Psychotic Psychics

Steve Sanchez has generously contributed this insight into my post "Hail Mary... and save our cult while you're at it"






As Mike and Jeffry imply the psychic format is a deeply faulted form of spirituality. For one person to presume to psychically read their classmates over and over is spiritually incestuous. It is not of the Holy spirit. It is unconsciously tethered to the emotions of the reader, far more than to a spiritual source. In this way it is deceptive to oneself and others, and feeds the impulse to dissociate, which is what cults bank on. The psychic format does not tie people to God, but to a salvation fantasy.

Instead of doing the rigorous work of self-examination, repentance, and forgiveness, they go for the salvation fantasy, or the 'high' of group dissociation. There is a distinct pleasure in this high, there is no doubt. The pleasure was much greater when the 'leadership' of Bill was there to whip the energy into a frenzy. But in the end he was only deflecting and putting off the pain.

What is worse is that this chronic dissociating distances people from the ground of their being - God. This is why so many BPI and APS and other psychics tend to have kind of a glazed look, and an odd social manner - they are to some degree chronically dissociated. They think they are unique, and superior in their delusion.

This is what Bill often called 'turning people's minds to mush'. You see the same kind of thing happen with extreme liberals who adopt a relativistic ideology that distances themselves from the ground of their being, and completely talks themselves out of  'in God We Trust'.

Extreme conservative dogma can do the same thing when their ideology is primarily motivated by anger. The huge emotional gap of unresolved anger has to be justified by an elaborate dissociation, using ideology whether it be liberal or conservative.

The psychic format is tailor made for dissociation. All this applies perfectly well I would think to BPI. Psychodoctorate can let us know on that. But with Bill it was more sinister. 

While people were deeply dissociated Bill would take their money, their kids, and whatever else he could, and then drive them to rage. But he would make them think all their anger was a profound fault in their own self, so that people were driven deeper and deeper into inability to see themselves, and to discern the real source of the abuse.

In his own words he wanted people souls. This was the natural end of his perverse master manipulating. He made it work for a long time on a lot of people, but this highly destructive power play could not sustain itself as some people left and fought off the mind control, and revealed levels of it to others. 

Bill himself basically committed suicide because he was unable to stop himself and face what he was doing. He couldn't keep up the con even to himself, but had to keep on trying. It finally crushed him.


-- Steve Sanchez