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Hard Zen, Soft Heart by Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D. & Diana Rose Hartmann, M.A. The Original Falcon Press Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. 2 Copyright © 2013 C.E. by Christopher S. Hyatt and Diana Rose Hartmann All rights reserved. No part of this book, in part or in whole, may be reproduced, transmitted, or utilized, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, except for brief quotations in critical articles, books and reviews. International Standard Book Number: 978-1-935150-97-8 (Print Edition) ISBN: 978-1-61869- 970-1 (mobi Edition) ISBN: 978-1-61869-971-8 (ePub Edition) Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98-84916 First Edition (Print and eBook) 2013 Address all inquiries to: The Original Falcon Press 1753 East Broadway Road #101-277 Tempe, AZ 85282 U.S.A. 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You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle. — Andrew Cohen We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows. — Fritz Perls 6 Table of Contents Title Page Introduction Foreword To Know Enlightenment, Not Just To Know Of It Bursting the Bubble of Perception Part I Where Am I Going and How Will I Know I’ve Arrived When I Make It There? “It’s the End of the World As You Know It” Task #1: Become a Hero The Hungry Ghosts of Past and Future When You’re In Pain, Opiates Can Be A Good Thing Claiming the Burden of Wings What in the World is the World Made Of? Time is the Mother of Many Worlds Words and Words Only? The Trance Is Over When the Music Stops Cause and Effect & The Case of Cold Susan Mind Versus Body Time to Regroup 7 At Play in the Field of Lies Part II The Practice of Putting Yourself On The Psycho-Physical Journey At Play in the Transactional Fields Life As an Alchemical Process A Lot of It Is in the Name Breaking the Bonds of Fear A Smart Pig Can Recognize a Pearl When He Sees One Breaking Up Is Hard To Do Self-Assessment You Are the Artist That Paints Your Life Finding Home in the State of Being Something to Consider Hi! Tension How the Ego Works Fight, Flight, or Be Still Being Here Now Is Easier Said Than Done ANS: The Bottom Line When It Comes to a Happy Mind HAR and the Creation of the False Self When Habitual Fear Paves the Road to Failure 8 Part III The Endless Meditation Some Issues Concerning Meditation The Western Method of “Mental Health” Mental Health Means Functioning Like an Average Person The Ego and The Art of Staying Liquid Ego As “Evil” The “Good” Ego: Ego as Authentic Self Western Meditation Devotion A Special Message For the Over Thirty Crowd The Enlightenment of Sex Eris: Chaos as Prerequisite to Change 9 Introduction by Nicholas Tharcher If you are a fan of Christopher Hyatt’s work, you are probably aware that the publication of Hard Zen, Soft Heart has been a long time coming. Though it is just now being released in 2013—five years after Hyatt’s death—the first drafts were written in the 1990s. It has gone through several revisions, three editors and a recent revisitation by co-author Diana Rose Hartmann. The focus of the book has changed several times over its history. At one time the authors envisioned it as a “Zen” book in the “hit you over the head” style of Hyatt’s classic Undoing Yourself with Energized Meditation and Other Devices. But because some readers have criticized Hyatt’s work as too “hard hitting” and “demanding” the authors came to envision Hard Zen in an entirely different way: as a more “gentle” entrée into Dr. Hyatt’s work, something that a wider audience could connect with. However, before the book was finished circumstances changed. Hyatt had always been dissatisfied with the inability of the written word to convey the details of the many physical exercises that were key to his methods. When, around the time that Hard Zen was being written, new audio and video technology became more accessible, Hyatt finally felt able to demonstrate his methods through these media, and he switched his attention to the development of the Radical Undoing and Energized Hypnosis series. So Hard Zen sat on the shelf…until now. For those who are not familiar with Hyatt’s work, it will become clear very quickly that—“gentle” as the approach of this book may be—Hyatt was fundamentally an elitist who recognized that most people are satisfied to live “a life of quiet desperation” rather than undertake the difficult process of transcending the consequences of the ragtag physiology that evolution has built. As a trained scientist, Hyatt gave great credence to the remarkable work done over the past few years on the structure and physiology of the human brain in order to better understand the true nature of homo sapiens and the future of the human species. He concluded that, in its current form, it has no future. Only by conscious, deliberate re-engineering—essentially creating an entirely new species with a very different brain structure—can homo normalis be anything but a dead end. The technology to do this is almost here and, among a few, there is the will to do it. Whether this can be done in a world so terrified of itself, only time will tell. (Science fiction writers have investigated this theme many times…and in their stories the 10