Reading harold_maude's journal

Given some distance from a person or event, the once blurry lines become clear, distinct.
You can finally get the answer to the question, "what am I looking at?"

There are so many things that can blurr the vision and make thinking clearly almost impossible.
Emotional ties. Loyality. And a few others that you might not be familiar with. One is hypnosis. The kind carried on in a conversation that leaves you doing things and wanting things that you really don't.

Like energy vampires, the person who is adept at conversational hypnosis is usually doing it because without it, no one would pay attention and or give them what they want.

The name I gave to conversational hynosis before I knew what I was looking at was and still is "The Charm".
And if you've ever been hit by it, it's tough to keep things straight.

As it happens I had an experience with someone who not only was good at it, but the intent that was attached was not in my best interest.
Since I had never met anyone quite as magnetic as this person seemed to be, I was pulled by something that I didn't understand at all.
Now that I understand what was going on, it occured to me that it's got to be a fairly common practice among people who are in power. Hey if you can do it to one person, why not a whole nation.

Now that I know what it is and how it works, I am slower to move on somthing someone is trying to get me to do or take.
I listen harder to my gut when there is some person who is doing a song and dance, much like a magician does slight of hand, and when there is sufficant confusion and diversion, then the real purpose becomes evident, the suggestions are planted.
And thoes suggestions are made of words at least in part with embedded commands, so when all is said and done, you find yourself doing things, thinking things that under straight on conversation, you would never do.

There is indeed great wisdom in knowing yourself, and what it is that you really want.

Fortunately for me, the person weilding the charm in my direction met with several walls.
When they showed up on the scene, I had already spent long hours
soul searching.
They also ran into what I know in my bones is my purpose.
So after months of trying to get me to become one of their followers as it were, they aparently decited they didn't want to try to get me to do what they wanted after all.

For all the things I struggle with, having a weak mind is not one of them.
A person of this type will test the strength of their hold, by doing things that insite emotional responses.

If you have ever had an aquantance who you liked but had no idea why you would like them because most of what they do, is really stupid, some type of hynotic control was more than likely involved.
Depending on how much of your emotions have been infected by the charm, will be how strongly you feel things like jealousy, or abandonment. Somewhere along the line addiction seems to happen.

I know this because I watched this person use it on several other people at the same time they were trying to get me on board so to speak.

Now that I know that it's out there, waiting for who ever is vunrable, I will walk with wiser eyes, and sharper ears.