Mark Passio and Jodorowsky
I saw the most marvelous meme with a quote from one of my greatest idols, Alejandro Jodorowsky, the awesome genius who created El Topo, my absolute favorite film. I love this meme. “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” How wonderful that this great man, Alejandro Jodorowsky, made such an observation. But the first sight I had of that meme, was on the cover of a video by one Mark Passio and it’s all about psychopaths. I can see applying Jodorowsky’s insight to the subject of psychopathy. Yes, the “normal” folk think our “flying” is an illness. They do, indeed. The freedom from conscience we enjoy is analogous to flying. The metaphor works very well.
I found it odd that Mark Passio could choose this meme for his video which is a total statement of hatred for psychopaths. How he interprets this quote is a mystery to me. I have seen the video several times and there is no explanation. Never-the-less, the video has many “interesting” ideas to be explored. Mr. Passio says, as does Thomas Sheridan, that psychopaths are not even human. We belong to another species. How members of a separate species manage to breed and get born to human beings is a biological mystery that Passio and Thomas have yet to unravel.
We are “animals.” The fact that humans are also a species in the animal kingdom seems to elude our good man. But he seems to be one of what I will call a “specist.” You know what a “racist” is. So the meaning of this term should be obvious. White people tend to be prone to racism as the dominant race, many whites believe that they should rule over lesser “races.” Similarly, many humans believe humanity is the non plus ultra of existence. Human life is special. It’s in a separate category from all lesser species. They are animals. Just calling someone an “animal” is condemnation enough. Specism is an ideology that has enabled so-called empathetic humans to subject other animals to unspeakable cruelty. That cruelty has been well documented elsewhere. I won’t belabor my point.
We psychopaths are, therefore, not human beings. We are animals, and, therefore, inferior. Furthermore, we are not even mammals. We are some kind of reptile. (Makes it even more problematic how we manage to breed with humans.)
I wrote a comment under his video which was responded to by a human:
Frances Nowve1 day ago (edited)
You, Mark Passio, are a bird born in a cage and you think my flying is an illness. And all human beings are animals. We are just a species in the natural order. Don’t be a human supremacist.
+Frances Nowve When he says ‘animal’, he’s associating the psychopath’s impulsive behavior with the instincts of an animal. So when you “fly”, you’ll probably be flying to heaven after you get the death sentence for some horrid crime you committed. Now go ahead and keep flying
Many animals are patient and stealthy, not impulsive. I will be happy to fly to heaven when my time comes. I will fly as a free bird beyond the comprehension of those who spent their lives in cages. But I don’t think they give the death sentence anymore.
society must come before the needs of the individual. And, next to it, a picture of Hillary Clinton with a quote saying pretty much the same thing. The implication is that Hillary is just like Hitler. Trump couldn’t have put it better. The irony is that putting the individual over the needs of society is what people with ASPD do. So where is this genius coming from? Why condemn us for putting ourselves before society when he so violently disagrees with Hitler and Hillary when they try to put society first.
gulags,” it sounds far-fetched. But listening to this fool makes it all sound believable. One of my blog posts is called Psychopaths: The Jews of Today. The title kind of seems whiny to me, even though I am the one who wrote it. However, listening to Mark Passio, the title of that post sounds all too accurate.Mark Passio
Having written the above, my curiosity was still not satisfied so I continued to explore Mr. Passio’s world, aside from his rantings about psychopaths. What I gathered is that Mr. Passio is a flaming narcissist with a whole, elaborate socio-economic philosophy which he worships as much as Christians worship their bible. I should have realized when I noticed he has “the great work” after his name. The Great Work is an occult concept of a total spiritual achievement, equivalent to what enlightenment means to Hindus and Buddhists.
I am watching a video called “Free Your Mind 4 2016 Unholy Feminine & Satanic Epi-Eugenics Part.” Before I could see Mr. Passio unveil his ideas, I had to listen to some fellow introducing him at length. In the course of the introduction, we were told that Mr. Passio said, “Feel free to be offended.” That’s a red flag for me. Anyone can be offended. Do we really need to challenge them about it before we even “offend” them? He finally appeared and he went into a whole magilla about offense. The bottom line was that people who get offended by his ideas are reacting to their emotions. He, apparently, is free of emotion. He is pure truth. Furthermore, he abjured the audience to listen to the whole speech and make sure to see Part II as well.
As he moved on, he assured us that he has a lot of respect for the female gender. Oh oh! Nobody who has to precede a speech that isn’t sexist needs to say that. Sure enough. He told us that there are two kinds of feminism. One is traditional, classical feminism which is good. And the other is “neo-feminism” which seeks to make women the rulers of men. Um, yeah. Sure. It’s not really very polite for a man to get involved in inner disputes in the women’s movement. They are outsiders. But this guy does more than just inject himself where he doesn’t belong. He is telling us what members of the movement think. And he is way off.
This man has a website. What On Earth is Happening? He has a large presence on You-Tube. He will tell you all about Satanism, Epi-Eugenics and other conspiracies. Feel free to check it out. Here is the one I’m watching: Free Your Mind 4 2016 Unholy Feminine & Satanic Epi-Eugenics. I hope you find it interesting. The man who warns us that we are being manipulated is trying to manipulate us. He mixes some truth with some baloney. His repetitious exhortations, “YOU are under mind control,” warns me that he wants to tell me what to think. He is totally condescending to the public in general because they are too stupid to listen to him. What a narc!
Passio calls himself an anarchist. But his fulminations about what society needs to do to us marks him a fascist. His practical politics are not very progressive. He is one of those white men who resents feminists and non-whites who complain about what his kind has done to them. Boo Hoo! Poor white men. He is against socialism. He wants old fashioned capitalism (instead of crony capitalism) until we can get rid of government. (Then who’s going to force psycho-surgery on us without government?)
I have examined many haters on the internet but this man takes the prize. He is a walking pestilence.
Sam Vaknin said
My grandiosity has nothing to do with any delusion of being objectively better at any specific ability than other people. In fact, it has little to do with anything that can be objectively measured. I regard myself as far too unique to be compared to other people. It is a deep conviction of my own specialness. This conviction produces a rich euphoria that is beyond anyone’s touch. For that reason, I never feel the need to defend my conviction of uniqueness nor to prove it to others. What can uniqueness have to do with comparison anyway? I recognize grandiosity in others. I have no need to compete with them or to prove I am “better.” I see us as some sort of elite. Their grandiosity doesn’t detract from mine nor does mine detract from theirs. I was wearing my “I love being grandiose” t-shirt one day when a guy in the supermarket where I was shopping confided he had the same feeling. We happily recognized each other and rejoiced in this thing we shared and others knew nothing about.
Sam Vaknin is giving a seminar on destroying narcissism. He calls it a Narcopalypse. It will star Richard Grannon, Sam Vaknin and his wife, Lidija Rangelovska. Richard Grannon has made a video promoting it, saying “This is a very, very thorough course and it’s going to do some deep work. It’s never been done before and we don’t know if we’re ever going to do it again.” WOW! Sounds once in a lifetime. Sam “knows everything there is to know about the subject and guess what he wants to help. Why? Because that’s part of who he is. That’s part of his personality disorder.” So his narcissism makes him want to help. I wonder why other narcissists don’t want to help. No. They have done the harm which Sam and Richard want to help people recover from. Well, that’s marketing. Sam really cares about healing victims of his fellow narcs but it’s at a price. The entire two-day seminar costs 198 English pounds.
What is the difference between Gnosis and Faith? A fellow blogger, 
I have experimented with banishing pain. It started as mere curiosity. I thought, “Pain is a sensation. What is it about that sensation that makes it ‘bad’?” To find out, I focused on pain I was experiencing, trying to isolate the quality that made it averse. The more I focused, the further away the sensation seemed to move. In the end, I couldn’t feel the pain at all any more. I realized I had discovered a way to eliminate pain. But the concentration must be total. And I couldn’t allow myself to look forward to the pain going away. I had to be committed only to feeling the pain and being open to understanding the sensation and knowing why and if it was “bad.” It isn’t as easy as it sounds and I am not always in a mental state that allows me to do it. But, when I achieve this state of consciousness, it works.
I have practiced WICCA and Ceremonial Magick. But only in finding Chaos Magick did I realize what is at the bottom of all magick. It is focus. That’s all it is. The rituals and ceremonies are all engaged in for the purpose of achieving the right mental focus with which to work one’s will. Chaotes use a lot of asanas. Being absolutely still in mind and body puts one in the here and now. Of course, Aleister Crowley knew that. Chaotes didn’t just invent the practice. In fact, it’s really part of yoga. I tried it at work one time and suddenly was aware of waking up. I was the only awake person in a room full of slumbering others. It was an amazing experience.
What does spirituality have to do with psychopathy? Many people think psychopaths cannot be truly spiritual. We are, as my mother said, “laws unto ourselves.” We don’t connect well with other people and we are out for ourselves. James Reynard, a fellow blogger, wrote, “Do I envy love and friendship? When I’m not busy convincing myself that love is a weakness (it totally is by the way, though that doesn’t mean it’s not worth having), I feel like the loneliest person in the world. I have friends – people I keep around due to aspects of their personality I enjoy – but obviously I can’t really connect with them properly. Sure we can share a joke, or a interest in something or other, or a stimulating conversation, but then they start talking about their feelings, and I’m reminded of what I don’t have.” Yet, Kevin Dutton wrote a book called The Wisdom of Psychopaths. “Perhaps the one stand-alone feature of the psychopath, the ultimate ‘killer’ difference that distinguishes the psychopathic personality from the personalities of most ‘normal’ members of the population, is that psychopaths don’t give a damn what their fellow citizens think of them. They simply couldn’t care less how society, as a whole, might 
contemplate their actions.” Albert Camus ended his novel, The Stranger, with “With death so near, Mother must have felt like someone on the brink of freedom, ready to start life all over again. No one, no one in the world had any right to weep for her. And I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of Anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”
get it at the same time. You feel connected to everything and everyone, but you feel isolated and completely on your own.”
lose the ego. But, united with the All, one is again Alone.
I saw a movie called Town Without Pity (1961) about a teenage girl in a small town in Germany who was raped by American soldiers. The town is outraged and demands justice. The American military insists on trying the case according to military protocol. They would try it in closed chambers but the townspeople insisted on a public trial so they would be assured that justice was done. The lawyer picked to defend these men (Kirk Douglas) tried to talk the townsfolk out of the public trial. He did this out of “kindness” to the victim. He didn’t think she could take what he would “have to” do to her in defending his clients. He cared about the victim, you see. But he would still hurt an innocent girl if that’s what it took to defend his clients. The gist of the message the movie articulated was that the harm the lawyer’s very aggressive defense which involved dirtying up an innocent girl was really the town’s fault, not the lawyer’s. His duty to his clients was absolute.
Another movie about the court system, The Devil’s Advocate, was made in 1997, a good time later than Town Without Pity. This movie turns a more critical look at the lawyer who will do anything to win. Like in the other, a girl is also accusing a man (this time a teacher) of molesting her. Although the girl is a lot younger than the one in Town Without Pity, Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) manages to slut-shame her by exposing innocent reaching out in a humiliating manner. He wins the case and his client goes on to murder another little girl. Mr. Lomax’s no-holds-barred scorched earth path to victory is shown as evil, leading to the death of his wife and bondage to the devil, himself. In the end, he changes his direction and withdraws from the case, putting himself in danger of being disbarred. This is the “right” choice but disbarment seems like a pretty extreme alternative to belonging to the devil’s team.
Ultimately, the law decides how far an attorney is allowed to go in order to win his case. For example, an attorney isn’t allowed to suborn perjury. That means, he may not put a witness on the stand knowing he is going to lie. Of course, lawyers get around that by not asking certain questions while preparing the case. As one lawyer in Law & Order: SVU said, “I don’t have to know what really happened.” Raising reasonable doubt is sufficient to prevent a conviction. In Boston Legal, the lawyers regularly employ what they call “Plan B.” They raise enough suspicion on another person to cause reasonable doubt of their client’s guilt.
We know what “White Supremacy” or “Male Supremacy” means. It’s about power, relative power, power-over. Our society is hierarchical, despite frequent declarations that we are or want to be egalitarian. The main religion in the western world is Christianity which preaches agape love, humility, brotherhood (or sisterhood) and cooperation. Since these values are not and have never been prevalent in the Christian world, the way Christianity has been practiced is far from those actual ideals.
While our society is competitive and hierarchical, it’s generally recognized that most people are a complex mix of traits that embrace both the combative qualities that society practices and the inclusive ones that Christianity says we should be practicing.
There is no doubting that a lot of attention is being paid to trying to be the most high-functioning, the most powerful and superior, dare we say it? The most grandiose version of ourselves that we can manage. That ideal is exemplified in the movie, Limitless. But it is sought in real life through biohacking, Nootropics, and eugenics (see, 
There is a lot of talk about the 1% who lord it over the rest of us, the 99%. Our society has fluctuated between degrees of relative equality. During the Eisenhower years, when the rich were taxed up to 90% of their income, the middle class in America flourished. Society has moved to the right over the past 30 years or so. Many believe we are heading for one-world 
Is psychopathy an advantage in this kind of world? 
psychopaths to exploit the diminishing pool of potential victims.” But she also pointed out that psychopaths who avoid being labeled and who work in the corporate world, can be quite successful playing the hierarchical game. With fewer emotional hang-ups, the ability to camouflage themselves, such psychopaths can be eminently successful. I would add that this also holds true for life in the military or other hierarchical structures.
psychopaths. Many of us are clever enough to hide our true identities. Others, like myself, have nothing to lose, being retired. And some, like M.E. Thomas, and James Fallon, are successful enough that they can be safe in their public identities.
I have been reading Ayn Rand for years. I responded differently to every reading. One of the major philosophical ideas in her books was a challenge to the ethics of altruism. Was it possible that we are not ethically required to care for the needs of others? Is “selfishness” really a virtue as she said? There was something very refreshing and liberating about this idea, especially for a psychopath. At first reading of Atlas Shrugged, I adopted her philosophy and the politics of Libertarianism that went with it.
People’s Temple, I am torn with feelings that alternate between pity and disgust. How do people get to the point of letting a crazy person dictate their every move? How do they bring themselves to ignore the very dictates of their own conscience in order to follow a course which they, themselves, recognize as folly? It struck me all at once: These are people who have lost their self-esteem. They magnified Jim Jones into a god who could “protect them” from the bomb, cure them of cancer and give their lives meaning. And they saw themselves as tiny and insignificant beings who depended on Jones for everything.
clock for his “cause,” they had to tithe 25% of their income, wear thrift store clothing and not buy Christmas presents for their kids. (They donated $16 per child to a committee which choose presents for everyone according to their age and gender and Jim Jones gave all the presents, himself.) Parents weren’t allowed to make important decisions concerning their own kids. Young people were pressured into living in communes where conditions were substandard so that they could donate more money to the Church.
Struggling to accept the unacceptable, she reasoned with herself, “I thought of Mao’s cultural revolution. It was hard on the people at first, but over time they grew accustomed to their lives of selflessness. I had learned that this was the only way to grow altruistic. Monks in Tibet, priests in monasteries, nuns in convents, the citizens of Uncle Fidel’s Cuba, they all gave up comforts and became selfless. It was a comfort to think that pain was necessary for the greater good of mankind.”
Nevertheless, Deborah retained a certain innocence throughout her ordeal. She was very young and naive when she joined the Church. Her naivety allowed her to go on believing many of Jones’ lies long after many others recognized the folly of their continued loyalty to the Church. For example, when Jones, who preached celibacy for all Church members put the moves on her, she actually believed he was doing it for her own good, as he claimed, and apologized sincerely for making him do it. Still, with her innocence, she also acquired a certain cynicism. She helped the Church deceive the public in many areas and justified it on the grounds that the ends justified the means. She also snitched on a friend to save herself. But in spite of it, her book conveys a greater feeling of purity than did Jeannie’s. Jeannie was far more aware of how rotten and corrupt the Church was. She continued to play Jones’ games anyway until she finally was able to say “enough.”
Jeannie Mills and her family were spared the Hell that was Jonestown. Debbie Layton went to Jonestown expecting a paradise on earth. Her account of life there makes fascinating reading. It compares with accounts I have read of concentration camps. Shocked nonacceptance is followed by a change in consciousness in which the camp becomes reality as the new inmate learns to adjust and survive. Debbie’s first glance at the faces of the people already there told her what a mistake it had been to come. The faces all had expressions of hopelessness. Everywhere, people were apathetic and guarded. They worked under the watch of armed guards. And yet, unlike most of the people there, Debbie was able to escape and tell her tale.
We have the reputation already. Is it deserved? Of course, our whole society is pretty sex-obsessed. Just turn on the media. Most of the people you see are attractive. Women can reveal a lot more than they used to and we consumers are now free to follow suit in our fashion choices. That pleases me as I’ve never liked the Puritanical mind-set.
Our society is rather schizo about sex. On the one hand, the prim and proper rules of propriety and “misconduct” can still harm a political career if violated. But, at the same time, most folks are titillated and fascinated. This kind of mixed message probably makes sex even more alluring. According to society, sex was something men wanted and women withheld. If we “gave” it, we were supposed to get something worthwhile, a good meal, presents, even, or, the jackpot: a proposal. Of course, this is really the dynamic of prostitution. Nevertheless, prostitutes were held in the lowest esteem. Was it because it exposed the truth about sexual relations between men and women or was it because prostitutes “gave it up” too cheaply? They traded their power for a few venal rewards and gave up their exalted role as Madonnas, mothers of their sons.
I had sexual fantasies years before I even knew what they were. I only knew some thoughts felt really pleasurable and a strange substance would appear in my vagina. I still didn’t know it was about sex. Amazing! I didn’t even masturbate. When I first started actually dating, I was dismayed to find myself unmoved, even disgusted by necking experiences I had with a boy who should have turned me on, according to my ignorant belief system. He kissed with his mouth open, didn’t he? What was the matter with me? I spent two important years (between the ages of 13 and 15) in the nut house. That enabled me to speak with other women who were older and more experienced. I took it all in but still remained naive until I had my own experiences.
I decided virginity was something one was best free of, the earlier the better. So, before the 16th birthday, I went to the Village looking for someone to deflower me. Not only would that initiate me into carnal knowledge, but it would also allow me to meet beatniks. I did it but it wasn’t all I had hoped for. Since I was young and nubile, I had lots of offers from men. I experimented with little success. Was this all there was?
Everything changed at the age of 17 when I stumbled upon a sexual sadist and found out I was a masochist. Now I understood all those feelings and was able to satisfy them. I saw the sadist off and on over the next few years. I didn’t really trust him or feel safe with him which was probably part of the attraction. I’m pretty sure he was a psychopath. I liked the emotional detachment he had during the sex act. Freedom from “all that emotional chow-chow,” as Samantha called it in Sex and the City, set me free.
When we are discussed by others, a lot of my own hard-won was confirmed. The tone of most discussions by third parties is pretty disapproving. According to them, we are heart-breakers due to our promiscuity and lack of emotional commitment. Most of this writing shows concern no for the psychopath but for our “victims.” When our relationships go south, it’s our fault, apparently. The articles confirm that we are usually great lovers and have something that makes others want to hold on to us.
battle boredom all the time and getting to know another human being is an experience. Although we are notorious for changing partners often (nothing more to learn?), some of us have long-term relationships and even marriages.
Another article promise to list five reasons why we’re so go in bed. They are.
When I read in Thomas Sheridan’s book, Puzzling People, that psychopaths have a higher level of testosterone than others, I took it with a grain of salt as I do other statements that aren’t otherwise confirmed by more reliable sources. However, I have found corroboration of this interesting fact. Both men and women are blessed with this hormone which is known for enhancing sexuality. Of course, Love.Fraud would have to make this sound like a negative. “Testosterone is a hormone associated with aggression, motivation and drive, especially sex drive. Men have more testosterone than women, and young men have twice the level of testosterone as older men. Testosterone is elevated in all psychopaths, both male and female.” It is the opposite of Oxytocin, the neurotransmitter of love. Our unfortunate victims are full of Oxytocin making them love us while we don’t love them.
In Pinocchio, a good fairy gave Jiminy Cricket the job of being the conscience to a wooden puppet. At the same time, she gave the puppet the ability to move at will. Pinocchio didn’t know what was right or wrong. Jiminy was there to guide him. But Pinocchio was free, irrespective of the cricket, to choose his course of action. He often ignored his “conscience” and got into trouble. Jiminy and the fairy rescued him. But he learned more from his mistakes than from Jiminy.
What is “conscience?” My Google search defined it as, “an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior.” Several other definitions always include the word “feeling.” Most of them then follow this with the concept of guilt. Merriam-Webster defined it as “the part of the mind that makes you aware of your actions as being either morally right or wrong. : a feeling that something you have done is morally wrong … “ Thus “conscience” seems to be inseparable from the “feeling of guilt.” Wikipedia defines “guilt” as “Guilt may refer to: Guilt (emotion), an emotion that occurs when a person believes that they have violated a moral standard that they themselves believe in … “ Of course, there’s the legal definition which isn’t about feelings. But conscience and guilt seem to be closely bound together by feeling. When people all accept one philosophy, such as Christianity, as the Truth, guilt and conscience reinforce that philosophy. Today’s world is a smorgasbord of philosophies and religions, therefore, it is problematic where a conscience is supposed to lead one. I guess people are expected to derive their conscience from inner values. So one man’s conscience may conflict radically with that of another man. For example, Officer Wilson, the cop in Missouri who shot an unarmed teenager says his conscience is clear. Who can argue with that as everyone’s conscience is his own, individual creation. Conscience can justify any act, no matter how heinous.
have personality disorders.
Some types of behavior so outrage the popular culture that the very subject matter becomes toxic to the touch, not because of it’s intrinsic harmfulness but because of the extreme stigma attached to it. Among these extreme taboos is incest, pedophilia, and Satanism. The stigma of these things is so deadly, that it has been used historically to contaminate other things that aren’t even part of them.
For many years, gays were condemned as pedophiles even though most were nothing of the sort. The gay liberation movement had a long upwards struggle to get it through the heads of the ordinary public that gay does not equal child molester.
devil worshipers. Both witches/pagans and gays have fought so long and hard to separate themselves from these highly stigmatized groups that they feel they are forced to reject these groups to this very day. It’s easy to understand the terror felt by those who fear being painted by the same brush as these tabooed outcasts.
Even in prison, pedophiles (short eyes) are fair game for the most vicious attacks. The gay movement won’t allow people who openly advocate sex between adults and children to even march in their parades. Reactions to these people are so adverse, it is easy to forget that some “respectable” thinkers have been advocates. Oscar Wilde, for example, spoke in favor of relationships with boys, something he was personally into. Camille Paglia, who isn’t a pedophile has written sympathetically about it. Of course, we have all heard of 
There is a group called 
reminds me of an episode of Law & Order: SVU in which a teenage boy comes in to report he has an attraction to his younger half-brother. He is obviously torn-up inside by this desire he is not acting upon but the cops treated him like a perp. This boy was working with an adult who had a website for pedophiles who wanted to stay celibate. He has pictures of kids for the VPs to masturbate to instead of harming a child. Unfortunately, one of the pictures was one of Stabler’s kids. Stabler promptly beat him up and Fin said he admired Stabler’s restraint! He would have killed him, he said. It’s stunning how certain people are just considered fair game by the virtuous citizens with empathy and a conscience.
Of course, while some pedophiles have relations with kids that are truly consensual and loving and others abstain from acting on those urges, there are still others who are true predators. Jeffrey Dahmer was not only a predator, he was a serial killer and cannibal. Not all pedophiles are child molesters and not all child molesters are pedophiles. Some are psychopaths, another stigmatized group of people. Of course most psychopaths don’t prey on children and many child molesters aren’t psychopaths. It’s easy to lump them together just as it used to be easy to lump pedophiles with gays.
Writing my autobiography brought me down a memory lane in which I was an active member of Church of All Worlds, a neo-pagan organization. The publication of this group was a magazine called Green Egg. Isaac Bonewits, well know in the Pagan community as a Druid leader, wrote an article, 
or “monotheistic” (worship of only one god almost forces dualism to develop), Satanism doesn’t come from the same tradition as Paganism which is pre-Christian and which was wiped out by Christians. Pagans try to show they are not all about darkness. “Witches are Healers,” read one banner in a Gay Pride march. Some even call themselves “white witches.” At the least, pagans and witches stress the fact that they worship nature and predate the whole mindset of the Abrahamic religions.
Bonewits’ article tries to plot out a taxonomy of where every pagan and satanic group fits in the philosophical and theological scene. Unfortunately, he used words he made up as if they are accepted terminology. “Mesopagans,” “Paleopagans,” and “Scientism.” According to Bonewits, MesoPagan religions are those that developed from PaleoPagan or native Pagan religions that were influenced by 
Mr. Bonewits’ solution is simple. “How exactly can we make it clear to Setanists that they are not wanted in our community? As Deborah Lipp puts it, “How do we express our disapproval, and give it clout, without violating their rights?” Her solution: “We do it just as our Pagan ancestors did — by shunning. We don’t have to be respectful or friendly to Satanists. Shunning is ethical and legal, and no one has a civil right to be liked.” I can’t help but be struck with the similarity “shunning” has to the “no contact” solution to “narcissistic and psychopathic abuse.”
Satanists insist that a distinction be made between Satanism, a name assumed by Anton Levay in founding his church and “devil worshipers” who are assumed to be, first and foremost, enemies of God. Not all Satanists believe in god. The god they almost universally worship, whether they believe in the supernatural or not, is themselves. The point in which they differ from Pagans is that their god is an “isolate intelligence” separate from the rest of existence. Pagans and most all mystics yearn for a oneness with all things. Satanists reject this oneness. However, to achieve god consciousness, the awareness of being one with all, is, at the same time, the most profound experience of solitude that there is. To be one with everything is to know there is no other. So is there really any difference between isolate intelligence and mystical unity with All?
Thelema, the religion of Aleister Crowley and OTO seems to somehow bridge the gap between Satanism and Paganism. Adam Rostoker, who belonged to CAW and OTO, believed the bible of CAW, Stranger in a Strange Land espoused Thelema as well as the values CAW found in it. Members of CAW ritually share water, a sacrament in CAW. As the cup is passed, we tell each other, “Thou art God/Goddess.” The knowledge that we are god(s) is not unique to CAW and OTO. Many New Agers know they are god. Of course, our universal deity is openly acknowledged in OTO. Every man and every woman is a star. “There is no part of me that is not of the gods.” The age of Isis and the age of Osiris has given way to the age of Horus, the crowned and conquering Child. Grandiosity has come into it’s own.
brush that is still being used on pedophiles and satanists. I’m not trying to find a definitive conclusion about the ultimate moral value of either pedophilia or satanism. I’m just discussing the relationships between these highly stigmatized groups and other disrespected groups that are busily shunning them.
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