Epstein, Manson: psychopimps
The dark twin of the psychopomp
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A psycho-pomp guides people’s psyches through altered states for their benefit and growth. A psycho-pimp manipulates people through altered states for their own egoistic goals, usually sex, money and power.
I am still paying attention to the Epstein files because there seems to be a concerted effort to get us not to. One revelation from the last few days - Epstein was apparently the focus of a long investigation by the DEA into an alleged multi-million-dollar operation to traffic ketamine and MDMA.
The DEA investigation was released in February and reported on by CBS, but was almost completely redacted. US Senator Ron Wyden complained about this, writing:
The fact that Epstein was under investigation by the DEA suggests that there was ample evidence indicating that Epstein was engaged in heavy drug trafficking and prostitution as part of cross-border criminal conspiracy. This is incredibly disturbing and raises serious questions as to how this investigation by the DEA was handled. Since Epstein and his 12 co-conspirators were never charged by the DOJ for drug trafficking or financial crimes, I am concerned that the DEA and DOJ during the first Trump Administration moved to terminate this investigation in order to protect pedophiles.
Bloomberg journalist Jason Leopold has since got the scoop on what was in the investigation:
The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration opened an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and a dozen other individuals in 2015 that centered on allegations of money laundering, drug trafficking and the procurement of Eastern European prostitutes for high-profile clients, according to five people familiar with the case. The investigation, which grew out of a longstanding probe into organized crime, was conducted by a secretive intelligence and law enforcement unit of the DEA and a transnational crime-fighting task force.
According to Leopold, the DEA and FBI started investigating a drug trafficking operation in night-clubs in New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Florida, South Carolina and Mexico back in 2010, which trafficked club drugs like MDMA, ketamine and methamphetamine. The DEA and FBI got the help of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a division of the Justice Department which back then had big resources to take down transnational criminal networks.
Apparently one of the targets of this drug-trafficking probe named Jeffrey Epstein and 12 other people connected to him as involved in the operation. The others named include his brother Mark (who declined to comment to Bloomberg), and some models.
On April 28, 2015, the DEA requested that OCDETF’s fusion center prepare a “target profile” on Epstein, 12 other individuals and two businesses. A DEA agent told OCDETF the agency needed the information to support an investigation into money laundering, drug trafficking and the procurement of Eastern European prostitutes for high-profile clientele, the people familiar with the matter said. OCDETF responded with the target profile. An analyst at the fusion center wrote in the 69-page document that the DEA’s investigation involved “illegitimate wire transfers which are tied to illicit drug and/or prostitution activities occurring in the U.S. Virgin Islands and New York City,” according to a heavily redacted copy released by the DOJ. Epstein and the 12 other individuals were the subjects of a combined 40 suspicious activity reports, or SARs, totaling nearly $50 million that banks sent to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network between 2010 and 2015 and 37 currency transaction reports between 2010 and 2014 totaling $1.2 million….
We don’t know many details - was Epstein really smuggling drugs, and if so why? Was he using drugs including ketamine and MDMA to control young women and teenage girls in his sex trafficking operations? Why was there a Secret Service inquiry about Epstein sometime in 2013-2015 (this would only occur if someone in Obama’s White House was in contact with Epstein)? Why did the DOJ drop the case? Alas, the OCDETF, the US’ principal anti-drug-trafficking investigator, was shut down by Trump in November 2025.
There’s also one interesting document in the latest Epstein files release - a shopping list of drugs including LSD, DMT, ketamine and MDMA.
Now I’m going to look into another aspect of the files, also connected to psychedelics, and finally I’ll explain the idea of the ‘psychopimp’ with reference to Epstein and Charles Manson. First we’re going to look at a famous 60s psychonaut called Paul Krassner, who was the connection between Epstein and Manson.
