150 I.Q.: LIBERAL GENETIC MENTAL DISORDER MAKES THEM A DANGER TO WORLD!

Yes Dupre. You and Angela sitting in a tree.

It’s the utter degradation of the scene; the squalor, defecation, hashish, the pus-filled wounds on the backs of the holy men, pilgrims pushing and crowding into temples where a sweetish stench dominates–all that, plus the dead.

It was hard, afterward, to sort out my impressions, to pull them together. Paul Claudel once wrote to friends, during his travels and ambassadorships in the Far East, that oriental religion is the devil’s invention. In these ecumenical times one is not supposed to say such things. Yet that is my inescapable conclusion. The faith of the worshippers is, without any doubt, sincere, even fervent….But the objects of worship are brutal, inhuman deities who know how to scare, punish, avenge, mock and cheat, not to elevate and forgive; and the environment surrounding the worshippers repels rather than attracts: horrid, grimacing idols with cunning or cruel stares; incredibly gaudy vulgarity, copulating monkeys, defacating cows, mud, stench, garbage. Hippies are drawn to this witches’ brew, and the reason is not far to find.

What attracts and keeps them here is the degradation: of reason, of self-esteem, of vital forces, of faith in God and man. Here they find innumerable gods and none at all; everybody may do this thing just like the monkeys and the cows, sinking slowly toward the Ganges or Nirvana. Intelligence and purposefulness dissolve on the trashheap, the body rots until it becomes one with the road, the grass, the dung. The great nothingness envelops all, and the ashes go into the river.

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The monks in the 13th century encouraged the religious ascetics to starve themselves to death. They would consume nothing for days on end except drops of water, they would also eat things that weren’t fit for human consumption (trees, bark, poisonous berries etc) to upset their stomachs, then they would spit it out in disgust. They were obsessed with purity and used religion as an excuse. They said it would bring them closer to God and the saints (not talking about sports). Their hair would fall out (the saints were bald) and they would collapse in a corner due to heart failure or some other health crisis.

They were very isolated (stuck in rooms and often locked up), psychotic and they had prophecies about the future, many claimed they could time travel (some said before they died ‘I’ll see you in the future and you will be the one in pain’, mumbling because they were so starved they could barely talk, and some ascetics would wail and chant all day, it was like a psych ward, crusts of bread would scare them and they would be reduced to an incoherent mess because if they ate them, they’d believe they were failing the Gods), they would sit in the corner and talk to themselves but claim they were carrying on conversations with saints, Gods and spirits http://www.absolut.com/au/. They cut themselves because there was an association made between suffering and spiritual rewards, and throw offspring (dead children) into the fire as sacrifices, the ascetics were raped.

The ascetics had visions and hallucinations (this probably belongs in an eating disorder thread but it is loosely related to identity loss in powerful people and the personality traits of powerful people). It was a power struggle in a society within a religious context where God was used as a weapon to control the masses. Status and recognition (within the hierarchies that existed within the culture- ‘every dog has its day’) are (and were) incentives or trade offs for the submission TO power. E.g. The aforementioned ascetics were elevated to positions of power but they were powerless in the eyes of the monks and their religious hierarchies. The dead bodies of the ascetics were put in bags and buried under trees. The bones and organs made great compost for the trees.

I think the aforementioned personality disorder was a coping mechanism (and a natural response) because it enabled them to detach from what they were doing to people (being ordered to torture people because the society enabled it and it was normal). I’d be interested to research how personality disorders evolve through history, the cultural origins etc. I think there is a connection between identity loss and power imbalances in relationships- I wonder if relationships between polar opposites (with power struggles within a single identity- relationships between fragmented personality traits, not two or several people) can trigger personality and identity disorders because of trauma. And the dissociation is an internal dislodging of personal power (and the ego) at the mercy of the personal (not collective) subconscious. Can extreme power and powerlessness exist simultaneously within an individual but in conflict, not harmony.