A Psychopath's Guide to Enlightenment Book author Blair Black talks to Confessions of a Sociopath author M.E. Thomas about teaching people to strike a better balance between their primal selves and modern thinking selves -- a balance that Blair argues psychopaths naturally strike more easily because they are less caught up in what people think of them.
https://apsychopathsguidetoenlightenment.com/
Confessions of a Sociopath author M.E. Thomas interviews Kay on what is it like to be him, religion, upbringing, trauma, impulsivity, creativity, music, and right and wrong.
Confessions of a Sociopath author M.E. Thomas talks with WeiWei, T Pocket, and RT about whether Saul Goodman is a psychopath.
M.E. Thomas chats with Vig, a follower of Buddhist teachings, about self, Donald Trump, "adjusting", M.E.'s new book proposal, masking, autism spectrum disorder masking, and panic attacks.
Confessions of a Sociopath author M.E. Thomas welcomes back Casey Ace. Her first video is here: https://youtu.be/Zlf_D0_4qWk
They talk about 7 pros and cons to having a psychopath friend, chicken people, putting people in boxes, how not to fit in, learning how to live with uncertainty, agency and personhood, and meaning.
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Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight author M.E. Thomas joins friends Pretty Morbid, Victoria, and newcomer Juliet Tango in a panel discussion on topics like love, gender, sexuality, mishap stories, crushes, sense of self, attachment to other people, gray rage, and intuition.
Victoria videos:
Part 1 of this series: https://youtu.be/EAujim_xKWE
Part 2 of this series: https://youtu.be/TmL55G9xgVU
Part 3 of this series: https://youtu.be/fnFjkWsKKnk
Part 4 of this series: https://youtu.be/ZJ68szHTOPs
More from Victoria on willpower: https://youtu.be/E-IIJoei_hk
Pretty Morbid videos:
Part 1 of previous Pretty Morbid chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQJ33muN84Q
Part 2 of Pretty Morbid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSwWNXUFbGI
Pretty Morbid the Movie Tar: https://youtu.be/U9e1F3QOsUo
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight talks to Hudson about childhood traumas, the complicated feelings we have towards our abusers, the different factors that lead to people doing "evil" things, factors that lead us to do "baddie" things, getting better, redemption, humanizing instead of dehumanizing others as a solution for the world's problems, cognitive vs. affective empathy, relationships, gender roles, gender biases with regarding to psychopathy and BPD, consequences = feedback, taking responsibility for one's actions, Mormonism and psychopaths (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), child abuse, art/aesthetics (Giotto and Mondrian), couples sleeping in separate beds, personal boundaries, Nedra Tawwab and her book Set Boundaries, Find Peace, and other topics.
The Amanda Knox article: https://www.newthinking.com/politics/what-is-evil-reflections-fueled-by-the-idaho-killings
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight author M.E. Thomas chats with Marion the Flash about psychopathic portrayals of Jedi Knights in the Star Wars world.
Marion the Flash also names other famous artists and other celebrities that he believes are psychopathic including:
Billie Eilish
XXXTentacion
Adele, Sade
Taylor Swift
Lil' Wayne
Tom Brady
Finally, they talk about manifesting, following intuition, and keeping an open mind.
Confessions of a Sociopath author M.E. Thomas interviews Marion the Flash again about manifesting, seeing with the third eye, confidence, making your own magic, and other topics.
Part 1: https://youtu.be/vwRKxkHjJ90
Confessions of a Sociopath author M.E. Thomas interviews BorderlineSane about what it is like to experience borderline personality disorder and thoughts on other things like the baby psychopath fantasy of being nothing at all, the difference between Myers Briggs N's and S's, chicken people, breaking out of the stories we tell ourselves, how political movements intersect with various identities we may have like religion, marijuana induced schizophrenia, inventor of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and fellow BPD sufferer Marsha Linehan, and childhood defense mechanisms expressing themselves in adulthood.
Audio only available: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wyO6SUewBdCAy0gtf-v65iNoJ_Jsg9pI?usp=sharing
Author of Confessions of a Sociopath M.E. Thomas interviews Bahb, someone with autism spectrum disorder who has a psychopath grandfather and a narcissistic personality disorder mother.
For audio only: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wyO6SUewBdCAy0gtf-v65iNoJ_Jsg9pI?usp=sharing
For the audio of this and other zooms: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wyO6SUewBdCAy0gtf-v65iNoJ_Jsg9pI?usp=sharing
Author of Confessions of a Sociopath M.E. Thomas interviews blind empath Casey Ace re the experience of empathy, experience of blindness, and the experience of being friends with psychopaths. They also continue the discussion from a previous video re changing the past -- this time via the technique of neurolinguistic programming (NLP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPuVftMAvAs
They reference another video on the theme of changing the past in the film Tar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9e1F3QOsUo&t=0s
They talk about this book, "Teach Yourself NLP": https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-NLP-Steve-Bavister/dp/0071452087
They reference the Feedback Loop Quiz found here: http://www.sociopathworld.com/2021/12/feedback-loop-quiz.html
And the accompanying post explaining the feedback loop, aka "cycle": http://www.sociopathworld.com/2021/12/the-cycle.html
The reason I don't upload these as a podcast format is because it seems time intensive to list them on all of the major podcast apps. But if you know a better way and especially maybe if you can help, let me know!
For now, for just the audio of this and other Zooms: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wyO6SUewBdCAy0gtf-v65iNoJ_Jsg9pI?usp=sharing
Confessions of a Sociopath author M.E. Thomas and Tony talk about Tony's application of Part 1 sociopath lessons in not caring what other people think. They continue in talking about how to not live in your "chicken feelings," i.e. how not to live a life primarily motivated by fear. They also talk about identity and not self-mutilating ourselves for the approval of others or because of fear about what might happen to us.
Part 1 of this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZtP4MVOIF8
The twitter thread referenced: https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1599453317884968961
Authors of Confessions of a Sociopath M.E. Thomas and Victoria talk about changing who you are as a person and what does that mean in terms of changing your past. Topics include the nature of memories (including the tendency to remember things differently when we have changed and go back to "touch those memories," meditation, processing through past trauma, family dynamics and working through the inherited traumas of a family, rule following, gray rage, process vs. outcome orientation, etc.
They reference the most recent video with Pretty Morbid and the discussion of the Shipibo people, as referenced by the movie Tar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9e1F3QOsUo
They also reference the last time they spoke about long lasting change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is_s0fvEfp4
Other links from Victoria:
https://www.innerengineering.com/online meditation I do
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5871312/ scientific paper on this meditation practice
https://www.intronaut.com/ plant medicine healing
https://youtube.com/@JulianneKeu participant of intronaut
https://youtu.be/cv85tvudi7Y if God is good, why evil
https://www.thesecret.tv/products/the-greatest-secret-book/
Author of Confessions of a Sociopath M.E. Thomas and Pretty Morbid talk more about his theories of being identity vs. acting identity and about the movie Tar and the different ways in which Lydia Tar acts like a psychopath (M.E. says she's 6/10 psychopathic).
They also talk about "the reckoning" and some of the difficulties that psychopaths experience in getting better.
Part 1 of previous Pretty Morbid chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQJ33muN84Q
Part 2 of Pretty Morbid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSwWNXUFbGI
Confessions of a Sociopath author M.E. Thomas and Victoria (see video links below) and Victoria's husband Victor talk about identity, diversity/equity/inclusion workshops, and what the finale of Killing Eve got right and wrong about psychopath portrayals.
https://youtu.be/oYmX9sOvA2U
More Victoria:
Part 1 of this series: https://youtu.be/EAujim_xKWE
Part 2 of this series: https://youtu.be/TmL55G9xgVU
Part 3 of this series: https://youtu.be/fnFjkWsKKnk
Part 4 of this series: https://youtu.be/ZJ68szHTOPs
Part 5 of this series: https://youtu.be/Is_s0fvEfp4
More from Victoria on willpower: https://youtu.be/E-IIJoei_hk
Confessions of a Sociopath author M.E. Thomas does a follow up interview with Doomer, part 1 here: https://youtu.be/4Ke3nyscsms
They talk about the inconsistencies or hypocrisies they see with normal people with regard to what they say vs. what they do, the pandemic and how it has affected everything, child sexual abuse cover-ups, American puritanism, social pressure to conform, sleep, trying to improve our lives through small means that work and building on that.
Author of Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight M.E. Thomas interviews science PhD candidate Victoria about the dramatic change that's happened in her life since the last time they spoke in Part 4 of the series. They speak about why Victoria was the way she was before, how did it feel to be that way, why she thought to do the meditation program, how that changed the way she viewed the world. They also talk about identity, personhood, agency, the desire to control and shifting our desires to control from things that are not within our control to thing that are properly within our control, the difference between direct and indirect control, "timshel" or thou mayest from "East of Eden," love, process vs. outcome orientation, choosing to move from reactionary emotional to thoughtful responses, accountability for choices, personal boundaries, identity hits, ego, and self-expression.
The meditation program Victoria participated in: https://www.innerengineering.com/
Covey's "scarcity" vs. "abundance" mentalities: http://franklincoveystephenpearson.blogspot.com/2011/01/abundance-mentality-vs-scarcity.html
Paul Graham's Keep Your Identity Small: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
Part 1 of this series: https://youtu.be/EAujim_xKWE
Part 2 of this series: https://youtu.be/TmL55G9xgVU
Part 3 of this series: https://youtu.be/fnFjkWsKKnk
Part 4 of this series: https://youtu.be/ZJ68szHTOPs
More from Victoria on willpower: https://youtu.be/E-IIJoei_hk
Author of Confessions of a Sociopath interviews former soldier T-Pocket about how he alternates from boredom to moments punctuated by excitement like driving sports cars and dirt bikes. Sorry for the audio issues!
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M.E. Thomas (author of Confessions of a Sociopath) interviews Bree Said. They talk about the military, Bree Said becoming a Japanese escort as a youngster, and boundaries, as well as talking about how to be our more authentic self more of the time.
