i have a friend who's a linguist, he did a study of media where he grouped words, sentence structures and themes from various forms of writing and compared them - he developed a few sets of pattens that fit certain groups for example stories about terror events had a lot in common with dramatic fiction but almost nothing in common with corporate assurances like BP's essays explaining the gulf oil spill wasn't as bad as it looked...

Well this shouldn't surprise anyone really but in the papers the horror stories about paedophilia and child molestation matched the same 'type' as porn stories and erotic fiction. Well this troubled him and he decided to investigate further, he created sets of all the stuff about sexulized children or sex crimes involving children which he then studied for internal sets - basically he was trying to see what themes there are in the way the media talk about this sort of thing - six weeks later after an exhaustive study he incinerated his papers, wiped his computer, threw away most his DVDs [holywood blockbusters] and stopped watching television.

why? well he confided to me it's because it came close to sucking him in, because he said he could almost see how reading this stuff was building a machine inside his head which works like a language translator but which takes normal things and coats them with a thick layer of filth, he said when he started to learn how perverse the mindsets of those that are afflicted with this machine are, he started to hear the voice of the machine, started to see the things it was showing him... and this is an entirely normal seeming, sane chap with a Phd in a serious science telling me that - i met him a few years after his discovery, he'd detached from the populist media's archetype and was a bit of a beatnik, one of the many that flowed out the top of the system and came to settle with the drifters and wonderers...

everyone has a story if you listen for it, everyone knows something the rest of the world hasn't seen. So we chatted a lot, this was when i was studying the secrets of the occult and especially demonology, i told him this is talked of in the dark arts manuals as a scourge. That using clever words [the 'spell'] and mysterious motions [often symbolized with a wand or hand-passes today] it's possible to summon a demon into someone's mine, a demon with the power of possession and torment...

this is a thing that most secret sects have discovered, kept secret and holy - of course the group we're calling the cia would know of these sorts of things. however my friend didn't portion these events to the CIA, my friend believed the demon itself was responsible, in our talks he came to feel comfortable calling his machine a demonic force, said the analogy better suited the creature.

He told me there was a certain construction of thoughts that would start the machine turning, the demon growing - a slow fascination would develop in which first one found themselves following avidly news which disgusted them, the justification that one just wants to understand it, wants to stand against it.

The slow progression of knowledge soon reaches a point where one knows too much, stories are no longer shocking they simply fit into an established understanding - now it's not simply a case of adding data but of expanding and testing the established patten - now the demon is looking for certain kinds of sustenance. Mt friends study of linguistics gave him a rare extra option to investigate from a detached and scientific way, he confided he doubted he could have escaped without such forearming.

Each new story was interesting only if it extended the frame, if it added some new gory detail or idea - soon it was seeking out new extremes, was imagining what might come after, was inventing whole new possibilities. He became aware of the real power of it when he found himself describing luridly the potential future developments which might be possible, he became convinced he was being compelled to guide the media further into depravity. This is what convinced him to end the work and destroy his writings, he became convinced he was becoming the problem.

In understanding the processes which might compel someone to act in such a vile way and the reasons and thrills they might get from doing it a person locks into the wavelength of that perception - suddenly that is an option, suddenly that is one of the many things we 'should' explore - if they can build the machine inside your head they'll use it to compel you to create machines in others heads, this is how self-propagating machines work, it's like a cancer of perception.

We chatted for a long time about such things and i put his mind at rest by showing him that as too there are indeed demons of massive power and mighty wrath who torment and abuse the week so too there are angelic powers of much greater magnitude and more forceful furver that shield us and protect us and fight for us and with us and beside us eternal. Just as constructs of evil exist on certain planes so too do constructs of awesome glory, magnificent joy - with rightfulness as your sword and self-decency as your steed there's nothing which can't be faced and overcome.

The secret is to learn how to tilt your head, not literally but figuratively change perception of things - look at a thought and realize it's not your thought it's a product of the machine, it's simply one possible plane of existence and there are many others - simply look at things from a different angle and find one which is angelic. Personally i don't think it's an accident the word angel and angle are so similar, they mean almost the same thing when you really get down to it. find the planes you want to exist on and let the others pass through you, pay them no attention and give them no power...