The Games People Play

I felt inspired to share 2 books I read a long time ago:
1; The Road Less Travelled, by M Scott Peck...
2: The Celestine Prophecy, by James Redfield...

In The Road Less Travelled; Specifically, the parts in them that relate to the psychology of having your ideology and your viewpoint challenged.
It was something I was reminded of when I first watched channels of people who question what the truth is and found myself dealing with an internal struggle to come to terms with what I was discovering. It's a painful process but one we need to embrace to get anywhere near an honest view of the world, and continue to embrace it regularly.

In the Celestine Prophecy; it's the parts that categorises the different ways people respond to each other, particularly in conflict: for energy, or attention, or control. Also, how their methods of interacting with you create a corresponding "ego state" or "control drama response".

Now it's been 10 yrs since I first read them cover to cover, and I've only flicked the odd chapter since, so I can't tell you if I still rate these books in their entirity- I'm a different person now to where I was then.

However, I've always found these ideas useful. And probably more so now that I am being more questioning of myself and others- and meeting with more opposition and conflict. It's been helpful, for me, to understand the psychology of the emotional responses I've had within myself and from other people. It's helped me to step back at times and not become embroiled in somethings that are nothing more than a drain of my energy, and helped me to deal with dickheads more succinctly.

It may continue to be helpful in finding a way to communicate the truth to people, either here or in day to day life, to avoid getting an automatic defensive reaction, or putting up one. Who knows? Thought I'd put it out there.

I'd love to hear anyone's comments on them, particularly if you've read them

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[RobertMOdell]

Young lady, I liked your topic very much.  However, what do you have to say about the NWO? Are you coming from the perspective of the UK, Australia, or elsewhere? Keep up the good work!

[LastDanceSaloon]

Is this just another example of trying to find a way to put someone you don't like in the padded cell by inventing pseudo psycho issues that are just genetic human traits or is there actually a cure to humanity available by attempting to analyse basic group interaction? And how do you spot someone who is genuinely unhinged amongst the slightly unhinged majority?

[LastDanceSaloon]

while understanding the merits of a sound intimidator, who's the judge and why should anyone take any part in social interplay when it always leads to trouble etc. My video is designed to simply laugh at and therefore understand the human condition for the benefit of entertainment and general mind expanding. Your video hints at an underlying negativity of this state of humanity and that all the characters are negative instead of merely reactionary, but does not offer a 'correct' personality -->

[LastDanceSaloon]

Hi there, you can watch the interplay of these characters in my video entitled 'getting old'. I enjoyed your video and am not surprised that these categorisations have been made known over the course of human history. The eternal dilemma is, of course, what are we supposed to do about it? Surely a commentary such as this fits the 'interrogation' category since it analyses without solution. How can one lead without intimidation? How can one protect oneself from a deranged intimidator (continued->