A faulty attitude, then, is the secret cause behind most emotional states. Attitude does not actually cause the emotional response. It simply allows a transference of allegiance from Reason to environment. And so each trauma fixes memories in your mind that are manipulated by your ego as a means of generating excitement for work or escape. 

The stupid ego has, in a sense, a portable environment. It becomes the mad director of scenes and players for its private pleasure and glory. People literally photograph your body and soul and pull you inside themselves. You become the plaything of a mad god in his private universe. 

Every ego photographs scenes as it fails. In other words, whether you are seduced or frustrated, you become imprint­ed and take in your surroundings. Now, as you fail to manipulate the harsh, external world reality and it instead takes advantage of you, you fail. You are left with an environment associated with personalities to change around inside your head. 

If their syndrome is one of failure and submission, people can, by submitting to you, involve you with them in their mind. Once your image gets inside their head, they become gratified with one more puppet image they can manipulate.

It is the nature of weak people to fail in their motives toward the strong. What any failure gets out of any relationship is the identity of the conqueror. If you are strong, you can feel those weaklings giving you power in order to draw from you the booby prize of your image.

Naturally they would prefer to control you in reality. But their habit has been to fail and to slowly become the person who lorded it over them. On the way they learn to amuse themselves with your soul as your lord in their private hell. 

People enjoy involving you with them. First they try to use you to accomplish their will, but failing that, they become lord of an imagination world peopled with subjects. Failures first fantasize with other people’s identities, regurgi­tating the “captured” image like a cow chewing its cud. But eventually even in this they fail, for sooner or later one or more of those identities usually takes over and becomes them. 

"each trauma fixes memories in your mind that are manipulated by your ego as a means of generating excitement for work or escape."

Men use the images of females to replace their actual presence. But why should he need images in her absence? Because he becomes degraded by the female presence.

To avoid seeing that failing with her, the male uses the image that got inside (through falling for her) to hide behind, and he tries to manipulate it to his advantage. He degrades that image and forces her to satisfy him in a way that it failed to do in real life.

The female image is seen to worship him and his (sexual) failing. Dwell long enough on any subject and action hatches out of the egg of thought. Rape and violence are the compelling result of fantasy. 

All of us who have become involved with others and lost out, use the memories left behind. In that dream we make them heel and do anything we want. We force them to give us the service and satisfaction they seemed to promise SO WE DON’T HAVE TO SEE THE ADVANTAGE THEY ACTU­ALLY TOOK in real life.

We become lost in delusions of grandeur, of nostalgia and revenge, and the longer we live in our fantasies the more danger there is of their becoming a reality. 

Look at this principle as it applies to music: You are a romantic and the band is playing “your” song. The music lifts your ego out of its boredom and inspires feelings of love and great self-worth. The song lingers in your mind in a hypnotic way.

After this experience, any time you are lonely or “blue,” the sweet refrain, the romantic melodies from those special moments come back to haunt, rescue and entertain you again and again. Your mind has millions of such scenes and your soul is lost in all of them.