Charles Manson Superstar

For forty years, Charles Manson has spent most of his life in what he refers to as "the hallways of the all ways," the reform schools, jails, and prisons that have served as both his home and his confinement. His ideas were developed in solitary confinement, isolated from time and beyond the reach of mainstream society. Within his cell, he constructed his own worldview and speaks in his own terms, believing that the mind is the only reality. From encouraging his followers to relocate to the desert to prepare for the apocalypse, to directing a group responsible for a series of violent killings, Manson himself explains how he developed a deliberate sense of terror rooted in his personal philosophy. He argues that the so-called "straight" world outside prison is merely a reflection of the criminal underworld he has inhabited. To Manson, the reality embraced by presidents and law-abiding citizens originates in the closed-off universe of criminals, con artists, and outlaws.