We and those around us
use language in ways
which entrap our thinking. Therefore we defend our freedom from the Weapons of Mass Hypnosis by starting with our own
patterns of language.
For instance,
Aleister Crowley went to extreme razor-related measures
to cure himselfs and his disciples
of abusing the word “I”.
The following antispells
may give you the idea.
serious mindfuck territory.
If at any time you feel
totally unable to make sense of this stuff, just visualise Bugs Bunny real big
chewing his carrot
and looking at you.
Yes, I mean it.
And you know
what he's going to say?
Course you do.
Laugh anyway.
“The Antispells of Anonto:
Antispell 1) Write without any tense of the verb ‘to be.’
Antispell 2) Eliminate Being from speech.
Antispells 1 & 2 should roll back the enemy and crumble the false model of reality. However, if resistance stiffens, use
Antispell 3) Eliminate Being from your internal dialogue.”
Peter J. Carroll, Psybermagick
Some Further Antispells:
Neurological correctness. Instead of pretending to describe what “is”, we prefer to describe our experiencing. Thus ‘This is difficult” becomes “This seems difficult to me.”
Indexing. Reminding ourselfs that whoever or whatever we refer to we experienced at a particular point, and may have changed in the meantime. “That was difficult” may become “That seemed difficult to me when I first attempted it x years ago.” “Jews are bastards” might under the antispell transmute into “I met a Jew for half an hour in 1986 who seemed to act like a bastard to me.”
Using active verbs. Buckminster Fuller largely got it right when he said “I seem to be a verb”, acknowledging our Doing instead of creating a fantasy called Being.
He could have said, “I verb.”
Instead of saying stuff like “it has been said”, just say “so-and-so said”.
Wherever you deem it feasible, replace abstract nouns with verbs. We may describe an abstract noun as a name for anything you can’t put in a wheelbarrow. ‘Love’, ‘Truth’, ‘Virtue’ and their alleged opposites, do not exist as a wheelbarrow does, and we can usually describe them in terms of what we saw or heard happening, who did what, and how we felt about it.
Furthermore, as we accustom ourselfs to using active verbs we remind ourselfs continually that we cause our experiences.
We could go on. We will not. We will however recommend some sources for you to pursue as seriously as you take your freedom of thought (Abstract noun? Correct. Well done) At the top of the page we also give here a seal of Anonto, in which sign we increasingly liberate ourselfs from the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Make it so.
Some Grimoires of Anonto
Robert Anton Wilson, Quantum Psychology
Uncle Bob explains it all in a book he wrote using these very principles.
Peter J Carroll, Psybermagick & Liber Kaos
Wherein he explains how Chaos magicians translate their spells using these principles.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity
From whom we derive these principles. The Grimoire. Warning: you may find this book hard going (or not).
Key phrases with which to search the Web:
General Semantics
E-Prime, or V-Prime
the Meta Model of Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP)
Gregory Bateson
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Linguistic Analysis (philosophy)
Bugs Bunny
