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With Energized Meditation
and Other Devices

By
Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.

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&
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
New Introduction/Preface by Robert Anton Wilson iii
Original Introduction by Dr. Israel Regardie xxi
Is There Anything New Under The Sun? xxiii
by Dr. C.S. Hyatt and Baron Peter Von Gundlach
Chapter One — Getting Out Of Bed 3
Chapter Two — A Zen Statement 23
Chapter Three — The Experimenter 31
Chapter Three & One Half — Insanity Is Meditation? 39
Chapter Three & Three Quarters — How Many Times A Day Do You
Break the Law? 57
Chapter Four — Dogma Junkies 59
Chapter Four & One Half — Method II 79
Chapter Five — New Organs For All 81
Chapter Six — Method III 107
Chapter Six & One Half — Results 109
The Third Section
The Polytheism of Sisters/Brothers 115
An Afterword by Antero Alli 135

The Fourth Section

Chapter Seven — Who Is Dr. Hyatt? Now! 137
Chapter Eight — The Magickal Life 143
Chapter Nine — The Order of the White Lion 159
Chapter Ten — Western Sexual Magick 167

The Fifth Section

Chapter Eleven — The God-Test and The Meditations 181
Chapter Twelve — On the Invokation of Eris 189
by D. Rose Hart(wo)man
Chapter Thirteen — Who Owns the Planet Earth? 203
Chapter Fourteen — The Kingdom of the Beast 215

The Sixth Section

Chapter Fifteen — OH, How I Hate You! Mein Krieg 249
Chapter Sixteen — And Other Devices by Jack Willis, D.C. 260
Chapter Seventeen — The Alchemical Teachings of Frater Albertus
by Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ph.D. 278
Chapter Eighteen — Eros et Thanatos by Virgil Mae Bathin 297
Chapter Nineteen — A Few Words from the Prime Minister
by Zehm Aloim 307
Dedicated To My Beloved Teacher
Israel Regardie
(1907-1985)
 This Edition
is dedicated to the following:

To Esther Karnes
(Aunt EEEE)
who taught me love and mercy

To Ben Jacobson
(Uncle Buddy)
who taught me integrity, severity and forgiveness

To Toby Rosen
who loved me when no one else could

To Jimmy Casto
a friend, brother and co-conspirator for freedom and
individuality

and to
Gary Sibley
whose honor and loyalty is beyond all words
 INTRODUCTION
by
Robert Anton Wilson, Ph.D.

The one sure way to make yourself unpopular in the United States
these days is to mention the fact that Christianity and Democracy
have been among the worst disasters to ever befall the human race.
Nonetheless, as all students of history know, Christianity has been
the bloodiest and most destructive religion in the long career of
fanaticism on this planet; although Liberals and Rationalists keep
reminding us of that tragic record of the Religion of Love, few of
them have cared to observe or remember the data on warfare
collected by Harvard sociologist, Prof. Pitrim Sorokin. In Social and
Cultural Dynamics, and other works, Sorokin documents beyond all
doubt that democratic nations have been involved in more imperialistic
wars, and have fought them with greater ferocity, than any other
kinds of governments, from the dawn of civilization to the present.
Oriental despotisms, absolute monarchies, even modern fascist and
communist nations have all had heinous records of tyranny and
general human oppression, but collectively they have been much
less aggressive and war-like than the democracies, from ancient
Athens to modern America.
The blood-thirsty nature of Christianity and Democracy — which
is obvious, psychologically, if one listens even for a few minutes to a
typical speech by Rev. Jerry Falwell or his good friend Ronald
Reagan — is, of course, based on arrogance, megalomania and a deep-
rooted sense of total moral superiority to all non-Christian and
non-Democratic peoples. But beyond that, the violent nature of
Christian/Democratic countries is rooted in the singular delusion
shared by both the Religion of Love and the Politics of Liberty. This
iii
iv Robert Anton Wilson

delusion is the belief that human beings are born with some sort of
metaphysical "free will" which makes them unique in the animal
kingdom and only slightly less exalted than the gods themselves.
The "free will" fantasy is not a minor error, like thinking it is
Tuesday when actually it is Wednesday. It is not even to be compared
to a major intellectual blunder of the ordinary sort, like Marx's
notion that once a totalitarian "worker's state" was created, it would
then quickly and magically "wither away." It is even more nefarious
and pernicious than the medieval lunacy that imagined witches
everywhere and burned over 10,000,000 women at the stake on the
basis of hysteria, superstition and the kind of hearsay and rumor
that no modern court would permit to be entered as evidence. The
"free will" delusion is much more serious than any of that. It is the
kind of radical 180-degree reversal of reality that, once it enters a
person's mind, guarantees that they will be incapable of understanding
anything happening around them; they might as well be deaf, dumb,
blind and wearing signs warning the world, "ULTIMATE DESTINA-
TION: THE MADHOUSE."
I do not speak flippantly, nor do I mean to be understood as
writing satire or polemic. The facts of modern biology and psychology
have demonstrated clearly and conclusively that 99 percent of the
human race is in a robotic or zombi-like state 99.99999 percent of the
time. This does not refer to "other people." It refers to YOU AND
ME. As the Firesign Theatre used to say, We're all Bozos on this bus. The
best that can be said of any of us, usually, is that we have occasional
moments of lucidity, but that can be said of any schizophrenic
patient.

EAST, WEST AND THE MIDDLE

In the Orient, which has its own idiocies and superstitions,
there has always been a singular sanity about the "free will" myth:
virtually without exception, all the great Oriental philosophers have
recognized that donkeys, grass-hoppers, dolphins, toads, humming-
birds, dogs, chickens, tigers, sharks, gophers, spiders, chimpanzees,
cobras, cows, lice, squid, deer, and humans are equally important,
equally unimportant, equally empty, equally expressive of the
"World Soul" or "Life Force." Buddhism, Vedanta and Taoism also
recognize that each of these clever animals just mentioned, including
Robert Anton Wilson v

the humans, have about equally as much "free will" as flowers,

shrubs, rocks and viruses, and that the human delusion of being
separate from and superior to the rest of the natural order is a kind of
narcissistic self-hypnosis. Awakening from that egotistic trance is
the major goal of every Oriental system of psychology.
Opposing this Oriental recognition of, and submission to, the
order of things as they are, and yet opposing also the Christian and
Democratic delusions of "free will" and "individual responsibility,"
there is the hidden tradition of Sufism in Islam and Hermeticism in
Europe. This "occult" teaching recognizes that, although domesticated
primates (humans) are born as mechanical as the wild primates (such
as chimpanzees), there are techniques by which we can become less
mechanical and approximate in daily and yearly increments toward
freedom and responsibility.
These "spiritual" (neurological) techniques of Un-doing and re-
robotizing oneself are, of course, of no interest in the Orient, where
it is accepted that we are born robots and will die robots; and they are
of even less interest in the Christian-Democratic cultures which
assume that we are already free and responsible and do not have to
work and work HARD to achieve even a small beginning of non-
mechanical consciousness and non-robotic behavior.
The Orient forgives easily, because it does not expect robots to do
anything else but what was programmed into them by the accidents
of heredity and environment. The Christian and Democratic nations
are so bloody-minded because they can forgive nothing, blaming
every man and woman for whatever imprinted or conditioned
behavior is locally Taboo. (This is why Nietzsche called Christianity
"the Religion of Revenge" and Joyce described the Christian God as a
Hanging Judge.) The Sufic and Hermetic traditions are almost
Oriental in forgiving robots for being robots, but are far from
sentimental about it. As one Sufi poet said:
The fool neither forgives nor forgets;
The half-enlightened forgive and forget;
The Sufi forgives but does not forget.

That is, Sufism and other Hermetic traditions recognize that

robots will behave like robots, and does not "blame" them, but it also
does not forget, for a moment or even a nanosecond, that we are
living in a robotic world — "an armed madhouse" in the metaphor of
vi Robert Anton Wilson

poet Allen Ginsberg. Those of this tradition know that when a man
spouts Christian and Democratic verbalisms that does not mean he
will act with brotherly love at all, at all; he will go on acting like a
badly-wired robot in most cases.
Sufism is only the largest of several Near Eastern and European
"mystic" movements which recognize the robotry of ordinary
humanity but, unlike the Orient, attempt to Un-do and de-robotize
those who have a dawning apprehension of their mechanical state
and sincerely want to become less mechanical, as far as that is
possible. I am not writing a recruiting manual for Sufism (which is
doing quite well without my advertisements): I am merely using the
Sufi school as one example of the tradition to which this marvelous
book, UNDOING YOURSELF, belongs.
Most readers, if they have encountered such ideas at all, probably
identify them with Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, two of the most
talented expositors of a school of neo-Sufism which they peddled
under the brand name of "Esoteric Christianity." The present book
also owes a great deal to Aleister Crowley, who belonged to this
tradition but sold his own brand of it under the label of Gnostic
Magick. There is also a strong influence here of the bio-psychology
of Wilhelm Reich; but all this tracing of "sources" is ultimately
trivial. The importance of Christopher Hyatt's work is what you can
get out of it and that depends entirely on what you put into it.

IT WORKS, IF YOU WORK

In my travels, I often encounter people who somehow have gotten
the wild idea that I am the Head of the Illuminati (actually, I am at
most a toe-nail) and who want me to explain the Secrets of High
Magick to them. (Although it is hard to restrain my sense of humor
at such times, I usually resist the temptation to tell them they can
achieve Total Illumination by singing "Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds" in pig Latin while standing on their heads.) The
questions I am asked most often, by those who can ask something
more specific than "What is The Secret?" are almost always about
Crowley's doctrine of the True Will. People tell me, most earnestly,
that they have read ten or twenty or more of Crowley's books, and
have read them many times, and still do not understand what "True
Will" means.
Robert Anton Wilson vii

As Gurdjieff would say, "What does this question signify? It

signifies that these people are walking in their sleep and only
dreaming they are awake. That is what this question signifies."
There is only one possible reason why people can read Crowley at
length and not understand what True Will means. That reason seems
incredible at first sight, but it is the only reason that can explain this
astounding scotoma. The reason many readers of Crowley do not
understand True Will is that these earnest students have never
performed any of the exercizes that Crowley provides for those who
sincerely want to de-robotize themselves and experience what is
meant by True Will.
Shortly after my manual of de-mechanization exercizes, Prometheus
Rising, was published, I was at a Cosmic Con with, among others, E.J.
Gold of the Fake Sufi School. He told me that nobody would do any
of the exercizes in my book, but I would still get lots of letters from
people saying the book had "liberated" them. Since I sometimes
think Sufis and even Fake Sufis are perhaps overly skeptical about
humanity in its present evolutionary stage, I have made a point of
asking people, when they praise that book in my presence, how
many of the exercizes they've done.
Most people look faintly abashed and admit they have only done a
"few" of the exercizes (which probably means they haven't done
any). However, some people claim to have done all or most of the
exercizes, and these people generally look so delighted about the
matter that I tend to believe them. I therefore conclude that the Sufi
and Gurdjieff traditions are wrong in saying that 999 out of 1000
will never work on the techniques of liberation. Actually, it appears
to be only around 987 out of 1000 who prefer to talk about the work
rather than doing it. At least 13 out of every 1000 will actually do the
exercizes.
I have decided that one of the reasons that most readers of self-
liberation books never even make the effort to liberate themselves is
that reading the books is actually a kind of superstitious "magick
ritual," which they think will have an effect with no other effort on
their parts. The same sort of superstition leads others to think that
peeking at the answers in the back of the book of logical puzzles is as
beneficial as solving the puzzles for themselves; and there is even a
text out now with the answers to Zen koans, as if the answers, and
not the process of arriving at them, were the meaning of Zen.
Aside from such "symbolic magick" (as distinguished from real
viii Robert Anton Wilson

magick ritual, which is a type of Brain Change experiment), the

main reason people prefer to read neurological exercizes rather than
doing the exercizes is the dread and sheer horror which the word
"work" invokes in most people. Some great teachers, especially
Gurdjieff and Crowley, have literally frightened away thousands of
would-be students by insisting on the necessity of HARD WORK (as
I also frightened a lot of readers by using those words several times
in this essay.)
Of course, there is a quite legitimate reason why the word "work"
has such horrible conditioned associations for most people in the
modern world. That reason is that most "work" in this age is stupid,
monotonous, brain-rotting, irritating, usually pointless and basically
consists of the agonizing process of being slowly bored to death over
a period of about 40 to 45 years of drudgery; Marx was quite right in
calling it "wage slavery." Most people know this, but are afraid to
admit it, because to dislike "work" is regarded as a symptom of
Communism or some other dreadful mental illness.
I recently heard a politician admit on BBC that the reason English
workers are so notoriously "lazy" is that their jobs are so unspeakably
sub-human and dull. "If I had to do that kind of work, I would call in
sick as often as possible and goof off at every chance," he said flatly.
Alas, I had tuned in late and never did catch this chap's name, which
is a terrible misfortune for me, since I suspect he is the only Honest
Politician in the world.
It is this universal but repressed hatred of "work" that causes
almost everybody to despise and persecute the unemployed. Almost
everybody envies the folks of the dole (on Welfare, as you say in The
States) because almost everybody secretly wishes they could escape
their own jobs and live without working.
It has taken me decades to understand this, because I am part of
that very fortunate minority who work at jobs we actually enjoy. (It
is hard to make me stop working, as my wife will assure you.) The
minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of
the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above
the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-
dealers of California. Everybody else wishes they had the courage to
go on the dole, but is ashamed of the stigma attached to being a
non-worker, and resolves the tension by being as nasty as possible to
the unemployed on every possible occasion.
Robert Anton Wilson ix

HEY! CATCH THIS! A SECRET OF

THE ILLUMINATI REVEALED!
Here I want to let you in on a real Secret of the Illuminati, one that
has never been published before.
The so-called "work" involved in Brain Change is not like
ordinary "work" at all. It is more like the creative ecstasy of the artist
and scientist, once you really get involved in doing it. Most people
are afraid of it only because they think "work" must be a curse and
can't imagine that "work" can be fun.
So it is best not to think of Energized Meditation as "work" at all,
at least as you have experienced "work" in most of the world today. It
might be better and more accurate to consider the EM exercizes as
"play" than as "work." Of course, play has its own rigours, and you
do have to put energy into it to become a winner rather than a
perpetual loser, but it is still entirely unlike the wage slavery that
most people call "work." In fact, to be blunt about it, it is more like
sex-play than any other kind of play because it definitely unleashes
energies that have erotic as well as therapeutic side-effects. You are a
dunce if you avoid it just because you think anything that needs
effort must be "work" in the sense that people in factories and offices
are suffering from the curse of "work" in our society.
Think of it more in terms of your favorite sport or recreation—
fishing or bird-watching or softball or whatever you do with passion
and just for the excitement of it. If that kind of thing should not be
called "play," then I do not know what "play" means.
So when I wrote "Hard Work," I was just trying to jar you into
actually paying attention for once. I really should have said, for
accuracy, Hard Play.
The second part of this Secret of the Illuminati is what I have
called elsewhere Wilson's 23rd Law. (Wilson's First Law, of course, is
"Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclo-
pedia." Wilson's Second Law is the Snafu Principle described in
ILLUMINATUS: "Communication is only possible between equals."
All of Wilson's Laws will be published when the world is ready for
the staggering revelations contained therein.)
Wilson's 23rd Law is
Do it every day
x Robert Anton Wilson

This is the most profound of all the Secrets of the Illuminati and I
have often been warned that Terrible Consequences will ensue if I
reveal it prematurely, but—what the hell, these are parlous times,
friend, and this primitive planet needs all the Light that can be
unleashed on its dark, superstitious mind. Let me repeat, since I am
sure you didn't get it the first time:
Do it every day!

Have you ever wondered why Einstein became such a great

physicist? It was because he loved the equations and concepts of
mathematical physics so much that he "worked" on them—or played
and tinkered with them—every day. That's why Otto von Klemper
became such a great conductor: he loved Beethoven and Mozart and
that crowd so much that he practised his music every day. It's why
Babe Ruth became such a great ball-player: he loved the game so
deeply that he was playing or rehearsing every day.
This rule also explains, incidentally, how people destroy themselves.
Do you want to become a suicide (it's the fashionable thing in some
circles, after all)? Practise being depressed, worried and resentful
every day, and don't let anybody distract you with Energized
Meditation or any other mind-change system. Do you want to land
in jail on an assault and battery charge? Practise getting damned
bloody angry every day. If you want to become paranoid, look
carefully every day for evidence of treachery and duplicity around
you. If your ambition is to die young, do the depression-worry-
resentment system every day but center in especially on visualizing
and worrying about every imaginable illness that might possibly
inflict itself upon you.
(On the other hand, if you want to live as long as George Burns,
"work hard" every day at being as cheerful and optimistic as he is.)
Almost anything is possible if you
DO IT EVERY DAY
Of course, this rule does not guarantee 100 percent results.
Playing Chopin on the piano every day for 4 or 5 decades does not
mean you will become as good as Van Cliburn; it merely means that
you eventually will be a better piano player than anybody in your
home state. Worrying every day does not absolutely guarantee a
clinical depression or an early death, but after only a few years it does
Robert Anton Wilson xi

ensure you will be one of the three or four most miserable people in
your neighborhood. Writing a sonnet every day for twenty years
may not necessarily make you Shakespeare or Mrs. Browning, but it
will make you the best poet for an area of about forty to fifty miles,
probably. Doing Energized Meditation or similar exercizes does not
mean you will be a Perfectly Enlightened Being or a Guru in a few
years, just that you will be a great deal happier and a hell of a lot
more perceptive, creative and "intuitive" than most people you'll
meet in an average city.
There is a story that Bobbie Fisher, the chess champion, was once
in a room with other chess masters when the conversation turned to
the latest nuclear accident and the effects of the resultant fall-out.
Fisher listened impatiently for a few minutes and then exclaimed
irritably, "What the hell does that have to do with chess?" While I am
not urging that you imitate that degree of monomania or obsession,
there is a significant lesson in this tale. The reason Fisher became a
champion is that he cared so much about chess that he did not even
have to nag himself or remind himself to
do it every bloody day.
WARNING!
THREATS TO THE PRIMATE EGO
ARE COMING!
Unfortunately—while the Energized Meditation system is fun,
and erotic, and makes you "smarter" (in the sense of more aware of
detail and complexity), and even jolts you out of total mammalian
reflex behavior into something approximating in slow but definite
increments toward that mystic "free will" Christians claim you were
given at birth, and I recommend it heartily—I must admit that there
are pages coming up shortly in this book that will probably make
you extremely uncomfortable.
Dr. Hyatt is a rude, insulting and deliberately annoying writer. He
does not soothe or pacify the reader with the Christian and
Democratic mythology of our society by pretending that we are all
free and rational people here. He insists on reminding us, every few
pages, in the most blunt language possible, that most of us most of
the time are conditioned chimpanzees in a cage.
xii Robert Anton Wilson

Don't let it worry you too much.

The situation is this: there are mechanical systems operating
throughout the domesticated primate (human) organism, each on
different levels. For instance, as Bucky Fuller liked to say, you never
sit down and ask how many hairs you should sprout on your head
and body in the next week: that is one of the thousands of biological
programs that operate entirely on mechanical circuitry. Except in
various systems of yoga, you do not have much control over your
breathing, either: that is also an auto-pilot. The digestive-excretive
circuits also operate with a minimum of conscious attention or
strategy, except when you need to find a public toilet and the bars are
all closed. (Make a list of ten more programs that keep you alive and
functioning, over which you have never had any conscious control.
Be one of the 13 readers out of a thousand who actually do it before
reading on.)
The reason that mystics and certain other psychologists are always
"attacking" the ego is that the ego is the one mechanical circuit that
suffers chronically from the illusion that it is non-mechanical and
"free."
The ego and its delusions must be undermined—either attacked
openly and bluntly, as in the Gurdjieff system and this book, or
subverted more subtly and slowly, as in certain other systems—
before any real progress can be made toward "liberation," "enlighten-
ment," "finding IT," discovering the "True Will" in Crowley's sense,
or whatever is your favorite term for becoming less robotic and more
aware—less the computer and more the programmer of the computer—
less the conditioned rat in the Behaviorist's maze and more the
Beyond-Human that the Sufic-Hermetic traditions and Neitzsche
have predicted.
The main reason you shouldn't be afraid of this attack on your
precious little ego is that the ego is infinitely resourceful and finds
ways to sneak back into its habitual mechanical trance no matter
how many times you think you have Awakened once and for all.
This is another Secret of the Illuminati and explains the great
humility and the keen sense of humor of all the genuine Mages. In
other words, if you think it is scary to lose your precious primate
ego abruptly and forever, don't worry about that; it is no more likely
than becoming the world's greatest Rock star tomorrow morning.
The only real way to get loose from mechanical ego trips is to learn
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several ego-transcending games and then for twenty or forty years

or longer DO THEM EVERY DAY
Before you put that much effort and time into it, you need
not worry that your wonderful, precious and totally marvelous Ego
will go away suddenly, it will merely get transformed a bit,
"enlarged" in perspective and "reduced" in conceit (a little), freed
from some of its more idiotic habits, and it will even pretend to go
away at times, but it will always come back and usually at the most
embarrassing times. It's easier to assassinate the President of the
United States than to kill your own ego.
500 micrograms of pure Sandoz LSD will "destroy" the ego more
totally than any of the EM exercizes in this book—atom bomb it out
of existence, as it were. The results even in that case, as all old
acid-heads will assure you, are, however spectacular, always temporary.
As Dr. John Lilly wrote in Programming and Metaprogramming in the
Human Biocomputer, after a heavy trip on genuine laboratory Acid,
For a time, the self then feels free, cleaned
out. The strength gained can be immense; the
energy freed is double . . . Humor appears in
abundance, good humor... Beauty is enhanced,
the bodily appearance becomes youthful . . .
These positive effects can last as long as two to
four weeks before reassertion of the old programs
takes place.

We are the products of mechanical genetic programs, mechanical

imprints and mechanical conditioning, just like the other animals.
The progress to post-animal, non-mechanical and trans-ego freedom
is often rapidly accelerated for a period, or several periods, of sudden
flash-like Awakenings and post-human perspectives, and I personally
suspect that is happening increasingly under the stress of our age of
terrorism and accelerated evolutionary change, but the ultimate
result of a true transcendence of robot consciousness is approached
in slow increments over years and decades. (Total "freedom" from
mechanism on all circuits seems impossible to me, in my current
level of ignorance. I don't think the organism would survive if most
of it did not remain a smooth-running and unconscious machine.)
E.J. Gold of the Fake Sufi School, mentioned earlier, has a saying
to the effect that the attempt to achieve total Transcendence of
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mechanical ego programs is as absurd as "sticking toothpicks
between your eyelids to be sure you never go to sleep for a moment."
There seem to be genuine biological reasons why we need to spend
about one third of our lives asleep and a large part of the other
two-thirds half-entranced by mechanical conditioned processes. The
purpose of all schools of liberation is to wake up fully often enough
to have some perspective outside the sleeping and conditioned ego
states.

WHAT "IS" ALL THIS?

The great Dublin scientist and philosopher, de Selby, once took an
empty jam jar and filled it with all the small cruddy items he could
find around the house. The fuzz that accumulates on carpets, the
dust on book shelves, bent paperclips, broken staples, the grunge
from bathtub rings, grotty kitchen encrustations, nameless shards of
forgotten plaster statues long broken, archaeological excavations
from the cellar, miscellaneous delvings in the rubbish bin, torn
covers of match books scrawled with inscrutable phone numbers,
even belly-button lint, all went in. This was a labour of some weeks,
and when it was finished even de Selby himself could not remember
or classify the total contents of the jar. He then selected a statistical
universe of 123 Dubliners and 246 visitors form England or the
Continent just off the Dun Laoghaire ferry and asked each to guess
what the jar contained.
77.6 percent of the sample answered at once, "Oh, I know, it
is " and then made some wild guess. (The most common guess,
given by 54.3 percent, was that it "was" the stuff mixed into the curry
sauce in Pakistani restaurants. Others commonly said it "was"
uranium ore, wood cement and tree bark.)
Of the 22.4 percent who did not guess what it "was," 83.5 percent
immediately asked the directions to Clontarf Castle and presumably
did not want to guess because they were in hurry to catch the
evening Musical show.
De Selby concluded that most Europeans, at this stage of
evolution, believe that everything and anything can meaningfully be
described in a simple proposition in the form, "This is a thingamajig."
I believe, on the basis of experience, that similar results would be
found in an American sample of the same size. We are still haunted
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by the ghost of Aristotle, the bloke who first tried to describe and
explain the whole universe in permutations of sentences having the
form, This is a Y, All Z are Y, Some Y are X, therefore some Z are X.
Most people, and especially most politicians and clergymen, remain
firmly convinced that anything and everything can be meaningfully
discussed in that Aristotelian manner—or as Ernest Fenollosa once
said, Western culture thinks that "A ring-tailed baboon is not a
Constitutional Assembly" is one of the two types of meaningful
statements (the other being "The U.S. Congress and U.K. Parliament
are Constitutional Assemblies.")
From the point of view of current science, c. 1980-87, there appear
to be two things wrong with this Aristotelian mind-set. In the first
place, scientific models are not expressed in this metaphor of
identity (A is a B) but in the functional language of relationships
(When A moves an increment of x in any dimension, B will move an
increment of y in some other dimension.) The latter type of
functional statement allows for scientific predictions, which can be
partially verified or totally refuted by experience and experiment;
the former, Aristotelian type of is-ness statement leads only to
verbal argument.
The second objection to Aristotelian A is a B statements is that
they appear totally contradicted by neurology and experiments with
instruments. Neurologically, we never know what A "is," but what
it appears to our senses and brain. The senses pick up some (not all)
the signals of the space-time event and the brain edits and
orchestrates these signals into some familiar Gestalt. (This seems to
be how de Selby's subjects edited and orchestrated a jar full of junk
into Pakistani sauce or uranium ore.) Instrumentally, the same
editing goes on. An instrument does not tell us what A "is" but what
class of signals from A that particular instrument can measure. A
voltmeter tells us nothing about the temperature of A, a thermometer
tells us nothing about the height of A, a ruler or scale tells us nothing
about the molecular structure of A, etc.—each instrument creates its
own gloss or reality-tunnel, just as our inner instruments (brain and
perceptors) create a gloss or reality-tunnel. To speak accurately, we
should never say "This 'is' an A," but, rather, "This seems to fit the
category of A in my system of glossing or in this instrument's
reality-tunnel."
Does this sound like pedantry or unnecessary hair-splitting?
Consider for a moment the human suffering and social catastrophes
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that have been unleashed in various times and places by such
statements as "Miss Jones is a witch," "Mr. Smith is a homosexual,"
"Mr. Goldberg is a Jew," "This book is heretical," "This painting or
photo is pornography." If you think about this deeply enough, it
might almost appear that the Catholic witch-hunts, most idiotic
censorship, Hitler's annihilation camps and quite a few other
historical horrors never would have happened if we had no words
for "is" in our languages, or if we remembered that "is" always
functions as a metaphor.
Most of the guilt and "chronic low-grade emergency" (as Fritz
Perls called it) which keeps you from realizing your full potential can
usually be traced to some sentence having the form "I am a B" in
which B equals roughly "no-good shit." That sentence got conditioned
into you when you were very young and you may not think it
consciously any more, or you may well think it and even say it aloud
frequently, but if you feel basically unhappy with your life some
such sentence exists somewhere in your brain.
Even is-ness sentences that seem factual contain dangers due to
the mechanical-conditioned level of most human consciousness on
this planet at this time. "He is a homosexual" may appear a safe
remark when heard in a Group Encounter session, or at a San
Francisco cocktail party, but in the Bible Belt, "homosexual" contains
the conditioned association of "sinner" and particularly nefarious
"sinner" at that, and it is not unknown for violence or even murder
to result from this is-ness sentence, just as "Jew" seems to be a
neutral label for one of three major religions of the West but in Nazi
Germany signified somebody subject to arrest, slave labor and
eventual execution.
I read recently in a science-fiction fan magazine, "The Irish really
are disgusting." Leaving aside my own mechanical prejudices (as a
person of partially Irish genetic structure who lives by preference in
Ireland) the most fascinating thing about this is-ness statement
seems to me that it occurred in a publication where one would never
see such semantically isomorphic statements as "The Jews really are
sub-human" or "Women really are inferior to men."
To quote Mr. G. again, "What does this signify? It signifies that
most people are walking in their sleep and dreaming they are
awake." That is, certain historically infamous types of racial or
sexual stereotypes have become unfashionable and virtually Taboo
in "educated" circles, but the mechanical conditioned reactions
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underlying such stereotypes still exist, the machine is still asleep, in
Gurdjieff's terms, so people who would not stereotype Jews see
nothing inconsistent in stereotyping the Irish or the Poles or some
other group. In a mechanical or primitive stage of evolution, this
cannot be considered surprising.
What does still surprise me (occasionally) is that people who can
see this mechanical level of functioning in others can remain
blissfully oblivious of the same mechanisms in themselves.
One way to understand Energized Meditation, and simultaneously
grasp the significance of what I have just been saying about
Aristotelian habits, is to apply mathematical subscripts to significant
nouns in the manner urged by the semanticist, Alfred Korzybski. For
instance, the Nazi mentality consists of something like

Now this is obviously false to sensory-sensual space-time experience.

In sensory-sensual space-time experience—or what we ordinarily
call "reality" if we haven't been ruined by philosophy courses—every
Jew we meet is a specific event in the space-time continuum. The
first may be a poet, the second an actress, the third a grocer, etc. if we
place this group in the gloss of category-by-occupation. Put them in
the category of good looks, and the first may seem as handsome as
Paul Newman, the second as unhandsome as Edward G. Robinson,
the third as cute as Barbra Streisand, etc. Put them in any other grid,
and differences still emerge, just as there are no two leaves on an oak
tree that are exactly the same in all respects.
Don't go back to sleep yet; hang in there a moment. We are not
preaching a sermon on "tolerance" like a 1950s Hollywood movie.
We are just using anti-semitism as an example of a mechanical
mental set that illuminates many, many other mechanical mental
sets that you are going to have to recognize in yourself if Energized
Meditation is to do you any good.
For instance, at the beginning, for the shock effect, I said some
critical things about Christianity and Democracy. If you drew the
conclusion that I dislike all aspects of Christian and Democratic
society, you had a mechanical "is" somewhere in your evaluations. In
fact, I would much rather live in Christian Democratic nations, for all
their faults, than in any of the Moslem Fundamentalist nations or
Buddhist nations, and I would rather be gored by a rhinoceros than try
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to live in a Marxist nation. As for fascist nations, whether I tried to

cope or not, I rather suspect they would shoot me in a few months, if
not in the first week.
If the Nazi mentality acts "as if Jewn = Jewk or any Jew is "the
same" as any other Jew, people who seem a lot more sophisticated
often act "as if any Rock music = any other Rock music (it "is" all
equally wonderful or equally "barbarous")/ or any science fiction
novel = any other science fiction novel (the book critics in Time seem
to have that mechanical conditioned reflex), or "all television should
be abolished" (there was a book on that subject recently, in which the
author seriously seemed to have the Nazi-like hallucination that TV
shown = TV showk), or any cop = any other cop, or any fast food
place is as "bad" as any other fast food place, etc.
Mechanical reactions are the statistical norm; full conscious
attention remains very rare. (That's why one Zen Master always
gave the answer "Attention!" when he was asked what Zen "is.") We
started from that unChristian and unDemocratic premise and we
have worked our way back to it by a circuitous route, but now
perhaps we can see more clearly what this mechanical A=B hypnosis
does to us.
We have been using examples of difference between elements of
the "same" group, but no element remains unchanged in time.
Consider yourself as an element, X, in the group "humanity." It
should be obvious that
X1987 is not X1976
You have changed quite a bit in the last ten years, have you not? If
people weren't in the habit of calling you by the same name, you
might not even "believe" that the You of today "really is" in some
sense the You of 1976. In fact, if you can forget your name for a few
moments, the entity or more precisely the space-time event called
You obviously was changing, sometimes faster and sometimes more
slowly all through the decade. If you are more than 20 years old, just
think of how absurd it would be to claim that the You of 1986 "really
is" the You of 1966 ...
Think about this seriously. It would be a damned good idea, right
now, to make a list of ten important changes that have occurred in
"You" since 1966 and ten changes since 1976. Is it too much trouble
to get a paper and pen? Well, at least make a list in your head. Can
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you even visualize what you looked like and dressed like in 1966?
Really think hard about some of the other changes in You over 20 years.
Now, to understand what this book can do for you, try to apply
this awareness on a smaller time-scale. Is it possible that Youlast
week "really is" in every respect Youthis week? Alas, this may almost
seem possible, but it is not strictly true unless you have died and they
pickled you in formaldehyde.
Think, really, about the changes in "You" in one week. How many
more changes could have occurred in that week, if You did not have
the illusion that You are a finished product and not a Work in
Progress?
Keep at it. Think seriously about whether it is strictly and totally
true that Youyesterday really is Youtoday.
When you get to the point of understanding that Youone second
ago is not strictly Youright here and now, then you are ready to begin
to understand what Christopher Hyatt is offering you in this book
and how you can use it.

Howth, Ireland
17 November 1986
 INTRODUCTION
by
Israel Regardie

Systems of meditation come and go — and have since time

immemorial. But somehow meditation is more popular to-day and I
fancy practised by more people than ever before in the world's
history. My contention is that this is largely due to the psychedelic
movement initiated by Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception and the
fantastically pioneering work of Timothy Leary. Posterity, I am
certain will have a finer appreciation of what he has contributed to
this world than we have today.

Meditation is meditation. But there are innumerable techniques

for achieving the proper results. One of the most dynamic that has
appeared in recent years is not Transcendental Meditation by the
grinning-giggling Monkey faced guru, though perhaps this is the
most popular, but the so-called chaotic meditation of Bhagwan
Shree Rajneesh. This is the one that really comes nearest to the vital
and powerful method described by our author Christopher S. Hyatt.
Without equivocation, it can truthfully be stated that this method is
by far and away about the best method I have encountered in all my
years in both psychotherapy and in the occult world.
As Alan Watts pointed out a long time ago, most Western
psychotherapy is fundamentally metaphysical—that is it is essentially
conceptual and verbal. Whereas Eastern "psychotherapy" is more
realistically and somatically oriented - viz Yoga in all its facets and
branches. To this extent the latter is more holistic than the
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metaphysical approach of the West. (An unusual and unexpected

dichotomy that was first indicated by Alan Watts.) Christopher
Hyatt's work is the closest technique to this model.

The author has been, amongst many other things, a classical

psychologist, a practitioner of Reichian therapy, and a 20 year
student of the occult. From years of clinical experience he has
distilled the essence of his experience in a most astute and shocking
manner. In a fantastically penetrating, humorous and insightful
fashion he has also distilled the essential factor in Zen meditative
techniques. The result is a meditative system that is wholly unlike
any other. Even the design of the book and the way it is presented
suggests the purpose of the Great Work. As such it can be altogether
recommended to those who have tried all other systems of
meditation and found them wanting; their failure can be compensated
for and overcome by the use of this extraordinary dynamic approach.
I recommend it enthusiastically and without any reservation
whatsoever. In fact I am excited and exhilarated by its discovery.
It should prove to be the answer to the frustration felt by the
thousands and more who have tried the other systems and failed.
However, I do warn the reader, if you don't really want to change,
don't take this book seriously.

Israel Regardie
March 11, 1982
SOMEWHERE HAVING FUN
 IS THERE ANYTHING NEW
UNDER THE SUN?
Or The Key To Uncoding The Purpose Of This Book
by
Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.
and Baron Peter von Gundlach

It has been four years since Undoing Yourself was released and
approximately two years since the first edition was sold out. The
book was not reissued until now because I was in a moral dilemma
concerning the message contained in this work.
It is suggestive as well, that agents in both Israel and Germany
requested copies of this book for possible translation. However,
after further reading, both withdrew their requests. This also
contributed to my hesitance to re-publish the work.
Many dear friends and associates made suggestions as to what I
should do regarding the criticisms levelled at this book. I listened to
all that was said and waited until the right moment, which is now, to
answer both the attacks and the compliments.
The primary attack came from the intellectual community. This
of course is to be expected. Their attitude was one of abhorrence that
such a work could be published at all. Specifically, they felt that the
book was "disgusting" irrelevant and down right "stupid."
What they found disgusting, was the "irrelevant" pictures, the
"provocative and hostile" writing style and the "stupid" content.
Some of these critics simply felt pity, since they assumed the author
was "justly" uneducated. Others were shocked at the revelation that
the author held three advanced degrees and was finishing a fourth.
Some suggested that the meditation technique ("which might be the
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only thing of value") be published by itself and the rest buried

somewhere out of smell and sight.
I pondered this and said no! . I then asked myself what was so
terrible about this book? The answer I found was that it attacked the
channelization process of the biological imperative, (those of
nesting, digesting and congesting, or to say it more correctly,
housing, eating, and making babies) and that it exposed the
hypocrisy that exists between what the intellect says and what the
body does. That is, it challenged the so-called idealism, the hypocritical
screen, between ideas and actions, but more importantly it elevated
biology over culture.
As the title of this book implies Undoing Yourself With Energized
Meditation and Other Devices is a workbook of emancipation and not a
collection of ideas to be perused by smug dilettantes. These critics,
who profit from the system they endorse, protect and maintain,
which even they admit feeds on the surpluses of social inequities, are
simultaneously condemning it in lecture and writing as they
blissfully enjoy its fruits. These are the most vociferous assailants of
this book. Why?
The answer is simple. This is a book on psycho-social-biology, (or
more correctly a spiritual-biology) something which most intellectuals
and people in general find abhorrent, for this topic exposes the
schizoid foundations of their reality set. Yes, this book is really a
disguised text on the fundamental motivation of human existence
on this planet. In other words, this book is about the bio-survival of
the species and its most observable result—the genetic-class struggle.
This book is about power and freedom, something which we all
desire, and the lies and "stories" which preempt and hoard the truth
about how to use this bio-spiritual imperative successfully, profitably
and "decently". How is this deception accomplished? And more
importantly by WHO?
THE MALADAPTIVE FALLACY
The What and The Who of it!
The maladaptive fallacy is based on the assumption that man's
nature is inherently flawed. What does this mean? Miss Man aged Man
has decided through aeons of self-reflection that what the observer
observes (man) is in fact — "No-Dam-Good." This is the indictment
— the moral accusation. The followers of this verdict believe that
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the proof of this is man's own behavior, i.e., wars, dis-obedience to

God, class struggle, and an array of similar stupidities. On the other
hand, the small voice of his defense whispers that man has also
co-operated with the evolutionary imperative for his enlightened
self-interest. Some examples are charity, medicine, science, heroism,
etc. Which ever tunnel reality they choose to focus on, both are
inappropriate since it has been assumed that man is a completed
product. What both sides do not see is that mankind is nothing but
the result of the trial and error (also known as trial and success)
factor of a great bio-spiritual experiment. The problem lies in the
fact that "trial and error" is the culture that is regarded as more
sacrosant than the biology which forms its base.
The Relatives of Man
The last one hundred years has brought us the theory of relativity
— ironically interpreted and used as an absolute. Relativity theory
may have done wonders for physics and the other sciences, but it has
been mis-used almost everywhere else. People invoke Einstein, the
absolute authority, as a defense for their most stupid and ignorant
theories and mis-representations of facts. Their logic, if you can call
it that goes something like this. "I invoke the theory of relativity, by
the authority of Einstein, to prove that my authority, (and ideas) are
as equally valid as anyone else's." Most of them never heard of
testing their theories in the lab. This sort of non-sense, takes the
place of learning and effort. The fortunate thing about this process,
however, is that it is a reflection of the rebellion against blind
authority, that is authority for authority's sake. Unfortunately, the
rebels often justify the need for "more" irrational authority, since
their—opinions often lack the stuff of which planets are made—they
simply want to be the boss. Einstein, I believe would be absolutely
appalled by the mis-use of his ideas found in both the soft sciences and
the occult. All opinions are not equal. All tunnel realities are not
equal, for equality would obviate the necessity for our diversity.
Ideas must be left in the form of working hypotheses open to
argument, the approximation of the truth found by the process of
experimentation. Man must be left free to conduct his experiments
unhampered by the mere conventions of culture.
As we obtain more knowledge, our need to hide the apparent
injustice of creation in flowery ideas and terms will dissolve into a
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spiritual biology, something other than the common clap-trap of
those who refuse the eye of clarity. While the present author is also
guilty of clap-trap, he does take immense pride in the fact, that on
occasion, he is aware of his right hand pulling the wool over his left eye.

DEATH HAS BEEN CONQUERED! NOW WHAT?

(Sir! In what newspaper did you read that?)
(Hey! I didn't read it — I thought it! Aren't Thoughts Reality?)
(Answer! It depends on who is doing the thinking
and how much ability they have to make it real.)
FUTANT-MUTANTS LIKE IDEAS THAT WORK!
When death is conquered then what? Why do I ask this question at
this point of the discourse? The answer! Most of the clap-trap
surrounds our own sense of impermenance. We explain ourselves
away, with words of Karma, reincarnation, etc., which for the life of
me, (this life that is) the time would better be spent in the laboratory
of life seeking results. In other words let God worry about His
experiments, and you worry about your own! Theories about what
God is doing and why, are nothing but an ointment heated by the
frustration of our helplessness in accepting our present fate —
FRUSTRATION & DEATH!
A solution to this struggle is simply to locate your part of the
drama and fulfill it. That is find your true will and follow it to the
end. Struggle is the crux of life. However, do not despair at this
word, for it is through this almost never-ending parade of frustration,
that the true Man emerges as Hero. While some of you may not
think so, cessation from struggle is death. The Buddha said, "if it
doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger." Did he say that?
Why do you think man is always facing a new problem? Man is a
problem-solver, this is his life's blood, his holiness if you would. No
other animal is in an almost continuous state of dissatisfaction, no
matter how much and how great his accomplishments. There will be
no final rest from this process, no Utopia, thank God, for then it
would be over once and for all. Challenge is always on the horizon,
and it is built into our DNA, or biology. Even Buddha struggled to
stop struggling, and when he accomplished that he continued to
struggle to enlighten the world.
When death is conquered, we will still require the struggle, for
even our hope for freedom from struggle, is a struggle, (it often
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terrifies me, that most writers forget that the category includes
itself). For example, is the idea of tunnel reality, a tunnel reality, or is
it a meta-tunnel reality, etc. Labelling something or a process does
not always free one from its effects. We are all on the front lines of
life and death. Take it very seriously because it is happening right
now in front of and in you. But do not forget to laugh, lest you miss
the point.
THE SPECIFICS
Let us begin with nesting (housing). In all instances, a place to live,
a shelter is a biological essential, be it a mansion, cave, tree, or a space
on the ground. A shelter requires a site. Space or location for the
shelter necessitates territory. Thus, the biological essential, shelter,
requires territory. As space begins with the body, its extension
symbolized by shelter and territory, is an expansion of the body
boundary. Hence tactileness; our perceptions of heat and cold, wet
and dry, privacy and exposure or, in other words, pain and pleasure.
The skin is the psycho-physical barrier between our personal and
public selves. The skin, if you would, is the sensate membrane of
how we know who, what and where we are, and what we are doing.
The body, the skin, represents both our individuality which we
cherish, and at the same time our vulnerability which we abhor.
Thus public exposure regardless of form is always a threat, be it
spatial or psychological. In other words, we are always scared of each
other.
As long as our biology demands our survival, our primary mode of
operation is fear. However, we are deliberately made unaware of
this, or told that our anxieties are abnormal. In fact our anxieties are
the most normal things about us and are the fuel and engine from
which society and culture are built. We have been told to reject our
biology, particularly by those who demand more territory for their
own biological safety. ("Paranoia will destroy ya.")
Society is structured in order to implement and exploit the product
of the "maladaptive fallacy." The maladaptive fallacy is the assumption
that man is flawed and evil. In order to correct our "pathology" we
have military, police, psychologists, sociologists, university professors,
physicians, priests, politicians and their ilk whose "soul" purpose is
to mold us into productive agents for their employment, allowing us
to accumulate possessions which will be re-distributed through acts
of violence and war.
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In other words the "original sin" is nothing but the "original lie".
Taking the byte from the Apple of the Tree of Knowledge at the
suggestion of the Serpent of the DNA, was a window of opportunity
offered to mankind to accept his true nature — that of the
experimenter. That this has been historically mis-represented as
anathema to spirituality was the first great lie and subversion of our
Godly or true purpose of existence. It precipitated our expulsion
from our natal territory, the Garden of Eden — our biology. In
other words, what has been called the lowly in us is actually the
exalted. Our territoriality or our biology is not the cause of our
misery, it is the rejection and denial of it which therefore results in
its perverted and dangerous expression. The founding fathers of
America, an "occult group", was deeply aware of this and tried to
make allowances for our most primary and basic genetic tendencies.
What has been labelled our animal nature is in reality the image of
God in which we were created. Our natural desire for terror—Tory
has brought about not only wars through its perversion, but has
brought about every major and minor convenience; medical and
technological breakthroughs from penicillin to spaceships. These
discoveries are designed to help us improve our nesting, digesting
and congesting.
Anxiety then is a normal and biological necessity. Anxiety is
always related to territory (our location in space-time.) It is of more
than passing interest to note that the population of mental
institutions is lowest from the transitions of peace to war and of war
to peace. That is, anxiety which is based on territory, results in less
mental disturbance during territorial shifts. Institutionalization
arises during periods of non-territorial shifts or more correctly
during territorial-anxietal stasis.
The desire and concern for territory is a primary and functional
biological need hard wired into the neuro-genetic system. The
channelization of this need, i.e. how it is expressed, is the function of
culture, which is nothing more than biology's interaction with
geography thus forming a bio-culture feedback loop which feeds on
and digests itself. Thus, the primacy of HOW (culture) is substituted
for the primacy of WHAT and WHY (territory and biologic-motivation).
Therefore our measure of worth is based on the value, size, and
location of our monuments, edifices and estates, and rituals (such as
weddings, funerals, and confirmations) which we can identify as our
personal territory or genetic mandate. This is our zone of safety,
Hyatt and von Gundlach xxix
which is only natural and proper. What is not natural and proper is
that we are told that we should feel guilty for this desire, thus
forcing us to become as schizoid as our mentors. Wars therefore are
not a result of territoriality, but a cause of dis-placed motivation.
Instead of territoriality being our great despair, it is in fact our great
hope. The reader may ask, then, why do we find a book of psycho-
social biology on bookshelves which are labelled occult or meditation?
The answer is simple. Occult means hidden. Something which is
hidden, once exposed, is no longer occult. Like lifting up a rock.
What was under the rock was occult, until someone had the courage
or curiosity to pick it up. What is still occult for most of us is the
neuro-biological connection. Our neuro-biology is our absolute.
How we channel this neuro-biology is our relativism. Thus the
"occult" is that biology and anatomy is destiny, in that order. That is to say,
WHAT we do is determined, HOW we do it is relative. We all are
born, we all eat, groom, sleep, have sex, require shelter, etc. How we
do this determines our class in the structure of society, which is
based on presently unalterable biological imperatives.
In conclusion of this section the biological is the absolute and the
cultural is the relative. We have been taught this fundamental truth
in reverse, bacteria is for culture, rather than culture is for bacteria.
We revere the cultural and loath the biological. This is both a denial
of "God" and the source of our potential destruction.

Part II
DIGESTING
When we think of digestion the first thing that comes to mind is
the consumption of food, i.e. that which feeds and nourishes us.
Consumption takes place before digestion and is involved with an
entire cycle of influence and effluence (consumption, digestion, and
elimination).
Digestion in and of itself is a key, for it tells us that the things of
value are automatically taken out by the bodily process and the
"offal" is eliminated. This natural model must then take the place of
our cultural process of consumption, digestion and elimination for
its purpose is not to eliminate the unnecessary but to sell it.
A story told to us about a study in animal husbandry may help to
make the point clearer. Swine were placed in three tiers of cages,
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where the pigs in the top cage were fed fresh food, the pigs in the
lower cages ate the postdigested excretions of their upper neighbors.
The ones that increased their weight most for the volume of
substance consumed were those in the middle cages. The conclusions
were that those on the top ate well but did not gain as much weight
as the ones in the middle. The ones on the bottom faired the worst,
though all survived.
This provides an interesting model for our cultural "imperative."
The middle class takes the refined elements of the wealthy, i.e.
products — consumes and over-eats, then distorts and destroys the
idea which created the product, and feeds the result (offal) to the
lower classes, while at the same time deploring their lowly
condition. In other words, ideas and risk create products which are
consumed by the middle class in their attempt to mimic the higher
classes.
This process of vulgarization is paid for by the lower class, which
is eternally maintained by the middle classes cult of conformity. The
lower classes, the final consumer on the food chain, are also the
criminals from which the middle class primarily demands to be
protected by the existing machinery of suppression. In other words,
the criminal class, (excluding "white collar criminals") consisting
primarily of the lower classes and minorities, is both created and
used by the other classes as justification to protect their perverted
and excessive expectations. Again it is important to remember that it
is not our biology which is to blame, but rather the lie surrounding it.
It is of great interest to note that in Europe there is conscious
recognition of the class struggle. In America we insulate ourselves
from this dynamic. We shake our head yes to the pain and misery of
the less fortunate, while we feather our nests with more and more
symbols which serve to reassure us that we have elevated ourselves.
The lower classes, like the pigs on the lowest tier, consume what is
discarded. Finally, in America the struggle is not really between the
lower classes and the upper classes, for they are too far apart. The
struggle here is between the middle classes and the lower classes.
Hyatt and von Gundlach xxxi
Part III
THE REPRODUCTION BIAS — CONGESTION
The Tree of Life as the Genetic Chain
The Neuro-Politics of Obsolescence
The reproduction bias simply means that the majority of our time
and resources is spent on re-assuring the survival of the species.
These are called reproduction strategies. The important point is that,
while reproduction is in itself absolute, the strategies are relative,
and thus open to change. The bias part of the phrase relates to the
absolutizing of the relative, a process which the class struggle not only
creates but demands. That is we require consumers, upwardly
mobile ones, as well as the lower classes who consume the left-over
by-product "offal" of the reproduction bias.
Reproduction is the model of perpetual obsolescence and replace-
ment. It is also a form of imagined personal immortality. Reproduction,
however, in its grossest sense is entirely impersonal. There is
nothing new or unique about having offspring (DNA coils). What is
unique in terms of our experience is the territoriality engendered by
having offspring. That is they are a part of our body, yet no human
invented DNA, nor did any human create the sperm and egg which
combined to create a new replacement.
In this sense our territorial imperative serves to create a bond.
Like everything in the world we too are obsolete, nothing is built to
last forever.
We are trapped in the model of renewal which we apply to most
every facet of our existence. This structures our hierarchy of
priorities. Consequently we incorporate aspects of impermanence
into the products we build and into the lives we lead. On the other
hand we also have the paradox of surrounding ourselves with non-
functional objects which represent our wish for permanence such as
statues, icons, tomb stones, antique furniture, etc. We do not accept
our finiteness with humility. Our daily attitudes towards most
relationships and objects are as if we might last forever. The
consequence of this is wasteful redundancy in every aspect of our
lives, be it economic or psychic. We work all of our lives to re-
produce labor saving devices. This play on the words "labor" and
"reproduction" is no accident.
The child or baby, as we begin to "humanize" our discussion, is an
exercise in labor of both male and female. The pain of labor in
xxxii Hyatt and von Gundlach

western culture is no accident either. Pain and struggle stimulates a

sense of ownership. When we struggle for something we feel we
own it. The division of labor between male and female in regards to
off-spring production and rearing in and of itself creates a dynamic of
conflict between the now new mother and father. By mystifying the
entire birth process we provide an elevated meaning which it neither
requires nor deserves. This is the process of "absolutizing the relative
and relativizing the absolute."
The agenda of reproduction for the female is bio-survival security,
a guaranteed sanctuary (nest) and a source of income, assured by the
male authorities. This agenda is being modified by the new
awareness of the women's liberation movement. The emerging
matriarchy is attempting to address this issue from a healthier
perspective. It suggests the promising beginnings of human liberation,
again not from our biology, but from our distortions of it. Its
principle slogan being, "that society, i.e. the patriarchy, no longer
owns my body." Unfortunately, the consensual cultural program is
not impressed, nor has it been significantly altered by this new
paradigm. The male justification for the patriarchy is due to the
unconscious recognition of his biological expendability as can be
easily observed in other species. This attitude of male redundancy
prevents women from risking death in most cultures by fighting
wars. Women then are protected in many other ways as well, not
because they are better, or loved, but because they are believed as
essential for the nurturance of the offspring (the new consumer).
An obvious example can be demonstrated by society's attitude
toward rape victims. The woman is frequently seen as the culprit.
The paradox of both protecting the female, as the potential matrix of
birth and the degrading attitudes expressed by the patriarchy is a
consequence of the subtle view that all humans of the middle and
lower classes are chattel, i.e. consumers (part of the food chain).
Though democracy offers the illusion of individual participation or
effect on the whole, in reality it presents an environment of
economic and psychic serfdom. A good mantram upon awakening is
to repeat three times, "Serfs Up." P.S. "And don't forget the bored."
To return to the main point, any new male or representative of
society for that matter can take the place of the genetic father after
fertilization. The female's love for the male must be transferred to
the developing baby. After birth, the male is primarily unnecessary
except as a facilitator of goods and services. This is a cultural fact and
 Hyatt and von Gundlach xxxiii

not a biological one. In other words there is nothing wrong with a

love shift, what is disturbing is that we are not informed of the
natural processes of birth, death and life in general. Biology again
has been exploited to serve certain cultural distortions — "Trials and
Errors."
From the male point of view, the biological reward for reproduction
is a pat on the back for having virile sperm and the identification
with his genetic offspring. Again the process is personalized beyond
the point of necessity simply to satisfy the pride of possession. Time
is spent in identifying those physical and character qualities of the
offspring which resemble those of the parents. Identifying common
genetic characteristics of the infant is done more for the re-
assurance of the male, for he can never really know if the child is his
in fact. This provides an edge for the female in any future
negotiations with her husband. Possession is 9 tenths of the law.
Thus the offspring is viewed by both the parents and the courts as
belonging to the female. Judicial preference for child custody by the
mother is proof of the matter.
Will not any set of teats do for nurturing the child, just as will not
any sperm do for the fertilization of the egg? The answer is both yes
and no. Arguments can be had for either side of the issue. However,
in the long run it does not matter. What is of importance is the child,
for it assures the continuation of the race and a specific set of selfish
genes. Again, biological necessity cannot be blamed for how any
particular culture channelizes this force. What can be blamed is
elevating the relativism of culture over the absolutism of biology. Which
is really more sacred?
SOLUTIONS
The major premise in this paper is that biology is primary to
culture, and that the problems assumed to be caused by biology are a
result of biology's distortion by culture. The first general solution is
the daily remembering that culture is relative. The second is that
territoriality is not destructive in itself and contributes directly to
the evolutionary process. Thus any attempt to modify territoriality
by governmental intervention as in communism, is destructive to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The U.S. constitution and
the Bill of Rights is a biological and spiritual document. Additionally
the hypocrisy created by the non-gnostic Christian, non-Sufi
xxxiv Hyatt and von Gundlach

Moslem and non Kabbalistic Jewish paradigms are also destructive

to the growth and evolution of the species. Original sin is the
original lie. Nothing more, nothing less.
Leaving the general to focus on the particular we offer some
creative and interesting solutions to counter the mal-adaptive fallacy.
Specifically, to deal with space and housing we present the idea of
the Shalhome which is a shelter that can be built for between $5.00
and $20.00 a square foot. This is housing both beautiful and
functional which can be constructed using the most simple tools and
requiring little or no skill. How does this shelter deal with the idea of
nesting? Being made of concrete and steel it requires little up-keep
and maintenance. Since the Shalhome is available to more people
there would be less hostile struggle over territory.
Why are banks, planning committees, and husbands and wives
opposed to alternative housing? Culture and habit have dictated
zoning and sub-division restrictions which have imposed on us
human packaging systems in the form of "boxes." A home does not
have to be a box, yet the absolutizing of the relative, creates the illusion
that boxes and homes are co-extensive. This means when we say
shelter, home, etc., we automatically "see" boxes. The Shalhome is
circular, thus many would not accept it as a home, since box is equal
to home. The word is not the object, nor is necessity the form (i.e.
necessity is shelter, the form is the box).
Having built-in furniture, there is no burden (re-decoration
syndrome) to replace obsolete and no longer fashionable appointments.
Following the design format the form of the structure makes it
indistinguishable in terms of class identification. The only differences
are size, contents and location. The Shalhome can function as an
energy conversion matrix which can employ a broader range of
options for heating and cooling. Inexpensive, functional and beautiful
shelter encourages pride of ownership which decreases crime.
Community participation is an important part in its creation. In
other words everyone can have their own territory and shelter for a
minimal cost. Instead of homes which cost 65$ plus a square foot, we
have a home for no-more than $20.00 a square foot and frequently less.
While we are completely aware that this example does not solve
all the distortions of the territorial instinct, we do believe that it
offers an option to those who do not want to spend the rest of their
lives working as serfs for the bankers and real estate speculators.
The true ideal of democracy is not practiced anywhere in the
Hyatt and von Gundlach xxxv

world today. As it is practiced, it is divorced from its roots, the

intelligence and spirit of the people. Most of us have little or no
knowledge of the candidates that represent us. This is reflected by
apathy at the polls. We appear to be willing to pay the price to have
others make our critical decisions for us.
In a bi-partisan political system the choices are indistinguishable,
both in the poverty of new ideas and the similarity of the
professional leader complex. The excessive costs of surrogate
management are due to an imperfect mechanism of monitoring and
controlling the politician's conflict between his/her desire for
personal aggrandizement and public duty. To compound the flaws,
politicians as our representatives, frequently band together in
special interest groups, promoting objectives and agendas which are
contrary to the best interests of the people. Election and re-election
both imply compromises to the point where no-one is served except
those who can wield the most money.
In other words politics should not be an occupation, since the
present qualifications for the position are simply one's ability to
manipulate and influence the voters. This is like licensing a doctor
because his wife is beautiful. An interesting alternative to the
present form of social management is RANDOM representation.
That is through a national lottery, where every citizen is eligible for
office. This of course would change the emphasis in our educational
processes since we would now have a vested interest in training our
citizens to be socially responsible and functional.
The emphasis in education would then shift from a competitive
social conforming value system to a co-operative motivated value
system. Everyone would then have an equal chance of being
"President". The liberal arts, social sciences and civics would then
become as important or more so than vocational skills and the hard
sciences. Inter-active dynamics and the human potential movement
would be a necessity, rather than a simple step-child of an
educational system based on social conformity (imprisonment of the
student) as well as the now dead industrial revolution (mis-
management of territory and resources). It would reflect favorably
in our daily and civic social interactions.
For example at election lottery time winners will have "won" the
privilege to participate in helping govern and harmonize the society.
Of these, another group will be randomly selected through the
lottery thus filling all positions until the last three winners would
xxxvi Hyatt and von Gundlach

form the federal triumvirate. This will decrease the probability of

mis-management on any level during any particular term of office,
since the level above would be immediately answerable to the level
below. The elimination of tenure would reduce the possibility of
malfeasance, bribery, and the formation of special interest groups,
since no-one would know from one term to the next who would be
in power. The harshest punishments of society would be reserved
for any government official convicted of taking bribes or misusing
power for personal purposes.
Conclusion
We often marvel at the lack of rhyme or reason in the planning for
tomorrow. As Gurdjieff has stated — is there life on earth? Or are
we just food for the moon? We do not believe that it matters which is
correct. What matters is that we reverse the process of cultural
absolutism, which holds us prisoners of yesterday and therefore
tomorrow. We believe that it is time to view our biology as our
destiny, and not the happenstantial regurgitations of housewives
and laboring husbands, blindly slaving to produce their replacement
cogs in the machine. We believe it is time that we begin to act like the
gods we were created to be. "Know ye not that ye are Gods."
We hope we have let no-one off the hook and that everyone will
find both something to love and something to hate. Hence this Law
is for All!
Finally, if someone asks you how come you are reading such trash,
simply tell them that this book is about the nervous system — and
when did that become trash? Nor, do not be fooled by the
suggestions made in this book, they will not solve your problems,
just replace the present ones with something new and hopefully
more advanced. If someone asks you for a second time why an
intelligent person such as you, is reading such un-evolved junk, just
tell them that you are studying for your finals in spiritual-biology.
That will assure them that you and the authors are both to be taken
seriously.
Lastly, we wish to thank all of the readers who wrote us telling us
what a great concept the original edition of this book was. We at
Falcon agree, and for some who have asked for an apology, may I
quote my dearest friend, now departed, Dr. Israel Regardie "NO!!!!
NO!!! NO!!!! A THOUSAND TIMES NO!!!!!"
 CHAPTER ONE

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you from unwanted circumstances and experiences you must be
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experiences of the past. Therefore the purpose of this book is help
you to experience total JOY and FREEDOM.
 Undoing Yourself

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I have written about many things, including three specific

techniques of ENERGIZED MEDITATION. The EM method is
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