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EVERYDAY BRAINWASHING - Dick Sutphen
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Everyday Brainwashing
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by Dick Sutphen
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Dick Sutphen is a professional hypnotist who makes a good portion of his
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living training other professional hypnotists... and another good
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portion selling tapes of his lectures and "subliminal learning" tapes to
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help people with their problems. This file is a transcript of a taped
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lecture with information he felt was important enough that he asked
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for it to be as widely disseminated as possible, at NO CHARGE. I found it
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on Illumi-Net in Decatur GA, and it hit me where I live, so I ask that
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all who read it pass it along as widely as possible. I have broken it up
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into four parts... please be sure that all four are printed, uploaded, etc.
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together, so that none of the information is lost, for it is all VITAL!
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It could mean the return of free thought to this nation, or the end of it.
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THE BATTLE FOR YOUR MIND, by Dick Sutphen -- 22.2 KB
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Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today
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SUMMARY OF CONTENTS
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The Birth of Conversion/Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism in 1735.
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The Pavlovian explanation of the three brain phases. Born-again
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preachers: Step-by-Step, how they conduct a revival and the expected
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physiological results. The "voice roll" technique used by preachers,
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lawyers and hypnotists. New trance-inducing churches. The 6 steps to
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conversion. The decognition process. Thought-stopping techniques. The
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"sell it by zealot" technique. True believers and mass movements.
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Persuasion techniques: "Yes set," "Imbedded Commands," "Shock and
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Confusion," and the "Interspersal Technique." Subliminals. Vibrato and
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ELF waves. Inducing trance with vibrational sound. Even professional
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observers will be "possessed" at charismatic gatherings. The "only
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hope" technique to attend and not be converted. Non-detectable Neurophone
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programming through the skin. The medium for mass take-over.
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I'm Dick Sutphen and this tape is a studio-recorded, expanded version of a
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talk I delivered at the World Congress of Professional Hypnotists
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Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although the tape carries a
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copyright to protect it from unlawful duplication for sale by other
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companies, in this case, I invite individuals to make copies and
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give them to friends or anyone in a position to communicate this
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information.
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Although I've been interviewed about the subject on many local and
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regional radio and TV talk shows, large-scale mass communication appears
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to be blocked, since it could result in suspicion or investigation of the
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very media presenting it or the sponsors that support the media. Some
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government agencies do not want this information generally known. Nor do
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the Born-Again Christian movement, cults, and many human-potential
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trainings.
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Everything I will relate only exposes the surface of the problem. I don't
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know how the misuse of these techniques can be stopped. I don't think it
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is possible to legislate against that which often cannot be detected;
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and if those who legislate are using these techniques, there is little
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hope of affecting laws to govern usage. I do know that the first step to
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initiate change is to generate interest. In this case, that will
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probably only result from an underground effort.
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In talking about this subject, I am talking about my own business. I know
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it, and I know how effective it can be. I produce hypnosis and
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subliminal tapes and, in some of my seminars, I use conversion tactics to
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assist participants to become independent and self-sufficient. But,
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anytime I use these techniques, I point out that I am using them, and those
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attending have a choice to participate or not. They also know what the
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desired result of participation will be.
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So, to begin, I want to state the most basic of all facts about
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brainwashing: IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF MAN, NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN
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BRAINWASHED AND REALIZED, OR BELIEVED, THAT HE HAD BEEN BRAINWASHED. Those
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who have been brainwashed will usually passionately defend their
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manipulators, claiming they have simply been "shown the light" . . . or
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have been transformed in miraculous ways.
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The Birth of Conversion
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CONVERSION is a "nice" word for BRAINWASHING . . . and any
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study of brainwashing has to begin with a study of Christian revivalism
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in eighteenth century America. Apparently, Jonathan Edwards
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accidentally discovered the techniques during a religious crusade in 1735
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in Northampton, Massachusetts. By inducing guilt and acute apprehension
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and by increasing the tension, the "sinners" attending his revival
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meetings would break down and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards
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was doing was creating conditions that wipe the brain slate clean so that
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the mind accepts new programming. The problem was that the new input was
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negative. He would tell them, "You're a sinner! You're destined for
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hell!"
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As a result, one person committed suicide and another attempted suicide.
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And the neighbors of the suicidal converts related that they, too, were
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affected so deeply that, although they had found "eternal salvation,"
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they were obsessed with a diabolical temptation to end their own lives.
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Once a preacher, cult leader, manipulator or authority figure creates the
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brain phase to wipe the brain-slate clean, his subjects are wide open. New
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input, in the form of suggestion, can be substituted for their previous
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ideas. Because Edwards didn't turn his message positive until the end of
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the revival, many accepted the negative suggestions and acted, or desired
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to act, upon them.
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Charles J. Finney was another Christian revivalist who used the same
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techniques four years later in mass religious conversions in New York. The
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techniques are still being used today by Christian revivalists,
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cults, human-potential trainings, some business rallies, and the United
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States Armed Services . . . to name just a few.
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Let me point out here that I don't think most revivalist preachers
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realize or know they are using brainwashing techniques. Edwards simply
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stumbled upon a technique that really worked, and others copied it and
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have continued to copy it for over two hundred years. And the more
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sophisticated our knowledge and technology become, the more effective the
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conversion. I feel strongly that this is one of the major reasons for the
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increasing rise in Christian fundamentalism, especially the televised
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variety, while most of the orthodox religions are declining.
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The Three Brain Phases
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The Christians may have been the first to successfully formulate
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brainwashing, but we have to look to Pavlov, the Russian scientist,
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for a technical explanation. In the early 1900s, his work with
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animals opened the door to further investigations with humans. After the
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revolution in Russia, Lenin was quick to see the potential of applying
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Pavlov's research to his own ends.
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Three distinct and progressive states of transmarginal inhibition
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were identified by Pavlov. The first is the EQUIVALENT phase, in which
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the brain gives the same response to both strong and weak stimuli.
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The second is the PARADOXICAL phase, in which the brain responds more
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actively to weak stimuli than to strong. And the third is the
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ULTRA-PARADOXICAL phase, in which conditioned responses and behavior
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patterns turn from positive to negative or from negative to positive.
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With the progression through each phase, the degree of conversion becomes
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more effective and complete. The way to achieve conversion are many and
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varied, but the usual first step in religious or political brainwashing
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is to work on the emotions of an individual or group until they reach an
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abnormal level of anger, fear, exitement, or nervous tension.
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The progressive result of this mental condition is to impair
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judgement and increase suggestibility. The more this condition can
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be maintained or intensified, the more it compounds. Once catharsis,
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or the first brain phase, is reached, the complete mental takeover
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becomes easier. Existing mental programming can be replaced with new
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patterns of thinking and behavior.
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Other often-used physiological weapons to modify normal brain
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functions are fasting, radical or high sugar diets, physical
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discomforts, regulation of breathing, mantra chanting in meditation,
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the disclosure of awesome mysteries, special lighting and sound
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effects, programmed response to incense, or intoxicating drugs.
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The same results can be obtained in contemporary psychiatric
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treatment by electric shock treatments and even by purposely lowering a
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person's blood sugar level with insulin injections.
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Before I talk about exactly how some of the techniques are applied, I
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want to point out that hypnosis and conversion tactics are two
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distinctly different things--and that conversion techniques are far more
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powerful. However, the two are often mixed . . . with powerful results.
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How Revivalist Preachers Work
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If you'd like to see a revivalist preacher at work, there are probably
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several in your city. Go to the church or tent early and sit in
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the rear, about three-quarters of the way back. Most likely repetitive
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music will be played while the people come in for the service. A
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repetitive beat, ideally ranging from 45 to 72 beats per minute (a rhythm
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close to the beat of the human heart), is very hypnotic and can generate
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an eyes-open altered state of consciousness in a very high percentage of
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people. And, once you are in an alpha state, you are at least 25 times as
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suggestible as you would be in full beta consciousness. The music is
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probably the same for every service, or incorporates the same beat, and
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many of the people will go into an altered state almost immediately upon
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entering the sanctuary. Subconsciously, they recall their state of mind
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from previous services and respond according to the post-hypnotic
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programming.
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Watch the people waiting for the service to begin. Many will exhibit
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external signs of trance--body relaxation and slightly dilated eyes.
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Often, they begin swaying back and forth with their hands in the
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air while sitting in their chairs. Next, the assistant pastor will
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probably come out. He usually speaks with a pretty good "voice roll."
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Voice Roll Technique
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A "voice roll" is a patterned, paced style used by hypnotists when
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inducing a trance. It is also used by many lawyers, several of whom are
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highly trained hypnotists, when they desire to entrench a point
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firmly in the minds of the jurors. A voice roll can sound as if the
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speaker were talking to the beat of a metronome or it may sound as
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though he were emphasizing every word in a monotonous, patterned style.
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The words will usually be delivered at the rate of 45 to 60 beats per
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minute, maximizing the hypnotic effect.
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Now the assistant pastor begins the "build-up" process. He induces an
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altered state of consciousness and/or begins to generate the
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excitement and the expectations of the audience. Next, a group of young
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women in "sweet and pure" chiffon dresses might come out to sing a
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song. Gospel songs are great for building excitement and INVOLVEMENT. In
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the middle of the song, one of the girls might be "smitten by the
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spirit" and fall down or react as if possessed by the Holy Spirit. This
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very effectively increases the intensity in the room. At this point,
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hypnosis and conversion tactics are being mixed. And the result is the
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audience's attention span is now totally focused upon the
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communication while the environment becomes more exciting or tense.
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Right about this time, when an eyes-open mass-induced alpha mental
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state has been achieved, they will usually pass the collection plate or
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basket. In the background, a 45-beat-per-minute voice roll from the
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assistant preacher might exhort, "Give to God . . . Give to God . . .
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Give to God . . ." And the audience does give. God may not get the
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money, but his already wealthy representative will.
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Next, the fire-and-brimstone preacher will come out. He induces
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fear and increases the tension by talking about "the devil," "going to
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hell," or the forthcoming Armegeddon.
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In the last such rally I attended, the preacher talked about the blood
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that would soon be running out of every faucet in the land. He was also
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obsessed with a "bloody axe of God," which everyone had seen hanging above
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the pulpit the previous week. I have no doubt that everyone saw it--the
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power of suggestion given to hundreds of people in hypnosis assures that at
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least 10 to 25 percent would see whatever he suggested they see.
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In most revivalist gatherings, "testifying" or "witnessing" usually
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follows the fear-based sermon. People from the audience come up on stage
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and relate their stories. "I was crippled and now I can walk!" "I
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had arthritis and now it's gone!" It is a psychological manipulation
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that works. After listening to numerous case histories of miraculous
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healings, the average guy in the audience with a minor problem is sure he
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can be healed. The room is charged with fear, guilt, intense excitement,
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and expectations.
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Now those who want to be healed are frequently lined up around the edge of
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the room, or they are told to come down to the front. The preacher might
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touch them on the head firmly and scream, "Be healed!" This releases
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the psychic energy and, for many, catharsis results. Catharsis is a
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purging of repressed emotions. Individuals might cry, fall down or even go
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into spasms. And if catharsis is effected, they stand a chance of
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being healed. In catharsis (one of the three brain phases mentioned
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earlier), the brain-slate is temporarily wiped clean and the new
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suggestion is accepted.
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For some, the healing may be permanent. For many, it will last four days
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to a week, which is, incidentally, how long a hypnotic suggestion
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given to a somnambulistic subject will usually last. Even if the
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healing doesn't last, if they come back every week, the power of suggestion
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may continually override the problem . . . or sometimes, sadly, it can
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mask a physical problem which could prove to be very detrimental to the
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individule in the long run.
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I'm not saying that legitimate healings do not take place. They do.
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Maybe the individual was ready to let go of the negativity that caused the
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problem in the first place; maybe it was the work of God. Yet I
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contend that it can be explained with existing knowledge of brain/mind
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function.
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The techniques and staging will vary from church to church. Many use
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"speaking in tongues" to generate catharsis in some while the spectacle
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creates intense excitement in the observers.
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The use of hypnotic techniques by religions is sophisticated, and
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professionals are assuring that they become even more effective. A
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man in Los Angeles is designing, building, and reworking a lot of churches
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around the country. He tells ministers what they need and how to
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use it. This man's track record indicates that the congregation and the
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monetary income will double if the minister follows his
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instructions. He admits that about 80 percent of his efforts are in the
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sound system and lighting.
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Powerful sound and the proper use of lighting are of primary
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importance in inducing an altered state of consciousnes--I've been using
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them for years in my own seminars. However, my participants are fully
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aware of the process and what they can expect as a result of their
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participation.
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Six Conversion Techniques
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Cults and human-potential organizations are always looking for new
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converts. To attain them, they must also create a brain-phase. And they
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often need to do it within a short space of time--a weekend, or maybe even
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a day. The following are the six primary techniques used to generate the
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conversion.
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The meeting or training takes place in an area where participants are cut
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off from the outside world. This may be any place: a private home, a
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remote or rural setting, or even a hotel ballroom where the participants
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are allowed only limited bathroom usage. In human-potential trainings,
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the controllers will give a lengthy talk about the importance of
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"keeping agreements" in life. The participants are told that if they don't
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keep agreements, their life will never work. It's a good idea to keep
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agreements, but the controllers are subverting a positive human value for
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selfish purposes. The participants vow to themselves and their trainer
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that they will keep their agreements. Anyone who does not will be
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intimidated into agreement or forced to leave. The next step is to
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agree to complete training, thus assuring a high percentage of conversions
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for the organizations. They will USUALLY have to agree not to take
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drugs, smoke, and sometimes not to eat . . . or they are given such
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short meal breaks that it creates tension. The real reason for the
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agreements is to alter internal chemistry, which generates anxiety and
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hopefully causes at least a slight malfunction of the nervous
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system, which in turn increases the conversion potential.
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Before the gathering is complete, the agreements will be used to ensure
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that the new converts go out and find new participants. They are
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intimidated into agreeing to do so before they leave. Since the
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importance of keeping agreements is so high on their priority list, the
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converts will twist the arms of everyone they know, attempting to talk them
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into attending a free introductory session offered at a future date by
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the organization. The new converts are zealots. In fact, the inside
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term for merchandising the largest and most successful human-
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potential training is, "sell it by zealot!"
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At least a million people are graduates and a good percentage have been
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left with a mental activation button that assures their future loyalty and
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assistance if the guru figure or organization calls. Think about the
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potential political implications of hundreds of thousands of zealots
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programmed to campaign for their guru.
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Be wary of an organization of this type that offers follow-up sessions
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after the seminar. Follow-up sessions might be weekly meetings or
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inexpensive seminars given on a regular basis which the organization
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will attempt to talk you into taking--or any regularly scheduled event used
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to maintain control. As the early Christian revivalists found, long-
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term control is dependent upon a good follow-up system.
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Alright. Now, let's look at the second tip-off that indicates
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conversion tactics are being used. A schedule is maintained that
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causes physical and mental fatigue. This is primarily accomplished
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by long hours in which the participants are given no opportunity for
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relaxation or reflection.
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The third tip-off: techniques used to increase the tension in the
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room or environment.
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Number four: Uncertainty. I could spend hours relating various
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techniques to increase tension and generate uncertainty. Basically, the
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participants are concerned about being "put on the spot" or encountered
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by the trainers, guilt feelings are played upon, participants are tempted
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to verbally relate their innermost secrets to the other participants or
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forced to take part in activities that emphasize removing their masks. One
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of the most successful human-potential seminars forces the participants
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to stand on a stage in front of the entire audience while being verbally
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attacked by the trainers. A public opinion poll, conducted a few years
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ago, showed that the number one most-fearful situation an individual could
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encounter is to speak to an audience. It ranked above window washing
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outside the 85th floor of an office building. So you can imagine the
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fear and tension this situation generates within the participants. Many
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faint, but most cope with the stress by mentally going away. They
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literally go into an alpha state, which automatically makes them many
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times as suggestible as they normally are. And another loop of the
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downward spiral into conversion is successfully effected.
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The fifth clue that conversion tactics are being used is the
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introduction of jargon--new terms that have meaning only to the
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"insiders" who participate. Vicious language is also frequently
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used, purposely, to make participants uncomfortable.
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The final tip-off is that there is no humor in the communications . . .
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at least until the participants are converted. Then, merry-making and
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humor are highly desirable as symbols of the new joy the participants
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have supposedly "found."
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I'm not saying that good does not result from participation in such
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gatherings. It can and does. But I contend it is important for people to
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know what has happened and to be aware that continual involvement may
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not be in their best interest.
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Over the years, I've conducted professional seminars to teach people
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to be hypnotists, trainers, and counselors. I've had many of those
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who conduct trainings and rallies come to me and say, "I'm here because I
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know that what I'm doing works, but I don't know why." After showing them
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how and why, many have gotten out of the business or have decided to
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approach it differently or in a much more loving and supportive manner.
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Many of these trainers have become personal friends, and it scares us
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all to have experienced the power of one person with a microphone and a
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room full of people. Add a little charisma and you can count on a
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high percentage of conversions. The sad truth is that a high
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percentage of people want to give away their power--they are true
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"believers"!
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Cult gatherings or human-potential trainings are an ideal environment to
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observe first-hand what is technically called the "Stockholm Syndrome."
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This is a situation in which those who are intimidated, controlled,
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or made to suffer, begin to love, admire, and even sometimes sexually
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desire their controllers or captors.
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But let me inject a word of warning here: If you think you can attend
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such gatherings and not be affected, you are probably wrong. A perfect
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example is the case of a woman who went to Haiti on a Guggenheim
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Fellowship to study Haitian Voodoo. In her report, she related how the
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music eventually induced uncontrollable bodily movement and an altered
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state of consciousness. Although she understood the process and thought
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herself above it, when she began to feel herself become vulnerable to
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the music, she attempted to fight it and turned away. Anger or resistance
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almost always assures conversion. A few moments later she was
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possessed by the music and began dancing in a trance around the Voodoo
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meeting house. A brain phase had been induced by the music and
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excitement, and she awoke feeling reborn. The only hope of attending
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such gatherings without being affected is to be a Buddha and allow no
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positive or negative emotions to surface. Few people are capable of such
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detachment.
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Before I go on, let's go back to the six tip-offs to conversion. I
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want to mention the United States Government and military boot camp. The
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Marine Corps talks about breaking men down before "rebuilding" them as
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new men--as marines! Well, that is exactly what they do, the same way a
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cult breaks its people down and rebuilds them as happy flower sellers
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on your local street corner. Every one of the six conversion techniques
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are used in boot camp. Considering the needs of the military, I'm not
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making a judgement as to whether that is good or bad. IT IS A FACT that
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the men are effectively brainwashed. Those who won't submit must be
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discharged or spend much of their time in the brig.
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Decognition Process
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Once the initial conversion is effected, cults, armed services, and
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similar groups cannot have cynicism among their members. Members must
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respond to commands and do as they are told, otherwise they are
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dangerous to the organizational control. This is normally
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accomplished as a three-step Decognition Process.
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Step One is ALERTNESS REDUCTION: The controllers cause the nervous
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system to malfunction, making it difficult to distinguish between fantasy
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and reality. This can be accomplished in several ways. POOR DIET is
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one; watch out for Brownies and Koolaid. The sugar throws the nervous
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system off. More subtle is the "SPIRITUAL DIET" used by many cults.
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They eat only vegetables and fruits; without the grounding of grains, nuts,
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seeds, dairy products, fish or meat, an individual becomes mentally
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"spacey." INADEQUATE SLEEP is another primary way to reduce alertness,
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especially when combined with long hours of work or intense physical
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activity. Also, being bombarded with intense and unique experiences
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achieves the same result.
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Step Two is PROGRAMMED CONFUSION: You are mentally assaulted while
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your alertness is being reduced as in Step One. This is accomplished with
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a deluge of new information, lectures, discussion groups, encounters
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or one-to-one processing, which usually amounts to the controller
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bombarding the individual with questions. During this phase of
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decognition, reality and illusion often merge and perverted logic is likely
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to be accepted.
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Step Three is THOUGHT STOPPING: Techniques are used to cause the mind
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to go "flat." These are altered-state-of-consciousness techniques
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that initially induce calmness by giving the mind something simple to deal
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with and focusing awareness. The continued use brings on a feeling
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of elation and eventually hallucination. The result is the reduction of
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thought and eventually, if used long enough, the cessation of all
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thought and withdrawal from everyone and everything except that which the
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controllers direct. The takeover is then complete. It is
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important to be aware that when members or participants are instructed to
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use "thought-stopping" techniques, they are told that they will benefit
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by so doing: they will become "better soldiers" or "find
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enlightenment."
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There are three primary techniques used for thought stopping. The
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first is MARCHING: the thump, thump, thump beat literally generates
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self-hypnosis and thus great susceptibility to suggestion.
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The second thought stopping technique is MEDITATION. If you spend an hour
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to an hour and a half a day in meditation, after a few weeks, there
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is a great probability that you will not return to full beta
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consciousness. You will remain in a fixed state of alpha for as long as
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you continue to meditate. I'm not saying this is bad--if you do it
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yourself. It may be very beneficial. But it is a fact that you are
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causing your mind to go flat. I've worked with meditators on an
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EEG machine and the results are conclusive: the more you meditate, the
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flatter your mind becomes until, eventually and especially if used to
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excess or in combination with decognition, all thought ceases.
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Some spiritual groups see this as nirvana--which is bullshit. It
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is simply a predictable physiological result. And if heaven on earth is
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non-thinking and non-involvement, I really question why we are here.
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The third thought-stopping technique is CHANTING, and often
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chanting in meditation. "Speaking in tongues" could also be included in
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this category.
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All three stopping techniques produce an altered state of consciousness.
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This may be very good if YOU are controlling the process, for you also
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control the input. I personally use at least one self-hypnosis
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programming session every day and I know how beneficial it is for me.
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But you need to know if you use these techniques to the degree of remaining
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continually in alpha that, although you'll be very mellow, you'll also be
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more suggestible.
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True Believers & Mass Movements
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Before ending this section on conversion, I want to talk about the
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people who are most susceptible to it and about Mass Movements. I am
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convinced that at least a third of the population is what Eric
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Hoffer calls "true believers." They are joiners and followers . . .
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people who want to give away their power. They look for answers,
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meaning, and enlightenment outside themselves.
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Hoffer, who wrote THE TRUE BELIEVER, a classic on mass movements, says,
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"true believers are not intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished
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self, but are those craving to be rid of unwanted self. They are
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followers, not because of a desire for self-advancement, but because it
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can satisfy their passion for self-renunciation!" Hoffer also says
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that true believers "are eternally incomplete and eternally insecure"!
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I know this from my own experience. In my years of communicating concepts
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and conducting trainings, I have run into them again and again. All I
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can do is attempt to show them that the only thing to seek is the True Self
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within. Their personal answers are to be found there and there alone. I
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communicate that the basics of spirituality are self-responsibility and
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self-actualization. But most of the true believers just tell me that
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I'm not spiritual and go looking for someone who will give them the dogma
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and structure they desire.
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Never underestimate the potential danger of these people. They can
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easily be molded into fanatics who will gladly work and die for their holy
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cause. It is a substitute for their lost faith in themselves and offers
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them as a substitute for individual hope. The Moral Majority is made up
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of true believers. All cults are composed of true believers. You'll
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find them in politics, churches, businesses, and social cause groups.
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They are the fanatics in these organizations.
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Mass Movements will usually have a charismatic leader. The followers
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|
want to convert others to their way of living or impose a new way of life--
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if necessary, by legislating laws forcing others to their view, as
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evidenced by the activities of the Moral Majority. This means enforcement
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by guns or punishment, for that is the bottomline in law enforcement.
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A common hatred, enemy, or devil is essential to the success of a mass
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movement. The Born-Again Christians have Satan himself, but that isn't
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|
enough--they've added the occult, the New Age thinkers and, lately, all
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those who oppose their integration of church and politics, as evidenced
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|
in their political reelection campaigns against those who oppose their
|
|
views. In revolutions, the devil is usually the ruling power or
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aristocracy. Some human-potential movements are far too clever to ask
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their graduates to join anything, thus labeling themselves as a cult--but,
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if you look closely, you'll find that their devil is anyone and
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everyone who hasn't taken their training.
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There are mass movements without devils but they seldom attain major
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status. The True Believers are mentally unbalanced or insecure people, or
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those without hope or friends. People don't look for allies when they
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love, but they do when they hate or become obsessed with a cause. And
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those who desire a new life and a new order feel the old ways must be
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eliminated before the new order can be built.
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Persuasion Techniques
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Persuasion isn't technically brainwashing but it is the manipulation of
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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
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|
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.
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|
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.
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|
First, let me give you an example of distracting the left brain.
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Politicians use these powerful techniques all the time; lawyers use many
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|
variations which, I've been told, they call "tightening the noose."
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|
Assume for a moment that you are watching a politician give a speech.
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|
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.
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"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."
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|
|
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.
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|
|
|
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.
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|
|
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.
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|
|
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.
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|
|
|
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.
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|
|
The Hare Krishnas, operating in every airport, use what I call SHOCK
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|
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.
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|
|
Subliminal Programming
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|
|
|
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.
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|
|
|
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."
|
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|
|
Mass Misuse
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|
|
|
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.
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|
|
|
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."
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|
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Vibrato
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|
|
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.
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|
|
|
ELFs
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|
|
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.
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|
|
|
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.
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|
|
|
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.
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|
|
The Neurophone
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|
|
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.
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|
|
|
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.
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|
|
|
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.
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|
|
|
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
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"1984"--placid, glassy-eyed, and responding obediently to instructions.
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A research project by Jacob Jacoby, a Purdue University psychologist, found
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that of 2,700 people tested, 90 percent misunderstood even such simple
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viewing fare as commercials and "Barnaby Jones." Only minutes after
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watching, the typical viewer missed 23 to 36 percent of the questions
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about what he or she had seen. Of course they did--they were going in and
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out of trance! If you go into a deep trance, you must be instructed to
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remember--otherwise you automatically forget.
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I have just touched the tip of the iceberg. When you start to
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combine subliminal messages behind the music, subliminal visuals
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projected on the screen, hypnotically produced visual effects, sustained
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musical beats at a trance-inducing pace . . . you have extremely
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effective brainwashing. Every hour that you spend watching the TV set you
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become more conditioned. And, in case you thought there was a law
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against any of these things, guess again. There isn't! There are a lot of
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powerful people who obviously prefer things exactly the way they are.
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Maybe they have plans for?
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ParaNet KAPPA: Illumi-Net
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Decatur, GA
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Ron Bonds Sysop
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404-377-1141
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All Topics; Conspiracy Theories
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<<It's just one of many>>
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<<intriguing files one>>
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<<may find there. tb>>
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