Dark Psychology: The Practical Uses and Best Defenses of Psychological Warfare in Everyday Life – How to Detect and Defend Against Manipulation, Deception, Dark Persuasion, and Covert NLP

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt

It hides behind stars and under hills and empty holes it fills

It comes first and follows after. Ends life, kills laughter”

our needs and desires are what make us vulnerable to these predators

“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable;

To make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”

I am terrified of this dark thing that sleeps in me;

All day, I feel its soft feathery turnings, its malignity

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow

Dark psychology is a study of the human condition in relation to the psychological nature of humans to prey on others.

Those that go searching for love only manifest their own lovelessness.

And the loveless never find love.

Only the loving find love.

And they never have to seek for it

D. H. Lawrence

When you have been treated badly in life, you naturally want to shut yourself in and close yourself off to people. And if you have to deal with people, you want to always position yourself where you would have the upper hand.

We find it easier to forgive the perpetrator than to forgive ourselves and the cost of this behavior is self-destructive patterns that are evident in our other relationships. We sabotage those relationships before they even begin. Using the guise of preventing another manipulative relationship, we destroy new relationships.

tell ourselves we are listening, but we are only really paying attention to the answers we want to hear instead of the answers we are actually getting.