Did Things Go Wrong?

Some strategies and techniques in psychotherapy, which began with good intentions, probably became degraded, misunderstood or mis-applied.  I wrote an essay about these ideas, which did not go down well with the class tutor, but it makes sense to me still with hindsight. It's largely a matter of viewpoint and circumstance. Some people did not realise there could be possible unintended consequences of using some frameworks or methods. Did other people foresee, or even engineer things, either for control or chaos. Or would that be paranoid thinking? All I seemed to hear from people seeking help were off-the-cuff comments that made me wonder about the ethics or wisdom of certain routes to development.

To some extent many of us change over the years, or quickly depending on people and events that affect us. Emotional contagion can happen, even if we don't know quite how it works. Sometimes it's as though the scales drop from our eyes (if we get enough breathing space), about someone we trusted. Not all 'contagion' has a contaminating effect, but rather is a beneficial influence.

Advertising works, otherwise why are big bucks spent on it? Why is there so much data-mining particularly of our spending habits and contacts? If you've spent time on social media, you've seen stuff about hacking, scams involving large amounts of money, perpetrated on people who normally are nobody's fool, and questions about what Facebook in particular has been up to. We carry around a gadget capable of far more than the early computers, and all this is pushed at us. Big data, fast data, more 'I can do this', until something goes wrong.

I have known people who don't seem to remember some things in their life, if they are simply not in the right frame of mind. Others switch from one complex task to another, as easily as dropping a hat. Me, not so much! I get tuned in to what I am doing, and stuff falls off the shelves that I can fit into things somewhere. So we are all different, some days more so than others.


What if someone can manipulate our parts, 'hack' us, or use us to fulfil some idea of their own?

Hand-in-hand with dissociation or personality parts was an inference that there must be underlying or unacknowledged abuse or trauma. All hell was being let loose, with a consequent backlash and denial that such things could have happened. Some people try to convince others that, if one case has doubt thrown at it, it means all similar allegations have no basis. Where is the logic? - It only needs one black swan to prove they are not always white.

Memories can become distorted in the normal way of things. If people are pressured to keep searching in a negative way, particularly in a regressed state of mind, the outcome is less likely to be a true record. People can genuinely benefit, but for others it could act as a placebo, believing that they now have an explanation. With encouragement from a friend who was a good hypnotherapist, I underwent a training course that seemed ethical till I knew more of how it could be used to keep making money or to prove a point. What point exactly? At least I learned something from the experience.

It does not have to be full-on hypnosis or planned scam to affect people. A persuasive person sticking to dogma can cause problems for those who are searching. We are more likely to be conned or drawn into a cult, when vulnerable or upset. This is not a manual on how to have an effect on people, but it can help to understand how maybe you got duped by someone getting under your natural protective system. Even if you know and trust someone, people change and one needs a rethink. People can inadvertently push each others' buttons, rekindling something upsetting.

At times during my involvement in some of the areas touched on here, I found myself wondering about people's schooldays, how they might have behaved in the playground: Because the dynamics seemed along the lines of friendship groups, how loyalties change, the difference between having a close friend on standby, or being able to muster support, and a stand-alone who can be scapegoated or whispered about. Let's just say, it made more sense than some of the ideology people claimed. You might think of examples from your observations or experience. Through my eyes, I can only say 'Be careful in whom you place your trust. You are not necessarily being paranoid if you sense more than one agenda present in some people.'

Note inserted June 2021

We've mentioned elsewhere in Blogs & on Twitter about motivation and therapists, and to be free to walk away from something that honestly does not feel in one's best interests. Therapy is naturally painful: It should not be harmful, or take people apart for the sake of it.

Elsewhere we've mentioned author Leo Lyon Zagami, and recently came across Vol. IV of Confessions of an Illuminati, American Renaissance 2.0 and the Missing Link from the Invisible World. You may have no interest in mind control experiments if those seem irrelevant in your life. He puts a lot into perspective.

Anyone interested in biological/technical methods of control, please go to revised Blog https://doubledstandards.blogspot.com and scroll to Invasive Technology. Many individuals & authors to follow up, in the time of June 2021.

Do you think vaccines could change someone's personality or behaviour? Might people exaggerate anything that seems unusual, blaming it on vaccination? See new Blog at https://characterflip.blogspot.com

THE INTRA-BODY NANO-NETWORK

https://brandnewtube.com/v/GT6QFu

Max Igan, TheCrowhouse

Nano-Sensor Modelling for Intra-Body Nano-Networks

Journal:

 

Wireless Personal Communications > Issue 4/2021

Author:

 

Mustafa Alper Akkaş

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11277-021-08171-2

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This Blog is by way of continuing some themes from a collective Blog of 10 years ago, which is still up at https://toukanalia.blogspot.com

See Kontextuall playlist on YouTube of 4 short videos on Cults, Groups, Influence, Coercion, which apply to groups but also to coercive or influential behaviour in couples.

To load all this Blog onto one page, go to https://notincharacter.blogspot.com


For some authors/researchers on End Times, Conspiracies, Breakaway Civilisations, see post at https://groupsandminds.blogspot.com/2019/03/blog-post_14.html - includes James & Lance Morcan, Eve Lorgen, Texe Marrs, Jim Keith, Mae Brussell, Adam Parfrey, Ivan Sanderson, Ingo Swann, John Keel, Nick Redfern, Mike Bara.

What About Forensic Astrology?

Doubled Standards

Also see Are We All a Bit Psychic? in the update to this current Blog at
https://doubledstandards.blogspot.com/2019/12/blog-post_22.html


I don't claim to understand, but could there be anything to it? If there were a way to eliminate or reduce the subjective element? I won't list books but you can have a look. I heard a talk on Horary Astrology. The speaker was clever, intuitive, sincere and interesting. Some people suggest that a good astrologer combines charts and theory with intuition. Perhaps they could just as well use something else as a starting point or adjunct.

One practitioner draws a Horary chart for every half-hour around a critical crime scene, and the way she describes events is almost like stills of a film. Subjective maybe, curious yes. Another looked at Moon nodes in charts, and saw that opposite node positions of perpetrator and victim clashed at the critical time. With hindsight, and curious. And some writers suggest fixed stars indicate more in the field of crime when added to a chart. Something that seems worth looking into is when a sadistic couple, for instance, get involved with each other and go on to commit atrocities. Almost like fate, but could one party withdraw?

Some psychics looking at murders say: 'There is no energy of that person with this one', implying a suspect had no involvement in that crime. Apparently astrological charts can bear this out, so might it be useful from that standpoint? We need to bear in mind that, as the saying goes about a little knowledge being a dangerous thing, we don't have enough relevant facts, there can be blips, bias, and so on. To build up knowledge, even with hindsight and adding in further developments sounds worthwhile.

If the stars in their courses are involved in our lives, could that be affecting how we feel, where we go and what we do, and how people come together at a particular time? I don't believe in trying to predict or influence, because mostly in life we have to make decisions based on what is available, and to do things whatever the day and whether we feel like it. Ever sat an exam or a driving test, or had to go to court? I have had clusters of occurrence that changed the course of the future big-time, seemingly by chance or coincidence, but running through to other sections over time. A chart done for me by an intuitive friend many years ago, caused her to say more than once 'Be very careful what you write. I have never had anything so strongly.' Moment of truth, years down the line...

Someone spends a lot of time and effort, firstly in learning a skill like astrology, and then on working with a chart, so acknowledgement is due to them, but no-one should take undue financial advantage of those coming to them for guidance, or give categoric advice that could cause harm or take them off course. Some people who use intuition in their work find they lose their skill if they do start charging a fee.

If readers are sceptical about astrology and psychism, it's easy to be dismissive. I recently had a sort-out and found some charts. Some did pick out an interesting factor mixed in with much that was way off. All missed a crucial event. The friend who did my main chart mentioned a couple of areas that could be problematic, which turned out valid. A psychic lady went straight to an issue that others missed or misconstrued. I told people nothing. One man decreed I'd clearly messed up my whole life by not doing something. I believe there are generally other factors and avenues for people later. I was fortunate to meet a wide range of people, and my husband encouraged me to do what interested me, even though he might have concerns. Do I now think people should prey on others who want to know what's happening? You get one guess. Why was I involved with psychics? It largely was happening around me, but there was also seeking answers when vulnerable, as happens to a lot of people, and often a factor in being more susceptible to influence from cults, scams, etc.

For more on Souls, crime, groups, heredity, skip to
Full Circle: Wrapping Things Up  https://notincharacter.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_54.html


I also worked in places where things were weird or manipulative. I mentioned a destructive situation to my father, who said 'When there's a bad spirit in a place, it's very hard to know what to do.' I think he meant it in the sense of a dynamic or a split. Exploitation does not always have a financial element, but is more a sense of influence or power, or seeing if they can get away with it. I never get involved in the game-playing of others, which has been both a protection, or occasionally red rag to a bull. Here's a couple of books to have fun with:

'Astrological Games People Play' by Bernie Ashman

'Astrology & the Games People Play' by Spencer Grendahl


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Cultures or Cults - Do They Hypnotise Us?

Well, maybe not us, but might it happen to others? Perhaps we have a concept of a crime family, a Mafia, where members act like a well coordinated group with a strong hierarchy or boss-man or woman. To me, cults are similar to scams: people come under a kind of spell or regime that inhibits ordinary individualistic thinking. You'll have your own ways of looking at things. And that is how it should be.

Can People be Hypnotised to do Things Against Their Will, or to Forget What They've Done?

Yes, although views and circumstances vary. Sometimes the barriers break through, and there is seepage from one mode of functioning to another.

What About Dissociation, Multiple Personalities or MPD?

Again, views vary widely. If you look through the original Toukanalia Blog, you'll find more. In a nutshell, some people engage in cult-life without having any awareness of it in normal waking and working life. Somewhere I have a book about a family that operated in this fashion, as well as running a business. I ended up feeling sorry for the man running the show when things unravelled, because he was upset and did not seem to realise the full import, or what he had been instrumental in, almost as though things simply happened around him. If he had entered a 'cult' persona, or was in an altered state of consciousness, that could go towards explaining some of it. Stage hypnotists can get people to do weird things, and not all subjects are playing along with what is expected - or pleased with the results!

In one area we lived, we got to know a teacher who mentioned being puzzled by a few students who occasionally seemed to use quite ordinary words as if they had a different meaning for them or others 'in-the-know'. That may be cultural and make no sense to people not born in the area, or have meaning in family traditions. You could liken it to an 'in-joke' that excludes others when you start a new job. But it sounded unusual, and only happened sometimes related to time & place or some internal space. My great-aunts would whisper things they didn't think were suitable for children's ears. When my mother revealed something she had heard via the whispering-aunts, I could see how far-reaching and powerful 'Secrets in the Family' can be, see the book by Lily Pincus & Christopher Dare. They found that a disturbing family occurrence that was never mentioned, significantly affected family functioning and some members, for a lifetime or maybe until aired.

Some people I've come across in my meanderings have been deeply dissociative with infrequent glimpses into other part/s of their life. Then they'd forget it all, losing large chunks of personality. I engaged with a strong, well-respected person who managed a variety of activities in the community. She really knew how to manipulate. My tendency is to seem compliant and non-assertive, but I am known for being stubborn. She admitted to me that I made her efforts with her protegee a lot harder: I guess that's all I could do in the circumstances.

Basically, she completely overrode the personality of a highly intelligent capable woman, manipulating the alter parts of her personality & her life. She seemed addicted to the activities, and I could not understand how she disciplined herself during periods of downtime. Is there something or someone else orchestrating this?

Transient Personalities/ Alters

For Videos on the possibility of some people behaving very differently from their usual way of life see www.youtube.com/user/scillaholmes/videos

Keep reading... at Full Circle

Allied fields are Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion. Check out the work of Tanya Luhrmann, author of 'When God Talks Back'. Jimmy Lee Shreeve wrote 'Blood Rites' and 'Sacrifice'. In the former the last chapter summarises some split-brain research, including the work of Julian Jaynes on the Bicameral Mind. Also see books by Stan Gooch.

Dr William Sargant wrote several books on other cultures and beliefs, including the dangers of attending rituals where emotions or senses are heightened to the point where people may be converted to a very different belief. He in fact stayed away from those! What we may regard as primitive tribal dances, according to some researchers, are actually effective methods of communicating with other Beings. However we tend to explain things for ourselves, some practices are found across the World, and through centuries. You may come across the idea of portals, which can be places or circumstances when other realities are seen or heard, or perhaps it happens during a period of fever, illness or danger. I have mixed with people with many beliefs and personal experiences, generally without it causing concern. I have become cautious over time about getting too close to people with a bee-in-the-bonnet - over anything, or what seems an imbalance regarding people other than themselves. See On Protection post at https://notincharacter.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_28.html, and maintain some boundaries for yourself.

If you think people cannot be hypnotised unless they are in full agreement or in an appropriate setting, this may help: A colleague who was a hypnotherapist told me of a meeting where an experienced practitioner gave a talk, and by the end almost all the audience were zonked out  including other practitioners. This colleague used to be active in political circles, and I watched him subtly and slowly turn a room around from claiming there was no way they would agree to something. By the end of the meeting, he had set things in motion, though for the first half you'd never have known he was doing that - and I was watching for it.

If you look at the Egregores book at No.11 below and go to the end, there are three accounts of people with different experiences of joining a group, sometimes with far-reaching consequences for themselves or right across the board, acting almost like a curse. So please people, be careful what you get involved in. A man we knew who had an analytical mind and job, said he would go to an introductory talk run by Scientology and let us know what it was like. We warned him to be careful, but had no great concerns. Next time we saw him he was at the blackboard virtually repeating what he 'learned' or now 'knew', and not listening to anyone else's comments. Another time a couple of us went to an introductory meeting of a group at a hotel in Birmingham. The first half cost a few pounds, and we were then told if we wanted to hear the second part it was a big dollop more, the idea being to get people on the road to enrolling on a course. I had to catch a train back, and anyway don't like these ploys. My friend seemed hooked, and again had always analysed things out, and had training in another discipline. The female speaker was both didactic and charming, and had us repeating a mantra to visualisation. One intrepid man asked bluntly 'Is there verification for any of this, because you are giving it all out as factual?' Good question, which got nowhere as others resented the intrusion, and it certainly was not discussion time. Soon afterwards the organisation changed its name. You do need to be careful that there is not a very different agenda from stated, or that a group or enterprise does not simply change until unrecognisable. Groups can be hijacked as well as individuals, and there are people with precisely that intention and skills

It is not just groups that can sway people into different behaviours or thinking, and some experiences of different activities or pastimes are clearly beneficial. Recent media focus has been on stalking, abusive relationships and coercion or control, so if you are concerned about your physical or emotional safety, there is information available, a common language, and help available. The most difficult part is realising in the first instance that there's something amiss or unreasonable in the behaviour of a person one is involved with. Even so, that person can be very persuasive, or impose further restrictions so that it's hard to get away without back-up or support.

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For an introductory list of some authors/researchers on End Times and breakaway civilisations go to https://groupsandminds.blogspot.com/2019/03/blog-post_14.html 

And if you're not phased out by Exopolitics, see the end post at https://groupsandminds.blogspot.com

Do People Have Souls?

I believe so, although I am not particularly religious. I believe it is important that people are allowed and helped to make up their own minds, make their own mistakes even. There has been talk in counselling circles over whether people should be given advice. Giving advice is not a part of counselling and therapy, though some situations may differ, so long as it is used wisely. I find that, whatever a situation looks like, things can alter significantly. The best person to handle decisions is the person whose life it is. Something may look like a dead cert; often it is not.

The best healer can be someone who comes along in a person's life, and a relationship forms. Even if it breaks up, with luck it leaves the individual strong enough to make decisions for themselves that may also affect others. Obviously, these things can work out adversely for an individual, but it can also work miracles.

Cults, Controlling Relationships

When someone gets drawn into a relationship with an individual with a strong imbalance of power, or where a guru-type cult-leader, or a cultic group is involved, attempts are made to control increasing amounts and areas of individuals' lives. There are some excellent books and blogs about these issues. In essence, the leader sets him- or herself up as a kind of demigod - who has to be obeyed and never questioned. To my mind, that is where souls come into it. Somehow the leader gains power, and has increasingly to exert control. Some notorious and devastating cults seem to have begun with high ideals and quite ordinary behaviour.

Some business enterprises can become similar in effect. One of the main problems with a controlling spouse, or boss, or group leader, is that friends may see what is happening and sound an alarm, which falls on deaf ears. Their friend has got well and truly hooked, and cannot hear anything or anyone else. It can happen fast; alternatively the build-up is slow and insidious.

In closing this section, I'll just mention that some powerful cults began by portraying themselves as beneficial therapy groups. They worked, but very destructively. One cannot help but wonder if that is their real purpose, to get in under the radar to the Soul. You've heard the phrase about capturing Hearts & Minds. If the game-plan is to 'capture' Souls, leaving no route out for those selected, that could explain a thing or two. If some higher echelon in a cult or in wider society, reckons that sexual abuse of youngsters particularly, seriously hampers their development and wellbeing, does that explain even more? As to whether perpetrators (or some faction behind the scenes) actually gains power or strength through these activities, we do not know.

Another catchy phrase is Divide & Conquer, where factions are set up so as not to get-it-together, see the picture and cooperate, or go against each other, argue Yes, there's lots of abuse - believe survivors, or No, no proof - back under the carpet. The same thing has happened over ritual abuse. A convenient plan, for some? A plan nonetheless.

Watch yourself. Protect yourself.

Personal Responsibility

When people write about reincarnation or past lives, they may wax lyrical on the glamour of certain eras or quests, and that some groups of people tend to come together in groups. It can be very offputting to those who are excluded, or have no guidelines as to what life is about, what they're meant to be doing and so on. Why does any of it matter? Perhaps because people can get drawn into things that aren't what they really believe in, and would not otherwise have responsibility for. It can happen so easily, for one reason or another, or simply inexplicably. Unless we are careful. Sometimes people share living accommodation, which has an impact on things like boundaries and privacy, and I've seen people lose parts of their individuality or identity.

Some of the most down-to-earth writers on esoteric subjects, advise people to make up their own minds about what matters in their circumstances, and just  keep doing the best they can. 

Searching for Meaning

This is getting into an area I had no intention of starting on, and will leave readers to continue. I have listed writers on some esoteric subjects you may wish to follow up. If people have souls, then they may also have other lives in other times & places, other themes or tasks, other explanations. Believe or reject or leave for now.

When I became concerned over accounts of ritual abuse, I went to lectures, mixed around, got shed-loads of books, my usual efforts towards getting answers to questions. I sat at a talk where suddenly the lecturer said he thought some experiences of multiple personalities were likely to be when people got 'stuck in their archetypes', and we spoke afterwards. It is over my head and not my usual way of thinking. However I feel it worth considering. Also people can act as though they are influenced by characters on-screen or in books, and emulate people they come across. So what really is character or personality, today and many years down the line? I've known people who became very different. I changed a lot. Have you?

Just as we do different things at different times in the day, we will have different emphasis or purpose at different times of life, handling things as best we can. There are likely to be a few people who tend to help, or some who hinder. The stuff of myth and fairy tales perhaps.

For more on Souls, crime, groups, heredity, skip to
Full Circle: Wrapping Things Up https://notincharacter.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_54.html


Also see some End Times authors at https://groupsandminds.blogspot.com/2019/03/blog-post_14.html - Souls & ETs

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Link to Cultures or Cults: Do They Hypnotise Us? https://notincharacter.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_10.html

For some strategies when boundaries become a problem see On Protection  https://notincharacter.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_28.html

Direct link to Cultwise Blog: https://cultwise.blogspot.com

 

Full Circle: Wrapping Things Up

When I was knee-high to a grasshopper,  I played with a young friend I'll call Val. Her father worked at the local college, and we had the run of the grounds and shrubberies. No Internet in those days, so we played fairies and witches all over the place. One day Val was being a nasty fairy or witch, and I shouted 'But good always wins'. I like to believe that, but have to admit many bad things happen to people who are described as lighting up a room. I am no roomlighter, but sometimes when I get drawn into something, stuff seems to change. It is not always an easy ride.

I watch or read things that either bore or scare people to death. Have you read about the djinn? Maybe it is something like those, or demons by any other name. If you think strange things can happen, or that one or more of them might contribute to weird behaviour or events, perhaps that is the kind of ballpark. When I write on subjects that are even less outrageous than this, readers vanish. A few are watching this Blog already although it is new. Happened to me before and all kinds of hassle started. Something is jollying this along anyway, so we shall see. Use what you can from here or anywhere, reject anything, and make up your own mind.

There is speculation on conspiracy sites about a tie-in between UFO's, demons, djinn, black magic, and maybe ritual abuse. Who knows? My current thinking is that it might explain a lot about strange and inhuman behaviours, including the kind of things some people claim happen in rituals in darkened woods or under ground. Something at back of these rituals could explain why people who abuse children in rituals or in children's homes, can seem to 'take it or leave it'. The addiction does not take over every aspect of their lives all of the time, which is why it could be your friends or neighbours. You'd never know about it. Do they necessarily? It could be that they enter, or are placed in, an altered state of consciousness.

People may have had to agree to some kind of a deal. It is likely that not all are involved in any or all cult activities, but fulfil a role like passing on information on a cult member's whereabouts, in return for getting some bills paid, or their children's schooling. It could be anything.

Over to anyone who can shed light on some of this darkness.


This Blog was never intended to be anecdotal, and I had no idea where it would go. Often it is small things from conversations on a bus or standing in a queue that link things, or a TV programme happened across. Things are meaningful in different ways, so with the Internet people can find out things to suit them. I took a Psychology degree hoping to find out 'why people do what they do'. Travelling to London, I was in bookshops getting all manner of relevant and irrelevant material. Later, a colleague emphasised that the unconscious drives behaviour. I am now adding in emotions. Skipping many years, I had to wind up what looked like a simple estate but it was not. The solicitor was brilliant with complex stuff, but if I wanted something done for myself, I would do it or get other help. With trepidation I walked down to finalise things with him. Somehow we got chatting about psychism, intuition, chance, psychic detectives, conspiracies, and I emerged over an hour later. We had read the same stuff, much of which I'd sold off and later gone back to. Many of the original theorists got discounted for a while, but are now going strong and much ties in with other findings. Recently I came across 'Ancient Aliens' on TV, watching with half-attention. But then it got into how various cult leaders based their activities on ideas of influence from other beings or realms. Whether or not that could have happened, a lot of people became influenced one way or another.

When it comes to certain crimes, or what most people regard as cruel or senseless behaviour, it can be much the same: acting on a belief or fantasy, or maybe actual experience. A theory I feel worth looking into refers to our endocrine system, which some esoteric writers link to chakras. If it is somehow possible to activate a part of someone's system, or deactivate rational thinking, one can indeed induce very base behaviour. It happens in groups and crowds. Of interest to me, is when an individual, couple or small group, get started on a course of action that seems to take on a life and impetus of its own. Nothing stops the escalation, and only some participants may ever realise what they took part in.

As part of my aim to find out more 'why people do what they do', and with gaps in what sank in during study, I tried some Philosophy classes. That might seem close to Psychology but not at all easy to grasp. A course on emotions was fascinating though I hardly touched the books. One evening the lecturer slipped in that emotions are not entities. Well maybe they aren't, but what if they can sometimes be something like that? Or is that just woolly thinking? Even staid psychic researchers acknowledge that pent-up emotions can produce strange and powerful effects in the real world.

Also relevant is the concept of a group-mind, which some people link to the idea of an egregore. A kind of reality or consensus builds up and, even though other members are not present, people may act in accordance with that reality or belief system. It ties in with what happens in cults, workplaces and so on. Some cultures place importance on family and ancestors, and believe that current family members may be strongly influenced by traumas or actions of predecessors, or can be possessed by them, or by other forces. There is also a term 'overshadowing', where one seems to write or do something from out of nowhere, as if influenced by something 'other'. And many people have experienced a kind of telepathy with a person they are close to, simply knowing when something is wrong in their life.

You may or may not believe in Souls, but it is of vital importance to protect your boundaries, and not get caught up in what others are up to, who may have a trick up their sleeve and know how to manipulate others, for good or ill. Some sensitivities or traits do seem to be hereditary, and we can only do our best to make sense of them. If you have had a family member who suddenly behaves differently, or can no longer manage certain tasks, it can seem as though they somehow use your circuits for getting by. Similarly, you may share office space with someone who, through no fault of their own, has mood swings or is just not functioning well. Try to get some time and space for yourself. Some people may have insight into what is wrong with them, and others not.

Also relevant: Do People Have Souls?

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Putting random thoughts on paper, I realise how well they come Full Circle: Cults and families can have bullying and controlling aspects, as well as subtle, more seductive modes, effective when harsher ones don't hack it. Manipulation will likely step up a notch when you start seeing the mechanics, but that is just a first step to your resisting. If you can, enlist the help of another person to back you up from the sidelines.
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