Mankubus / Bogachev, NLP and Cinderellas trapped in Kingdom of Thousand Seduction Mirrors
Recently my auntie asked me to review a book, which the son of the other sister, who came for a couple of days here, was reading with utmost attention. As she didn’t notice his inclination for reading before, observing drastic change in his attitude toward books piqued her interest to find more about this book he was consuming in a hunger. My auntie has a fading sight but razor-sharp mind, and only opening that book forced her to exclaim a couple of non-translatable but clear-cut evaluations regarding that book. And she was right! I later found that book on-line. It’s a full-blown sick bag ‘Manual on Persuasion and Seduction’ writen by a Russian pick-up artist Philip Bogachev, known on rusnet as mankubus.
There is an active ‘pick-up’ community of persuasion artists practiced in the art of getting what one wants, using modern arsenal of psychology, hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques to seduce women. Bogachev is one of many ‘artists’ practiced in the art of deception, and a teacher of many more dysfunctional youth lacking sense of responsibility and willing to get sexual gratification by manipulation and deceit.
Bogachev with analytical mathematical mind maps successive stages of psychological manipulation to effectively seduce a woman from the first visual contact, building sort of a manipulative ‘staircase’ through acquaintance, auditory contact, communication, kinesthetic contact, creation of rapport according to scale of accrued ‘values’, exiting into a resource mode, goodbye-farewell kiss, and final ‘aftertaste’ stage of ‘introspection’ to ensure that the sexual gratification needs of a pickupist’s have been met.
Women are manipulated with the help of arranging of ‘emotional hooks’ by appealing to some aspects of their personality with the intent of getting an advantage for seducer. The emotional transaction, described by Bogachev, in many cases is very subtle and what is appraised to be received by a pickup artist is a sense of power and being in control. Goals of getting power and control, evoked repeatedly in this manual, make this book balancing on an edge of being a psychopathic manual on seduction!
Manual on Persuasion and Seduction builds ‘the effective mental strategy’ of seductor on simple narcissistic / psychopathic (psychologically deviant minority) assertions: ‘Women are multitude, but I am one-of-a-kind. They need me immeasurably more than I need them.’; deliberate conscious undervaluation of women and deliberate overvaluation of ‘Me, unique, the best’; attitude toward women as to pleasant commodity, an object possessing a pair of nice breasts and a sexual receptacle to fulfill seducer’s narcissistic traits of being a ‘superhero; complete neglecting of feelings, emotions, needs of a woman and constant glazing into mirror of pick-up artist pleasures; pickuper is not indebted to anyone in anything. He can do whatever he wishes, even if that trespasses societal norms.
There is an episode in his seduction parade narrative where Bogachev enters into detail of how to effectively humiliate a woman which a pickuper plans to seduce and ‘domesticate’. Bogachev writes: ‘You should invite her to the restaurant, asking ‘Would you like to make me a company for today’s night in a night club / restaurant?’ She agrees, pickuper order expensive courses and exquisite wines, but the seducer’s greatest ‘enjoyment’ and thrill begins next, when it’s time to pay for delicacies. Seducer pays a half of the bill, and with nice smile hands a woman he intends to seduce, the bill to pay her share. For a woman it’s a psychological shock. Here I have to do a little regression and explain that in Russia there is a tradition, if a Monsieur invites a Madam or Mademoiselle to dine in the restaurant, it’s a Monsieur who pays the bill. So, for a woman it would be definitely a shocking experience, when seducer offers her to pay the bill. There are chances that she even didn’t take a CC or necessary cash with her! If Madam questions it or expresses her dislike, seducer starts playing with semantics: ‘ I asked you:‘Would you like to make me a company for today’s night in a night club / restaurant? I didn’t tell: ‘I invite you to restaurant’. She just wasn’t paying attention. Case closed.
Bogachev reveals seducer’s ruthless praying nature presenting ‘pluses’ of this method:
Method of putting away masks consists in ‘tearing a woman’s ‘cranium and throwing her out in other galaxy by a powerful kick’, as mankubus /Bogachev puts it. During ‘acquaintance’ stage seducer externally manifests himself as ‘super pepper’, ‘space hero’, ‘person from the Marlboro’. Then he removes his mask only to put on the next one – that of fluffy, kind, understanding, very perceptive partner. Bogachev recommends to change masks in not less than several hours, so seducer behavioral ‘pattern’ will be successfully imprinted in woman’s psyche. Then these patterns can be changed and each one ‘blown up with a loud smoke, having left in seducer’s memory ‘rolled out woman’s eyes and her warped cranium’, as Bogachev puts it.
Seducer can improve his victim-playing skills mingling three methods (Nearer-Father, method of ‘contrast’ and pattern rapture) to receive an effect of a intoxicating ‘Molotov cocktail’.
Do you have your sick-bag nearby? You may need it. The next Seduction technique is a Delirium-generator. The primary goal of Delirium-generator consists in generating delirium, or delivery of huge quantity of words during minimal time, and not reflecting on content and sequence of a message. Bogachev regards Delirium-generator as ‘the natural human device, representing the developed mechanism of associative transitions by analogies’. Once mastered ordinary Delirium-generator, seducer can create Delirium alternative realities at will and persuade woman to accept them. For example, seducer convinces woman that they find themselves in an alternate reality, similar to ours, but unreceptively different from it – everything there consists of electrical lamps and their by-products (or other ‘reality units’). Trick is in a (pseudo)logical anchoring of sensations with description of created alternate reality. Woman enters in a trance-state. And ‘reality’ is the preferred ‘seducer’s medium with which he forges his pervasive art masterpieces of complete fiction. Additionally, different behavioral ‘cliché’ models are ‘played out’, continuously ‘switching’ from one model to another to confuse woman’s sense of reality even more.
Using method of ‘tearing of a cranium’ a seducer brings a woman in a new and unknown for her place, where he finds himself fine, and she feels uncomfortable. Methinks that sort of a light version of Stockgolm Syndrom is implicated in this technique.
During conversation woman’s convictions are ridiculed, absurdisized, ignored or transformed. Reframing of terms like black is white and white is black, is a game, when the same fact can be re-interpreted in different ways, contexts changed – all this is played by a seducer to confuse and obfuscate woman’s thought processes. (in this case it’s interesting to compare with 25 techniques of disinformation artists).
I would say that everything that a pickuper - seducer does has to do with obtaining power, influence and domination. Seducer creates alternate realities to confuse and manipulate; lies to be a socially refined person; makes his prey jump through hoops whatever nature they are; positions himself in power, putts his needs above woman’s, yet makes it seem like the opposite; distorts / reframes reality and teaches others to do so to fulfill desires for a quick sexual ‘fix’. and longing for power and control over seduction victim.
Bogachev here plays himself, and ‘instructs’ others to play a “Heartbreaker manipulative game. He portraits himself as a Master-manipulator and persuader of this game. First he uses his gaze to catch an attention of a woman, woman feels captured and captivated. Then he starts playing with his subtle suggestive words, getting across to woman, disarming her defences with his wit and grandiose plans. His point is that a woman is under his spell and there is nothing she can do about it. Then he uses kissing skills focusing on a woman’s emotions, mirroring them. Finally when he gets a quick fix he abandons a woman coldbladdedly, only to meditate on the ‘aftertaste’ of the recent sexual ‘conquest’.
preposterously attributed to Don Miguel de Mañara Vicentelo de Leca, narrates a story of a Spanish ‘Alfonse’ who , through superficial charm, false promises and deception seduced a thousand women from his countryside Catholic parish, including a virgin of a Spanish noble family; and killed her father, Don Gonzalo; is immortalized in The Trickster of by de Molina (Gabriel Téllez). Since then the Story of an effective seducer spellbounded many more of the best minds and hearts of humanity, and we have been moved by stories of Dom Juan narrated by Moliere; Byron, Pushkin, enchanted by Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Don Juan became a universal archetypal figure in human psyche, comparable to those of Idiot, Hamlet, and Don Quixote. Don Juan represents like a archetypal diabolical figure, much like Biblical Serpent, who persuades Eva to taste the forbidden apples. Morally impoverished, sexually promiscuous, superficially charming and manipulative Seducer uses charm, deception, manipulation, lies, false promises that he never maintains; to put his virile hands on the tender instrument of the woman emotional romantic aspirations for a ‘knight in shining armor on a white horse'. And seducer ‘makes a woman an obeyful instrument of his pleasure, on which he plays his sweet vampiric accords, right until the last triumphal accords of his lust climax extinguish themselves. Seducer abandons every one of his victims as soon as he achieves his immediate gratification. Once he finds the new object of his sexual lust, he runs for a quick ‘fix’ for his next gratification without delay. Those naïve women who day-dream about some purity in their interactions with a seducer are doomed to not receive what they aspire to. Spanish Neuropathologist
Gonzalo R. Lafora viewed Don Juan as displaying the typical hysterical symptoms of "lying, exaggeration, egocentrism, disproportionate irritability resulting in violent psychological reaction to insignificant events, a rigid sense of etiquette, and an excessive predominance of the affective, emotional, and sexual over the intellectual and cerebral forces.”
Seduction and persuation success, when the victim isn’t aware to be manipulated, at least partially can be explained from the findings in neurophysiology and social psychology:
John Bargh from New York University in his article ‘Bypassing the Will: Towards Demystifying the Nonconscious Control of Social Behavior’ explains on how behavior can be modified outside of realm of our conscious control, awareness and intentions. The facts are that our current intentions are stored in anatomically separate brain locations from their associated and currently operating action programs. Thus persuasion and seduction, unconscious modification of behavior can be attained bypassing a conscious awareness and will; and that this behavior can and will unfold without the person being aware of its external determinant.
Dark ‘soulful’ Malkuth sings in his song Extreme Bizarre seduction:
Serene is my Psychopatia Sexualis,
I rape the nymphs,
Immolating their innocence
Send me the Hell and Paradise
I kiss the horrible
In the hell of the hallucinated vision’
Barbara Hort writes in Unholy Hungers:
Multimale-multifemale groups commonly have a dominance hierarchy among both males and females. Each individual is ranked relative to all other community members of the same gender. This tends to reduce serious violence within the community since everyone knows in advance who they must defer to and who must be submissive to them. Among rhesus macaques, one's position in the dominance hierarchy is determined by the rank of his or her mother. The top ranking individuals are referred to by primatologists as the alpha male and the alpha female. All other community members defer to them. A female's rank in the hierarchy stays with her throughout life. However, most young adult male rhesus macaques leave their natal community and ultimately join others to find mates. When they do so, they start at the bottom of the male dominance hierarchy again. Alpha males usually mate more often than others. This makes the social organization superficially look like one-male-several-female group. However, younger females often sneak off to mate with males lower down on the dominance hierarchy. The stable core of rhesus macaque communities is the group of female relatives. They stay within their natal community throughout life and work as a team to defend it against other females.
Animals of many mammals form small groups, called a ‘Tribes’, where a pyramidal subordination is formed out of necessity to share territory, females. The more aggressive, self-confident, charismatic and experienced male – dominant (alpha male) stays at the top of the food – sex – territory power chain; less aggressive, sub-dominants occupy the next level in hierarchy (beta-males). The most week young or / and submissive are omegas. Alpha-male is usually, large, strong, intelligent, attractive, and possesses a charismatic ability to generate trust, foster calm, and promote cooperation within his tribe. In chimpanses, however, it isn't always the largest and strongest males who make it to the top of the hierarchy. Often teamwork used to frighten and impress is more effective than any one individual's muscles in achieving chimpanzee goals. This is an indication of their intelligence.Members of the tribe pay a great deal of attention on his behavior and if he moves, they immediately follow him. If a male occupies a dominating position in the pride, it strives to maintain status-quo, employing physical detrainment and frightening signs as a warning to subdominants. Alpha-male demonstrates its exclusive status by physically elevating itself over other animals; his walking, demonstrated aggressiveness and showing off his erected genitals (monkeys saimiri). The primates tribal hierarchy in who shows to whom erected genitals serves as more reliable indicator of tribal status-quo than a feeding order. Hierarchy is established by aggressive male fights and culminates with demonstration of a posture of a winner by alpha-male and a submissive posture by subdominant male. Goodall noted that a lot of male aggression against female chimps occurred in the first few days of their estrous cycle, before swelling. A female chimp swells for a few weeks and ovulates at the end, but most aggression is at beginning of swelling- it seems that males attack females repeatedly during their first phase to condition them to sexual submission so that as she reaches ovulation, she's more likely to submit to the advances of the male who attacked her. This is mostly based on circumstantial evidence. However, females usually don't reject sexual advances. The best strategy for male to get good mating success is to coerce a female to go away with him and mate in peace.
Primatologist Frans de Waal, the author of Our Inner Ape wrote that some alphas are indeed bullies, but has also discovered that, in primates, those that use bullying strategies are usually overthrown by the gang after a short time. In contrast, most alphas are “populists.” They keep the peace in the troop by breaking up fights and supporting reconciliation after aggression takes place. The populist male’s alpha position is much more stable than the bully’s. In one case, a populist primate was found to occupy the alpha position for more than a decade. Far from being dictators ruling with iron fists, the most successful alphas are beloved and benevolent leaders. Nice guys don’t usually finish last in the primate world, and de Waal also describes the importance of cooperation and peacemaking, a set of behaviors that historically have been ignored by scholars with a blindered, stereotypic view of social relationships in primates.. In other words, aggressivity, manipulativeness are not characteristics of a true alpha-male among primates.
Popular explanation of male promiscuity in that the sexual strategy of the male to maximize his gene pool propagation has been challenged by Natalie Angier in her book Woman: An Intimate Geography. She wrote:
geladas,, for example, females largely control the social group. This is despite the fact that the males are larger, stronger, and more aggressive. Mothers, sisters, and aunts act as a team in chasing off other unrelated females. They also collectively select their mutual mate among a number of potential suitors roaming in and out of their territory. The male that is chosen usually is one that does not act abusively towards them and is willing to cooperate with them in defending their territory. This is a long way from stereotypical male domination.
There is quite an interesting article by Paolo Crocchiolo Alexander the Great: the superb career of an alpha-male on how basic characteristics of an alpha-male may play in human society as an archetype of a worshiped god in-flesh:
Instead of being an embodiment of a Profane prostitute who doesn’t see sacred meaning in her sexuality, who performs sex or does lovemaking solely for physical gratification without soul component present; if woman finds her unique way to become an embodiment of a sacred feminine archetype of Sensuality and Sexuality, a Sacred Prostitute, would dispel away any obscene requests.
We need to know ourselves, and recognize others when someone is flattering and distorting our own self-image. Activating and living the sacred womanhood, not external, but internal radiance, celebrating divine sensuality would inoculate us from vampirism, when our bodies are being profanated by strangers; and would endower us with the goddess instinct to discern between a hungry lust of a vampire and a quest of a soul.
Recently my auntie asked me to review a book, which the son of the other sister, who came for a couple of days here, was reading with utmost attention. As she didn’t notice his inclination for reading before, observing drastic change in his attitude toward books piqued her interest to find more about this book he was consuming in a hunger. My auntie has a fading sight but razor-sharp mind, and only opening that book forced her to exclaim a couple of non-translatable but clear-cut evaluations regarding that book. And she was right! I later found that book on-line. It’s a full-blown sick bag ‘Manual on Persuasion and Seduction’ writen by a Russian pick-up artist Philip Bogachev, known on rusnet as mankubus.
There is an active ‘pick-up’ community of persuasion artists practiced in the art of getting what one wants, using modern arsenal of psychology, hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques to seduce women. Bogachev is one of many ‘artists’ practiced in the art of deception, and a teacher of many more dysfunctional youth lacking sense of responsibility and willing to get sexual gratification by manipulation and deceit.
It is a manual on seduction of the opposite sex based on NLP, hypnosis, and building of effective structure of ‘communication’ to manipulate and seduce a woman with the least possible monetary and time investments. The ‘manual is written for men seducing women, but I don’t hold a shadow of a doubt that manuals for women how to seduce men are plentiful too. So, everything below should also regard men as victims of women pickupers, may be tiqniques are slightly different. Please bear that in mind as you read along.Donaldson-Pressman & Pressman said:Disfunctional families produce people who need immediate gratification – the quick ‘fix’. These individuals have no faith in their ability to prevail, so they look for immediate ways to make themselves feel better; food, alchohol, spending money, and sex are the most common. All of these ‘fixes’ can lead to feelings of self-loathing and depression, which lead to the need for more ‘fixes’ to lift the depression, which lead to more depression. […]In an age of thirty-second television solutions, unrealistic body images, real-life random violence (even at elementary schools) no meaningful gun control, media and entertainment industry preoccupations with sex and violence, nuclear accidents, institutionalized discrimination, police forces out of control, and the decline of both organized religion and the nuclear family, the quick ‘fix’ is not only encouraged – it looks pretty good. This is especially true for adults from narcissistic homes; those individuals we have treated all have problems with delaying gratification, and all have problems with at least one of the ‘big three’: alcohol and drugs, food, and overspending. After all, in chaotic and frightening universe, one counts on what one most easily control.
Bogachev with analytical mathematical mind maps successive stages of psychological manipulation to effectively seduce a woman from the first visual contact, building sort of a manipulative ‘staircase’ through acquaintance, auditory contact, communication, kinesthetic contact, creation of rapport according to scale of accrued ‘values’, exiting into a resource mode, goodbye-farewell kiss, and final ‘aftertaste’ stage of ‘introspection’ to ensure that the sexual gratification needs of a pickupist’s have been met.
Women are manipulated with the help of arranging of ‘emotional hooks’ by appealing to some aspects of their personality with the intent of getting an advantage for seducer. The emotional transaction, described by Bogachev, in many cases is very subtle and what is appraised to be received by a pickup artist is a sense of power and being in control. Goals of getting power and control, evoked repeatedly in this manual, make this book balancing on an edge of being a psychopathic manual on seduction!
Manual on Persuasion and Seduction builds ‘the effective mental strategy’ of seductor on simple narcissistic / psychopathic (psychologically deviant minority) assertions: ‘Women are multitude, but I am one-of-a-kind. They need me immeasurably more than I need them.’; deliberate conscious undervaluation of women and deliberate overvaluation of ‘Me, unique, the best’; attitude toward women as to pleasant commodity, an object possessing a pair of nice breasts and a sexual receptacle to fulfill seducer’s narcissistic traits of being a ‘superhero; complete neglecting of feelings, emotions, needs of a woman and constant glazing into mirror of pick-up artist pleasures; pickuper is not indebted to anyone in anything. He can do whatever he wishes, even if that trespasses societal norms.
Philip Bogachev said:Your goal to not show the woman road to the bright future. Your goal consists in admitting existence of her principles and impudently taking advantage of the collected information. The Universe is friendly environment. On a way to your goal you will find all resources necessary for you. In this assumption one interesting concept is hidden. Our world will be such what we wish it to see.
Game strategy which Bogachev probably borrowed / developed ‘futher’ from Neil Strauss bestseller ‘'The Game’is actively employed in seduction and persuation process. State of playing game with a pickuper victim is evoked by NLP technique of anchoring or special learning exercises at unconscious level.Robert Hare said:Psychopaths have a narcissistic and grossly inflated view of their self-worth and importance, a truly astounding egocentricity and sense of entitlement, and see themselves as the center of the universe, as superior beings who are justified in living according to their own rules. ‘It’s not that I don’t follow the law’, said one of our subjects. ‘I follow my own laws. I never vaiolate my own rules.’
There is an episode in his seduction parade narrative where Bogachev enters into detail of how to effectively humiliate a woman which a pickuper plans to seduce and ‘domesticate’. Bogachev writes: ‘You should invite her to the restaurant, asking ‘Would you like to make me a company for today’s night in a night club / restaurant?’ She agrees, pickuper order expensive courses and exquisite wines, but the seducer’s greatest ‘enjoyment’ and thrill begins next, when it’s time to pay for delicacies. Seducer pays a half of the bill, and with nice smile hands a woman he intends to seduce, the bill to pay her share. For a woman it’s a psychological shock. Here I have to do a little regression and explain that in Russia there is a tradition, if a Monsieur invites a Madam or Mademoiselle to dine in the restaurant, it’s a Monsieur who pays the bill. So, for a woman it would be definitely a shocking experience, when seducer offers her to pay the bill. There are chances that she even didn’t take a CC or necessary cash with her! If Madam questions it or expresses her dislike, seducer starts playing with semantics: ‘ I asked you:‘Would you like to make me a company for today’s night in a night club / restaurant? I didn’t tell: ‘I invite you to restaurant’. She just wasn’t paying attention. Case closed.
Bogachev reveals seducer’s ruthless praying nature presenting ‘pluses’ of this method:
Humiliation of woman and self-aggrandizement of a seductor can be also achieved by a ‘game’ Change of the Importance by Submodalities, particularly, by ‘A psychic Needle’ technique.Bogachev said:The first [plus] is based that she will be indebted to you in significant sum of money [if seducer lends her money to pay for herself]. This debt can be paid with elementary bedroom relations. Second plus consists in enormous moral satisfaction from contemplation of the picture [of woman’s humiliation’]. The satisfaction can be transformed into gloomy jeer, if you ask her to write the debenture letter
Method of contrasts (plus –minus) is a verbal technique to gauge a woman in the game of contrasts -first seducer makes her a positive compliment, and then – a negative remark; overally ‘plus’ exceeds ‘minus’ to keep her ‘emotionally ‘hooked’.Bogachev said:‘A Needle’ technique
The technique is a special case of a ‘Nearer-Father’ method, when seducer creates in a woman series of polarized emotional states shifting her mood by being rude - offensive and then intimate - friendly in a combination with break of a pattern method. A seducer plays some time advanced Nearer, his attitudes with a woman consist only of the positive moments for her. Later, when relationship seem to the woman to be established, seducer unexpectedly and abruptly for a woman injects a psychic Needle. The essence of an injection of a Needle consists in forcing ‘concentrated’ Farther [technique], and with the greatest possible intensity for the given woman. For each woman intensity is individual. For one woman the maximal admissible intensity will be words like " a homeless b.tch" to address her, and for another a slap in the face and a seeming breach of relationship. The injection should be sized for each woman, not to put an irreparable harm to her psyche. The injection should be on the verge of fol. The amplitude of an injection should accrue from zero to peak, then sharply falling down. A sufficient condition for reduction of amplitude of an injection to zero is the full confusion and a disorientation of the woman. Right after an injection of a needle, maximum - in 4-8 hours, you should apologize before the woman for the ‘improper act’ and to ‘smooth your fault’. Tests have shown workability of this technique in many cases, especially well it operates for a binding of the woman for a long-standing relationship
Method of putting away masks consists in ‘tearing a woman’s ‘cranium and throwing her out in other galaxy by a powerful kick’, as mankubus /Bogachev puts it. During ‘acquaintance’ stage seducer externally manifests himself as ‘super pepper’, ‘space hero’, ‘person from the Marlboro’. Then he removes his mask only to put on the next one – that of fluffy, kind, understanding, very perceptive partner. Bogachev recommends to change masks in not less than several hours, so seducer behavioral ‘pattern’ will be successfully imprinted in woman’s psyche. Then these patterns can be changed and each one ‘blown up with a loud smoke, having left in seducer’s memory ‘rolled out woman’s eyes and her warped cranium’, as Bogachev puts it.
Seducer can improve his victim-playing skills mingling three methods (Nearer-Father, method of ‘contrast’ and pattern rapture) to receive an effect of a intoxicating ‘Molotov cocktail’.
Do you have your sick-bag nearby? You may need it. The next Seduction technique is a Delirium-generator. The primary goal of Delirium-generator consists in generating delirium, or delivery of huge quantity of words during minimal time, and not reflecting on content and sequence of a message. Bogachev regards Delirium-generator as ‘the natural human device, representing the developed mechanism of associative transitions by analogies’. Once mastered ordinary Delirium-generator, seducer can create Delirium alternative realities at will and persuade woman to accept them. For example, seducer convinces woman that they find themselves in an alternate reality, similar to ours, but unreceptively different from it – everything there consists of electrical lamps and their by-products (or other ‘reality units’). Trick is in a (pseudo)logical anchoring of sensations with description of created alternate reality. Woman enters in a trance-state. And ‘reality’ is the preferred ‘seducer’s medium with which he forges his pervasive art masterpieces of complete fiction. Additionally, different behavioral ‘cliché’ models are ‘played out’, continuously ‘switching’ from one model to another to confuse woman’s sense of reality even more.
Using method of ‘tearing of a cranium’ a seducer brings a woman in a new and unknown for her place, where he finds himself fine, and she feels uncomfortable. Methinks that sort of a light version of Stockgolm Syndrom is implicated in this technique.
Creating Anchors (reflexes) permits to have an quick unconscious access to different states. Visual, audio, olphactory, dimentional, gourmet, sliding, complex, - all these types of anchors a seasoned pick-up seducer puts during conversation and then plays with a woman’s mood like a musician on a harp.Laura said:The term, Stockholm Syndrome, was coined in the early 70's to describe the puzzling reactions of four bank employees to their captors. On August 23, 1973, three women and one man were taken hostage in one of the largest banks in Stockholm. They were held for six days by two ex-convicts who threatened their lives but also showed them kindness. To the world's surprise, all of the hostages strongly resisted the government's efforts to rescue them and were quite eager to defend their captors. The hostages began to identify with their captors and fearing the authorities who were trying to get them out. In essence it begins as a survival mechanism, where the hostages believe that the captor will not harm them if they act friendly and acquiesce. In cases of long term captivity, this sets the foundation for the captor being able to convince the hostages that their point of view or grievance is righteous. Under duress and emotional stress, the hostages are often easily convinced, and a real bond of affection forms between the captor and their victims. In doing so, the hostage goes into a state of denial of what the actual situation is. Several sub-mechanisms may occur. The hostage may come to view the actual situation as displaced from reality. He or she may begin to sleep excessively or go into a fantasy world of being miraculously rescued. The hostage may also attempt to forget the situation by keeping busy with useless work or activity. If the captors manage to create a strong enough bond with the hostages, the hostages may blame the rescuers for creating the uncomfortable situation. In Sweden the hostages ended up defending their captors, and two of the women are even said to have started romantic relationships with their captors. Other similar cases have seen the victims refuse to testify against the hostage takers, raising money for a defence fund, being generally uncooperative with rescuers and prosecuting authorities, as well as, visiting their captors in jail.
One of the primary problems of dealing with a large human population in terms such as the above seems to be that it's a lot more energy efficient to get the victim to like his captivity and even to help you to use and abuse him or her. The primary way to do that is to play the "good cop, bad cop" game. In other words, set up someone to play the persecutor and then you can come in and be the "savior."
The negative guys, on the other hand, play the game in terms of domination, subjugation and absorption of other consciousnesses with total disregard for the pain and suffering they cause. In fact, they deliberately cause pain and suffering in order to induce the other to "choose" their domination in order to bring the pain and suffering to an end. Again, we are reminded of Stockholm Syndrome. At the hyperdimensional levels of being, negative entities understand certain rules which are that, in order for them to be able to "dominate" truly, the other must "choose" to be dominated. In Stockholm Syndrom terms, it is more energy efficient if the prisoner is persuaded to cooperate, and even to help with his captivity, if he is doing so by choice and the captor does not have to spend endless amounts of energy keeping an eye on him, checking the locks on the doors, torturing him, or whatever. It is a simple matter of ECONOMICS.
Well said.Bogachev said:In general, implicit anchors and analog marking transform our communication in a real magic, the main magic factor being - the latent manipulation of women. What bastards are we, it is not conceivable to a human mind!
During conversation woman’s convictions are ridiculed, absurdisized, ignored or transformed. Reframing of terms like black is white and white is black, is a game, when the same fact can be re-interpreted in different ways, contexts changed – all this is played by a seducer to confuse and obfuscate woman’s thought processes. (in this case it’s interesting to compare with 25 techniques of disinformation artists).
I would say that everything that a pickuper - seducer does has to do with obtaining power, influence and domination. Seducer creates alternate realities to confuse and manipulate; lies to be a socially refined person; makes his prey jump through hoops whatever nature they are; positions himself in power, putts his needs above woman’s, yet makes it seem like the opposite; distorts / reframes reality and teaches others to do so to fulfill desires for a quick sexual ‘fix’. and longing for power and control over seduction victim.
Bogachev here plays himself, and ‘instructs’ others to play a “Heartbreaker manipulative game. He portraits himself as a Master-manipulator and persuader of this game. First he uses his gaze to catch an attention of a woman, woman feels captured and captivated. Then he starts playing with his subtle suggestive words, getting across to woman, disarming her defences with his wit and grandiose plans. His point is that a woman is under his spell and there is nothing she can do about it. Then he uses kissing skills focusing on a woman’s emotions, mirroring them. Finally when he gets a quick fix he abandons a woman coldbladdedly, only to meditate on the ‘aftertaste’ of the recent sexual ‘conquest’.
Bogachev doesn't recognize any defect in his own psychical inne rlife, no need to change; he is quite proud of being the Master in the cold-blooded ‘game’ of seduction. Pickup seducer is an cunning, guiltless and ruthless predator who gets a quick ‘sexual fix’ that he wants using his wily strategies to get into the moist inviting hole of pleasure and feed on a woman. The philosophy of the man being like a bee, having many flowers, and leaping from one to the next at will, abandoning ladies right and left, is one that would have been created by an ‘alpha’ male. They don’t have to ‘take anything’ from a woman as they can always get "it" elsewhere. Bogachev demonstrates a sexually promiscuous tendency towards continual excitement and sexual stimulation, a guiltlessness not self-restrained by the voice of conscience. without leaving it any time to reflect on own behavior and what consequences it might have on his seduced victims.Martha Stout said:When a sociopath identifies someone as a good game piece, she studies that person. She makes it her buisiness to know how that person can be manipulated and used, and, to this end, just how her chosen pawn can be flattered and charmed. In addition, she knows how to promote a sense of familiarity or intimacy by claiming that she and her victim are similar in some way. […]. And sexual seduction is only one aspect of the game. We are seduced as well by the acting skills of the sociopath. Since the scaffolding of a life without conscience is deception and illusion, intelligent sociopaths often become proficient at acting, and even at some of the particular techniques employed by professional actors. Paradoxically, the visible signs of emotion at will can become second nature to the cold-blooded – the appearance of intense interest in another person’s problems or enthusiasms, chest-thrumping patriotism, righteous indignation, blushing modesty, weepy sadness. Crocodile tears at will are a sociopathic trademark.
Psychoanalyst Ethel Spector Person writes: "The psychopath's insight is always directed toward his internal needs. These needs are not what they appear to be. He is not predominantly hedonistic, although some of his behavior, particularly sexual, might lead one to think so. Instead, he is motivated primarily by the need to dominate and humiliate either the person he is 'taking' or, very often, someone connected to a person with whom he is involved. He may, for instance, seduce a friend's girlfriend."Checkley said:[Psychopath] shows almost no sense of shame. His career is always full of exploits, any one of which would wither even the more callous representatives of the ordinary man. Yet he does not, despite his able protestations, show the slightest evidence of major humiliation or regret. This is true of matters pertaining to his personal and selfish pride and to esthetic standards that he avows as well as to moral or humanitarian matters.
Probably the most noted seducer of all times is Don Juan. The popular legend-noir of this profligate wicked lover and seducer oftenDSM-IV Definition
Profile of the Sociopath
Glibness and Superficial Charm
Manipulative and Conning
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."
Pathological Lying
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.
Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
Shallow Emotions
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
Incapacity for Love
Need for Stimulation
Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.
Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.
Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature
Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.
Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet "gets by" by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
Irresponsibility/Unreliability
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts.
Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.
Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.
Other Related Qualities:
Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them
Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them
Authoritarian
Secretive
Paranoid
Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
Conventional appearance
Goal of enslavement of their victim(s)
Exercises despotic control over every aspect of the victim's life
Has an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore needs their victim's affirmation (respect, gratitude and love)
Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
Incapable of real human attachment to another
Unable to feel remorse or guilt
Extreme narcissism and grandiose
May state readily that their goal is to rule the world
preposterously attributed to Don Miguel de Mañara Vicentelo de Leca, narrates a story of a Spanish ‘Alfonse’ who , through superficial charm, false promises and deception seduced a thousand women from his countryside Catholic parish, including a virgin of a Spanish noble family; and killed her father, Don Gonzalo; is immortalized in The Trickster of by de Molina (Gabriel Téllez). Since then the Story of an effective seducer spellbounded many more of the best minds and hearts of humanity, and we have been moved by stories of Dom Juan narrated by Moliere; Byron, Pushkin, enchanted by Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Don Juan became a universal archetypal figure in human psyche, comparable to those of Idiot, Hamlet, and Don Quixote. Don Juan represents like a archetypal diabolical figure, much like Biblical Serpent, who persuades Eva to taste the forbidden apples. Morally impoverished, sexually promiscuous, superficially charming and manipulative Seducer uses charm, deception, manipulation, lies, false promises that he never maintains; to put his virile hands on the tender instrument of the woman emotional romantic aspirations for a ‘knight in shining armor on a white horse'. And seducer ‘makes a woman an obeyful instrument of his pleasure, on which he plays his sweet vampiric accords, right until the last triumphal accords of his lust climax extinguish themselves. Seducer abandons every one of his victims as soon as he achieves his immediate gratification. Once he finds the new object of his sexual lust, he runs for a quick ‘fix’ for his next gratification without delay. Those naïve women who day-dream about some purity in their interactions with a seducer are doomed to not receive what they aspire to. Spanish Neuropathologist
Gonzalo R. Lafora viewed Don Juan as displaying the typical hysterical symptoms of "lying, exaggeration, egocentrism, disproportionate irritability resulting in violent psychological reaction to insignificant events, a rigid sense of etiquette, and an excessive predominance of the affective, emotional, and sexual over the intellectual and cerebral forces.”
Seduction and persuation success, when the victim isn’t aware to be manipulated, at least partially can be explained from the findings in neurophysiology and social psychology:
John Bargh from New York University in his article ‘Bypassing the Will: Towards Demystifying the Nonconscious Control of Social Behavior’ explains on how behavior can be modified outside of realm of our conscious control, awareness and intentions. The facts are that our current intentions are stored in anatomically separate brain locations from their associated and currently operating action programs. Thus persuasion and seduction, unconscious modification of behavior can be attained bypassing a conscious awareness and will; and that this behavior can and will unfold without the person being aware of its external determinant.
It turns out that victims are manipulated and tricked bypassing their will, and their energy was drained. That kind of manipulation and draining of energy occurs, when con artists via deception and manipulation coerce their victims to play sick games of power and domination.John Bargh said:People are often unaware of the reasons and causes of their own behavior. In fact, recent experimental evidence points to a deep and fundamental dissociation between conscious awareness and the mental processes responsible for one’s behavior; many of the wellsprings of behavior appear to be opaque to conscious access. This consensus has emerged in part because of the remarkable resemblance between the behavior of patients with some forms of frontal lobe damage, and (normal) participants in contemporary “priming” studies in social psychology. In both cases, the individual’s behavior is being “controlled” by external stimuli, not by his or her own consciously-accessible intentions or acts of will. Both sets of evidence demonstrate that action tendencies can be activated and triggered independently and in the absence of the individual’s conscious choice or awareness of those causal triggers.[…]
I have argued for the existence of sophisticated nonconscious monitoring and control systems that can guide one’s behavior over extended periods of time in a changing environment, in pursuit of desired goals. Recent neuropsychological evidence, reviewed in this section, is consistent with these claims, as well as with the core proposition that conscious intention and behavioral (motor) systems are fundamentally dissociated in the brain. In other words, the recent evidence shows that much if not most of the workings of the motor systems that guide action are opaque to conscious access.
The brain structure that has emerged as the primary locus of automatic, nonconsciously controlled motor programs is the cerebellum, and specifically the neocerebellum. With frequent and consistent experience of the same behaviors in the same environmental context, this brain structure links the representations of those specific behavioral contexts with the relevant premotor, lower level movement generators. In this way complex behavior can be mapped onto specific environmental features and contexts and so be guided automatically by informational input by the environment (i.e., bypassing the need for conscious control and guidance). Critically, cerebellar output extends even to the main planning area of the brain, the prefrontal cortex, providing a plausible neurological basis for the operation of automatic, nonconscious action plans. As Thach concludes from his review of research on the role and function of the cerebellum, “[it] may be involved in combining these cellular elements, so that, through practice, an experiential context can automatically evoke an action plan”
Evidence from the study of brain evolution also points to an important role for the (neo)cerebellum in the deliberate acquisition of new skills. A major advance in human cognitive capacity and capability was the connection between the prefrontal cortex and the neocerebellum, which increased in size by a factor of five. This expanded pathway enables nonconscious control over higher executive mental processes, because it connects the main cerebellar receiving areas in the brain stem with the frontal tertiary cortex (two levels of analysis removed from direct sensation). This part of the cortex receives inputs only from secondary analysis areas of the brain (which take input only from other mental representations and not from sensory organs), and thus is entirely buffered from direct sensory areas. “The fact that these pathways are connected to high level cognitive regions places the cerebellum in a strategic location… The overwhelming size of this connection to the prefrontal areas suggests an important executive role, probably in the generation of automated programs of executive control” Hence, there appears to be a sound anatomical basis for the notion of nonconscious guidance of higher mental processes, such as interpersonal behavior and sophisticated goal pursuit.
There are two separate cortical visual pathways activated during the perception of human movement: a dorsal one for action tendencies based on that information, and a ventral one used for understanding and recognition of it. The dorsal system operates mainly outside of conscious awareness, while the workings of the ventral system are normally accessible to consciousness.
Thus the dorsal stream (or activated pragmatic representation) could drive behavior in response to environmental stimuli in the absence of conscious awareness or understanding of that external information. It could, in principle, support a nonconscious basis for action that is primed or driven by the current or recent behavioral informational input from others – in other words, be a neurological basis for the “chameleon effect” of nonconscious imitation of the behavior of one’s interaction partners. […]
Intended movements are normally represented in the prefrontal and premotor cortex, but the representations actually used to guide action are in the parietal cortex. In other words, intentions and the motor representations used to guide behavior are apparently held in anatomically separate, distinct parts of the brain. […] The finding that within working memory, representations of one’s intentions (accessible to conscious awareness) are stored in a different location and structure from the representations used to guide action (not accessible) is of paramount importance to an understanding of the mechanisms underlying priming effects in social psychology. If intentions and corresponding action plans were stored in the same location (or if there were conscious access to all of the operations of working memory, so that awareness of one’s intention was solely a matter of conscious access to the currently operative goal or behavior program, then it would be difficult to see how nonconscious control over social behavior could be possible. This finding alone - a dissociation within working memory itself between conscious intention and action – has the potential to remove much of the mystery behind the nonconscious activation and guidance of complex social behavior and goal pursuit. The storage of current intentions in anatomically separate brain locations from their associated and currently operating action programs would appear to be nothing less than the neural basis for nonconscious goal pursuit and other forms of unintended behavior.
Dark ‘soulful’ Malkuth sings in his song Extreme Bizarre seduction:
Serene is my Psychopatia Sexualis,
I rape the nymphs,
Immolating their innocence
Send me the Hell and Paradise
I kiss the horrible
In the hell of the hallucinated vision’
Barbara Hort writes in Unholy Hungers:
Vampiric seducer is egocentric, irresponsible, shameless, lying, valuing others only for how much food they could provide. Loveless and shallow, while he gives no real love, he is quite capable to inspire love; making insincere promises to obtain the objects of his seduction, he doesn’t carry through any of them. superficial and manipulative, sexually promiscuous, his inability to love and endless race for pleasurable stimuli, for immediate gratification prevents him from forming any meaningful relationships at all.Barbara Hort said:The BEAST has always been with us. For as long as our hearts have pumped blood, for as long as our souls have glowed with life, for as long as we have yearned for love, the beast has always been there. Sneering and stalking, drooling and scheming, it licks its full, soft lips in anticipation of its next warm meal. For the beast is essentially a feeding thing. Oh, yes, it has many faces, all of them human, and it has our endearing manners as well. But those human graces are a camouflage born of necessity – they are the disguise that enables the beast to prevail. Beneath its veneer of humanity, the core of the best is hunger, and survival is its only goal.
The beast hungers for survival, but not for life as we know it, since life implies the warmth of a beating heart and the light of a shining soul. The beast has neither heart nor soul. It has only a clever mind and an unsatiable hunger. To survive, the beast must appease its hunger, and it can feed only on the thing it lacks – the essence of life. So the beast must prey upon us, the living. It must suck our lifeblood and drain our force.
[…] The beast is ancient and global and growing. It has many stories, and shapes without number, and all are like shadows – elusive and dim. But the name that we call the beast itself is clear and cold and precise. We call the beast vampire.
What is interesting, if we take a look into characteristic traits of a persuader and seductor, they seem to be the same as essential characteristics of an alpha-male in multimale-multifemale primate groups!!Checkley said:"Entanglements which go out of their way to mock ordinary human sensibility or what might be called basic decency are prevalent in their sexual careers. To casually 'make' or 'lay' the best friend's wife and to involve a husband's uncle or one of his business associates in a particularly messy triangular or quadrilateral situation are typical acts. Such opportunities, when available, seem not to repel but specifically to attract the psychopath. Neither distinct appeal of the sex object nor any formulated serious malignity toward those cuckolded or otherwise outraged seems to be a major factor in such choices. There is more to suggest a mildly prankish impulse such as might lead the ordinary man to violate small pedantic technicalities or dead and preposterous bits of formality as a demonstration of their triviality.
Multimale-multifemale groups commonly have a dominance hierarchy among both males and females. Each individual is ranked relative to all other community members of the same gender. This tends to reduce serious violence within the community since everyone knows in advance who they must defer to and who must be submissive to them. Among rhesus macaques, one's position in the dominance hierarchy is determined by the rank of his or her mother. The top ranking individuals are referred to by primatologists as the alpha male and the alpha female. All other community members defer to them. A female's rank in the hierarchy stays with her throughout life. However, most young adult male rhesus macaques leave their natal community and ultimately join others to find mates. When they do so, they start at the bottom of the male dominance hierarchy again. Alpha males usually mate more often than others. This makes the social organization superficially look like one-male-several-female group. However, younger females often sneak off to mate with males lower down on the dominance hierarchy. The stable core of rhesus macaque communities is the group of female relatives. They stay within their natal community throughout life and work as a team to defend it against other females.
Animals of many mammals form small groups, called a ‘Tribes’, where a pyramidal subordination is formed out of necessity to share territory, females. The more aggressive, self-confident, charismatic and experienced male – dominant (alpha male) stays at the top of the food – sex – territory power chain; less aggressive, sub-dominants occupy the next level in hierarchy (beta-males). The most week young or / and submissive are omegas. Alpha-male is usually, large, strong, intelligent, attractive, and possesses a charismatic ability to generate trust, foster calm, and promote cooperation within his tribe. In chimpanses, however, it isn't always the largest and strongest males who make it to the top of the hierarchy. Often teamwork used to frighten and impress is more effective than any one individual's muscles in achieving chimpanzee goals. This is an indication of their intelligence.Members of the tribe pay a great deal of attention on his behavior and if he moves, they immediately follow him. If a male occupies a dominating position in the pride, it strives to maintain status-quo, employing physical detrainment and frightening signs as a warning to subdominants. Alpha-male demonstrates its exclusive status by physically elevating itself over other animals; his walking, demonstrated aggressiveness and showing off his erected genitals (monkeys saimiri). The primates tribal hierarchy in who shows to whom erected genitals serves as more reliable indicator of tribal status-quo than a feeding order. Hierarchy is established by aggressive male fights and culminates with demonstration of a posture of a winner by alpha-male and a submissive posture by subdominant male. Goodall noted that a lot of male aggression against female chimps occurred in the first few days of their estrous cycle, before swelling. A female chimp swells for a few weeks and ovulates at the end, but most aggression is at beginning of swelling- it seems that males attack females repeatedly during their first phase to condition them to sexual submission so that as she reaches ovulation, she's more likely to submit to the advances of the male who attacked her. This is mostly based on circumstantial evidence. However, females usually don't reject sexual advances. The best strategy for male to get good mating success is to coerce a female to go away with him and mate in peace.
Primatologist Frans de Waal, the author of Our Inner Ape wrote that some alphas are indeed bullies, but has also discovered that, in primates, those that use bullying strategies are usually overthrown by the gang after a short time. In contrast, most alphas are “populists.” They keep the peace in the troop by breaking up fights and supporting reconciliation after aggression takes place. The populist male’s alpha position is much more stable than the bully’s. In one case, a populist primate was found to occupy the alpha position for more than a decade. Far from being dictators ruling with iron fists, the most successful alphas are beloved and benevolent leaders. Nice guys don’t usually finish last in the primate world, and de Waal also describes the importance of cooperation and peacemaking, a set of behaviors that historically have been ignored by scholars with a blindered, stereotypic view of social relationships in primates.. In other words, aggressivity, manipulativeness are not characteristics of a true alpha-male among primates.
Popular explanation of male promiscuity in that the sexual strategy of the male to maximize his gene pool propagation has been challenged by Natalie Angier in her book Woman: An Intimate Geography. She wrote:
But, from the other side, it would be a mistake to assume that non-human primate one-male-several-female groups are dominated by males. AmongNatalie Angier said:“Just how good a reproductive strategy is this chronic, random shooting of the gun? A woman is fertile only two or three days a month. Her ovulation is concealed. The man doesn’t know when she’s fertile. She might be in the early stages of pregnancy when he gets to her; she might still be lactating and thus not ovulating. Moreover, even if our hypothetical Don Juan hits a day on which a woman is ovulating, his sperm only has a 20 percent chance of fertilizing her egg…each episode of fleeting sex has a remarkably small probability of yielding a baby…less than one percent. And because the man is beating and running, he isn’t able to prevent any of his one-night stands from turning around and mating with other men…[If he were] to spend a bit more time with one woman…the odds of his getting the woman during her fertile time would increase and he’d be monopolizing her energy and keeping her from the advances of other sperm-bearers. It takes the average couple four months, or 120 days, of regular sexual intercourse to become pregnant. That number of days is approximately equal to the number of partners our hypothetical libertine needs to sleep with to have one of them result in a “fertility unit,” that is, a baby.
geladas,, for example, females largely control the social group. This is despite the fact that the males are larger, stronger, and more aggressive. Mothers, sisters, and aunts act as a team in chasing off other unrelated females. They also collectively select their mutual mate among a number of potential suitors roaming in and out of their territory. The male that is chosen usually is one that does not act abusively towards them and is willing to cooperate with them in defending their territory. This is a long way from stereotypical male domination.
There is quite an interesting article by Paolo Crocchiolo Alexander the Great: the superb career of an alpha-male on how basic characteristics of an alpha-male may play in human society as an archetype of a worshiped god in-flesh:
Seducers through ages and no on are so completely trapped in fulfilling their own desires to the point where others exist only as instruments to serve that end. Thinking that so many superficially charming vampiric seducers view women as solely sweet desirable moist holes to be filled with the milk of gods when men so please, and abandon seduced women emotionally lifeless afterwards, saddens . What a woman can do to prevent to be played on like harp, where perspicacious seducer can plays his hungry for an immediate gratification scrambled melody?Paolo Crocchiolo said:Alpha male-related inborn mental/emotional archetypes are hypothesized underlying these episodes, such as self-deification, loyalty, hubris, magnanimity, polygamy, homosexuality, and, in several different circumstances, more generally, α male-role playing behaviors.
1.Self-deification
In the chapter on ethics and religion of his work “Consilience”, E. O. Wilson hypothesizes as an advantageous selective instinct the progressive identification of the α male (even in his absence or after his death) with a god. Several mythological tales around the world seem to reflect this biased mental pattern, emphasizing the great extent to which the tribal community depends, and relies for its survival, upon its α male, worshipped as a god (generally, the son of the sun). All anthropomorphic (in fact, andromorphic) representations of God (according to Feuerbach, man created god in his image and resemblance) may be interpreted as confirming evidences, or clues, to this central biological hypothesis.
2. The prostration issue and the treachery/loyalty binomium requests to be honored with the bowing in reverence and submission. However,
For the survival of the tribe, that relies on the leadership of its α male, it is indispensable that the latter is not betrayed. However, the inner circle of dominant males surrounding the α male is periodically tempted to seize power replacing him, stipulating agreements and eventually cheating
and ultimately fighting each other. If they are discovered, however, or even only suspected (Philotas, Callisthenes) they are submitted to capital punishment. What does the prostration have to do with all this? The members of the winner tribe may feel to deserve a privileged treatment
with respect to the subjugated enemies.
3. Arrogance of power and the murder of Kleitos
This kind of solidarity and altruism is biologically founded, according to Wilson et al., as it represents a kin selective advantage. Anthropological note: until recent years, as I learned from direct reports of elderly people in some rural communities as far apart as Zimbabwe and Southern Italy that, in times of war and famine, whatever food was collected in an enlarged family, the bulk was given to the father (‘paterfamilias’ in Latin), and the rest of the family had to content with what was left over, if anything was left over at all.
4. Magnanimity with Porus, the defeated α male
Alpha males may recognize each other, provided the struggle for food and space doesn’t get too tight,
5. Polygamy and reproductive strategies
In addition to his love/sex affair with Barsine (who bears him Herakles), Alexander marries Roxanne, the beautiful daughter of the satrap Oxyartes (who will posthumously bear him Alexander IV), and, subsequently, shortly before his death, Statira and Parisatides, daughters of king Darius. The latter are
married in the broader context of a mass marriage ceremony between Macedonian officers and ladies offspring of the Persian aristocracy that, in Alexander’s intention, should solidly cement the two peoples. Exogamic practices between tribes, even rival tribes, are commonly described by anthropologists. The ancient Roman mythological episode of the “rape of the Sabines” reflects a similar behavioural pattern, although revealing a particularly aggressive character. It appears superfluous to emphasize the worldwide, irresistible polygamic trend of α males. A corollary aspect, the jealousy between wives, is exemplified in this case by the murder of Statira and her sister by Roxanne, shortly after Alexander’s death. In addition to these sex and love stories, Curtius Rufus reports an episode, that, although probably at least in part legendary, appears particularly suggestive in regard to instinctual reproductive strategies: Alexander’s meeting with Talestris, the Queen of the Amazons. Talestris presents to Alexander with 300 of her female warriors, openly tells him that she wants to make him the father of her child, and Alexander fulfills her wish staying with her for thirteen days. It is not only a human, but in general a mammalian, a vertebrate and even, tout court, a sexually-based reproductive strategy to consider the ovum an extremely precious qualitative genetic investment, while quantitatively spreading the semen as much as possible. So, the clever potential mother chooses the appropriate potential father, satisfying by the same token the latter’s pleasured availability.
6. Homosexuality
Homosexuality seems to help cement the union between the young warriors in coping with the dramatic hardships and the life-threatening risks they have to face to defend, and gain space and resources for, their tribe (examples are Leonidas and his 300 warriors at the battle of Thermopylae, and Thebes’ “sacred battalion”, all made up of selected homosexual troops). Homosexuality also helps to keep, and reaffirm, hierarchical discipline within the group. Open homosexual love, and jealousy, are common among the εταιροι themselves, often related, however, to the plots threatening the α male
7. The “spirit of Ulysses”
Alexander is basically a warrior, and a hunter; but he is also indefatigable and restless in leading his army, not only to conquer, but especially to visit, ever new countries and territories. He withdraws from India only because his army is adamant in refusing to follow him further, but as soon as he is back in Babylon, he starts planning new adventures, this time westwards, until the last days of his life. He never stops too long in one place. Wilson suggests that the desire to explore beyond the horizon is also a powerful selective advantage in the hunter/gatherers’ society. Alexander, like Ulysses, proves extremely
bright, and smart, especially in developing strategies to beat enemies by far outnumbering him, thus fully exploiting the potential capacities of the human brain, as accumulated, and selected, by the hominids in the past few million years.
Instead of being an embodiment of a Profane prostitute who doesn’t see sacred meaning in her sexuality, who performs sex or does lovemaking solely for physical gratification without soul component present; if woman finds her unique way to become an embodiment of a sacred feminine archetype of Sensuality and Sexuality, a Sacred Prostitute, would dispel away any obscene requests.
Our today’s society encourages an obsessive preoccupation with the constricting and false! stereotypes of female body in various forms, so much importance is given to artificial ‘modelling torso’ and accessories, that woman herself, her individuality are lost in this perpetual chase after ultimate ‘kill-look’, fitting into requirements of pageant contests. Individuality, personhood are driven to margins of consciousness by fake ‘necessities’ of ‘ultimate outfits’, ultimate ‘looks’… It’s not important of how I look, but questions of who I am and what I can give to others and what I want, that should be faced sincerely. As long as woman remain hidden behind these distortions of false looks, she is controlled by falcities and niceties.Barbara Hort said:After four thousand years of Judeo-Christian socialization, the words ‘sacred’ and ‘prostitute’ sound utterly antithetical to our ears. But in the millennia before God was necessary male, there were two kinds of prostitutes. The first was ‘profane’ prostitutes, who used sexuality simply as a way to exploit others and (inevitably) themselves. For profane prostitutes, sexuality had no transcendent meaning or reverence; it was simply an act of commerce. Profane prostitutes are the only kind we know about today, since the patriarchy has spent several millennia teaching us what sexuality is, by definition, profane. In the millennia before the patriarchs damned the sexual potency of women, however, there existed a special class of sacred prostitutes. These women were selected as revered priestess in magnificent temples dedicated to love, and they devoutly performed a variety of rituals, including ritual lovemaking, whose explicit purpose was to exalt the human spirit through the power of sexuality.
Where the profane prostitute practices soulless pornography, the sacred prostitute embodies divinely soulful erotism. She ensures, with exquisite care, that every aspect of her sexuality serves to exalt her spirit and the spirits of those who bask in her provocative radiance.Her beauty and sensuous body were not used in order to gain security, power or possessions. She did not make love in order to obtain admiration or devotion from the man who came to her… She did not require a man to give her a sense of her own identity; rather this was rooted in her own womanliness. [..] Her raison d’etre was to worship the goddess in lovemaking, thereby bringing the goddess’ love into the human sphere. In this union – the union of masculine and feminine, spiritual and physical – the personal was transcended and the divine entered in. (Qualls-Corbett 1988, 40)
[…]much of the healing of our societal wounds lies in the archetypal energy of the sacred prostitute. To whatever degree we are able, as women and men, to reunite our sensuality with our spirituality, we can ease the deep pain of our body / spirit rift and rejoice in our renewed sacred potency. […]whenever we activate the archetype of the sacred prostitute in our psyches, we protect ourselves from the syrupy tactics of the feminine vampire and the Draculan tactics of the masculine vampire. The sacred prostitute celebrates the magnificent, mortal flesh that incarnates our souls, while the psychic vampire displays only contempt for the flesh as a means of exploiting the soul. Whenever we accept or indulge in contempt for a body, including our own, we are succumbing to the psychic vampire. When, on the other hand, we celebrate the body, especially in the exaltation of the sexuality as agolden path to our divinity, then the vampire’s predation is foiled.
We need to know ourselves, and recognize others when someone is flattering and distorting our own self-image. Activating and living the sacred womanhood, not external, but internal radiance, celebrating divine sensuality would inoculate us from vampirism, when our bodies are being profanated by strangers; and would endower us with the goddess instinct to discern between a hungry lust of a vampire and a quest of a soul.