From:    The Cegorach                           Area: THE_OASIS
To:      Rose Dawn                               7 Apr 97 03:09:00
Subject: WILHELM REICH, ROBERT ANT              UpdReq 

Cara Soror,

 -=> Quoting Rose Dawn to The Cegorach <=-
 RD> 93 Ceg,
   RD> Y'know, I've never <yet!> read Reich, in spite of his ubiquitousness
 RD> in convo among lots of my associates! Which one didja get, the one with
 RD> the title kidz snicker over?   ;>  Haven'tg read _Prometheus Rising_
_The Mass Psychology of Fascism_; _The Function of the Orgasm_ and _Character
Analysis_ are on order. :^)
 RD> either...the Illuminatus stuff, and the uhmm...can't remember!
 RD> _Nature's God_ was I think the 2nd of the trilogy tho <my books being
Historical Illuminatus?  About Cagliostro and Masonry?  Or maybe Schroedinger's
Cat....
Just finished another Templar book (a subject of which I will *never* tire),
_Magick Without Tears_, _Cosmic Trigger III_, _Moonchild_, and _Prometheus 
Rising_.  Now working on _Ishtar Rising_ (also RAWilson), re-reading _Modern
Magick_ to revamp my rit work, an Astral Projection book, a nutrition book,
Nietzche's _Thus Spake Zarathustra_, and a book on psychedelic shamanism which
includes a lot of how-to-grow instructions.  Fun, fun, fun.  I've got some
Tim Leary on order, too....
Moonchild was fun to read because of the fun in trying to pick out which 
characters were caricatures or based on which historical figures; I still don't
have 'em all figured out, but the principle characters of the Golden Dawn 
are hilariously lampooned--of course, we know AC couldn't resist poking fun
at A.E. Waite. -:)  I didn't really like the way the book ended, though; 
rather anti-climactic, I thought--didn't seem to *go* anywhere, after all
this wonderful romping around, discussing OTO/AA work, making fun of the GD,
and building up the Moonchild operation, it just sorted ended.  Oh, well.
 RD> for the most part packed up, save several Crowley's and a few Denning &
 RD> PHillips, I couldn't check, and can't remember to save my
 RD> Life-in-Death!>. What kinda exercises? 
General stuff to Warp Yer Head.  Like, pretend you're a Nazi; argue the case
for racial cleansing.  Then, the next exercise, pretend you're a Jew; refute
your previous argument.  Or, go to a bar, get *really* drunk, and begin
calling everyone in the room "assholes", at first affectionately, then
belligerently; note their reactions.
  > the similarity to vibration of god-names;I figure if I can "get" vibration 
 > by listening to Emerson, Lake and Palmer, I'd do even better listening to 
 > these guys.  Some of the vocal effects are, to me, startling--they 
 > don't sound (again, to me) like human voices, but rather like movie sound 
 > effects or some such.
 RD> 
 RD> Yah, it's a flat trip! I've got several similar tapes--hmm, no CDs! 
 ;>  Deacon at my very first Mass apparently hasd studied the techniques and
 RD> employed them in his AUMGn'ing and IAOing. Intense--but made the rest
 RD> of us wanna keep quiet instead of joining in!  ;>
I think it'd be really cool to learn, and then teach, those techniques myself.
Imagine a whole congregation doing it.  (Echoes of Arlo Guthrie, from "Alice's
Restaurant": "Now, friends, imagine 50 people--I say, 50 people a day...they'll
think it's a *movement*."  -:)
 RD> Oyah, I just bought--for Raistlynne's homeschooling Honors English
 RD> class, at least exoterically <g>--a buncha the "claSsics" that I'd
 RD> somehow negelected to every actually *own*..._Gargantua & Pantagruel_,
 RD> _The Inferno_, _Paradise Lost_...and _A Clockwork Orange_, which I
 RD> spoze counts as a "claSsic."  ;>  And borrowed _Stranger In A Strange
 RD> Land_, the un-edited version, which I'd managed never even to *read*
 RD> before...it was a regular 'reading Rainbow' for a couplea weeks there. 
I actually liked the edited version of SiaSL better, as it contained Heinlein's
definition of love (not in the original), which I think is *the* best def ever,
and runs something like, "Love is when the object of your affection has to be
happy for you to be happy."  So damned simple a def....
 RD> BTW, here we are in Oasis...so tell me about this teevee thang you
 RD> mentioned a while back!
It should be in the 4-5 page monster post I just sent a day or so ago....
Fraternally, 
Larry


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