There is no way to make a human being accept the role of a

sacrificial animal except by destroying his self-esteem. There is no way to

destroy his self-esteem except by making him reject his own consciousness.

There is no way to make him reject his own consciousness except by

convincing him of its impotence.

The damnation of this earth as a realm where nothing is possible to man

but pain, disaster and defeat, a realm inferior to another, “higher,” reality;

the damnation of all values, enjoyment, achievement and success on earth as

a proof of depravity; the damnation of man’s mind as a source of pride, and

the damnation of reason as a “limited,” deceptive, unreliable, impotent

faculty, incapable of perceiving the “real” reality and the “true” truth; the

split of man in two, setting his consciousness (his soul) against his body, and

his moral values against his own interest; the damnation of man’s nature,

body and self as evil; the commandment of self-sacrifice, renunciation,

suffering, obedience, humility and faith, as the good; the damnation of life

and the worship of death, with the promise of rewards beyond the grave—

these are the necessary tenets of the Witch Doctor’s view of existence, as

they have been in every variant of Witch Doctor philosophy throughout the

course of mankind’s history.