Quote Originally Posted by JJFrank View Post
A person who has learned to infiltrate another's awareness would soon find their abilities diminished if their motives became selfish because the nature of open-hearted expansiveness takes one in a different direction than the energetic impulse of selfishness and defensiveness.
In my observation, a self-righteous, megalomaniacal thirst for power facilitates psychic development, to a point. Its true that it limits and undermines itself, but this is true in the same kind of way that corruption in government limits the power and durability of government. Despite this corrective feedback, all governments are still to varying degrees corrupt, and many of them are very corrupt.

Quote Originally Posted by The Cusp View Post
Well too bad for them, because you have to put up with the exact same crap during waking life.
It almost sounds as if your point is that since rape is a part of life, there's no point in avoiding or discouraging it.

Its true that people who are hiding from themselves, and trying to hide their own deceitful aims from other people, are among those who most desire privacy. But I don't think that there's a wise, unselfish mindset that eliminates the need for boundaries in a predatory world. Other animals will eat your body if you let them, and generally speaking you still have a responsibility to protect and care for it, and respect that need in other people, irrespective of how expansive your sense of identity may be.