Most of the questions for today’s show are derived from the book, The Psychopath Code: Cracking the Predators that Stalk Us, by a late open-source software creator, Pieter Hintjens. Hintjens created hundreds of volunteer project teams, and found almost all of them to be magnets for “bad actors.” This proved to be such a problem that he devoted most of his final years to analyzing and ultimately, writing about it. Hintjens writes: “There are some scary people around. People who take what they want, using their charm and wits. Con artists. Professional liars. They take from friends, colleagues, family, and strangers alike. They never apologize or feel remorse towards the people they hurt. They often have criminal careers. We call them by many names. Narcissist. Anti-social. Sociopath. CEO. And more and more, we call them Psychopath.” Can Creator share with us the divine perspective of these scary people around us?

This is a good characterization, although other groups of people, like politicians, could be added to the list due to the preponderance of psychopaths in the mix. This is a name for someone with an extreme lack of conscience, ability to feel compassion or empathy towards others, and with a strong desire for power and control, as such individuals have no other way of having fun because they lack a love impulse, which is the basis of most forms of enjoyment, most types of entertainment, and things of a lofty nature that are satisfying to the soul. These individuals are truly lost, they are suffering from a deep severe disconnection from the higher realm, so they are cut off from Creator’s love, the ability to feel it, the ability to bestow it to others. For the psychopath, any talk of love or gesture meant to be loving, is a sham. They have to concoct it because it is unnatural for them and they can only do it through mimicry, seeing what others do, and going through the same motions. Many are highly intelligent and clever so they are often quite successful in cultivating relationships, but this is done to exploit people, to make them subservient and, in fact, often a kind of slave to the ego of the psychopath as it gives them great enjoyment to be sought after and served by those in a subservient position. But this will not be rewarding for such individuals, it will be a subjugation and if allowed to go on for too long could become soul damaging and highly destructive, not only to the happiness of those around the psychopath but, in the degradation that results, make them vulnerable to spirit possession and a great worsening of their being across the board. This is the true origin of the psychopath, that they have been altered through a manipulation to disconnect them quite severely from their higher self, the gateway to the soul, leaving them on their own without Creator’s love to work with. This is a preview of coming attractions for the atheist who can coast for a time, not being too long from having been in the light, personally, with Creator and the loving environment of bliss all enjoy, but if cut off from the divine will have greater and greater difficulty. The more they ignore the existence of the Almighty, the more they risk reaching a point of no return in becoming increasingly selfish and then harsh and brutal in their treatment of others. Thankfully, not all will reach that extreme state even within a lifetime, but the bigger picture is that with generation after generation of atheists, there will be a cheapening and a worsening and a degradation that drags all down with it and at some point the society becomes quite savage—that is a high price to pay in service to the ego, thinking one knows it all and can do everything on one’s own, and that talk of the divine is a myth.