473. Spiritual slavery (where one person is forced to give their spiritual power to another person) appears to exist in many cultures in the world but the mechanics of how

474. spiritual slavery works no doubt varies from culture to culture
spiritual slavery works no doubt varies from culture to culture.  For this analysis we will look at how a person might become a spiritual slave in one of the developed countries of the western world and how their efforts to

475. escape from their spiritual slavery will probably end in failure
escape from their spiritual slavery will probably end in failure.  Early in life the individual who becomes a spiritual slave in one of the developed countries of the western world is never given

476. an even break.  Other kids get away with things that they do not get away with.  If they question anything or ask for the same things that the other kids ask for they will be put under a lot of pressure.  They learn to keep their opinions to

477. themselves because whenever they speak up they are punished
themselves because whenever they speak up they are punished.  By being treated in this manner their spiritual energy is never really allowed to develop.  They eventually get into a position where anytime

478. one of the other kids feels bad about something they will take advantage of the spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person (the spiritual slave) knowing that no one will protect the more vulnerable

479. person from the spiritual and psychological attack that is being made on them.  Because of this process the spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person ends up absorbing the pressure that should be

480. going to the people who have attacked them and who have made them into their spiritual slaves.  They have to deal with not only the pressure of their own lives but they also have to absorb the pressure that is being directed towards

481. the people who have made them into spiritual slaves
the people who have made them into spiritual slaves.  If they eventually, with insight into the nature of their situation, get some sort of psychological release where they no longer feel the need to absorb the pressure of the

482. people who made them into a spiritual slave, they will notice very soon that they will have increased pressure put upon them by people in their group who are upset that the person who made them into a spiritual slave is not happy

483. about the new situation where they have to absorb the pressure that was previously absorbed for them by the spiritual slave.  The spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person might also be

484. accused of being evil after they break free from their spiritual slavery.  The ones who have been using them as spiritual slaves might say that they are feeling increased negative spiritual energy coming into them and they

485. might claim that the spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person is evil and has put a curse on them and that is why they are feeling increased negative spiritual energy coming into

486. them.  Actually, they are just feeling the negative spiritual energy that the spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person has been absorbing for them through the years.  But being as the person who made the more

487. vulnerable person into a spiritual slave is going through obvious spiritual and psychological pain as a result of what has occurred, it will appear to anyone observing the situation that the spiritually and

488. psychologically vulnerable person probably has in fact put some sort of a curse on the other person.  The group will now cast the spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person in the role of an evil person and the

489. vulnerable person will be forced to go back into their old role where they were being forced to absorb the pressure that is being directed towards the person who had made the spiritually

490. and psychologically vulnerable person into their spiritual slave.

491. Person A (a person who is pressuring Person C)
Below is an example of a spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person (Person B) being forced to absorb pressure that is being sent by the person on the left (Person A) to the person on the right (Person C). In the following graphic you see what happens if Person B manages to get out of the line of fire between Person A and Person C.
Person A (a person who is pressuring Person C)
Person B (a spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person)
Person C (a person who has made Person B their spiritual slave)

492. Person B (a spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person)
Below is an example of a spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person (Person B) managing to get out of the line of fire between Person A and Person C. As can be expected, Person C will probably not be very happy about having to absorb the pressure that is now coming into them from Person A (pressure that was once being absorbed for them by Person B).
Person B (a spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person)
Person A (a person who is pressuring Person C)
Person C (a person who has made Person B their spiritual slave)

493. Person A (a person who is pressuring Person C)
Below is an example of a spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person (Person B) being forced to absorb pressure that is being sent by the person on the left (Person A) to the person on the right (Person C). For a short time Person B had managed to get out of the line of fire, but then Person C complained that Person B had put a curse on them that was sending negative spiritual energy into them. The negative spiritual energy was actually coming from Person A, but the group forced Person B to once again start absorbing the pressure that was being sent by Person A to Person C.
Person A (a person who is pressuring Person C)
Person B (a spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person)
Person C (a person who has made Person B their spiritual slave)

494. In trying to understand why spiritually and psychologically vulnerable people have so much trouble breaking free from situations such as the one described above (where they are constantly being forced to

495. absorb negative spiritual energy that should be going towards the people who made them into their personal spiritual slaves), it might be useful to look at how the spiritual structures of people

496. who have normal spiritual abilities function. 
Most people have the ability to exercise a certain amount of spiritual control over other people.  Individuals who have normal spiritual structures  

497. are constantly influencing the thoughts and feelings of the people who they deal with and the people who they deal with are constantly influencing their thoughts and feelings.  Individuals who have strong spiritual abilities

498. seem to be able to perform magic in their dealings with other people
seem to be able to perform magic in their dealings with other people.  For example, a salesperson with strong spiritual abilities has the ability to (in a short period of time) take a prospect who is angry and defensive and turn

499. that prospect into not only a customer but also a loyal and enthusiastic supporter of the product that the salesperson is selling.  When this happens it appears to people observing the situation that the salesperson is merging

500. his or her mind and soul with the mind and soul of the customer and is, in some sort of magical spiritual fashion, forcing the customer to buy the product that the salesperson is selling.

501. Spiritually and psychologically vulnerable people tend to have trouble in situations where they are supposed to take a skeptical and angry prospect and turn that prospect into a loyal and enthusiastic customer

502. because they do not have strong enough spiritual abilities to perform spiritual magic when dealing with other people.  And no matter how hard they try to improve things, they never seem to be able to increase their spiritual

503. power.  They may listen attentively when a successful salesperson tries to explain to them the secrets of the salesperson's success.  They know that they need to develop their spiritual powers if they want to become more

504. successful in life.  But a spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person might run into a problem when they ask a successful salesperson what the secrets of their success are.  The salesperson knows

505. that one of the main reasons for their success is their ability to overpower other people spiritually with their strong spiritual energy.  They know that they are merging their minds and souls with the customer's mind and soul

506. and that they are using spiritual magic to get the customer to do what they want that customer to do.  But the successful salesperson who has strong spiritual abilities knows that they are dependent on

507. spiritually and psychologically vulnerable people for a lot of their spiritual power and they do not want to lose this source of spiritual power that they are constantly tapping into.  For this reason, they are

508. reluctant to tell the person seeking knowledge from them the true reasons for their success.  The salesperson might instead say something like "well, it's pretty much a matter of just working hard.  The breaks

509. come to those salespeople who are always making contacts and who never stop working.  Basically, what I've found is that the harder I work, the luckier I get."

510. If the salesperson were to let down their guard and give a spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person the real reason for why they are successful, they would probably say

511. something like the following: "In many ways life is a zero sum game
something like the following: "In many ways life is a zero sum game.  When one person loses, it seems that another person wins.  And when it comes to things of a spiritual nature, the same rule applies.  If you lose your

512. spiritual power, the person who took that spiritual power from you will receive that spiritual power and it will be theirs to use however they wish to use it.  Spiritually and psychologically vulnerable people tend to lose their

513. spiritual power at a very early age
spiritual power at a very early age.  Their spiritual energy is never really allowed to develop and other people are allowed to take advantage of them spiritually and psychologically and make them into their personal

514. spiritual slaves.  Spiritually and psychologically vulnerable people are in this way forced to absorb the negative spiritual energy that is being directed towards the people who have made the vulnerable person into their

515. spiritual slave.  The vulnerable people might eventually, with insight into the nature of their situation, get some sort of psychological release where they no longer feel the need to absorb the pressure of the

516. people who made them into a spiritual slave
people who made them into a spiritual slave.  But if they do get this psychological release they will notice very soon that they will have increased pressure put upon them by people in their group who are upset that the person who

517. made the spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person into their spiritual slave is not happy about the new situation where they now have to absorb the pressure that was previously absorbed for them by the spiritual

518. slave.  The spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person might also be accused of being evil after they break free from their spiritual slavery.  The ones who have been using them as spiritual slaves might say

519. that they are now feeling increased negative spiritual energy coming into them and they might claim that the spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person is evil and has put a curse on them and that is why

520. they are feeling increased negative spiritual energy coming into them
they are feeling increased negative spiritual energy coming into them.  I've seen what happens to people when one of the people who they have been using as a spiritual slave manages to, with insight, break free from their

521. spiritual slavery.  The individual becomes very distressed because they now have negative spiritual energy coming into them that their spiritual slave had previously been absorbing for them.  The group sees

522. what is happening and they put the spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person into the role of an evil person and they force that person to go back into their old role where they are being forced to once again absorb

523. the pressure that is being directed towards the person who has made the spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person into their spiritual slave."

524. "When the spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person I was observing at that time managed to, with insight, temporarily break away from being forced to absorb the negative spiritual energy coming into the

525. person who had made them into a person slave, it appeared to me at that point that he had normal spiritual abilities.  Usually other people did not notice the vulnerable person's spiritual energy, but when he

526. temporarily broke free from his spiritual slavery, it appeared that he was exercising spiritual power over the person who had made him into a personal slave.  But after he was forced back into the old

527. situation by the group I did not notice any more strong (or even normal) displays of spiritual power coming from the spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person.  I realized at that point that when he temporarily

528. broke away from his spiritual slavery his spiritual energy levels did in fact increase.  But he was not really controlling other people spiritually like some of the people in the group thought was the case. 

529. He had not put a curse on the person who had made him into a spiritual slave.  The vulnerable person, by getting out of the way (or out of the line of fire) of the negative spiritual energy that was being directed towards the

530. person who had made him into a spiritual slave, created a situation where the negative spiritual energy that was originally supposed to go to the person who had made them into a personal spiritual slave started to be

531. sent directly towards that person
sent directly towards that person.  The curse (or negative spiritual energy) that the person who had made him their spiritual slave was complaining about was actually coming into them from one of their personal

532. enemies, not from the spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person.“
"Spiritually and psychologically vulnerable people who get involved in

533. spiritual slavery early in life never really learn how to exercise spiritual power over other people and for that reason they tend to not be very good salespeople.  They tend to think of themselves as potentially becoming good

534. salespeople because they can remember those periods that they have gone through in their lives ( similar to the one I just described) where they temporarily got free of their spiritual slavery and when for a short period of time other

535. people viewed them as being people who were able to exercise spiritual control over other people.  Spiritually and psychologically vulnerable people need to realize that people such as myself who are good salespeople might

536. feel sorry for people who are spiritually and psychologically vulnerable but we don't really want to help them to break free of their spiritual slavery.  If one of the people who I have taken spiritual power from

537. (and who I have made into my spiritual slave) breaks free of their spiritual slavery, that is going to have a negative impact on my ability to perform spiritual magic when I try to sell things to other people.  I need the extra

538. spiritual energy that I receive daily from the people who are my personal spiritual slaves and I need for them to continue absorbing the negative spiritual energy that is being directed towards me by my enemies."

539. "There have been times when spiritually and psychologically vulnerable people have asked me for the secrets of my success as a salesperson and I have purposely misled them into thinking that I thought they

540. had what it takes to become a good salesperson
had what it takes to become a good salesperson.  I reminded them of the times in the past when they temporarily broke away from their spiritual slavery and suggested to them that they were only a step or two away

541. from the spiritual empowerment that they were seeking
from the spiritual empowerment that they were seeking.  But in reality, I knew that, just like an alcoholic cannot be cured of his or her problem until he or she recognizes that they have a problem, an individual who

542. has been a spiritual slave since a very early age will never gain any sort of spiritual empowerment until they realize that they have never really had a sound and fully functional spiritual structure.  Spiritually and

543. psychologically vulnerable individuals should realize that even though people like myself seem to be very confident, in order to maintain our high levels of spiritual power we need to have a constant source of spiritual

544. power available to us.  And we need spiritual slaves to keep providing us with that spiritual power.  We will continue giving spiritually and psychologically vulnerable people false information and false hopes

545. so that they will never be able to sit down and (with insight into the realities of their situation) figure out what they need to do to both break free from their spiritual slavery and stay free from their spiritual slavery.  You cannot

546. solve your problem until you understand both the nature and the scope of your problem.”

547. Person B (a spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person)
Below is an example of a spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person (Person B) managing to get out of the line of fire between Person A and Person C. Once before, Person B had gotten out of the line of fire but then Person C complained about the increased pressure they were feeling and the group forced Person B to absorb the pressure once again. This time, with insight into the situation, Person B was able to get out of the line of fire and was able to stay out of the line of fire.
Person B (a spiritually and psychologically vulnerable person)
Person A (a person who is pressuring Person C)
Person C (a person who has made Person B their spiritual slave)

548. Eventually, cultures from throughout the world will probably start to move away from old fashioned practice of using other people as spiritual slaves.  Of course, it will take a while for this change to take place.  In the

549. meantime, it would be good for us to keep trying to learn more about the nature of spiritual slavery.  The transition from the old way of doing things to whatever new order that may develop will probably be smoother if we

550. can learn to understand more about the dynamics of the old fashioned practice of using other people as spiritual slaves.  Some people, such as the successful salesperson in the example above, might be reluctant to

551. see the old way of doing things come to an end
see the old way of doing things come to an end.  But everyone, those who serve as spiritual slaves and those who benefit from the use of spiritual slaves, will be better off when things eventually

552. change if they can now start to learn more about the nature of spiritual slavery.
Copyright 2009 Don Bergquist