Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic - Peter J. Carroll 2000

Anontology I Non-Being

For those who would take the short and dangerous path to Chaoist Anti-Ontology.

NOTHING HAS BEING

Adjust your mind; you have a serious fault in the linguistic programmes which structure your thought, which can halve your effective intelligence.

You might need a microscope or some particle physics equipment, but take a close look at anything and you will see that it constantly does things. Nothing just sits still in a state of being.

Everything has to keep moving and changing, if only by spinning internally, otherwise it wouldn’t exist at all.

Exactly the same applies to humans and their minds.

You can never occupy a state of being.

Commentary 44

Attempt to describe ’being’ and you can only actually describe doing.

We observe only ’doing’. We never observe ’being’, ’existence’ or ’essence’.

All phenomena, ourselfs included, consist of processes, not of ’things’ performing processes. Language lets us down badly.

The false concept of ’being’ acts as a word virus, scrambling our thoughts, for nothing consists of other than what it does. I think, therefore I think that I think, nothing more!

The word virus “I am” lies at the root of the mental diseases we call religion.

“I am that I am,” said Moshe, speaking amongst himselfs as Jehova: thus making four mistakes simultaneously. You cannot achieve a state of ’being’. But you can achieve a surprising choice of states of doing.

Nothing ’is’ anything else; although many events resemble or look like others. Every use of the word ’is’ conceals a loss of information and a reinforcement of narrow views and prejudice.