Stop the Abuse - Distortion Campaigns II       by Steve Gunn 

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[This post is in response to emails about earlier posts on the subject ]


It could be said that this issue isn't metaphysical or spiritual but let me assure you that this subject just like soul connections is something that hits people like a cement truck and tears people apart at the very core - testing them to incredible levels...And so I would argue that they are very pertinent to metaphysics and the spiritual journey as one of the greatest tests a human can endure... They are however often little heard of and even less understood....

Professionally I have worked with people with BPD and with victims of distortion campaigns alike, in teaching them meditation and energy techniques geared at helping their self healing. Nobody is saying that all people with BPD commit these distortion campaigns, far from it, and all posts are committed to raising awareness and the potential for healing for everyone - thats the motivation ...

As i am not a psychiatrist or psychologist i cant talk professionally about the actual campaigns, only from personal experience and the experience of helping others and my observations ...

Distortion Campaign

Many who went through the experience ended up like me, in a terrible state, physically sick and mentally tortured because of the totally untrue, unfair and utterly destructive nature of them..

There are some key issues i wish to point out in the articles from other sites ( see links at top of post ) as I've personally experienced them and seen them in the cases of people I've helped..

1. projection - most often the person is projecting exactly their issues onto you - the good old 180 degree rule...this seems a very reliable aspect from what i can see and a real indicator of the persons intentions towards you because it's exactly what they're accusing you of.

2. they are holding you responsible for things you often wont understand or they don't tell you or they make no sense because they're not grounded in reality.......

Or

They are taking one thing and making something else out of it... that you either didn't know about or accept or choose, and your being bulldozed into agreeing with it or being blamed for it...

Often you won't know the true depth of this until later because the person wont confront you with it - ...

Don't dismiss the odd weird comments as so ludicrous nobody will believe them because ..... > 3. Behind your back recruitment of friends and co workers, people who they know know you, they start dropping pieces of "information" to try to gradually convince these people that their delusion has some basis in fact and to illicit support from these people to maintain that delusion.. Sometimes sympathy, often just to discuss it because it makes it seem real by doing so..

Most of the time you'll have little or no knowledge of this...

I do believe that because of this needing to "recruit" that somewhere inside the person with the illness realizes what they're doing isn't valid or real, and its because of that it drives this need to get others to "buy in" in order to perpetuate the myth... I also believe thats why the victim of the campaign is rarely confronted with the whole depth of the persons delusion for exactly the same reason - because you'd shoot a hole in their theory and somewhere inside that person knows that you would be right - but that they actively choose the delusion.

Most of the actions of these campaigns ( from my experience ) seem to be used to discredit you with others rather than to your face at least until enough people are believing the "there's no smoke without fire" because they've been hearing about it for so long..and of course you didn't know because the people were sworn to secrecy or misdirected...

However.. when you do find out...I wouldn't just sit back and take it like many do - Its very easy to say "nobody would believe that" well thats not true... you would be surprised what people would believe...especially when they've been "fed" information over time..information that you didnt know about and quite possibly isn't true but has gradually "recruited" them...

This is where the victims suffer greatly because what often happens is that they're either hounded by the person...or one day everything fine and them suddenly a whole pack of things they didn't do get thrown at them in a way designed to hurt and cause damage.. And the recruitees join in...

I recommend that when you do find out you drag it out into the open, make it clear to everyone whats gone on and take very tough action. Most of this stuff seems to live in the rumor and gossip and hints and "behind the scenes". make it public make sure everyone knows... If needs be contact people to inform them of whats been going on because otherwise you may not know who's been told what.. thats my suggestion..

Lets make this clear i have every sympathy for sufferers of BPD and other issues and have done everything i can in my work to understand and offer help - thats something quite different..

But these distortion campaigns they are nasty and they are meant to at least remove someones freewill and at worst delude, discredit and damage and I don't for one moment see or believe that however deep a delusion that someone can ever justify or even fully convince themselves they're right in doing it..

Its really easy to prove its all false but if you read the other articles thats not the issue, the damage is being done behind the back of the victim most of the time, sometimes for years..

Metaphysically speaking what seems to be going on in the energies is back to this mis-perceived energy situation where the person is feeling something very strong, and isnt happy about it but is associating the other person with the reason or "fault" for the emotion - making them responsible for an emotion... and then trying to prove that's valid by arranging surrounding circumstances to be the sets, lighting and actors so its seems to others to be real so that they can then validate their blame...

Often, as per the BPD articles, if you've hit an abandonment trigger in them either directly or inadvertently, then thats often the final trigger for the tirade.. One poor guy tells of living in fear because his girlfriend tells every new guy he beat her and so he never knows where the next threat is coming from...thats terrible but nothing like as bad as it can get..as the persons emotions rage and they try to find proportionate actions..

I have the greatest sympathy for anyone else who's suffered this and likewise the sufferers of BPD - but distortion campaigns need to be known about so that innocent people ( potential recruitees ) don't get "suckered in" to be unwilling participants in damaging others...

The more such issues are realized the more help there can be and the less people can get damaged...thats the hope...

Although the more common term BPD is used in this article, Metaphysically speaking we would tend to look at things like BPD more as emotional than pure mental, where the persons energy system has suffered usually some traumatic shock which has then stored strong emotions in the sacral chakra which the mental system can't resolve or integrate nor detach from, thus causing mental trauma as they struggle to try to resolve it... and its this inability to resolve that drives the acting-in or acting-out as they're often called...

Often we see people using metaphysical reasoning for such phenomenon as people incorrectly perceiving that others are sending them energy or are taking their energy or have done something to their energy as their conclusion.... From that all the way to the extremes of the polarizing of people as extremes of good or bad, energetic attachment or possession, the polarization or "Angels and Demons" phenomenon where metaphysics becomes mysticism in the more extreme attempts to find a story that fits the emotion, however extreme and ungrounded in fact....

All because of a deep spiritual or emotional process that just won't integrate into the thinking...

Of course sometimes these these things can really happen, the world of energy is extremely powerful and complex and can do incredible things.. however in this context - what we're talking about in the cases here, is where the person is projecting these things and using metaphysics ( or more usually mysticism - metaphysics without rules ) as reasoning for what they feel - which is most often old inner emotions and energies being triggered by current events..

So on one level they may be right, the emotions are real and feel real, its just they're not associated with, from, caused by, or relevant to the present focus, thats the good old grey matter doing that part in its attempt to control, remedy, associate and act...

In another post I do want to address the complex but fascinating subject of soul connections with people with emotional issues or what psychology tends to refer to more as mental illness, as it has some very interesting complexities, and in the research for the book its something that came out a lot in the hundreds of case studies..thats for another post...