Christopher S. Hyatt

Christopher S. Hyatt (actually Alan Ronald Miller ; born July 12, 1943 in Chicago , † February 9, 2008 in Scottsdale , Arizona ) was an American psychologist , occultist and author of several books and CDs on spirituality , psychology and magic .

Life

Hyatt was the son of Police Chief Leonard Miller and his wife Bertha Freidman. He gave two separate reports of the end of his high school career, claiming he dropped out of high school at the age of sixteen and instead worked as a dishwasher and cook, and roamed the United States. Christopher Hyatt was a trained clinical and experimental psychologist and worked for a long time as a psychotherapist . He was known as a representative of a position which he himself described as "extreme individualism".

9 February 2008 Hyatt died at the age of 64 years to cancer .

Thelema

He was a student of Israel Regardie . Regardie, who strongly influenced him and taught him techniques from Aleister Crowley and Wilhelm Reich , was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn . Hyatt's later publishing house, which is continued by his widow after his death, publishes publications by authors close to this organization. Hyatt was a member of the Ordo Templi Orientis , and together with David Cherubim founded the thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn in Los Angeles on the spring equinox of 1990.

psychology

As Alan Miller, he used the 18 units he received from his military GED for his first academic career at Los Angeles City College , where he studied accounting for two years . He later moved to General Psychology and earned a Masters in Experimental Psychology , Medicine and Counseling . He was a member of a Freudian clinic in Southern California . He spent nearly a year studying hypnosis at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute in Los Angeles and also studied hypnosis at the University of California, Irvine . Miller received a PhD in human behavior and was a postdoctoral fellow in criminal justice .

Classification of the work

Hyatt belonged to a group of American intellectuals who in the 1960s and 1970s protested against traditional norms through anti-authoritarian and unconventional protests and who sought to raise awareness through drug use or occupation with spiritual and occult knowledge and practices ( New Age ). Hyatt also counted Robert Anton Wilson and Timothy Leary among his friends, authors who worked with similar motifs.

Works

(Abstract)

• Undoing Yourself. dt. develop yourself! . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-499-18524-5 .
• To Lie Is Human. ISBN 1-56184-199-4
• The Psychopath's Bible. ISBN 1-56184-174-9
• Secrets Of Western Tantra. ISBN 1-56184-113-7
• Urban Voodoo (with Jason S. Black). ISBN 1-56184-059-9
• The Magic of Israel Regardie . New Falcon Publishing. ISBN 1-56184-230-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hyatt, Christopher; Zehm Aloim. The Magic of Israel Regardie. New Falcon Publishing. ISBN 1-56184-230-3
2. ↑ Homepage Verlag ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 6, 2014. 
3. ^ Ordo Tempi Orientis International Headquarters
4. ↑ Hyatt, Christopher; Zehm Aloim. The Magic of Israel Regardie. New Falcon Publishing. ISBN 1-56184-230-3
5. ^ Greer, John Michael (2003). The New Encyclopedia of the Occult. Llewellyn Worldwide. ISBN 978-1-56718-336-8 p. 205
6. ↑ Hymenaeus Beta (2008-02-12). "Alan Ronald Miller, Ph.D., IX ° OTO (1943-2008)"
7. ↑ Hyatt, Christopher; S. Jason Black; Zehm Aloim; Israel Regardie. Techniques for Undoing Yourself. New Falcon Publishing. ISBN 1-56184-280-X .

Web links

• List of books by Christopher S. Hyatt
• Literature by and about Christopher S. Hyatt in the catalog of the German National Library