The Process

The Process was an art and philosophy collective formed in the early 1990s and 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. Early contributors included Nivek Ogre, Genesis P-Orridge, William Morrison, and Loki der Quaeler. The Process collective aimed to connect the international industrial music community via the nascent internet while ostensibly reviving the "deviant psychotherapy cult" Process Church of the Final Judgement. Logo The Process Cross — formed by the overlapping of 4 P's - was borrowed from The Process Church of the Final Judgement (Process Church) and appears on albums by Ministry (band) and the Skinny Puppy/Throbbing Gristle collaboration Puppy Gristle. The Process Cross also appears in several Skinny Puppy music videos. 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. In 1993 Morrison received a cease-and-desist letter from lawyers representing Chase Bank, claiming the bank owned the copyright to The Process' logo. 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. Morrison did not hear back from the lawyers. Initiating The Process