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“Nothing” as a Dogma

 

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I believe that, as stated in my last blog, the Rosicrucian affirmation that “Although some scientists are still pondering the questions of extraterrestrial life, the Rosicrucian teachings have affirmed for centuries that life may be present on other planets” functions in a valuable way to influence the members of AMORC’S Mind Control Cult.

 

It gives them a dogma about belief without really affirming any kind of reality. So a Rosicrucian, when asked about AMORC, could honestly say that their organization doesn’t really purport anything- that the member has to believe. Yes, it does assert strongly the possibility of extraterrestrial life, but it doesn’t force this belief on its members.

 

This belief is similar to statements about when life truly enters into the world, as discussed in my book, AMORC Unmasked- as in their suggestions that the fetus isn’t really human until its first breath- that are suggested as centuries-old Rosicrucian beliefs but not as ironclad dogma. This kind of non-dogmatic dogma is also at the basis of its elaborate claims about reincarnations, which members are clearly told they do not have to believe, while all the while doing complex experiments in past life investigations.

 

So here you have reincarnation, a doctrine of the origin of human consciousness and a belief about extraterrestrial life- that coexists with “total openness” to the truth and the “complete freedom to believe” or not. ‘

 

This type of indoctrination functions to make the Order seem non-dogmatic to the outside world and provides the member with an illusion of his own freedom to believe- all the while infusing into the process hypnotic suggestions that not only are these dogmas true, but that their believers can actually receive complex perceptual experiences of their validity.

 

 

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Initiate Series of Monographs, Degree 3, No. 1--EXTRATERRESTIAL AFFIRMATIONS AS A HYPNOTIC TOOL

 

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In my last blog, I began a discussion of how cult dogma is used to back engineer the cult personality by progressively influencing and deepening the belief system of the Rosicrucian member.  To this end, I brought up an

 example from the Initiate Series of Monographs, Degree 3, No. 1, which says, “Although some scientists are still pondering the questions of extraterrestrial life, the Rosicrucian teachings have affirmed for centuries that life may be present on other planets.”

 

On the surface, it seems to say that the Rosicrucians “affirm” – or state positively life is present on other planets. In an earlier part of the Monograph they say, “Certain stories also hint that the Earth, in its most remote past, “received the visit of god-men coming from the sky, from beyond the Great Cosmic Ocean” and proceed to say how these beings influence human culture by providing them with the tools of civilization.

 

So now we think that the Rosicrucians are affirming life on other planets- that their initiates have known for centuries what scientists still do not know- that life exists on other planets.

 

But, actually, in examining what AMORC actually says, it is quite different. In fact, all they say is that “Rosicrucian teachings have affirmed for centuries that life MAY BE PRESENT ON OTHER PLANETS.” In other words, they are only admitting that a possibility. In what sense, then, are they better than the scientists who are struggling with the question of extraterrestrial life- if they do not KNOW, if they are only affirming a possibility?  How is the Rosicrucian teaching more advanced than the scientific knowledge of today?

 

Here, in fact, you have a rather elaborate dogma, which actually means nothing. The member is given a license to believe something backed up by hundreds of years of, in the language of the monograph, just speculation. To some extent, I explain the personal effect on me of this type of indoctrination in The Prisoner of San Jose.

 

The fact is that this kind of doctrine is kind of like the Seinfeld episodes about their proposed television show- a television show that unlike others with developed plot, characters and themes- is actually about nothing.

 

How does believing in nothing help accomplish any kind of Mind Control goals? I will examine that in my next blog.

 

 

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INITIATE SERIES OF MONOGRAPHS, DEGREE 3, No. 1-BACK ENGINEERING THE CULT PERSONALITY

In most of my discussions in this blog, which I have also discussed at length in AMORC Unmasked, I have focused on the hypnotic conditioning in regards to using Mind Control to create various hallucinatory phenomena- on one level or another- to confirm the initiatic advancement of the Rosicrucian adept. In my opinion, seeing auras, feeling energy “influxes,” experiencing certain feelings like “heat” or “cold” after certain types of hands-on healing or self-energizing exercises, having flashes of “past life times” or Akashic record visions- can be the result of hypnotic conditioning in a Mind Control environment. This doesn’t, however, mean that such phenomena do not exist or that people can’t experience such things in a truer, more valid context. I do not rule things out.

Not to commit myself- at this point in the discussion- to any one perspective- but, if one assumes the reality of mediumship, a real medium could contact the actual dead- but an hypnotically conditioned cult member could think they were talking to the dead, but in actually they might be having an hypnotically-induced hallucinatory back-and-forth with an object of their imagination.

Now, although all this hypnotic conditioning and its hallucinogenic reality may exist in a cult’s program for its members, the cult, in this case, is not just interested in creating hallucinations or imaginary experiences. It really needs to do more to the cult member than just that. It must provide a coherent framework for such experiences and, to this end, it must infuse into the disciple a wide-ranging belief system to provide a context for creating ever greater depths of obedience and conformity to the Mind Control agenda.

To this end, cult dogma is used to back engineer the personality. They not only must alter perception, but they must tinker with belief- progressively, often in small increments, so as not to disrupt too much of the already shell-shocked human personality they are already recreating.

You would think that this dogma would need to be absolute and self-consistent to function to further deepen a member’s allegiance to the cult.  But I disagree. I think this dogma can sometimes function quite effectively if it is somewhat internally dissonant- actually confusing- but still somewhat of a belief system. Cognitive dissonance, which involves confusion in the mind- because of inner contradictions in beliefs or thoughts, according to hypnotic pioneers like Ericson, actually can help induce trances. I explain this in my book, AMORC Unmasked-

-confusion is one way to amplify or even cause hypnotic induction. Milton Erickson pioneered this type of hypnosis, featuring his famous hypnotic handshake. In this case, by using an incomplete handshake, as the hypnotist, he could throw the subject into a powerful state of confusion. According to Erickson, this confusion would throw the subject into a spontaneous hypnotic trance without knowing he was in one or knowing how it was induced.

As I further explain-

Cognitive dissonance is a mental confusion, which can be caused by the implicit, problematic nature of the words, their meaning and intent used in certain phrases and descriptions. One way of engendering a state of hypnosis is to engender confusion so the mind’s inability to cope with a flawed or illogical statement which will encourage the subject to retreat into a different state of consciousness, one of enhanced suggestibility and submission to the author of such statements, as often made by political or religious cult leaders.

Let me give you one example from the Initiate Series of Monographs, Degree 3, No. 1, when it says, “Although some scientists are still pondering the questions of extraterrestrial life, the Rosicrucian teachings have affirmed for centuries that life may be present on other planets.”

I will examine this seemingly, simple- but rather bold affirmation- in my next blog- to show how it may function in hypnotic conditioning.

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YES, HE’S A HIGH ADEPT… SO WHAT IF HE HALLUCINATES NOW AND THEN?

 

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It all defaults to the conditioning that goes on when you are in AMORC. By the time you reach the level where invisibility and out-of-the-body experiences are discussed thoroughly, you have been trained in assuming ever-deepening hypnotic trances in which post-hypnotic and hallucinatory conditioning has been carefully wedded to indoctrinating you with the idea that you are the elite of the world. For you, these powers are a natural result of your relationship to the egregore, the power center of the Rosicrucians, your submission to the authority of the Order and the Lodge and your obeisance to the Invisible Cosmic Masters you now believe in fervently.

 

So despite the fact that you may have moved to unparalleled heights in your spiritual evolution, it does seem peculiar that you more resemble someone ready for admission to a mental institution than a spiritual adept at the height of his power.

 

 

 

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THE HEIGHTS OF CONDITIONING

 

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During my time in AMORC, at the height of my deepest conditioning, which dovetailed with the time I reached these more “advanced” experiments, I experienced a great deal of dissociation from real life. This was characterized by an obsessive repetition and rereading of the monographs, continual work on breathing and chanting and continual and futile efforts at visualization. This resulted in head aches, spurts of irrational but profound anger at AMORC,  dizziness, loss of clarity, forgetfulness and even blackouts.

 

This is what happens when one forsakes commonsense, kindness and rationality for the sake of a higher, indemonstrable world controlled by Invisible Beings, which you believe in, but which you can only contact effectively when thoroughly hypnotically conditioned.

 

Although there are Lodges to attend every week, the fact is that I- like many other members- are basically alone, uneducated in the ways of Mind Control or hypnosis, influenced mainly by tracts making enormous claims about the nature of the universe and the place you belong in it- totally vulnerable to the mandates of these monographs and the Invisible World they claim to be your legacy.

 

 

 

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ON THE PRECIPICE OF CONTRADICTION

 

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In examining how I could begin to practice invisibility so matter-of-factly when I got to a high degree in AMORC, when they condemn this type of magical practice in the first place, having studied the cult personality in other groups, I am no longer surprised.  Still, any outsider would surely ask- how can one stand on such a precipice of contradiction and live with themselves?

 

The purpose of Mind Control is to create mental zombies that will do the bidding of the cult. The central tool is a subtle form of hypnotic conditioning during which type a kind of personality split occurs in the member, one still basically rational- and the other buying into the cult’s precepts and doctrines.

 

This inner dichotomy causes all kinds of mental confusion. Whereas hypnotic conditioning can create the foundations for accepting a great deal of cognitive dissonance or inner contradiction, it cannot completely obliterate the consequences for the divided personality that it has created.

 

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ROSICRUCIAN MIND CONTROL IN THE MONOGRAPHS

 

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As I said previously, the candle is only the beginning of trance induction and covert hypnosis.

 

Let’s see how this operates throughout the monographs.

 

Say, you were trying to get a person to feel a specific sensation in association with chanting the sound, OM- as is done in the monographs. In traditional hypnosis, you would say: As you recite, OM, you will go deeper and deeper to sleep- and, as you relax more and more, you will begin to feel a sensation in the middle of your head.

 

But AMORC does it differently. They say:

 

0000MMMMmmmm. Intone this sound about ten times and note the impressions it produces on you. You may experience a feeling of general well-being and, in some cases, a pleasant sensation in the center of the head.

 

Now, AMORC doesn’t tell you that you will definitely experience this feeling. They simply imply that it might happen. But, immediately following this statement, they say-

 

As we will teach you in future lessons, this sensation occurs because the intonation of the sound OM especially affects the psychic activity of the pineal gland which is located in the precise center of the head.

 

At this point, AMORC has given the physiological reason this occurs. It is  more of a definitive statement.  In so many of these exercises, AMORC tells you exactly what you may experience. If you are in even a light hypnotic state, these experiences can very likely occur- not because of any objective perceptual relationship between the exercise and the sensation or event you experience, but because you have been covertly suggested to an experience that can be manufactured by the mind in a hypnotic state.

 

 

 

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A CASE OF OMNIPRESENT SUGGESTION

 

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Now, how does covert hypnosis work in the monographs?

 

In certain groups, if you were given an exercise, the effects of that exercise might be deliberately withheld so that the student would discover them him or herself- and not have the experience preprogrammed into him by suggestion.

 

Imagine you are working with a spiritual teacher. And the teacher says- “I want you to focus on your breathing. This is very hard. You will not be able to do it for a long time.” Well, if this actually happened, wouldn’t the student’s attitude towards the exercise be affected? Might it decrease his chances of really trying- and then finding out for himself how hard it is.

 

But the Rosicrucian monographs leave nothing to the imagination. They tell you exactly what you might- could- or probably would experience- in some cases very specific sensations or events. That is why they open themselves up to the Mind Control hypothesis so easily. Are there students really experiencing anything themselves- or just the warm, fuzzy stuff they are suggested into experiencing. In my next blog, we will explore this concretely.

 

Is suggestion really omnipresent in the Monographs?

 

Yes, I think it is everywhere.

 

 

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THE CANDLE AGAIN!

 

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In a way, I think that little candle was my real first initiation into Mind Control. In a way, concentrating on the candle- and then trying to change its color- is a way of testing for the depth of hypnosis. If the neophyte succeeds, then he is going to be a perfect tool of the Rosicrucian Order. If he doesn’t, he may go away. Or- like me- a failure at most of the occult experiments- he may try harder, doing exercises- whether breathing, chanting, healing, psychic energizing or visualization- over and over again.

All the forms of concentration and focus- can under the right circumstances, act in a way as covert hypnosis. Covert hypnosis, sometimes called conversational hypnosis, can work without the subject know it. For instance, in a certain setting, the words that induce an action are not stated in a crude hypnotic way.

This is nothing new. Covert hypnosis was popularized years ago by Milton H. Erickson, M.D.- and is used in psychotherapy. It evolved into NLP- or Neurolinguistic Programming and is used to affect consumer-based activity without the consumer realizing it. 

In my next blog, we will examine a wide use of this technique throughout the monographs.

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HYPNOSIS VERSUS MEDITATION

 

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Now, what I am going to say is my opinion- but I think that meditation and hypnosis are profoundly different procedures, although they both open the door to the subconscious in different ways. As I mention in AMORC Unmasked, the word, “hypnosis” comes from the word “sleep” in ancient Greek. I believe that this is a clue to what hypnosis is most like in human consciousness. On the other hand, meditation is about increasing awareness.

 

If I were sitting down in my sanctum, meditating, I would be “cultivating awareness,” a term associated with various kinds of meditation. This awareness could begin by focusing on some element of my body, my breathing or even sensory impressions around me. I would then try to “hold” the object of concentration in my awareness consciously. In this manner, I would do just the opposite of slipping into a state of trance.

 

In AMORC Unmasked, I quote the very influential Madame Blavatsky, who equates meditation and hypnosis. She says:

 

Hypnotism, we may add, is nought but the Trâtaka of the Yogî, the act of concentrating his mind on the tip of the nose, or on the spot between the eyebrows. It was known and practiced by the ascetics in order to produce the final Samâdhi, or temporary deliverance of the soul from the body; a complete disenthralment of the spiritual man from the slavery of the physical with its gross senses.

 

Personally, I think Blavatsky is wrong and that true meditation and hypnosis are different. I also am very skeptical of the theosophical hierarchy of Cosmic Masters, who Madame Blavatsky projects onto the world. These same Cosmic Masters, including the term, “Great White Brotherhood,” were adapted by AMORC for its own hierarchy.

 

Madame Blavatsky and her followers have had a very controversial role in the development of their esoteric group over several generations. In fact, there are certain parallels with early Theosophy and AMORC, although Theosophy came first. 

 

 

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