Cautions
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Paragraph titles added in 1985.
1. Hypnotists as Informers
2. Writer's Credentials and Openness Ethics For Using
3. Historical beginnings and Equivalent Brain Phase
4. Hazards of negative phase
4.1 Egocide
4.2 Insidious Effects
5.0 What to Watch Out For
5.1. Recruiting & Set-Up
5.2. Isolation of Site
5.3. Fatiguing schedule
5.4 Tension
5.5. Vicious, humorless talk
5.6 Stockholm Syndrome
5.7 Military and Cult Uses
6. The Three-Step Decognition Process
6.1. Alertness Reduction
6.1.1 Poor Diet
6.1.2 Inadequate Sleep
6.1.3 Intense Experiences
6.2. Programmed Confusion
6.3. Thought-stopping
6.3.1 Initial & Final Effects
6.3.2 Misleading Intentions
6.3.3 Excessive Practice
7. True Believers
7.1 Description of term
7.2 Better goal
7.3 Dangers of TB's
8. Subliminal Programming
8.1 Audio tapes
8.2 Personal Experience
9. Vibrato and ELF's
9.1 Description
9.2 Experiences
10.Neurophone and a Wire
10.1 Background, Flanagan
10.2 Experience
11. Media for Takeover
11.1 TV as medium
11.2 Hemispheric drug factors
11.3 Attention Measurement
11.4 Command effects
11.5 Population affected
12. Summary
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Extracted with permission from THE STELLE GROUP NEWSLETTER
Editor's Comments & Notes
Bracketed numerals refer to Editor's notes added in 1985 that are at the end of the article.
¯ EXPOSING HYPNOSIS, SUBLIMINALS, AND CONVERSION TACTICS
¯ FOREWORD
The author of the following article, Dick Sutphen, has been employed in advertising as a subliminals expert and he now designs and sells autosuggestion cassette tapes and conducts so-called past-life hypnotic regressions. Subliminals and hypnotism are extremely effective in reprogramming one's brain/mind, but these techniques are hazardous to spiritual health and Egoic integrity. Subliminal suggestion and hypnotism are both regarded as the heights of immorality by the Brotherhoods. Ïä8Ï1Ïä9Ï Hidden manipulation of the desires and drives of another person are a great wrong; yet most people are ignorant of this. All hypnosis, for whatever "good" reason, nevertheless results in subsequent ESP brain resonance (telepathy) which intertwines the thoughts of both hypnotist and the person being hypnotized for the rest of their lives. Ïä8Ï2Ïä9Ï Unquestionably, hypnosis has been a marvelous research tool in metaphysics and psychology; however, everyone who allows himself or herself to be hypnotized also becomes more susceptible to control by the minds of yet other entities, both incarnate and decarnate. Each subsequent exposure to subliminal suggestion or hypnotism lessens one's ability to resist further incursions of this sort and can eventually result in permanent manipulation by those who are adept at these black arts. Certain governmental, religious, and commercial interests determinedly seek to achieve the subservience of the persons they regularly subject to such subliminal control. The article below consolidates information which I have long warned about; however, Mr. Sutphen is an acknowledged expert in the areas he describes, and this should lend further weight to the subject. Richard Kieninger, May 16, 1983
Excerpts from a talk by Dick Sutphen at The World Congress of Professional Hypnotists Convention in Las Vegas, October, 1982.
1. Background and Introduction
As hypnotists, we are in a position to talk about some things the public needs to know. Because of our positions, maybe they will listen to us. We need to point out dangerous potentials that exist for people to control others with conversion, with subliminals, and the manipulative use of altered states of consciousness. I've been writing about it since 1977; and the more I find out, the more I scare myself about the potential for misuse and control.
2. Writer's Credentials and Openness
Now, this is my business, I know it. I use hypnosis, subliminals, and conversion tactics; but, any time I use them, I tell people that I'm using them.
My problem is with those who are USING THEM SECRETLY FOR MONETARY GAIN OR FOR POWER AND CONTROL.
3. Historical beginnings
Modern day brainwashing (conversion) was born out of Christian revivalism. Jonathan Edwards accidentally discovered the techniques in the 1730's in New England. By inducing guilt and by increasing tension, the sinners would break down and completely submit. Technically, according to Pavlov's research, Edwards was creating an Equivalent or Paradoxical Brain Phase. Edwards's problem was that the new input was negative: "You're a sinner!", "You are destined for Hell!", etc.. Ï
4. Hazards of negative phase
4.1 Egocide
Once the manipulator creates his brain phase, his subject is "wide open". The brain slate is wiped clean temporarily, allowing new input to be substituted. Because Edwards didn't turn his message positive until the end of his revival sessions, some accepted the negative suggestion, couldn't live with it, and responded with suicide. Ïä8Ï6Ïä9Ï The same conversion techniques are still being used today by religious cults, human potential training, armed services boot camps, and Fundamentalist preachers.
4.2 Insidious Effects
I believe that it is very important to remember that, in the entire history of brainwashing, no one being brainwashed realized nor believed that s/he was being or had been brainwashed.
5. What to Watch Out For
5.1 Recruiting and Set-Up
For those of you who are not aware, let me point out the primary things to tell the public to watch out for. When the classic techniques of conversion are combined with Pavlovian understanding, you have the "group brainwashing techniques" widely used to suck people in.
5.2. Isolation of Site
The meeting or training place is an area where participants are cut off from the outside world. This could be any place from a remote or rural setting to a hotel ballroom where the participants are not allowed to go to the bathroom.
5.3. Fatiguing schedule
A schedule is maintained that causes physical and mental fatigue. Those participating are given no opportunity for relaxation or reflection.
5.4. Tension
Techniques are used for increasing the tension level in the room or environment.
5.5. Vicious, non-humor talk
There is no humor relief.
5.6 Stockholm Syndrome
Now, anyone using these techniques with a microphone and a little charisma can count on a high percentage of conversions. In one "human potential training" for two weekends, I saw numerous examples of what is technically called "Stockholm Sydrome". This is the situation in which those who are made to suffer or are intimidated or controlled begin to love, admire, and/or desire their captors or controllers.
5.7 Military and Cult Uses
The U.S. Marine Corps talks about breaking down men before "rebuilding" them as new men . . .as Marines! Well, that is exactly what they do -- the same way that a cult breaks its people down and rebuilds them as happy flower sellers on your local street corner.
6. The Three-Step Decognition Process
Cults, armed services, and similar groups cannot have cynicism among their members. Members must believe whatever they are told; otherwise, they are dangerous to organization control.
The Three-Step Decognition Process works as follows.
6.1. Alertness Reduction
(The objectives are to) cause the nervous system to malfunction, making it difficult to distinguish between fantasy and reality. This is accomplished in several ways:
1) Poor diet - watch out for Brownies and Kool-Aid - the sugar throws your system off. More subtle is the "Spiritual Diet" of nothing but fruits and vegetables. Without the grounding of protein in the form of grains, nuts, seeds, fish, or meat, you will become mentally "spacey".
2) Inadequate sleep is another way to reduce alertness.
3) Also, being bombarded with intense and unique experiences achieve the same end.
6.2. Programmed Confusion
You are mentally assaulted while your alertness is being reduced as in Step One. This is accomplished by a deluge of new information, lectures, discussion groups, encounters, or one-to-one processing. This is technically called the "Equivalent Phase". During this phase, reality and illusion merge and perverted logic is much more likely to be accepted.
6.3. Thought-stopping
Techniques are used to cause your mind to "go flat".
6.3.1 Initial & Final Effects
These are altered states of consciousness techniques that initially induce calmness by: 1) giving the mind something to deal with and 2) by focussing awareness and attention. The continued use brings on a feeling of elation and, eventually, hallucination. The final results are: 1) the reduction of thought and, 2) eventually, if used long enough, the cessation of thought and then 3) the withdrawal from all but whatever you are instructed to do. The takeover is then complete.
6.3.2 Misleading intentions
Now, it is very important to be aware that, when members are instructed to use thought-stopping techniques, then they are told that the techniques will assist them to "become better soldiers" or to "find enlightenment".
There are four primary techniques:
1) Marching - the thump, thump, thump beat literally generates hypnosis;
2) Meditation;
3) Chanting;
4) Speaking in tongues.
6.3.3 Excessive practice
All of the above produce an altered state of consciousness. This may be good if you yourself are controlling the process, for then you control the input. But, you need to be aware that, if you remain in an altered state for an hour or more per day, then, pretty soon, you don't come back to full Beta consciousness. You remain in Alpha. You become more mellow and suggestible.
7. True Believers
I am convinced that at least a third of the population are what Eric Hoffer calls "true believers". They are the "joiners" and "followers" -- people who want to give away their powers. They look for answers and meaning and enlightenment outside of themselves. You see them following gurus, joining movements, in political rallies, and in churches. They are the people who are taken over by the brainwashers.
7.1 Description of term
According to Hoffer, whose book, THE TRUE BELIEVER , is a classic on mass movement concepts,
"true believers are not intent on bolstering nor advancing a cherished self, but are those who are craving to be rid of an unwanted self. They are following, not because of a desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy their passion for self-renunciation!"
Hoffer also said that "true believers are eternally incomplete and insecure!"
7.2 Better goal
THE ONLY THING TO SEEK IS THE TRUE SELF WITHIN. PERSONAL ANSWERS ARE TO BE FOUND THERE AND THERE ALONE. THE BASICS OF SPIRITUALITY ARE SELF-RESPONSIBILITY AND SELF-ACTUALIZATION.
But, most of the true believers just tell me that I am not spiritual and they go looking for someone who will tell them the dogma and structure that they desire.
7.3 Dangers of T.B.'s
Never underestimate the potential danger of these people. They can be easily molded into fanatics who will gladly work and die for individual hope. Hitler's "Brown Shirts" were "True Believers". The "moral Majority" is made up of "True Believers". Cults are made up of "True Believers".
8. Subliminal Programming
I want to talk about different kinds of subliminal programming. The more we learn about how human beings work , the more we learn how to control human beings .
8.1 Audio tapes
I have released a whole new line of (audiocassette) tapes that incorporate the latest technology to reprogram the human mind. And the tapes work! To create my tapes, we gave the assignment to some top Hollywood recording engineers. The assignment was to build the suggesting voice into the music so that it could not be heard consciously. The engineers were able to psycho-acoustically modify and synthesize the voice so that it is projected in the same chord and frequency as the music, giving it the effect of being part of the music. It is the most effective use yet of this technique. In the case of these tapes, the people who use them do so knowing that they are programming themselves. But, are similar techniques being used in radio and television commercials to program you to buy their products without you knowing it? Yes!
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8.2 Personal Experiences
I have personally experienced sitting in a Los Angeles auditorium with over 10,000 people all in altered state of consciousness without knowing it. Under the guise of air-conditioning sound, a low frequency vibration was being piped into the room. The specific frequency generated an eyes-open trance, rendering the audience at least 20 times as receptive to what was being said than they would have been in fully awake Beta consciousness. For probably 25% of the audience, capable of a deeper level, the suggestions could be 200 times as effective and could potentially be accepted as commands!
9. Vibrato and ELF's
9.1 Description
Vibrato is the "tremolo" effect heard in some vocal or instrumental music and the specific cycles per second range causes people to go into an altered state of consciousness. Ïä8Ï10Ïä9Ï At one period of English history, singers whose voices noticeably contained vibrato were not allowed to perform publicly, because listeners would go into an altered state and have fantasies, often sexual. People who attend opera or like to listen to singers like Mario Lanza are familiar with this state induced by the performers.
9.2 Experiences
Now, let's carry this awareness a little farther. There are inaudible ELF's, Extra Low Frequency, waves. These are electromagnetic in their nature. One of the main uses of ELF's is to communicate with our (nuclear) submarines. Dr. Andrija Puharich, a respected researcher, in his attempt to warn U.S. officials about Soviet use of ELF's, set up an experiment. Volunteers were wired so their brain waves could be measured on an EEG. They were sealed in a tightly insulated room that could not be penetrated by a normal radio signal. Puharich then beamed ELF waves at the volunteers. ELF's go right through the earth, the sea and metal walls. Those inside could not know if the signal were being sent or not. Puharich watched the reactions on the technical equipment; 30% of those inside 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. The lowest frequency tested caused the subjects to become very emotionally upset, even disrupting bodily functions. At a slightly higher frequency, they felt a very big high - an elevated feeling, as though they had been in a masterful meditation learned over a period of years. The next higher frequency induces depressed agitation that leads to riotous behavior.
The Puharich testing was done some time ago. It has been well documented since that time. And, as many of you know, Puharich was rewarded for his research by being run out of the country.
10.Neurophone and a Wire
10.1 Background, Flanagan
(* Patrick Flanagan has in recent years turned himself over to a spirit control and has even demonstrated this takeover on public television. This could explain his unconscionable use of neurophonic mind control on his military audience.)
10.2 Experience
Patrick Flanagan recently told me about one his tests using a subliminal technique. His invention, the neurophone, opens a new communication channel to the brain. You hear it through your skin instead of your ears.
Patrick did two identical seminars for a military audience - one seminar for one night and one for the next - because the size of the room was not large enough to accomodate all of them at one time. When the first group was extremely cool and unwilling to respond, Patrick spent the next day making a special cassette tape to play the next night. The tape instructed the audience to be extremely warm and responsive and for their hands to become tingly. The tape was played through a 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 responsive, according to the programming, in other ways that I cannot mention here.
11. Media for Takeover
11.1 TV as medium
In his book, 1984 , George Orwell described the "Big Brother" takeover of this country through means just like those I have been talking about here today. The medium for takeover is in place. The TV set in your living room is doing a lot more than merely entertain you.
11.2 Hemispheric Drug Factor
Before I continue, let me point out something else about an altered state of consciousness. When you go into an altered state, your brain activity transfers predominantly to the right hemisphere, which results in the internal release of the body's own opiates, enkaphaline and Beta-endorphins (chemically almost identical to opium). In other words, it feels good, and you want to come back for more. Recent research by Herbert Krugman showed that, when viewers were watching TV, right brain activity outnumbered left brain activity by a ratio of two to one. In other words, the viewers were in an altered state - in trance more often than not. They were "getting their fix".
11.3 Attention Measurement
To measure attention spans, psychologist Thomas Mulholland of the VA Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, attached young viewers to an EEG machine that was set up to shut off the TV set whenever the childrens' brains produced a majority of Alpha waves. Alpha equals altered state. Although the children were told to concentrate, only a few could keep the set on for more than 30 seconds!
11.4 Command effects
Most viewers are already hypnotized. To deepen the trance is easy. One simple way would be to create a visual pulsation perceived only by the subconscious mind at the level to generate deep hypnosis. The commercials or suggestions presented following this Alpha- inducing broadcast would be much more likely to be accepted by the viewer. The high percentage of the viewing audience that has somnambulistic tendencies could very well accept the suggestions as commands. We are rapidly moving into an alpha/theta- level world - a world of 1984- placid, glassy-eyed, and responding obediently to instructions.
11.5 Population affected
A research project by Jacob Jacoby, a Purdue University psychologist, found that, of 2700 people tested, 90% misunderstood even such simple viewing fare as "Barnaby Jones". Only minutes after watching them, typical viewers missed 23% to 36% of questions asked about what they had just seen. Of course they missed - they were going into and out of trance. If you go into a deep trance, you must be instructed to remember, or else you automatically forget whatever you see.
12. Summary
I have just touched the tip of the iceberg. When you start to combine subliminal messages behind the music, subliminal images and visuals projected on the screen, hypnotically- produced visual effects, sustained musical beats at a trance-inducing pace, and then add some of the latest neurolinguistic manipulation, you have extremely effective brainwashing. Every hour that you spend watching your TV set, you become more conditioned. And, in case you thought there was a law against any of these things, guess again, there is not! There are a lot of powerful people who obviously prefer things to be exactly as they are. Maybe they have plans for you!
Note 0: Perhaps subtitled "1984 is next year?"
Note 1: Corrective hypnotic programming may be seen as O.K. from the standpoint that the problem (alcoholism, fat, smoking) that is unnatural was programmed in previously, so that the "conditioning" is more like a "deconditioning" of the previous bad input.
Note 2: As regards being susceptible, one may reason that programming may include directive to NOT be susceptible.
Note 3: See the August 1984 report of the U.S. Congress's House Committee Report on "Subliminal Communications"
Note 4: Older beginnings may have involved religious conversion, etc..
Note 5: Creating a new brain phase may be likened to killing the Ego and starting out with another (artificial) personality.
Note 6: As with the admonishment "At least, do no harm", any instruction about psi should reinforce the basic goodness and worth of the Ego and the Self.
Note 7: Your Prez-Ed was exposed to a recruiting session for "est" which uses many of the conversion techniques described herein. Scary! No, I did NOT sign up for the multi-hundred dollar course!
Note 8: Alpha waves were the first type identified and are usually associated with the function of visually scanning, as in reading. Current usage as the basic state for psi is often questionable. As an example, while one might be intentionally seeking while meditating, it is not the only meditative state. Further, it has been shown that advanced meditators may be in as many as four different states, as identified by brainwave frequency, at the same time and behave quite normally, as in Beta, while being in Alpha and Beta simultaneously.
Note 9: Your Prez-Ed was exposed in the early 50's to a church service where the offering collection was done to the accompaniment of a repeating of the phrase,
"Relax and rest in the arms of the Lord ...."
Notice how the rhythmic beat calls for repetition and how the basic message calls for letting go ( of money). The congregation was observed to almost completely in a glassy-eyed trance.
Note 10: The mechanism being used here is that of resonance. A simple example is seen in striking a guitar string and noting how a piano string in the same frequency will vibrate in response.
Note 11: Or in "rock concerts".
Note 12: This writer spoke with Dr. Puharich at The Uphoff's workshop in Madison, Wisconsin, this summer (1985).
References:1.) Brian Wilson Key's SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION , in the PSISIG Library; Several official government reports, such as the Naval Surface Weapons Center Technical Report 82-4, which has an extensive bibliography.
References included in a small pamphlet by Marti Koski:
2.) THE ZAPPING OF AMERICA ;
3.) John Marks, THE SEARCH FOR THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, New York Times Books, 1979;
4.) Paul Broedeur, New Yorker, 13 Dec 76;
5.) Eliot Valenstein: BRAIN CONTROL, (New York, Wiley,1973) pp.77-79;
6.) Jose' Delgado: PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND (New York), Harper,1969) pp.92-96; 7.) Robert J. Trotter, "A Shocking Story", Science News , April 13, 1974, pp.245-6;
8.) THE MIND MANIPULATORS, Shellin & Opton, London, Paddington Press, 1978;
9.) SUCH THINGS ARE KNOWN, Burdick, 1982 Vantage Press, 516 W. 34th St., NY 10001.
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