There are two basic principles, one extend­ing from the other, of seducing a soul from loyalty to the self it was born with. The first is a kind of “original sin” appeal to the ego, a seduction by means of suggestion/deception.

You can cause a person to partake of some for­bidden experience by suggesting that it will provide him with an exalted state: power, glory, and riches, something that it cannot possibly deliver.

You simply stroke your victim into believing that he can have what he self­ishly wants to have, and be what he wants to be, without exerting any effort. All he has to do is believe and do as you say.

This appeal is hypnotic in its effect because the deception sounds so reasonable to the ego that it allows the soul to bypass the alarm system that would ordinarily operate to keep it within the bounds of conscience.

An example I often use concerns the boy whose dad has forbidden him to ride his bicycle. Along comes a friend who uses some challenge to the boy’s ego, like a dare or a taunt, to make him override his dad’s instructions and pedal off on his bike. This could be the lad’s first experience with “forbidden fruit.” 

Once you experience the forbidden, the original hypnotic influence contained in the persuasion or deceit will alter your nature at the core, and you will become a creature of conditioning, subject to the presence of the person who seduced you.

This second state is more powerful than hypnosis alone: it is ani­mal magnetism. His very presence will become irresistible, and his authority beyond question. He will render you choiceless, com­pulsive. 

"All manipulators know that our emotion-fueled inclination to rebel or to conform makes us gullible and easily led."

As a result, you fall under a compulsion to go along with your tempter under the influ­ence of two forces: first, your vulnerability to suggestion, and second, your compulsion to respond to the animal presence of your viola­tor.

This phenomenon can be seen clearly in such extreme examples as the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, whose followers would faint or go into hypnotic ecstasy when their guru would drive past them in one of his Rolls Royces. 

The first appeal to your ego might have been resistible, nothing more than a deceptive suggestion on the part of a subtle tempter who was scanning your psyche to search out its soft spot—a secret desire for power, or a rebellious insecurity already implanted in you by a violating parent.

All manipulators know that our emotion-fueled inclination to rebel or to conform makes us gullible and easily led. The seed of resentment-based helplessness seeking power may lie dormant for many years, but when someone comes along who knows how to appeal to that insecurity, our desire to “be somebody,” he can bring it to maturity fast. 

The first fall from innocence was inspired by a kind of hypnotic/psychological sugges­tion, and you might have recovered from it if you had not gone along and fallen to animal magnetism.

Be assured that the enslaved state you are living in is the result of something far more insidious than an automatic, reflexive conditioning process. It goes much deeper than that. It is an emotional bonding that grows more intense through all forms of excitement, especially love/hate or hate/love relationships.