Sabbath Assembly reënactment: the Processional. Music by the Sabbath Assembly Band (Imaad Wasif, Jex Thoth, Kevin Rutmanis and David Christian).

Someone has released a massive 500 page PDF of internal Process Church of the Final Judgment documents.

Free e-book on Lulu

See also: Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment

(via Grey Lodge)

Feral House’s new book on the Process Church of the Final Judgement, Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment by Timothy Wyllie is out, and Feral House has a site up with various excerpts and photos.

Process Church of the Final Judgement, Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment

The book includes the recollections of various former Process members, and reproduces many rare Church documents. I can’t wait to own this.

Previous coverage of the Process here

During the course of researching The Process Church of the Final Judgement I was naturally reminded of the “other” Process: the collective founded by Ogre, Genesis P. Orridge and others. Explaining the Process is sort of difficult, but Wikipedia explains it thusly:

The Process is an art and philosophy collective formed in the early 1990s. The idea was initially birthed at the same time as, and with a subset of the same people from, the studio work for the Skinny Puppy album The Process, though the direct interrelation ends there. Some of the early contributors included Nivek Ogre, Genesis P-Orridge, William Morrison, and Loki der Quaeler.

I was a member of the Process mailing list, drawn in by the Skinny Puppy connection, starting sometime in 1996 1997, but I was pretty much only a lurker (I don’t remember ever contributing). It was an early exposure to fringe thinking (this was before I’d stumbled across Disinfo), and I loved it even though I probably didn’t understand half of what the conversations were about. Looking back now, I guess it was a pretty big influence on me.

Messages still come across the wire every once in a while, mostly “hey does anyone still read this list?” messages. I actually managed to spark some life into it a couple years ago, indirectly with this post that got picked up by Disinfo. Members saw the Disinfo post and weren’t happy with being called a cult or the claim that it was started by Ogre and GPO. Oops.

Also, syncroniciously, two active contributors to the list, JFitz and Phil Farber, were online acquaintances of Danny Chaoflux around the same time he was being introduced to occulty memes.

Oh, someone recently started a web forum called The Process Underground.

More info:

The Process web site (Perpetually under construction…)

A partial reassembly of the original site.

Phil Farber interviews with Ogre and Genesis P. Orridge.

Here’s an extensive collection of Process related material, including photographs, Exit and other texts by by Robert DeGrimston, letters and recollections by former members, and various articles including a wacky article by a LaRouche follower called We Must Exit the Suicide Club: How the Counterculture Ushered in Fascism.

More The Process Church of the Final Judgement related posts here.

Also: I’m still looking for the PDFs of the old Processeans and The Founders newsletters if anyone has them (I know they used to be online).