I don't want anything out of this for myself. Although this work is copyrighted, I have had this done primarily so that it can not be used by others to make a profit. Feel free to make as many copies and pass them around as you want. Think of it as the way the original healers in the days of Hippocrates thought: if they were able to offer some healing to their fellow human being, having the ability to give assistance in this manner was all they wanted in return. I do hope and am confident that, although very unusual and certainly unorthodox, I have learned something through my own experiences, as well as the usual avenues of learning that other people might benefit from.
    I think you will find the reading quite interesting. Whether you are Jewish, Native American, Muslim or  Buddhist, I think people will find this material quite eye-opening. It illustrates that all people are the same, literally so. I am as much Jewish and Native as I am Christian of German heritage. I am as much a Taoist as I am a Muslim. We all were created from the same ground source.
    In addition to the traditional ways of looking at and dealing with the areas of concern discussed in this book, it would be great if it gave individuals, groups and organizations further insight into the subjects covered.
      The prime reason I have completed this research is to do my part in helping to close the gaps that separate people. In addition to this I include possible ways world society can begin a true healing from the injuries that humankind has incurred because of hypocrisy and bigotry, in fact violence of all types. Everything is related.
    In viewing this material, the main thing people have to utilize is their imagination; to expand perspectives beyond the narrow, fragmented and constricting ways that prevail at the moment. There is nothing original in this book. I have brought together a variety of apparently different perspectives and in fact demonstrate fairly consistently that these imagined differences are more of an illusion than anything else. The most important psychological dimension I include in this social and psychological analysis is a spiritual one,. This is a dimension that simply includes and takes into consideration the higher workings of the human psyche. The most important human dimension to be considered is our children and the type of Earth that is bequeathed to them for the future.

    What follows is the title and dedication, table of contents and introduction to my book.

 

Introduction

 The following quotes I place here because of their importance in the context of Human liberation, especially as it relates to the Dignity, Psyche and Soul of all Human beings

“If everyone keeps taking an eye for an eye pretty soon the whole word will be blind."                                                                                     

                                                              Mahatma Gandhi

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” Dr. M. L. King Jr.

“Each spiritual tradition looked at in the context of the particular perspective it is supposed to represent, makes each one of them as valid as the next. They all spring from the same source, therefore each one of them express a reality of that source of creation; but only one aspect of the whole truth. The solution is to include of them those which people find healthy and beneficial. No one individual is able to practice (in practice) all religions, if, however, one is able to perceive the universal truths and themes expressed in all of the traditions, the segregating effect of labels can be dropped. Then we can develop intolerance against intolerance. We can have freedom to express from the heart, to individuate. Then, it becomes clear we were all saying the same thing in the first place. Just in different ways.”

Paul Mitchell Calgary, 2001

             I spoke with a woman one time who worked for a law firm while studying towards becoming a paralegal practitioner. During our conversation about justice, she said that the outcome of justice, sometimes, was usually decided as a result of who was in power politically and who was not. This pertained to an innocent person being found guilty or a guilty person or people being found innocent.

 

     ‘I was in such a panic, thinking about everything lately and especially not hearing anything from Human Rights for almost a month. I had so much fear and frustration to release that I was amazed at how much I cried,’ 9/15-16/02. Based on over 100 pages of documentation, Human Rights tentatively said there was one incident where they might be able to help. If I had of pursued this with Human Rights I would have been opposing someone who had very powerful friends in organized crime. In respect to 99% of what I documented, because I was not a member of protected group –“Human Rights protects the rights of disadvantaged people and groups” – my human rights were not protected. I point out that I am a member of a group of people that Human Rights usually targets, while my oppressors were sometimes members of groups that Human Rights protected. The message I was being given was that I was not worthy of human rights.

                                                               Paul F. Mitchell

            This book describes a personal process of searching and growth to the same extent that it contains a social and psychological analysis.

 

      Reading this work only one time will not give an individual the entire possibility to understand what is being described here. As with most written pieces of work that deal with in-depth topics, rereading them will usually give the reader a greater insight into the nature of what is being put across. Importantly, although it is not usually good literary style or practice to repeat something that has already been said, throughout this work I will do this. I will do this for precisely the reason I just gave in the above, especially as it relates to having more information to work with each time something is repeated. Most of our actual thinking takes place on an unconscious level. As for rereading the material, going back to it at a later date, after the psyche has had time to “digest” what it has taken in, different and deeper layers of understanding will usually transpire. Most importantly, as you read the following material, as I repeat several times throughout, be very conscious of your feelings, emotions, and especially any thoughts that you have while taking in some of the material I present here. Being aware of these thoughts and physiological reactions that you have will tell you far more about the accuracy of what I am saying here than the intellect alone. Another important factor to keep in mind is to try to empathically place yourself in many of the dynamic scenarios I will be describing throughout this work.

      Rather than spreading fear and creating separation by expressing what this work covers, my wish is that it promotes the exact opposite. In this material I present a way of closing separating gaps between people. Although I am not saying anything here that thousands of people before me have not tried to say, here, I am trying to do my part to bring everything together, to create an overall context and overview, as a way of raising people’s consciousness so that a true healing among humankind can take place. My deepest wish is that peace will eventually engulf the world and that people will learn how to love themselves as well as others. This will naturally develop into a love for their fellow human being as if he or she were themselves and extend outward to include the whole environment.

     The purpose of this work is to demonstrate and expose the sources of bigotry, anarchy and social violence that run rampant throughout world society today. My main thesis is that most of this bigotry develops on the unconscious levels of the human psyche, both individually and collectively. In today’s world, throughout most societies and cultures, people operate from and hold world views that stem primarily from extreme competitive ego perspectives that drag far behind technological capabilities and our ability to do violence against each other.

     I am referring to majority worldviews that have become unconsciously fragmented and dichotomized, affecting in a parallel fashion what it means to be and how to live as naturally oriented, peace loving human beings. This is expressed at the fundamental level throughout the book, with certain sections going into more detail than others. We discuss the dynamics that produce a worldview that has focused on and developed materialism that is a direct expression of a fragmented ego and psyche. This is a false ego view that only respects and honors what can be quantified and categorized, then turned into a profit. Hypocrisy and bigotry necessarily follows from this worldview that represses people’s true natures and refuses to acknowledge what it truly means to be a whole human being.

     One of the primary results of this disempowerment of the human psyche is a focus on, and misuse of power. Misuse of power is a way that fragmented and disempowered people-psyches try to compensate for this loss of potential and wholeness; for loss of their health. It is usually expressed through a need to control and manipulate others in an attempt to obtain energetic psychic and therefore physical requirements. These are energetic needs that could easily be achieved by people in conscious and aware interaction with the whole of their psycho-physiological and environmental reality. Reciprocal interaction of people’s inner psychic realities with their environment would naturally connect them to the human collective psyche at all levels and also the greater environment, providing a two-way exchange of energetic needs. The result, as homeopathy has been saying for a long time, is greater health.

     This relative state of unconsciousness that we have fallen into has usually expressed itself through increased violence to ourselves and also to others. In reality this separation does not exist and what we do to others we do to ourselves; what we do to ourselves we also do to others. Although this violence originates unconsciously, it eventually manifests itself psychically and physically. Materialism, as we will explore and see, for the time being refuses to acknowledge that the individual shares a collective psychic reality with all other human beings, indeed all life forms on earth. We share a collective world environment that is alive and grounded in a natural desire to evolve into higher levels of integration, complexity and reality.

     The astounding advances humankind has made in the development and use of technology is being misused and, primarily unconsciously, sabotaging the human psyche and human potential. It would be nice if humankind could avoid the historical reality demonstrated in individual as well as collective historical development that – quantum - jumps in evolution and developmental growth are usually impelled to move forward by some sort of shock or crisis if that development has been interrupted in some way. I will qualify this last statement by saying there is a possibility this frustration in growth is natures way. Although I will not develop or search these possibilities in great depth, there is archeological and historical suggestibility as demonstrated by some of the wisdom traditions that when it comes to quantum jumps in development, so to speak, this is indeed the way nature provides the impetus to propel evolution forward. In this respect I am not talking about the concept of survival of the fittest. When it comes to humanity in today’s world this is simply an outmoded mindset inviting collective suicide. Because of what has happened world-wide, psychically and socially, environmentally, materially and in a whole Earth sense, we now find ourselves on the brink of world wide catastrophe. Consciousness-raising can change this.

     It is awareness developed through consciousness-raising that can change the destructive use of technology and a technological mindset, to be instead used for evolutionary purposes. Instead it is in many cases being used to maintain and exacerbate a war-like and lower level state of fragmented psychic reality that simply perpetuates the cycles of bigotry and separation between people. This is also a bigotry that goes against nature, in all of its manifestation, lower and higher, Earthly as well as Heavenly - the horizontal Earth plane and the vertical Heavenly plane. This latter plane is not some sort of imaginary place in the starry night sky but a higher place within the universal and archetypal human psyche that was made in the creator’s image. It refers to the higher levels and potentials of the human psyche.

     We will explore the psychological reality that most of the decisions, thoughts, emotions and actions of human beings originate on levels far below the usual levels of conscious awareness, for most people. Similar to technology developed under controlled laboratory conditions, unconscious human behavior, individually, between individuals and therefore collectively, have unforeseen consequences on the collective environment. When humans operate only from an egocentric level they maintain this relative state of unconsciousness.

     The word occult refers to virtually any hidden aspects of human and psychic activity and thought. Everything is psyche or mind. However, compared to times in the past, we have become unconscious of what was not at one time included in the occult. We are all responsible to become aware of our selves, especially when the results are violence and harm, to ourselves, to others and to the larger environment. We are all responsible for stopping the maintenance of this destructive cycle. To say “I was just following orders” does not cut the cake. We are all responsible for making these unconscious dynamics conscious once again.

     In respect of the occult, as will be explored in depth in the following work, the idea of consciousness-raising is important for a very good reason. We will see that many of the unconscious dynamics within the psyche, for most people, are manipulated and in fact controlled and directed by a few elite at the top of the world power structure. Today there are greater and greater numbers people, some more consciously than others, involving themselves in the occult, striving to expand of their awareness and consciousness. Unfortunately, most of the people entering into these areas have not overcome many of the egocentric tendencies society has conditioned into them. When people who operate only from an ego perspective enter into the occult – ritual, spiritual and the deep arcane they run the risk of being controlled by the more powerful forces, energies and psyches at the top of the power structure. This is simply because they do not know themselves. They are not in control of themselves.

      In today’s world these controlling forces are not always of a benevolent sort. This will be heavily explored, however there is a very important point I am making here. Most of what we call the occult, in all areas of society - not just in those areas we would call the deep arcane, spiritual realms of the psyche - is very controlled. Most people comprising the world’s population are being controlled by these forces at the top of a power pyramid. This is a crime against humanity and is the reverse of what the Creator intended. The only solution to this is to completely open the doors for everyone, to awaken people’s curiosity, imagination and especially a true sense of justice, equality and human liberation. We have to expose the hidden potential within all human beings. This is the heritage of all people. It can only be achieved by exposing many of the shadowy negative forces and energies that have taken over the operating controls of human destiny.

     The separation, fragmentation and bigotry that subsequently develops as long as we remain unconscious results in the formation of groups that operate primarily on an unconscious level and primarily for reasons of survival. However, given the nature of the dynamics that create these groups in the first place, although they attempt to shield their members from other groups, there is always a domino and totem affect within groups where members overpower those weaker than themselves within the group, either psychically or physically. This is nature’s way in some cases. The problem is that with human beings, given the population of humanity on the Earth today, this primordial way of “surviving” is quite obsolete.

     Under natural conditions and circumstances, evolution is ever expanding. This takes place both horizontally, embracing the collective and lower levels of the human psyche and Earth environment and vertically into the higher realms of psychic potential. The vertical movement is usually initiated by individuals, followed by the rest of the human collective. I am not talking about dictators and leaders in a political sense. I am talking about Galileo’s, Einstein’s, Martin Luther King Jr.’s - leaders of emancipation and spiritual development. I am speaking about revolutionary individual developments in a psychological, cultural and evolutionary sense. We will explore what helps development and what hinders it. We will look at the psychic dynamics of empathic connection and interdependent connection with others and what hinders that from happening. We will look at how all higher development requires an integration and maintenance of all developments that precedes it. Without this maintenance a sort of crumbling takes place individually, collectively, socially and environmentally. 

     We will see that many of the symptoms of this psychic fragmentation are looked upon as the various problems within society and how this can be remedied - especially the problem of these symptoms being looked upon as the causes while the real causes are ignored. For example, as touched on above, even if we don’t consciously acknowledge it, the fact is that everything that occurs within individuals and between individuals is entirely reciprocal and cyclical, whether of health or unhealthy imbalance. We will explore how this reciprocity can be put to productive and creative purposes rather than destructive.

     Solid individual freedom to develop as discreet individual entities is the only way true interdependent and creative reciprocity can take place. Connected interaction has to develop from freedom not coercion, whether it is conscious or unconscious, psychological or physical. This is the true definition of health. Health is also defined by ever increasing levels of consciousness being attained. This recognizes that most of what takes place on the “unconscious” levels of the individual and collective human psyche takes place consciously on a level that most of us have lost contact with. A healthy recognition of the horizontal psychic plane as well as the vertical upward plane and dimension of psychic growth is crucial. Conscious integration of these two dimensions and their dynamics naturally results in optimal health.

     Balance is the important factor to consider in most areas of human activity. Both balance and imbalance are mirrored in healthy and unhealthy worldviews. In the latter case, a conscious worldview may not even be present. Anything taken to an unbalanced extreme will set all the other factors inherent in wholeness off kilter as well. The first casualty in almost all cases of imbalance is a solid and well-grounded consciousness. Separation resulting in nihilism, oppression and narcissistic isolation are consequences of imbalance. We will look at the antidote to this and that is the development of true empathy and compassion.

     One of the symptoms of our materialistic worldview is that, unconsciously, humankind has reached a point where people work to maintain a market driven society that has stopped working for the benefit of most people. In an ego sense this is an expression of is a disempowered humanity working to maintain a lower level, materialistic mindset. Collectively, this mindset has stripped most people of all but a competitive level mentality that keeps most of the world population in a state of psychical and physical survival mode and almost 100% of humankind struggling to maintain some sense of interdependence and dignity, individually and collectively.

     Scientific philosopher Ken Wilber’s concept of holarchy demonstrates quite nicely that in order to evolve upward in an evolutionary sense, people and in fact all life, in virtually all respects, have to maintain an integrated, reciprocal and rooted existence from which they emerged. Holarchy also demonstrates that, although no one perspective has all of the answers and solutions to existence, they are all valid in a partial sense. All of them provide a partial picture of reality but they all have to be looked upon in an integrated and whole context. In order to exist in a healthy, evolving way people have to maintain a psychic, and in extension, physical integration with themselves, with other people and with the whole of their natural environment, both the horizontal Earth plane and the vertical Heavenly plane of existence and potential.

     The existing worldview, from a strictly ego perspective, expressed most completely through materialism, is not possible to maintain indefinitely. Not only does evolution stop, in many cases it goes into regression. Many of the symptoms of this regression we will explore throughout this work. However, the main expression of the subsequent loss of the integration I spoke of above is a world-wide collective competitiveness and bigotry that has stripped most people of any sort of integration of body, mind and spirit. Expressed collectively, it is mirrored within individuals equally. Violence, physically and psychically expressed, is a symptom of the inquisitorial and egotistically repressed soul of humankind and the unconscious rule by a shadow controlled super-ego, in a psychoanalytical sense. We will explore the symptoms of this psychic imbalance in the following chapters.

     The conditioning factors involved in maintaining this mindset, as consistently stressed throughout, are perpetrated primarily unconsciously. The result is that finger pointing and blame cannot really be performed. This repression results in a type of acting and theatrical performance. All finger-pointing would do is exacerbate the situation and is in fact a prime example of the hypocrisy and repression of human reality that precipitated the imbalance in the first place. This is an example of “blaming the victim” that we have to overcome. Having said this, the main question people have to ask themselves is who benefits from what I have been describing? The word, “profits” speaks volumes in looking towards an answer.

     We will see that reductionism will have to be replaced with an appreciation for integration and wholeness at all levels and states of individual and collective development. This is the only way true health can be achieved and maintained - by an appreciation for the quality of human existence rather than a consumerist focus on quantity.

     I mentioned the subsequent hypocrisy and bigotry that result from a world which operates from a primarily ego-perspective. Sadism and masochism, primarily unconsciously motivated, is a widespread phenomena and symptom of the mindset I am talking about. This is a symptom of alienation and lack of integration within individuals and people. It has more of an impact throughout society and the world than most would imagine. What this demonstrates is a type of self-hate that perpetuates the machine-like cycle within a prescriptive world cult-ture.

     When I use the word prescriptive, it denotes a mindset that categorizes and divides everything into parts, assigning people to machine-like roles within society. This is mirrored in psychic development, or lack thereof, within individuals and the human collective. This is the opposite of a proscriptive mindset where people maintain as much of a whole and reciprocal interaction with their environment as possible, in whatever they do, especially work. It is integrative and holistic. These dynamics, both prescriptive and proscriptive, will be explored in depth and within many apparently separate and diverse areas; in apparently different ways in which they are expressed. What I have been describing is very political and it is an understatement to say that in the context that I am saying it, the personal is political.

     I will draw from the wisdom and teachings of both the Eastern and Western areas of the world to demonstrate that the only way to achieve a healthy integration and wholeness is by a psychological process known as centering. This process recognizes both the horizontal plane of existence, as well as the vertical movement of evolution, represented by an integrated individual psyche. This demonstrates recognition of the inter-psychic connection with other people and the larger environment. The vertical plane recognizes the higher potentials of the psyche and is demonstrated by upward movement in evolution of spiritual or conscious development. The first plane is primarily feminine in nature while the second dynamic is primarily masculine. However, both planes have a blend of both energetic patterns. These distinctions have nothing to do with gender. One has to do with embracing and integration: this is feminine. The other dynamic, masculinity, makes this possible by the energetic creation and expression of consciousness. Both energetic dynamics have to be present in a mutually reciprocal way in order for healthy life and existence to be a reality.

     One of the symptoms of a lack of this existential health we will look at is an addictive mindset and tendency within world society and how we are conditioned to it. One of the cruelest expressions of this stunted emotional psychic growth is pedophilia and an obsession with and distortion of a sacred expression of humanity and life - sexuality. In fact, sexuality, or rather, sensuality, is one of the casualties that will be discussed at great length. It is sexuality that has become one of the most obscene ways in which sadism and masochism, on many different levels, is expressed. It is expressed in psychic ways as much as it is in physical ways - in fact more so. This symptomatic tendency has distorted and perverted what should be a most beautiful expression of humankind and human interdependence.

     When we look at the potential of the human psyche we will see it goes far beyond what most people consider realistic. For example, we will look at what used to be known as “female intuition” and how it has become degraded and pathologized into something called paranoia. This is an example of how the human psyche has been mute-lated. It is an example of how an artificially created “pathology” is being used in order to create profits in a materialistic market driven world.

     In looking at the above, we can begin to see the way in which power can be misused. Power must be equated with responsibility, especially when that power involves a potential or in fact contains within it a power differential between the powerful person and other people. This would mean that there is therefore a potential to hold power over other people and misuse that power. The lethal combination in these kinds of situations produces increased egocentricity, cynicism and unconscious hatred on the part of the powerful person.

     In looking at these dynamics we will be looking at the nature of cults. A primary characteristic of cults is one-way control, from the top down. One of the main results of this type of control is dependence and the creation of an addictive personality. The two dynamics are definitely related. In respect of cults or groups, the important dynamic to look at is the one-way flow of control, with a resulting domino-like effect. Society is almost completely comprised and saturated with these dynamics on a continuum ranging from mild to severe. I already mentioned one of the causes creating a “perceived” need to exert illegitimate control: regression.

     The only way to reverse these dynamics is purposeful consciousness raising. This results in increased awareness of what is taking place. These dynamics are present from the family up through to various institutions, national levels of government and now international level organizations, including multinationals.

     When attempting to leave cult-like groups, most unconscious people leave one situation only to go to another cult-like group because of conditioning and familiarity. This is very similar to situations where abused people leave one abusive relationship only to gravitate to similar situations. This dynamic is well documented and researched and hardly requires discussion. All we need look at is situations where battered people in relationships go from one abusive relationship to another.

     People involved in spiritual or psychological occult practices gain power because of increased levels of consciousness. This power can be used to liberate people or to manipulate people. In most occult groups I have been involved with, because of a lack of self-knowledge the people I have witnessed allow ego to interfere and the result is conscious or unconscious manipulation of their environment, including people. Speaking for myself, when I initially became involved in these areas, in addition to reasons related to employment, scholarly and spiritual interests, there were also self-defensive dynamics present, as there are with many people. All of these dynamics occur in most groups, not just the spiritually or psychologically oriented groups, in a relative way. As I said, they occur on a continuum. Remember, the word occult simply refers to “what is hidden” - whatever that knowledge or information may be.

     A symptom of manipulation and control is depression and other so-called mental illnesses. This is because of a resulting draining of masculine or libinal energy, as I will continue to mention repeatedly, and with in-depth analysis of the actual psycho-physiological dynamics. I will discuss many of the very institutions within society that increase these types of dynamics that result in psychic imbalances, while their conscious mandates are to alleviate them. They usually combine their “treatment” with an increase in dependency, which in itself depletes people of energy. In discussing the dynamics in these areas always keep in mind the people involved have been wounded and conditioned themselves, and perpetuate these dynamics unconsciously. Sexual exploitation and the use of sexuality in the manipulation of people can be perpetrated as much on a psychic level as a physical one.

     All forms of dependency, enmeshment and other forms allowing the use of control and manipulation result, on some level on a continuum, in a form of psychic possession. In fact, all forms of conditioning, and this includes a large segment of society, is responsible for doing this sort of thing.

     We can look at the ever-constricting “official” definition of what it means to be normal. When I use the word constricting in this manner, I am referring to the ever-greater tendency to officially increase methods of control over large populations of people. This This then becomes a tool used by various groups in society to categorize and subsequently label and scapegoat people. This does more than simply turn these people into unconscious sacrificial victims. This will also be looked at in greater depth.

     The most sensitive people in society who psychically recognize the above dynamics are quite often labeled mentally ill and are psychically imprisoned and controlled, usually by medication, to avoid any type of attitude changes within society and subsequently any healthy improvements. One of the most prevalent methods used to prevent awareness of these dynamics from becoming known is by making psychically aware people look or in fact become insane. This a tool used to make these realities look like psychotic or delusional hallucinations. This is the main way society’s awareness of the realities of manipulation and population control are kept under lock and key (pun intended).

     Energy draining related to sexual exploitation and the resulting ability to manipulate is one of the main reasons sexual exploitation is used and is perpetrated by weak and wounded people. This is one of society’s most widespread and horrendous methods of exploitation and control. I will not explain these dynamics in any detail here. However, I will give one other very obvious example. In Hollywood Satanic cults, that is, in ones which operate on a conscious level although behind closed doors, there is one characteristic way they keep people from escaping from the cult. Cult members are usually ones that hold positions of power and influence within society. Even if they don’t hold high positions of power and influence, when someone tries to escape, they are powerful enough to make the stories told by people who try to escape look unbelievable, and the person telling them look crazy. The escapees are usually powerless young people. What the person has experienced is usually so horrendous, sometimes and usually, the cult members have no difficulty in making the person telling of these experiences look crazy. These victims are then re-victimized by other people or institutions, and sometimes by cult members in these institutions. I will expand upon these dynamics in reference to both Hollywood cults and true Satanic cults that operate almost exclusively on the unconscious or subconscious realms of the psyche.

     In looking at these nasty tendencies within the psyches of people, being consciously aware of the whole self or psyche is the only way to not realize the lesser admirable, possibly deeply repressed aspects and dynamics of an individual. Hollywood or “open” style Satanic cults do consciously what most of society does unconsciously. This is accomplished by a collective super-ego that is controlled and dominated by a shadow infested collective psyche operating primarily from the lower - ego and below - levels of the psyche. This is especially true of angry energies and angry people who add to or allow themselves to be caught in these areas. As mentioned above, this is why anyone getting involved with openly “spiritual” occult practices must be aware of themselves as much as possible. This can otherwise allow wounded people to become or remain perpetrators and continue to commit crimes against other people.

     There are some groups of people this applies to more than others and I will explore some of these groups. However, in all cases it is important for people to use some common sense and to ask questions for themselves. When these dynamics are not consciously made aware, people end up doing the very things they condemn in others without being aware of their own hypocrisy. As most psychologists and people who work with other people, especially survivors, know, if a person responds to situations with anger, this will usually indicate a degree of guilt in whatever the situation represents. Nature meant anger to be a short-term emotional reaction to impel someone into action; if hung onto it quickly becomes hate. In more developed people, through the development of discipline, emotions such as anger are by-passed. In these cases, as soon as these emotions stir within they are recognized, immediately refined and redirected upwards into the areas of the higher functioning areas of the whole psychic system. This is what Eastern disciplines and traditions such as the various forms of martial arts teach, as an example.

     In looking at the darker aspects of groups, cults and human behavior, in the occult repertoire of terms, one aspect of “black magic” is the draining of the masculine or libinal energy. In using common sense and asking questions, I will leave it up to the people to verify this for them-selves, after reviewing much of the information encountered throughout this presentation. A deficiency or imbalance of masculine or feminine energies, frequently a result of conditioning and trauma, will usually put in place or perpetuate the above-mentioned dynamics.

     If people scoff at the realities that I am referring to, all I ask is that they consider the things I will be discussing seriously. Everything I speak about is supported by thousands of years of knowledge. In addition to modern scientific support, I have no doubt that most of the activities referred to will reverberate with almost everyone. I ask people to monitor their responses as they read this presentation. If they are honest with themselves what they experience will speak volumes.

     In looking at these dynamics and how unconscious dynamics are activated or deactivated, we will look at rituals and their use. There are rituals that can be consciously performed. However, just about every aspect and level of human activity involves the activation of psychic energies and realities by ritual. Ritual, through the use of symbols, the parallels between physical and conscious activity and resulting movements within activate the deeper areas and contents of the inner psyche. Symbols activate aspects of the psyche we would not usually be aware of. Ritual can either be used to unite humanity or to separate them. We will look at both types of these dynamics.