Tuesday 4 August 2015

Psychopaths: a Sniff Away from Extinction?

Psychopathic Serial Killer Denis Neilsen


Recently,  I was restoring an old 1940's wireless radio which was in good working condition, except that in the early 1970's some hippies, in their pad, chose to give it a 'groovy' paint job which was like something akin to Yellow Submarine meets a nocturnal vomit by some obscure taxi rank on a Saturday night. In order to remove the paint job, a website suggested using acetone to lift the paint off. What happened next was very interesting. 

I removed the top off the bottle of acetone and immediately the distinct smell filled my nostrils taking me right back to a factory I worked in back in the 1980's where we used acetone to clean electronic switches. The single sniff of the chemical not only transported me back to my old job, but flooded my senses with memories of the place and the people who worked there for the first time in decades. The smell of the acetone in my nostrils for a split second made me experience a kind of sensory time travel. The power of our sense of smell to evoke a time and place was brought into sharp focus as I began to remove the 'groovy' paint job.

In 2011, research conducted by psychologists at Macquarie University in Australia discovered that subjects who scored highly on psychopathic traits profiling, had a much poorer sense of smell than the rest of the seventy college students in the study. This discovery raises remarkable questions as to why psychopaths can't detect smells as well as the rest of us. More interestingly, as the sense of smell relates strongly to both memory and sensory/emotional recollection - almost certainly as an evolutionary survival trait - does this study also add weight to the previous discoveries that psychopaths apparently have no sense of a past identity?They exist 'in the moment', and the past to them is literally an experience 'someone' else had as they change personae constantly with each predatory tangent they embark upon.



As this powerful correlation between memory and smell not only fills us with nostalgia, but can also serve to remind us of the presence of natural predators - within a wild context - and this would put any psychopath living in a hunter gather society at an extreme disadvantage in terms of using their poor sense of smell to build a cognitive environmental internal geography within their consciousness. 


This would serve to prove why psychopaths are completely dependent upon enablers and hence, why they tend to do better in larger urban 'target-rich' environments, as they quite simply, could not survive in a rural or wilderness setting. 

When I was writing Puzzling People; the Labyrinth of the Psychopath in 2009, I spoke to a gentleman in Canada who was a typical outdoors man, and who also believed his brother to be a psychopath. One of the traits this gentleman relayed to me was that from the time they were kids his brother was literally terrified of going hiking and camping in the wilderness and constantly expressed a great hatred for the natural world outside human civilisation. One time a skunk had left its scent close to their camper van and while all the other kids were holding their noses, his psychopathic brother could not understand what the fuss was all about.



As a side note: the psychopathic serial killers Anthony Sowell and Denis Neilsen were both caught due to neighbours smelling rotting corpses on their properties. Something both of these psychopaths were apparently oblivious to.

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12 comments:

  1. I've actually had that experience, several times, with certain people. They had a hatred of the outdoors, and a total disinterest in my animals - as well as my plants (I have many). Interesting.

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  2. I was a huge fan of yours for months until I listened to your Velocity broadcast (Cecil the lion)
    I'm offended to be honest. You imply that all/most Americans are sex crazed. That all/most Americans enjoy killing animals.

    I disagree 100%. I appreciate you exploring different avenues, but come on... what you said was bullshit. I have scars and lost tissue, but it doesn't make me irate and wanna kill people because I'm sexually repressed.

    I think you just lost a genuine fan... but take care Thomas.

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    1. I never said anything of the sort! Besides, what's wrong with people wanting lots of sex? That's far more healthy that cults starving people of their sexuality so they end up worshipping a bombastic, nicotine-encrusted, career criminal and her certified psychotic son-in-law living on another planet in the future via an ouija board.

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    2. HAHAHAHAHA....Thomas....you are straight out of the Book of the Damned!

      KEEP SCARING THE SHIT OUT IF THEM.

      And thank you.

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  3. I recall giving a suspected psychopath a bottle of cologne as a christmas present. Once he opened the gift, he uttered an odd sort of chuckle. Two other oddites I've noticed about psychopaths is that they seem to have a poor sense of rhythm. My observations of suspected psychopaths is they don't tend to have a good sense or appreciation of music and also shy away from dance. However, I never use these as an absolute judge of a person's character -- just something I've picked up on. Thanks for the post, Thomas. N.A.

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  4. I had to put his shoes out from under my bed and into the garage

    when i exclaimed WHAT IS THAT SMELL

    he claimed it was from his horse

    it was distinctly human and he couldn't smell it

    my mother and i often remaked to each other about my evil fathers smell

    evidently someone must have mentioned it to him one time...he went through a phase of piling on wretched cologne which was WORSE

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  5. Thomas Sheridan 5 August 2015 at 08:52
    I never said anything of the sort! Besides, what's wrong with people wanting lots of sex? That's far more healthy that cults starving people of their sexuality so they end up worshipping a bombastic, nicotine-encrusted, career criminal and her certified psychotic son-in-law living on another planet in the future via an ouija board.
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    Wow, you replied! Thanks for your time. I agree, that there's nothing wrong with sex lol I just don't think that lack of having it is why people hunt animals.
    I wanted to say thank you, your work changed my life, and you armed me/prepared me to guard myself against psychopaths. I knew very little about them prior to finding you on YouTube last year. I actually discovered you whilst looking up stuff on why the world is so farked up.

    I wasn't prepared to find out that the creepy odd fellow that lives below us is a Psychopath. It explains everything. All of his behavior, the subtle intimidation shit he did (I've only ever been nice, even brought him things for the holidays etc.) He's terrifying, yet I have no proof he's doing anything illegal. Anyway, I don't mean to ramble, I just wanted you to know how much your work meant to me. "No contact - EVER AGAIN!!" We're stuck living here for a while... but keeping that in mind helps as I no longer respond to his gestures/stares/fake "greetings." Take care!

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    1. I thought he lost a "genuine" fan?? His existance now matters when he replied. Lol. Two-face.

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  6. Oh, by the way, my psychopath also has a problem smelling things...
    I'd mentioned how wonderful the strawberry plant by us smells during spring time, and he just stared at me and looked over there as if he didn't smell a thing. I thought it was odd at the time.

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  7. Dear Thomas, thank you for all the answers in your TVON shows, especially in regards to Ayahuasca and demon possession, which I see is sugar coated as "soul retrieval" in the booming ayahuasca tourism industry. I didn't know such things existed, but it answered all the questions I had. Chilling stuff! You are amazing, and your knowledge and wisdom simply spectacular. Eternal gratitude, Em, South Africa

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  8. Reading this I got a memory of a youtube video I saw about Surströmming (The worlds worst smell), where I reacted to a guy that did not react to the horrible smell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cpl3yX9Ets
    The guy in the middle, migth be a psycopath.

    Intelesting

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  9. Hi Thomas, On a separate issue to do with your dream - collective unconscious experiment, Huge blast this evening in Chinese city of Tianjin, A dozen killed at least so far, And 300+ injured, All over the msm. The central event in all the Chinese centred dreams? Cheers.

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