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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
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Today
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SUMMARY OF CONTENTS
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The Birth of Conversion/Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism
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in 1735. The Pavlovian explanation of the three brain phases.
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Born-again preachers: Step-by-Step, how they conduct a revival
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and the expected physiological results. The "voice roll"
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technique used by preachers, lawyers and hypnotists. New
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trance-inducing churches. The 6 steps to conversion. The
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decognition process. Thought-stopping techniques. The "sell it
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by zealot" technique. True believers and mass movements.
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Persuasion techniques: "Yes set," "Imbedded Commands," "Shock
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and Confusion," and the "Interspersal Technique." Subliminals.
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Vibrato and ELF waves. Inducing trance with vibrational sound.
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Even professional observers will be "possessed" at charismatic
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gatherings. The "only hope" technique to attend and not be
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converted. Non-detectable Neurophone programming through the
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skin. The medium for mass take-over.
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I'm Dick Sutphen and this tape is a studio-recorded,
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expanded version of a talk I delivered at the World Congress
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of Professional Hypnotists Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Although the tape carries a copyright to protect it from
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unlawful duplication for sale by other companies, in this
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case, I invite individuals to make copies and give them to
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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
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local and regional radio and TV talk shows, large-scale mass
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communication appears to be blocked, since it could result in
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suspicion or investigation of the very media presenting it or
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the sponsors that support the media. Some government agencies
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do not want this information generally known. Nor do the
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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
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problem. I don't know how the misuse of these techniques can
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be stopped. I don't think it is possible to legislate against
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that which often cannot be detected; and if those who
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legislate are using these techniques, there is little hope of
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affecting laws to govern usage. I do know that the first step
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to initiate change is to generate interest. In this case, that
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will probably only result from an underground effort.
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In talking about this subject, I am talking about my own
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business. I know it, and I know how effective it can be. I
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produce hypnosis and subliminal tapes and, in some of my
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seminars, I use conversion tactics to assist participants to
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become independent and self-sufficient. But, anytime I use
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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
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what the desired result of participation will be.
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So, to begin, I want to state the most basic of all facts
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about brainwashing: IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF MAN, NO ONE HAS
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EVER BEEN BRAINWASHED AND REALIZED, OR BELIEVED, THAT HE HAD
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BEEN BRAINWASHED. Those who have been brainwashed will
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usually passionately defend their manipulators, claiming they
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have simply been "shown the light" . . . or have been
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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
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revivalism in eighteenth century America. Apparently, Jonathan
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Edwards accidentally discovered the techniques during a
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religious crusade in 1735 in Northampton, Massachusetts. By
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inducing guilt and acute apprehension and by increasing the
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tension, the "sinners" attending his revival meetings would
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break down and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards
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was doing was creating conditions that wipe the brain slate
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clean so that the mind accepts new programming. The problem
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was that the new input was negative. He would tell them,
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"You're a sinner! You're destined for hell!"
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As a result, one person committed suicide and another
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attempted suicide. And the neighbors of the suicidal converts
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related that they, too, were affected so deeply that, although
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they had found "eternal salvation," they were obsessed with a
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diabolical temptation to end their own lives.
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Once a preacher, cult leader, manipulator or authority
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figure creates the brain phase to wipe the brain-slate clean,
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his subjects are wide open. New input, in the form of
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suggestion, can be substituted for their previous ideas.
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Because Edwards didn't turn his message positive until the end
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of the revival, many accepted the negative suggestions and
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acted, or desired to act, upon them.
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Charles J. Finney was another Christian revivalist who
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used the same techniques four years later in mass religious
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conversions in New York. The techniques are still being used
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today by Christian revivalists, cults, human-potential
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trainings, some business rallies, and the United States Armed
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Services . . . to name just a few.
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Let me point out here that I don't think most revivalist
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preachers realize or know they are using brainwashing
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techniques. Edwards simply stumbled upon a technique that
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really worked, and others copied it and have continued to copy
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it for over two hundred years. And the more sophisticated our
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knowledge and technology become, the more effective the
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conversion. I feel strongly that this is one of the major
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reasons for the increasing rise in Christian fundamentalism,
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especially the televised variety, while most of the orthodox
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religions are declining.
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The Three Brain Phases
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The Christians may have been the first to successfully
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formulate brainwashing, but we have to look to Pavlov, the
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Russian scientist, for a technical explanation. In the early
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1900s, his work with animals opened the door to further
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investigations with humans. After the revolution in Russia,
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Lenin was quick to see the potential of applying Pavlov's
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research to his own ends.
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Three distinct and progressive states of transmarginal
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inhibition were identified by Pavlov. The first is the
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EQUIVALENT phase, in which the brain gives the same response
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to both strong and weak stimuli. The second is the PARADOXICAL
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phase, in which the brain responds more actively to weak
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stimuli than to strong. And the third is the ULTRA-
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PARADOXICAL phase, in which conditioned responses and behavior
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patterns turn from positive to negative or from negative to
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positive.
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With the progression through each phase, the degree of
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conversion becomes more effective and complete. The way to
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achieve conversion are many and varied, but the usual first
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step in religious or political brainwashing is to work on the
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emotions of an individual or group until they reach an
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abnormal level of anger, fear, excitement, or nervous tension.
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The progressive result of this mental condition is to
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impair judgement and increase suggestibility. The more this
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condition can be maintained or intensified, the more it
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compounds. Once catharsis, or the first brain phase, is
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reached, the complete mental takeover becomes easier. Existing
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mental programming can be replaced with new patterns of
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thinking and behavior.
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Other often-used physiological weapons to modify normal
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brain functions are fasting, radical or high sugar diets,
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physical discomforts, regulation of breathing, mantra chanting
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in meditation, the disclosure of awesome mysteries, special
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lighting and sound effects, programed response to incense, or
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intoxicating drugs.
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The same results can be obtained in contemporary
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psychiatric treatment by electric shock treatments and even by
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purposely lowering a person's blood sugar level with insulin
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injections.
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Before I talk about exactly how some of the techniques are
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applied, I want to point out that hypnosis and conversion
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tactics are two distinctly different things--and that
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conversion techniques are far more powerful. However, the two
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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
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are probably several in your city. Go to the church or tent
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early and sit in the rear, about three-quarters of the way
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back. Most likely repetitive music will be played while the
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people come in for the service. A repetitive beat, ideally
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ranging from 45 to 72 beats per minute (a rhythm close to the
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beat of the human heart), is very hypnotic and can generate an
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eyes-open altered state of consciousness in a very high
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percentage of people. And, once you are in an alpha state, you
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are at least 25 times as suggestible as you would be in full
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beta consciousness. The music is probably the same for every
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service, or incorporates the same beat, and many of the people
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will go into an altered state almost immediately upon entering
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the sanctuary. Subconsciously, they recall their state of
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mind from previous services and respond according to the
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post-hypnotic programming.
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Watch the people waiting for the service to begin. Many
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will exhibit external signs of trance--body relaxation and
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slightly dilated eyes. Often, they begin swaying back and
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forth with their hands in the air while sitting in their
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chairs. Next, the assistant pastor will probably come out. He
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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
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hypnotists when inducing a trance. It is also used by many
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lawyers, several of whom are highly trained hypnotists, when
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they desire to entrench a point firmly in the minds of the
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jurors. A voice roll can sound as if the speaker were talking
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to the beat of a metronome or it may sound as though he were
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emphasizing every word in a monotonous, patterned style. The
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words will usually be delivered at the rate of 45 to 60 beats
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per minute, maximizing the hypnotic effect.
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Now the assistant pastor begins the "build-up" process. He
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induces an altered state of consciousness and/or begins to
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generate the excitement and the expectations of the audience.
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Next, a group of young women in "sweet and pure" chiffon
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dresses might come out to sing a song. Gospel songs are great
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for building excitement and INVOLVEMENT. In the middle of the
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song, one of the girls might be "smitten by the spirit" and
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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
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point, hypnosis and conversion tactics are being mixed. And
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the result is the audience's attention span is now totally
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focused upon the communication while the environment becomes
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more exciting or tense.
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Right about this time, when an eyes-open mass-induced
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alpha mental state has been achieved, they will usually pass
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the collection plate or basket. In the background, a
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45-beat-per-minute voice roll from the assistant preacher
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might exhort, "Give to God . . . Give to God . . . Give to
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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
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induces fear and increases the tension by talking about "the
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devil," "going to hell," or the forthcoming Armegeddon.
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In the last such rally I attended, the preacher talked
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about the blood that would soon be running out of every faucet
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in the land. He was also obsessed with a "bloody axe of God,"
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which everyone had seen hanging above the pulpit the previous
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week. I have no doubt that everyone saw it--the power of
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suggestion given to hundreds of people in hypnosis assures
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that at least 10 to 25 percent would see whatever he suggested
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they see.
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In most revivalist gatherings, "testifying" or
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"witnessing" usually follows the fear-based sermon. People
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from the audience come up on stage and relate their stories.
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"I was crippled and now I can walk!" "I had arthritis and now
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it's gone!" It is a psychological manipulation that works.
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After listening to numerous case histories of miraculous
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healings, the average guy in the audience with a minor problem
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is sure he can be healed. The room is charged with fear,
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guilt, intense excitement, and expectations.
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Now those who want to be healed are frequently lined up
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around the edge of the room, or they are told to come down to
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the front. The preacher might touch them on the head firmly
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and scream, "Be healed!" This releases the psychic energy
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and, for many, catharsis results. Catharsis is a purging of
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repressed emotions. Individuals might cry, fall down or even
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go into spasms. And if catharsis is effected, they stand a
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chance of being healed. In catharsis (one of the three brain
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phases mentioned earlier), the brain-slate is temporarily
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wiped clean and the new suggestion is accepted.
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For some, the healing may be permanent. For many, it will
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last four days to a week, which is, incidentally, how long a
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hypnotic suggestion given to a somnambulistic subject will
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usually last. Even if the healing doesn't last, if they come
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back every week, the power of suggestion may continually
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override the problem . . . or sometimes, sadly, it can mask a
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physical problem which could prove to be very detrimental to
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the individual in the long run.
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I'm not saying that legitimate healings do not take place.
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They do. Maybe the individual was ready to let go of the
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negativity that caused the problem in the first place; maybe
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it was the work of God. Yet I contend that it can be explained
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with existing knowledge of brain/mind function.
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The techniques and staging will vary from church to
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church. Many use "speaking in tongues" to generate catharsis
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in some while the spectacle creates intense excitement in the
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observers.
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The use of hypnotic techniques by religions is
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sophisticated, and professionals are assuring that they become
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even more effective. A man in Los Angeles is designing,
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building, and reworking a lot of churches around the country.
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He tells ministers what they need and how to use it. This
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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
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are in the sound system and lighting.
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Powerful sound and the proper use of lighting are of
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primary importance in inducing an altered state of
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consciousness--I've been using them for years in my own
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seminars. However, my participants are fully aware of the
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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
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for new converts. To attain them, they must also create a
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brain-phase. And they often need to do it within a short space
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of time--a weekend, or maybe even a day. The following are
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the six primary techniques used to generate the conversion.
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The meeting or training takes place in an area where
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participants are cut off from the outside world. This may be
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any place: a private home, a remote or rural setting, or even
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a hotel ballroom where the participants are allowed only
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limited bathroom usage. In human-potential trainings, the
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controllers will give a lengthy talk about the importance of
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"keeping agreements" in life. The participants are told that
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if they don't keep agreements, their life will never work.
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It's a good idea to keep agreements, but the controllers are
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subverting a positive human value for selfish purposes. The
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participants vow to themselves and their trainer that they
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will keep their agreements. Anyone who does not will be
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intimidated into agreement or forced to leave. The next step
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is to agree to complete training, thus assuring a high
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percentage of conversions for the organizations. They will
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USUALLY have to agree not to take drugs, smoke, and sometimes
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not to eat . . . or they are given such short meal breaks
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that it creates tension. The real reason for the agreements is
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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
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used to ensure that the new converts go out and find new
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participants. They are intimidated into agreeing to do so
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before they leave. Since the importance of keeping agreements
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is so high on their priority list, the converts will twist the
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arms of everyone they know, attempting to talk them into
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attending a free introductory session offered at a future date
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by the organization. The new converts are zealots. In fact,
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the inside term for merchandising the largest and most
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successful human- potential training is, "sell it by zealot!"
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At least a million people are graduates and a good
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percentage have been left with a mental activation button that
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assures their future loyalty and assistance if the guru figure
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or organization calls. Think about the potential political
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implications of hundreds of thousands of zealots programed to
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campaign for their guru.
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Be wary of an organization of this type that offers
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follow-up sessions after the seminar. Follow-up sessions might
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be weekly meetings or inexpensive seminars given on a regular
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basis which the organization will attempt to talk you into
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taking--or any regularly scheduled event used to maintain
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control. As the early Christian revivalists found, long-term
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control is dependent upon a good follow-up system.
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Alright. Now, let's look at the second tip-off that
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indicates conversion tactics are being used. A schedule is
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maintained that causes physical and mental fatigue. This is
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primarily accomplished by long hours in which the participants
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are given no opportunity for relaxation or reflection.
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The third tip-off: techniques used to increase the tension
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in the room or environment.
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Number four: Uncertainty. I could spend hours relating
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various techniques to increase tension and generate
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uncertainty. Basically, the participants are concerned about
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being "put on the spot" or encountered by the trainers, guilt
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feelings are played upon, participants are tempted to verbally
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relate their innermost secrets to the other participants or
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forced to take part in activities that emphasize removing
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their masks. One of the most successful human-potential
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seminars forces the participants to stand on a stage in front
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of the entire audience while being verbally attacked by the
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trainers. A public opinion poll, conducted a few years ago,
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showed that the number one most-fearful situation an
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individual could encounter is to speak to an audience. It
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ranked above window washing outside the 85th floor of an
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office building. So you can imagine the fear and tension this
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situation generates within the participants. Many faint, but
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most cope with the stress by mentally going away. They
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literally go into an alpha state, which automatically makes
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them many times as suggestible as they normally are. And
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another loop of the downward spiral into conversion is
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successfully effected.
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The fifth clue that conversion tactics are being used is
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the introduction of jargon--new terms that have meaning only
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to the "insiders" who participate. Vicious language is also
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frequently used, purposely, to make participants
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uncomfortable.
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The final tip-off is that there is no humor in the
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communications . . . at least until the participants are
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converted. Then, merry-making and humor are highly desirable
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as symbols of the new joy the participants have supposedly
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"found."
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I'm not saying that good does not result from
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participation in such gatherings. It can and does. But I
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contend it is important for people to know what has happened
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and to be aware that continual involvement may not be in their
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best interest.
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Over the years, I've conducted professional seminars to
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teach people to be hypnotists, trainers, and counselors. I've
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had many of those who conduct trainings and rallies come to me
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and say, "I'm here because I know that what I'm doing works,
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but I don't know why." After showing them how and why, many
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have gotten out of the business or have decided to approach it
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differently or in a much more loving and supportive manner.
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Many of these trainers have become personal friends, and
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it scares us all to have experienced the power of one person
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with a microphone and a room full of people. Add a little
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charisma and you can count on a high percentage of
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conversions. The sad truth is that a high percentage of people
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want to give away their power--they are true "believers"!
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Cult gatherings or human-potential trainings are an ideal
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environment to observe first-hand what is technically called
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the "Stockholm Syndrome." This is a situation in which those
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who are intimidated, controlled, or made to suffer, begin to
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love, admire, and even sometimes sexually desire their
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controllers or captors.
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But let me inject a word of warning here: If you think you
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can attend such gatherings and not be affected, you are
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probably wrong. A perfect example is the case of a woman who
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went to Haiti on a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Haitian
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Voodoo. In her report, she related how the music eventually
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induced uncontrollable bodily movement and an altered state of
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consciousness. Although she understood the process and thought
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herself above it, when she began to feel herself become
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vulnerable to the music, she attempted to fight it and turned
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away. Anger or resistance almost always assures conversion. A
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few moments later she was possessed by the music and began
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dancing in a trance around the Voodoo meeting house. A brain
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phase had been induced by the music and excitement, and she
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awoke feeling reborn. The only hope of attending such
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gatherings without being affected is to be a Buddha and allow
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no positive or negative emotions to surface. Few people are
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capable of such detachment.
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Before I go on, let's go back to the six tip-offs to
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conversion. I want to mention the United States Government and
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military boot camp. The Marine Corps talks about breaking men
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down before "rebuilding" them as new men--as marines! Well,
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that is exactly what they do, the same way a cult breaks its
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people down and rebuilds them as happy flower sellers on your
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local street corner. Every one of the six conversion
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techniques are used in boot camp. Considering the needs of the
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military, I'm not making a judgement as to whether that is
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good or bad. IT IS A FACT that the men are effectively
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brainwashed. Those who won't submit must be discharged or
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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
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services, and similar groups cannot have cynicism among their
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members. Members must respond to commands and do as they are
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told, otherwise they are dangerous to the organizational
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control. This is normally accomplished in a three step
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Decognition Process.
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Step One is ALERTNESS REDUCTION: The controllers cause the
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nervous system to malfunction, making it difficult to
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distinguish between fantasy and reality. This can be
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accomplished in several ways. POOR DIET is one; watch out for
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Brownies and Koolaid. The sugar throws the nervous system off.
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More subtle is the "SPIRITUAL DIET" used by many cults. They
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eat only vegetables and fruits; without the grounding of
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grains, nuts, seeds, dairy products, fish or meat, an
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individual becomes mentally "spacey." INADEQUATE SLEEP is
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another primary way to reduce alertness, especially when
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combined with long hours of work or intense physical activity.
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Also, being bombarded with intense and unique experiences
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achieves the same result.
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Step Two is PROGRAMED CONFUSION: You are mentally
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assaulted while your alertness is being reduced as in Step
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One. This is accomplished with a deluge of new information,
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lectures, discussion groups, encounters or one-to-one
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processing, which usually amounts to the controller bombarding
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the individual with questions. During this phase of
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decognition, reality and illusion often merge and perverted
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logic is likely to be accepted.
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Step Three is THOUGHT STOPPING: Techniques are used to
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cause the mind to go "flat." These are
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altered-state-of-consciousness techniques that initially
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induce calmness by giving the mind something simple to deal
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with and focusing awareness. The continued use brings on a
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feeling of elation and eventually hallucination. The result is
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the reduction of thought and eventually, if used long enough,
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the cessation of all thought and withdrawal from everyone and
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everything except that which the controllers direct. The
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takeover is then complete. It is important to be aware that
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when members or participants are instructed to use
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"thought-stopping" techniques, they are told that they will
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benefit by so doing: they will become "better soldiers" or
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"find enlightenment."
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There are three primary techniques used for thought
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stopping. The first is MARCHING: the thump, thump, thump beat
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literally generates self-hypnosis and thus great
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susceptibility to suggestion.
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The second thought stopping technique is MEDITATION. If
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you spend an hour to an hour and a half a day in meditation,
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after a few weeks, there is a great probability that you will
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not return to full beta consciousness. You will remain in a
|
|
fixed state of alpha for as long as you continue to meditate.
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I'm not saying this is bad--if you do it yourself. It may be
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|
very beneficial. But it is a fact that you are causing your
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mind to go flat. I've worked with meditators on an EEG machine
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|
and the results are conclusive: the more you meditate, the
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flatter your mind becomes until, eventually and especially if
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used to excess or in combination with decognition, all thought
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|
ceases. Some spiritual groups see this as nirvana--which is
|
|
bullshit. It is simply a predictable physiological result. And
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if heaven on earth is non- thinking and non-involvement, I
|
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really question why we are here.
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The third thought-stopping technique is CHANTING, and
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often chanting in meditation. "Speaking in tongues" could also
|
|
be included in this category.
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All three-stopping techniques produce an altered state of
|
|
consciousness. This may be very good if YOU are controlling
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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.
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True Believers & Mass Movements
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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.
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|
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|
Hoffer, who wrote THE TRUE BELIEVER, a classic on mass
|
|
movements, says, "true believers are not intent on bolstering
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|
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"!
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|
|
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
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|
|
|
Persuasion isn't technically brainwashing but it is the
|
|
manipulation of the human mind by another individual, without
|
|
the manipulated party being aware what caused his opinion
|
|
shift. I only have time to very basically introduce you to a
|
|
few of the thousands of techniques in use today, but the basis
|
|
of persuasion is always to access your RIGHT BRAIN. The left
|
|
half of your brain is analytical and rational. The right side
|
|
is creative and imaginative. That is overly simplified but it
|
|
makes my point. So, the idea is to distract the left brain and
|
|
keep it busy. Ideally, the persuader generates an eyes-open
|
|
altered state of consciousness, causing you to shift from beta
|
|
awareness into alpha; this can be measured on an EEG machine.
|
|
|
|
First, let me give you an example of distracting the left
|
|
brain. Politicians use these powerful techniques all the
|
|
time; lawyers use many variations which, I've been told, they
|
|
call "tightening the noose."
|
|
|
|
Assume for a moment that you are watching a politician
|
|
give a speech. First, he might generate what is called a "YES
|
|
SET." These are statements that will cause listeners to agree;
|
|
they might even unknowingly nod their heads in agreement. Next
|
|
come the TRUISMS. These are usually facts that could be
|
|
debated but, once the politician has his audience agreeing,
|
|
the odds are in the politician's 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."
|
|
|
|
And I think you've heard all that before. But you might
|
|
also watch for what are called Imbedded Commands. As an
|
|
example: On key words, the speaker would make a gesture with
|
|
his left hand, which research has shown is more apt to access
|
|
your right brain. Today's media-oriented politicians and
|
|
spellbinders are often carefully trained by a whole new breed
|
|
of specialist who are using every trick in the book--both old
|
|
and new--to manipulate you into accepting their candidate.
|
|
|
|
The concepts and techniques of Neuro-Linguistics are so
|
|
heavily protected that I found out the hard way that to even
|
|
talk about them publicly or in print results in threatened
|
|
legal action. Yet Neuro- Linguistic training is readily
|
|
available to anyone willing to devote the time and pay the
|
|
price. It is some of the most subtle and powerful manipulation
|
|
I have yet been exposed to. A good friend who recently
|
|
attended a two-week seminar on Neuro-Linguistics found that
|
|
many of those she talked to during the breaks were government
|
|
people.
|
|
|
|
Another technique that I'm just learning about is
|
|
unbelievably slippery; it is called an INTERSPERSAL TECHNIQUE
|
|
and the idea is to say one thing with words but plant a
|
|
subconscious impression of something else in the minds of the
|
|
listeners and/or watchers.
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
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 reprograming 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
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
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 program
|
|
suggestions directly through contact with the skin. When he
|
|
attempted to patent the device, the government demanded that
|
|
he prove it worked. When he did, the National Security Agency
|
|
confiscated the neurophone. It took Pat two years of legal
|
|
battle to get his invention back.
|
|
|
|
In using the device, you don't hear or see a thing; it is
|
|
applied to the skin, which Pat claims is the source of special
|
|
senses. The skin contains more sensors for heat, touch, pain,
|
|
vibration, and electrical fields than any other part of the
|
|
human anatomy.
|
|
|
|
In one of his recent tests, Pat conducted two identical
|
|
seminars for a military audience--one seminar one night and
|
|
one the next night, because the size of the room was not large
|
|
enough to accommodate all of them at one time. When the first
|
|
group proved to be very cool and unwilling to respond, Patrick
|
|
spent the next day making a special tape to play at the second
|
|
seminar. The tape instructed the audience to be extremely warm
|
|
and responsive and for their hands to become "tingly." The
|
|
tape was played through the neurophone, which was connected to
|
|
a wire he placed along the ceiling of the room. There were no
|
|
speakers, so no sound could be heard, yet the message was
|
|
successfully transmitted from that wire directly into the
|
|
brains of the audience. They were warm and receptive, their
|
|
hands tingled and they responded, according to programming, in
|
|
other ways that I cannot mention here.
|
|
|
|
The more we find out about how human beings work through
|
|
today's highly advanced technological research, the more we
|
|
learn to control human beings. And what probably scares me
|
|
the most is that the medium for takeover is already in place!
|
|
The television set in your 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,
|
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attached young viewers to an EEG machine that was wired to
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shut the TV set off whenever the children's brains produced a
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majority of alpha waves. Although the children were told to
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concentrate, only a few could keep the set on for more than 30
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seconds!
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Most viewers are already hypnotized. To deepen the trance
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is easy. One simple way is to place a blank, black frame
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every 32 frames in the film that is being projected. This
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creates a 45-beat-per-minute pulsation perceived only by the
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subconscious mind--the ideal pace to generate deep hypnosis.
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The commercials or suggestions presented following this
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alpha- inducing broadcast are much more likely to be accepted
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by the viewer. The high percentage of the viewing audience
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that has somnambulistic- depth ability could very well accept
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the suggestions as commands--as long as those commands did not
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ask the viewer to do something contrary to his morals,
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religion, or self-preservation.
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The medium for takeover is here. By the age of 16,
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children have spent 10,000 to 15,000 hours watching
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television--that is more time than they spend in school! In
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the average home, the TV set is on for six hours and 44
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minutes per day--an increase of nine minutes from last year
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and three times the average rate of increase during the 1970s.
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It obviously isn't getting better . . . we are rapidly
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moving into an alpha-level world--very possibly the Orwellian
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world of "1984"-- placid, glassy-eyed, and responding
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obediently to instructions.
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A research project by Jacob Jacoby, a Purdue University
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psychologist, found that of 2,700 people tested, 90 percent
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misunderstood even such simple viewing fare as commercials and
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"Barnaby Jones." Only minutes after watching, the typical
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viewer missed 23 to 36 percent of the questions about what he
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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
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instructed to remember--otherwise you automatically forget.
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I have just touched the tip of the iceberg. When you start
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to combine subliminal messages behind the music, subliminal
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visuals projected on the screen, hypnotically produced visual
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effects, sustained musical beats at a trance-inducing pace . .
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. you have extremely effective brainwashing. Every hour that
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you spend watching the TV set you become more conditioned.
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And, in case you thought there was a law against any of these
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things, guess again. There isn't! There are a lot of powerful
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people who obviously prefer things exactly the way they are.
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Maybe they have plans for us?
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