Everyday Brainwashing
by Dick Sutphen
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Dick Sutphen is a professional hypnotist who makes a good portion of his
living training other professional hypnotists... and another good
portion selling tapes of his lectures and "subliminal learning" tapes to
help people with their problems. This file is a transcript of a taped
lecture with information he felt was important enough that he asked
for it to be as widely disseminated as possible, at NO CHARGE. I found it
on Illumi-Net in Decatur GA, and it hit me where I live, so I ask that
all who read it pass it along as widely as possible. I have broken it up
into four parts... please be sure that all four are printed, uploaded, etc.
together, so that none of the information is lost, for it is all VITAL!
It could mean the return of free thought to this nation, or the end of it.
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THE BATTLE FOR YOUR MIND, by Dick Sutphen -- 22.2 KB
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 tapes and, in some of my seminars, I use conversion tactics to
assist participants to become independent and self-sufficient. But,
anytime I use these techniques, I point out that I am using them, and those
attending have a choice to participate or not. They also know what the
desired result of participation will be.
So, to begin, I want to state the most basic of all facts about
brainwashing: IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF MAN, NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN
BRAINWASHED AND REALIZED, OR BELIEVED, THAT HE HAD BEEN BRAINWASHED. Those
who have been brainwashed will usually passionately defend their
manipulators, claiming they have simply been "shown the light" . . . or
have been transformed in miraculous ways.
The Birth of Conversion
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 ū 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
individule 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.
Alright. Now, let's ˙look at the second tip-off that indicates
conversion tactics are being used. A schedule is maintained that˙
causes physical and mental fatigue. This is primarily accomplished
by long hours in which the participants are given no opportunity for
relaxation or reflection.
The third tip-off: techniques used to increase the tension in the
room or environment.
Number four: Uncertainty. I could spend hours relating various
techniques to increase tension and generate uncertainty. Basically, the
participants are concerned about being "put on the spot" or encountered
by the trainers, guilt feelings are played upon, participants are tempted
to verbally relate their innermost secrets to the other participants or
forced to take part in activities that emphasize removing their masks. One
of the most successful human-potential seminars forces the participants
to stand on a stage in front of the entire audience while being verbally
attacked by the trainers. A public opinion poll, conducted a few years
ago, showed that the number one most-fearful situation an individual could
encounter is to speak to an audience. It ranked above window washing
outside the 85th floor of an office building. So you can imagine the
fear and tension this situation generates within the participants. Many
faint, but most cope with the stress by mentally going away. They
literally go into an alpha state, which automatically makes them many
times as suggestible as they normally are. And another loop of the
downward spiral into conversion is successfully effected.
The fifth clue that conversion tactics are being used is the
introduction of jargon--new terms that have meaning only to the
"insiders" who participate. Vicious language is also frequently
used, purposely, to make participants uncomfortable.
The final tip-off is that there is no humor in the communications . . .
at least until the participants are converted. Then, merry-making and
humor are highly desirable asūsymbols 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 do something contrary to his morals,
religion, or self-preservation.
The medium for takeover is here. By the age of 16, children have spent
10,000 to 15,000 hours watching television--that is more time than
they spend in school! In the average home, the TV set is on for six hours
and 44 minutes per day--an increase of nine minutes from last year and
three times the average rate of increase during the 1970s.
It obviously isn't getting better . . . we are rapidly moving
into an alpha-level world--very possibly the Orwellian world of
"1984"--placid, glassy-eyed, and responding obediently to instructions.
A research project by Jacob Jacoby, a Purdue University psychologist, found
that of 2,700 people tested, 90 percent misunderstood even such simple
viewing fare as commercials and "Barnaby Jones." Only minutes after
watching, the typical viewer missed 23 to 36 percent of the questions
about what he or she had seen. Of course they did--they were going in and
out of trance! If you go into a deep trance, you must be instructed to
remember--otherwise you automatically forget.
I have just touched the tip of the iceberg. When you start to
combine subliminal messages behind the music, subliminal visuals
projected on the screen, hypnotically produced visual effects, sustained
musical beats at a trance-inducing pace . . . you have extremely
effective brainwashing. Every hour that you spend watching the TV set you
become more conditioned. And, in case you thought there was a law
against any of these things, guess again. There isn't! There are a lot of
powerful people who obviously prefer things exactly the way they are.
Maybe they have plans for?
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