Editing Order of Nine Angles (section)

===Insight roles===
[[File:Gadewar.jpg|thumb|left|The ONA encourages its members to adopt "insight roles" in anarchist, neo-Nazi, and Islamist groups in order to disrupt modern Western society.]]
An important aspect of ONA practice are the adoption of "insight roles", by which practitioners must adopt a lifestyle radically different to their own. Via experience and adversity, it is believed that these insight roles contribute to the practitioner's evolutionary superiority and thus assists the coming of the new aeon.{{sfn|Shah|Cooper|Newcombe|2023|p=5}}

These "insight roles" often involve working undercover among a politically extreme group for a period of six to eighteen months, gaining experience in something different from their normal life.{{sfnm |1a1=Senholt|1y=2013|1p=269|2a1=Monette|2y=2013|2p=96}} Among the ideological trends that the ONA suggests its members adopt "insight roles" within are [[anarchism]], [[neo-Nazism]], and [[Islamism]], stating that aside from the personal benefits of such an involvement, membership of these groups has the benefit of undermining the Magian-Nazarene socio-political system of the West and thus helping to bring about the instability from which a new order, the Imperium, can emerge.{{sfn|Senholt|2013|p=269}} Monette noted a potential shift in the insight roles recommended by the group over the decades. The ONA recommended criminal or military activities during the 1980s and early 1990s. By the late 1990s and 2000s, they were instead recommending Buddhist monasticism as an insight role for practitioners to adopt.{{sfn|Monette|2013|pp=96–97}} 

Through the practice of "insight roles", the order advocates continuous transgression of established norms, roles, and comfort zones in the development of the initiate. This extreme application of ideas further amplifies the ambiguity of Satanic and left-hand path practices of [[Antinomianism#Left-hand path|antinomianism]], making it almost impossible to penetrate the layers of subversion, play and counter-dichotomy inherent in the sinister dialectics."{{sfn|Faxneld|Petersen|2013|p=15}} Senholt suggested that Myatt's involvement with both neo-Nazism and Islamism represent such "insight roles" in his own life.{{sfn |Senholt|2013 |pp= 267, 269}}