence and precision. That wordless awareness, elevated state of Mind, and heightened state of pure emotion/feel is what you are trying to Sati: be Mindful of, dwell on, hold onto, draw out. The longer you can get the tuning fork to resonate at its optimal condition, the more crystal it can crack.
Whereas in the occultnik subculture they work their “magick” ass backwards. Instead of their being a focusing of their Heart/Mind/Body into a coherent “beam” they scatter everything. Their mouth is busy rambling incantations and nursery rhymes. They body is busy doing something else waving swords around. Their mind is busy visualizing and thinking, and worrying if they chanted the Enochain words right, etc. And they strenuously put in effort to visualize and say their magickal words with contorted force like they’re constipated and trying to relieve themselves. That’s like taking a tuning fork and repeatedly banging on thing, thinking the more thinking and visualizing you do – the more striking and banging – the more powerful you will or magic will be. And then they wonder why their magick sucks and why it never works.
Sati is when you learn to become first aware of something – anything – then you learn to hold onto its resonance factor in your mind. The easiest way to explain this is to vividly recall a wonderful nostalgic memory from your past. This is becoming Aware. Then, when you have called into being that same elevated state of Mind, wonderful feeling, you stop the visualization, and hold onto that state of mind and feeling for as long as you can. That is the actual Mindfulness part of Sati. To prevent the conscious mind from bugging that resonance you may chant or vibrate something, as you often see Vajrayana monks do. This keeps that money busy. Then you can learn to do something called a walking meditation, which is when you practice walking around the block while holding on to the resonance or Mindful State. Because that state of Ataraxia is where the magic of causal manifestation incubates and bursts out. Any thought held in that state of resonance will either burst out as the end results of your actions, or as insights and as what people in the past in the West refer to as “revelation.” Before heaven and earth there was Wu Wei, the potent state of pure effortlessness. Before heaven and earth was created God/Brahma or Whatever existed in a state of pure awareness burning and bursting with the restless and creative impulse to manifest itself.
With that impulse to manifest and that elevated state of Heart and Mind, failure has no meaning. It is failure itself that causes us to fail. Or rather when awareness had come down from that elevated state and acknowledges failure and defeat – allows failure to supplant its Will – it quits. And in quitting it has succumbed to failure, thus failing and not achieving. Every person that I have every met in life so far who is in some way successful in some aspect of their human existence have all told me the very same thing: “Do not let failure stop you.” If you have ever burned deeply to be with someone, you will know there is no such thing as failure. Rejection is meaningless. Fail does not compute with sheer determination. You will get what you want, or die trying. Failure may only be a sign post to help you better yourself and refine your effort and will.
I know an acquaintance in real life named Thomas [Tom]. I met Tom a while back in church. I actually have friends that go to church who invite me, and so I’ll go and hang out. Tom is the pastor of a local church. His church is not big, but he has a good sized congregation that is active and always full on Sundays. Most of the people that go to his church are under 30. He always dresses in very nice business suits and is always perfectly groomed. Perfect hair and perfect cuticles. We pay detailed attention to odd things on guys. When I first met Tom at the church, he smiled and professionally introduced himself with a firm handshake and a strong eye contact lock. He asked for my name, and after I gave it he said my name and gave me a warm welcome. As I watched him mingle with his congregation before the service, I noticed he knows every person’s name, never fails to smile and establish a strong eye link, and was very respected by his people.
For the first times I hung out at this church, I assumed that maybe Tom was a 40 year old businessman who didn’t quite make it in business so he became a preacher to make a living. Which I see no wrong in. He is always friendly and respectful in his mannerism and speech. After hanging out with friends at his church one day he came by our little group to causally talk with us and he noticed the ivory Buddha I wear around my neck. So he politely waited when no one was talking to me and pointed at the pendant saying: “Buddhist?” I said yes. And he then started giving me some positive feedback about the nice qualities of Buddhism which he liked. I felt bad and didn’t want to offend him in any way and said something like: “I really like this church and the atmosphere here. There are a lot of good things about Christianity which I like. Buddhism is just a part of our culture.” He seemed to get what I was trying to say and he said back: “Hey, I must be doing something right Chloe, you’re a regular here. That means something!”
So later on after hanging out with my friends at this church I get around to asking Tom about his background and previous profession because judging by his dress, mannerism, and body language, I assume he was a businessman by profession. So I told him I wondered how a businessman ended up becoming a preacher and mentor to young people. Tom said he never did business and never finished high school. In fact during his early 20’s he was so addicted to speed that he ended up being homeless. But he said that for as long as he can remember he always wanted to teach people and mentor people. He watched a popular preacher once and knew from then that he wanted to do the same. It’s just that home life for him was harsh and one thing led to another and he ended up homeless and on drugs.
But he said his dream of teaching people never left him. He eventually found enough faith to clean himself up and got himself a normal job and place to stay. He made friends and started to try and preach to them. But none of his friends liked it. Instead of taking such rejection as a failure, he used it as constructive criticism to better himself. He took classes at the local community college on anything that could teach him people skills, and he read whatever he could on things like body language etc. He tried many times to start up churches, but he was never quite successful and at times the people were very mean to him. But he never accepted failure and never quit. He just used what looked like failure as a means to understand what he may lack that people need. Then after so many errors and fail attempts, he got his church, and was “blessed” with a beautiful wife and children. One thing he taught in church once which stuck in my Mind was: “Anybody can quit. Anybody can not bother to try. It takes a person with the resolve of Job to stand up to the adversities of life to make things happen. Don’t let failure defeat you.”
When you learn to hold onto the resonance factor of a thought or desire, and to ride it out as long as you can, life starts to unfold and unravel gradually in your favour. And this is one of those things which can’t be given or validated in word and speech. You must apply it and test it yourself. The Buddha once said that dhamma is only dhamma if and when such dhamma can be tested and replicated. It’s one of the 6 conditions or qualities of dhamma. Dhamma meaning “phenomenon.” If a phenomenon is real, it must be testable and reproducible. Meaning that if Sir Isaac Newton noticed that apples fall, then if that falling nature is a real phenomenon, other must be able to drop apples and watch it fall too. Then you know it is a real phenomenon of nature. If on the other hand somebody experiences Brahma talking to him, and that phenomenon of a talking Brahma cannot be tested and replicated, then something is not right.
So if life unfolds and unravels like a blossoming flower when nurtured by Mindfulness is a real phenomenon, then it is testable and replicable. Thus, as a student of Life, it is up to each of us to test natural phenomenon. If certain people can become successful in life, and if they all follow the same basic blueprint of manifestation, then whatever blueprint they are using should be replicable if applied. Unfortunately like science, phenomenon in nature cannot not be tested by simply throwing around opinions and debates. Phenomena are things that are experienced, and thus to test a phenomenon of nature, one must experience such phenomenon on one’s own terms.
So the basic blueprint of presencing something in the causal is Heart–> Mind–> Causal Momentum–> Result. That resonance factor is what is needed to build up step three: causal momentum. Causal Momentum is like swinging on a swing set on a playground. We all use to do it. You start off slow and move forward. Then intentionally pull yourself backwards, and thrust forward again. You do that often enough and you will generate a gradual increase in causal momentum. But that momentum or swing has two parts or aspects: a moving forward, and a moving backward. Both the movements are part of the swing. Just like going up slowly and moving down fast are both part of a rollercoaster. But in life we often mistake the slow going up or backward motion as “defeat” and “failure.” And so, interpreting them as such, every time we are confronted by what looks like failure, we quit and stop trying. You need one to give rise to the other. Failure and error is a sign that you are getting closer. That sounds counter-intuitive. I’ll explain.
A while ago my family and their friends started a business of making faux wood out of polyurethane. To get the idea going a Russian scientist which I renamed Dr. Scratchandsniff because he looked like that bald scientist on the Animaniacs. The Doc presented his “expertise” on chemistry. So the makeshift “board of executives” made him a partner and gave him big shares of the future company. All he had to do was make the idea real. To keep me out of trouble they made me be the receptionist after school and double as The Doc’s assistant which meant that I just run around and fetch him things he needs.
The idea was simple. We take fiber glass, foam, and fly ash and mix it up into a clay like substance, then push the pliable substance through a long 60 foot pressing belt and Voila! Fake wood comes out the other end. And surely, with a chemical scientist from Russia, the minor details would be a piece of cake to figure out. Well, that’s not how it looked like on our end. Or at least to me the Doc seemed to not know what he was doing for the first 3 years. The first year I stood there and watched him talk to himself as he mixed a bunch of chemicals. Some didn’t do anything and others made a lot of smoke and caught on fire. There were times when he had to look at me as he was running to the door saying: “Okay, let’s go outside, remind me to not use that specific formula again!”
One problem was that the Doc didn’t have any money of his own. So his “tests” and “experiments” costs a lot of money, which nobody had. They had to use credit and borrowed money to supply the Doc with his chemicals. The other problem which looked like failure was the fire department kept coming by and telling us to get rid of the Doc’s chemicals because they were a safety hazard. The second year the Doc ended up making something that looked like clay, but the quality was pure crap because the stuff just foamed and didn’t harden into a wood like texture. The year the Doc finally perfected his formula. He made these little one foot long samples in the hundreds and I had to test all of them for its breaking point with this pump thing. Once we had the actual formula, it was time for the others to borrow more money to actually build the belt machine and extruder and stuff. That was when more failures came.
First nobody knew how or where to make belts as big as were needed. Each belt had to be 60 feet long. But the belts were round like massive rubber bands so that the belt machine can turn the things around. That meant the belts had to be 120 feet long and one piece because the pressing part of the belt had to have a continuous wood grain design. So one of my uncles who knew something about latex came on board and spent the whole year experimenting with the belt concept. This was a long process of trial and error and a ton of failure; each failure costing money nobody had. Next came the actual engineering team, nobody knew what the machine that mixed the stuff together must look like that could work with the chemicals and stuff the Doc’s formula specified. They found an old one that handled the mixture which cost a huge arm and leg which was also borrowed.
Then the Doc and machine team came on board to learn to work the big blender. The blender/extruder was the size of one of those fans on the wing of a commercial airplane and it takes all these bunches of chemicals, ash, and chopped up fiberglass and mixed it all together in its mixing bowl inside of it. The chemicals react to make heat which melts everything together and the blender squeezes all of this out of a hole smaller than my fist. Which meant to me – being as smart and analytical as I am – that it’s not a good idea to stand in front of the small hole, because if something happens and all the pressure and heat inside of it is clogged, something is going to blow up and fly out of the hole fast. Which happened and was the other set of huge failures. The blender machine on the first day of mixing got clogged because the Doc did not know exactly how long to keep the mixture inside before it hardened. Well it hardened inside the machine and the blender smoked up in a puff of clouds. I was the first to run out of the building, than like a cannon it shot out hot steaming rocks and clouds of toxic smoke. They had to take the whole machine apart piece by pieces to chip away the hardened stuff. This went on half the time.
The fourth year they were in terrible debt and the debt collectors were calling my phone at the desk asking for money and all these companies kept threatening me to sue me. I had had to tell every caller daily: “Hey, this is just an after school job, I have nothing to do with anything!” But the manufacturing plant was making boards! Piles of boards which were totally useless. The quality was crap, you step on it and they break. Each pile of boards cost about 5,000 dollars worth of chemicals and material which nobody had, and the whole yard was packed many feet high of worthless boards.
Finally, after all those years of failure, the plant made nice boards. So that’s when the marketing team came in. Which was when I got assigned to work with the fat cigar smoking guy who was a partner and marketing guy. We made samples and drove around to these horse ranches to try and sell the stuff as fencing wood. We eventually started getting customers! Which was when the “executive board” said that everything looks “good” enough to sell the company to get out of debt. They had no other option. If they all didn’t sell, everyone would be homeless. This was when the other set of failures came. Every group of investors and potential buyers that came to the plant rejected the whole thing as total waste of money [which it was]. Finally they found a farming family with a lot of money and not much brains. They came over to the plant and everybody was showering the farmers with visions of spectacular gross profit from making and selling fake wood! They bought the whole company, and everybody involved broke even with barely a significant profit. But that small profit everybody got plus getting out of debt was the success.
If it weren’t for all the failures, trial, and error, there would have never been a profit of any size. The more causal momentum the business idea picked up, the more failures there seemed to be, and with each overcoming of those failures and from the learning of error, there was a progress. If you think about it, the people who have not met up with failure in life, have not actually tried to do anything in life. They all stay within the average limits of mundane existence: get a job, borrow money, lease a house, pay off debt, make a nuclear family. There are no risks or failure involved with mediocrity, it’s safe.
Causal Momentum in real life out side of manufacturing plants takes on a different aspect, which is really cool to watch unfold, if you ever put yourself in the proper conditions. The state of Mind of resonance is the fuel which drives the momentum. By that I mean the thought/emotion you Mindfully resonate during your waking hours or are single mindedly focused on seeps into your sphere or field of influence and draws in people who themselves resonates with something you are “broadcasting” out. It usually happens in the form of coincidences and happenstance. Except when you manifest often, all the coincidences adds up to the point where you become consciously aware that they simply cannot be dismissed as coincidences.
I was told once by a mentor that success in life is easy, you just do what you love to do and the rest will fall into place. You eventually meet the “right” people at the “right” place and time. But it all requires a burn and putting yourself out there and meeting people. One causal thing happens which causes to arise another, and gradually a momentum builds up, until the end goal is actualized. It’s like the Star Game. There will be many moves, many errors, many failures, but every move takes you closer to the top board and put you closer to the winning pattern. The further along the Game, the more momentum build up. All you have to do is hold on, ride the unraveling of causal momentum, and keep things moving. The entire system itself is designed to take care of the How and details. You just move and set things initially into motion.
I’ll tell you a real story about manifesting, determination, and causal momentum. I have a close friend named “V.” I’ve known her for 7 years at least. She’s a few years older than me. When V was 9 years old her uncle brought home his best friend named “M.” We call her “Big M.” Big M is 11 years older than V. V said that when she first saw Big M, she fell in love and knew that Big M was the person she wanted to spend the rest of her life with.
At the time V was too young to know or make any sense of what she was as far as sexual orientation or identity goes. She just had a deep feeling for Big M. As V grew up Big M went through her many relationships with guys, which we all go through. The fact that Big M was never in a relationship with a girl never deterred V or stopped her from going to bed at night dreaming about being with Big M and waking up in the morning with the same thought resonating in her Heart and Mind.
Twelve years later V is all grown up. She has figured her self out and has been with a few girls. She still wanted to be with Big M, and the feelings never went away. They only grew stronger. So one day she had to tell her uncle, to get things off her chest. Back then she and her uncle were like best friends. He was a gay boy 11 years older than her. V told her uncle that she was in love with Big M for over 10 years and wanted to be with her. They got into this big fight as he went into a big sissy fit, and her uncle ended up telling his whole family that V was gay [lesbian]. At the time she was living with her grandparents who were religious Catholics. They kicked V out. She didn’t have a place to go so she went to live with her cousin. But she and her cousin got into a big fight as well, and so she left. For a while V was homeless. She drifted between our house and other friends houses. But she was working and still in love with Big M.
Enter me. I knew V’s family problems at the time, but she never mentioned anything about her 11 year in loveness with Big M who was already 30 something at the time. Which was way older than us. Plus I had never seen Big M with a girl before, but I don’t hang out with Big M much anyways. So one day Big M calls me up to hang out. It was a day before V’s birthday and Big M wanted to buy something for V, but she didn’t know what V liked. While we were shopping Big M kept on asking me about random private information about V, such as what kind of girls she dated etc. So after coercing it out of her, I learn that Big M has this crush on V ever since she first saw V when she was 9. Except she never told anybody about it because Big M was always afraid that people might think of her as a “child molester.” I also learned that Big M has some encounters with other girls, and had finally come to realize that she is happier with girls because men a pigs. And Big M for the longest time wanted to be with V more than anything, except she was scared how this all would effect V’s relationship with her uncle [M’s best friend].
I thought it was odd when she mentioned V’s relationship with her uncle, because they didn’t have one. Big M didn’t know, because the fag never told her. I had to tell her that V’s uncle went on a sissy fit rampage and got V kicked out a year before and she was living from house to house, but I didn’t know what the cause of the big fight was. I suggested unknowingly that Big M perhaps give V a call and find out, and tell V that I had told her about the fight if V asks. Well as soon as I could I ran over to our friends apartment where V was living at to tell her the load of gossip I uncovered. I was thinking, “V will never believe me when I tell her Big M was in love with her when she was 9 years old!” It turned out that the bizarre feeling were mutual. A month later after 13 years, they started dating. Today, after constant mindfulness, the burn of passion, and causal momentum, they are living happily together in a house they rent. They have been together for about 5 years now.
When we hang out together and quietly talk, it always amazes us how throughout all the challenges, difficulties, and adversity, V never lost sight of the only thing in her life that gave her life meaning and something to wake up to, to strive for. For even when she was rejected by her entire family and homeless, she held on to that determination and never waivered. Even if it never happened, it is the hope itself that kept her striving and kept her from doing anything tragic with herself like suicide. Most girls who are kicked out and severed from their families within V’s “subcultural demographics” don’t have happy lives, and don’t really make it in life as anything successful. When V was kicked out, she worked her ass off at her job. Today she is the assistant manager of a large grocery store. V is a personal “hero” of mine, one of many Real everyday people I look up to and admire. Not for what philosophical or religious BS they know, but for what they have accomplished and manifested against all odds and adversity.
Morale, Determination, and Will Power sets the pendulum of causal manifestation in motion. I find it unfortunate that mundane Satanism has rejected the fundamental aspects of human motivating morale such as hope and faith. They have traded the very basic flint of manifestation that makes the sparks which sets aflame the burn of passion and determination for dead lifeless intellectualism and opinions. And when these mundane occultniks have some sort of desire to have something, rather than understand that it is from the burn of determination and single minded action that results in life are born, they turn to dead grimoire of medieval magic. Think that pointing swords at a pentagram and speaking Enochian will do anything. You take a close look at many of these mundane Satanists and occultniks in cyberspace and you’ll notice that most don’t even have the will power to lose weight. With such people something Jesus and something Forrest Gump once said comes to mind: “By their fruits, ye shall know them;” and “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Where do you go to learn about determination and will power? Can you read a self help book and be magically endued with god like passion and will power? No. They are phenomena in nature. Inner nature and outer nature. You must put yourself in the right conditions to experience such phenomena. No body can teach you or me how to passionately burn for something, some goal, or someone. But steps which helps put together the right condition can be given to you. And if you would just apply the steps and put yourself into the Flow of Life, you will eventually gain the experiences and learn by trial and error how to use those experiences to makes real things happen in life.
The 7 degrees of the Sinister Way are the steps, the tasks, the trials, and the ordeals that bring about the right conditions in life for one to experience sheer determination. Sure, the individual end goals seem pointless. But that is not the point. The point is what is not pointed at or written. What can never be written. Only intimated feebly from on Mind to another. It’s like a constructed wind tunnel in a way. There is wind everywhere in the world, Why bother constructing a stupid wind tunnel? To test and experience things first in a controlled environment, before you take flight in the much bigger environment. So we can ask: “Why bother experiencing unnecessary adversity and ordeals set up in some Seven Fold Way, when life itself is already difficult and challenging to live?”
It’s a simple answer really: to gain practical skills in a controlled environment. Failing tasks in the Seven Fold Way doesn’t generate long term consequential results in your life. Failing to hike 50 miles up a hill doesn’t kill you or make you homeless. If you fail, pick yourself off and try again. It’s an outrageously arbitrary end goal, but just do it anyways. In the process you will feel something stir and burn inside. And when you reach the end goal you will gain an intimate realization that can never be given to you in spoken or written word. The realization that with determination and will power anything is possible in Life and beyond.
It is the only thing that strikes fear in God. Throughout the whole mythos of the Bible, there is only one real instance when God expresses fear. It was when humanity was One and they had collected themselves into a coherent union with a single minded revolve to build the Tower of Babel to pierce the heavens. In fear, God said to himself: “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them…” [Gen 11:6] Then he divided everybody up, fracturing their coherency; and making them – Humanity – impotent, dysfunctional, and dependent on him.
Besides the ability to show you intimately what determination is and how force of will is born from that burn of passion; the 7 degrees of the Sinister Way of the ONA orients your Mind to see, understand, and to work for goals, aims, objectives, and directives. It trains you to live your life within context to goal orientated action. Don’t just live aimlessly. Live for something and work to Presence it. Don’t just waste your time working for anything. Work to manifest something beyond you, for those who will come after you: your progeny. Like bees who labour their whole existence for unborn grubs. Step by step, the Sinister Way gives you a goal and task to accomplish. It gives you the basic methodology. The rest is up to you/us. If we are the right type and kind of people, we will know and figure out the How and the details.
If it’s one thing I hate, it’s babysitting grown people. There was this time when me and my cousins had this idea of building a gazebo in our grandma’s back yard for her, next to a fish pond there. We went around and collected money from everybody who thought it would be a good idea. So me and my cousin Tiff had the chore of finding the guy who would build it. We call up this one guy we found in the internet after a day of searching. This fatass comes over to grandma’s house and we talk business. We tell him we want a six sided gazebo “right here.” This fatass then proceeded to act like a smart ass saying things like: “You guys don’t have blueprints? What kind of sticks and lumber should I use? Should I use cement or brick to lay the foundation?” His badgering and whining got me and Tiff upset so we went off on him. Can’t you just build the god damn gazebo right here without people feeding you the little detail and baby sitting you?
So we fired him and drove around Home Depot looking to hire a Mexican labourer. After stopping by a few Home Depots cruising for the right looking guy who has the look and feel of someone who takes charge, we found one and Tiff yells out: “Hey anybody know how to build a gazebo?!” My pick stepped up and said he had experience building patios and that he can make a gazebo. So we hired him. We took him to grandma’s and said to him: “Aqui [here].” He says: “Okay, tomorrow I come back and show you pictures.” He came back the next day on a bike with a magazine of gazebos. We pointed to one we liked, and that was it. All we had to do was drive him around back and fourth to home depot to go crazy on picking whatever he needed to build the thing. We didn’t know. Our gazebo guy even provided us with his own cheap labourers without us bothering to look. And the gazebo got built. That’s more like it. You are given an end goal or objective. Nobody babysits you. Stupid people need not apply. You/we should be smart enough to figure out on our own how to get from point A to point B. Point A is now, point B is Galactic Imperium. Point A is the current condition, point B is system breakdown.
Subversive Presencing
I just made up that term. It basically means to presence or manifest in people ideas in a subversive manner. Why bother doing that anyways? Because with something like Inner Presencing, we can change and alter our own inner condition, which is great. And with Outer Presencing we can learn to change and alter the immediate environment in our own lives. But those methods don’t bring about social change because “society” means a group of other people. When we are dealing with the building block that is the human being, there is no difference between a “civilization,” a “city,” and “nation,” and “corporation,” a “school campus,” a “tribe,” a religion, a “gang,” a military, or the gay pride parade. It’s all the same thing: People! They are social orderings of humans who associate with each other for some purpose.
So when we have demystified all of that, we can clearly see that if we desire to change “civilization” or society that we are not talking about rebuilding structures and buildings and infrastructure things like highways and sewage pipe lines. We really mean the people, the social glue that binds them together, and the causal future fruit of their combined wyrd and actions. So it’s basic causal mathematics from here: Coherency + Modality = Future Result.
By Coherency here we mean the social ordering or social organization of a given group of humans. By Modality here we mean the pattern of behaviour, way of life, culture, mode of expression, of the given group of people. By Future Result we mean the condition of life, of the world, of the environment, the collective causal output of a given group of people will manifest in the framework of Time. Each vector is the sum of several variables or factors. Coherency is the sum of the factors of People plus a shared common resonance. Like attracts like. We are drawn to people who have something in common with us somehow. It comforts us by appeasing our ancestral tribal instinct wired in us. We feel safer around our kith and kinfolk who share things in common with us. Such as tradition, beliefs, culture, rituals, etc. Modality is the sum of the factors of Heart [citta/psyche], Mind, and Action.
So once we have the simple equation, we can say that if we do not like the potential Future Result of a given group, or if we desire to graft our own Future Result into the equation, that we must deal with the vectors of Coherency and Modality. Change any one of those two initial vectors, and we in time influence the Future Result of the equation. How do we change those two first vectors? Implantation of emotive memes in Heart, implantation of memes in mind influences behaviour and activity. Maneuvering and manipulating People requires an intimate understanding of how humans function and understanding of Resonance Factors, what they are, and why they bring people together. Affect any of those two secondary variables, and you influence the coherency of the given social order, in Time. When we are working in real life with the factor of Time always in the background, we are not working in a static environment. It is again very much like the Star Game. Each move changes everything and takes you – in Time – closer to the “end.” Not only do you have to be considerate of each move and the potential causal resultant sequences of each move, but also how each piece will affect other pieces and how it all must work to make an end pattern in context to the matrix of Time.
I learned how to change others gradually over time by paying close attention to my own life, my actions, and how those actions affected and influenced others around me. Then what I would do is make a hypothesis, experiment around with people and situations, and then analyze my results. All this takes time and a progressive examination of your past actions and resulting reactions. It also has a lot to do with speculation, trial, error, mistakes, and the learning from mistakes. But it wasn’t like learning to manipulate people subtly was my life’s objective. It was just a random thing that popped into my mind when I was board and thinking.
My first visual perspective of manipulating people comes from the examination of my own junior high years and being honest with myself. During that time I knew there was a social pecking order on campus. There were the popular people at the top and I was somewhere at the bottom. I hated the popular kids, but only because I may have envied something they had. I secretly wanted to be them. When I left campus, I vanish from the minds of my peers, if they were ever aware of me at all. When school was over, the popular kids were still on our minds and we bottom rung students still talked about them. We hated them, but we wanted to be like them. Which is why we dressed like them, did our hair like them, talked liked them, thought like them, liked the same celebrities like them, etc.
We all do it whether we like to admit it or not. We desire to associate or be close to things we find pleasing. They don’t even need to be people. When you walk into a pet store and you see a cute puppy you want to take it home with you. When you walk into an antique store and you see a beautiful curvy French armoire you want to take it home with you to have; to keep in close proximity with you. When you meet someone and you like them you want to have them close to you somehow. We want to be close to things we like. If we can’t be close to things we like directly we associate with those things indirectly by proxy. We can’t associate and be close to Hitler, so we either carry a picture of him, have a swastika, or associate with whatever party he affiliated with. We can’t all marry Justine Timberlake or Brad Pit or Angelina Jolie, so we do the same with them by proxy. We listen to their music, watch their movies, talk about them, and wear what they wear. We can’t all be best homies with Dr. Dre and Obama, so we listen to Dre’s music he produces, associate by proxy with his label, and join the democratic party and support liberal agenda like stooges.
Top down influence is easy. Those people at the top don’t have to try. We naturally associate. Bottom up influence is pathetic and not even worth trying. If you were a bottom rung student and you tried to start a fad or set a fashion trend, nobody would notice you or give a shit. So from that experience in being at the bottom rung of our school’s social order, I gained two valuable hypothetical insights which I would test later: 1) If you want to influence people, get to the top of the social organization; 2) If you can’t get to the top, and you want to influence people, you just influence the people at the top.
The Higgs Particle comes to mind here. It’s a speculative elementary particle that “gives” mass to bigger particles. I was watching something on youtube which explained the Nature of the Higgs Particle really nicely. You have a campus of students at break just hanging out and talking. Then a Popular professor walks across the quad and all the students start to crowd around this Popular professor. The Popular professor represents the Higgs Particle and the crowding effect represents “mass.” On the other hand, when a normal professor without the popularity walks across campus he doesn’t even draw people’s attention to him. So in any social ordering of people you often have two kinds of people you want to look for. The first is the “Leader Particle” who is somehow either an authority figure or given that role. The second type of person to look for is the “Higgs Particle” people, or the Popular one.
As a Subverter you first want to find the Higgs Particle type and focus your work on them and not the Leader Particle. Why? Because just because you are a leader of a group does not mean people like you. The Popular ones in the group attract the attention, have already established strong rapport with their peers, and everybody likes them. Your memes will travel further and wider through that type. Ignore the leader and the satellite membership. The leader types are only secondary options in the case that a group has no popular types, which is a rarity. Some social orders don’t have leaders. How do you brand market “Nike” to an entire leaderless subculture of basketball players? You put Nike shoes on the most Popular type in that subculture. Human Nature and the natural pecking order of the subculture will do the rest of the work.
So in practice, let’s say that you have a tagger crew on campus you wanted to influence. Do you waste your time and energy convincing the many individual members to agree with you and see things your way, or do you work on the leader and popular icons in the crew? The second option is the more constructive option. First in a friendly subversive manner, and if that doesn’t work, you use force. As long as the leader, perceived leader, and iconic figures in that crew are influenced, the rest of the crew will naturally follow.
I first became aware of “Satanism” in junior high, when one of my friends talked about it. Him and his few friends were Modern Satanists. They had this group thing they called AMS which stood for “American Modern Satanist.” The group leader was this emo fag named “Shadow,” or at least that’s what he called himself. He wore black lipstick, eyeliner, and black nail polish and said making out with other boys is cool. But they were the only friends I had at the time beside the drooling geeks on the pentathalon team. At the time I only knew about three religions: Buddhism which I didn’t think anything of because you drown in it at home; Christianity which I thought were obnoxious crazy people; and Hinduism which I thought were irritating crazy people with stupid English accents. So I naturally thought Satanism must be crazy too. Who worships Satan?
My friend Shadow gave me a Satanic Bible one day after I asked for one. This was when he had spent time talking about the greatness of Satanism during every lunch break in the library. And I liked the ideas. But as I read the Satanic Bible I had all these questions. I tried asking my friends in AMS but none of their answers really satisfied me because they were idiots.
But I had this one grandfather who was a Buddhist monk! So I figured that, of all people who knew anything about life and human nature, it must be a monk. I thought about asking him my question whenever I had time. Except I had a few problems, first I didn’t want anybody in my family to know I was a crazy Satanist. I wouldn’t know how to explain it. Second, that grandpa speaks gibberish which I don’t understand hardly. He uses these really big Pali and Khmer word. Second I was only had the command of the English language. My Khmer is primitive. I understand it spoken; by my personal lexicon in my head consists of mostly domestic words. Domestic meaning the further from the house environment one goes, the less words I knew to describe things. So I would need a translator, which was my aunt-mom. But she was a problem as well. She understood the grandfather and she is fluent in English, except my aunt-mom’s English is on a different level than mine. I’m not going to say I am smarter than her. It’s just that I have a different class and set of words I use which differs from the everyday domestic class of words and thought she uses. So this is how I learned the other method of influencing people.
The idea was for me to trick my aunt-mom into thinking I am asking a question about Buddhism when I am actually asking a question about Satanism. This way the grandpa will be tricked into giving me the answers I am looking for. But the trick happens the other way around as well which I would later find out. It’s called Upaya, which is a method of tricking people to be Buddhist by using words and thought-ideations your audience uses already. The whole system of Mahayana is an Upaya to trick the native Taoist Chinese people to be Buddhist for example. Vajrayana is another example of an Upaya, where the monks reformat Buddhism into the native Bon-Po thought-ideation, weltanschauung, and cultural peculiarities of the indigenous Tibetans. And this is not unbuddhist because the Buddha himself used Upaya to trick everybody around him to understand Dhamma.
There is no way to translate “Satan” into Thai, or Khmer, or Pali, or Sanskrit in such a way that it retains its native quality without completely changing the outer word. You can just use the name and it would be completely meaningless to your Bhikkhu grandfather who is totally ignorant of what a Satan is. So from my exchanges back and forth with my grandpa through my aunt-mom, I learned to clearly see that there is a distinct different between a string of words and the thought-ideation that such spoken words conveys or tries to convey. For example I can say in English: “My Dog Has Black Eyes,” and in simple Khmer “Pnaek [eye] Jakai [dog] Pon [belong] Chloe Khmau [black],” and although the words and ordering of words are completely different, both sentences relay the same exact ideation.
And I learned further that the sequencing of thought-ideations themselves only tries to approximate an essential concept further beneath the ideas. For instance In English we can say: “God Exists.” This makes since in English and the ideation of it also makes sense in English, yet it cannot be literally translated into Khmer or most other languages. Then also the ideas native to each word themselves cannot be “translated.” There is no real word in Khmer for “God,” and there is no real word in Khmer for “to exist,” or “to be.” You cannot state that English ideation intelligently in Khmer in any real way. Thus there is a problem because the superficial thought-ideation simply does not exist as a viable construct in Khmer weltanschauung. Neither the word or ideation exists. How do I go about this huge problem if I wanted to get my grandpa to tell me if a god is real?
If I wanted to say “Trees Exist,” in Khmer I would have to say “Dam-cher [Tree] Roos [Grow/born] Bee [From/of/with] Dey [Ground].” But here I would be stating a complete obvious. Of course trees grow from the ground. But the point is you cannot take the “tree” outside of its condition and matrix. The condition of growing, and the matrix of ground. The condition and locality or matrix gives the phenomenon of a tree its given reality/actuality. You see it, it grows, it’s obviously exists. Or I can say: Mian [Have] Dam-cher [Tree] Khnong [Inside] Pandey [The Earth]. But again, the “tree” is accompanied by a condition [Have] and a matrix of existence [The Earth] as in the earth has trees. But you can’t say Vishnu grows from something, because what is Vishnu growing our of? People? The sky?
People like me can Roos [grow] Bee [From] Madai [Mother]; and thus the phenomenon of my existence is fixed to conditions and people and places: real things. You can’t say that the earth has shiva, because where is it? But I can say “Preah [sacred/honorable/used to also mean god] Nau [dwells] Khnong [inside] Chet [Heart/Citta] Manus [People/Human],” or God dwells in the human heart, which is the closest I can get to “God Exists.” If God exists, he only exists as a “quale” – an inner experience – of Heart and Mind, and thus has no reality in the real world of phenomena, in the same sense that the emotion of love exists only as an inner experience and does not – cannot – exist in and of itself in the real world independent of condition and context. It’s the same thing with the spirit of ancestors. You can’t say that “spirits exist,” or spirits are real. Your ancestors and forefathers are dead. They no longer “exist” in the real world. But their spirits can be with us in our heart [citta/psyche]. To be fair one can actually say “God Exists” in “Khmer” by heavily borrowing words and ideas from Sanskrit and Pali. But when 100% of the words/ideas are Sanskrit is it really Khmer anymore?
From many years of struggling to state my questions about Satanism, life, and human nature in general to my aunt-mom to ask my grandpa, and from he in return giving answers, I gradually figured out that the only major difference between at least Satanism and Buddhism was the verbal décor; otherwise I noticed that both religions were feeling the same arena of human experience and nature. Like we were to take grade schoolers from the 1st grade to the 6th grade out into a natural setting and have them paint the same scenery of snow capped mountains, lake, and pine forest. Not everyone will draw the same picture with the same detail. Some pictures will come out very crude and almost unintelligible. Other may come out perfectly drawn. Yet they are all the human attempt of capturing what has existed before human Mind existed to capture.
So I switched high schools and became popular at my new school due to relations with people who had gone to the school before and because at that new school, taggers, gangbangers, and ravers were the cool crowd. I had gotten into tagging at my first high school, which was not an activity the popular crowd there were into. All my friends were just that type there. Things were different at the new school. I ended up making many friends in the top rung, as well as in the subgroups on campus. And so at that new school, with my new found social status I brought my confused belief system with me. Which was when I learned another useful factor in subversive presencing.
At that school I was the only “Satanist” on campus, but I didn’t tell anyone, since I was confused myself. By the time I was a senior, every person inside my field of influence, which included many of my cousins at home became Satanists. There was literally only 3 or 4 people I knew at school whom I associated with that was not a Satanist, or who did not get into Buddhism. Basically what happened was that I would often share my own ideas and insights during general conversations but I never put a tag or label to those insight. As time past my friends would come up to me and ask me what my religion was, or where I was getting my ideas and thoughts from. Depending on the person, I either just said from the Satanic Bible or from Buddhism.
So when a person is first exposed to a set of ideas that they resonate with, and they later find out that those ideas are “Satanic,” they cannot fall back on their own preconceived assumptions and biased opinions about Satanism, because they first resonated with the ideas and associated with them. If we like something, we want to associate with them, and this goes with ideas and thoughts also. It is our own preconceptions, assumptions, misunderstandings of a religion, a belief, a culture, a race, etc, that prevents us from associating or being open to such. You want to completely go around and bypass their ego, prejudice, and assumptions, by presenting your memes with words and ideas “native” to the person’s paradigm first. Then if you want, you later give them a label for those ideas. Otherwise, it serves no real purpose to put labels on memes when subverting.
When I left high school and went to colleges, things changes. I no longer had the back up of a social pecking order, because there really isn’t a coherent single one on a college campus. And the people that go to college are more intelligent. It became hard to tell people my ideas and get people to just accept them like I had become used to. This is when I learned another factor in subversive presencing.
From hereon I learned that the verbal décor and outer ideation are only tools used to convey a deeper essence to specific groupings of people. You can complete change the verbal décor and outer ideation around and retain the essence. So now it was possible to convey that essence to a target person by manufacturing the ideation and verbal décor this target person was receptive to and embed that essence in him. Religion had then lost its meaning to me. It now had become a tool of manipulation. Because I can take the essence of “Satanism” and morph that essence to be acceptable to a Mormon. And I could take Mormon ideas and by switching verbal décor and ideation around, I can make it acceptable to a Satanist. Or I could take dhamma and morph it to sound like Mormon ideology to a Mormon and Satanic philosophy to a Satanist.
The idea of subverting the internal thought process, paradigm, belief system, or worldview of others is to Implant your own memes somehow into their Minds, so that the target grafts those memes into their system. When you meet with resistance, you must understand that the subject’s psychological “immune system” has red flagged your memes and has put up a defense mechanism. The very minute your memes is challenged by a debate or argument, that memetic coding is trash and useless. Because instead of those memes embedding in a Mind, it now just circulates in a circle of debate and validation. Debating ideas defeats the very objective of subversion. You don’t want your subjects debating, arguing, and validating, your ideas. You want them to think them and use them. You don’t want the street gang down the street to debate on the economic validity of teaming up with your gang and monopolizing the drug trade in the whole area. It’s pointless and gets you nowhere. You want them to go with it without resistance.
The minute one of my ideas meets up with a debate or sign or resistance in the other person, I know that my idea/meme did not pass their customs agents. When you are trying to smuggle drugs and contraband across the boarder into a different country, the last thing you want is the boarder patrol checking through your vehicle and cargo. A debate is not conducive to subversion. It is a resistance to what has been outted as a foreign idea that challenges the other persons set of opinions, lexicon, belief, and worldviews.
I say lexicon, because most of the time, what triggers a debate or argument is not the idea itself, but the actual words you used to convey those ideas. For example when you are taking to a group of Mormons and you want them to think thoughts congruous to Satanic weltanschauung, you don’t give them the meme: “Human sacrifice and culling is cool!” It’s not the idea of killing people they reject, because Mormons join the army and kill, they do become police officers and must use force at times, the bible and book of Mormon includes acts of war, and in their history they did have what was called the “Mormon Illuminati” who were fanatics that murdered any Mormon who betrayed their secret priesthood oaths. They reject the memetic coding because their system is programmed to just reject such words. When you use different words which they use and you mirror their Mormom thought-process or way of thinking [paradigm], they will agree or not debate it.
It’s like a problem I recently encountered. I got a cool program with some weird extension [.asc] which worked fine on the internet, but when I downloaded it my computer said it couldn’t open an ASC file. I have never come across an ASC file before. So I just deleted the software after trying to open it with everything I had in my computer. I figured ASC must be some computer programming language from the stone age of computers or something. It was a stupid program anyways. I don’t know why I downloaded it. It was an artificial intelligence program. There was a box with a head in it and you type things to the head, and it talks back to you. Except its conversation skill was pitiful.
Anyways, in college I dropt Satanism; or at least the outer décor of Satanism since it’s hard to subversively implant memes using outer satanic ideas in people. But by then I had learned the fine art of upaya from my grandpa. Upaya is like shapeshifting but for your ideas/memes. You have the essence you want to convey. You calibrate your target, acquire their lexicon and paradigm schematics from associating with them, then dress up the essence of your meme in ideas and words that resonates with the target’s mental programming language and paradigm.
Rapport is also a crucial initial factor of subversion and subtle influence. I only learned this after asking myself why was it that every friend I had thought like me in some way; why most of my friends I had in high school turned into Satanists like me. Why when I dropt Satanism and reverted back to Buddhism that those friends who associate with me turned Buddhist. To “Turn” people: what’s the root meaning of the word “Subvert?” Sub+Vertere/Versus. It shares the same root as the word Universe. A Uni-Verse is something that is a Whole System and when it Turns everything in it Turns together as One Whole Thing. Uni meaning “One” and “Verse” from Vertere/Versus meaning “Turn [Around].” Reverse meaning to “Turn Back.” Convert meaning to “Turn Together,” or “Turn With.” Divert meaning to “Turn From.” Subvert essentially means to Turn people around Beneath [sub] their conscious awareness in a subtle manner. Or it can be parsed to mean to Turn people’s Subjective orientation around.
Why is it easier to turn people’s subjective orientation in your direction with Rapport? It’s like a magnet right? Every atom in the magnet are all parallel and pointing in the same exact orientation: north and south. You take a magnet and an unmagititzed screw driver and with a few strokes you can Subvert the screw driver to change/align the orientation of its atomic axis. You simply stroke the magnet along the metal shaft of the screw driver several times in the same direction, not back and forth. Then the screw driver is Turned into a magnet. Something weird in Nature always seems to happen when things organized into coherent patterns. The coherency may be a physical structure or the coherent orientation of poles. In the former you may end up with crystals and lasers. In the latter you end up with Fields. And because we can take a magnet and magnetize an ordinary screw driver, we know that Fields spread and propagate. And because the effect a magnet has on the physical metallic property of the screw driver, we should know that Fields influences the atoms themselves [causing them to resonate in polar orientation]. Fields not only spread and propagate, they also affect and influence physical structure/unit.
Rapport is when two or more things/people co-exists in relation to one another in an intense state of harmony. When we set up two tuning forks or bells of the same frequency and we strike one, the other hums the same resonance, that is rapport. Rapport makes it easy to affect, subvert, and influence those within your Field of influence [friends and associates] because when two things relate or have a rapport with each other Information travels between the two vectors unimpeded and effortlessly. Information Flow between two vectors that resonate is the key concept. By Information flow, I mean a literal flow of Information. When you set two bells of the same size and frequency near each other and you strike one, that resonation is pure coherent information: Wave Modulation. When the other bell picks up the wave modulation it hums effortlessly, without you needing to strike it. There is no resistance. What do we call this in technical talk? Syncing. When you Sync your iPhone or Android Phone to your Computer that Sync/Link/Rapport allows information to flow between the two devises unobstructed. A debate, or argument, or challenge is an obstruction of the Flow. When you encounter an obstruction, you know there is no Rapport.
When you are able to relate to someone or have developed a Rapport with someone, you no longer Question what they tell you. If I were to say the 100,000 people died in Japan from the tsumani, you would question my information for validity. But when you turn on your TV to your Regular station, and watch Familiar faces of news casters tell you over 10,000 died, you Accept that information without Question. Why? Have you yourself directly gone to Japan and counted all the bodies? No. Why do you Question me yet not your new casters and authority figures when the Information may be the same? Because you have no rapport with me, and your familiarity with faces you see frequently induces a false tribal connection/Rapport between you and the news caster. When I say that black holes don’t exist, and a scientist says that they do; why would you Question my information, but accept the scientists when none of us three have ever seen a black hole? Because you have no Rapport with me, and although you do not have a Rapport with the scientist, you have been conditioned to have a Rapport with the institution of science. In the same sense that people were conditioned to have a false [substitute/proxy] Rapport with religion and politics trusts – believes in, have faith in – their priests and politicians.
If it wasn’t for rapport, word of mouth advertisement would not work. We can relate to our friends and we have a rapport with them. Therefore, when they give us advice we accept it without question, even though we all know our friends advices usually suck. Yet we would never accept information/advice from a random stranger, even though that stranger may be an actual expert on whatever subject the advice relates to. When we are married or are in a committed long term relationship with somebody, what they tell us, we never consciously question. We just accept the information flow. The stronger the rapport, the stronger the influence. It’s only when our marriage or relationship turns rocky – when the rapport is fractured – that we begin to distrust and obstruct information flow with questions and suspicion. When you buy a puppy for the first time, it is hard to train/influence the puppy. But when you have established a rapport with the puppy, it does everything you ask, and comes to you effortlessly with a simple gesture or whistle. But Subversion via rapport channels is a two way street, because when that puppy needs a bath or has gone to the restroom, you bathe it and clean after it without question. Yet you would never subject yourself to bathing and cleaning up after a random animal or person.
Relation – the condition of relating with someone – is another powerful subversive tool. Pastor Tom is a great example. He has a “script” or well thought out story of his past he usually tells us at church every other week or so. The more new faces he sees in the audience, the more frequent you hear him tell his life’s history in various different ways. Usually when you break his story down all he is saying is: “I’m just like you. I’m average just like you. I struggled in life just like you. I was addicted to drugs just like you. I suffered just like you. I can relate to you. And you can relate to me.” You listen to what he says when he mingles with his people and you can see that he is a great bullshitter and knows how to reflect and mirror people. You tell him you like playing tennis, and pastor Tom loves tennis too and he knows all these cool tennis courts. You tell him you play basketball, and Tom will name you a list of his favorite basket ball teams. You tell him you like shopping and Tom will tell you stories about his wife shopping and how he has to follow her around and hold her purse for her. Then we all laugh like idiots because Tom is just like us. Little do we all realize that our relation with Tom – relating with him – makes it that every fucking person in the church also thinks like Tom and does everything he asks, and some will even go out of their way to do things to please Tom.
Relating with somebody gave Christianity its power back in the day. Jesus is the tool to induce relation. Jesus is a Jew just like you. Jesus is a man just like you. He suffered just like you suffer, He knows what you are going through. Jesus loves you, he died for you. Does your best friend die for you? Those peasants and serfs ate all that up. Once you can relate to Jesus, you’re hooked. If you start praying and you develop a proxy rapport with this Jesus who doesn’t even exist, then it’s over for you. You open yourself up for that information flow and influence. Jesus might not exist, but he conveniently has priests who speak for him and represent him on earth. People you don’t even know. And then they rape your children.
You’ll see all these people at church crying and waving their arms in the air, like they are possessed. That’s a big symptom of a strong rapport and relation. Because when you have a best friend and she’s crying to you about shit that her boyfriend did to her or about how she got kicked out, you cry too! Why? Because you can relate to your best friend, you empathize with her, you feel her hurt. It’s like those faggity husbands you hear about who get morning sickness when their wife is pregnant or they get cramps when their wife is ragging, because they are so in sync to their wife all information flows, even pain. And so these people trick themselves into relating with a person who doesn’t exist, and they are so in sync with Jesus that they feel the fictitious/mythic pain Jesus went through. In the occult and magical subculture we call this “assuming godforms” right? Self induced schizophrenia is powerful shit. Things like Stigmata and Voodoo spirit possessions come to mind.
Buddhism does it too, effectively back in the old days. You have this prince of a powerful kingdom right. He runs away from his kingdom and is exposed to all the pain and suffering of all these lowly sudra and untouchables. And this guy abdicates his inheritance to be a common beggar to teach the lowly sudras. Damn those Brahmin and their religion for treating all of you so bad. Look at me I abdicated my crown to beg like you. They ate it all up. Next thing you know all of these sudras are shaving their heads and begging in orange robes just like the mythic Buddha they never met.
We laugh at those people’s ignorance don’t we? Yet when Hitler was around he had a whole entire nation think like him, act like him, dress like him, and do as he said. If it weren’t for relation and rapport, communism would have never been feverishly eaten up by peasants. You have these people like Marx and Stalin and Mao all shedding crocodile tears for the plight of peasants and how they were treated. Those bourgeois in their castles can’t relate to you and your needs, the Party can! Because we’re ignorant peasants just like you. The worker makes the State, so you workers are the State. Let’s kill people together. So we had all these peasants running around murdering millions of people trying to establish some utopian civilization. All the while those same peasants were being influenced by a group of puppet masters. And where did these peasants end up today after all of their class struggle and slaughter? Same place they were in before: at the bottom serving a State Regime they have little or no power over. Same BS with democracy, same shit, different toilet. We just traded a single power greedy lunatic [king] for a congress full of power greedy lunatics. And has our place in the State changed? No. We’re all still governed by a State Regime.
Satanism is no different. LaVey is the tool. He’s the Jesus or pastor Tom. I love how the older version of the Satanic Bible starts off with this memoire of LaVey’s life. He’s this common guy just like us. He ran away and jointed the carnival! He worked normal jobs just like us! He went to church and saw hypocrisy just like us! He was at the whore house just like us! And he saw those same preachers looking at stripper just like we did. LaVey understand us. He knows how we see Christianity too. LaVey is a social reject just like us. Look at him, he’s bald, has earrings, and a goatee! All these hippy subculture rejects of the 70’s read this and had a stiffy. At last somebody who understands Christianity like they do! Someone who relates to us.
Then you open the Satanic Bible to the book of satan which is this terrible cut and paste job of Might is Right. When you’re rejected by your peers and constantly made fun of for being nerdy, geeky, got big ears, how do you feel towards those people who tease you and reject you? You really hate them. We know so because it not uncommon for a social reject to hate his peers so much, he shoots up his school. So when you’re one of those people that living in the 70’s that don’t fit in Christian culture and the hippy subculture rejects you and your peers at school rejects you, and you read the book of satan in the Satanic Bible, it makes you feel good inside. It’s like: “Yes, finally somebody understands. I do want to step on people for hating on me! This is my religion!” And from that you develop a proxy rapport for the religion being presented. Not only can you relate to LaVey, but now you have a rapport with Satanism. The information in the rest of the Satanic Bible now has very little obstruction to flow. You no longer question the information, because you already identify yourself with LaVey and his Satan. The rest of the information in the Satanic Bible will appear to the subject of subversion to be his own ideas.
There is a saying in Taoism that goes: “The greatest leader is one that does not lead and is never seen.” Which means the leader that is not overtly totalitarian, but rules subtly is the most powerful. It’s the leader that has the ability to talk to his generals and middle men in such a way such that those men adopt the king’s ideas, yet believes they were their own ideas. And so when the generals applies those ideas and is productive, this king showers his general with praise and not himself. He remains “unseen” and leads without leading. Why is such a person the greatest of kings? Because when his ideas fuck up, the blame is on others because nobody is aware that the ideas actually came from the king! But the point is that even in ancient Taoist times, people knew that there was a way to subversively, covertly, subtly implant ideas/memes into the minds of others in such a way that those others believes that such ideas were theirs.
Actually it’s not so much an “implant” but more a “drawing or teasing out” ideas/memes you want. Think of two tuning forks of the same frequency. Put them close to each other and strike one. The other will resonate with its friend. We did not “implant” that resonance, wave modulation, into the second tuning fork. We teased the modulation out. That wave modulation is pure coherent information. It is not actually “Flowing” from one fork into the other. That information is simply drawing out of the second fork information already present in it which resonate with it. “Implant” is just more a familiar term to get the idea across.
To illustrate, lets say we were at war and I was queen and there are generals around me. We are looking at a map of the terrain. The landscape has a river and a mountain range which forms a Lamba shape. The mountain range on one slope of the Lamda and the river making the other slope. Now as I look at this map, I know that the best option to take would be to cross the river and not go through and over the mountain range. But instead of overtly giving orders, I simply ask my generals: “What do you guys think, we need to get to the other side, what’s our best option, over the hills or across the river?” I gave them only two options. I knew which one I like. The generals have only two options to choose. When one says: “I think we should cross the river because…” I point to him and say: “Great idea, make it so.”
So if we go back to the Satanic Bible case, we know that for some odd reason, many converts to Satanism, after reading the Satanic Bible usually says: “When I read the Satanic Bible, I thought I was reading my own thought.” You weren’t reading your own thought. The ideas in the Satanic Bible exist in a fully formed coherent state: codified. Before you read the Satanic Bible your thoughts were incoherent. If they were codified and coherent, you would have written an essay, or founded started Satanism. You had a head full of incoherent counter-cultural opinions. We all have a head full of randomly floating ideas and opinion in no particular order. So being in no specific coding they just drift in the back of our head. When we see things, hear things, read things, that stimuli draws out memes. If we read something like the Satanic Bible, and we are ourselves part of a counter culture weltanschauung, we will have ideas and opinion that can be found in the Satanic Bible. What the satanic Bible does its tease out those opinions/ideas/memes we already have incoherently in the back of our heads and brings it into coherent order for our conscious view. When that happens we either say we “resonate” with what we read, or that our thoughts were on the page. But the subversive value exists in the fact that you Believe such ideas put into Order in your conscious awareness were your own.
The other method of “implanting” memes in people heads is the reverse of the method the Satanic Bible uses. The method the Satanic Bible uses is when a memeplex has been put into coherent order and is used to tease out matching ideas and thoughts in the target. The first method is like playing “Go Fish.” You have a set of cards and you know what you want from your partner. You just need to draw those right cards out, one at a time in a specific coherent order. Each codified meme in the Satanic Bible draws out its equivalent in its target audience’s mind from their random pool of opinions and incoherent thoughts. The reverse is to present a nebulous seed-thought and have the subject codify that seed-thought themselves, thus making it feel as if what thoughts they think are their own. This method is like playing poker with you as the manipulative dealer. You take a full house and you put that full house on the top of the deck in random order. Then you gradually deal those cards to this person. Eventually, when this person sees he can make a full house he works to make that full house believing that he saw the potential for the full house himself; when in fact, you dealt the target his cards.
For example let’s say I had a friend who came to be complaining and crying about her boyfriend mistreating her. I hate her boyfriend or even may want her boyfriend or her. [I actually did this once to break up a girl with her boyfriend to get to her in the past]. I want her to leave her boyfriend for whatever reason. I can’t overtly tell her: “Just leave him and get over it.” She will resist and my overt statement may break my rapport with her. Instead I take that same meme/ideation [leaving him] and I chop it up into many pieces so that it is a pile of Lego pieces, which she will then put together. It’s like giving a child a puzzle to put together: There is only one way to put the pieces together. But you want to let them put it together to deceptively induce the appearance that they did it by themselves; that it was their idea. So you take your memeplex or meme and cut it up into puzzle pieces. Each puzzle piece is a “seed-thought” you slowly slip to them during their states of heightened emotions. This was done by me planting a “seed-thought” in her mind fixed to her distressed emotion. As soon as I see her cry, I comfort her and may say: “I just want you to be happy. Does he really make you happy?” That’s it.
The act of me comforting her, me reassuring her I want her to be happy, bringing in the element of doubt about her boyfriend all associated with her distressed emotion is the nebulous seed-thought. Now, in her relationship with her boyfriend, every time he mistreats her, her mind recalls my act of comforting her, my reassurance, and that element of doubt. She then ponders and thinks about her relationship on her own, adding to or “codifying” or nurturing that seed-thought I gave her. She Believes and feels that every thought born in her mind from that initial seed-thought are her own thoughts. If that seed-thought is potent, in Time she will leave her boyfriend. I never told her or suggested to her overtly to leave him. It appears to her to be all her own thinking and doing. It is harder and take more work than what I wrote here. You have to repetitively anchor your seed-thoughts in different ways to her negative and distress emotions, and also associate yourself or the ideas you what to impress on her with good feeling emotions. Contrast and Association plus Repetition.
The Satanic Bible gave you a two vector contrast to look at: A) Hypocrisy/Christianity and B) “Satanism.” Chances are if you are into the counter-culture paradigm you will reject the first vector. The second vector is just an amalgam of opinions put together in a coherent manner, but those memes draws out from your own counter-culture mind opinions, and memes that match up to or resonates with the coherent amalgam which is vector B. Thus when you felt those same ideas arise form within you – from out of an incoherent mess of opinions, and ideas – you believed that what you were reading were your own thoughts. Once you believe that what you are looking at are your own thoughts, and the Satanic Bibles conveniently gives you an identity marker [Satanist], you accept that identity marker as something that you are or must be.
And the majority of the rest of the Satanic Bible is put together in such a way that it stimulates that specific type of mind which has been rejected by peers in some way or which is hurt inside because that mind lacks social skills. What do we do as kids when our parents yells at us badly? We get hurt, pout and think to ourselves: “I’m gunna run away! I’ll show you.” We have that same emotive reaction [“I’ll show you”] when we are rejected by peers in some way. It’s the emotive motivation which drives us to try and be better than others. To show them that you are better. That they were missing out on you and your friendship. So you take that state of mind [I’ll show you!] and you closely look at each book in the Satanic Bible and you’ll notice that each book caters to that rejected mentality.
So you see in the rip off of Might is Right, that the writing stimulates this rejected mind to feel as if it is better or should be better. “They” only reject you because they are inferior, you’re a Satanist! Then in the book of Lucifer you are given a set of ideas and paradigm schematic, which fools you into believing that what you have learned from those pages makes you intellectually superior to “them” that rejected you. “They are ignorant and foolish for being Christian and for rejecting you. You know better than them. You’re a Satanist! Then in the rest of the Satanic Bible you get this system of magic with which you can make all your dreams materialize magically. Those people that rejected you can’t do that. They don’t know how. They are stupid. You’re a Satanist. And you have been subverted. You have been turned into something you were not before. And the influence in this LaVeyan subculture is totally visible. You see Satanists mimic LaVey in look and demeanor. You see Satanists copy cat LaVey by starting their own Satanic churches and assuming high priest titles. They speak the same words and ideas LaVey had over and over. They associate with LaVey by proxy with their personality cult, CoS membership, and even LaVey novelty items. That’s subversion and influence.
The trick is to get the target person to relate to you. Develop a rapport with the target. Understand your target’s thoughts and paradigm. Mirror your target’s body language, paradigm, worldview, fears, speech, and vocabulary. Then slowly present your memes in such a way that they believe those memes are their own ideas. Contrasting and limited vectors manipulates the target into the right direction. By contrasting I mean you want to talk about the ideas you want the target to assume in a favorable manner, then you contrast that by talking about an idea that has a negative feel to it. Then you graft your ideas into the positive vector, gradually.
Subversion is like dating, serious. There is an obvious end goal. In dating the end goal is to have sex with your date. But you can’t just go up to a random girl and say: “Let’s just have sex huh?” She’ll reject you. You have to go through this dance where you first talk, talk, talk to get the date to relate to you. Then you hang out with the date for a long time to develop a rapport. All the while you are manipulating your date’s feelings and mind. You want person to want you, and you want the person to believe that you are the one to give it up to. If you do it right, the person willingly has sex with you. Score. How did that happen though? By contrast and association. We know everybody’s life sucks in some way. Going out on a date is exciting and stimulating. That’s the contrast. You want to be in the person’s presence during those exciting and stimulating periods so that this person associates you with those feelings and fond memories. That’s the association. So even in this date scenario we have two vectors and contrast: Suckie Life, or exciting life? Suckie life or me plus exciting life? You know which one you want, and you know which choice the other person will chose. The odd point is that the other person must Believe that she or he has the free will to choose. Even though the entire date is a subversive set up.
Why must you subversively trick people? Because it is in our animal nature to resist capture. You try and catch tadpoles in a pond and they will run away. You catch a bug and stick him in a jar and all he does is try to crawl out and escape. No animal likes to be held captive. We like to be free. But if you feed an animal and develop a rapport with an animal like a dog, that dog will happily live with you and do things you tell it to. Being told what to do makes us feel captured. After 18 years of our parents and teachers telling us what to do and how to believe and saying things like: “If you’re gunna live in my house, you’re doing what I say,” you associate being told what to do with the feel of being powerless and captive. So we naturally become defensive and resist people telling us what to do and how to think. On an emotional and psychological level it is the same feel as being put into a cage. There is no cage, but it is the same primal feel.
People do not like to be told what to do. They will resist. In the arena of memes, resistance comes in the form of intellectual challenges, argumentation, debate, demand for validation of ideas, etc. This is akin to being on a date and your date telling you: “Sorry, but you’re not my type.” If you hit this point, it’s over and there is no point in carrying on because the rest of the time and energy will be spent in arguing with the date to like you. You aren’t gunna get the sex. Go to the next date and be more careful next time. If your memes are challenged or tossed around in a debate. Throw it away because instead of spreading and influencing, it’s just going to drift aimlessly in a debate and whither. What you want to do is take the core essence of that failed meme, and convey the essence with different words and through different ideas. The objective is to “Score” not mingle. Sex not conversate. Influence not debate.
There are two conditions or states of “influence.” If I wear a brand of jeans, and the following week other girls wear the same brand. That’s the first type of influence. We want to be close to or associate with things we like either directly or indirectly by proxy. This first type is also when if you think a thought, others around you will orient their thought to yours. So it can be said that people with charisma and influence have ideas and opinions that matter, because they have a group of people who will resonate and orient themselves accordingly. The other type of influence is less visible. The memes don’t produce mirroring, proxy association, or mimicry. The memes infects one fertile mind and spreads. This generates Duplication of Effort. In the beginning you yourself put in the effort to spread memes. Duplicating your effort means now you have others doing the work for you. This is how Evangelical Christianity and Mormonism spreads. It’s like tag. You tag on person, they convert, then they run around tagging others. Eventually if you rmemes spreads far and wide enough you will meet people whom you have never met with those memes. That’s influence also.
Subverting an entire demographics is “easy,” in theory but takes a lot of time to germinate. Buddhism was one of the earliest religions to perfect the skill of subverting whole nations of people to become Buddhist. All social order has People as its common denominator. Where there are People, there are social skills and social structure. All of human existence is an endless high school. The popular ones influences and sets the trends. Influence the cultural icons and you influence the entire culture.
In the old days a Buddhist monk would travel to far away places like China to spread Buddhism. Instead of going door to door converting random civilians, what the monks did was first work to build up for themselves a reputation in their target country. The objective is to catch the Emperor who is the big fish, and the lesser fish below him like generals and popular philosophers. The monk will talk Buddhism using the native people’s words and paradigm schematics [Taoism in this case] and eventually the emperor will hear of this guy’s renowned fame for being wise. When this happens it’s a hook.
The Monk focuses all of his efforts in providing “services” to the emperor in the form of giving wise advice. The emperor will eventually ask the monk what his religion is, and the monk says “Buddhism.” Because this Buddhism is oddly so similar to the emperor’s native Taoism, the emperor converts willingly. When this happened the memes spread via the trickle down method. From there it’s only of a few generations. As soon as the Chan Buddism has spread into the younger generations who will inherent the empire, the entire civilization of China has been subverted by a single monk. But subversion unravels with the flow of Time. It took many generations for the memeplex of Buddhism to actually take over China. This works with any grouping of people. Pick out the popular one in a group; ignore the leader and underling. If it is a forum of mundane Satanists, pick out the handful of icons in the forum – the ones the others look up to – and start building a rapport with these icons. Then mobilize your intellectual capital to subvert their subjective environment and weltanschauung. Time takes care of the rest of the work since their forum’s social pecking order had done 90% of the work for you already.
There was this old movie I watched with friends once called Apocalypse Now. I can’t remember anything much of the movie since it was a hella boring one. But what I do recall was that the movie was loosely based on real world events that took place during world war two. Basically the Japanese had taken the island of New Guinea. Before that I think the Australians were looking over that island. The allies had this secret plan to take back the island and kill of the Japanese at the same time. The idea was to locate tribes in the island who hated the Japanese and mobilize them for military action to attack the Japanese. This plan would only work in total secrecy because if the Japanese knew tribes on the island were being trained to fight them, they would kill out the tribe, which they were known to have done before. So British Intelligence sent in one of their intelligences agents who was this “eccentric fellow” [slightly crazy]. He was the only one they could find who was familiar with those native tribes.
So they secretly parachuted this eccentric fellow down into the thick jungles of New Guinea and hoped for the best as he would be completely on his own. And back then New Guinea was still a head hunter haven. So this agent had several difficult problems to overcome. First he had to survive. Then he had to reprogram what tribes he found because Christian missionaries had come to the island and taught most of the natives that killing people was bad. Then he had to train his tribal soldiers to kill Japanese solider. Then he had to build a run way with sticks and mud so airplanes can ship arms and supplies and take him home. One guy, one island, up against Japan! He was amazingly successful. A couple of years later this agent became leader of a group of secret tribal killers who roamed the island killing Japanese as quietly as possible as first. If the Japanese knew the tribes were fighting them, they would call for more Japanese on the island. Afterwards this agent led a full fledged uprising of natives against the Japanese. In the end his subversive strategy liberated New Guinea. Just on guy and a lot of Time.
Something similar took place in Indochina during the Vietnam War. Communism had spread from China into Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. America was locked in an overt war with Vietnam, and they were covertly bombing the hell out of Cambodia. The Americans for some reason decided to covertly war inside Laos, perhaps Laos was a pipe line of arms and supplies linking China with Vietnam. They sent in two or three CIA agents secretly into Laos. Before the communist revolution Laos was a monarchy. Its native people are the Laotians which is a branch of the Tai-Kradai people out of which Thai people come as well. The monarch was ousted, and a majority of the Laotians being peasants embraced communism. But inside Laos lived a group of tribal people called the Hmong. They originally came out of China and do not have a country of their own.
The secret mission of the handful of CIA agents was to collect the Hmong and militarize them to fight the communist native Laotians who outnumbered the Hmong 10 to 1. At the time the Hmong were still a primitive group of people living in huts and hunting with bows and arrows. America would have to secretly open up a supply line through Vietnam and Thailand to introduce arms to the Hmong. Death was the risk. If the CIA agents were discovered not only would they be murdered, but the Laotians would also slaughter the Hmong. The agents spent the first year implanting the right ideas into the Hmong population. Actually “teasing out” ideas they already had. They enticed the Hmong with the vision of being their own nation. Laos can be Hmongland, a homeland for the Hmong people. No longer would they be hated by the Laotians for being primitive, or live in their communist regime. They would have the respect of all the world. And America would be by their side every step of the way. America is the greatest and most powerful country in the world. The Hmong have absolutely nothing to lose, and all the power, respect, and freedom to gain.
A few years later military supplies entered Laos and the Hmong were at war with the native Laotians. Laos was experiencing a “civil war.” The Russians were supplying the Laotian commies, while the Americans were supplying the Hmong. For a while it all looked well. The Hmong were holding their ground and gaining territory. The agents had accomplished their mission.
Unfortunately back at home, America was going through civil strife with the Black people wanting social equality. The hippies and their generation were en mass calling for the end of the Vietnam War which was a waste of money. America finally gave in to the will of the people since the war was costing a lot of money. And America left Indochina, abandoning the Hmong. No more supplies or help for the Hmong. They were now on their own against a communist regime fully backed up financially and militarily [by proxy] by Russia. Which was when all hell broke loose for the Hmong people. The UN doesn’t recognize what happened to the Hmong as “genocide.” But the Laotians commies went from Hmong village to village and murdered every Hmong man, woman, and child they could find in retaliation for working with the Capitalist Americans.
The point to both stories is that it does not take much effort and energy to spread memes, but once those memes spread, they produce real measurable causal consequences. All it takes is one person – one Nexion – and the factor of Time to presence those memes to subvert an entire nation controlling in effect that nation’s wyrd and destiny. That is a powerful concept if you really think about it. Had that eccentric nexion not subverted native tribes, New Guinea’s destiny may have been different. Had those few Nexions not ever subverted the Hmong, the hundreds of thousands of innocent Hmong lives would never have been lost. All it took was one nexion and ideas. All it took was one nexion and ideas in Germany to set the whole world on fire and drown it in blood.
Why is Subversion an element and aspect of the ONA? Because our long term goals can never materialize without social subversion. Without the gradual alchemically change of society – people – none of our goals will ever manifest. We don’t want to make them ONA. We just want to get their axis and aligned them with our orientation. To create a [acausal] Field that envelops us, as a magnetic field envelops its many coherently aligned atoms. So that Field can grow, spread, influence, and propagate over time.
Subversive Precensing – realigning the people – isn’t a quick job. It is a very long term project which will take Time: the unfolding of many generations. Any set of memes which will aid the manifestation of one or any of our goals is useful. If the goal is system break down, and we have seen the young generations across the Middle East who are mostly secularists revolt to tear down their system, we should understand that spreading secularism and secularist memes in the right generation and demographics works to our benefit in future. If the objective to sever the people from their dependence on religion, then we must realize that spreading religion works against us. We must instead spread science which is the enemy of all Magian religion. No people of our young generation bracket can resist science and secular modality. Those memes are near immune to obstruction. If people had to pick between being scientifically rational and a religious nutter, they will pick science. If they had to pick between obedience to religious laws or secular ways of life, they will chose the “freedom” of secularism. There is no resistance.
The only major challenge is severing the people’s future dependence on government regimes. The only way to gradually counter the memeplex of nation-state is to divert the people’s attention and dependence away from government regimes and nation-states down to a numinous level. The numinous level of themselves, their extended family, and close companions: tribes. The “target” group of people are those within each of our personal field of influence. We don’t need to change the world and turn everyone. We take advantage of human nature and inspire and influence those within our field of influence. In turn, our memes will spread into each of those people’s circle of influence. It is like a hive and we are Bees. We each have our own cell in this honeycomb we call the ONA. This Cell is our personal space or circle of influence. Some of us may have bigger cells than others. But if we each minded and tended to each of our cells, collectively, our influence will cover a vast territory. And as new Initiates assimilate into the Sinister Hive, they will graft their own cell into the mother Hive.
The memeplex of the ONA can be broken down into memeclusters which can be used to infect appropriate target groups. For example regarding Galactic Imperium or colonization of space, this memecluster can be implanted in colleges students who study science and have a mind attracted to this paradigm. The tribal memecluster can be implanted into those people more receptive to such ways of life such as Native Americans, and immigrants who are already familiar with clans and tribal life. The idea is to get those memes spreading. If not together as a single memeplex, then apart as separate clusters of ideas targeting the most receptive groups of people. When I say “implant” I don’t actually mean to stick things in peoples head. It is the other way around. You draw out or tease out memes already present in their heads but in such a way that those memes come out coherently linked to each other. It’s like the alphabet and writing. You don’t actually “implant” letters. You draw out sequences of letters you already have in a coherent ordering. But “implant” is a more familiar term.
My personal belief is that Subversion; which is a submethodology of the Sinister Dialectic; is the marrow of the Order of Nine Angles. Subversion is the Praxis of ONA praxis that can have far more impact and influence then all other practical methods of the ONA. Those three levels of Presencing and Subversion gives the ONA Initiate an entire life time of things to do. It also makes the ONA a unique animal and sets it apart from all current memeplexes similar to it. Because Subversion is the Marrow of the ONA, the ONA does not need to be big in number. If it only took a single nexion to guide the wyrd and destiny of Germany and New Guinea, then a small nexus of Initiates in the ONA is plenty enough. The few of us just all need to know where we are going, what direction we are shooting for. The three levels of Presencing are our post marks. Internal Presencing which is the work of our own inner alchemical change. External Presencing which is the science and method of manifesting in our own lives relevant things we desire and need to be happy in life. Subversive Presencing is the individual work we put in according our own personal means and methods of turning people over time. It is our life long individual Sinister Mission. The rest of the details between now and Galactic Imperium is the gravy we each must fill in on our own.
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Order of Nine Angles
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