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The History of Mind Control:What we can prove and what we can't
 
Lecture by Dr. Alan ScheflinThis was given in 1995 in Dallas, TexasFrom the Ryerson CKLN FM (88.1 in Toronto) Mind Control SeriesCKLN-FM 88.1 Toronto the International ConnectionProducer/interviewer Wayne Morris<Go To The Original lecture Series Transcripts On the Internet> 
Many of the images in this article are fromThe Psychology Museum and Research center at Oklahoma State University
Mind control is a valid subject. We can prove a good deal of its history and itspostulates. The subject of mind control has validation across several centuries, andespecially a rich history in this century.
 
Possession, Exorcism, & Mind Control
 The earliest historical evidence of mind control techniques can be traced to a practiceknown as
trephining
. This practice involves cutting a hole in the skull of a personwho is suspected of being possessed by evil spirits. The hole in the skull wasbelieved to release the evil spirits. In some forms of trephining, an instrument wasinserted into the skull to scare out the spirit. This procedure was literally an earlyform of lobotomy. Trephining may be the first historically known treatment forsevere mental illness and one of the first psychosurgery procedures designed tochange socially unacceptable behaviors. Many trephined skulls have been recoveredfrom civilizations throughout the world giving evidence that trephining was widelypracticed by many ancient civilizations.Trephining is important to us, because it was a medical procedurebased upon the belief in possession. It seems to me that in manyways, these notions have come back again in the twentieth century,and so I thought it appropriate to start with them now.
 
 The possession idea carried through well into the Middle Ages, whenpossessiontheories of mental illnesswere prevalent, and cures based on them were equally asprevalent and indeed necessary.
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