posted December 19, 2002 09:38 PM              

(And I don't doubt it's on the monitors either)

Subliminal messages are everywhere, they have been proven to have been used in political campaigns, even in the lastest with Bush and Gore. The media is very strong in America and controls everything. All the big corporations and the government are tied in. We are now discovering awful things about the government from just 20 years ago, spraying incesticides over people to see what the effects were, testing out drugs on Vietnam soldiers, big government coverups, and what makes us think these things have stopped. We are only learning the tip of the iceberg. When the government doesn't want you to know about something, they have the media come and focus on something else, i.e. a kidnapped kid. Course it's a big deal, but kids are kidnapped all the time all over the U.S. but it's a great way to distract people from screwups going on. And they also control what news we learn about and what we don't.

Before I sound really paranoid, I'll stop..but never hesitate to question and challenge what is around you!
And also Stella I apologize for saying all this on your thread!

posted December 26, 2002 02:32 AM              

You see the way people's eyes get glued to the tv set- and what they are watching is not THAT good, people get so addicted to their tv sets. The commercials hold that trance too, which really tells you something.

posted May 09, 2003 03:28 PM              

It really says alot. First, that there are messages coming from the ethers and second, there are messages coming from not-so-good sources.

As far as TV is concerned, I personally have rejected it from my life. I will see a movie if it really interests me, and here and there I catch things others are watching, but I will not just go turn on the TV. I do agree that there is subliminal programming going on... and I don't think you have to be paranoid to figure it out. Just talk to someone who watches TV regularly and you will see how they are trained to be on the couch at a certain time and know all the times of shows and even desire to buy new products or like certain things.... interesting to see.

As far as Stellas original post... I think it is entirely possible, especially if that person has Uranus big time in their chart. I know Aquarians who blow out light bulbs and fuses alot. Also, I personally have experienced things appearing out of nowhere or have found things after getting a flash bolt mental image of where it is. I know there is definitely some type of communication that the mind has with all things electrical... after all, energy is what it is all made up of anyway.

posted June 13, 2003 01:48 AM              

(or if it's really THAT long, maybe you could post an excerpt then post the URL, if it's an online article?)

posted June 14, 2003 01:28 PM              

(The TV stuff is towards the bottom)
<<
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.

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.

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
******** . 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 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.