To Mary Christine Erikson,
What "entities" do you mean here (below)?
>> But that doesn't rule out another scenario. That the entity or
>> entities using him and feeding off the sex orgies and later the
>> bloodshed, may have had influence on The Beatles in writing
>> the song "Helter Skelter." By that time they had been fooling
>> with altered consciousness and so forth without any clear sense
>> of what they were looking for or what to avoid.
>> So it might be that Manson correctly interpreted a message,
>> but it was FROM the Beatles, it was unknowingly channeled
>> THROUGH the Beatles from something else.
I don't think The Beatles were sending *any* messages to Manson. I think
regaridng Manson's idea of The Beatles being the Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse, I would only go so far as to say that it was a poetic image that
might *seem* true-ish because of the way the 1960s were such experiemental
and weird times. I think religious vision speaks in poetic terms, not
necessarily real physical terms, although it might sometimes. And all this
talk about Manson doesn't mean I approve of him, just that I don't
necessarily think his visions were any more deluded than some other
cults/cult leaders/full blown religions.
I don't even think that Manson's use of murder is necessarily a symptom or
result of his delusion. What about the Carthaginians, they performed child
sacrifice, what about the Aztecs, they looked a bit of human sacrifice. The
only reason they don't seem deluded is because they were powerful societes
and human sacrifice was part of their regular religion. Manson was not
powerful in broader society. I think *all* religious explanations and
behaviours are "deluded" - not just ones that do terrible things. I also
don't think religion (or spirituals practice) can determine "right' and
"wrong" ultimately. Right and wrong for who, or what?
From
Caroline Tully.
http://necropolisnow.blogspot.com/
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