Messiah Complex
According to the Psychology Dictionary (http://psychologydictionary.org/messiah-complex/), a messiah complex is a disorder in which a person suffers from the delusion that he or she is a savior of people. It is said that those who have a messiah complex also can suffer from schizophrenia, narcissistic personality disorder, and/or paranoid personality disorder.
Charles Manson, the psychedelic cult or "family" leader who was unquestionably served and worshiped, ordered his "Family" to obediently butcher the pregnant Sharon Tate and eight others in the summer of 1969. Manson was convinced that by instigating a race war in America as a result of the random killing, he and his group would seize power in the ensuing pandemonium of "Helter Skelter." This was his own messianic delusion of being a savior, of saving the world. Manson seems to be at once nationalistically grandiose, intermittently psychotic, paranoid, and profoundly antisocial. He bitterly alleges...that he has to right to do the world wrong, to commit evil deeds. This pathological inner rage and narcissistic need for retribution and revenge is at the core of sociopathy...
Rev. Jim Jones, the paranoid spiritual leader of the People's Temple, who claimed to be both Jesus and Buddhan, led 914 of his tragically mesmerized followers--including 276 innocent children--to mass murder-suicide in 1978.
In 1993, seventy-four members of David Koresh's heavily armed fundamentalist cult, the Branch Davidians, died in a shootout with government agents in Waco, Texas. Koresh fancied himself the "final prophet."
Koresh's grandiose dreams of being a rock star in this life where crushed after coming to Hollywood. Fame eluded him, his compensatory narcissistic fantasies were frustrated and his ego was wounded.
What followed in both the Jones case and the Koresh case was a bloody and embittered reaction to feelings of frustration, narcissistic injury and rejection, one that lashed out against the world in a relentless pursuit of destructive infamy, fueled by a wicked rage for recognition.
Marshall Applewhite similarly proclaimed himself a messiah and predicted doomsday, eventually leading his Heaven's Gate cult to mass suicide in 1997.
Excerpted from: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evil-deeds/201409/the-psychology-terrorists-pt-3-the-messiah-syndrome
From the perspective of existential psychology, the Messiah phenomenon can by understood as part of the eternal and universal search for the "ultimate rescuer" : an omnipotent and omniscient force or being that loves and protects us (i.e. God). The ultimate rescuer saves us from our existential aloneness, freedom, anxiety, responsibility to think for ourselves and decide on our own behavior, and provides hope and meaning to counteract our lack of purpose in life and despair.
Through an ultimate rescuer may be construed in many forms (including in the case of so-called positive transference in psychotherapy), the magical powers are projected onto the person of the cult leader or messiah, accompanied by a surrender of one's personal will and ego to the messianic leader and the collective needs of the cult.
In other words, the above is saying that some people are looking for a savior instead of thinking for self and making our own decisions.
Enter charlatan such as Umar Johnson.
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| Charles Manson |
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| Jim Jones |
In 1993, seventy-four members of David Koresh's heavily armed fundamentalist cult, the Branch Davidians, died in a shootout with government agents in Waco, Texas. Koresh fancied himself the "final prophet."
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| David Koresh |
Koresh's grandiose dreams of being a rock star in this life where crushed after coming to Hollywood. Fame eluded him, his compensatory narcissistic fantasies were frustrated and his ego was wounded.
What followed in both the Jones case and the Koresh case was a bloody and embittered reaction to feelings of frustration, narcissistic injury and rejection, one that lashed out against the world in a relentless pursuit of destructive infamy, fueled by a wicked rage for recognition.
Marshall Applewhite similarly proclaimed himself a messiah and predicted doomsday, eventually leading his Heaven's Gate cult to mass suicide in 1997.
Excerpted from: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evil-deeds/201409/the-psychology-terrorists-pt-3-the-messiah-syndrome
What Does This Mean for Us?
From the perspective of existential psychology, the Messiah phenomenon can by understood as part of the eternal and universal search for the "ultimate rescuer" : an omnipotent and omniscient force or being that loves and protects us (i.e. God). The ultimate rescuer saves us from our existential aloneness, freedom, anxiety, responsibility to think for ourselves and decide on our own behavior, and provides hope and meaning to counteract our lack of purpose in life and despair.Through an ultimate rescuer may be construed in many forms (including in the case of so-called positive transference in psychotherapy), the magical powers are projected onto the person of the cult leader or messiah, accompanied by a surrender of one's personal will and ego to the messianic leader and the collective needs of the cult.
In other words, the above is saying that some people are looking for a savior instead of thinking for self and making our own decisions.
Enter charlatan such as Umar Johnson.
Trueblackanonymous You Tube Channel
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