Learning about founder of theosophy, Helena Blavatsky. She seems like a totally hilarious mix of troll, scam artist, confabulist, and genuine spiritualist. The theosophical society was a real fake-it-till-you-make-it operation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky …
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Replying to @vgr
Not a big fan of La Blavatsky, though. I lack the scam artist streak. There are far more compelling female mystics for anyone serious to learn from.
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Are you sure? I believe you could learn the scam artist part, it’s a feature not a bug
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Replying to @LapsusLima
Too bad, it would have been entertaining to watch you try to pull a blavatsky
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No. That would vitiate my practice, which is therapeutic and, as such, hierarchical; involving transference, etc. What I will tell you, though, is that it’s not the scamming that’s a feature, but the trolling. It comes with the sacred clown’s territory.
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I also disagree on the entertainment value of abusing trust, which is what I am given to work with. Trust is sacred to the sineater.
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Con games are about mutual complicity rather than mutual trust. The betrayal is of the mark’s belief that they were part of the scamming side rather than the scammed side, which is why it’s hilarious. http://infofranpro.wikidot.com/19520101-on-cooling …
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I know, and it is. But to carry the secrets I carry for people I cannot do this. I am trusted with life, and lives, and that confidentiality must be neither disrespected nor breached. Fiction, however, is my free-for-all. I am as amoral a writer as you’ll ever see.
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