08-06-2009, 07:16 PM
Jan, you'll remember a post here on the forum which repeated comments made by Old Mother Hubbard's son who stated that his dad was into occult focused S & M because certain occult practices of extreme pain and abuse create a sort of power focus or surge (I forget the exact words but this is what he was saying in point of fact).
It might be of interest to note that Franz Anton Mesmer, regarded as the originator of hypnosis (Mesmerism) was a Freemason. For his theory, Mesmer drew on Newton's ideas that there were tides in the human body that were influenced by the Moon and planets.
But I'm quite certain that exerting influence over others via hypnosis has far deeper and far, far older occult roots.
And as you know the whole background of mind control stems from techniques based on hypnotic induction. If memory serves David Ferrie was a skilled hypnotist and gay and a paedophile.
Them thar traveling Bishops eh.
I am not one of those who have a very high regard for sex as a means of attaining Nirvana. I would argue that this is "low" technique - a power/control energizer if you will. "Higher" techniques focus entirely on the alchemical marriage of the opposites that is the raw matter of the human psyche.
My guess is that Kubrick was speaking of these matters from the perspective of power and control.
I often think of the film Matrix and the analogy of humans being batteries of energy for the wicked world of machines.
It might be of interest to note that Franz Anton Mesmer, regarded as the originator of hypnosis (Mesmerism) was a Freemason. For his theory, Mesmer drew on Newton's ideas that there were tides in the human body that were influenced by the Moon and planets.
But I'm quite certain that exerting influence over others via hypnosis has far deeper and far, far older occult roots.
And as you know the whole background of mind control stems from techniques based on hypnotic induction. If memory serves David Ferrie was a skilled hypnotist and gay and a paedophile.
Them thar traveling Bishops eh.
I am not one of those who have a very high regard for sex as a means of attaining Nirvana. I would argue that this is "low" technique - a power/control energizer if you will. "Higher" techniques focus entirely on the alchemical marriage of the opposites that is the raw matter of the human psyche.
My guess is that Kubrick was speaking of these matters from the perspective of power and control.
I often think of the film Matrix and the analogy of humans being batteries of energy for the wicked world of machines.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14