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Jeff Johnson has just been brainwashed, and it has happened so undetectably
that there is absolutely nothing he could have done to prevent it.
Sure, that's fiction--but the facts are real. Using the powerful sensory
inputs available to TV, radio, films and the rest of the mass media, mind
manipulators in New York's advertising agencies, Hollywood's movie and TV
industries and Washington's political power structure are at this very
moment shaping what you think about the key issues of the day, from
abortion to elections.
"Today," say journalists Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, authors of Snapping,
"American business and advertising have at their disposal the latest and
most comprehensive body of knowledge concerning the manner in which human
behaviour can be manipulated."
In 1956 a New Jersey market researcher imbedded movies with hidden visual
commands to buy Coca Cola. Movie watchers were absolutely unaware that
these consciously imperceptible orders were attacking them, but the proof
was at the cash register: Coke sales jumped 58% at that theatre.
At a Kansas City medical center, hidden audio messages are constantly piped
through the sound system. And there have been dramatic results--smoking in
the staff lounge is down 50%; angry patient outbursts in the crowded
patient waiting room are down 60%.
Retailers around the country are experimenting with "no shoplifting" audio
tapes that endlessly repeat--on a subconscious level, beneath the Muzak--
directives not to steal. One New Orleans supermarket reported that
"Inventory shrinkage" (Theft) fell two-thirds, from $50,000 yearly to
just $13,000.
Don't believe it? join the club. In one survey of influential business
and civic leaders, 90% said they were sure there were laws against covert
mind manipulation. What's more, 60% added that that stuff was a lot of
hooey anyway.
As for hidden mind manipulation being hooey, that is exactly what big
advertisers, major media, politicians, religious leaders and the U.S.
government want you to believe. The more you believe that, the longer and
more successfully the can secretly influence your purchasing and political
decisions. "We hear very little about the subject these days," leading
brain researcher Dr. Barbara Brown admits. But that is not because there
is nothing to talk about. On the contrary: There is too much. "One always
suspects government intervention when techniques to abuse mankind are
suddenly banished from discussion. In any event, for some 20 years now
there has been a steadfast denial of this extraordinary phenomenon by the
experts."
You may think you know what you know--but thinking so may be dangerous to
your mental health. As Dick Sutphen says, "In the entire history of man,
no one has ever been brainwashed and realized or believed that he had been
brainwashed." That's the terrifying part of brainwashing:
Once it has happened to you, you will never know it.
"It is very difficult to pass laws against this," says Dr.Patrick Flanagan,
a Tucson, Arizona, inventor of sophisticated mind manipulation machinery.
"There are so many ways around it." What's more, much mind-control
technology is abstract, putting it absolutely out of reach of any
legislation or regulation. Used this way, the technologies aim to numb the
unsuspecting--perhaps including you—into accepting the otherwise
unacceptable. Fundamentalist preachers, for instance, commonly saturate
their revival halls with a barely perceptible six-to-seven cycles per
second sound, which can be hidden under the noise of air conditioning or
even the hum from loudspeakers. That vibration--harmless as it seems--is
incredibly effective in putting much of any audience into an immediate
open-eye trance state. Because their eyes are open, the audience believes
they are fully functioning, wide awake individuals. THEY AREN'T. THEY ARE
EASY PREY FOR ANY MESSAGE THE PREACHER CHOOSES TO PUT FORTH.
Effective as that technique is, there are scarier tools available to mind
manipulators. Particularly chilling research is reported by Dr. Barbara
Brown, who says that things as simple as the sounds of heartbeats can
radically alter our reactions to pictures and ideas. In one experiment
cited by Brown, scientists tricked subjects into believing they were
hearing their own heartbeats while viewing photographs. They weren't. The
heartbeats were pre-recorded, yet as subjects heard faster heartbeats they
automatically gave high ratings to the observed photos. Lower heart rates
yielded poorer ratings. Theoretical as that research is, the impact is
very powerful. Increase the rate of fake heartbeat sounds, and audience
excitement will bolt upwards. Lower it, and audience enthusiasm drops. It
is as elementary as that. The dimension this adds to political messages,
advertising, and so on, is alarming. "This begins to have frightening
implications," admits Brown. "It seems quite possible that certain types
of propaganda or techniques of persuasion will take advantage of this."
More proof of the impact of subliminals comes from one Texas university
psychologist who began to salt his lectures with disguised slides showing
graphic sex and violence at light levels outside the audience's conscious
ability to see.His lectures, which had nothing to do with the slides being
projected, were apparently more interesting to the students than in the
past, as reflected by test scores. Test results indicated a significant
increase in memory!
Key and his research associates have documented hundreds of cases of such
imbeds in major advertisements, including ads run by Crest toothpaste,
Vaseline, Johnnie Walker Scotch, Kent cigarettes, Calvert whiskey, Bacardi
rum, Sprite, and Seagram's Gin. In every instance, the goal is to use
imbeds to arouse viewer attention and increase memory.
But perhaps the most powerful subliminals are delivered in sound. THERE IS
NO WAY TO KNOW EXACTLY WHEAT YOU ARE HEARING WHEN YOU WATCH TV OR LISTEN TO
RADIO. Tales of rock groups using hidden messages are too numerous to
recount—and yes, many groups commonly use subliminals, according to music
industry insiders. The fact is, it is incredibly easy to hid messages in
music or spoken words. Using modern synthesizer equipment, words can now
be psychoacoustically modified to sound like musical instruments--but the
impacts of these words are every bit as strong as they would be if audibly
spoken. Words can easily be made to sound like white noise (Ocean waves,
for instance) or pink noise (the steady hum of an engine.
Sounds without content and simple colors can be mood and mind manipulators
when skillfully used by professionals. Much harpsichord and organ music--
often heard in churches--rapidly propel most of any audience into an
altered state of highly receptive and accepting consciousness. And colors,
as proven by clothing designers, are directly associated with feelings and
emotions.
The potential for abuse of these techniques goes very far indeed. Says
Dick Sutphen: "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 a few."
Don't think politicians are not using such covert methods. Hundreds of
millions of dollars are spent annually on political campaigns, and the
high-level consultants hired by politicans are well versed in all methods
of manipulation. Dr. Key even cites one example of sex imbeds being used by
Congressional candidates in Virginia. Another researcher discovered sex
imbeds in an official portrait of President Jimmy Carter.
Puharich maintains that ELFs can travel not only through metal but also
many miles through the earth. Are the Russians beaming ELFs at the United
States today? Nobody knows. At least nobody is saying. But this much is
certain: ELFs exist and sooner or later somebody will begin using them to
exert still further control on human behaviour.
Again, this propels us into a murky area of research, but what science
knows about brain physiology is that it consists of two hemispheres. The
left half is logical and factual; the right half is creative and intuitive.
Unmanipulated, all of us bounce back and forth between right-and left-
brain states of consciousness. Some of us are more lopsided in orientation
than others. Very little else is known at this point except this: THE
RIGHT-BRAIN IS FAR LESS CRITICAL IN ITS ASSESSMENT OF NEW INFORMATION.
Guess what? That television in your living room...and the one in your
bedroom...and even the tiny one in your car all have the ability to rapidly
thrust you into a right-brain stat. That's because TV, while appearing to
be a static medium, is actually composted of millions of flickering lights
that can easily put a large percentage of the audience into a low-grade
hypnotic state. Once in that state, they are far more receptive to
suggestions and, possibly, commands. Says Dick Sutphen: "Recent tests by
researcher Dr. Herbert Krugman showed that while viewers were watching TV,
right-brain activity outnumbered left-brain activity by a ratio of two to
one."
Adds Dr. Key: "Madison Avenue account executives actually brag about
planting subliminals which, they claim, no-one will be able to find. One
executive at a major international agency told of burying the words BUY!
BUY! continuously behind ten seconds of applause at the end of a
60-second TV commercial." Did the viewers follow instructions?
Absolutely! "Tests showed the instructions worked superbly," says Key.
Don't think the entrenched political and religious groups are unaware of
this potential. Right-wing money sources have long funded the Christian
Broadcasting Network, even vaulting one of its celebrities into
Presidential candidate status.
Jerry Falwell and his minions also attempted to seize control of the
mammoth CBS television network. There is little need to wonder why. Put a
TV network under the control of political or religious extremists, and in
short order, the airwaves could be even more saturated with hidden messages
and other mind-altering techniques than they currently are. Add in, say,
ELF technology in the hands of these extremists and the nightmare
increases.
Consider the potential. A show like MIAMI VICE, or any MTV fare, already
presents a richly saturated texture of sights and sounds. The spadework
for mind control has been accomplished. A few high network officials could
easily retain for themselves "final review" of all programming, and in the
course of that review all manner of orders could be inserted into a TV
program. A mind numbing ELF overlay could be inserted as well. Much of
this mind-control arsenal has already been proven to exist and to work in
TV commercials. Programming is just a logical extension--and a massive
upping of the mind-control stakes.
What can you do to guard against these present day (and possible future)
hidden manipulators? While experts agree on the scope and severity of the
problem, there is little consensus about how to win a degree of self-
protection. Dick Sutphen speaks for most experts when he says: "I don't
know how the misuse of these techniques can be stopped." This battle is
critical--our free will is at stake. Unfortunately , with the exception of
turning off our TV sets, there are no easy remedies. That is the one sure
step we can take to win back control over our subconscious minds. Beyond
that, the experts urge only that we be very, very careful about what we
listen to or watch.
Source: www.beyondweird.com/conspiracies/mindscan.html