The
story has it that when he was a college student, the Young Republicans were
thinking of how to raise money and someone suggested a “Most Dangerous Man in
the World” contest. Everyone
simultaneously turned to look at Charles Cosimano. They did not know it at the time but they were right.
Everyone
gets a good laugh out of this and he uses the story quite often, but with his
usual sense of irony, he is telling the truth.
As far as psionics and radionics go, his were most definitely the wrong
hands and his work has corrupted the minds of tens of thousands and the number
keeps growing. In spite of the fact
that most professionals in the field of parapsychology do their best to try to
ignore him, he has developed a cult following even in that field of study. Not surprisingly, his biggest fans are his
most secret, in the government (where his work is an underground text book in
intelligence circles) and in the military as well. It is rumored that there is a room in the Pentagon which is
dedicated to psionics and it is full of equipment based on his designs.
So
who is this man?
Charles
Cosimano is actually a bit of a mysterious figure outside of his own
circle. He is somewhat reclusive and
socializes most with the Chicago BDSM community, of which he is considered to
be one of the founders. That is an
interest of his that he has never hidden and it appears in a number of his
books, most notably in The Psionic Path (which work he is actually rather
embarrassed by because it is not his usual demonic stuff) and Psionic
Psupervillain in which he dedicates a whole chapter to it. Oddly enough, except online, he never spends
any time with psychics or psychic researchers.
His reason for this is that he is such a celebrity that it is difficult
for him to learn from them because they all want to bask in his presence and
nothing gets done!
Perhaps
his oddest character trait is that he is a member, for a very long time now, of
the Theosophical Society. Anyone would
think his work would put him at odds with the much-vaunted First Object of that
Society, which proclaims human brotherhood, but he, in his own weird way,
firmly believes in that as a goal. But
he is far too cynical to think of it as existing in the present time and that
is the time people live in. No one can
split hairs better than Uncle Chuckie!
He
is also devoted to his wife and she to him.
In that regard he practices a virtue of fidelity that others would do
well to emulate, especially as they are in a lifestyle where relationships
change with the seasons. And one must
admit he has his other virtues as well.
He
is incredibly courageous. If he
believes he is right he will fight the entire world and not back down. He is difficult to persuade and utterly
impossible to coerce. Any attempt to
control his work or his writing will send him into a rage and he will do his
best to ram what his critics do not like down their throats. In fact his obsession with destroying a part
of the gay leather community is the result of such an attempt. (Is there a relationship between some AIDS
cases and psionics, it is possible. He
has given instructions on how to depress the immune system of a target.) One of the sources of his power is that he
honestly does not care what people think of him.
He
is extremely brilliant. No one has ever
defeated him in a debate. He is a
master logician.
He
is resilient. Personal disasters do not
destroy him. He always lands on his
feet.
He
has a personal charisma that is hard to define. It does not show right away, but no one who is around him for any
length of time can resist it forever.
He
is extremely patient. In a recent
prolonged illness his surgeon is said to have marveled at that patience because
he did not know the character of the man he was treating. Charles Cosimano is know to have waited eight
years for a psionic procedure to bring results but the results came exactly
as he wanted.
So
how did this educated man (several advanced degrees) become the greatest danger
our civilization faces?
He
is capable of extreme violence. He
jokingly says he faints at the sight of blood and his brawling days are behind
him, but anyone who has seen him in the local dungeon playing with his knives
knows he is an expert in other uses for them.
He also cheerfully tells of the guns he has carried. But the story that is most chilling is that
when he sees a movie about a murderer, he critiques the murder and decries it
as the work of an amateur, then explaining how it should be done. In his vision
of psionics, murder is merely a tool to be used. And, of course, using psionics the murder is both unstoppable and
undetectable.
He
has a ferocious temper. He rarely loses
it, but the story has it that once he ripped a door off its hinges in a rage.
He
is totally ruthless and this shows in his writings. He says, “The only value human life has are the many varied and
entertaining ways there are of ending it.”
To Uncle Chuckie, the end does not merely justify the means, it makes
the means irrelevant. He does care
about any ethical or moral principle and a favorite quotation of his is from a
Chinese philosopher, Lord Shang, who said, “When you are willing to do that
which others are ashamed to do, therein lies an advantage.”
Now,
take these qualities (think of a combination of the Emperor in Star Wars and
Hannibal Lector) and give them to a man who can reach into people’s minds and
twist them for his ends and you have some idea of who he is. And he is honest about it. His writings reveal his program for humanity
just as Mein Kampf did, only he is a better writer and, in his quiet way,
infinitely more dangerous.
At
least you could see Hitler at work.