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DARK SIDE OF ROGERS

by

Dean Gotcher

Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX was a treatise that Aleister Crowley wrote in Egypt in 1904.

 Hindu saying:

"Whatever exists… animate or inanimate, is born through the union of the field and its Knower." trans. by Easwaran, Eknath. Bhagavad Gita, ch.13 verse 26

Rogers:

"All individuals (organisms) exist in a continually changing world of experience (phenomenal field) of which they are the centre." Rogers, Carl. Client-Centered Therapy, ch.11

"The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain and enhance the experiencing organism."

"Psychological adjustment exists when the concept of the self is such that all the sensory and visceral experiences of the organism are, or may be, assimilated on a symbolic level into a consistent relationship with the concept of self.
Psychological maladjustment exists when the organism denies awareness of significant sensory and visceral experiences, which consequently are not symbolized and organized into the gestalt of the self structure. When this situation exists, there is a basic or potential psychological tension."

"All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. / Love is therefore the only law of life. / He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. / Therefore love for love's sake, / because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live." -Swami Vivekananda

"The formula of this law is: Do what thou wilt. Its moral aspect is simple enough in theory. Do what thou wilt does not mean Do as you please, although it implies this degree of emancipation, that it is no longer possible to say a priori that a given action is "wrong." Each man has the right – and an absolute right – to accomplish his True Will." -Aleister Crowley, "The Method of Thelema"

"In reality, good and evil are not different from each other. ‘Good' and ‘bad' are merely conventional terms. Depending on how it is used, the same thing can be ‘good' or ‘bad.' Take, for example, this lamplight. Because of its burning we are able to see and do various works of utility; this is one mode of using the light. Now, if you put your fingers in it, they will be burnt; that is another mode of using the same light. So it is clear that a thing becomes good or bad according to the way we use it. The same is the case with virtue and vice. Broadly speaking, the proper use of any of the faculties of our mind and body is virtue, and their improper use is vice." -Swami Vivekananda

Rogers:

"Psychological maladjustment exists when the organism denies awareness of significant sensory and visceral experiences, which consequently are not symbolized and organized into the gestalt of the self structure. When this situation exists, there is a basic or potential psychological tension.

Any experience which is inconsistent with the organization of the structure of the self may be perceived as a threat, and the more of these perceptions there are, the more rigidly the self structure is organized to maintain itself."

Two potential courses of the Will

Liber AL II:26

Aleister Crowley

Sigmund Freud

Carl Jung

Hadit is "coiled," prepared to Will a certain course of actions

1: "return to spirit"

"I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one."

"Mysticism = the Will to Death;" "Union… with Spirit"

Thanatos: the death drive

"MATER COELESTIS, the celestial mother;" "spirituality"

2: "immersion in matter"

"If I droop down mine head… I and the earth are one."

"Magick = the Will to Life;" "Union… with Matter"

Eros: the life drive

"PHALLOS, the earthly father;" "sexuality"

{Figure 1: The two courses of Will once Hadit is "coiled about to spring"}