The Process (collective)

Early contributors included Nivek Ogre, Genesis P-Orridge, William Morrison, and Loki der Quaeler.

[1][2][3] Director William Morrison has the symbol tattooed on his forearm; musician Genesis P-Orridge and Satanic Temple founder Lucien Greaves bear the mark on their biceps.

Morrison suggested the lawyers obtain a copy of a book written by William Sims Bainbridge in 1978, titled Satan's Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Cult, which would definitively prove The Process Church of the Final Judgement held the copyright.

Information is shared amongst those involved, not in order to be treated as instruction but rather as a means to promote participation, discipline and contribution to an ideal as opposed to self-ambition.

Rituals (sigils) are employed as a means ov discovering one's true psyche, desires (and their realisation), integrating thee conscious and subconscious as a way to produce a spiritually whole person as opposed to a fragmented shell.

"The manifesto promotes the use of chaos magic, sigils, trance, and the cut-up technique to unleash powers suppressed by various manifestations of social control.

William S. Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, Aleister Crowley, Thelema, and the 23 enigma are referenced; many of the ideas articulated are a rehash of Genesis P-Orridge's previous work with Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.

The Process is self-described as a "non-organization" recognizing "thee reality ov Individuals", consciously formulated to look appear as a cult to the mainstream.

The Process sees itself as "sucksessors" to the hippies and surrealists and claims to have "bases" in UK, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Canada, and America.

"Information about The Process was initially communicated across Usenet by its founding members, who encouraged people to upload their various media files for collaboration via anonymous FTP.

The original process.org server was a NeXTstation stored in a closet in Vancouver, BC; the location and internet connection were provided by Blacky.

Creative spin-offs and independent projects were launched around roughly the same time frame, drawing many participants in new directions and away from the collective.