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THE BATTLE FOR YOUR MIND, by Dick Sutphen -- 22.2 KB
Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public
Today
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS
The Birth of Conversion/Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism
in 1735. The Pavlovian explanation of the three brain phases.
Born-again preachers: Step-by-Step, how they conduct a revival
and the expected physiological results. The "voice roll"
technique used by preachers, lawyers and hypnotists. New
trance-inducing churches. The 6 steps to conversion. The
decognition process. Thought-stopping techniques. The "sell it
by zealot" technique. True believers and mass movements.
Persuasion techniques: "Yes set," "Imbedded Commands," "Shock
and Confusion," and the "Interspersal Technique." Subliminals.
Vibrato and ELF waves. Inducing trance with vibrational sound.
Even professional observers will be "possessed" at charismatic
gatherings. The "only hope" technique to attend and not be
converted. Non-detectable Neurophone programming through the
skin. The medium for mass take-over.
I'm Dick Sutphen and this tape is 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.
Although I've been interviewed about the subject on many
local and regional radio and TV talk shows, large-scale mass
communication appears to be blocked, since it could result in
suspicion or investigation of the very media presenting it or
the sponsors that support the media. Some government agencies
do not want this information generally known. Nor do the
Born-Again Christian movement, cults, and many human-potential
trainings.
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 this case, that
will probably only result from an underground effort.
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, excitement, 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, programed 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