<P> It means confusion, literally . It doesn't mean any war with anyone . It doesn't mean that some people are going to kill other people...Helter Skelter is confusion . Confusion is coming down around you fast . If you can't see the confusion coming down around you fast, you can call it what you wish . </P> <P> As to there having been a conspiracy, of which he was alleged to have been a part, to commit the murders, Manson said this: </P> <P> Is it a conspiracy that the music is telling the youth to rise up against the establishment because the establishment is rapidly destroying things? Is that a conspiracy? </P> <P> The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music...</P>

Where did the name helter skelter come from