The Orgone Committee Charter An Orgone Committee is an adventuring party. We agree that human beings can shape their own evolution through applied consciousness expansion and fun. The form of government we presently find useful is Autarchy: rule of the self by the self. This social contract is oligarchic acollectivism where the absolute rule of the state exists as a function of the absolute liberty of each individual's Will. There are three ranks in such a society (high - Blue Circle or Autarchs, middle - Yellow Circle, and low - Red Circle), as there are three ranks in any society. Autarchy is a structure that allows all individuals who play by its rules an identical opportunity to access the physical resources, as well as the synergy, of the group. Two major tools are being used to insure opportunity for equal access. The first: Don'tjustthink. This is any system of physical, mental, and spiritual development each Red Circle apprentice begins, and each Autarch perfects. The second: Newspeak. This is an expansion of Language. Language is word, alphabet, sign language, and communications technologies. Language exapnds so that conciousness can expand. Autarchs are chosen by those who are not Autarchs, yet maintaining this status is not contingent on manipulation of others. As embodied in this Charter, Autarchy is the obverse of the traditional pyramid of power. Place the pyramid on its tip. At best, this results in a precarious balance, needing constant change. This pyramid on its tip represents a real, rather than desired, image of society. It also represents the status of Autarchs who are forced to subject themselves to frequent purges which insure maximum performance. If you want one image that represents the Autarchy's plan for the future, it is a boot being lifted from a persons face--forever. 2. The Initiation System of the Orgone Committee: PROBATIONER: Brought to meetings by a member prepared to sign the Oath of Goodwill and Silence as the Sponsor of the Probationer becoming responsible for their behavior during this time. A Probationer is not yet a member. Fills out Initial Questionnaire, and if accepted by unanimous vote of all the current members of their home Committee, takes Oath of Goodwill and Silence. Can join any Clique(s), or work on a Subcommittee. At the end of a year, Eligible for Full Membership if they meet the Probation requirements and are approved by all current members. RED CIRCLE: Can work on Subcommittees. Responsible for making a training program with a Mentor. Develops Adventurer Personality. This stage lasts at least a year, except in the case of someone already advanced being able to meet the exam, initiation, and ordeal requirements. At the end of Red Circle they are eligible to take the next step, with the approval of their Mentor and if they pass another more rigorous Exam and Initiation. YELLOW CIRCLE: Can begin a Clique or Chair a Subcommittee. Responsible for making your own training program and sticking to it. Lasts a minimum of two years except in the case of an advanced practitioner being able to meet the Exam, Initiation, and Ordeal requirements. Option to be a Mentor after a minimum of one year if you pass the Mentor Ordeal, Exam and Initiation. After the two year minimum there is the option for: BLUE CIRCLE: Entrance begins with the practitioner crafting a statement Dedicating themselves for the next year to earning the Title Autarch. (Meaning: Self Ruler). Aspirants of the Blue Circle must, for at the very least one year practice daily their Training Program before earning the title Autarch. The title Autarch is not permanent, only being held with daily Magickal exercises in body, mind, and spirit and diarization of these. Should an Aspirant or Autarch fall from practices against their will, they immediately revert to the Yellow Circle. They are obliged to tell of their reversion any and all who know they were an Autarch. 3. SUBCOMMITTEES: Temporary bodies within any Committee dedicated to the accomplishment of definite goals. Any member of the Yellow Circle may begin a Subcommittee at will. Members of the Committee decide as individuals what resources they will to dedicate to the activities of the Subcommittees. 4. CLIQUES: A clique is any sub body in the structure of the Committee that adheres to a definite philosophy, with a structure usually described as a system or a tradition. Cliques may have any internal structure that their members Will to have within them, or none at all. They are not limited in size. They can overlap with other non Committee groups, especially if a Clique Leader is a leader in that other group. Clique Leaders have no say whatsoever as to Orgone Committee Policy of any kind that does not directly affect their Clique. 5. BYLAWS: Every Orgone Committee is free to create its own bylaws concerning voting, dues, etc. with the sole proviso that these bylaws cannot ever conflict with the provisions of the Charter. 6. Any amendments, or revisions of amendments to the Orgone Committee Charter are made by unanimous vote of All Autarchs (not members of the Blue Circle). Autarchs may abstain from voting, use proxies, or any other means they deem necessary to expedite the voting process. 7. Amendments: Amendment 1: Oath of Silence and Goodwill: I , hereby swear by all that I love and hold sacred, by my life and Word, body, mind, and spirit that: I will never attack a member of the Orgone Committee physically, magickally, psychically, mentally, verbally, legally, economically etc. with the understanding that All members and probationers are bound to this. I enter this agreement of Probation of my own freewill, and with goodwill to all concerned, with assurances of the same from this Committee. I will hold any information about the identities, activities, and individuals of the Orgone Committee as confidential for the rest of my life, save only those facts I have personally verified as being public and having been freely released by the Committee. The Committee, on its part, will consider itself bound to hold information about me as being confidential under the same conditions. I understand that any artistic or printed matter I receive from the Committee or members in it is the property of the Committee unless specified otherwise until my full Membership, after which I then own them. They are copyrighted by the Committee Member who wrote them unless otherwise specified. I sign this day.............................................................. ........................... I sign as sponsor of the above signed individual ................................................................. ................................. Amendment 2: Entrance Exam for Red Circle: How does your System train you in the following three areas: Physically Mentally Spiritually Please be specific. Do you practice daily? How much time daily do you put into your training? Have you kept a Journal of your development? Does this system result in the following, and to what extent: Increased concentration? How long can you concentrate on your random thought processes without a break? How long can you concentrate on a physical activity without a break? How long can you concentrate on a mental activity without a break? How long can you maintain blankness of mind without a break? Increased Imagination: Visual? Aural? Olfactory? Taste? Touch? Increased Knowledge: About yourself: Good points, bad points, balances imbalances? About the World? About other people? Increased Daring: Did you do new things which actually resulted in you changing the way you live your life on a day-to-day basis? Or another way of saying it: did your Training Program result in you getting away from the Path Of Least Resistance in any way on a day to day level? Any Omens, Portents, Visits by Deities, Miracles, Or Any Other General Paranormal Weirdnesses you'd care to relate? (Please bear in mind that no matter how loony you think it was, one of our members has probably been through something just as embarrassingly weird, so don't be shy). Is it your Will to go through the Initiation of the Orgone Committee to become a full member? Answer yes or no. Any comments, reasons, or etc. you'd care to add? What are the positives of the Orgone Committee as you see them? What are the negatives of the Orgone Committee as you see them? What do you see yourself as adding to the Group Intelligence\Matrix\Circle? What do you see yourself as subtracting from the Group Intelligence\Matrix\Circle? Which Clique, if any do you wish to become a member of? Which Subcommittee, if any, do you wish to work on? Any Projects you know you'd like to suggest to the Committee? Amendment 3: Initiation for the Red Circle. This is performed by the probationer's sponsor and the appropriate Mentor, as well as any other members who the Mentor in charge wills to be present. The ritual content, if any, is up to the individuals involved as are any ordeals. OATH: I pledge that I am hereafter responsible for all my actions, conscious, and unconscious. I will never allow any person, organization, drug, or dogma, to restrict the free evolution of my consciousness or ability to dare to do my will. I dedicate myself to the proposition of balancing my elements, no matter how painful the process or how much I might have to cease clinging to in order to do so. I will never cease to pay attention to or fail to exercise my sense of humor, especially as it applies to myself. Amendment 4: Entrance Exam for Yellow Circle: How did the program you and your mentor created for you train you in the following three areas: Physically Mentally Spiritually Please be specific. Did you practice daily? How much time daily do you put into your training? Have you kept a Journal of your development? Did this system result in the following, and to what result: Increased concentration: How long can you concentrate on your random thought processes without a break? Give Examples please. How long can you concentrate on a physical activity without a break? Give examples please. How long can you concentrate on a mental activity without a break? Give examples please. How long can you maintain blankness of mind without a break? Give examples please. Increased Imagination: Visual? Give examples please. Aural? Give examples please. Olfactory? Give examples please. Taste? Give examples please. Touch? Give examples please. Increased Knowledge: About yourself: Good points, bad points, balances imbalances? Give examples. About the World? Give examples. About other people? Give examples. Increased Daring: Did you do new things which actually resulted in you changing the way you live your life on a day to day basis? Or another way of saying it: did your Training Program result in you getting away from the Path Of Least Resistance in any way on a day to day level? Give examples. Any Omens, Portents, Visits by Deities, Miracles, Or Any Other General Paranormal Weirdnesses you'd care to relate? Be specific and complete as your Will allows. Is it your Will to go through the Initiation of the Yellow Circle and enter it as a full member? Answer yes or no. Any comments, reasons you'd care to add at this time? Are there any projects you wish to implement by chairing a subcommittee? Is there a philosophy or system that you Will to promote by starting a Clique? Do you know yet if it is part of your Will to be a Mentor and take responsibility for the training programs of others who will to work with you? Amendment 5: The Yellow Circle Oath and Initiation are crafted for the aspirant by their mentor. They must elaborate on all points of the Red Circle Training Program and balance the aspirant in any weak areas of practice. Amendment 6: Mentor Initiations are done according to the will of the Aspirant after they have met the following requirements: Create their own training program according to their own Will. Stick to this for a year. Amendment 7: Exam: Essay Question. What is it that makes me fit to take the responsibility to accept other human beings as students in the science and art of Consciousness Changing? Answer completely. Include an outline of your "System of Initiation" even if this is as simple as a series of what you would consider initiatic actions or processes. Once you have answered this question to your absolute satisfaction in writing, the final step is to take whatever oath it is your Will to take that finally qualifies you as an Initiator, complete with any Ceremony(ies) and ordeals, and submit whatever account your Will it is to submit to the Committee Archives. In the case of a secret tradition, the very least information that needs be Archivized is that the Mentors Initiation and Oath have in fact been taken. Amendment 8: Blue Circle Dedication Vow: The dedication that begins at any time the Ordeals, Initiations, and Exams of the preceeding Circles have been met, first try or any thereafter, must contain the following elements: 1. Daily training that elaborates on EVERY ONE of the requirements of each of the preceding Clique or Circles that it is your Will to currently be working on. This can change over the course of the year as imbalances are corrected. But requirements in terms of goals met must be added, not subtracted. 2. Diarization of the same on a DAILY basis. At the end of Every day the aspirant must answer the question "Did I fulfill the requirements of my Dedication according to the provisions of my Dedication Vow?" with a definite YES. A maybe or a no means do not pass Vow, Go directly to Yellow and do not collect Title! Start again. 3. The training must be self motivated, and not under the immediate supervision of a Mentor or Guru of any kind. 3. The training must include the conquering of your greatest fear, no matter what this is. If this takes more than a year, so be it. All other requirements remain in effect. At the end of at least the year of training, and conquering their single greatest fear, the Blue Circle Aspirant may take the Vow of the Autarch. The Vow of the Autarch is individually crafted as to the wording. It must contain the following elements: 1. A lifelong Vow to uphold the Standards of the Title of Autarch, as well as the Orgone Committee Circles (not necessarily the Cliques) wherever it exists. 2. A lifelong Vow to continue to conquer their fears. 3. A lifelong vow to deliver themselves from Lust of Result, to act at all times for the pure joy of acting and not for win/lose scenarios. 4. The elements of the preceding Dedication Vow must be also present with the exception of the daily diarization . Amendment 9: All records of all Oaths Vows and exams must be stored at least as copies of the originals in the Archives of the individual Committees. Amendment 10: Starting an Orgone Committee This can be done by any individual who can meet the requirements of the Mentor stage of the Yellow Circle. They must also do the following: 1. Store at least copies originals of all oaths and papers in your Committee Archives. 2. Have compiled a Resources List to add to the one we sent you to suit your own Committee. 3. Create at least two of the following for the specific purposes of solidifying the activities of your Committee: Computer Bulletin Board, Group Library, Magazine, Video, Orgone Box, Dream Machine, Pyramid, Hieronomyous Device, Production of psilocybin or other sacrament(s), Float Tank, Cloudbuster, Orgone Shooter, Orgone blanket, Art work, Other (please specify). 4. You must officially Open a Room 101, some of the activities in which your Committee trains themselves as a group and as individuals take place here. It acts as the physical command post, laboratory, workout room, armory, temple, and all members of your group, and even proven members of other groups, are entitled to shelter there in times of distress, the exact parameters of this to be worked out by each Room 101 Custodian on a case by case basis. 5. Please be aware that Committee founders get no special recognition except for whatever prestige they can wring out of the anti-authoritarian types that are able to survive within a Committee environment. There's something wrong with your whole show if you're attracting folks that are too impressed by that sort of thing anyway. Interested in communicating? Write to: Orgone Committee P.O. Box 614 Vanbrunt Station Brooklyn, NY 11215 SEX IS PEACE TRUE WILL NOT SLAVERY CONCIOUSNESS IS STRENGTH