Macaroon bar with salted fudge
And some thoughts about Charles Manson 🤣 keeping it reeeeal interesting for those of you who I haven't turned off yet 👌
I've been reading a bit about cult life in the 60s and specifically about Charles Manson's suspiciously advanced techniques to get The Family to be devoted, unquestioning worshippers of the "godly" man himself
It's been teaching me A LOT about my own programming and how easy it is to manipulate people with just a concerted effort and a HUGE charismatic ego
If you don't know (and why would you!), I am a victim of severe brainwashing
One of my mom's long-term partners operated like a Manson
He saved us
He promised us the life that we always wanted. He showed us what it was like to be part of a family which is what we craved for so long
Regardless of having my dad in the picture, my parents divorce left me feeling like I was missing a functional family. My mom was missing the unconditional love in a partner that his man provided
He became our savior
And then something changed
He slowly started prying my mom and I apart. He started feeding us lies. Asking us to question the way we thought/felt about each other
He would alienate her from her friends and our family. He would coax anger out of me and incite arguments
He encouraged all of this to happen behind the scenes, without my mom and I being open about what was going on
I could go into A LOT more, but it was YEARS of this behavior and it took YEARS of separating from my mom and him to see what was ACTUALLY happening
It took her getting pregnant with my brother to extract herself
Taught me to never look for someone else to save me
It saw this scene within the wellness guru community too and I extracted myself
I see this with the c19 campaign and govt rhetoric and I extracted myself
Its hard to not feel like someone else has all the answers, but most people in authority aren't budging and have an agenda to push to keep themselves in power
You only really see this if you've been brainwashed before
Anyway Manson was great at what he did and probably trained by the CIA 🤷♀️ the most horrendous human being of course...but a master at manipulation
