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Dr. Hyatt Interview: Our Final Analysis
Gents,
The final analysis of the Hyatt interview we've been looking at is now up.
As I note in the video, I've started another run with "the work" after many years, although I have utilised exercises specifically for different things since "completion". Of course, there is no actual completion, and the work never ends until you're brown bread.
It's been interesting to start to run through it formally and completely and integrate many of the things I've learned since. So this won't be the end of the road for this subject for the bio-individual cast.
As mentioned in one of the podcasts, I tried to move away from this kind of thing for many years, into other areas. I attempted to move away from philosophical points of view, or the philosophical implications of the work.
Looking at traditionalism, religions of various forms, or Western philosophy, Paganism, Historical issues. In a sad attempt to find a way to ascribe some higher worth to sapiens than what the work implied to me. When doing it on myself and noticing what was happening.
Was there something other than the default mode of nest, digest and congest? A series of behaviours to which we ascribe undue virtue. As if they're works of spectacular originality. I tried to find something to restore some semblance of hope for something greater.
Well, time and age have taught me, at least, that the good doctor was very much correct in many of his more nihilistic assumptions. Many of the things pursued honoured none of the promises they pledged. Many (not all) people I met in all the fields above, spouting ways or methods for purity were generally unimpressive and usually hypocrites. I always found that they were covering for something. They never seemed interested in applying the tradition to themselves full and completely. They were always interested in the rules.
They brandished it more as a slingshot in which they could sling shit at other people that didn't measure up to their mental abstractions. Despite this often being funny, it is all just simian sounds, and in the end, they followed the same patterns as any old shithead you come across.
This was not always the case; I've also met some great people going down these paths, many I call friends; this is a general comment that is generally true.
And so, coming back to it all recently has made many things obvious to me now that were not so obvious in my younger, more idealistic years.
I am now really sick of people thinking something, usually just having thoughts built on anxiety and fear and resentment, and then using that to determine that they’re superior to everyone that doesn’t have those same thoughts. I’ve had enough of that for several life times.
And this is what almost all human interaction online or elsewhere seems to be these days. I sick of the moral plays. The hystericism and strong desire to condemn everything. The sickening empty appeals to morality and “safety for all” mentality, replete in our collective unconsciousness.
As Dr. Hyatt would say, humans are “Hypocrites, hypocrites, hypocrites”. And I guess that’s why his work never really caught on.
As a collective animal, species or whatever, we have serious problems. They are probably unfixable problems. Although I'm tempted to lean against the benevolence of nature in ensuring that the lowest elements of the species cannot proliferate and thrive in the long term, I simply can't shake the feeling that this may not happen.
It's possible that the lowest qualities set into a kind of primitive stasis could prove very stubborn. All those who dared for something more and predicted it may be completely mistaken. A rather sad potential fate that men like Hyatt and Nietzsche have no qualms bout shoving into our hostile little faces as a real possibility.
I consider myself a hard worker and quite open. I'm open about my own shortcomings because, in this work, I've found critical analysis is key to making any progress. There is no possibility of self-transcendence without honest self-assessment. This goes for the religious, philosophical or anyone involved in anything.
I've seen that, despite this attitude, how effortless it can be to fall prey to all sorts of dead ends and false starts. So I often think:
"If it was this difficult for someone of my disposition, how the hell can I expect anything like this to work on any meaningful scale?"
So I can see why someone like Hyatt would suggest that the only thing that will work is cataclysm or planetary migration, where natural forces can impose themselves again and spur selective pressures.
While it is true that the real power of this work is instrumental in transmuting the individual, it nevertheless still raises interesting questions about the destiny of humans as a collective.
Are we an evolutionary cul-de-sac? Will planetary expansion force harsh natural selection again? Will we dysgenically breed and whittle ourselves away into bored and inconsequential insignificance, before a comet strikes us out and the surface ore we were destined to provide for the next thing takes hold?
What can be done to arrest the descent into stifling ugliness? I'm afraid I have no real answers.
I do like Hyatt's idea that, in a perverse sense, the dinosaur had to make way for the automobile...
And in due course, we will make way for some other form. Forms to come. He says that nature demands forms to come. I hope he's right. The last time I bandied around this concept in reply to a Nick Land tweet, it was surprising and amusing how few people understood what was being pointed to with this statement.
This being the case or not, here are a few news items:
We are delighted to announce that Nick Tharcher, Owner & Director of Original Falcon Publications and long-time friend of Dr Hyatt, will be coming on the show to speak about many of these issues and maybe some things about Dr Hyatt himself, his thoughts and views.
We are also engaging in a project with Original Falcon to edit and release some old seminar material that has never been seen before. We want to use clips for our own analysis on the podcast to visually assist practitioners with the work. I'm told there is some precious information in there.
We will also be having one of Dr Hyatt's direct students soon. More on that later.
We will have another informal shit-talk episode coming mid-week. And another next weekend. End of the month, I will be on Zen Sesshin and out of action for a while. We hope to return to regular programming after that, going into June.
In case, wishing you all well for the weekend and as usual, we appreciate your likes and comments or suggestions to improve the content. The engagement helps as we build a community for serious practitioners.
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