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Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques
Being Used On The Public Today
by and copyright Dick Sutphen

This text is a transcript of 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.

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 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 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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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 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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

The Medium for Mass Takeover

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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Why did I post this long thing? I spent a bunch of time on the weekend looking at political ads and programs and meetings concerning the upcoming election. It reminded me of this article and I thought it may be helpful for everyone to look at things from that angle.

[Anonymous]

Dumb All Over by Frank Zappa

Whoever we are
Wherever we’re from
We shoulda noticed by now
Our behavior is dumb
And if our chances
Expect to improve
It’s gonna take a lot more
Than tryin’ to remove
The other race
Or the other whatever
From the face
Of the planet altogether

They call it the earth
Which is a dumb kinda name
But they named it right
’cause we behave the same…
We are dumb all over
Dumb all over,
Yes we are
Dumb all over,
Near ’n far
Dumb all over,
Black ’n white
People, we is not wrapped tight

Nurds on the left
Nurds on the right
Religous fanatics
On the air every night
Sayin’ the bible
Tells the story
Makes the details
Sound real gory
’bout what to do
If the geeks over there
Don’t believe in the book
We got over here

You can’t run a race
Without no feet
’n pretty soon
There won’t be no street
For dummies to jog on
Or doggies to dog on
Religous fanatics
Can make it be all gone
(I mean it won’t blow up
’n disappear
It’ll just look ugly
For a thousand years…)

You can’t run a country
By a book of religion
Not by a heap
Or a lump or a smidgeon
Of foolish rules
Of ancient date
Designed to make
You all feel great
While you fold, spindle
And mutilate
Those unbelievers
From a neighboring state

To arms! to arms!
Hooray! that’s great
Two legs ain’t bad
Unless there’s a crate
They ship the parts
To mama in
For souvenirs: two ears (get down!)
Not his, not hers, (but what the hey? )
The good book says:
(it gotta be that way!)
But their book says:
Revenge the crusades…
With whips ’n chains
’n hand grenades…
Two arms? two arms?
Have another and another
Our God says:
There ain’t no other!
Our God says
It’s all okay!
Our God says
This is the way!

It says in the book:
Burn ’n destroy…
’n repent, ’n redeem
’n revenge, ’n deploy
’n rumble thee forth
To the land of the unbelieving scum on the other side
’cause they don’t go for what’s in the book
’n that makes ’em bad
So verily we must choppeth them up
And stompeth them down
Or rent a nice french bomb
To poof them out of existance
While leaving their real estate just where we need it
To use again
For temples in which to praise our god
(cause he can really take care of business!)

And when his humble tv servant
With humble white hair
And humble glasses
And a nice brown suit
And maybe a blond wife who takes phone calls
Tells us our God says
It’s okay to do this stuff
Then we gotta do it,
’cause if we don’t do it,
We ain’t gwine up to hebbin!
(depending on which book you’re using at the
Time…can’t use theirs… it don’t work
…it’s all lies…gotta use mine…)
Ain’t that right?
That’s what they say
Every night…
Every day…
Hey, we can’t really be dumb
If we’re just following god’s orders
Hey, let’s get serious…
God knows what he’s doin’
He wrote this book here
An’ the book says:
He made us all to be just like him,
So…
If we’re dumb…
Then God is dumb…
(an’ maybe even a little ugly on the side)

Frank Zappa

[Anonymous]

None of that is true! I love the government and religeous leaders and they would never do anything like that: they are just helping us to do what we’re suppose to do….

And anybody that disagrees with me should be cast out as trouble makers !!!

I hope that helps clear this matter up.

[Anonymous]

LoOK DeEP Into mY eYEs….

cOMe to bB1’s cAsinO SItes anD PUrchAsE cHIpS maNY TimEs OVeR ….

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