Theory- There occasionally emerge, amongst the common slew of human beings, certain individuals who do not belong in our reality level. Whether their presence here is the result of some kind of mistake, or is part of a deliberate and maliciously exploitive plan, is an open question. These persons have a suite of unusual abilities that allow them to exercise a highly abnormal degree of control over others. Their chief characteristic is an almost psychopathic disregard for the rights and well-being of other people. In addition, certain other characteristics set them apart from those who merely excel at manipulation and domination. Noting the unusual prevalence of these odd little characteristics in several historical figures led me to begin to formulate my theory that these individuals originated in an alien reality, and operate here through some kind of rupture in normality. These habits are as follows-

1. Largely nocturnal habits.
2. Unusually massive creative output, often of a mediocre quality.
3. A strange relationship with water, generally an unusual affinity for it.
4. Powerful ability to induce a trance-like state of uncritical obedience in others.
5. Tendency to obesity and indulgence in gross pleasures.
6. An irritable and mischievous disposition.

In general these persons have incredible powers of leadership and domination, combined with markedly banal or mediocre interests. Genuinely intelligent or talented people will typically lose their critical faculties when in contact with these individuals and be bowed over by force of personality, resulting in states of acquiescence that may seem difficult to understand in retrospect.

Probable examples-

1. Chairman Mao
2. L. Ron Hubbard
3. Jim Jones
4. Stalin
5. Bhagavan Shri Rajneesh
6. Sai Baba
7. Gurdjieff

 I imagine that on their native planet, these individuals are some sort of gross, flabby, amphibious species that wallows in rank mosses. Perhaps they represent a penetration into our reality of beings from an alternate future of our planet, in which amphibious forms achieved high degrees of intelligence and telepathy. Reading accounts of their lives and doings, one gets the impression that here are people with amazing abilities, who use those faculties
only for the grossest and most lowly self-interested ends. Inevitably, these people operate by appealing to and parasitizing the "highest feelings" of their victims, their urges to self-realization and participation in "something great" of a transpersonal nature. These high purposes, however, end up serving only to further the lowly, banal indulgences of the bloated, amphibious master. It is perhaps this glaring disconnect between exalted rhetoric and loathsome debauchery that is most strikingly characteristic of the situations these people create around themselves.

 One gets the sense that these individuals are like very clever but essentially blighted and lazy senior high school students who have somehow contrived to get themselves enrolled in elementary school, where they can effortlessly manipulate their naive younger peers. This raises the possibility that these people are very old but evil souls. Their proper classmates have moved on long ago to higher reality levels, but they remain willfully trapped here. Consider the apparently ubiquitous nightmare wherein the dreamer is somehow back in school again, despite having graduated long ago. The reeling sense of horror and entrapment that oozes from such dreams must be the native fluid in which these unutterably loathsome beings have through long eons become accustomed to wallow. The young Jim Jones, according to the biographical information available, was noted for the fact that he preferred to hang out with children a few grades behind him in school.

 I have left out the most prominent Nazis from the list (even though many of them wonderfully epitomize the relevant characteristics) because I think something more complex and sinister was going on in that case. Rather than merely a single malevolent swamp genius incarnating in one body, some kind of vast conglobulation of evil seems to have come through from somewhere to possess a group of mediocre nonentities over a period of time.

Here follow brief discussions of a few historical examples of these inter-dimensional toad-beings-

1. Chairman Mao- perhaps the best and clearest example. Although he wonderfully exemplifies all six of the characteristics noted above, a few of his personal habits are particularly noteworthy. Foremost is his highly unusual affinity for water. During the last decades of his rule, he essentially inhabited a large swimming pool in his residence, spending many hours of each day submerged there. He also habitually swam in China's vast and powerful rivers, even insisting that his entourage accompany him on these highly aberrant expeditions. Many of them came very close to drowning. Needless to say, for the head of state of a large and powerful nation to insistently and regularly swim long distances in powerful, heavily polluted rivers is extremely bizarre, and ought to hint that something very weird is going on. Mao also delighted in swimming in the cold seas of Northern China, despite the massively debauched habits that characterized his doings in general. His lungs were destroyed by years of heavy smoking. He was notably overweight, and refused to undertake basic hygiene procedures, resulting in an inescapable personal foulness vividly described in the memoirs of his personal physician. Mao famously refused to wash his genitals, revoltingly claiming that he cleansed them in the bodies of his women. His large and mediocre literary output has remained mercifully untranslated. His abilities in the field of callous manipulation and psychopathic inhumanity should need no exposition. In addition, Mao epitomizes the uniquely mischievous qualities noted in so many of the toad-beings. The periods of his rule seem to consist of the unleashing of successive waves of mass-scale, murderous mischievousness. The staggering idiocy of the "great leap forward," which caused the deaths of tens of millions of people by starvation, the almost demonic cunning of the "let 1,000 flowers bloom" trick, and the deliberate chaos of the cultural revolution all seem to be characterized by an impish, churlish, willfully destructive force, a force that relishes in essentially pointless naughtiness, like a spoiled boy. Or like a poltergeist.

2. L. Ron Hubbard- another very clear exemplar of the psychopathic toad-master. The hard-to-find but superb biography Bare Faced Messiah offers a clear portrait of a man displaying the six characteristics noted above. Several of his habits are especially notable. First, his massive output of low-grade literary materials. He was apparently able to churn out full length novels almost in one sitting, spewing fourth a glut of verbiage like a trance medium. This ability apparently remained with him even in the late periods of his life, when years of debauchery had reduced his physical mass to a shamboling hulk. His last literary productions became best-sellers, but only because his followers were commanded to purchase them in bulk. Hubbard ended up living on a fleet of his own ships, staffed by teenage girls in nautical miniskirts, who saw to it that the very considerable wants of his debaucheries were provided for. Smoking three packs of Kools and drinking up to 30 rum and cokes a day, he had his bloated, mottled body conveyed around the world for years by his own private navy. Reading about his life, one gets the very strong impression that here was a man possessed of abilities very far beyond those of his fellows, but who used these abilities only for the purpose of providing for his own mean and lowly desires. Even a glance at his vile, cunning, orclike visage forcefully conveys the idea of an impish, demonic spirit exulting in the tricks it can carry out while incarnated in our realm. Like Mao's residing in a swimming pool and his exploits in Chinese rivers, Hubbard's choice to live at sea is another instance of this type being's attraction to water.