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On The Public Today http://www.freechristians.com/battle_for_your_mind.htm SUMMARY OF CONTENTS The
Birth of Conversion/Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism in 1735..., The
Pavlovian explanation of the three brain phases..., Born-again preachers:
Step-by-Step, how they conduct a revival and the expected physiological
results..., The "voice roll" technique used by preachers, lawyers
and hypnotists..., New trance-inducing churches..., The 6 steps to
conversion..., The decondition process..., Thought-stopping techniques...,
The "sell it by zealot" technique..., True believers and mass
movements..., Persuasion techniques: "Yes set," "Imbedded
Commands," "Shock and Confusion," and the "Interspersal
Technique."..., Subliminals..., Vibrato and ELF waves..., Inducing
trance with vibrational sound..., Even professional observers will be
"possessed" at charismatic gatherings..., "The only hope"
technique to attend and not be converted..., Non-detectable Neurophone
programming through the skin..., The medium for mass take-over... I'm Dick Sutphen and this tape is a studio-recorded,
expanded version of a talk I delivered at the World Congress of Professional
Hypnotists Convention in Although I've been
interviewed about the subject on many local and regional radio and TV talk
shows, large-scale mass communication appears to be blocked, since it could
result in suspicion or investigation of the very media presenting it or the
sponsors that support the media. Some government agencies do
not want this information generally known. Nor do the Born-Again Christian
movement, cults, and many human-potential trainings. Everything I will relate
only exposes the surface of the problem. I don't know how the misuse of these
techniques can be stopped. I don't think it is possible to legislate against
that which often cannot be detected; and if those who legislate are using
these techniques, there is little hope of affecting laws to govern usage. I do know that the first
step to initiate change is to generate interest. In this case, that will
probably only result from an underground effort. In talking about this
subject, I am talking about my own business. I know it, and I know how
effective it can be. I produce hypnosis and subliminal tapes and, in some of
my seminars, I use conversion tactics to assist participants to become
independent and self-sufficient. But, anytime I use these techniques, I point
out that I am using them, and those attending have a choice to participate or
not. They also know what the desired result of participation will be. So, to begin, I want to
state the most basic of all facts about brainwashing: IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY
OF MAN, NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN BRAIN-WASHED AND REALIZED, OR BELIEVED, THAT HE
HAD BEEN BRAIN-WASHED. Those who have been brain-washed will usually
passionately defend their manipulators, claiming theyhave simply been
"shown the light" . . . or have been transformed in miraculous
ways. The Birth of Conversion CONVERSION is a "nice"
word for BRAINWASHING . . . and any study of brainwashing has to begin with a
study of Christian revivalism in eighteenth century Technically, what Edwards
was doing was creating conditions that wipe the brain slate clean so that the
mind accepts new programming. The problem was that the new input was
negative. He would tell them, "You're a sinner! You're destined for
hell!" As a result, one person committed suicide and another attempted
suicide. And the neighbours of the suicidal converts related that they, too,
were affected so deeply that, although they had found "eternal
salvation," they were obsessed with a diabolical temptation to end their
own lives. Once a preacher, cult
leader, manipulator or authority figure creates the brain phase to wipe the
brain-slate clean, his subjects are wide open. New input, in the form of
suggestion, can be substituted for their previous ideas. Because Edwards
didn't turn his message positive until the end of the revival, many accepted
the negative suggestions and acted, or desired to act, upon them. Charles J.
Finney was another Christian revivalist who used the same techniques four
years later in mass religious conversions in The techniques are still
being used today by Christian revivalists, cults, human-potential trainings,
some business rallies, and the United States Armed Services . . . to name
just a few. Let me point out here that I don't think most revivalist
preachers realize or know they are using brainwashing techniques. Edwards simply
stumbled upon a technique that really worked, and others copied it and have
continued to copy it for over two hundred years. And the more sophisticated
our knowledge and technology become, the more effective the conversion. I feel strongly that this is
one of the major reasons for the increasing rise in Christian fundamentalism,
especially the televised variety, while most of the orthodox religions are
declining. The Three Brain Phases The Christians may have been
the first to successfully formulate brainwashing, but we have to look to
Pavlov, the Russian scientist, for a technical explanation. In the early
1900s, his work with animals opened the door to further investigations with
humans. After the revolution in Three distinct and
progressive states of trans-marginal inhibition were identified by Pavlov.
The first is the EQUIVALENT phase, in which the brain gives the same response
to both strong and weak stimuli. The second is the PARADOXICAL phase, in
which the brain responds more actively to weak stimuli than to strong. And
the third is the ULTRA-PARADOXICAL phase, in which conditioned responses and
behaviour patterns turn from positive to negative or from negative to
positive. With the progression through
each phase, the degree of conversion becomes more effective and complete. The
way to achieve conversion are many and varied, but the usual first step in
religious or political brainwashing is to work on the emotions of an
individual or group until they reach an abnormal level of anger, fear,
excitement, or nervous tension. The progressive result of this mental
condition is to impair judgement and increase suggestibility. The more this
condition can be maintained or intensified, the more it compounds. Once
catharsis, or the first brain phase, is reached, the complete mental takeover
becomes easier. Existing mental programming can be replaced with new patterns
of thinking and behaviour. Other often-used physiological weapons to modify
normal brain functions are fasting, radical or high sugar diets, physical
discomforts, regulation of breathing, mantra chanting in meditation, the
disclosure of awesome mysteries, special lighting and sound effects,
programmed response to incense, or intoxicating drugs. The same results can
be obtained in contemporary psychiatric treatment by electric shock
treatments and even by purposely lowering a person's blood sugar level with
insulin injections. Before I talk about exactly
how some of the techniques are applied, I want to point out that hypnosis and
conversion tactics are two distinctly different things--and that conversion
techniques are far more powerful. However, the two are often mixed . . . with
powerful results. How Revivalist Preachers
Work If you'd like to see a
revivalist preacher at work, there are probably several in your city. Go to
the church or tent early and sit in the rear, about three-quarters of the way
back. Most likely repetitive music will be played while the people come in
for the service. A repetitive beat, ideally ranging from 45 to 72 beats per
minute (a rhythm close to the beat of the human heart), is very hypnotic and
can generate an eyes-open altered state of consciousness in a very high
percentage of people. And, once you are in an alpha state, you are at least
25 times as suggestible as you would be in full beta consciousness. The music
is probably the same for every service, or incorporates the same beat, and
many of the people will go into an altered state almost immediately upon
entering the sanctuary. Subconsciously, they recall their state of mind from
previous services and respond according to the post-hypnotic programming. Watch the people waiting for
the service to begin. Many will exhibit external signs of trance--body
relaxation and slightly dilated eyes. Often, they begin swaying back and
forth with their hands in the air while sitting in their chairs. Next, the
assistant pastor will probably come out. He usually speaks with a pretty good
"voice roll." Voice Roll Technique A "voice roll" is
a patterned, paced style used by hypnotists when inducing a trance. It is
also used by many lawyers, several of whom are highly trained hypnotists,
when they desire to entrench a point firmly in the minds of the jurors. A
voice roll can sound as if the speaker were talking to the beat of a
metronome or it may sound as though he were emphasizing every word in a
monotonous, patterned style. The words will usually be delivered at the rate
of 45 to 60 beats per minute, maximizing the hypnotic effect. Now the
assistant pastor begins the "build-up" process. He induces an
altered state of consciousness and/or begins to generate the excitement and
the expectations of the audience. Next, a group of young women
in "sweet and pure" chiffon dresses might come out to sing a song.
Gospel songs are great for building excitement and INVOLVEMENT. In the middle
of the song, one of the girls might be "smitten by the spirit" and
fall down or react as if possessed by the Holy Spirit. This very effectively
increases the intensity in the room. At this point, hypnosis and conversion
tactics are being mixed. And the result is the audience's attention span is
now totally focused upon the communication while the environment becomes more
exciting or tense. Right about this time, when an eyes-open mass-induced
alpha mental state has been achieved, they will usually pass the collection
plate or basket. In the background, a 45-beat-per-minute voice roll from the
assistant preacher might exhort, "Give to God . . . Give to God . . .
Give to God . . ." And the audience does give. God may not get the
money, but his already wealthy representative will. Next, the fire-and-brimstone
preacher will come out. He induces fear and increases the tension by talking
about "the devil," "going to hell," or the forthcoming
Armageddon. In the last such rally I attended, the preacher talked about the
blood that would soon be running out of every faucet in the land. He was also
obsessed with a "bloody axe of God," which everyone had seen
hanging above the pulpit the previous week. I have no doubt that everyone saw
it--the power of suggestion given to hundreds of people in hypnosis assures
that at least 10 to25 percent would see whatever he suggested they see. In most revivalist
gatherings, "testifying" or "witnessing" usually follows
the fear-based sermon. People from the audience come up on stage and relate
their stories. "I was crippled and now I can walk!" "I had arthritis
and now it's gone!" It is a psychological manipulation that works. After
listening to numerous case histories of miraculous healings, the average guy
in the audience with a minor problem is sure he can be healed. The room is
charged with fear, guilt, intense excitement, and expectations. Now those who want to be
healed are frequently lined up around the edge of the room, or they are told
to come down to the front. The preacher might touch them on the head firmly
and scream, "Be healed!" This releases the psychic energy and, for
many, catharsis results. Catharsis is a purging of repressed emotions.
Individuals might cry, fall down or even go into spasms. And if catharsis is
effected, they stand a chance of being healed. In catharsis (one of the three
brain phases mentioned earlier), the brain-slate is temporarily wiped clean
and the new suggestion is accepted. For some, the healing may be permanent.
For many, it will last four days to a week, which is, incidentally, how long
a hypnotic suggestion given to a somnambulistic subject will usually last.
Even if the healing doesn't last, if they come back every week, the power of
suggestion may continually override the problem . . . or sometimes, sadly, it
can mask a physical problem which could prove to be very detrimental to the individual
in the long run. I'm not saying that
legitimate healings do not take place. They do. Maybe the individual was
ready to let go of the negativity that caused the problem in the first place;
maybe it was the work of God. Yet I contend that it can be explained with
existing knowledge of brain/mind function. The techniques and staging will
vary from church to church. Many use "speaking in tongues" to
generate catharsis in some while the spectacle creates intense excitement in
the observers. The use of hypnotic techniques by religions is sophisticated,
and professionals are assuring that they become even more effective. A man in
This man's track record
indicates that the congregation and the monetary income will double if the
minister follows his instructions. He admits that about 80 percent of his
efforts are in the sound system and lighting. Powerful sound and the proper
use of lighting are of primary importance in inducing an altered state of
consciousness--I've been using them for years in my own seminars. However, my
participants are fully aware of the process and what they can expect as a
result of their participation. Six Conversion Techniques Cults and
human-potential organizations are always looking for new converts. To attain them, they must
also create a brain-phase. And they often need to do it within a short space
of time--a weekend, or maybe even a day. The following are the six primary
techniques used to generate the conversion. The meeting or training takes
place in an area where participants are cut off from the outside world. This
may be any place: a private home, a remote or rural setting, or even a hotel
ballroom where the participants are allowed only limited bathroom usage. In
human-potential trainings, the controllers will give a lengthy talk about the
importance of "keeping agreements" in life. The participants are
told that if they don't keep agreements, their life will never work. It's a good idea to keep
agreements, but the controllers are subverting a positive human value for
selfish purposes. The participants vow to themselves and their trainer that
they will keep their agreements. Anyone who does not will be intimidated into
agreement or forced to leave. The next step is to agree to complete training,
thus assuring a high percentage of conversions for the organizations. They
will USUALLY have to agree not to take drugs, smoke, and sometimes not to eat
. . . or they are given such short meal breaks that it creates tension. The real reason for the
agreements is to alter internal chemistry, which generates anxiety and
hopefully causes at least as light malfunction of the nervous system, which
in turn increases the conversion potential. Before the gathering is complete,
the agreements will be used to ensure that the new converts go out and find
new participants. They are intimidated into agreeing to do so before they
leave. Since the importance of keeping agreements is so high on their
priority list, the converts will twist the arms of everyone they know,
attempting to talk them into attending a free introductory session offered at
a future date by the organization. The new converts are zealots. In fact, the inside term for
merchandising the largest and most successful human-potential training is,
"sell it by zealot!" At least a million people are graduates and a
good percentage have been left with a mental activation button that assures
their future loyalty and assistance if the guru figure or organization calls.
Think about the potential political implications of hundreds of thousands of
zealots programmed to campaign for their guru. Be wary of an organization of
this type that offers follow-up sessions after the seminar. Follow-up
sessions might be weekly meetings or inexpensive seminars given on a regular
basis which the organization will attempt to talk you into taking--or any
regularly scheduled event used to maintain control. As the early Christian
revivalists found, long-term control is dependent upon a good follow-up
system. Alright. Now, let's look at
the second tip-off that indicates conversion tactics are being used. A
schedule is maintained that causes physical and mental fatigue. This is
primarily accomplished by long hours in which the participants are given no
opportunity for relaxation or reflection. The third tip-off: techniques used
to increase the tension in the room or environment. Number four: Uncertainty. I could spend hours relating
various techniques to increase tension and generate uncertainty. Basically,
the participants are concerned about being "put on the spot" or
encountered by the trainers, guilt feelings are played upon, participants are
tempted to verbally relate their innermost secrets to the other participants
or forced to take part in activities that emphasize removing their masks. One
of the most successful human-potential seminars forces the participants to
stand on a stage in front of the entire audience while being verbally
attacked by the trainers. A public opinion poll,
conducted a few years ago, showed that the number one most-fearful situation
an individual could encounter is to speak to an audience. It ranked above
window washing outside the 85th floor of an office building. So you can
imagine the fear and tension this situation generates within the
participants. Many faint, but most cope with the stress by mentally going
away. They literally go into an alpha state, which automatically makes them
many times as suggestible as they normally are. And another loop of the
downward spiral into conversion is successfully effected. The fifth clue that
conversion tactics are being used is the introduction of jargon--new terms
that have meaning only to the "insiders" who participate. Vicious
language is also frequently used, purposely, to make participants
uncomfortable. The final tip-off is that there is no humour in the
communications . . . at least until the participants are converted. Then, merry-making
and humour are highly desirable as symbols of the new joy the participants
have supposedly "found." I'm not saying that good
does not result from participation in such gatherings. It can and does. But I
contend it is important for people to know what has happened and to be aware
that continual involvement may not be in their best interest. Over the years,
I've conducted professional seminars to teach people to be hypnotists,
trainers, and counsellors. I've had many of those who conduct trainings and
rallies come to me and say, "I'm here because I know that what I'm doing
works, but I don't know why." After showing them how and
why, many have gotten out of the business or have decided to approach it
differently or in a much more loving and supportive manner. Many of these
trainers have become personal friends, and it scares us all to have
experienced the power of one person with a microphone and a room full of
people. Add a little charisma and you can count on a high percentage of
conversions. The sad truth is that a high
percentage of people want to give away their power--they are true
"believers"! Cult gatherings or human-potential trainings are an
ideal environment to observe first-hand what is technically called the
"Stockholm Syndrome." This is a situation in which those who are
intimidated, controlled, or made to suffer, begin to love, admire, and even
sometimes sexually desire their controllers or captors. But let me inject a word of
warning here: If you think you can attend such gatherings and not be
affected, you are probably wrong. A perfect example is the
case of a woman who went to A few moments later she was
possessed by the music and began dancing in a trance around the Voodoo
meeting house. A brain phase had been induced by the music and excitement,
and she awoke feeling reborn. The only hope of attending such gatherings without
being affected is to be a Buddha and allow no positive or negative emotions
to surface. Few people are capable of such detachment. Before I go on, let's go
back to the six tip-offs to conversion. I want to mention the United States
Government and military boot camp. The Marine Corps talks about breaking men
down before "rebuilding" them as new men--as marines! Well, that is exactly what
they do, the same way a cult breaks its people down and rebuilds them as
happy flower sellers on your local street corner. Everyone of the six
conversion techniques are used in boot camp. Considering the needs of the
military, I'm not making a judgement as to whether that is good or bad. IT IS
A FACT that the men are effectively brainwashed. Those who won't submit must be
discharged or spend much of their time in the brig. Decognition Process Once the initial conversion
is effected, cults, armed services, and similar groups cannot have cynicism
among their members. Members must respond to commands and do as they are
told, otherwise they are dangerous to the organizational control. This is
normally accomplished as a three-step Decognition Process. Step One is ALERTNESS
REDUCTION: The controllers cause the nervous system to malfunction, making it
difficult to distinguish between fantasy and reality. This can be
accomplished in several ways. POOR DIET is one; watch out for Brownies and
Koolaid. The sugar throws the nervous system off. More subtle is the
"SPIRITUAL DIET" used by many cults. They eat only vegetables and
fruits; without the grounding of grains, nuts, seeds, dairy products, fish or
meat, an individual becomes mentally "spacey." INADEQUATE SLEEP is
another primary way to reduce alertness, especially when combined with long
hours of work or intense physical activity. Also, being bombarded with
intense and unique experiences achieves the same result. Step Two is PROGRAMMED
CONFUSION: You are mentally assaulted while your alertness is being reduced
as in Step One. This is accomplished with a deluge of new information,
lectures, discussion groups, encounters or one-to-one processing, which
usually amounts to the controller bombarding the individual with questions.
During this phase of decognition, reality and illusion often merge and
perverted logic is likely to be accepted. Step Three is THOUGHT
STOPPING: Techniques are used to cause the mind to go "flat." These
are altered-state-of-consciousness techniques that initially induce calmness
by giving the mind something simple to deal with and focusing awareness. The
continued use brings on a feeling of elation and eventually hallucination.
The result is the reduction of thought and eventually, if used long enough,
the cessation of all thought and withdrawal from everyone and everything
except that which the controllers direct. The takeover is then complete. It
is important to be aware that when members or participants are instructed to
use "thought-stopping" techniques, they are told that they will
benefit by so doing: they will become "better soldiers" or
"find enlightenment." There are three primary
techniques used for thought stopping. The first is MARCHING: the thump,
thump, thump beat literally generates self-hypnosis and thus great
susceptibility to suggestion. The second thought stopping technique is
MEDITATION. If you spend an hour to an hour and a half a day in meditation,
after a few weeks, there is a great probability that you will not return to
full beta consciousness. You will remain in a fixed state of alpha for as
long as you continue to meditate. I'm not saying this is bad--if you do it
yourself. It may be very beneficial. But it is a fact that you are causing
your mind to go flat. I've worked with meditators on an EEG machine and the
results are conclusive: the more you meditate, the flatter your mind becomes
until, eventually and especially if used to excess or in combination with
decognition, all thought ceases. Some spiritual groups see this as
nirvana--which is bullshit. It is simply a predictable physiological result.
And if heaven on earth is non-thinking and non-involvement, I really question
why we are here. The third thought-stopping
technique is CHANTING, and often chanting in meditation. "Speaking in
tongues" could also be included in this category. All three-stopping
techniques produce an altered state of consciousness. This may be very good
if YOU are controlling the process, for you also control the input. I
personally use at least one self-hypnosis programming session every day and I
know how beneficial it is for me. But you need to know if you use these
techniques to the degree of remaining continually in alpha that, although
you'll be very mellow, you'll also be more suggestible. True Believers &
Mass Movements Before ending this section
on conversion, I want to talk about the people who are most susceptible to it
and about Mass Movements. I am convinced that at least a third of the
population is what Eric Hoffer calls "true believers." They are
joiners and followers . . . people who want to give away their power. They
look for answers, meaning, and enlightenment outside themselves. Hoffer, who
wrote THE TRUE BELIEVER, a classic on mass movements, says, "true
believers are not intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but
are those craving to be rid of unwanted self. They are followers, not because
of a desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy their passion
for self-renunciation!" Hoffer also says that true believers "are
eternally incomplete and eternally insecure"! I know this from my own
experience. In my years of communicating
concepts and conducting trainings, I have run into them again and again. All
I can do is attempt to show them that the only thing to seek is the True Self
within. Their personal answers are to be found there and there alone. I
communicate that the basics of spirituality are self-responsibility and
self-actualisation. But most of the true believers just tell me that I'm not
spiritual and go looking for someone who will give them the dogma and
structure they desire. Never underestimate the potential danger of these
people. They can easily be moulded into fanatics who will gladly work and die
for their holy cause. It is a substitute for their lost faith in themselves
and offers them as a substitute for individual hope. The Moral Majority is made
up of true believers. All cults are composed of true believers. You'll find
them in politics, churches, businesses, and social cause groups. They are the
fanatics in these organizations. Mass Movements will usually have a
charismatic leader. The followers want to convert others to their way of
living or impose a new way of life--if necessary, by legislating laws forcing
others to their view, as evidenced by the activities of the Moral Majority.
This means enforcement by guns or punishment, for that is the bottom line in
law enforcement. A common hatred, enemy, or devil is essential to the success
of a mass movement. The Born-Again Christians have Satan himself, but that
isn't enough--they've added the occult, the New Age thinkers and, lately, all
those who oppose their integration of church and politics, as evidenced in
their political re-election campaigns against those who oppose their views. In revolutions, the devil is
usually the ruling power or aristocracy. Some human-potential movements are
far too clever to ask their graduates to join anything, thus labelling
themselves as a cult--but, if you look closely, you'll find that their devil
is anyone and everyone who hasn't taken their training. There are mass
movements without devils but they seldom attain major status. The True
Believers are mentally unbalanced or insecure people, or those without hope
or friends. People don't look for allies when they love, but they do when
they hate or become obsessed with a cause. And those who desire a new life
and a new order feel the old ways must be eliminated before the new order can
be built. Persuasion Techniques Persuasion isn't technically
brainwashing but it is the manipulation of the human mind by another
individual, without the manipulated party being aware what caused his opinion
shift. I only have time to very basically introduce you to a few of the
thousands of techniques in use today, but the basis of persuasion is always
to access your RIGHT BRAIN. The left half of your brain is analytical and
rational. The right side is creative and imaginative. That is overly
simplified but it makes my point. So, the idea is to distract the left brain
and keep it busy. Ideally, the persuader generates an eyes-open altered state
of consciousness, causing you to shift from beta awareness into alpha; this
can be measured on an EEG machine. First, let me give you an
example of distracting the left brain. Politicians use these powerful
techniques all the time; lawyers use many variations which, I've been told,
they call "tightening the noose." Assume for a moment that you are
watching a politician give a speech. First, he might generate what is called
a "YES SET." These are statements that will cause listeners to
agree; they might even unknowingly nod their heads in agreement. Next come the TRUISMS. These
are usually facts that could be debated but, once the politician has his
audience agreeing, the odds are in the politician's favour that the audience
won't stop to think for themselves, thus continuing to agree. Last comes the SUGGESTION.
This is what the politician wants you to do and, since you have been agreeing
all along, you could be persuaded to accept the suggestion. Now, if you'll listen
closely to my political speech, you'll find that the first three are the
"yes set," the next three are truisms and the last is the
suggestion. "Ladies and gentlemen: are you angry about high food prices?
Are you tired of astronomical gas prices? Are you sick of out-of-control
inflation? Well, you know the Other Party allowed 18 percent inflation last
year; you know crime has increased 50 percent nationwide in the last 12
months, and you know your pay check hardly covers your expenses any more.
Well, the answer to resolving these problems is to elect me, John Jones, to
the U.S. Senate." And I think you've heard all
that before. But you might also watch for what are called Imbedded Commands.
As an example: On key words, the speaker would make a gesture with his left
hand, which research has shown is more apt to access your right brain. Today's
media-oriented politicians and spellbinders are often carefully trained by a
whole new breed of specialist who are using every trick in the book--both old
and new--to manipulate you into accepting their candidate. The concepts and techniques
of Neuro-Linguistics are so heavily protected that I found out the hard way
that to even talk about them publicly or in print results in threatened legal
action. Yet Neuro-Linguistic training is readily available to anyone willing
to devote the time and pay the price. It is some of the most subtle and
powerful manipulation I have yet been exposed to. A good friend who recently
attended a two-week seminar on Neuro-Linguistics found that many of those she
talked to during the breaks were government people. Another technique that I'm
just learning about is unbelievably slippery; it is called an INTERSPERSAL
TECHNIQUE and the idea is to say one thing with words but plant a
subconscious impression of something else in the minds of the listeners
and/or watchers. Persuasion techniques are
also frequently used on a much smaller scale with just as much effectiveness.
The insurance salesman knows his pitch is likely to be much more effective if
he can get you to visualize something in your mind. This is right-brain
communication. For instance, he might pause
in his conversation, look slowly around your living room and say, "Can
you just imagine this beautiful home burning to the ground?" Of course
you can! It is one of your unconscious fears and, when he forces you to
visualize it, you are more likely to be manipulated into signing his
insurance policy. The Hare Krishnas, operating
in every airport, use what I call SHOCK AND CONFUSION techniques to distract
the left brain and communicate directly with the right brain. While waiting
for a plane, I once watched one operate for over an hour. He had a technique
of almost jumping in front of someone. Initially, his voice was loud then
dropped as he made his pitch to take a book and contribute money to the
cause. Usually, when people are shocked, they immediately withdraw. In this
case they were shocked by the strange appearance, sudden materialization and
loud voice of the Hare Krishna devotee. In other words, the people
went into an alpha state for security because they didn't want to confront
the reality before them. In alpha, they were highly suggestible so they
responded to the suggestion of taking the book; the moment they took the
book, they felt guilty and responded to the second suggestion: give money. We
are all conditioned that if someone gives us something, we have to give them
something in return--in that case, it was money. While watching this hustler,
I was close enough to notice that many of the people he stopped exhibited an
outward sign of alpha--their eyes were actually dilated. Subliminal Programming Subliminals are hidden
suggestions that only your subconscious perceives. They can be audio, hidden
behind music, or visual, airbrushed into a picture, flashed on a screen so
fast that you don't consciously see them, or cleverly incorporated into a
picture or design. Most audio subliminal reprogramming tapes offer verbal
suggestions recorded at a low volume. I question the efficiency of this
technique--if subliminals are not perceptible, they cannot be effective, and
subliminals recorded below the audible threshold are therefore useless. The oldest audio subliminal
technique uses a voice that follows the volume of the music so subliminals
are impossible to detect without a parametric equalizer. But this technique
is patented and, when I wanted to develop my own line of subliminal
audiocassettes, negotiations with the patent holder proved to be
unsatisfactory. My attorney obtained copies of the patents which I gave to
some talented But we found that in using
this technique, there is no way to reduce various frequencies to detect the
subliminals. In other words, although the suggestions are being heard by the
subconscious mind, they cannot be monitored with even the most sophisticated
equipment. If we were able to come up with this technique as easily as we
did, I can only imagine how sophisticated the technology has become, with
unlimited government or advertising funding. I shudder to think about the
propaganda and commercial manipulation that we are exposed to on a daily
basis. There is simply no way to know what is behind the music you hear. It
may even be possible to hide a second voice behind the voice to which you are
listening. The series by Wilson Bryan
Key, Ph.D., on subliminals in advertising and political campaigns well
documents the misuse in many areas, especially printed advertising in
newspapers, magazines, and posters. The big question about subliminals is: do
they work? And I guarantee you they do. Not only from the response of those
who have used my tapes, but from the results of such programs as the
subliminals behind the music in department stores. Supposedly, the only
message is instructions to not steal: one East Coast department store chain
reported a 37 percent reduction in thefts in the first nine months of
testing. A 1984 article in the
technical newsletter, "Brain-Mind Bulletin," states that as much as
99 percent of our cognitive activity may be "non-conscious,
"according to the director of the Laboratory for Cognitive
Psychophysiology at the Mass Misuse I could relate many stories
that support subliminal programming, but I'd rather use my time to make you
aware of even more subtle uses of such programming. I have personally
experienced sitting in a By careful observation, what
appeared to be spontaneous demonstrations were, in fact, artful
manipulations. The only way I could figure that the eyes-open trance had been
induced was that a 6- to 7-cycle-per-second vibration was being piped into
the room behind the air conditioner sound. That particular vibration
generates alpha, which would render the audience highly susceptible. Ten to
25 percent of the population is capable of a somnambulistic level of altered
states of consciousness; for these people, the suggestions of the speaker, if
non-threatening, could potentially be accepted as "commands." Vibrato This leads to the mention of VIBRATO. Vibrato is the
tremulous effect imparted in some vocal or instrumental music, and the
cycle-per-second range causes people to go into an altered state of
consciousness. At one period of English history, singers whose voices
contained pronounced vibrato were not allowed to perform publicly because
listeners would go into an altered state and have fantasies, often sexual in
nature. People who attend opera or enjoy listening to singers like Mario
Lanza are familiar with this altered state induced by the performers. ELFs
Now, let's carry this awareness a little farther. There are also inaudible
ELFs (extra-low frequency waves). These are electromagnetic in nature. One of the primary uses of
ELFs is to communicate with our submarines. Dr. Andrija Puharich, a highly
respected researcher, in an attempt to warn U.S. officials about Russian use
of ELFs, set up an experiment. Volunteers were wired so their brain waves
could be measured on an EEG. They were sealed in a metal room that could not
be penetrated by a normal signal. Puharich then beamed ELF waves at the
volunteers. ELFs go right through the earth and, of course, right through
metal walls. Those inside couldn't know if the signal was or was not being
sent. And Puharich watched the reactions on the technical equipment: 30
percent of those inside the room were taken over by the ELF signal in six to
ten seconds. When I say "taken
over," I mean that their behaviour followed the changes anticipated at
very precise frequencies. Waves below 6 cycles per second caused the subjects
to become very emotionally upset, and even disrupted bodily functions. At 8.2
cycles, they felt very high . . . an elevated feeling, as though they had
been in masterful meditation, learned over a period of years. Eleven to 11.3
cycles induced waves of depressed agitation leading to riotous behaviour. The Neurophone Dr. Patrick Flanagan is a
personal friend of mine. In the early 1960s, as a teenager, Pat was listed as
one of the top scientists in the world by "Life" magazine. Among
his many inventions was a device he called the Neurophone--an electronic
instrument that can successfully program suggestions directly through contact
with the skin. When he attempted to patent
the device, the government demanded that he prove it worked. When he did, the
National Security Agency confiscated the neurophone. It took Pat two years of
legal battle to get his invention back. In using the device, you
don't hear or see a thing; it is applied to the skin, which Pat claims is the
source of special senses. The skin contains more sensors for heat, touch,
pain, vibration, and electrical fields than any other part of the human
anatomy. In one of his recent tests,
Pat conducted two identical seminars for a military audience--one seminar one
night and one the next night, because the size of the room was not large
enough to accommodate all of them at one time. When the first group proved to
be very cool and unwilling to respond, Patrick spent the next day making a
special tape to play at the second seminar. The tape instructed the audience
to be extremely warm and responsive and for their hands to become
"tingly." The tape was played through the neurophone, which was
connected to a wire he placed along the ceiling of the room. There were no
speakers, so no sound could be heard, yet the message was successfully
transmitted from that wire directly into the brains of the audience. They were warm and
receptive, their hands tingled and they responded, according to programming,
in other ways that I cannot mention here. The more we find out about how
human beings work through today's highly advanced technological research, the
more we learn to control human beings. And what probably scares me the most
is that the medium for takeover is already in place! The television set in
your living room and bedroom is doing a lot more than just entertaining you. Before I continue, let me
point out something else about an altered state of consciousness. When you go
into an altered state, you transfer into right brain, which results in the
internal release of the body's own opiates: enkephalins and Beta-endorphins,
chemically almost identical to opium. In other words, it feels good . . . and
you want to come back for more. Recent tests by researcher
Herbert Krugman showed that, while viewers were watching TV, right-brain
activity outnumbered left-brain activity by a ratio of two to one. Put more
simply, the viewers were in an altered state . . . in trance more often than
not. They were getting their Beta-endorphin "fix." To measure attention spans,
psychophysiologist Thomas Mulholland of the Veterans Hospital in Bedford,
Massachusetts, attached young viewers to an EEG machine that was wired to
shut the TV set off whenever the children's brains produced a majority of
alpha waves. Although the children were told to concentrate, only a few could
keep the set on for more than 30 seconds! Most viewers are already
hypnotized. To deepen the trance is easy. One simple way is to place a blank,
black frame every 32 frames in the film that is being projected. This creates
a 45-beat-per-minute pulsation perceived only by the subconscious mind--the
ideal pace to generate deep hypnosis. The commercials or suggestions
presented following this alpha-inducing broadcast are much more likely to be
accepted by the viewer. The high percentage of the
viewing audience that has somnambulistic-depth ability could very well accept
the suggestions as commands--as long as those commands did not ask the viewer
to do something contrary to his morals, religion, or self-preservation. The medium for takeover is
here. By the age of 16, children have spent 10,000 to 15,000 hours watching
television--that is more time than they spend in school! In the average home,
the TV set is on for six hours and 44 minutes per day--an increase of nine
minutes from last year and three times the average rate of increase during
the 1970s. It obviously isn't getting better . . . we are rapidly moving into
an alpha-level world--very possibly the Orwellian world of
"1984"--placid,glassy-eyed, and responding obediently to
instructions. A research project by Jacob
Jacoby, a Purdue University psychologist, found that of 2,700 people tested,
90 percent misunderstood even such simple viewing fare as commercials and
"Barnaby Jones." Only minutes after watching, the typical viewer
missed 23 to 36 percent of the questions about what he or she had seen. Of
course they did--they were going in and out of trance! If you go into a deep
trance, you must be instructed to remember--otherwise you automatically
forget. I have just touched the tip
of the iceberg. When you start to combine subliminal messages behind the
music, subliminal visuals projected on the screen, hypnotically produced
visual effects, sustained musical beats at a trance-inducing pace . . . you
have extremely effective brainwashing. Every hour that you spend watching the
TV set you become more conditioned. And, in case you thought there was a law
against any of these things, guess again. There isn't! There are a lot of
powerful people who obviously prefer things exactly the way they are. (FC: To the best of
our knowledge "THE BATTLE FOR YOUR MIND" is copyright free
material)
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