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From: "Vadim Bondar" <•••@••.•••>
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Subject: Mind control
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 02:09:30 EST
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Richard, you might want to check out this article:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/mindcontrol.htm
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Dear Vadim,
Thanks for the link, and for your many other contributions, not
all of which make it to the list. (:<)
all the best,
rkm
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SIGHTINGS
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The Battle For Your
Mind - Mass Mind Control
Techniques In America
By Dick Sutphen
1-20-2000
Persuasion and Brainwashing
Techniques Being Used On The Public Today
Reformatted for WWW display and distribution
by Dynamic Living Media Summary Of Contents
Introduction
The Birth of Conversion: Brainwashing in Christian
Revivalism in 1735. The Three Brain Phases: The
Pavlovian Explanation
How Revivalist Preachers Work
The "Voice Roll" Technique The Build-up Process.:
Inducing Altered States Assured Continuation:
Fleecing the Flock Bonding by Fear and Suggestion
Testimony: Creating Community Spirit Miracles The
Grey Area of Legitimacy A Game in Which the Rules
Keep Changing
Six Conversion Techniques
Isolation Intimidation, Deprivation and
Indoctrination. The "Sell It By Zealot" Technique.
Wearing Down Resistance Increasing Tension
Introducing Uncertainty About Identity Jargon Lack
of Humor: No Release, No Resistance
Not Always a Bad Thing
Cults: A Captive Course in Stockholm Syndrome The
Only Hope of Immunity The US Marines as a
Brainwashing Cult
Steps in the Decognition Process
Alertness reduction Programmed Confusion Thought
Stopping
Thought-Stopping Techniques
Marching Meditation Chanting
True believers and mass movements.
Persuasion techniques: "Yes Set" Embedded Commands
The Power of NLP Interspersal Technique Practical
Examples Shock and Confusion
Subliminal Programming
Does Subliminal Programming Work? Mass Misuse of
Subliminal Programming Vibrato Extra-low Frequency
Vibrations (ELFs) The Neurophone Technological Tools
for Mass Manipulation In Closing...
Introduction
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
Las Vegas, Nevada. Although the tape carries a
copyright to protect it from unlawful duplication
for sale by other companies, in this case, I invite
individuals to make copies and give them to friends
or anyone in a position to communicate this
information.
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 brainwashed and realized,
or believed, that he had been brainwashed. Those who
have been brainwashed will usually passionately
defend their manipulators, claiming they have simply
been "shown the light" ...or have been transformed
in miraculous ways.
The Birth of Conversion: Brainwashing in Christian
Revivalism in 1735.
Conversion is a "nice" word for brainwashing...and
any study of brainwashing has to begin with a study
of Christian revivalism in eighteenth century
America. Apparently, Jonathan Edwards accidentally
discovered the techniques during a religious crusade
in 1735 in Northampton, Massachusetts. By inducing
guilt and acute apprehension and by increasing the
tension, the "sinners" attending his revival
meetings would break down and completely submit.
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 neighbors 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 New York. 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 Pavlovian Explanation
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
Russia, Lenin was quick to see the potential of
applying Pavlov's research to his own ends.
Three distinct and progressive states of
transmarginal 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 behavior 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, exitement, 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 behavior.
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."
The "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.
The Build-up Process: Inducing Altered States
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.
Assured Continuation: Fleecing the Flock
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.
Bonding by Fear and Suggestion
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 Armegeddon.
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 to 25 percent would see
whatever he suggested they see.
Testimony: Creating Community Spirit
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.
Miracles
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.
The Grey Area of Legitimacy
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.
A Game in Which the Rules Keep Changing
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 Los
Angeles is designing, building, and reworking a lot
of churches around the country. He tells ministers
what they need and how to use it. 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
consciousnes--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.
Isolation Intimidation, Deprivation and
Indoctrination
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 a slight malfunction of the nervous
system, which in turn increases the conversion
potential.
The "Sell It By Zealot" Technique.
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.
Wearing Down Resistance
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.
Increasing Tension
The third tip-off: techniques used to increase the
tension in the room or environment.
Introducing Uncertainty About Identity
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.
Jargon
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.
Lack of Humor: No Release, No Resistance
The final tip-off is that there is no humor in the
communications...at least until the participants are
converted. Then, merry-making and humor are highly
desirable as symbols of the new joy the participants
have supposedly "found."
Not Always a Bad Thing
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
counselors. 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"!
Cults: A Captive Course in Stockholm Syndrome
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 Haiti on a
Guggenheim Fellowship to study Haitian Voodoo. In
her report, she related how the music eventually
induced uncontrollable bodily movement and an
altered state of consciousness. Although she
understood the process and thought herself above it,
when she began to feel herself become vulnerable to
the music, she attempted to fight it and turned
away. Anger or resistance almost always assures
conversion. 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 Immunity
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.
The US Marines as a Brainwashing Cult
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. Every one 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.
Steps in the 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.
Alertness reduction
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.
Programmed Confusion
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.
Thought Stopping
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."
Thought-Stopping Techniques
Marching
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.
Meditation
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.
Chanting
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 and 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-actualization. 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 molded 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 bottomline 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 reelection 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 labeling
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.
"Yes Set"
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 favor
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
paycheck hardly covers your expenses any more. Well,
the answer to resolving these problems is to elect
me, John Jones, to the U.S. Senate."
Embedded Commands
And I think you've heard all that before. But you
might also watch for what are called embedded
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 Power of NLP
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.
Interspersal Technique
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.
Practical Examples
Let me give you an example: Assume you are watching
a television commentator make the following
statement: Senator Johnson is assisting local
authorities to clear up the stupid mistakes of
companies contributing to the nuclear waste
problems." It sounds like a statement of fact, but,
if the speaker emphasizes the right word, and
especially if he makes the proper hand gestures on
the key words, you could be left with the
subconscious impression that Senator Johnson is
stupid. That was the subliminal goal of the
statement and the speaker cannot be called to
account for anything.
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
livingroom 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.
Shock and Confusion
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 efficacy 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 Hollywood sound engineers,
asking them to create a new technique. They found a
way to psycho-acoustically modify and synthesize the
suggestions so that they are projected in the same
chord and frequency as the music, thus giving them
the effect of being part of the music. 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. And 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
University of Illinois. The lengthy report ends with
the statement, "these findings support the use of
subliminal approaches such as taped suggestions for
weight loss and the therapeutic use of hypnosis and
Neuro-Linguistic Programming."
Mass Misuse of Subliminal Programming
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 Los
Angeles auditorium with over ten thousand people who
were gathered to listen to a current charismatic
figure. Twenty minutes after entering the
auditorium, I became aware that I was going in and
out of an altered state. Those accompanying me
experienced the same thing. Since it is our
business, we were aware of what was happening, but
those around us were not. 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 cyle-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.
Extra-low Frequency Vibrations (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 behavior
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 behavior.
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 programm 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.
Technological Tools for Mass Manipulation
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 livingroom 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 n
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.
In Closing...
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.
Maybe they have plans for...?
(c) Dick Sutphen
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