The season of maturity and wisdom; of crisp air, falling leaves, and of harvesting deeds sowed.
So to commemorate, here is one of my favorite poems by Yeats...
The Wild Swans at Coole by WB Yeats
The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine-and-fifty swans.
The nineteenth autumn has come upon me
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings.
I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.
Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old;
Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
Attend upon them still.
But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful;
Among what rushes will they build,
By what lake's edge or pool
Delight men's eyes when I awake some day
To find they have flown away?
Satanism in general is a philosophy that discourages false equality. Not everything is equal, some are better than others. Fred is smarter than Greg, but Lucy is smarter than Fred, and Greg is a lot stronger than either of them. People are different, unique, and for the most part inherently unequal in certain categories. Satanism, in general, will acknowledged this, and discourage false equivalency between people who are not equal in a given area.
Why, then, are we so tolerant of the notion that ideas are equal?
There are many cases when we are too quick to jump to the conclusion that two competing ideas are somehow on equal footing, and must be given equal consideration. This is a cancerous, poisonous trend that we should be careful to avoid. We need to realize that yes, you can indeed be wrong.
Define wrong? By wrong, I mean demonstrably, proveably, completely wrong. When the overwhelming majority of evidence weighs against an idea, it is wrong. When all logical arguments point to the invalidity of an idea, it is wrong. When something just is not factually correct, it is wrong. It doesn’t matter that it being wrong offends you, or implies something unpleasant, or that it hurts something. What is wrong is simply wrong. No amount of being offended or petulant whining will change that. This does not apply to abstract ideas, where there is plenty of logical wiggle room, or philosophical ponderings, or where the evidence is anything but overwhelmingly conclusive. Within the realm of thoughts and opinions, it is hard to pin anything down as being demonstrably wrong. You can disagree with them; that does not mean they are wrong. But where facts and evidence come into play, it is much more often cut and dry. If you are wrong, then you are simply wrong.
An example: The recent shitstoem over vaccinations. Now, I don’t know your position on vaccinating children. I don’t really care. What should be clear, however, is that there is an overwhelming scientific consensus: Vaccinations do not cause any significant harm to those who are vaccinated. Vaccines do not cause autism. Some previously suppressed diseases have begun to re-emerge, thanks in large part to the growing trend of parents refusing to vaccinate their children. Not vaccinating your child puts them directly at risk of contracting contagious diseases. Now, notice how each of those sentences ended with a period. They were not qualified, they were not compromised, they were absolute. That is because each of those statements is a fact. Thus, the anti-vaccination position, unless it condones the act of putting children at risk, and has a decidedly pro-polio agenda, is quite simply wrong. They are wrong. Demonstrably, they are wrong. Thus, these ideas should be tossed out without further examination. They should get no platform on which to spread their ignorance. They do not belong on the same stage as properly debatable ideas, or on any stage where facts and evidence come into play.
Now, that is just an example, but the problem should be made clear. When unequal ideas are made equal, it is immensely more harmful and more absurd than the equal treatment of unequal people. With this in mind, be sure to examine your ideas, and examine the ideas of others. Forever seek the truth. When dealing with reality, let logic guide your scrutinizing eye. When the wrong and factually incorrect try to seek equal treatment, demand to be given the same voice as the factual, put your foot down, and do not let ignorance advance any further.
Because yes, you can be wrong. And, when you’re wrong you’re wrong, and you should be told so.
Sleeping and dreaming in this miserable darkness make up.
Certain for sure of empty congregational movements along the river bed.
Some still steal looks, pain is the reason for cowards beliefs.
Are you bold enough to be a coward like me?
None to guide my way in this hasty dusty tunnel to the underground.
Where I write my post it notes and farewells to those I've long since noticed have left.
Poetry is but the long hoped for excuse of wanting to be alone.
Cover my face with sunlight, burning greatness at the weakness in me.
Rattling bones as I close in on myself.
She was just the We in Because not needed.
I waited for Your sign in the night skies along the tree lines just like old times.
Times times and half a time, need not be does it matter ?
Dru
Khandnalie
Dan Slaughter
Kenneth Tabor
Everdina KloosThanks for being part of the team.
I'd really like to throw this one into the mix, described to me as Weird Science but with the Devil instead of a cute broad being summoned from a nerd's computer - Stars Clint Howard as a bullied geek who wreaks havok via a supercompuer, it was banned in the UK by Maggie Thatcher in her war on so-called Video Nasties, at the time Maggie was palling around with Jimmy Savile and screwing the miners.
From a thinkers & writers perspective
Since people here seem to post their experiences and thoughts I thought it is about time I started posting mine too.
I was indoctrinated to be religious for most of my life. Unlike others I already used to start thinking with my logical perspective. Why things should be as they dictated and so on. Up until the moment was about seven years of age I never had a care in the world except seeking to do what was right and trying to reason out things and of course doing my best to please my family.
My biggest pitfall came at around the age of seven when I lost someone. He was the last person I thought I would loose, I prayed to 'God' desperately to bring him back to me, as my family told me it was the only thing I could do....well I was wrong. I concluded that if God really cared, the God they preached to me about then he would have never allowed it.
I was torn and tormented bound by a promise I had made to him before his death that I intended ( and still do) to maintain. But I didn't know evil marked, I was so enveloped in my own misery my key point was solely - survival. How it mattered was of little importance to me.
I met someone a few years later, someone who was at my father's funeral, someone who knew what I had been through, someone who knew my mother from an early age, someone who bought my families trust and loyalty, someone who would change life's meaning and someone who destroyed me in most ways I thought were impossible - Ironically enough, he was supposed to be a man of God, however weakened by his own obsessions.
I was ten. I didn't know much about life, nor the world, my family kept me innocent, pure and uncorrupted. I had to go to secondary school and go to PSD classes to actually understand 'something' of what was really going on.
I became a rebel. I tormented anyone who dared to oppose me, I stood up to my bullies. If I got slapped, I wouldn't make a whole scene of it I would just accept it and move on. It urged my bullies to go on but they never had the essence to really break me.
Whilst I was tormented and living in my dark and twisted little world, I even laughed at my friends because they were viewed as pathetic in my eyes. Pathetic because of their innocence.
However, I did have a very close friend. She never pressed me for what was going on with me, her simple friendly gestures just grounded me. They gave me a reason to not be completely corrupted and devoured by the darker side of me.
Now one would ask me. Why didn't you talk ask for help? He was a man of God. He knew what he was doing because he never left enough bodily proof of what he did to me, he never allowed himself to do that mistake. My family looked at him as though he was almost their savior and there was little I could do, especially because he sad if I talked he would take everything I ever loved. My mother being one of them. He also worked within the higher ranks of the Church the Church was regarded almost higher than law back then. Fear when dominant can lead you to conceal anything -so long as it allows you to protect those who you love and care for.
When I was thirteen the frustration, tension, emotional and psychological chaos began getting at me. My religious faith went down to zero. I challenged anyone who dared to prove me otherwise. I met a fair few decent people but it never inspired me enough to radically change. Darkness got a hold of itself and I began actually practicing it, looking for it's deeper meaning and indulging in things barely any teenager should ever do.
Me and a few friends decided to play the Ouija board and I laughed all the way telling them it was amusing how imagination could evoke such interesting things thus turning them into reality. Nah. That was not what I was looking for, but it opened my mind to start searching and likewise I did.
But whilst I was searching, the key came to me. Someone handed me Anton Szanzor LaVey's Satanic Bible and I knew it would change me in more than one way.
But I was still interested in the spiritualistic aspects of it so I investigated deeper into occultism.
By the time I was fifteen I was so dark, tormented and depressed I barely cared for my own existence any longer. I just did what I had to, to survive and I did what I could to keep my promise.
Obviously I built my own standards and belief, doubted in almost everything and didn't care much for anything or anyone. I had had more than enough by then.
Luckily I never resorted to the use of drugs. But I did get drunk a few times just to get rid of some memories that were haunting me.
I had migraines almost all the time, people thought I was making it up no one made an effort to understand me, so instead of opening up and trying to find a solution I literally closed down.
From the moment I was sixteen up until I was seventeen I met someone who inspired me enough to divert my route of choice. I tried, I did it to the best of my abilities. I became Christian again, I read the bible, prayed and was pretty much ok with what was going on even though judgment from my family did not help me much.
I was definitely much happier, people who knew me asked me what the hell happened to me, because the spark of radiance, love and joy was there. They didn't see the darker side of me that they were so accustomed to.
I stripped away all objects related to occultism , evil and Satanism I chose God iin my life, I even baptized myself in his name to confirm it and I lived his word to the best, attended charismatic services, helped and prayed with others...
But clearly there was something that wasn't balanced. There was something that wanted to remind me who I was what I REALLY was, and that I actually belonged to darkness.
The experience as horrific as much as it was enlightening, up unto this day after consulting with experts AND researching non stop I'm not fully sure what it was, no was I alone.I've witnesses to this story but that is up to you to believe not for me to indoctrinate you about it. I know it changed, me once again. I began doubting in everything I was taught, my rebel nature began to kick in again, and I was returning back to the person I originally was.
Now because I unluckily have what we all 'repressed memory' I have only flashes of what actually occurred to me. What I concluded was that I was all mind generated that it was a mental breakdown because of the confusion going n my mind between choosing the path of darkness or the path of light. Clearly God wasn't there in all the suffering and pain I had to endue and inflict on others unintentionally. I'm not proud of it, but I'm glad to say that I rose up from my own ashes, from the dust I myself created and resurfaced as something stronger, something more real, with a story to share and with a lesson to teach.
Today I can say I'm free. I'm an atheist that built her own philosophy and belief based on knowledge and past experience.
I favor logic and knowledge over spirituality and useless trifling methods to lead oneself into possible insanity. I thrive for knowledge learn and exchange experiences with others.
Last and foremost -I believe in myself and what I allowed myself to be.
Vampira
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“can you make me a list of good, knowledgeable left-hand path *satanic* books?”
Just received this Facebook DM a moment ago.
To me,
this is a very PROFOUND question;
one that goes WAY beyond any “list” I could possibly make.
CAN- are you able to?
YOU- me, my rational self: objective and subjective.
MAKE- manifest, conjure, create, communicate.
ME- My target audience, a Facebook friend with his own ideas, beliefs, etc…
A LIST- a compilation of books leading to enlightenment for him, my target audience.
GOOD- well written, authoritative, definitive.
LEFT HAND PATH- definition of which would be his
SATANIC- of or pertaining to satan.
Implied in his question:
can you make me a list which if I read it will give me what I am TRULY seeking:
XXXX?
XXXX being HIS personal definition of enlightenment.
XXXX- money, power, sex, etc…
My answer: YES.
BECAUSE I”M THE FUCKING BALLS.
But,
if YOU want MY LIST,
it’s gonna come with some explanation,
otherwise,
the LIST in itself will do YOU no good.
Where to begin?
When I was in high school,
I joined the wrestling team.
One of the first moves all wrestlers learn:
the half nelson.
A half nelson is an effective way of turning an opponent onto his back.
Excitedly we learned the move,
and used the move.
Then,
we learned how to counter the half nelson;
(it’s easy to counter.)
As a result,
a half nelson became a move that was only effective against someone inexperienced;
useless against an experienced opponent.
Many wrestlers give up on the half nelson.
I never did;
made it work fairly well.
In my second year I learned how to wrestle freestyle.
High school wrestling is folkstyle,
freestyle is another form,
slightly more dangerous.
I wanted to learn freestyle primarily because it gave me competition in the off season.
Anyway-
I had a new mentor,
this old bastard named Joe.
Joe:
crusty old guy,
tough as nails,
mean as a snake.
In his youth he had gone to the olympics.
During the first day of practice,
he wanted to show us how to do a half nelson.
Many laughed.
Everyone in the room was experienced,
most in the gym had given up on the move.
Although no one said it,
publicly,
many in the room felt the half nelson a WORTHLESS move.
Joe: “Why did you laugh?”
A kid named Sean replied,
“I think everyone laughed because we all know the half nelson;
it doesn’t work.”
Joe: “Let me show you how to make it work.”
Joe proceeded to demonstrate his VARIATION of the power half nelson…
Joe: “The way to make a half nelson work is with pain.
If your opponent feels physical pain,
they will BEND to your will.”
Joe demonstrated how to get leverage on the opponent;
to put so much PRESSURE on an opponent’s head and neck:
they had no choice but to turn, (YIELD).
So…
in that spirit,
the spirit of giving you something you can actually fucking USE,
something that actually fucking WORKS,
I give you MY list.
But,
wait a minute.
I skipped a step.
You see I could give you a list,
and all the reasons why,
BUT,
if you don’t trust ME,
don’t feel I’m an AUTHORITY,
my list won’t work for you.
Who the FUCK am I?
http://youtu.be/w4Pu_JuPILw
I’m THAT guy.
I earned a bunch of money using “satanic” knowledge.
Why am I telling you this?
To impress you?
IDGAF about impressing you.
Who the fuck are you?
My goal in writing this is for SELFISH reasons.
You see,
i’ve made my money;
I’m fucking set.
I’ve got my pussy;
in abundance,
on tap.
ANYTHING I desire:
I create,
conjure,
manifest with ease.
My SELFISH goals:
1. To help YOU make it to the next level.
Why?
Because that makes my dick hard,
to see someone put my knowledge to their benefit makes me happy.
2. To become a SUCCESSFUL author.
Last month over 1000 copies of my books were downloaded,
I want more.
If I can help you,
even for FREE,
you WILL help me.
3. To create something I’m proud of,
a blog post that hopefully you read and benefits others.
Wait a minute.
Hold on.
I can hear some of you mumbling,
“You don’t sound Satanic.”
Really?
Why did Lavey write HIS book?
Open up HIS church?
What is SATANIC?
My definition:
“Satanic”:
knowledge,
for the purpose of making yourself more POWERFUL.
=
“Rational Selfishness” as codified by Ayn Rand in The Virtue of Selfishness.
In essence,
the core of Satanic thought:
that which benefits the self.
So,
from this BASE,
what are the best SATANIC books?
Sure,
I could talk about books on majik,
usually written by lunatics and drug addicts.
Certainly,
if you want to be like them,
there’s the door,
don’t let it hit you on the vagina on the way out.
Am I saying to only read books by people whom you want to EMULATE?
NO.
BUT,
success leaves clues,
as does failure.
When you read anyone’s work,
keep your BRAIN ON,
if it makes sense:
try it.
If it works:
use it.
If you want SUCCESS:
MONEY,
POWER,
SEX,
the DESIRES of your heart;
let me SUGGEST another "satanic" LIST.
The first book I’d suggest is:
The Tao of Jeet Kune Do.
This is a book about martial arts,
BUT,
it’s also a philosophy about the quest for ENLIGHTENMENT.
The thesis:
Do not be afraid to look anywhere for knowledge.
Learn ALL you can,
accept what WORKS for YOU.
if you apply THIS THESIS to ANYTHING you will become a MASTER,
AN INNOVATOR.
If you wanted to teach someone how to fight,
what would be your first lesson?
Imagine it.
What would your first class look like?
Now imagine your first day of class,
Jonah Hill,
the fat one in Superbad shows up:
did you prepare the right lesson?
Obviously,
a fat,
out of shape,
white bread,
Twinkie eating ball of mush REQUIRES a different lesson,
than someone who’s big and strong,
or,
short and fast.
Once you accept that mastery REQUIRES carving your OWN path,
finding your OWN way,
then,
I’d suggest reading the following with a CRITICAL eye.
To repeat:
When you read ANYONE’S work,
keep your BRAIN ON,
if it makes sense:
try it.
If it works:
use it.
To finish my introductory list of SATANIC books,
I’d suggest reading ALL the following:
Ayn Rands works:
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
The Virtue of Selfishness
Anthem
This is the core of OBJECTIVISM,
the philosophy of SELFISHNESS.
Then,
to finish off my list:
The Richest Man In Babylon.
Think and Grow Rich.
Rich Dad Poor Dad.
How to Win Friends and Influence People.
The Greatest Salesman in the World.
Anthony Robbins Personal Power 2.
To me,
this is a good STARTING point.
See where it leads.
PS: I've written "SATANIC" books as well.
All scientific research taken as a whole is an attempt to reverse engineer the universe.
REVERSE ENGINEERING: BLACK BOXES 101
Reverse engineering, as you might suspect, is the reverse of engineering.
Engineering is the art and science of creating something which performs a function: you need to hold up the weight of a bridge so you engineer a column with the right width and depth to hold the weight you need at the proper height.
Reverse engineering is the art and science of determining the structure which performs a function: you see the the bridge, know that something needs to hold it up, then look below and lo and behold there's a column. ( If you were monkey-wrenching, you'd then proceed to blow it up and see if the bridge comes down, but that's another post. )
There are two flavors of reverse engineering -- 'open box' and 'black box'.
Open box reverse engineering is where you can see directly see the structure, either by looking directly at it or by having some other kind of direct perception -- a microscope, radio telescope, fMRI -- you get the picture.
In this kind of reverse engineering, you can just observe whatever it is in action and if necessary do some simple tinkering directly with it's structure to figure out how it works.
Black box reverse engineering refers to working with structure you can't see and have to work with it indirectly. (And this, my friends, is where it starts to get really fun. )
The academic black box is just a black box with any number of inputs and any number of outputs, usually pictured like this:
Inputs ---> [Black Box] ---> Outputs
In this post, I'm going to cover some well known black boxes which have only outputs. I'll cover inputs in a later post, because my main objective here is to give a clear idea about what a black box exactly is.
Astrophysicists mainly work with black boxes simply for the fact that most of what they study are at least several light years away and so there's no way to get to what they're studying and even if they did, it's impossible to get a look inside something like a star or a black hole.
Instead, they study the outputs of their black boxes, outputs like the qualities of light coming from a white dwarf and the gravitational pull of a black hole.
( Actually, in the second case, it's a long chain of outputs. Since they can't measure the gravitational pull of a black hole they measure the mass and speed of the stars orbiting it. Since they can't directly do that, they measure the qualities of the light coming from those stars. The chain looks like this :
Light from the stars indicate
-- their mass and speed of orbit which indicate
---- the mass of the black hole [box] which indicates
------ something about the structure of the black hole itself )
In other cases, like the study of geologists, the black box doesn't exist as one whole thing in one place but as a series of processes over time, but luckily the outputs (rocks) are easy to study. For example, a geologist can look at a rock and tell you it was initially formed in a volcano, then moved by glaciers where it wound up under the sea for a few thousand years, finally to find itself in a desert, where you found it and brought it to him. ( If there's anything that geologists like to see it's not a new kind of rock, but an indicator of a process they haven't seem before. )
My favorite black box is the human mind. Everything someone says or does is an output, and as Banachek pointedly pointed out: "you can't not communicate". This leads into some seriously fun 'lesser magic' involving outputs few people pay attention to ( not body language, but that's fun too. ), but I'll have to leave that for another post.
MAD SCIENCE 101
Or, some things I consider the core skills and knowledge of that thing I sometimes refer to as 'mad science'.
REVERSE ENGINEERING
Reverse Engineering is a way of learning from experience. It's an application of the core scientific method to whatever thing you want to reverse engineer.
This isn't as amazing as it sounds. Just about everything scientists do under the name of "research" is an act of reverse engineering and anyone who learns primarily by "trial and error" uses the scientific method by virtue of their experimental approach ( contrasted by the method of repeatedly banging one's head against a wall ).
So, what I'm really talking about when I talk about reverse engineering is something that people tend to do anyway. The difference is that most people don't apply the skill to itself -- in other words, reverse engineer reverse engineering.
Why do that in the first place? Well, I'm glad that I imagined that you asked. And the answer is -- the same reason anyone would want to reverse engineer anything -- to figure out how it works and improve or learn how to use or do it better. For me, it's all about getting better at what I do, and I see just about everything from either a reverse engineering / system hacking viewpoint. ( This is my blessing and curse, folks. Like Crowley said the reason you learn about Magick is because you can't help but do it anyway, so the only real choice you have is to be a good at it, or bad at it. So, well... )
A related skill is monkey-wrenching, which is reverse engineering something by breaking it in ever more creative ways. ( And I do love the monkey-wrenching, as the only rules that matter...)
SYSTEMS AND SYSTEMS HACKING
A system is anything which is composed of different parts where those parts interact with each other in a way that each part of the system has an effect on the entire system. It requires a kind of thinking where you are looking through a microscope through one eye and the thing itself as a whole with the other.
For example, the flaps on the wing of an airplane cause the entire airplane to turn, and if the landing gear of an airplane were to fall off in flight, the entire plan would crash.
Hacking is simply getting a system to do something it doesn't normally do, and possibly hasn't ever done, but something it's capable of doing according to it's structure.
If someone were to hijack something on a plane which made an electric spark, say the wires of the bathroom light, and somehow fed it into the plane's fuel tank -- then it would be a reasonable assumption that the plane would explode when someone turned on the bathroom light. This isn't something planes are generally designed to do and it's something they typically don't do but it's something that it's capable of doing 'according to it's structure.'
CYBERNETICS
Cybernetics is the science of steersmanship, in other words, the science of controlling systems, and the foundation of whatever process which allows a system to do something on it's own. ( It's also the difference between a mere machine and a system, at least in my opinion. Though you'll often hear me refer to such things as rocks as systems. I'll explain later. :) )
The autopilot of an airplane is essentially cybernetic. It needs to know where it's going and keep it on course as the wind blows the airplane off course. If the airplane gets blown to the right, the autopilot turns the airplane back to the left -- not to degree it was blown right, but to the degree it's off course.
So, you could say that anything cybernetic is also intelligent to some degree, at least while performing the function it was designed for. The thermostat of a house is cybernetic -- it's good at keeping the house at a constant temperature but terrible at math.
The essential function of a cybernetic system is regulation, and this is where Mad Science becomes Mad Philosophy and more importantly, Mad Psychology -- as self-regulating creatures, we humans are a cybernetic system.
Additional Note: The legitimate reason I can call a rock is a system is because when you pick one up it becomes involved in your 'systemness' and you become it's cybernetic element. Systems are plastic like that: two people talking form one system. The real reason I call things like rocks a system is because I'm lazy.
The definition of hypnosis is different depending on who you ask, even among skilled hypnotists. The reasons for this is legion, but I think I've found a way to explain hypnosis in a way that anyone can understand.
The main problem with hypnosis is the confusion between the hypnotic process and what is generally thought of as the 'hypnotic state.'
The so-called hypnotic state is just a state where the hypnotic process can be the most effective. It's like that position martial arts experts contrive to get someone into so they can demonstrate their 'talent' -- any 'off-balance' state will do, but the cliche is to get a volunteer to thrust a knife at them, which not only gets the job done in getting them off balance but the outstretched arm also gives the martial art 'expert' an easy handle to use.
The way this position is similar to the hypnotic state is that anyone can throw anyone once they have their opponent in this convenient off-balance position ( which I'm told never happens in a real fight ). Similarly, the hypnotic state it's easy for hypnotists to do what they do, but it's a state that almost never happens in real life except in very specific circumstances.
The hypnotic state is a deep state of suggestibility in which the critical mind has been shut off. It's very similar to a dreaming state where no matter what happens, no matter how strange, you just go along with it; if you are dreaming that you're at home, walk through a door, and suddenly find yourself in a movie theater, well, that's just normal.
What makes the hypnotic state so useful to hypnotists are three things --
1) the subject is passive
2) the subject's critical mind is shut off
3) the subject's imagination is on overdrive
With a subject in this state all a hypnotist has to do is speak a narrative which the subject can passively follow along with.
All forms of experience which require someone to become passive to it are naturally hypnotic. Most forms of entertainment these days are hypnotic in this way -- movies and television are the most hypnotic for the masses, reading books is the most hypnotic -- you probably won't believe it -- for those that make the best hypnotic subjects.
In the days before mass media, the rhythmic beating of a drum and the swaying of movement worked well. The swaying of dance and the swaying of a boat along the waves are equally as hypnotic.
Believe it or not, a roller coaster is a hypnotic device -- it requires it's riders to become passive to it and go along for the ride. 'Keep your hands in the coaster' and 'you must be this tall to take this ride' part of it's induction method.
So, there's the hypnotic state and the process of hypnosis. With the hypnotic state defined as I've defined it here, the hypnotic process is the process of directing someone's experience, and that's about all it really is.