“One of the most basic and effective techniques that cults, totalitarian systems, and individuals with fascistic, manipulating personalities use to disorient and control people’s minds is ‘gaslighting.’ You’re probably familiar with the term. If not, here are a few definitions:
‘THE MANIPULATION OF ANOTHER PERSON INTO DOUBTING THEIR PERCEPTIONS, EXPERIENCES, OR UNDERSTANDING OF EVENTS.’ American Psychological Association
‘AN INSIDIOUS FORM OF MANIPULATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTROL. VICTIMS OF GASLIGHTING ARE DELIBERATELY AND SYSTEMATICALLY FED FALSE INFORMATION THAT LEADS THEM TO QUESTION WHAT THEY KNOW TO BE TRUE, OFTEN ABOUT THEMSELVES. THEY MAY END UP DOUBTING THEIR MEMORY, THEIR PERCEPTION, AND EVEN THEIR SANITY.’ Psychology Today
The main goal of gaslighting is to confuse, coerce, and emotionally manipulate your victim into abandoning their own perception of reality and accepting whatever new ‘reality’ you impose on them. Ultimately, you want to completely destroy their ability to trust their own perception, emotions, reasoning, and memory of historical events, and render them utterly dependent on you to tell them what is real and what ‘really’ happened, and so on, and how they should be feeling about it.”
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After thirty years of teaching Inner City, Special Education students and
forty-five years of metaphysical studies, I have decided to share my life's philosophical understandings on this wonderful website. For me, everything in my life has been a spiritual experience from being raised in an alcoholic household, to marriage and teaching, and finally caring for an Alzheimer parent. I have sought at least fifteen, personal psychic readings to try and assist me as a wife, teacher and caretaker. I want to share the wisdom that I have gained from following the valuable spiritual guidance from my inner knowing and from heeding the advise of channeled answers from trusted psychics. At almost 70 years old, I am writing, traveling and enjoying retirement in Florida.
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“One of the most basic and effective techniques that cults, totalitarian systems, and individuals with fascistic, manipulating personalities use to disorient and control people’s minds is ‘gaslighting.’ You’re probably familiar with the term. If not, here are a few definitions:
