Thirst For Power - News With Views

By Late Roy Masters

January 11, 2026

The principles and techniques of scientific brainwashing closely parallel the manipulations that take place in many families. Pavlov and the other scientists who “ invented “ brainwashing early in this century learned much about their subject by observing, refining, and systemizing the cruelties that take place all too often in the family.

Why should I teach you to manipulate other peoples’ minds when it is so blatantly immoral and dangerous? The reason is that if I can expose the process, you will be in a position to disarm the next person who tries it out on you.

The privileged information you are about to learn has been known and used by dictators, tyrants, bullies, and sociopaths for thousands of years. But ordinary citizens have been kept in the dark.

Interested? You bet you are! Want to know the secret of bending people to your will? Who doesn’t! But be warned concerning the dangers of this supreme folly before you enter the game of power.

Principle number one: Before you can dominate others you must become a victim yourself. Most likely you already fulfill that requirement.

Try to understand, it would be impossible for anyone worthy of the name of “human” to call up within himself the ruthless wickedness he would need in order to destroy another person for the fun, power, and glory of it.

The necessary ruthlessness would have to have been implanted in him from some outside source—by the person who destroyed his original innocence. Only the extremely ambitious ones among us, those sociopaths willing to trade their souls for power, possess that necessary ruthlessness.

And once they set out to gain more and more power, they will feel called upon to become more and more ruthless, because power, to the unprincipled, is addicting.

“If I can expose the process, you will be in a position to disarm the next person who tries it out on you.”

No ordinary person can originate wickedness—or goodness, for that matter. Both qualities project through us from an overriding source. If you are conscious of the presence of a dark spirit within yourself, it is because some long-forgotten trauma caused you to lose control of your psyche and let the intruder in.

And once the nature of the intruder has been implanted in you, it robs you of your former identity, and lives through you as though it were the real you. Under its control, you find yourself bullying the weak and doing unto others all the nasty little things that were done unto you.

It awakens in you a hunger to control and violate others, and once you taste the fruits of power, you start to forget that you have been victimized. You get caught up in the excitement of the wicked implanted knowledge you acquire through your trauma experience.

And once you have been violated and imprinted with “carnal knowledge,” you find validation for your power trip in the enslavement of others.

Whoever invented “vampires” was a good student of human vulnerability because the process I am describing is analogous to the vampire mystique in every detail. When you are bitten, you give up your life’s blood to the vampire.

Eventually, you die and come back to life—not as a person, but as a vampire. You become what violated you. You are imprinted with the vampire’s identity, nature, and personality. You thirst for power, and you know by your new instinct how to get it.

Take care, though, for knowledge of such things that you can get from books will be worthless to you. The soul has to be made compatible with such knowledge.

It has to bare its neck to the bite of the evil vampire and accept its venom throughout its being, exchanging whatever bonding it formerly enjoyed with its Creator for the evil knowledge of how to gain power through the enslavement of others.