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PsychopathTHE MASK OF SANITYSection 2: The MaterialPart 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder22. The psychopath as man of the world
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22. The psychopath as man of the world The psychopath as man of the world comes from excellent stock and his educational background includes four years at a celebrated preparatory school and three at a well-known university. During his student days he took no interest whatsoever in any of his studies. His shrewdness, his skill at utilizing the work of his friends, from whose papers he usually patched together his own themes and essays, and his reliance on cheating in examinations enabled him to stay in the University through his junior year. His real interests during this period consisted in decking himself with fine clothes in which to saunter about, in presiding at social gatherings, and in flimsy but pretentious lovemaking with a large number of prominent young ladies. In the eyes of these and of their mothers he passed as a dashing beau, almost as an arbiter elegantiarum. Among his fraternity brothers he was regarded with mixed feelings. Though better supplied with funds than most of his associates, he did not pay his dues and seldom his board at the fraternity house where he occupied the choice quarters. These shortcomings, however, were tolerated, it not entirely overlooked, because of the urbanity he lent to house parties, his impassioned speeches on the sacred mysteries of brotherhood, his eloquence and skill in inducing desirable freshmen to join his group, and the general air of jeunesse dork which encompassed him. Some of his contemporaries, vexed at finding their dinner clothes or their favorite shoes always on this peacock at the very time they were most needed by the rightful owner and pressed to pay dues and other expenses which were higher for others because of his delinquencies, occasionally grumbled and cynically wondered if this glittering brother did not have special grounds for his fraternal zeal. His consecration in whipping up fraternity spirit in less ardent members was notable. Space forbids a detailed survey of his career. It has been remarkably consistent. At nearly 50 years of age he finds no difficulty in having always at his beck and call several women who rush to comfort him and who work incessantly to find new positions for him each time he loses the last one. For long periods of his life he has been almost entirely supported by wealthy ladies who entertained him for weeks at fashionable house parties in summet and at winter resorts and who "lent" large sums of money to him time after time when he moaned his inability to make a fresh start in life. He sometimes slept with the wives of his friends but, when a careful study is made of his life, it appears that he sought a mother-surrogate rather than a mistress or a real mate. Invariably the relation was one in which the woman served as protectress and support. His most effective means of THE MATERIAL 197 winning the favor of these ladies consisted chiefly in becoming maudlin drunk, weeping like a baby, begging his companion to give him lethal drugs so that he could destroy himself. and quite generally indulging in theatrics familiar in spoiled children. In his work as insurance agent, cotton broker, automobile dealer, advertising specialist, and so on he showed consistent and remarkable capacities for rest and casual disregard of primary responsibilities. It is true that he made valuable business associations at the country club, where he played golf or loitered a good part of each day. These associations often enabled him to make a good living for brief periods, but no matter how easy the work or how favorable the prospects, he had no serious difficulty in failing. Nor had he any more difficulty in arousing fresh enthusiasm in some tender-minded lady, or ladies, to raise money for a new venture or to find some easy position for him in the business of her friends or relatives. He usually preferred women older than himself, becoming, in fact, a veritable lion among dowagers in his community. Young women also have sought to mother him. The large number of women who appear in his life story have this in common: they have consistently been of sober temperament and inclined toward domesticity rather than toward flirtatious, erotically passionate, or promiscuous behavior. This is true of the younger as well as of his older benefactresses. Prominent in his plan of life are frequent sprees of drinking which he inaugurates by a few highballs in pleasant company but continues alone in his own quarters, in a hotel room, or perhaps in some bawdy house. These episodes sometimes occur without any objective precipitating cause but often follow some disappointment or reverse. He seldom fails to get word to the lady who is mothering him at the moment, giving dramatic utterance to his woe. Strenuous efforts are made to save him. Doctors are called, friends are sent to reason with him, and the ladies themselves plead. Despite all this attention, which he appears to relish keenly, he continues to drink, usually not incapacitating himself but taking enough to keep his protectors active. The spree often lasts for several days with our hero chiding and complaining, bursting into tears, and heaping his own self-pity upon the floods of pity which beat about him. Frequently it has been necessary to send him to general hospitals and occasionally to psychiatric hospitals, where he finally settles down amidst all sorts of dramatics. About ten years ago, before the period of these observations, no doubt perceiving his own advancing years, he married an extremely intelligent widow some years his elder who had for a decade tried to rehabilitate him and who was generally regarded as wealthy. Though casually unfaithful to 198 THE MASK OF SANITY her, he kept up a better front for the two years during which she lived. She spent money lavishly on him. In addition to this, her fortune was drastically reduced in a depression, and she died leaving him only enough for a few months of extravagance. The night after her funeral he spent in a cheap brothel, drinking and weeping and moaning, apparently for himself. His ability to alarm and to draw out protective impulses in women is remarkable. Superficially he gives the impression when with them of a dashing and somewhat predatory male. He is not entirely without ambition as a lover and actually seduces some of his protectresses. His approach in seduction is, however, nearly always through pity. On one of his recent sprees he called a young widow twenty years his junior and dramatically bemoaned his plight, insisting that only her influence kept him from blowing out his brains. Despite her earnest activities to cheer him up he continued to drink, calling her up from time to time to tell more of his sad state and how much worse he had become. That evening he came to her house and begged her to give him drugs with which to dispatch himself, then rushed off crying dramatically that he was en route to a notorious brothel. In the company of a male relative she followed him there and exhorted him to go home and sober up. As her pity and distress increased, his firmness in remaining hardened, and no doubt his pleasure also waxed sweeter. This case well portrays the astonishing power that nearly all psychopaths and part-psychopaths have to win and to bind forever the devotion of woman. Because of this they are often regarded as vigorous or romantic lovers, as men of peculiar virility. I believe, however, that they are seldom as well endowed in this way as the average man. Nor do they appear to be as much interested in really erotic aims as most men. Such things are of course impossible to prove or to demonstrate, but the more intimately a large number of such people are studied, the stronger becomes the impression that it is chiefly woman's impulse to mother that they arouse. Feminine intuition senses that here, concealed beneath an appearance of maturity, is a baby or something very much like a helpless, crying little baby. Her deep instincts to nurse and to protect this winsome little darling are unconsciously called out. The superficial relationship of woman to her lover conceals this fundamental urge. She longs to take this defenseless creature, hold him to her breast, guard him, shape him, and let him grow up under her protection. Her feminine intuition, which so accurately divines the presence of the spiritual baby, fails, alas, to understand that it is a baby who will never grow up. |
Energy Enhancement Enlightened Texts Psychopath The Mask Of Sanity
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