Rules make up foundations for fraternal organizations like A.M.O.R.C. – and the rules, from the outset seem simple and even pleasant. You read the monographs once a week, review them whenever you feel like it and keep a notebook.

Isn’t that reasonable?

In the very beginning of my first book, The Prisoner of San Jose, I tell how-

I was consciously trying to blow the whistle on what I now believed to be a dangerous mind control cult. I was determined to present groundbreaking information about how an organization whose main membership contact was through the mail and sometimes a weekly Lodge Convocation could manage to turn people into mind-controlled zombies.

This is done through very simple rules, which allow the portals of Mind Control to swing wide open.

Here are three of the basic rules:

1. Read the monographs once a week, preferably on Thusday.
2. Review them whenever you want.
3. Keep a diary.

Simple? Sure.

The trick is- that because of various reasons, someone diligent, who expects results from his efforts, will find himself not only reviewing the monographs all the time, but practicing their voluminous exercises over and over.

Why? Fundamentally- because they do not really work- but if you want the Golden Fleece, you better hop aboard the Golden Gravy Train and that means chanting, doing special breathing exercises, sleeping in a certain posture, pressing your fingers into your neck area to relax, lighting candles, practicing mnemonic exercises and so on and so forth forever. Pushing yourself, burning the midnight candle, chanting long into the night.

When you do all that, keeping records is a bit more of a drag. Lots and lots of writing and reporting.

The rotten wood beneath the floorboards are the rules, which appear simple, but open the door to gigantic efforts, fueled by the constant failure to produce expected results.