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these kinds of manipulative abilities, his superego identification with
his great-Uncle gave him a strange and unconscious goal towards
which he would constantly move, usually with total disregard for
others in a single-minded striving for God-like superiority and total
power.
O n p a g e 9 9 Ti m o t h y und erlin e d “y o u n g T i m ’s abilities to
m a nip ul a t e p e o p l e k n e w n o
The charisma of the guru may
b o u n d s. B l e s s e d with g o o d
become as self-serving as the
loo k s, wit a n d int e llig e nc e, h e
very Establishment against
pre tty m u c h go t w h a t h e
which it arose, as it is routinized
s o u g h t.” H e u n d erlin e d “f or
by efforts to sustain power.
G o d-li k e su p e riority a n d tot al
— S h e ld o n B . K o p p in IF YOU
p o w e r, " a n d wro t e HOW TRUEI
MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE
a n d YEAH! a b o v e it.
__________ ROAD, KILL HIMI

from page 101:
Another clear form that this energy took was in a life-long search for
another man to fill the role he had hoped his father and great-Uncle
would have filled. Tim sought a person perfect in every sense,
literally a superman. The result was that Tim was constantly trying to
come in contact with new people of high status in hopes that each
one would prove to be the ‘ideal’ of his super ego. As soon as a
weakness was found, these people would fall from the pedestal,
forming human stepping-stones on the way to an unreachable
pinnacle of power.
Ti m o t h y ’s u n d erlin e of “trying to c o m e in co n t a c t with n e w p e o p l e of
high st a tus in h o p e s tha t e a c h o n e w o uld p ro v e to b e t h e ‘id e a l’ of his
s u p e r e g o ” w a s c o n n e c t e d to a circl e in th e l o w e r left m a rgin. In th e
circl e h e wro t e HOW TRUEI

From pages 97-98:
One of [Tim ’s] fellow graduate students at Berkeley related the
following.
It always seemed to me, at least in recent years, very ironic that Tim
emerges as a sort of Prince of Love... the object of so much
adoration because one of the vent kev defects in Tim was the
inability to truly love or really interact with other people in a
meaningful sense. My imagery about Tim was that he was a dancer
of Chinese Mask Dances. And you never knew which character in
the drama you were being confronted by. That he really didn’t want
to have anybody know. He had some beautiful techniqu