A kind deed done with a kind intent has no trace of obligation in it because it is truly a gift without strings attached. But watch for the kindness that pulls on your insides in a way that makes it difficult to refuse the request which follows the kindness. You feel it in your solar plexus. 

Watch out for the long-range manipulators, the really sophisticated types who may go so far as to give you gifts without strings, and never for one moment let on what they are up to. When they deal with an aware person they seem to sense that they are being watched for those strings, so they work more cautiously.

When dealing with an aware person they must have a long-range project, so they play out the role of a devoted friend. But don’t let this impress you. You can know something is wrong because some of those friendly, helpful, loyal things they ,do tend to go farther that you sense they should.

Remain observant. Mentally log or note what you see. Observe what is not synchronized with the unfolding guidance plan given to your soul.

You see, the things that “friends” do which are not meant to obligate, are instead meant to make you trust; some will work very hard for that trust. Your misplaced faith is much more dangerous to you than a compulsive obligation would be.

A much deeper, more subtle, more primitive ego-appeal is involved here. It often happens that in a strategic moment the person whom you thought was a trusted friend may show his true colors, and fail you in some very petty way that could spell your ruin.

That very moment when you need a friend to speak up, he will instead turn a phrase or twist a word, and the betrayal moment he has been trained for has arrived. I am not saying all this to make you paranoid, but to alert you to the fact that such is the real and ever-present danger you face with all your associations. 

Some special people are relieved when caught at the mind game, because they really want to be corrected. So strong is their desire to be corrected, they never make you doubt what you see in them.

Careful! This too could be a game. You can tell who the game players are because they are too grateful for your correction. Correction in the truest sense is meant to awaken the soul to the error of its ways and, through its repentance, to receive grace, becoming self-correcting and independent of your help.

However, you know something has gone wrong when those who are corrected still don’t grow up, when you see no real change of heart. When they want to make you their god and source of their salvation, you are in danger. 

"The weak are the handmaidens of the downright wicked"

In a recent article I wrote that weak, nice people are really wicked people in disguise. The weak are the handmaidens of the downright wicked. I remember what Neville Chamberlain was supposed to have said of Adolph Hitler when coming home from that “peace” meeting with the tyrant.

Chamberlain said (and I quote as closely as I can recall), “I had the feeling that this man (Hitler) could be trusted.” At that moment, weak (but wicked) Chamberlain, in mystical cahoots with a spiritual master common to both men, betrayed the world. Millions perished. 

Ladies, surely your weak husband is a betrayer. Gentlemen, surely the woman who overwhelms you and puts you on a pedestal, who proves herself with her sensuous love, is a betrayer. 

Every true pyschotic is programmed to betray. He is like a Russian (or any other) spy who looks like an American, who lives the American life, but exists for the one moment when he can glory in the secret purpose for his existence, which is the destruction of those he pretends to love.

We are fooled by the betrayer because of our ego need for recognition, and the natural trust we award those who look up to us. 

The main difference between the psychotic and the psychopath is that Mr. Nice Guy (the psychotic) is rarely aware of his own potential for betrayal.

The psychotic is a budding psychopath, a hopeful and ambitious understudy who hangs around great, talented, larcenous souls, riding their coattails to success, and sharing the glory.

But the psychotic is too weak a character to become a strong leader. His weak soul is committed to complement the strong, and the secret evil purpose that both the strong and the weak share.

The influence of the psychotic is derived mostly from the strength of the psychopath, and the psychotic may not be aware of the forces controlling him. At the moment of betrayal, the weak soul may kick himself for what he did, but like it or not, he remains a vehicle of betrayal.