All dyed-in-the-wool psychotics have a need to be dominated and, conversely, psychopaths have a need to dominate. Psychotics feel insecure and fearful when they are not dominated, while their counterparts, the psychopaths, panic when they are alone without someone to control.

Which one are you? 

The more guilty he is, the greater is the psychotic’s need for a more powerful, more dominant psychopath to “free” him from anxiety. The need for the more dominant personality grows steadily in direct proportion to the psychotic sleepwalker’s guilt.

However, the psychotic is rarely conscious of his need to be dominated. He perceives any ruling personality as his servant—a court jester perhaps—one with charm and entertainment value to make the psychotic “king” feel good about himself so that he does not have to face the truth. 

Although truth is omnipresent, we are tuned out in the way we might tune out one radio signal in preference to another. The signal of the station we are not receiving is nevertheless all around the radio set, though not coming through our receiver.

The ego can avoid ever-present reality only by living in the imagination (the psychotic/hypnotic state of mind), which exists in relationship to an external source—the hypnotic pressure-personality or psychopath.

If you do not love reality, you will require the services of a hypnotist (and hypnotists come in many guises) to pull you away from it. 

The psychopathic personality has earthly power, not the power of honesty; he has the kind of power derived from keeping you feeling secure.

Power personalities don’t live in a dream world the way you do; they don’t have to—they are successful, and your fear and falling assure that.

Their success appears only in contrast to your failure (but you keep serving them anyway in the vain hope that the qualities you so admire in them might evolve in you). 

Now please remember that your soul or consciousness is incapable of originating thought, just as a radio set cannot originate its own programs. Therefore, as your soul comes down away from reality, it falls away from a plan or a “program” which is waiting to come through.

"The fallen ego is hungry and thirsty—not for truth, but to realize its own greatness"

You then pick up the other program, which originates in you-know-where. In time, you unconsciously take on all the characteristics and the nature of that source. Belief in the lie joins you, tunes you in, as it were, to the source of deception. 

Every soul which has fallen to pride is void of understanding, because the ego shuns knowledge of God in order to be God; the ego fears understanding because that is the way of God.

Understanding shames and inhibits the way the budding ego wants to believe about itself—egotists want to will their own universe into existence and to reveal their own creative genius so as to be admired for their accomplishments. 

The fallen ego is hungry and thirsty—not for truth, but to realize its own greatness, which somehow seems to elude it. When we have lost sight of the truth, we often misconstrue the guilt we feel for this.

Check this out the next time you feel guilty—you can falsely believe that you are guilty only for not being good enough, rather than for being wrong. Guilt then drives you to do better to prove that your goodness is there.

Manipulators can use this folly to make you serve their purposes; often they can be responsible for making you feel guilty, and then allow you to work it out by serving them in exchange for a smile of approval. 

The tempter helps us dream the impossible dream and then, no matter how low we sink, he is there again in one form or another recognizing our worth, adoring us, catering to us, worshipping us, understanding our needs and sympathizing with our suffering, even helping us to restore our pride and self-esteem.