[MD] Morality and Prudence

[Michael R. Brown]

DMB says:

> According to Hare, many psychopaths are superficially charming, and can 
> excellently mimic normal human emotion;some psychopaths can blend in, 
> undetected, in a variety of surroundings, including corporate 
> environments."

Oh, without doubt. Business offers a place to *channel* a lot of our 
evolutionary stuff. Just like athletics, popular music, BDSM and D/s - and 
politics. Especially politics!

Anyone here ever hear of The Michael Teachings? (No relation.) Very 
interesting New Age system - full of classifications along lots of 
interesting axes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Michael_Teachings . They 
follow a Gurdjieff system of soul ages: Infant (think Australian 
aborigines - very close to the Tao, with their dreaming), Baby (think 
Spanish Inquisition, honor societies like Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Walter 
Sobchak in film), Young (Ayn Rand, Gordon Gekko in film, Alexander the 
Great), Mature (Obama, Tori Amos, Jane Austen, Al Gore), Old (J.S. Bach, 
Sting, The Dude in film - very close to the Tao again). One of their 
interesting points is that, unlike almost all New Age systems (which are of 
course liberalish tending when they talk about politics) they recognize the 
achievements of Young Soul civilization - Roman aqueducts and roads, our 
electrical transmission systems, vaccines, etc. - without ignoring the 
contributions of all the other soul levels. In this system, so soul age or 
role or anything else is better than any other. An Infant Soul Warrior in 
Dominance is completely equal to an Old Soul King in Submission.

It's fun looking at things from a Michael point of view. According to them, 
I'm a "6th Level Old-soul Priest in Passion with Goal of Growth and Chief 
Feature (i.e., issue to work on) of Stubbornness." - much more at 
http://www.michaelteachings.com

There was quite the discomfort when a Michael-channel (who's a political 
liberal) said that Palin is older soul'd than Obama. ; )


MRB
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