Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00389)

In a message dated 1/14/05 10:44:52 AM Central Standard Time, 
kpauljohnson@yahoo.com writes:

<< You can think whatever 
you want and no one will bother you unless you speak or write your 
heretical thoughts. >>

And they never bother me at all.

You can write all the heresy you want but they do get a little weird if you 
make them think too much. It gives them headaches.

The trick is to not let them get away with it. In the summer of 1987 my 
first book on Psionics had been published and the orthodox were in an uproar! 
(What I did not know at the time was I had reopened some old fears from one of 
their scandals involving a national president in the 1960s.) Anyway, I 
responded by bringing my book and my equipment to the convention at Lake Geneva and 
and setting up shop as it were, giving demonstrations to anyone who was 
interested, and a lot of people were interested because there is no such thing as bad 
publicity.

After that, they just sort of shut up and got used to it.

But it was great fun while it lasted and it gave me one of my great lines 
when one of the orthodox made the mistake of accusing me of practicing "Black 
Magick." I just laughed and said that that was nonsense. I practiced Italian 
Magick. As the poor devil fled sputtering I nearly fell over trying to keep 
from laughing.

Chuck the Heretic