These are just ideas and speculations: Dr Doogie & Annasmom - In the BFH, among the rantings, are there many that relate GB's theories to; tarot card readings/tarot card imagery, the hebrew alphabet, demonology, the Knights Templar, astral projection or The Rose Cross (Rosy Cross, Christian Rosenkreutz?) Because, I'm not getting much an "occultist" vibe from what I've read about GB so far in these forums. Also, I've read that he considered himself "a messiah", but did he or GW recite and/or spout off quotes from religious texts on a regular basis?
At this point, GB looks more like he was into the kind of mystical psychology/ psychiatry that Freud was referring to when he warned Carl Jung: "Never abandon the sexual theory, Carl, its the only thing which separates us from the occultists" (or something like that).
There is a connection between certain schools of psychology (not necessarily popular today) and certain "flavors" of Socialism. Wilhelm Reich, another member of Freud's Vienna Psychoanalytic Association, wrote the definitive psychological analysis of Fascism - the political mortal enemy of the early socialists and communists - titled: "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Could GB have been a cross between a Socialist theorist and a failed mystical psychology "analyst"? Perhaps he dumped an earlier identity during or shortly after WW2, because he had been a communist in his youth?
[I must apologize. I read most of this forum in one (looong) sitting and should have made better notes for myself. I got GW's sister (member of the Socialist Workers Party) confused in my mind with Margaret Kukoda. That's why I thought a link between some of the more mystical schools of psychology and some Socialist 'sects' might be interesting. Now that I understand the link to Socialism(s) is thru George Waters' family, that idea (in the preceding paragraph) seems of little relevance to me.]
Are there any hints that GW may have become obsessed with GB as a result of Brody predicting/foreseeing the date and circumstances of GW's death - using his mystical psychiatric analysis? They both seemed convinced that GW would pass away before Brody - otherwise, why bother with all the insurance policies? - and convinced that GW would die accidentally.
They also seemed very concerned that the monies should go to Brody and only Brody. Perhaps they believed GW's foretold death would somehow spark the fulfillment of Brody's mission (giving GW's life, and death, a mystical importance of its own) and that Brody would need a lot of money to enact it?
The apparent changing of beneficiaries, and evidence that GW was obsessed with ensuring that Brody & only Brody be seen by officialdom as GW's 'next-of-kin' and presumably as GW's only heir in event of his death, could provide motive for GW's daughter to be 'vanished' - the potential threat of a legal challenge from a legally legitimate heir of GW (Anna) to Brody being recognized as GW's next-of-kin and heir?