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Part 5, CORPORATE TELEVISION&PRESS: Programming the Robotic American
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Article 3058 of alt.conspiracy:
From: [email protected] (Thant Tessman)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Scientology: New Age Religion Or 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)
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 program suggestions directly through contact with
the skin. When he attempted to patent the device, the United States
Government demanded that he prove that 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 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!   That 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-endorphines, 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 television, 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-endorphine "fix."

To measure attention spans, psychophysiologist Thomas Mulholland of
the Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, attached young
viewers to an EEG [electroencephalograh] machine that was wired to
shut the TV set off whenever the children's brains produced a
majority of alpha brain waves.  Although the children were told
to concentrate, only a few could keep the set on for more than
thirty 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
at which 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 ten thousand to fifteen thousand hours watching television!
That is MORE time than they spend in school!  In the average home,
the television 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, NINETY 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.

I have just touched the tip of the iceberg.  When you start to
combine subliminal messages behind the music, subliminal visuals
projected on the screen, hypnotically produced visual effects,
sustained musical beats at a trance-inducing pace ... then you have
extremely effective brainwashing!  Every hour that you spend watching
that television set, you become more conditioned.  And, in case you
thought there was a law against any of these things -- guess again.
There isn't!  There are a lot of powerful people who obviously prefer
things exactly the way they are.  Maybe they have plans for ..... ?
                      (to be continued)
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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.