The manipulator disguises himself as a teacher and abuses his position making his control doctrines pass for valuable instructions or, more subtly, revealing partial truths in order to gain some trust and use you for sheerly personal or ideological purposes. You can spot this attitude because some months later, instead of seeing an increase in your freedom of awareness, the only thing that increases is your sense of oppression, with doubts and/or feelings of euphoria and a sense of integralism. Healthy, reasonable and clear teaching gradually and firmly leads to cerebral independence and freedom, not the other way round.
In some rare cases, instead, the following happens: unable to enact his power over you in a sufficiently effective way, the manipulator finds a third person that he trusts who has a certain ascendant on you (perhaps for reminding you of your father or mother or another person who really taught you something useful). The manipulator aims at using this person to make an impact on you on points or messages he wishes to inculcate. In this way he influences you, but he does it with “clean hands”, which will make it all the more difficult to retrace the steps leading back to him when you have found it out.
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