{"id":4840,"date":"2017-01-05T22:52:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T22:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:24:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:24:59","slug":"the-manson-mystique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/the-manson-mystique\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manson Mystique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3127\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/logoinside.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"45\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Charles Manson, the most famous killer in U.S. history, is back in the news, this time due to hospitalization in a California prison, where he has spent more than four decades for the horrific Sharon Tate murders (in the strange year of 1969).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Manson&#8217;s now 82, but he&#8217;s still considered incorrigible, cited more than a hundred times for various serious violations in his time behind bars.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is still, it seems, the same old Charlie Manson (with that surname that seems to reverse the &#8220;Son of Man<em>&#8220;).<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">With his history<\/span>\u00a0&#8212; his murderous inclinations &#8212; with the way, <em>a la<\/em> Hitler,\u00a0he controlled people, those\u00a0<em>eyes<\/em>, one can wonder whether he is \u00a0&#8220;sociopathic&#8221; or simply possessed (as in &#8220;exorcism&#8221;).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The answer is that he is at least severely infested by demons. It is perhaps time, in this country, to start calling evil what it is. (He<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0may even be a case of what Malachi Martin called &#8220;perfect possession,&#8221; whereby a demon is in full control; whereby the evil spirit <em>is<\/em> the personality).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">God knows. It&#8217;s not to judge him. But those who have met him have spoken of the truly dark and awful gravity (&#8220;charisma&#8221;) in and around him, and there have always been accounts of what seemed like preternatural abilities.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ad\/Old_Stagecoach_Trail_Santa_Susana3.png\/250px-Old_Stagecoach_Trail_Santa_Susana3.png\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ad\/Old_Stagecoach_Trail_Santa_Susana3.png\/375px-Old_Stagecoach_Trail_Santa_Susana3.png 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ad\/Old_Stagecoach_Trail_Santa_Susana3.png\/500px-Old_Stagecoach_Trail_Santa_Susana3.png 2x\" alt=\"The Spahn Movie Ranch, with a portion of the Old Santa Susana Stage Road.\" width=\"250\" height=\"213\" data-file-height=\"1477\" data-file-width=\"1736\" \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">At the Spahn Ranch<\/span> near Malibu where he and his &#8220;family&#8221; lived, it was said Manson once went over to a bird that was dead and waving his hands over it or touching it revived it, causing it to fly away.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Was the bird simply unconscious &#8212; coming to when he startled it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>It&#8217;s said Manson had occult powers, practicing drug rituals, sexual magic, and reverence for nature spirits. He was linked to a satanic church called &#8220;The Process,&#8221; and well-read in Scientology. One of his followers, Susan &#8220;Sadie&#8221; Atkins, was a follower of famed satanist Anton LaVey in San Francisco.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Actor Jeff Fenholt, star of the Broadway hit\u00a0<em>Jesus Christ Superstar<\/em>, but later a &#8220;born-again Christian,&#8221; recounted a meeting he had with Manson in prison when the killer contacted him and wanted a visit because he was &#8220;an old fan of mine.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;So I got in to see Manson.<\/span> They locked me down in this little cell with no windows and when I got in there with Manson he turned and he looked at me. He had long, greasy hair and a beard and fingernails about this long and the swastika tattooed to his forehead. <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He turns around and looks at me and he came walking over and stuck his face up in my face and his eyes got like a snake&#8217;s and he said [in a low, growling voice] <i>&#8216;Why are you here to see Charlie Manson?&#8217;\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I&#8217;m looking at him and at first I have to admit it hit me and I felt this oppressive thing, the devil trying to establish territory. So I thought, &#8216;Praise the Lord Jesus Christ, I&#8217;m not taking this from the devil or anyone&#8217; and [the voice again] goes, <i>&#8216;Why are you here to see Charlie?&#8217;<\/i> And [in the same voice] I said, &#8216;I come in the Name of Jesus!'&#8221; <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The oppression fell away.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>In the bestseller <em>Helter Skelter<\/em> by lawyer Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Manson, there was a point during the trial where Bugliosi looked to see what time it was and saw that his watch, just as suddenly, had stopped. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>When he looked up, Manson was staring at him and the watch, smirking. Bugliosi was plainly spooked by the event.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;I come in the Name of Jesus!&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>We have a chance, our nation does, to recover from the evil of the Sixties, but only if we begin to pronounce those same words.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; M. Brown<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong>[resources: <span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/mhb-128.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Prayer of the Warrior<\/a><\/span>]<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong>[See also:\u00a0 <span dir=\"ltr\"> <span dir=\"ltr\"> <span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-charles-manson-prison-behavior-20170104-story.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Manson: no model prisoner<\/a><\/span>]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong>[Michael Brown&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/sa-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Special Reports<\/a><\/span>]<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>[Michael Brown is currently at work on a book about the U.S. and its &#8220;final chance.&#8221;]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"commentary\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1483656775\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"The Manson Mystique\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Manson, the most famous killer in U.S. history, is back in the news, this time due to hospitalization in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[556,555,554],"class_list":{"0":"post-4840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-commentary","7":"tag-helter-skelter","8":"tag-jesus-christ-superstar","9":"tag-manson","10":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}