Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

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9 INSANE STORIES FROM THE LIVES OF FAMOUS EXISTENTIALISTS

#1 Jean-Paul Sartre Was Literally Obsessed With Crabs. Also, Mescaline.



Jean-Paul Sartre was an influential French philosopher and writer who famously declared that”Hell is other people,” and “Life is nausea.” When not caught up in his libertine sex life with fellow existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre tripped balls and spoke to crabs.

In 1929, while he was attending France’s prestigious École Normale Supérieure, Sartre decided to try mescaline, a hallucinogenic drug similar to LSD . And unlike your pathetic “bad” trip, Sartre’s went to a whole new level. Crabs started following him. Literally, everywhere he went, all the time. In an interview with John Gerassi, Sartre noted that the crabs even chased him down the Champs Elysées in Paris once.

“They followed me in the streets, into class. I got used to them. I would wake up in the morning and say, ‘Good morning, my little ones, how did you sleep?’ I would talk to them all the time.”

He thought he was going insane, so he turned to undergo analysis with none other than his good friend, Jacques Lacan. Sartre said the two of them together concluded that the crabs were symbolic of his fear of loneliness.

The crabs stayed with me until the day I simply decided that they bored me and that I just wouldn’t pay attention to them…

The crabs were mine. I had got used to them. I would have liked my crabs to come back.

According to Cracked, Sartre regularly used crabs in his work , wherein characters would compare themselves or their libidos to crabs. “The craziest,” Cracked writes, “is Franz in ‘The Condemned of Altona‘ who is convinced that super-intelligent crabs from the 30th century have chosen him to defend the war crimes of the 20th century against their judgement.” If that sounds like a Star Trek episode, it was.

#2 Speaking of Mescaline, Sartre Was Essentially the Junkie Equivalent of an Ubermensch

Before Hunter S. Thompson was driving around in convertibles stocked full of acid, cocaine, mescaline and tequila, there was Jean-Paul Sartre.



According to Annie Cohen-Solal, who wrote a biography of Sartre, his daily drug consumption was thus: two packs of cigarettes, several tobacco pipes, over a quart of alcohol (wine, beer, vodka, whisky etc.), two hundred milligrams of amphetamines, fifteen grams of aspirin, a boat load of barbiturates, some coffee, tea, and a few “heavy” meals (whatever those might have been). He—surprise, surprise—would become terribly ill and would cut back on the tobacco and drugs once in a while.

One is left to wonder if Sartre’s lazy eye was actually just a symptom of being shit-hammered all the time.

#6 Nietzsche Went Crazy, Saved a Horse from Whipping, and Proceeded to Believe He Was Napoleon



Friedrich Nietzsche also predates the label existentialism. However, his overwhelming criticism of Judeo-Christian morality, and affirming life in this world without the possibility for transcendence to another, was critical for the progression of existential thinkers. Like many of the thinkers who followed him, his life was rife with tragedy and pain.

After seeing a horse being whipped in the streets of Turin, Italy, Nietzsche had a mental breakdown that put him in an asylum for the rest of his life. Nietzsche was reported to have run over to the horse and held it in his arm to protect it before he collapsed to the ground. The scene was also the subject a movie by Bela Tarr called “The Turin Horse.”

According to Alain de Botton, after the horse incident, Nietzsche “returned to his boarding house, danced naked” and thought of shooting the German Kaiser. Botton continues to explain that Nietzsche began to believe himself to be Jesus, Napoleon, Buddha and other historical figures. There exists a series of letters, known as the “Madness Letters,” that Nietzsche wrote to his friends following his mental breakdown. Most of them are signed “Dyonysos,” in reference to the Greek god. In another, he claimed to have thrown the Pope in jail, and signs it “The Crucified.”

After this episode, Nietzsche’s family threw him into asylum where he died 11 years later at the age of 56. During Nietzsche’s bed-ridden later years his sister hijacked and edited his work to suit the agenda of German Nationalists who would later form the Nazi party. Nietzsche, in fact, opposed German Nationalism and wrote explicitly against anti-Semitism.

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Friends with Benefits


Dear Mary Jane,

I’m afraid that this letter is not going to be easy for you to read; but there is a lot of important stuff that I really need to say to you right now, and you know how writing things out helps me to organize my thoughts.



First off (and perhaps most importantly) I want to take the time to remind you of how very much I appreciate you. You were my first love, and I will never forget the magical days of passionate discovery that we shared when we first got together. I was so very smitten with you!

You were the girl that my mother had warned me about. Which, of course, only added to your considerable mystique at the time. And you were always a whole lot of fun to be around, even if you sometimes got me into trouble. You were popular with the cool kids (unlike dorky old me), and when we first hooked up I thought that your casual lawlessness made me look sophisticated. Plus, you already seemed to be acquainted with almost everybody who I wanted to get to know better, and whenever I brought you to a party I always had a fairly easy time making friends.

As we grew closer you became my constant companion. Everything just seemed like so much more fun when we were together! I love going to the movies with you, I love going camping and exploring the great outdoors with you, and I love going out to dinner with you. I even appreciate just sitting quietly at home together. And you know how much I enjoy your company in bed and in the bathtub!

Besides, you’ve always been there for me when I needed you. You help me to relax when I’m too wound up, and you gently soothe my little aches and pains whenever I’m not feeling well. (Remember that time when I was nauseous for DAYS and you were the only one in the world who offered me any solace at all?)

I want you to know that I haven’t forgotten about any of that, and I never will. Furthermore, I want you to know that I really and truly do hope with all of my heart that we will always find some way to remain friends. There are aspects of myself that only you can bring out in me, and I really do want you to be a part of my life!

But… (You knew that there was a butt coming, huh? I really am sorry for dragging this out.) But the reality of the situation is that we’ve been growing apart for a long time now. I’m sure that you know what I’m talking about.

It’s not your fault. I’m the one who has changed, and I totally take full responsibility for that. I’ve recently gotten really busy with a lot of important projects (some of which you admittedly helped to inspire), and I simply don’t have as much free time to hang out with you now as I used to. And I KNOW that you really want to assist me with those projects, too, but trying to work on some of these things with you can turn out to be rather like letting my 4-year-old niece “help” me make cookies, you know? It may be a whole lot of fun, but it doesn’t exactly get the job done any faster.

We’ve both seen this coming for a long time, I think. But it really clicked into focus for me when we spent a couple of months apart recently. I missed you, of course, but I also got a chance to rediscover a few things about myself that I’d almost forgotten about over the years, and I feel that I could really get a lot of benefit out of exploring some of those long-lost elements of my personality at greater depth.

There are also a few things that I’ve been feeling vaguely angry with you about for a long time, but I’ve only recently been able to articulate them. To put it bluntly (and again, I apologize if this seems overly harsh), I’m getting extremely sick and tired of your passive aggressive bullshit! There. I said it. Like for instance the way that you keep ordering pizza and filling the freezer full of ice cream when you know damn good and well that I’m trying to eat more healthy foods.

Why are you always “accidentally” mislaying my car keys? Why do you persistently encourage me to procrastinate whenever you know that I’m on a tight deadline? And the way that you’re always trying to make me feel like I need you in order to medicate my persistent background anxiety feels a little bit codependent around the edges. Anxiety is a natural part of life. And somehow I managed it just fine while I was away from you, now didn’t I?

But even more disturbingly, its been becoming more and more obvious to me that you’ve been subtly sabotaging some of my other important friendships all along. I’m thinking specifically of my childhood friend Morpheus, with whom I got a long-awaited opportunity to reconnect during our recent separation. Truth be told he took me on long, wonderful, exquisitely lucid adventures almost every night while we were apart, and I have to admit that I enjoyed every minute of it! I really had forgotten about how very much I love him. And frankly I found it suspicious how easily I was able to regain access to his realm almost as soon I got far enough away from you. I mean, jealous much? Is that why you always try to make me too lazy to go out and play with my friends? You tried to convince me that I needed you in order to fend off the dreaded Sobriety Sickness, but it turns out that after it settles in for about a week, the natural state actually has a lot to recommend it. But you didn’t want me to find out about that, did you? You always seemed to find some new excuse to drag me back into your clutches, every time I almost managed to get you out of my system for long enough to notice that sobriety itself can actually be a fascinating biochemical state in its own right.

The uncomfortable truth is that you’ve been making me feel kind of nervous lately. It’s nothing that you’ve said or done. It might be a simple matter of my changing metabolism. Or maybe I’m just growing up. But ever since we took that break, simply being around you seems to fill me with a sort of ill-defined contentless anxiety. Maybe it’s just a phase that I’m going through and we’ll be able to work it out and get back together someday when we both have a clearer idea about what it is that we really want out of our relationship.

I hope this doesn’t come across as a goodbye letter. Like I said, you’ve been such an invaluable inspiration to me, and it would break my heart if you and I were to ever lose touch with one another. I just think that it would be beneficial for both of us if we were to spend a little bit more time apart for a while. It’s partly that I want to explore my relationship with Morpheus, of course. But more than that, I guess that I feel compelled to try to find out who I am on my own. We’ve been together for half of my life now, you know? I’ve haven’t really experienced what it’s like to be by myself since I was in college. I guess that it’s just something that I feel like I need to revisit for a while.

I’m so proud of all of your recent accomplishments! I wish you the very best of good fortune in your upcoming legal battles. Hang in there! I really do think that it’s only a matter of time. And good luck with your medical work, too. You’re such an extraordinarily talented healer, and I strongly believe that you’re well on your way to establishing the wider credibility and social acceptance that you so richly deserve.

I hope that you can understand where I’m coming from here, and that you don’t end up taking any of this too personally. I just need a little bit of me time right now. It happens. And like I said, I’m sure that I’ll eventually want to start seeing you again at some point. But I think that it would be much healthier if we were able to eventually work out some kind of an occasional friends-with-benefits arrangement, rather than trying to make a go of it as full time partners.

Oh my sweet, sweet Mary Jane! I’ll never regret the time that we spent together. You’ve played a big part in making me who I am today, and I shall be forever grateful. Thank you for all of the laughs, the lessons, the insights, the fun adventures, the comfort, the inspiration, and most of all for providing me with your unique and fascinating perspective on life.

This isn’t the end, old friend. It’s just another opportunity for transformation.

With kindest regards,

The Teafaerie*

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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

--William Burroughs

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“It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.”

--Gilles Deleuze

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"I’m 87 years old…I only eat so I can smoke and stay alive.. The only fear I have is how long consciousness is gonna hang on after my body goes. I just hope there’s nothing. Like there was before I was born. I’m not really into religion, they’re all macrocosms of the ego. When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

Anybody else you’ve interviewed bring these things up? Hang on, I gotta take this call….. Hey, brother. That’s great, man. Yeah, I’m being interviewed… We’re talking about nothing. I’ve got him well-steeped in nothing right now. He’s stopped asking questions.”

- HARRY DEAN STANTON

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Portland ‘High elf’ arrested for using the power of LSD to smite woman’s evil car

By Arturo Garcia
Monday, May 19, 2014



Police in Portland, Oregon arrested a 30-year-old man identifying himself as a “high elf” after he allegedly accosted a woman’s car, believing it to be a villain from a J.R.R. Tolkien novel.

KATU-TV reported on Friday that the unidentified woman called police initially thinking 30-year-old Konrad Bass was dressed as a pirate when he ran toward her vehicle wielding a sword and shield while wearing a helmet and chain-mail armor, then started stabbing the car. The vehicle reportedly bore several puncture marks, but the woman was not injured in the attack.

After being arrested, Bass told authorities he was a “high elf engaged in battle with the evil Morgoth.” The character, initially known as Melkor, appears in the Tolkien book The Silmarillion, where he becomes that universe’s first “Dark Lord” and acts as the mentor to Sauron, the main antagonist in the Lord of the Rings series.

KPTV-TV reported that Bass was charged with criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, and menacing. He was also taken to a local hospital, where he told officials he took LSD before attacking the car.

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7Up, Favored Drink of The Illuminati




Illuminati poster girl and high priestess, Tuesday Weld, appearing in a 1957 ad for 7Up encouraging her disciples to “have a ball”, a veiled reference to Illuminati sex magick orgies using 7Up (spiked with psychedelic aphrodisiac drugs) as the divine elixir in perverted sex rites. (How come I never get invited?)

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Portland ‘High elf’ arrested for using the power of LSD to smite woman’s evil car

An Exclusive Interview With the Elf Who Dropped Acid and Jousted a Car


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The title is misleading, because it is implying that in the cases studied, a tantra or ritualistic practice is actually forming a delusion in what was a previously non-delusional individual.

Rather than delusions being "induced" by tantric practices, it seems clear to me that certain already-delusional personalities are attracted to groups or cults that espouse various unconventional beliefs and rituals.

This TIDS terminology represents a warped interpretation of statistical data, akin to a psychologist noticing the high number of professional boxers involved in spousal abuse and inventing a psychological condition called "Boxing Induced Spousal Abuse" - as though engaging in boxing somehow creates violent behavior in what was once a completely non-violent individual.

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The title is misleading, because it is implying that in the cases studied, a tantra or ritualistic practice is actually forming a delusion in what was a previously non-delusional individual.

Rather than delusions being "induced" by tantric practices, it seems clear to me that certain already-delusional personalities are attracted to groups or cults that espouse various unconventional beliefs and rituals.

This TIDS terminology represents a warped interpretation of statistical data, akin to a psychologist noticing the high number of professional boxers involved in spousal abuse and inventing a psychological condition called "Boxing Induced Spousal Abuse" - as though engaging in boxing somehow creates violent behavior in what was once a completely non-violent individual.

These are all valid points though surely there must be an ecology of delusion in that unstable individuals are not only vulnerable and/or attracted to cultish groups, but also that destabilizing practices must add a lot to the dynamic.

That said, the diagnostic category is surely tongue in cheek as much as anything.

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.

--Rainer Maria Rilke

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The Causes and Conditions of Economic Injustice

Posted by: Maia Duerr Posted date: May 21, 2014

The first of the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths pointed to us the truth of suffering. Suffering needs to be recognized as such and faced head-on if we wish to truly alleviate it. Our efforts to deny it or indulge in sensory indulgences to distract ourselves from it will inevitably lead to more suffering. In the Second Noble Truth, the Buddha dives deeper to untangle the cause of this state of dukkha ...

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