Lindsey Scharmyn | Solving the Psychopathy Puzzle & Recognizing Malignant Minds
The extraordinary energy worker and intrepid host of the Rogue Ways podcast returns to provide a pertinent psychological profile on the various personality types that our governments and social hierarchies have been breeding. Lindsey Scharmyn breaks down the mechanics of broken hearts that are responsible for the societal beat-downs that many of us have had to heal through, especially in the last few years. In examining the psycho/socio-pathology and how our world is engineered for the demonic to rise to the top, we can better know who we are in this neverending story, and build back better with boundaries that reinforce our personal responsibility.
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In this episode
Core themes
Why Good People Stay Naive
Opening the slides from her article Conditioned by Psychopathy, Lindsey Scharmyn argues that humans in general are good, helpful and empathetic, and that this very goodness makes us naive. Because we are mostly good, she says, we expect others to be good and assume that whatever people are doing must be good, or else they would not do it. Her example is the person who asks why anyone would make a medication that might harm millions, and stops there. In his closing reflection Chance says we project our virtue onto other people, and admits he has been gullible with people who put up a spiritual or generous face.
Natural Versus Artificial Hierarchy
Lindsey says we are pack animals who naturally expect leaders, so hierarchy itself is not the problem. Chance adds that people mistake artificial, malignant hierarchy for all hierarchy, contrasting a grandfather advising his clan, quietly checked by a grandmother who knows everyone, with a figurehead placed over an entire continent, where there is no empathy in the machine. In a small community, Lindsey says, leadership passes to whoever actually knows the forest, while permanent positions of leadership never make sense. In unnatural systems, she argues, we choose leaders for reasons that have nothing to do with what they actually do.
Do Our Systems Breed Psychopaths?
Picking up Chance's example of a First World War general who sent men into battle hours before the armistice, Lindsey argues that government as it stands is both a psychopath magnet and a breeding ground, and that schooling is designed to sever empathy and inner wisdom. She adds that the Dunning Kruger effect compounds this, since confident ignorance gets rewarded while careful thinkers hedge and are overlooked. Chance contrasts his days at a Domino's franchise with family-run restaurants and his mother's company of about 50 employees, and Lindsey calls a corporation a dead entity that cannot feel.
The Euphoric Pull of Groupthink
Chance argues that part of what we are here to do is individuate from the group, and that surrendering to a group mind brings a real bioenergetic rush, which he links to mass hysteria in the streets. Lindsey, who marched with 50,000 people against the war in 2003 without losing herself, recalls feeling exactly that rush at a sports game with her sister. The pair also touch on bloodlust in soldiers sacking a town, while Lindsey stresses the positive side, saying that together people attempt healing or change they would never try alone.
Recognize It Without Diagnosing
Lindsey stresses that the point of studying psychopathy is to recognize it and hold strong boundaries, not to pathologize or diagnose yourself or the people around you; if you can see yourself in these traits and wonder, she says, you are probably not a psychopath. Chance quotes Michael Tsarion's idea that the sage and the psychopath are millimeters apart. He believes maintaining your personal energy field keeps energy vampires from touching you, and he closes by tying our vulnerability to the psychopath to our personal boundaries and whether we build independent or dependent lives.
Quotes
“Humans in general are good, humans in general are helpful, humans in general have empathy, humans in general feel pain when they see other people in pain.”
“Part of what we're here to do is to learn how to individuate ourselves from the group.”
“The more you know, the more you know you don't know. So the more I study something, the more I realize there is so much more that I need to know.”
“These are just some quick examples to show you that this society is set up to reward aberrant psychology and punish normal psychology.”
“Ultimately our vulnerability to the psychopath is totally tied up in our relationship to ourself and our personal boundaries.”
“A corporation is literally a dead entity. It's basically a psychopath in itself. It can't feel.”
“Everything in the universe is for your enjoyment or enlightenment, oftentimes both at once.”
“Building yourself up, being confident and being in deeper touch with who you really are is the best defense against the dark arts.”
Lindsey Scharmyn is an energy worker and host of the Rogue Ways/Rogue Soul podcast, offering spiritual healing services and psychological insight into psychopathy, malignant personalities, and psychic self-protection.
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