The Dichotomy of Creative Man versus Destructive Man: Navigating the Human Psyche.
I found a YouTube video by Michael Tsarion on the contrast between creative and destructive individuals alongside my research.
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The CREATIVE MAN
The creative man is alive from within and is inner-directed.
He does not require external stimuli to feel alive, so his relationship with the world is healthy, deep, and real.
He has the best of both worlds. He has a strong sense of selfhood and is autonomous and independent in the true sense.
He is a rebel. He does not cling to things or to other people for fulfillment because he is not inherently empty. His relationships are not based on power dynamics.
He is present within every moment and is open to change and the future. He sees problems as challenges and has strong boundaries.
He does not manipulate or deceive. He envies no one and takes charge of his own destiny. He knows that consciousness changes reality.
His happiness and suffering are sacred to him. He does not censor himself or care what others do, say, or think. Evil is, for him, the absence of autonomy and selfhood.
He leads and does not follow.
He is in contact with the trustworthy source of life, which flows from within his being. His life force is his own. He is mutable and ever-growing.
The DESTRUCTIVE MAN
The destructive man requires external stimuli to feel alive.
He is emotionally dead, and without the world of objects and other people, his life is nothing.
He is deeply addicted to stimuli that fill his psychic abyss. He cannot be still or alone.
He is a shell addicted to fashion, conforming to be accepted. In his world, image and appearance are everything. His experiences are banal and casual.
He performs and mimics but abuses trust, sexuality, and beauty. What he cannot own or control is what he fears.
He seeks a cause and master to avoid responsibility. If his desires are thwarted, he becomes agitated, depressed, and aggressive.
He is competitive and pathologically reliant on approval. He is an expert at manipulation and is hypocritical and immoral.
Other people, especially those with inherent power and creativity, are his prey. He feels a sense of greatness from their loss and failures.
He is the enemy of true creativity, independence and selfhood. Nothing is sacred to him except his image, external success, possessions and his catalog of dominance.
Creative Man: The Architect of Progress
At the heart of human achievement lies the creative spirit—a force that propels individuals to envision, innovate, and shape the world around them.
Creative individuals channel their energy into constructive pursuits, pushing the boundaries of knowledge and understanding.
From the Renaissance artists who birthed masterpieces that transcended time to the scientists and inventors who harnessed the power of curiosity to drive technological progress, creative men stand as the architects of a better future.
Creativity lies in the ability to think beyond the conventional, to dream, and to bring those dreams into reality.
Creative minds envision solutions to problems, generate novel ideas, and find inspiration in the world around them. Whether expressed through art, science, literature, or technology, creativity is the driving force that has propelled humanity to unparalleled heights.
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Destructive Man: The Shadow Side of Human Nature
On the flip side of the creative coin is man’s destructive nature. Wars, conflicts, environmental degradation, and acts of violence are manifestations of this darker aspect of the human psyche.
Destructive man, fueled by negative emotions, ignorance, or a thirst for power, leaves behind a trail of devastation that mars the collective human experience.
The destructive tendencies within individuals can manifest on personal, societal, or global scales.
From self-destructive habits to social and political turmoil, the consequences of destructive behavior reverberate throughout communities, leaving scars that may take generations to heal.
Understanding and addressing the root causes of destructive tendencies are crucial for fostering a more harmonious coexistence.
The Interplay: Navigating the Human Psyche
The dichotomy between creative and destructive impulses is not an absolute divide; rather, it exists on a spectrum within each individual.
Human nature is a complex interplay of light and shadow, creativity and destruction, with the potential for transformation and growth.
Recognizing and harnessing this dualistic nature is essential for fostering a balanced and sustainable world.
Psychological theories, such as Carl Jung’s concept of the “shadow,” highlight the importance of acknowledging and integrating both positive and negative aspects of the self.
Embracing one’s own destructive tendencies with self-awareness can lead to personal growth and the redirection of energy toward constructive endeavors.
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Michael Tsarion: The Creative Man vs. The Destructive Man
Interviewer: What is the difference between a creative and a destructive man?
Michael Tsarion: That’s a supreme question, a fundamental question.
It’s essential to ask these kinds of questions because there are different kinds of human beings on Earth.
And you know again – using our reason – not only to monitor ourselves but also to judge others is very important.
There is this whole cult of “Though Shall Not Judge” in the New Age movement and all of this malarkey, you know, I’m very, very, much against that. I believe that judgment and criticalness are aspects of the reason.
And we’re living in an age, you know, that is very, very down on things we need to use every day. I mean, we use them every day at the counter. We use them every day when we do everyday things and buy something.
And yet when it comes to the most critical moments of our life – when we’re just about to make these critical – emotional cordings, we suddenly throw them out the door and believe that – oh, you know, accept people and the mask (social mask, personality) that they display.
And we hurt ourselves by doing that.
We violate our judgment and our intuition when we do that. So, there is a need to observe the differences in people and sharpen the attributes of the reason; otherwise, they will be wide open to attack.
Michael Tsarion: Outer Directed vs. Inner Directed Person
But getting specifically to your question, it boils down to this – Arno Gruen is a psychologist who summed it up perfectly. He talked about the difference between the outer-directed and the inner-directed person.
He (Arno Gruen) wrote on the betrayal of the self, and about how it has come that man has become a robot, an automaton person who follows the handrail provided by the system, by Society.
And they perform these roles and what the psychologists are saying – the Freudians and Post-Freudians are saying, look, most people you see are not even human in the total sense of the word.
They are profoundly sick people who will end up on a psychiatrist’s bench to afford it or on medication if they can’t.
Jung also talked about it. We’re dealing with a culture of people who have lost their souls. The psychosis of the pathology is rooted in this ubiquitous extroversion that you see in the world. So you take the extrovert person.
That person will not look deranged or psychopathic because they may be creative. Like people in music, they can be drug fiends, womanizers, and awful people, but they can get on stage and play great music.
They appear pretty standard, and even people might envy those kinds of people, but they are outer-directed.
Outer-directed means that you’re waiting for the world to turn you on.
You’re empty within, but you are an excellent mimic and a brilliant performer. Most people you see worldwide don’t have a soul because there’s a fundamental rule that people need to understand.
The Soul Is Something You Create
What we’re talking about – they can go to my website, Psychic Vampirism.com /Michael Tsarion.com, and get into this a little more and get a handle on what we’re talking about. Fundamentally, psychologists have understood that the soul is not something you’re born with.
You create the soul as you live with this thing we call experience. That’s what it is. That is what experience is for.
The theater is time and space; your will, energy, and passion create something meaningful in your life.
My god, how threatening that is to the man of ego or the man who’s been mistrained from when he was born.
He has no intention of giving meaning to his own life. He’s waiting for The President to provide him with meaning, for the media to do it, for the neighbor to do it, and for the lover to do it.
He’s hot after a wife to get joined at the hip, have those children, and get into that whole world because he is empty.
And he’ll use the word “love” every five minutes if you give him a chance, and he’ll use the word “patriotism,” “individuality,” and “independence” because of their performance.
They know all the right “sounds,” “cues,” and “affectations,” but those people are fundamentally empty.
And they’re saying to other people, “You sow me up” – making slaves of their wives and husbands, slaves of their children, slaves of their animals, and slaves of everybody they meet at work and so on.
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Michael Tsarion: The Creative Person
The creative person is the inner-directed person who can live in the world and enjoy the stimuli, and it’s not that you become a hermit or a monk.
He can enjoy the movies, the music, the lark, the fun, and all the world offers.
But he is not empty should that stuff cease to exist.
He has an inner life, an enriched inner place that works. He’s able to manufacture and create for himself what is needed. Cultural civilizations at one time could do that long before the entertainment industry.
People performed, dressed up, did mimicry, did puppet shows, composed music, and sat around the fire. They told stories, entertained one another, and entertained each other.
The individual must have an inner life.
That person is much less likely to vampirize another.
He’s going to be heavily vampirized, but he’s a person who is full of his enrichment.
Now psychologists have discovered that of the two kinds of persons, the extroverted or introverted kind of person, extroverted people are the easiest to hypnotize.
What does that tell us?
It tells us, for one thing, not that extroverts in themselves are evil.
Still, the ubiquitously extroverted person is already under hypnosis; he’s already a person who’s bought into a lie, bought into the collectivized stuff, which is the fashion, which is the maniacal fashion statement society, the fashion statement is one thing, just one example of mass hypnosis.
Not that you have to blame fashion or people who are into fashion; fashion is one aspect of the consensus that you have no sense of self whatsoever and must be what the world is telling you and what the media is throwing at you.
But it goes way deeper than that.
And therefore, the inventive person – these extroverted people who know how to jump through the hoops – the same thing you get in the academic world – the people who jump through all the hoops that the State provides and say, “Now that I have a Ph.D. I must know things.”
Interviewer: And regurgitate well.
Michael Tsarion: “But I must be intelligent because they’ve given me my medal, pinned a medal on me, and told me I’m a Ph.D. I must know something.”
Interviewer: I have all these letters after my name.
MTSAR: That’s it. They know nothing. There’s not even a single creative person among most of them. They’re not mavericks; they’ll go after the Mavericks. Those people now believe that they’re the academic police.
They’re going to tell Immanuel Velikovsky and Dr. Wilhelm Reich’s that they don’t matter. So, we must have this kind of tyranny going on in our world. The creative person, you know, he’s an entirely different creature, a completely different creature.
He is inner-directed, not waiting for the stimulus to turn him on and not playing a role. He is not performing. He refuses to act – he’s something of a rebel.
He tries not to conform to any pattern whatsoever and gets very upset when trying to compel him.
That person is genuinely creative, even if he doesn’t create anything. He is a creative person.
Interviewer: He’s alive.
MTSAR: He’s alive, and most likely, he will create things amazing things.
But you see – he will be an outsider. He will be the person who is an outsider because he is on a journey of looking for the truth of himself.
The person who conforms to the handrails of the world and the conveyor belt and who gave up being a genuine person and an actual individual gave up finding out who they are.
This individual will be automatic. The media, society, the government, and all the rest will provide the scaffolding for the security required in that person, which is happening worldwide today.
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Conclusion
The saga of creative man versus destructive man unfolds as a timeless narrative embedded in the human experience. As we navigate the complexities of our psyche, the challenge lies in cultivating a conscious awareness of our dual nature.
By fostering creativity, encouraging innovation, and addressing the root causes of destructive behavior, humanity can steer toward a future where the creative spirit prevails, illuminating the path to progress, understanding, and collective well-being.
