Have you heard the word narcissism or narcissistic or narcissist? Funny word. So many s’s, right?
I didn’t know much about narcissism until back in 2017 when I discovered that my spiritual teacher at the time was one. I learned a lot about psychology after I discovered that he was abusing his close students in a kind of domestic-abuse / cult situation. (I eventually wrote a memoir about it. See info at the bottom of this post.) Now I see a malignant narcissist in the White House and the whole world is suffering from his behaviour, so it seems a good time to share some of what I learned.
I’ve adapted a couple of articles I wrote back in 2019 or so on the Beyond the Temple blog in relationship to spiritual teachers, and have republished them on Substack. Given the situation in the USA, I felt it would be useful information for people to have to at least understand to some degree Donald Trump’s behaviour.
Click on the image to find out what makes a narcissist and learn how they manipulate people, then read the follow-up article Taming the Toxic: A Guide for Dealing with Narcissists which is linked to at the bottom of the article.
And if you’re interested in the psychology of cults and domestic abuse situations, take a look at this book of mine.
