This makes me want to meditate on the possible conversation between Marzinsky and Jon Uhler. Uhler is a therapist(forget the title) who spent many years working with imprisoned psychopaths. His descriptions of the psychology are very interesting. I am interested in understanding how the process of corruption occurs within a person, and U…
This makes me want to meditate on the possible conversation between Marzinsky and Jon Uhler. Uhler is a therapist(forget the title) who spent many years working with imprisoned psychopaths. His descriptions of the psychology are very interesting. I am interested in understanding how the process of corruption occurs within a person, and Uhler has offered some thinking about that trajectory, as has Marzinsky.
For Marzinsky, I am imagining that it is an outside influence, the parasite, who tries to introduce the changes and actions, and the mistaken identification of the person with the harmful and evil thoughts. It appears to me that one must protect oneself and refuse to engage with that influence.
In my sense of Uhler, recalling, it seemed to me that there is this process possible, a kind of slippery slope, which engages and enters one upon the path to evil. There are psychopaths who are apparently born that way, but then there is this pathway that it seems to me is possible. Uhler talks about porn and how (me possibly entangling my own thoughts with his) this sexual activation leads to an enticement to a further excess and edge. I am bringing the Marquis de Sade into the conversation at this point. You need more provocation and it binds with the sexual energy (also ties to SRA influences).
I also think about integrity disorders (see Omar Minwalla). For example, the unfaithful man who creates a secret compartmentalized place ("basement") where he goes to have his sexual and romantic affairs or split life. I think about what happens when a person loses integrity because they... Lie a little, then more. When they obfuscate or manipulate, leveraging against others, and even their own other split self. When they *feed* their investment of self in a corrupt and other self/practice/path/submission.
I am thinking about all of this in conversation.
The next question for me is: what is the practice of integrity? What is the positive path? What can that look like? Another commenter gave a beautiful description of the swimming prayers. I myself have practices of meditation/improvisation/prayer through dance and other mediums which allow engagement, agency, focus, body as a medium, and so on. I would love to hear what others do.
This makes me want to meditate on the possible conversation between Marzinsky and Jon Uhler. Uhler is a therapist(forget the title) who spent many years working with imprisoned psychopaths. His descriptions of the psychology are very interesting. I am interested in understanding how the process of corruption occurs within a person, and Uhler has offered some thinking about that trajectory, as has Marzinsky.
For Marzinsky, I am imagining that it is an outside influence, the parasite, who tries to introduce the changes and actions, and the mistaken identification of the person with the harmful and evil thoughts. It appears to me that one must protect oneself and refuse to engage with that influence.
In my sense of Uhler, recalling, it seemed to me that there is this process possible, a kind of slippery slope, which engages and enters one upon the path to evil. There are psychopaths who are apparently born that way, but then there is this pathway that it seems to me is possible. Uhler talks about porn and how (me possibly entangling my own thoughts with his) this sexual activation leads to an enticement to a further excess and edge. I am bringing the Marquis de Sade into the conversation at this point. You need more provocation and it binds with the sexual energy (also ties to SRA influences).
I also think about integrity disorders (see Omar Minwalla). For example, the unfaithful man who creates a secret compartmentalized place ("basement") where he goes to have his sexual and romantic affairs or split life. I think about what happens when a person loses integrity because they... Lie a little, then more. When they obfuscate or manipulate, leveraging against others, and even their own other split self. When they *feed* their investment of self in a corrupt and other self/practice/path/submission.
I am thinking about all of this in conversation.
The next question for me is: what is the practice of integrity? What is the positive path? What can that look like? Another commenter gave a beautiful description of the swimming prayers. I myself have practices of meditation/improvisation/prayer through dance and other mediums which allow engagement, agency, focus, body as a medium, and so on. I would love to hear what others do.