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Article 3058 of alt.conspiracy:
From: [email protected] (Thant Tessman)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Scientology: A New Age Religion? Or A Greed-Infested Cult
        THE BATTLE FOR YOUR MIND
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Date: 15 May 91 21:42:55 GMT
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THE BATTLE FOR YOUR MIND, by Dick Sutphen -- 22.2 KB
Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today

                      (continuation)
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.

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. [It is upon a society's true believers]
that any 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."
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  I urge you to repost the episodes of this series to other
  newsgroups and to other computer networks, as well as to bulletin
  boards (electronic and wooden) on campus and in your community.

           John DiNardo

  Reposted from an original post by Thant Tessman.

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