Insight Roles: Peter Carroll vs. the O9A
Insight roles are one of the most important and well-known steps in the self-transformative praxis of the Order of the Nine Angles. The idea is to go out of your way to involve yourself in a path of life which is foreign to your experience for an extended period of time. The most common form of insight role is group infiltration: join a religious or political group and pretend to have a legitimate interest in their agendas. The ideal insight role, by O9A Standards, will require the witch to pretend to be the exact opposite of what she understands herself to be, and if possible, should further the "Sinister Dialectic." If the Sinister Dialectic is furthered, the insight role is described as having 'gone Aeonic.' By deliberately entering a foreign walk of life, the witch comes to be liberated of various misconceptions she has about persons she deems "the other" and forces her to see aspects of her character hitherto undiscovered. It develops empathy, dissolves...