Like all good âtoolsâ the use of psychological manipulation via Freud, Skinner, Bernays, etc. can be used for âgoodâ or âbad.â Like a ball bat can crush a skull or a bases loaded home run.
In my time with various tribal cultures, medicine men and women, I have found it mostly used for healing or what we call âgood.â
The Heyoka shaman I studied with, Greg BrightEagle, used the Heyoka method of trickery to help people but one must be careful with it. That emanates from the old tale of Coyote being board because nothing died and he pleaded with Waken Tanka to let thing die so he could hunt. But he was tricked by Wankan Tanka because the first thing that died was Coyoteâs son.
So in our industrial, high tech world of designer drugs, electronic consciousness manipulation, AI, and TVâs that watch you to set up the commercials they feel you should watch from your viewing habits. there may be a cliff we do not see that will take us down.
You can see it in personal romantic relationships where men and women have been tricked into following the various relationship âgurusâ and learn the vocabulary of manipulation, etc. and wind up lonely and sad.
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