Indeed, psychedelics are mostly introspective, IME. It helps those who have a productive and positive inner self that is trapped and it exacerbates conditions for those who are using it to "get fucked up" or some other poor uninformed attitude which Manson no doubt had. I had a very vain and casual attitude when I first used a hallucinogen and I ended up in a bad way during that trip because of it. They must be respected for what they are.
Semi-related note. I think those Tate murders are what ultimately killed the hippie movement, and turned many hippies into cranky social-conservatives.
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Also, I now realize that there are many male APDs who do not commit violence. I watch a lot of Most Evil so I was a bit too inclined to generalize there. I once knew someone who exhibited the traits of APD and was briefly a victim of his manipulation and toying (a former lover eventually informed me that he was a diagnosed APD, using the word sociopath).
APD is a fascinating topic for me because the psychiatric industry has no clue on the exact root cause or how to treat it. I don't look down on APD sufferers FYI, as they are born with it and you can't fault someone for what they were born with -- unless they commit violence or some other crime that directly harms others like armed robbery but even then its not the right outlook, more like remove the violent ones from society until a definitive cure comes along to make them appropriate for society.
so you are saying that evil is uninformed?
because if you are there are a lot of people who would agree with you. my dad says that evil genius is an oxymoron and that if a smart person was really intelligent his logical conclusion would be good.
i myself am not so sure. psychedelics are such powerful tools that can be used for so many purposes and causes. you can really twist someone's soul to bits while tripping or to someone else who is tripping.
Ive noticed that there is a prevalence of thought amongst the hippie community that suggest that psychedelic drugs are for expanding ones mind in the direction and to experience/give love. Ive found through many experiments that this isn't always the case.
I notice that there are dark energies and powers that can be experienced and, more importantly, harnessed to the user's benefit. usually this fucks them up in the form of a bad trip if they are inexperienced with harnessing negative energy.
But during some of my trips I've actually been able to feel people's souls directly and get vague notions of their intentions and have succeeded in creating spiritual devotion/love from my companions who were tripping with me.
as you probably have already known the possibilities of mind games and manipulation phenomenon become even more prevalent and downright bizarre in the soul territory.
my hunches point that unlike modern literature suggests, sociopath's have a soul. we just have different variations as human beings. and without sounding too out there i think that within select humans there are devas and demons; and all types in between.
there are times when I experience truly angry, complex yet downright diabolical concepts while on 2ce, or shrooms
examples would include;
there was an married woman whom i had gone to the river to trip with.
we sat down near the water in the woods and talked. every time I said something stupid or innocent the face on the log would snicker and grow angry and the air grew putrid. the face scared me. the grass around me would seem to die.
but at every moment in which I said something smooth, sexy or put my hand on her, the face would smile, the air was lighter and the river sparkled. i felt blessed.
(shrooms)
there was a time after skrillex concert that we all chilled at my friends apartment. I stepped outside to smoke a cigarette. I coulda sworn I heard voices inside the house. i tired hard to listen and i heard clearly that everyone was talking shit about me. one girl was like< "I hate your friend, he's so creepy" another dude said, "ya, we should have dropped him off hours ago" I barged inside only to discover that no one said a word and the other guy was asleep.
i go inside and I start talking to the girl, she is flirting back with me and I know her thoughts. I get her to make out with me and she gave me head. I KNOW HER THOUGHTS. i could tell her to go to the bathroom or sit down by mere suggestions or by feeling her pressure points. I momentarily go into a mental calculation in which I figure out a series of interactions I could make with her that could cause her to commit suicide via gunshot to the head. I even intuitively knew that she kept a gun in her closet without knowing for sure. i went back and checked her closet and low and behold in was there.
(2ce)
sometimes on psychedelics I feel more evolved but more prone to fuck shit up. not in a brutal violent way. but in a mind game sense.
don't get me wrong, ive also felt astounding moments of love and brotherhood that went all the way into the soul level. i could go on about the very real lovey side of psychedelia but there is more than enough literature on that sort of thing.
on a separate note; this media driven bullshit that passes for love and drives all empaths into a frenzy is nothing more than limerence. they have pigeon holed people who are above limerence as evil and manipulative and give them all types of dehumanizing labels.
a christian philosopher buddy of mine even says that the conscience(which is highly temporal) is separate and distinct for the "holy ghost";which is supposed to be along side the soul as the real seat of our conscious. so even this "conscience" that people put so much value on is just a farce; a byproduct of the ego. limerence and conscience need to be shattered before true and pure conscious can experience itself. in some ways, the "sociopath" (god i hate that word) is closer to the "love experience" than an empath might. that is what i believe.
my fellow psychonauts, remember that many of us have turned to psychedelia because the institution of psychiatry fails to stimulate, explain and properly heal. im not saying its completely without merit ( a good therapist is pretty amazing in my opinion) But, DSM labels are pretty much better off taken with a grain of salt.
Everyone experiences anxiety to some degree, even psychopaths. Some violent outbursts are brought on by (social anxiety, and other types of) anxiety. The only way some serial killers could get rid of the anxiety was to kill, just as someone with ocd has to touch the doorknob 14 times before turning it to avoid anxiety. Most psychopaths are antisocial, to avoid anxious situations.
sorry but you are wrong. sociopaths do not experience anxiety. fearlessness is one of the the defining characteristics of sociopathy. social anxiety? sorry, nice try though