Angry, what I enjoy most about our conversations is your take on people. You have traveled in elite circles - politicians, diplomats, the rich and famous all over the world.Angry, we are starting to get the picture about people that make you, well... 'Angry' (sorry CPS's) but what is the one trait that intrigued you the most about people you have met?
Angry Says...In a word: Charisma.
It's rather rare, and it's quite weird - people who have it seem to glow - you can almost see it. They fill a vast room simply by their presence, even if they're staying in a corner and doing or even saying nothing.
The first time I came across the phenomenon was when chance-meeting Isabelle Adjani ...Read more
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In a word: Charisma.
It's rather rare, and it's quite weird - people who have it seem to glow - you can almost see it. They fill a vast room simply by their presence, even if they're staying in a corner and doing or even saying nothing.
The first time I came across the phenomenon was when chance-meeting Isabelle Adjani, who seemed to somehow glow, it vaguely looked like some kind of liquid light was dripping off her and touching everything around her.
Then I heard, from several independent people who met them, that Bob Dylan, Princess Diana, Tony Blair, were all high-wattage charismatic people .
But then people who frankly were quite awful and objectionable and horrid - Mao, Hitler - had been very widely perceived as charismatic, described variously as glowing, filling the space around them, filling the room, glowing like a high wattage lamp wherever they were.
Kissinger for instance commented on Mao's very high-wattage glow, yet - read the well-buttressed Mao biography by Chang and Halliday, the inescapable conclusion of which is that Mao was a psychopathic, opportunistic, thoroughly despicable and dangerous piece of scat - on an unimaginable scale.
This says that charisma had nothing to do with inner beauty or inner worth or values but takes its source somewhere else.
Therein lies a clue, which seems to be further confirmed by the case of Ratzinger:
A person I know - a non-Catholic, highly educated - met the Pope twice - once before and once after he became Benedict 16th. She says that the first time, he was just a cardinal, nothing special, just an ever maybe so slightly fuddy-duddy bloke. Then she saw him on the St Peter Place in Rome shortly after he became Pope, and he glowed to high heaven. He had seemingly acquired charisma - and a glow - overnight.
Might it begin to explain where charisma comes form? To reinforce this before I go on : Princess Di was probably nothing much special. Nasty but possibly factual tongues would say she was perhaps just a girl next door type, with really nothing much on her mind.
Could it be that charisma comes form the 'echo' of millions of people who project their hopes and kindness and well-wishes upon you, who genuinely believe you are someone good - however false this maybe?
Thoughts - thoughts within the brain - are electrochemical processes, which trigger electrical currents and thence emit electromagnetic fields, however very weak. Might it be that when millions of thoughts focus on the same target, that target shows a physical consequence of these thoughts? Maybe some aura stemming from the combined effect of thoughts.
Now - How would such thoughts find and reflect on their target ? A mystery perhaps, but the edges of mind science are full of such ill-understood phenomena - witness the odd DOD remote-viewing experiments of the past decades - where thoughts also often seemed to find their however elusive targets.
Could it be that you become 'glowing' when millions of people however naively believe you're good, or even simply think of you at the same time?
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