Peter J. Carroll
"There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful psychological techniques. There is nothing about oneself which cannot be taken away or changed. The proper stimuli can, if correctly applied, turn communists into fascists, saints into devils, the meek into heroes, and vice-versa. There is no sovereign sanctuary within ourseles which represents our real nature. There is nobody at home in the internal fortress. Everything we cherish as our ego, everything we believe in, is just what we have cobbled together out of the accident of our birth and subsequent experiences. With drugs, brainwashing, and other techniques of extreme persuasion, we can quite readily make a man a devotee of a different ideology, the patriot of a different country, or the follower of a different religion."
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"There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful psychological techniques. There is nothing about oneself which cannot be taken away or changed. The proper stimuli can, if correctly applied, turn communists into fascists, saints into devils, the meek into heroes, and vice-versa. There is no sovereign sanctuary within ourseles which represents our real nature. There is nobody at home in the internal fortress. Everything we cherish as our ego, everything we believe in, is just what we have cobbled together out of the accident of our birth and subsequent experiences. With drugs, brainwashing, and other techniques of extreme persuasion, we can quite readily make a man a devotee of a different ideology, the patriot of a different country, or the follower of a different religion."
"ما من معتقد يخص المرء ذاته إلا ويمكن تعديله بتقنيات نفسية بالغة التأثير. ولا شيء في كيانه لا يمكن نزعه أو تبديله. فالمؤثرات الصحيحة، متى ما وُظفت بدقة، قادرة على قلب الشيوعيين فاشيين، والقديسين شياطين، والودعاء أبطالاً، والعكس بالعكس. لا حصن منيع في أعماقنا يمثل طبيعتنا الأصيلة. لا ساكن في القلعة الداخلية. فكل ما نعدّه ذاتنا، وكل ما نؤمن به، ليس سوى نسيجٍ حاكته صدفة ميلادنا وتجاربنا المتعاقبة. وبالعقاقير وغسيل الدماغ وغيرهما من أساليب الإقناع القسري، يمكننا بسهولة تامة أن نصنع من المرء تابعاً لإيديولوجية مغايرة، أو وطنياً لبلد آخر، أو معتنقاً لدين مختلف."
Peter J. Carroll
"(Q: From an outsider’s perspective, what you call “chaos magick” has a lot of rules, discipline, and order involved, and doesn’t seem very chaotic at all. What would you say to such a person?)A: I differentiate sternly between Chaos and Entropy. Only highly ordered and structured systems can display complex creative and unpredictable behaviour, and then only if they have the capacity to act with a degree of freedom and randomness. Systems which lack structure and organisation usually fail to produce anything much, they just tend to drift down the entropy gradient. This applies both to people and to organisations."
Peter J. Carroll
"There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful psychological techniques. There is nothing about oneself which cannot be taken away or changed. The proper stimuli can, if correctly applied, turn communists into fascists, saints into devils, the meek into heroes, and vice-versa. There is no sovereign sanctuary within ourseles which represents our real nature. There is nobody at home in the internal fortress. Everything we cherish as our ego, everything we believe in, is just what we have cobbled together out of the accident of our birth and subsequent experiences. With drugs, brainwashing, and other techniques of extreme persuasion, we can quite readily make a man a devotee of a different ideology, the patriot of a different country, or the follower of a different religion."
Peter J. Carroll
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