Cyber-Psycho Manifesto The Cyber-Psycho Manifesto
by Zeena Fabreaux

What is a Cyber-Psycho?

We bear the trendiest of names for the oldest and deepest of concepts. We've grown out of the vision and words of our questioning ancestors and we hope to continue to grow and refine our own vision through a variety of electronic and paper media. We are serious, but we also laugh at our seriousness. Trust no one who doesn't laugh!

The word, cyber-psycho, comes from the Greek roots "Khyber", meaning governor/steersman, and "Psyche", meaning soul. We choose the Hitchcock/Bloch "Psycho" indicating our own crazed view of the world, and we choose the modern "Cyber" indicating the plodding and self-replicating patterns of existing in a challenging world. In this world only the crazy are sane. We are the crazy who seek to be our own governors, we regulate and correct the evolution of our own souls. We are anarchic, evolutionary, magickal, cultural, terrorists.

Our current focus is eightfold:

SONIC THEOLOGY. We are interested in the art and science of sound sorcery and its current remanifestation in the smoky dark clubs of the post-Goth world. Some of our favorite composers/groups are: Crash Worship, Zoviet*France, Dockstader, Varese, Merzbow, Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Chris & Cosey (and especially Cosey), Penderecki, Stockhausen, Ligetti, Vampire Rodents, Lustmord, Legendary Pink Dots, Survival Research Labs, (original) Virgin Prunes, and Little Fyodor.

MAGIA TECHNICA. We are interested in the use of low- and high-tech electronic devices for mind altering (light-sound machines) and for political remittance. Our leaders in this field of endeavor are Ironfeather and Kapacitor.

AVANT-POP. We are interested in current fantastic literature that focusus on the possibility of the magickal as a way of defeating the power of alienation. We are fascinated by the writers who are fascinated by the absurd and the magickal in pop culture. Like the "magical realists" who found that to portray the reality of Latin America was to portray the marvelous -- we love those writers who, seeking to portray our disposable world, likewise must portray the marvelous and the terrible. We love William Vollmann, Peter Plate, Stewart Home, Richard Kadrey, Don Webb, Philip K. Dick, Sue Storm, Brian Hodge, t. Winter-Damon, Bruce Boston, Mike Hemmingson, Doug Rice, Lance Olsen, Jeff Noon, John Shirley, Vernor Vinge, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Jasmine Sailing and Samuel Delaney.

MAGIA EROTICA. We are interested in the use of sexual magick technologies, especially those involving S/M and D/S to release (as Robert North of the New Flesh Palladium says) "the acid of the soul that dissolves boundaries and violates all that represses the spirit. This is guerrilla warfare against despair."

CYBERPUNK. We are interested in the transformative ideas and attitudes of Cyberpunk as applied to self evolution and political activism.

LIBERTY. We are interested in preserving and extending all political and civil freedoms in a time when the forces of ignorance have brought forth new and devastating attacks.

LIVING NIGHTMARES. We are interested in exposing the living nightmares of the world that have been shaded by ignorance and sensationalism. Knowledge breeds strength and aids perserverance.

PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY. We are interested in how individual human beings can create and recreate the events of their past based on personal mythic models in order to facilitate their empowerment and to enrich and enchant their environment. We are interested in the use of personal myth to aid in breaking the fetters and fears imposed by self and society and in unleashing forces that help others find their ways toward personally defined and artistically rich freedom.

We are interested in networking/interested in discussion from all who likewise seek to link these eight forces in lives and in their communities. We are interested in all philosophies (old and new, academic or popular) that can enhance these topics. We are interested in all alliances that further the manifestation of the ideas and artifacts inherent in these topics in the real world (as opposed to endless bickering about them on the net).

Some Cyber-Psycho Books:
_Carnal Alchemy_ by Crystal Dawn
_The New Flesh Palladium_ by Robert North
_No Pity_ by Stewart Home
_Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book_ by Don Webb
_The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution_ by P. D. Ouspensky
_The Early Greek Concept of the Soul_ By Jan N. Bremmer
_Angels Don't Play this HAARP_ by Jeana Manning and Nick Begich
_Music as Cognition: The Development of Thought in Sound_ by Mary Louise Serafine
_Keys to Infinity_ by Clifford Pickover
_Dr. Adder_ by KW Jeter
_Maldoror_ by Lautreamont
_Prototype_ by Brian Hodge
_The Forbidden Gospels of Man-Cruel_ by t. Winter-Damon and Randy Chandler
_Crash_ by JG Ballard
_The Atrocity Exhibition by JG Ballard
_Fathers and Crows_ by William T. Vollmann
_The Sheep Look Up_ by John Brunner
_Valis_ by Phillip K. Dick
_Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect_ edited by Mason Jones and Loren Rhoads
_The Illuminatus Trilogy_ by Robert Anton Wilson
_Apocalypse Culture_ from Amok and Feral House
_1984_ by George Orwell

Some Cyber-Psycho Magazines:
Cyber-Psychos AOD
Factsheet Five
Fringeware Review
Iron Feather Journal
Q Magazine
Poppin' Zits
Xizquil
Funeral Party
Reaper's Harvest
Shock Waves

Thoughts are not enough, only by Deeds expressing our thoughts can we link what is in the heart to what is happening in the world. We hope to AWAKEN ourselves from the nightmare of history through technologies both ancient and new. We hope to SEE what is really going on in the world, despite the technologies controlled by the forces of ignorance. We hope to ACT (with power both personal and political) to shape the world toward a new freedom.

We hope that some of you have held similar dreams and are awaking in this new dawn to help make them Real.

Despite the love of bonding through similar philosophy and goals, a free clue is necessary. If you follow this manifesto as gospel you are NOT a Cyber-Psycho. Think for yourself and digest it in your own ways, the paths through life are never written in stone.

And, lastly, trust no one who doesn't laugh!

Toward the Unknown Region,
Zeena Fabreaux