Undoing Yourself With Energized Meditation and Other Devices (Paperback)

~ Christopher Hyatt (Author)
Key Phrases: Golden Dawn, Frater Albertus, Israel Regardie (more...)

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"I recommend it enthusiastically and without any reservations. It is the answer to the frustration felt by those who have tried other systems and failed. However, I do warn the reader: if you don't really want to change, don't take this book seriously." -- Israel Regardie

"Undoing Yourself is the latest attempt by the Illuminati Conspiracy to reveal all the hither-to-hidden teachings of the Secret Chiefs and allow every man and woman to become a star. With the present conditions of this planet, I think it is necessary that this information be released at this time, and I congratulate the publisher for having the courage to let the cat out of the bag with such a loud meow! Of course, most people will think this book is only a joke. That's the biggest joke of all!" -- Robert Anton Wilson of Illuminati fame

The Energized Meditation system is fun and erotic and makes you smarter. -- Israel Regardie

Undoing Yourself is the latest attempt by the Illuminati Conspiracy to reveal the hitherto hidden teachings. -- Robert Anton Wilson

Product Description

Within these pages you will find innumerable practical techniques to transform your life, served up with a large dose of humor and the stick of the Zen Roshi. Who hates Undoing? Stuffed-shirt academicians, do-nothing sweetness-and-light practitioners of cosmic foo-foo, and would-be slave-owners everywhere. On the other hand, if you are interested in actually accomplishing something, you will love it.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: New Falcon Publications; 6th/rev edition (June 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561840572
• ISBN-13: 978-1561840571
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #29,965 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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98 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not your typical fluffy new age self-help book., April 30, 2001

By	P. Church (San Francisco,CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

No book on meditation does any good, of course, unless you do the meditations themselves. I've never seen any other book on meditation, though, where the exercises were so plainly and clearly laid out. Also, the meditation style is radically different from more passive and less effective forms of meditation such as the transcendental variety, and I suspect that is due to the author's background in Reichian psychology with its emphasis on "muscular armoring." Essentially, instead of working on your brain first, the "Energized Meditation" in this book seeks to get at the mind/body connection by working on your body. Negative thought manifests itself by creating muscular blocks to the flow of energy in your body, and the exercises in this book help undo those blocks. Thus, the exercises in this book are exactly that: exercises. The combination of breathing and movement are extremely simple and easy to follow, yet the effects are so profound that you must experience them to believe them. If you've ever heard the concept "your mind can achieve the same effects as drugs without the drugs" and wondered if that was hyperbole, just try out this book and see. This book will change your life if you let it. I guess I should mention the changes--more energy, increased sense of optimism, reduction of worry freedom from neurotic attachment to dogma, and possibly a sense of humor about the human condition. As for the book itself, don't let the pages of bizarre "Discordian" and counter culture humor designed to test your addiction to dogmas put you off. The book itself may not be for everyone, but the exercises truly are. Additionally, the introduction by Robert Anton Wilson is alone worth the price of this book--its one of the best essay's of his career, and one of the best summary's of the delusion of Western thought in regards to Free Will I've ever read. Buy this mind altering book, but don't let the DEA know--they may kick in your skull and confiscate your brain: as it turns out, your mind is the greatest mind altering substance of all.

32 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Effective for Those Who Desire to be Effected, March 19, 2005

By	Jason (Granada Hills, CA United States) - See all my reviews

Things you should know:

1)This is not some new age technique; there are NO feel-good meditations to be found here. This book is intended to drag you, kicking and screaming, to your own destruction. You will not enjoy many of the techniques; change is painful.

2)It helps to be familiar with a system of magick (namely Golden Dawn or Thelema). It HELPS, it is not necessary. The book will not encourage you in any way to be a part of any order or group.

3)You don't have to believe everything in this book. In fact, if you do you've probably missed the point entirely.

4)You are wasting your time reading these reviews. It is irrelevant to you whether myself or others felt liberated or disgusted (or both) by this book. If you think it sounds interesting: buy it. Find out for yourself.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars * regarding the recent ninth edition *, May 26, 2002

By	Author Brian Wallace (Mind Transmission, Inc.) (Texas) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Undoing Yourself is a frolicking and at times penetrating look into the traps of mind that keep people repressed and constrained. Unlike typical "self-help" books that rely on traditional methods to gradually attempt to move you toward a greater level of psychological health, Undoing sets up a crafty, experiential web of mind tricks that seem designed and effective at tripping you into better understanding. Akin to Zen koans, these are modern powers of suggestion at times powerfully disarming and highly amusing.

Falcon preserves the original essence of the earlier editions and includes updated pages by Hyatt and peers. These updated pages, which include commentary on such recent events as 9/11, somehow flow seamlessly from their predecessors and also lend variety by including the voices of others.

Some do not realize that in addition to excelling in the realms of psychology and literary ventures, Hyatt is an extremely talented visual artist who uses this ability to give flesh to the ideas in this book. There are many pages of captivating images that help elucidate the points in humorous and McLuhan-esque ways.

On the practical side, for under twenty bucks you really get a lot of pages of beautiful madness. This book should rattle your cage, force your nervous system into heavy-duty self-analysis, and quite possibly create the most beneficial intellectual upheaval possible - one that empowers you to really start being yourself and enjoying life!