
    THE BATTLE FOR YOUR MIND, by Dick Sutphen -- 22.2 KB
    Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today


    SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

    The Birth of Conversion/Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism in
    1735. The Pavlovian explanation of the three brain phases. Born-
    again preachers: Step-by-Step, how they conduct a revival and the
    expected physiological results. The "voice roll" technique used by
    preachers, lawyers and hypnotists. New trance-inducing churches.
    The 6 steps to conversion. The decognition process. Thought-
    stopping techniques. The "sell it by zealot" technique. True
    believers and mass movements. Persuasion techniques: "Yes set,"
    "Imbedded Commands," "Shock and Confusion," and the "Interspersal
    Technique." Subliminals. Vibrato and ELF waves. Inducing trance
    with vibrational sound. Even professional observers will be
    "possessed" at charismatic gatherings. The "only hope" technique
    to attend and not be converted. Non-detectable Neurophone
    programming through the skin. The medium for mass take-over.

    I'm Dick Sutphen and this tape is a studio-recorded, expanded
    version of a talk I delivered at the World Congress of
    Professional Hypnotists Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although
    the tape carries a copyright to protect it from unlawful
    duplication for sale by other companies, in this case, I invite
    individuals to make copies and give them to friends or anyone in a
    position to communicate this information.

    Although I've been interviewed about the subject on many local and
    regional radio and TV talk shows, large-scale mass communication
    appears to be blocked, since it could result in suspicion or
    investigation of the very media presenting it or the sponsors that
    support the media. Some government agencies do not want this
    information generally known. Nor do the Born-Again Christian
    movement, cults, and many human-potential trainings.

    Everything I will relate only exposes the surface of the problem.
    I don't know how the misuse of these techniques can be stopped. I
    don't think it is possible to legislate against that which often
    cannot be detected; and if those who legislate are using these
    techniques, there is little hope of affecting laws to govern
    usage. I do know that the first step to initiate change is to
    generate interest. In this case, that will probably only result
    from an underground effort. In talking about this subject, I am
    talking about my own business. I know it, and I know how effective
    it can be. I produce hypnosis and subliminal apes and, in some of
    my seminars, I use conversion tactics to assist participants to
    become independent and self-sufficient. But, anytime I use these
    techniques, I point out that I am using them, and those attending
    have a choice to participate or not. They also know what the
    desired result of participation will be.

    So, to begin, I want to state the most basic of all facts about
    brainwashing: IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF MAN, NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN
    BRAINWASHED AND REALIZED, OR BELIEVED, THAT HE HAD BEEN
    BRAINWASHED. Those who have been brainwashed will usually
    passionately defend their manipulators, claiming they have simply
    been "shown the light" . . . or have been transformed in
    miraculous ways.

    The Birth of Conversion

    CONVERSION is a "nice" word for BRAINWASHING . . . and any study
    of brainwashing has to begin with a study of Christian revivalism
    in eighteenth century America. Apparently, Jonathan Edwards
    accidentally discovered the techniques during a religious crusade
    in 1735 in Northampton, Massachusetts. By inducing guilt and acute
    apprehension and by increasing the tension, the "sinners"
    attending his revival meetings would break down and completely
    submit. Technically, what Edwards was doing was creating
    conditions that wipe the brain slate clean so that the mind
    accepts new programming. The problem was that the new input was
    negative. He would tell them, "You're a sinner! You're destined
    for hell!" As a result, one person committed suicide and another
    attempted suicide.

    And the neighbors of the suicidal converts related that they, too,
    were affected so deeply that, although they had found "eternal
    salvation," they were obsessed with a diabolical temptation to end
    their own lives.

    Once a preacher, cult leader, manipulator or authority figure
    creates the brain phase to wipe the brain-slate clean, his
    subjects are wide open. New input, in the form of suggestion, can
    be substituted for their previous ideas. Because Edwards didn't
    turn his message positive until the end of the revival,
    many accepted the negative suggestions and acted, or desired to
    act, upon them.

    Charles J. Finney was another Christian revivalist who used the
    same techniques four years later in mass religious conversions in
    New York. The techniques are still being used today by Christian
    revivalists, cults, human-potential trainings, some business
    rallies, and the United States Armed Services . . . to name just a
    few. Let me point out here that I don't think most revivalist
    preachers realize or know they are using brainwashing techniques.
    Edwards simply stumbled upon a technique that really worked, and
    others copied it and have continued to copy it for over two
    hundred years. And the more sophisticated our knowledge and
    technology become, the more effective the conversion. I feel
    strongly that this is one of the major reasons for the increasing
    rise in Christian fundamentalism, especially the televised
    variety, while most of the orthodox religions are declining.

    The Three Brain Phases

    The Christians may have been the first to successfully formulate
    brainwashing, but we have to look to Pavlov, the Russian
    scientist, for a technical explanation. In the early 1900s, his
    work with animals opened the door to further investigations with
    humans. After the revolution in Russia, Lenin was quick to see the
    potential of applying Pavlov's research to his own ends.

    Three distinct and progressive states of transmarginal inhibition
    were identified by Pavlov. The first is the EQUIVALENT phase, in
    which the brain gives the same response to both strong and weak
    stimuli. The second is the PARADOXICAL phase, in which the brain
    responds more actively to weak stimuli than to strong. And the
    third is the ULTRA-PARADOXICAL phase, in which conditioned
    responses and behavior patterns turn from positive to negative or
    from negative to positive.

    With the progression through each phase, the degree of conversion
    becomes more effective and complete. The way to achieve conversion
    are many and varied, but the usual first step in religious or
    political brainwashing is to work on the emotions of an individual
    or group until they reach an abnormal level of anger, fear,
    exitement, or nervous tension. The progressive result of this
    mental condition is to impair judgement and increase
    suggestibility. The more this condition can be maintained or
    intensified, the more it compounds. Once catharsis, or the first
    brain phase, is reached, the complete mental takeover becomes
    easier. Existing mental programming can be replaced with new
    patterns of thinking and behavior.

    Other often-used physiological weapons to modify normal brain
    functions are fasting, radical or high sugar diets, physical
    discomforts, regulation of breathing, mantra chanting in
    meditation, the disclosure of awesome mysteries, special lighting
    and sound effects, programmed response to incense, or intoxicating
    drugs.

    The same results can be obtained in contemporary psychiatric
    treatment by electric shock treatments and even by purposely
    lowering a person's blood sugar level with insulin injections.

    Before I talk about exactly how some of the techniques are
    applied, I want to point out that hypnosis and conversion tactics
    are two distinctly different things--and that conversion
    techniques are far more powerful. However, the two are often mixed
    ... with powerful results.

    How Revivalist Preachers Work

    If you'd like to see a revivalist preacher at work, there are
    probably several in your city. Go to the church or tent early and
    sit in the rear, about three-quarters of the way back. Most likely
    repetitive music will be played while the people come in for the
    service. A repetitive beat, ideally ranging from 45 to 72 beats
    per minute (a rhythm close to the beat of the human heart), is
    very hypnotic and can generate an eyes-open altered state of
    consciousness in a very high percentage of people. And, once you
    are in an alpha state, you are at least 25 times as suggestible as
    you would be in full beta consciousness. The music is probably the
    same for every service, or incorporates the same beat, and many of
    the people will go into an altered state almost immediately upon
    entering the sanctuary. Subconsciously, they recall their state of
    mind from previous services and respond according to the post-
    hypnotic programming. Watch the people waiting for the service to
    begin. Many will exhibit external signs of trance--body relaxation
    and slightly dilated eyes. Often, they begin swaying back and
    forth with their hands in the air while sitting in their chairs.
    Next, the assistant pastor will probably come out. He usually
    speaks with a pretty good "voice roll."

    Voice Roll Technique

    A "voice roll" is a patterned, paced style used by hypnotists when
    inducing a trance. It is also used by many lawyers, several of
    whom are highly trained hypnotists, when they desire to entrench a
    point firmly in the minds of the jurors. A voice roll can sound as
    if the speaker were talking to the beat of a metronome or it may
    sound as though he were emphasizing every word in a monotonous,
    patterned style. The words will usually be delivered at the rate
    of 45 to 60 beats per minute, maximizing the hypnotic effect. Now
    the assistant pastor begins the "build-up" process. He induces an
    altered state of consciousness and/or begins to generate the
    excitement and the expectations of the audience. Next, a group of
    young women in "sweet and pure" chiffon dresses might come out to
    sing a song. Gospel songs are great for building excitement and
    INVOLVEMENT. In the middle of the song, one of the girls might be
    "smitten by the spirit" and fall down or react as if possessed by
    the Holy Spirit. This very effectively increases the intensity in
    the room. At this point, hypnosis and conversion tactics are being
    mixed. And the result is the audience's attention span is now
    totally focused upon the communication while the environment
    becomes more exciting or tense.

    Right about this time, when an eyes-open mass-induced alpha mental
    state has been achieved, they will usually pass the collection
    plate or basket. In the background, a 45-beat-per-minute voice
    roll from the assistant preacher might exhort, "Give to God . . .
    Give to God . . . Give to God . . ." And the audience does give.
    God may not get the money, but his already wealthy representative
    will. Next, the fire-and-brimstone preacher will come out. He
    induces fear and increases the tension by talking about "the
    devil," "going to hell," or the forthcoming Armegeddon.

    In the last such rally I attended, the preacher talked about the blood
    that would soon be running out of every faucet in the land. He was
    also obsessed with a "bloody axe of God," which everyone had seen
    hanging above the pulpit the previous week. I have no doubt that
    everyone saw it--the power of suggestion given to hundreds of
    people in hypnosis assures that at least 10 to 25 percent would
    see whatever he suggested they see.

    In most revivalist gatherings, "testifying" or "witnessing"
    usually follows the fear-based sermon. People from the audience
    come up on stage and relate their stories. "I was crippled and now
    I can walk!" "I had arthritis and now it's gone!" It is a
    psychological manipulation that works. After listening to numerous
    case histories of miraculous healings, the average guy in the
    audience with a minor problem is sure he can be healed. The room
    is charged with fear, guilt, intense excitement, and expectations.
    Now those who want to be healed are frequently lined up around the
    edge of the room, or they are told to come down to the front. The
    preacher might touch them on the head firmly and scream, "Be
    healed!" This releases the psychic energy and, for many, catharsis
    results. Catharsis is a purging of repressed emotions. Individuals
    might cry, fall down or even go into spasms. And if catharsis is
    effected, they stand a chance of being healed. In catharsis (one
    of the three brain phases mentioned earlier), the brain-slate is
    temporarily wiped clean and the new suggestion is accepted.

    For some, the healing may be permanent. For many, it will last
    four days to a week, which is, incidentally, how long a hypnotic
    suggestion given to a somnambulistic subject will usually last.
    Even if the healing doesn't last, if they come back every week,
    the power of suggestion may continually override the problem . . .
    or sometimes, sadly, it can mask a physical problem which could
    prove to be very detrimental to the individual in the long run.
    I'm not saying that legitimate healings do not take place. They
    do. Maybe the individual was ready to let go of the negativity
    that caused the problem in the first place; maybe it was the work
    of God. Yet I contend that it can be explained with existing
    knowledge of brain/mind function.

    The techniques and staging will vary from church to church. Many use
    "speaking in tongues" to generate catharsis in some while the
    spectacle creates intense excitement in the observers.

    The use of hypnotic techniques by religions is sophisticated, and
    professionals are assuring that they become even more effective. A
    man in Los Angeles is designing, building, and reworking a lot of
    churches around the country. He tells ministers what they need and
    how to use it. This man's track record indicates that the
    congregation and the monetary income will double if the minister
    follows his instructions. He admits that about 80 percent of his
    efforts are in the sound system and lighting.

    Powerful sound and the proper use of lighting are of primary
    importance in inducing an altered state of consciousnes--I've been
    using them for years in my own seminars. However, my participants
    are fully aware of the process and what they can expect as a
    result of their participation.

    Six Conversion Techniques

    Cults and human-potential organizations are always looking for new
    converts. To attain them, they must also create a brain-phase. And
    they often need to do it within a short space of time--a weekend,
    or maybe even a day. The following are the six primary techniques
    used to generate the conversion.

    The meeting or training takes place in an area where participants
    are cut off from the outside world. This may be any place: a
    private home, a remote or rural setting, or even a hotel ballroom
    where the participants are allowed only limited bathroom usage. In
    human-potential trainings, the controllers will give a lengthy
     talk about the importance of "keeping agreements" in life. The
    participants are told that if they don't keep agreements, their
    life will never work. It's a good idea to keep agreements, but the
    controllers are subverting a positive human value for selfish
    purposes. The participants vow to themselves and their trainer
    that they will keep their agreements. Anyone who does not will be
    intimidated into agreement or forced to leave. The next step is to
    agree to complete training, thus assuring a high percentage of
    conversions for the organizations. They will USUALLY have to agree
    not to take drugs, smoke, and sometimes not to eat . . . or they
    are given such short meal breaks that it creates tension. The real
    reason for the agreements is to alter internal chemistry, which
    generates anxiety and hopefully causes at least a slight
    malfunction of the nervous system, which in turn increases the
    conversion potential. Before the gathering is complete, the
    agreements will be used to ensure that the new converts go out and
    find new participants. They are intimidated into agreeing to do so
    before they leave. Since the importance of keeping agreements is
    so high on their priority list, the converts will twist the arms
    of everyone they know, attempting to talk them into attending a
    free introductory session offered at a future date by the
    organization. The new converts are zealots. In fact, the inside
    term for merchandising the largest and most successful human-
    potential training is, "sell it by zealot!" At least a million
    people are graduates and a good percentage have been
    left with a mental activation button that assures their future
    loyalty and assistance if the guru figure or organization calls.
    Think about the potential political implications of hundreds of
    thousands of zealots programmed to campaign for their guru.

    Be wary of an organization of this type that offers follow-up
    sessions after the seminar. Follow-up sessions might be weekly
    meetings or inexpensive seminars given on a regular basis which
    the organization will attempt to talk you into taking--or any
    regularly scheduled event used to maintain control. As the early
    Christian revivalists found, long-term control is dependent upon a
    good follow-up system.

    All right. Now, let's look at the second tip-off that indicates
    conversion tactics are being used. A schedule is maintained that
    causes physical and mental fatigue. This is primarily accomplished
    by long hours in which the participants are given no opportunity
    for relaxation or reflection. The third tip-off: techniques used
    to increase the tension in the room or environment.

    Number four: Uncertainty. I could spend hours relating various
    techniques to increase tension and generate uncertainty.
    Basically, the participants are concerned about being "put on the
    spot" or encountered by the trainers, guilt feelings are played
    upon, participants are tempted to verbally relate their innermost
    secrets to the other participants or forced to take part in
    activities that emphasize removing their masks. One of the most
    successful human-potential seminars forces the participants to
    stand on a stage in front of the entire audience while being
    verbally attacked by the trainers. A public opinion poll,
    conducted a few years ago, showed that the number one most-fearful
    situation an individual could encounter is to speak to an
    audience. It ranked above window washing outside the 85th floor of
    an office building. So you can imagine the fear and tension this
    situation generates within the participants. Many faint, but most
    cope with the stress by mentally going away. They literally go
    into an alpha state, which automatically makes them many times as
    suggestible as they normally are. And another loop of the downward
    spiral into conversion is successfully effected. The fifth clue
    that conversion tactics are being used is the introduction
    of jargon--new terms that have meaning only to the "insiders" who
    participate. Vicious language is also frequently used, purposely,
    to make participants uncomfortable.

    The final tip-off is that there is no humor in the communications
    . . . at least until the participants are converted. Then, merry-
    making and humor are highly desirable as symbols of the new joy
    the participants have supposedly "found." I'm not saying that good
    does not result from participation in such gatherings. It can and
    does. But I contend it is important for people to know what has
    happened and to be aware that continual involvement may not be in
    their best interest. Over the years, I've conducted professional
    seminars to teach people to be hypnotists, trainers, and
    counselors. I've had many of those who conduct trainings and
    rallies come to me and say, "I'm here because I know that what I'm
    doing works, but I don't know why." After showing them how and
    why, many have gotten out of the business or have decided to
    approach it differently or in a much more loving and supportive
    manner.


    Many of these trainers have become personal friends, and it scares
    us all to have experienced the power of one person with a
    microphone and a room full of people. Add a little charisma and
    you can count on a high percentage of conversions. The sad truth
    is that a high percentage of people want to give away their power-
    -they are true "believers"! Cult gatherings or human-potential
    trainings are an ideal environment to observe first-hand what is
    technically called the "Stockholm Syndrome." This is a situation
    in which those who are intimidated, controlled, or made to suffer,
    begin to love, admire, and even sometimes sexually desire their
    controllers or captors.

    But let me inject a word of warning here: If you think you can
    attend such gatherings and not be affected, you are probably
    wrong. A perfect example is the case of a woman who went to Haiti
    on a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Haitian Voodoo. In her report,
    she related how the music eventually induced uncontrollable bodily
    movement and an altered state of consciousness. Although she
    understood the process and thought herself above it, when she
    began to feel herself become vulnerable to the music, she
    attempted to fight it and turned away. Anger or resistance almost
    always assures conversion. A few moments later she was possessed
    by the music and began dancing in a trance around the Voodoo
    meeting house. A brain phase had been induced by the music and
    excitement, and she awoke feeling reborn. The only hope of
    attending such gatherings without being affected is to be a Buddha
    and allow no positive or negative emotions to surface. Few people
    are capable of such detachment.

    Before I go on, let's go back to the six tip-offs to conversion. I
    want to mention the United States Government and military boot
    camp. The Marine Corps talks about breaking men down before
    "rebuilding" them as new men--as marines! Well, that is exactly
    what they do, the same way a cult breaks its people down and
    rebuilds them as happy flower sellers on your local street corner.
    Every one of the six conversion techniques are used in boot camp.
    Considering the needs of the military, I'm not making a judgement
    as to whether that is good or bad. IT IS A FACT that the men are
    effectively brainwashed. Those who won't submit must be discharged
    or spend much of their time in the brig.

    Decognition Process

    Once the initial conversion is effected, cults, armed services,
    and similar groups cannot have cynicism among their members.
    Members must respond to commands and do as they are told,
    otherwise they are dangerous to the organizational control. This
    is normally accomplished as a three-step Decognition Process.

    Step One is ALERTNESS REDUCTION: The controllers cause the nervous
    system to malfunction, making it difficult to distinguish between
    fantasy and reality. This can be accomplished in several ways.
    POOR DIET is one; watch out for Brownies and Koolaid. The sugar
    throws the nervous system off. More subtle is the "SPIRITUAL DIET"
    used by many cults. They eat only vegetables and fruits; without
    the grounding of grains, nuts, seeds, dairy products, fish or
    meat, an individual becomes mentally "spacey." INADEQUATE SLEEP is
    another primary way to reduce alertness, especially when combined
    with long hours of work or intense physical activity. Also, being
    bombarded with intense and unique experiences achieves the same
    result.

    Step Two is PROGRAMMED CONFUSION: You are mentally assaulted while
    your alertness is being reduced as in Step One. This is
    accomplished with a deluge of new information, lectures,
    discussion groups, encounters or one-to-one processing, which
    usually amounts to the controller bombarding the individual with
    questions. During this phase of decognition, reality and illusion
    often merge and perverted logic is likely to be accepted.

    Step Three is THOUGHT STOPPING: Techniques are used to cause the
    mind to go "flat." These are altered-state-of-consciousness
    techniques that initially induce calmness by giving the mind
    something simple to deal with and focusing awareness. The
    continued use brings on a feeling of elation and eventually
    hallucination. The result is the reduction of thought and
    eventually, if used long enough, the cessation of all thought and
    withdrawal from everyone and everything except that which the
    controllers direct. The takeover is then complete. It is important
    to be aware that when members or participants are instructed to
    use "thought-stopping" techniques, they are told that they will
    benefit by so doing: they will become "better soldiers" or "find
    enlightenment."

    There are three primary techniques used for thought stopping. The
    first is MARCHING: the thump, thump, thump beat literally
    generates self-hypnosis and thus great susceptibility to
    suggestion.

    The second thought stopping technique is MEDITATION. If you spend
    an hour to an hour and a half a day in meditation, after a few
    weeks, there is a great probability that you will not return to
    full beta consciousness. You will remain in a fixed state of alpha
    for as long as you continue to meditate. I'm not saying this is
    bad--if you do it yourself. It may be very beneficial. But it is a
    fact that you are causing your mind to go flat. I've worked with
    meditators on an EEG machine and the results are conclusive: the
    more you meditate, the flatter your mind becomes until, eventually
    and especially if used to excess or in combination with
    decognition, all thought ceases. Some spiritual groups see this as
    nirvana--which is bullshit. It is simply a predictable
    physiological result. And if heaven on earth is non-thinking and
    non-involvement, I really question why we are here.

    The third thought-stopping technique is CHANTING, and often
    chanting in meditation. "Speaking in tongues" could also be
    included in this category. All three-stopping techniques produce
    an altered state of consciousness.

    This may be very good if YOU are controlling the process, for you
    also control the input. I personally use at least one self-
    hypnosis programming session every day and I know how beneficial
    it is for me. But you need to know if you use these techniques to
    the degree of remaining continually in alpha that, although you'll
    be very mellow, you'll also be more suggestible.

    True Believers & Mass Movements

    Before ending this section on conversion, I want to talk about the
    people who are most susceptible to it and about Mass Movements. I
    am convinced that at least a third of the population is what Eric
    Hoffer calls "true believers." They are joiners and followers . .
    . people who want to give away their power. They look for answers,
    meaning, and enlightenment outside themselves.

    Hoffer, who wrote THE TRUE BELIEVER, a classic on mass movements,
    says, "true believers are not intent on bolstering and advancing a
    cherished self, but are those craving to be rid of unwanted self.
    They are followers, not because of a desire for self-advancement,
    but because it can satisfy their passion for self-renunciation!"
    Hoffer also says that true believers "are eternally incomplete and
    eternally insecure"!

    I know this from my own experience. In my years of communicating
    concepts and conducting trainings, I have run into them again and
    again. All I can do is attempt to show them that the only thing to
    seek is the True Self within. Their personal answers are to be
    found there and there alone. I communicate that the basics of
    spirituality are self-responsibility and self-actualization.

    But most of the true believers just tell me that I'm not spiritual
    and go looking for someone who will give them the dogma and
    structure they desire.

    Never underestimate the potential danger of these people. They can
    easily be molded into fanatics who will gladly work and die for
    their holy cause. It is a substitute for their lost faith in
    themselves and offers them as a substitute for individual hope.
    The Moral Majority is made up of true believers. All cults are
    composed of true believers. You'll find them in politics,
    churches, businesses, and social cause groups. They are the
    fanatics in these organizations.

    Mass Movements will usually have a charismatic leader. The
    followers want to convert others to their way of living or impose
    a new way of life--if necessary, by legislating laws forcing
    others to their view, as evidenced by the activities of the Moral
    Majority. This means enforcement by guns or punishment, for that
    is the bottomline in law enforcement.

    A common hatred, enemy, or devil is essential to the success of a
    mass movement. The Born-Again Christians have Satan himself, but
    that isn't enough--they've added the occult, the New Age thinkers
    and, lately, all those who oppose their integration of church and
    politics, as evidenced in their political reelection campaigns
    against those who oppose their views. In revolutions, the devil is
    usually the ruling power or aristocracy. Some human-potential
    movements are far too clever to ask their graduates to join
    anything, thus labeling themselves as a cult--but, if you look
    closely, you'll find that their devil is anyone and everyone who
    hasn't taken their training.

    There are mass movements without devils but they seldom attain
    major status. The True Believers are mentally unbalanced or
    insecure people, or those without hope or friends. People don't
    look for allies when they love, but they do when they hate or
    become obsessed with a cause. And those who desire a new life and
    a new order feel the old ways must be eliminated before the new
    order can be built.

    Persuasion Techniques

    Persuasion isn't technically brainwashing but it is the
    manipulation of the human mind by another individual, without the
    manipulated party being aware what caused his opinion shift. I
    only have time to very basically introduce you to a few of the
    thousands of techniques in use today, but the basis of persuasion
    is always to access your RIGHT BRAIN. The left half of your brain
    is analytical and rational. The right side is creative and
    imaginative. That is overly simplified but it makes my point. So,
    the idea is to distract the left brain and keep it busy. Ideally,
    the persuader generates an eyes-open altered state of
    consciousness, causing you to shift from beta awareness into
    alpha; this can be  measured on an EEG machine.

    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 reprogramming tapes offer verbal suggestions
    recorded at a low volume. I question the efficacy of this
    technique--if subliminals are not perceptible, they cannot be
    effective, and subliminals recorded below the audible threshold
    are therefore useless. The oldest audio subliminal technique uses
    a voice that follows the volume of the music so subliminals are
    impossible to detect without a parametric equalizer. But this
    technique is patented and, when I wanted to develop my own line of
    subliminal audiocassettes, negotiations with the patent holder
    proved to be unsatisfactory. My attorney obtained copies of the
    patents which I gave to some talented Hollywood sound engineers,
    asking them to create a new technique. They found a way to psycho-
    acoustically modify and synthesize the suggestions so that they
    are projected in the same chord and frequency as the music, thus
    giving them the effect of being part of the music. But we found
    that in using this technique, there is no way to reduce various
    frequencies to detect the subliminals. In other words, although
    the suggestions are being heard by the subconscious mind, they
    cannot be monitored with even the most sophisticated equipment.

    If we were able to come up with this technique as easily as we
    did, I can only imagine how sophisticated the technology has
    become, with unlimited government or advertising funding. And I
    shudder to think about the propaganda and commercial manipulation
    that we are exposed to on a daily basis. There is simply no way to
    know what is behind the music you hear. It may even be possible to
    hide a second voice behind the voice to which you are listening.

    The series by Wilson Bryan Key, Ph.D., on subliminals in
    advertising and political campaigns well documents the misuse in
    many areas, especially printed advertising in newspapers,
    magazines, and posters.

    The big question about subliminals is: do they work? And I
    guarantee you they do. Not only from the response of those who
    have used my tapes, but from the results of such programs as the
    subliminals behind the music in department stores. Supposedly, the
    only message is instructions to not steal: one East Coast
    department store chain reported a 37 percent reduction in thefts
    in the first nine months of testing.

    A 1984 article in the technical newsletter, "Brain-Mind Bulletin,"
    states that as much as 99 percent of our cognitive activity may be
    "non-conscious," according to the director of the Laboratory for
    Cognitive Psychophysiology at the University of Illinois. The
    lengthy report ends with the statement, "these findings support
    the use of subliminal approaches such as taped suggestions for
    weight loss and the therapeutic use of hypnosis and Neuro-
    Linguistic Programming."

    Mass Misuse

    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 programm suggestions directly through contact with
    the skin. When he attempted to patent the device, the government
    demanded that he prove it worked. When he did, the National
    Security Agency confiscated the neurophone. It took Pat two years
    of legal battle to get his invention back.

    In using the device, you don't hear or see a thing; it is applied
    to the skin, which Pat claims is the source of special senses. The
    skin contains more sensors for heat, touch, pain, vibration, and
    electrical fields than any other part of the human anatomy.

    In one of his recent tests, Pat conducted two identical seminars
    for a military audience--one seminar one night and one the next
    night, because the size of the room was not large enough to
    accommodate all of them at one time. When the first group proved
    to be very cool and unwilling to respond, Patrick spent the next
    day making a special tape to play at the second seminar. The tape
    instructed the audience to be extremely warm and responsive and
    for their hands to become "tingly." The tape was played through
    the neurophone, which was connected to a wire he placed along the
    ceiling of the room. There were no speakers, so no sound could be
    heard, yet the message was successfully transmitted from that wire
    directly into the brains of the audience. They were warm and
    receptive, their hands tingled and they responded, according to
    programming, in other ways that I cannot mention here.

    The more we find out about how human beings work through today's
    highly advanced technological research, the more we learn to
    control human beings. And what probably scares me the most is that
    the medium for takeover is already in place! The television set in
    your livingroom and bedroom is doing a lot more than just
    entertaining you.

    Before I continue, let me point out something else about an
    altered state of consciousness. When you go into an altered state,
    you transfer into right brain, which results in the internal
    release of the body's own opiates: enkephalins and Beta-
    endorphins, chemically almost identical to opium. In other words,
    it feels good . . . and you want to come back for more.

    Recent tests by researcher Herbert Krugman showed that, while
    viewers were watching TV, right-brain activity outnumbered left-
    brain activity by a ratio of two to one. Put more simply, the
    viewers were in an altered state . . . in trance more often than
    not. They were getting their Beta-endorphin "fix."

    To measure attention spans, psychophysiologist Thomas Mulholland of the
    Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, attached young
    viewers to an EEG machine that was wired to shut the TV set off
    whenever the children's brains produced a majority of alpha waves.
    Although the children were told to concentrate, only a few could
    keep the set on for more than 30 seconds!

    Most viewers are already hypnotized. To deepen the trance is easy.
    One simple way is to place a blank, black frame every 32 frames in
    the film that is being projected. This creates a 45-beat-per-
    minute pulsation perceived only by the subconscious mind--the
    ideal pace to generate deep hypnosis.

    The commercials or suggestions presented following this alpha-
    inducing broadcast are much more likely to be accepted by the
    viewer. The high percentage of the viewing audience that has
    somnambulistic-depth ability could very well accept the
    suggestions as commands--as long as those commands did not ask the
    viewer to dosomething contrary to his morals, religion, or self-
    preservation.

    The medium for takeover is here. By the age of 16, children have
    spent 10,000 to 15,000 hours watching television--that is more
    time than they spend n school! In the average home, the TV set is
    on for six hours and 44 minutes per day--an increase of nine
    minutes from last year and three times the average rate of
    increase during the 1970s.

    It obviously isn't getting better . . . we are rapidly moving into
    an alpha-level world--very possibly the Orwellian world of "1984"-
    -placid, glassy-eyed, and responding obediently to instructions.

    A research project by Jacob Jacoby, a Purdue University
    psychologist, found that of 2,700 people tested, 90 percent
    misunderstood even such simple viewing fare as commercials and
    "Barnaby Jones." Only minutes after watching, the typical viewer
    missed 23 to 36 percent of the questions about what he or she had
    seen. Of course they did--they were going in and out of trance! If
    you go into a deep trance, you must be instructed to remember--
    otherwise you automatically forget.

    I have just touched the tip of the iceberg. When you start to
    combine subliminal messages behind the music, subliminal visuals
    projected on the screen, hypnotically produced visual effects,
    sustained musical beats at a trance-inducing pace . . . you have
    extremely effective brainwashing. Every hour that you spend
    watching the TV set you become more conditioned. And, in case you
    thought there was a law against any of these things, guess again.
    There isn't! There are a lot of powerful people who obviously
    prefer things exactly the way they are. Maybe they have plans for?


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