HYPNOSIS AND BRAIN WASHING

by Lawrence Wilson, MD

© March 2011, The Center For Development

Planet earth is plagued by massive brainwashing and hypnosis. These two methods of manipulating others are yang and yin – meaning they are related. They go on everywhere, in families, in schools, in politics and particularly in the sexual arena.

Hypnosis is the gentle, stealth, more yin and seductive method. Brainwashing is the more violent, yang, overtly controlling method of influencing people. That is really the main difference between them.

Spinning the person backwards to weaken people. In devious ways, these methods induce the equivalent of eddy currents in the mind. Eddy currents are currents of water that flow backwards and are small, but they suck energy from the main current of a river.

These backward flows upset the mind and effectively tend to separate a person from his or her own knowing, intuition, common sense and guidance. They tend to make people neurotic and even psychotic. This is a harsh truth, and one that is hard to accept for many people who believe they are fully conscious and in control of their bodies and their minds. In fact, many people are quite affected by these forces. Ridding the mind of brainwashing and post-hypnotic suggestions is extremely helpful and sometimes even necessary in order to progress on the path of health and mental development.

I first learned about hypnosis and brainwashing from Mr. Roy Masters, and his website, www.fhu.com. I am very grateful to him for daring to expose a lot of secret information about these subjects.

Hypnosis and brain washing are massive topics. This article just introduces them in a general way, to make you aware of their presence on a mass scale on earth and how they affect you, your friends and your families. By being aware, you can start to undo some the conditioning. You will also understand and have more compassion for the behavior of others, and have more compassion for yourself as well.

Let us begin with hypnosis, which is the more subtle of the two types of deep conditioning that most people have.

HYPNOSIS

A definition. Hypnosis is a very deep and subtle alteration or distortion of the brain of a human being so that it responds in certain ways and not in others.

This definition is vague, but it is the best I can find for the purpose of this article. Other definitions, such as relaxing a person, or the ability to tune into the unconscious, are not sufficient for this article.

A helpful computer analogy. Hypnosis is a type of derangement of the brain that is somewhat like a computer virus, but they have two special qualities:

1) They are implanted at deep levels. The “virus” is at the operating system or more primitive programming languages in the computer like HTML, GW BASIC or DOS, for those with some computer training. These languages on your computer are often completely unseen and usually not understood or even accessible for the average individual. They are designed this way because it is not necessary to understand them for daily working on the computer. Similarly, hypnosis works on levels that are hardly accessible by the average person.

2) The “virus” is designed so that later on in life a skilled person, such as a hypnotist or other manipulator, can piggyback other viruses or messages onto them. These are called post-hypnotic suggestions.

This computer analogy can help one understand how and why hypnosis works, and its power and dangers. Those who hypnotize others are like computer professionals or hackers that can sneak inside your deep programming languages and make small, but important alterations in the mind, somewhat like implanting a computer virus there.

Such people include hypnotists, but also professional advertisers, sneaky politicians, trial lawyers, and even some doctors, salesmen, and sex-happy men and women. Sadly, even some parents and teachers such as college professors are often adept at sneaking inside the operating system of other people’s minds and manipulating it to get what they want. One often calls these people manipulators, jerks, sharks, ripoff artists, rogues, rapists, murderers or villains.

While this sounds a little diabolical, it is not far from the truth. Calling in a hypnotist is a little like calling in a computer programmer who knows about some of the hidden programs running in the background of your mind, and who can change them somewhat. This is why extreme caution should be used around hypnotists and all such people.

Con (or confidence) men and women. This is another name given to those who act on people in hypnotic ways. They are able to instill confidence and trust when it should not be there. They are skilled at tricking people into thinking and doing things they ordinarily would not think or would not do.

The only protections from these people are: 1) dehypnotize yourself, and 2) at least know that almost all people’s minds are in a slight trance state and therefore subject to what hypnotists call post-hypnotic suggestions. Just knowing this fact can help you recognize the con artists. Such people are common and some are hardly aware of what they are doing. They may even say they love you – and they often do.

A Tarzan analogy. Many readers have seen movies such as Crocodile Dundee and Tarzan Visits New York, or a similar story line. These movies are comedies, in part, because they are about men who are not hypnotized by Western “civilized” society. The hero is usually very “sharp” because people simply cannot fool him as easily as they can fool everyone else in the big city.

The movies are funny to watch because they can help us appreciate how brainwashed or hypnotized many people are, and the silly problems they create as a result. The hero of the movie is not as hypnotized, so they see right through the idiocy and stupidity of most people and succeed as a result.

SOME PRINCIPLES OF HYPNOSIS

Hypnotists often do not reveal their secrets. Here are some principles that Roy Masters and other hypnotists have shared that are somewhat disturbing, but true:

Ø The dual nature of hypnosis. One is always dealing with two aspects of hypnosis. The first is the original trauma or alteration of the brain. This usually occurred very early in life.
However, one is also dealing with post-hypnotic suggestions that were implanted by parents, teachers and others later in life. They were only able to do this because of the first alteration of the brain that usually occurred very early in one’s lifetime.

Ø Most everyone is hypnotized to a degree. That is, most people live in a light trance state. Roy Masters calls this “the hypnosis of life”. It is very real, and it explains a lot of odd behavior and human dilemmas. In fact, it has to do with the nature of physical life, as will be explained in more detail later in this article.

Ø A good hypnotist can make many people do just about anything, including have sex with a stranger or pick up a gun and shoot someone. This is done by telling the person that the other is about to harm him or her, even if it is not true. It is possible to induce a person to have sex with even an animal, at times, by telling the person it is not a dog, but a person. This sounds very odd, but it can be done.
I once attended a seminar by Mr. Masters in which he demonstrated, in a benign manner, how he could take random volunteers from the audience and cause them do ridiculous things they would never ordinarily do, especially in public. It was so easy for him to manipulate their minds that it was quite shocking to me.
Assassins that are trained under hypnosis have carried out murders in America and elsewhere, usually trained by the Russian or Red Chinese secret police forces. This is just one example of how hypnosis and post-hypnotic suggestions are commonly used for bad purposes.

Ø It is always dangerous to allow yourself to be hypnotized by anyone. It is true that it can be used for healing, but be especially cautious and I do not recommend it. This use of hypnosis is often called hypnotherapy or hypnotic regression, in which a person is taken back to an earlier time in his or her life when a trauma or illness occurred. Then the hypnotherapist replays and perhaps reworks the incident with the person so that it is less traumatic and damaging. Sometimes the entire incident or trauma can be cleared. However, it is always dangerous to allow yourself to be hypnotized.
In contrast, nutritional balancing science can often undo your past traumas, undo post-traumatic stress disorder, and bring about the same results as hypnotherapy in a much safer, though perhaps slower manner by nourishing the brain, balancing the body and through the use of the Roy Masters meditation exercise. For more on this read Trauma Release on this site.

Ø Television, radio and other advertising often use principles of hypnosis to entrain and then sell products and services. To entrain people means to get them to think a certain way. This is standard practice, and, in fact, is taught in schools of advertising and promotion.
The idea is to begin with a mind that is already slightly hypnotized and add a post-hypnotic suggestion to buy a particular product or service. Later on, when the victim is out shopping and encounters the product in a store, the subliminal message from the past will be triggered and the person will pick up the product and try it.
Usually, advertising implants a post-hypnotic suggestion in a completely unconscious manner. The secret of its success is that the person must already by hypnotized to a degree. Some, who are less hypnotized, can see right through phony hype, but most people cannot.
The same techniques are well understood by some corrupt politicians who just seem to be re-elected year after year in spite of being liars or incompetents.
Subliminal post-hypnotic suggestions are different from just announcing to the public that you have a product to sell or that you are running for office. Post-hypnotic suggestions always play upon the emotions and use symbols and metaphors, because this is how the human mind works.

Ø How post-hypnotic suggestion works. To connect with a person’s psyche, the advertisement needs to tap into themes and metaphors that have meaning for the target audience. The most obvious one used in advertising is a sex symbol such as a scantily-dressed lady or man. Another popular one is a smiling family with children. Still another trigger is a display of wealth or opulence, such as a fancy automobile. Advertisers spend a fortune figuring out which ads will be successful because the metaphors and symbols people respond to change somewhat over time. This they call market research.
However, lest you think that corporations are the culprits, governments are often far worse. They intentionally upset, deceive, lie and in many nations oppress the people to wear them down and secretly control them.

Ø Children are particularly vulnerable to post-hypnotic suggestions. The reason is that children have not developed their intellect to a high degree. They are often more controlled by their emotions, which is a target of hypnotists and con artists.
Advertisers know this and, for this reason, often target young children because if they can condition the children’s minds at a young age, they will often be in control of them for life. Political leaders such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao Tze Tung always targeted the young for their propaganda campaigns because they also understood hypnosis well. The entire German population of World War II was quite mesmerized or hypnotized by the Nazi propaganda machine to such an extent that they looked the other way when thousands of their neighbors and countrymen were carted off to death camps right before their eyes.
This is an example of mass hypnosis, a type of hypnotic trance that is probably the most dangerous for humanity. It is the type that is used by many politicians. It can be used for good, such as rallying the people to fight an enemy or to take heart when a disaster occurs. It can also be used to completely dominate a nation and destroy it for selfish or other purposes.

Ø Cults often make use of hypnotic states to help control their members. This is important to know. The cult leader is often a charismatic fellow who can impress people with his supposed kindness, brilliance, charm or good looks, perhaps. Cults also hypnotize people with slogans, phrases, words, political ideas like “equality for all” or “let’s save the earth”.

Ø Physicality itself is a type of hypnotic state. This is a more complex idea. It really means that physicality is a limited state of mind. Some magicians, for example, do amazing feats of escape, in part, because they are able to train their minds to transcend a type of trance state in which people believe they are limited. Brilliant scientists and inventors are able, to a limited degree, to overcome this trance state and thereby tune in to new information to make their discoveries.
Even some professional athletes are able to transcend this to a degree and can seem to fly through the air, for example. They are not flying, but by transcending a limited mentality that most people have, they can perform better than the others.

Ø Christianity helps break a trance state. This may seem off the subject. However, a reason why Christianity spread so fast is that the teaching that Jesus overcame death actually woke up a number of people from the trance that death is the end of one’s life. This intrigued the Roman emperors, for example, and caused them to embrace and spread the new religion in the first few centuries AD.
I mention this because anyone or anything that breaks a hypnotic trance has great power, just as those who can hypnotize people have a certain power which might be called Satanic by some.

Ø Organized religions often have the power to hypnotize people. This helps keep the devotees in line. The worst effects of this are when the people then go to war in the name of God or religion, even though they are not fighting for any worthwhile cause. The best effect of this occurs when people do the right thing in a difficult situation, even though they are tired, weak, ill or would otherwise be unable to do so. Thus religion is always a double-edged sword, in part because of the power of post-hypnotic suggestion.

Ø A good hypnotist can implant ‘triggers’ or ‘cues’ in a person. For example, the hypnotist can implant the suggestion that when the phone rings twice, or when the doorbell rings, a post-hypnotic suggestion such as to kill whomever is in the room, even if it is your wife, will go into effect. This is used by some foreign police agencies to train hypnotized assassins. It is also used by lawyers who hypnotize juries, and in schools to condition students, among other places.

MANKIND’S UNIQUE METAPHYSICAL HYPNOTIC TRANCES OR BELIEFS

Beliefs of all sorts are, in a general way, a type of hypnosis. Often, in order to progress, a person must leave behind his or her beliefs. This is because beliefs powerfully limit the mind. In this sense only, they resemble light hypnotic trance states. All of us have dealt with individuals who are almost totally caught up with their own beliefs, so much that one cannot reason with the person at all. This is what I am referring to when I say that beliefs can be a type of conditioning that goes deep, almost like a hypnotic trance.

The difference, however, is that most beliefs are easy to change, such as by presenting facts to the contrary for the person. True hypnosis, however, is very difficult to overcome because it first occurred very early in life and, like the operating system of the computer, it is almost “built in” to the person’s psyche. However, plenty of people wake up from their trance states, which is usually followed by some years of confusion and upset until a new “operating system” can be brought on line in the brain.

For example, I recall when I first awakened to the reality that doctors did not have the answers to many diseases. The awakening was a shock that took me 10 years to move through. During that time I often wandered about quite confused about how to think about health and disease.

In a similar way, almost all of mankind has been hypnotized early in life or perhaps even before this lifetime, with certain ideas that run very deep, much like very deep computer languages or programming. Most are totally unaware of this. One purpose of this article is to awaken you from this trance type of state of living. Common beliefs of this nature are:

Ø Only physical life is real. This means that if I cannot touch, taste, feel, see or smell something, then it is not present or does not exist. It does not matter that many books, such as the bible and many others, discuss other dimensions of reality. Most people, however, just cannot believe it until, perhaps, they have a “spiritual experience”, such as seeing an angel or something of that nature.
This deeply held belief or trance state is slowly changing thanks to electronic devices such as cell phones that clearly show that there are worlds that are invisible, yet very real.

Ø Only earth is inhabited. People are taught and conditioned from birth to think that the earth is the only planet that contains advanced human life. Other planets, one is taught, might have bacteria or other primitive life forms upon it, but that is all. This is patently false, but is promoted and taught because it protects the leaders from competition and it keeps the population from demanding and expecting more from their leaders.
My own research and that of many others suggests that hundreds of planets have more advanced civilizations that could help the earth and her people, if only people were willing to accept the idea of advanced civilizations on other planets and relax with it.

Ø Veils or imbalances due to what is called life planning before birth or at a young age. This is a very complex phenomenon in which the mind is sort-of programmed very early that some people and events are important for oneself, while others are not. This is not strictly a hypnotic situation, although it is totally unconscious, so it has some of the same qualities of hypnosis.

Ø Other. Families, nations, tribes, and even the entire planet have subtle conditioning concerning their identities, abilities, intelligence, their worth, and so forth.
For example, in the Middle East and other areas as well, women are taught they are inferior to men and that they are not smart or strong. This becomes a kind of hypnotic suggestion for these women that is very hard to overcome because it runs so deeply in the family structure in some of these nations.

This will conclude this brief discussion of the nature of hypnosis in the general population. Much more could be said, but I prefer to concentrate on what to do about your hypnotic trance states, which are always hard to overcome.

DE-HYPNOSIS

De-hypnosis means waking up from the hypnotic trances we all live with. I will just touch upon some simple methods that work most of the time, if one is disciplined and willing to endure some confusion and ambiguity as the mind is de-conditioned or awakened from its sleep state.

The topic of de-hypnosis is critical today on personal, national, political and social levels. It is the study of how to make yourself and your nation less subject to tyrants, cults, fake advertising, fake slogans, fake religions and fake everything that operates and controls through hypnosis.

Spiritual development. De-hypnosis is also very important for that which is called on this website mental or spiritual development. Development is much more than this, but teaching the mind to think clearly and not to be influenced unduly by others’ words, actions or threats is a key element in the development and evolution of a human being. Without some awakening, most people cannot proceed far along the long path to develop their minds and bodies to their fullest extent.
We often hear that a wise person is one who can “hold his ground” in an argument or discussion, for example. He or she is also one who is not easily threatened, who has courage, and who can see clearly through false arguments to remain with truth. These are evidences of a non-hypnotized or more alive and more awake human being.

HOW TO DE-HYPNOTIZE

Many methods can be of help. I will just name a few that are simple, and are part of nutritional balancing science.

Seek to know THE TRUTH and to hold fast to it. Always seeking the truth about all things, of itself, has a way of waking a person up. The truth may not be pleasant, but if one can hear it and hold fast to it, it has a protective effect against all post-hypnotic suggestions and against hypnosis, itself.

One of the most wicked tricks of the professional hypnotists, cult leaders and brainwashers is to teach the young people today that there is no such thing as the truth. This is called moral relativism. Instead, they teach that “you have your truth and I have mine”. This is complete nonsense, but is taught on almost every college campus today and in most high schools as well. It is just one reason to teach your children at home, and not send them to public schools, which are horrendous for any bright mind today. You can often tell when you run into such a person because they hate books like the bible that teach specific truths.

Read the bible. Some parts of the Hebrew and Christian bibles are designed to wake people up. It certainly won’t do the whole job, but I have observed that those who are steeped in the bible and understand it are better off than those who have never studied it. Interestingly, the most hypnotized are often those who do not like the bible, or have been taught that it is false or just an old history book.

Learn who and when to trust. This is a tricky area. It is said that no one really knows your needs and wants as well as you do. So if something seems amiss, always pay attention and do not just allow others to talk you out of your own thoughts and impressions.

On the other hand, since most people, including most likely you, are somewhat hypnotized, your impressions and desires can easily be misguided. For this reason, guidance from wise and mature adults can be essential. Wise people trust themselves, but they also “take counsel” with others, because none of us have the whole picture. A serious problem occurs when a person only trusts himself or herself, or only counsels with those who think exactly the same way as you do. So be wise and take counsel with the smartest people you know. If possible, consult different people so you become well-informed.

Picking your advisors. This is not easy. Here are few tips. Pick people who will be honest with you, and not the ones who just will say “fine” to whatever you ask. Also, pick ones that really have your real best interests at heart, meaning they are willing to lose their friendship or relationship with you in order to tell you the truth. Few friends qualify for this. Also, pick advisors who are more mature and perhaps older, though age is no guarantee of wisdom. Finally, try to find advisors who have a happy and fulfilling life themselves, meaning that they have made good decisions in their own lives. They may not understand how they made these decisions, but they have a knack for making wise decisions.

These are often not easy qualities to identify, but some reflection will help you to determine them. Know that those who are honest and truly care about us are not often the most pleasant ones to listen to. They are not “the glee club”, there to share your enthusiasm. They should be more sober, and may seem depressing or even harsh, or perhaps just no fun.

Be careful about listening to family members or friends who have hidden agendas, usually conditioned by their own hypnotic trances. For example, a friend or family member might want you to take a certain job because you will have the weekends free to go out together. This consideration is okay, but not totally honest because the friend is looking out for themselves, at some level, rather than what is completely right for you. This is another large subject that has to do with guidance, the subject of other articles on this website.

As you become healthier with nutritional balancing science, your inner guidance will improve. Until that time, however, be careful about just listening to your “inner guidance”. Also, be very careful about listening to psychics, counselors, psychologists, “friends”. Also, watch out for New Age methods like using Ouija Boards, pendulums, The I Ching, Tarot or other cards, Runes, numerology, astrology and such methods. Too often, these sources are not clear, and can be influenced in deep and harmful ways that you are not aware of at all.

De-hypnotize by learning specific facts or knowledge. For example, knowledge of a situation such as buying a house or a car, will protect the buyer from a lot of slick sales talk.

Many articles on this website that may seem unusual are there to teach knowledge that can help protect one from subliminal and/or post-hypnotic suggestions.

For example, women need to understand men’s hormones and how they affect behavior and thinking. This can help protect women from some slick sexual salesmen. Likewise, men need to understand how angry many women are, and how to protect themselves from this sad problem of some women.

This article will help protect some readers just because it contains knowledge about hypnosis and brainwashing, and how it is done secretly. Recalling what is written here might thus be lifesaving in certain situations if, for instance, you suddenly realize that someone is using the techniques described above on you. By suddenly realizing what is going on, you do not need to listen further or go along.

De-hypnosis requires an open mind and critical, logical thinking. Having an open and receptive consciousness is needed to really check out situations and people from many points of view. Otherwise one can be trapped by appealing phrases or hearing ideas that one likes.

Critical and purely logical or deductive thinking help one to question and look for “red flags” and other details that one must notice when dealing with many situations. This is another way to stop the liars and manipulators in our midst.

Inquisitiveness, patience, peace and a healthy skepticism. These are other qualities of mind that help one to sort through a situation to discern the truth. Ask a lot of questions.

Dating. If someone wants to go on a date with you, don’t hesitate to ask a load of questions first. And never, ever go somewhere alone with a person you do not know. Meet for tea or coffee in a public place the first few dates and that is all. I know this sounds very paranoid, one might say. However, it might save your life if you are a woman. If you are a man, realize that many lovely women are scared of date rape because it may have happened to them, or they know someone to whom it happened. So go along and do not be in a hurry to get to know someone.

Self-knowledge of your personal areas of strengths and weaknesses. This is extremely helpful, especially one’s weak spots. For instance, if a woman knows that she just melts when someone praises her beautiful hair, she needs to exercise extra caution whenever someone wants something of her and starts praising her hair. While a trite example, this is a common type of weakness for some women that is often exploited by manipulators.

For another person, a weak area might be calculating numbers, for example. This can cause a persoon to buy too much that they cannot really afford.

Any area in which you are weak can be exploited more easily by those who seek to implant post-hypnotic suggestions. Whatever the weak area is, be extra careful in these areas, move slower, consult others who do not have that weak area, and back away if you feel you are becoming confused.

Of course, another solution when you identify weak areas is to fix the problem. Take a math course if you do not like numbers. Or just play with numbers with a friend who is good at it until you are not afraid of them anymore. In other words, take other action so that the weak area will not hamper your life. Self-knowledge is always helpful to deal with manipulators, seducers, advertisers, salesmen and post-hypnotic suggestions.

This leads us to a method to greatly enhance self-awareness and self-knowledge.

THE ROY MASTERS MEDITATION EXERCISE

Mr. Roy Masters claims that his meditation is the “anti-hypnosis”. I agree, in part. However, I believe you also need to combine it with a nutritional balancing program to strengthen the mind and the body, and maybe other techniques to completely de-hypnotize yourself. Otherwise your brain may remain too foggy because it is filled with toxic metals and chemicals, for example. The mental qualities and good habits discussed in the paragraphs above are also needed or at least helpful, for instance.

To really wake up from our light hypnotic trance states, I believe people need to know the truth, and to be able to reason through every argument against it and still be able to hold on to it. This takes more than a simple meditation exercise.

However, I agree fully with Mr. Masters that his particular exercise, and not many others, is very helpful for the following reasons:

Ø Calming and slowing the thoughts. Most people’s minds are racing from one thought to another without stopping. The meditation practice he teaches is fabulous to gently and firmly slow the mind so that thoughts can be traced and moved about with ease to clearly reveal their source and their conclusions.

Ø Relaxing. The exercise relaxes the body and mind, and this also assists one to think and discern better.

Ø Grounding and centering. This is another advantage of this particular exercise. Grounding means moving energy in a downward direction. This slowly and subtly balances the body, opens the energy centers, and can help connect a person with inner guidance. This is a major reasons this exercise is recommended instead of other meditation practices.
Centering means that the movement of the consciousness tends to occur within the confines of the physical body. Most people’s attention is often outside of their physical body, particularly in children and women. It is one reason that women, in general, are less selfish and care more than some men about relationships, an area that is outside of the physical body and in between people. However, having one’s attention outside the bounds of the physical body can put one less in touch with some feelings from the body and also colors one’s thinking.
Psychologists often speak of this as having weak or confused boundaries of the self or ego. Alcoholic families, for example, are known for this problem, which is also called enmeshment and the tendency for enabling rather than relating to others from a centered and grounded place. The Roy Masters exercise helps one center and ground, and this clarifies the boundaries like nothing else we have seen.

To dehypnotize, heal the physical body. Nutritional balancing science has opened many people’s eyes to the realities of the world. This is the result of enhancing one’s adaptive energy or vitality, and renourishing and removing toxins from the brain to enhance the brain’s processing speed and ability, memory, mental clarity, focus, concentration ability, and more. We often hear comments such as “this program opened my eyes” about some area of the person’s life that was unclear.

Nutritional balancing, by enhancing vitality and mental faculties, can even undo traumas of all types that are closely tied to the original hypnotic trance state.

Other subtle benefits include better self-esteem that comes with better health, more hopefulness, which we hear often from clients, and a sense of one’s ability to survive and thrive in the world. Clients who stay on a nutritional balancing program for at least a few months to a year commonly report these kinds of mental improvements, many of which go far beyond simple nutritional correction of body chemistry.

Other methods. Many other methods can help one to de-hypnotize. In fact, any method of healing that strengthens and balances the body and mind can help. In addition, a healthful and peaceful environment is always helpful, as are healthful relationships and work that satisfies a person.

BRAINWASHING, AND ITS RELATION TO HYPNOSIS

A practical definition. Brainwashing is the systematic, and usually violent, but not always conscious, distortion or conditioning of the mind of another person for selfish or other harmful purposes using operant conditioning. I will just introduce this large topic. It is not the same as hypnosis, as explained later in this article.

PRINCIPLES OF BRAINWASHING

1. Brainwashing requires an operator and a victim. The operator is an authority figure or the person in charge of the situation. The operator must act in certain ways upon the victim, who by definition is not in control and not in authority.

In other words, brainwashing cannot occur between two equal in power. If they are equal, then brainwashing will only occur if one of the people convinces the other that he or she is a victim and must do as the first person directs.

This means if you can stop being a victim, brainwashing often stops working. It is a key to avoiding brainwashing, though it is often done so subtly that one hardly realized it.

2. It is helpful, though perhaps not always necessary, that the victim be unaware of the process of brainwashing. In other words, it is harder, but certainly not impossible, to brainwash someone who knows what you are trying to do. This is why soldiers are often trained in brainwashing tactics, so at least when they are captured and forced to do odd things they will know why it is so and it may help them resist, though certainly not always.

I have read, for example, that all American soldiers are forced to undergo torture to train them what it is like to be brainwashed. The hope is that it will help them learn to handle it better and avoid their giving in too easily.

3. The first step in brainwashing is the operator applies pain or stress against the victim. This may go on for a few minutes or up to a few years. The word pain or stress can be of many types, such as:

Ø Actual physical violence or pain. This is used in cults, prisons, rapes, and other common situations. Torture is “standard practice” in some nations if a person is arrested, for example, and the captors need a confession or are just in the mood for some fun with the victim. Methods include to starve a person, freeze a person, deprive a person of sleep or water, force a person to eat feces or dirt or pieces of glass, remove their clothing and beat the person, defecate or urinate on a person, let rats or mosquitos bite the person, apply electrical shocks to the body, pull the limbs or other parts of the body off, burn the person with matches or a soldering iron, especially in the private parts, hang a person upside down naked, shoot off guns right near a person, inflict wounds, shine lights in the eyes, or other tortures.

Ø Emotional violence or pain. This includes just stripping a person’s clothing off and staring or photographing the person, yelling at a person who is held captive, spitting, insulting, humiliating or just confusing another person. These methods are also used commonly in some cults.

Ø Mental torture, which involves threats, intimidation, confusion, embarrassment, deception and/or lying. This may not seem as violent as beating or raping a person, but it can be every bit as bad in some ways. For example, parents often lie to their children and their spouses, teachers lie, confuse and embarrass students with odd requests and punishments, corrupt politicians routinely lie with a smile while secretly oppressing the people, and salesmen and advertisers often lie or tell half truths to their customers. It can be done with words, body language, body size, and other subtle means.

4. Applying the stress of torture reduces the victim’s adaptive energy or vitality level. This is a key to all successful brainwashing. In other words, for the torture to be effective, it must upset a person’s life at deeper levels, not just a superficial level. To resist brain washing, by the way, is to keep the torture at a superficial level so the mind stays focused and functioning well.

5. At the same time, it is important that the operator reassures the victim that all is well, the person is acting normally, don’t worry about anything, and similar ideas. This is all a lie, of course, and it further confuses the victim. But it is helpful so the person will not suspect what is really going on – namely, the slow destruction of the mind and perhaps the body.

6. At some point, a reversal takes place in the mind of the victim. This is the real key to brainwashing. In order to better endure or relieve the pain or stress, the victim decides it is not worth fighting the operator. This is a crucial step in all brainwashing. This point is usually reached early in the process, but it could take a few years to occur depending on the person involved and the type of torture.

For example, in school situations, it usually takes the public school system about five years (about fifth grade) before a bright, loving child is turned into a little parrot who does only what the teacher wants, does not think creatively, and becomes scared or ashamed of thinking differently than the operators, teachers and administrators want them to.

The Stockholm Syndrome. This reversal is sometimes called the Stockholm Syndrome. It is named after a kidnapping occurred in Stockholm, Sweden. A young woman who was taken captive, and beaten and starved, to everyone’s surprise suddenly began to side with her captors against the police.

What happens is that to relieve the stress, the victim starts to believe that the operator is his or her friend, instead of an enemy. This, of course, is not true. But it is a way of coping with the stress and pain that the operator inflicts on the victim.

In most cases, this step or alteration of consciousness is totally unconscious, meaning the victim does not realize that the switch or change has taken place. In fact, if he or she does realize it, brainwashing will often be less successful.

7. Once the alteration known as the Stockholm Syndrome has taken place, the operator moves on to imprint new ideas in the head of the victim, who is now more “cooperative”.

8. The operator then uses operant conditioning methods to implant new ideas or new behaviors in the victim. Operant conditioning is a blend of fear, shock, punishments and rewards that are timed and intertwined in certain ways to upset, further unground, and alter the mind of the victim, and at the same time to hide the real process so the victims remains unaware.

Basically, the operator inflicts pain or suffering when the victim opposes or rejects the new ideas, while rewarding the victim when new behavior or ideas are accepted. In other words, a series of rewards and punishments are timed properly to reward some behavior and discourage other behaviors.

There is much more to operant conditioning, in which the operator can associate or pair certain rewards and punishment with certain behaviors in more complex ways, but this is the general strategy.

9. Effective, brainwashing always involves lots of testing and often ways to reinforce the brainwashing or hypnosis. The operator must continually check to see if the new ideas are taking hold. Testing in school, for example, may achieve this goal. It is not just the facts that need to be tested, but also the willingness of the victim to participate and accept the testing process. Obviously, if the victim is not learning well, or not accepting the process of brain washing too well, then the tactics must be altered to correct the problem.

Deepening the brainwashing is done by repeating the punishment and reward sequences whenever the operator thinks it is helpful.

10. Part of brainwashing is to associate pain and torture with questioning the “new ideas” that the operator has implanted. This way, the brainwashing tends to carry through for the rest of the victim’s life. This means that at any time later in life, if the victim opposes or even just questions his or her brainwashing, intense pain or anxiety suddenly arise from out of nowhere. Since most people do not understand brainwashing, at this point most people will stop their opposition and fall back into their conditioned behavior. This, of course, is the objective of the brainwashing process. It means the operator has achieved control over the mind of the victim not just temporarily, but for life.

These are some essential principles and basic steps for simple brainwashing. Those who are trained in it can do it quickly in many cases, especially if a person is weak-willed, confused, or younger in most cases. However, most people are easy to manipulate if one knows how to do it.

COMMON EXAMPLES OF BRAINWASHING

Prisoners. In a prison setting, one person has all the power and often a lethal weapon, while the other person is locked up and perhaps starving. Brainwashing is very easy under these conditions.

Juries. Some attorneys and even judges are quite adept at manipulating the minds of the jurors. The way this is done is:

1) The attorney disqualifies and gets rid of all prospective jurors who seem to have a mind of their own and would be uncooperative

2) Specific words, phrases and actions are used during the trial to condition the jurors

3) During the closing arguments, just before the jury goes in to deliberate the case, the attorney will return to his cue words or themes to reinforce the brainwashing he has hopefully done on the jury.

4) Later, when the jury is deliberating behind closed doors, some jurors may find, for instance, that they just cannot return a guilty verdict because it makes them strangely uncomfortable, even if the facts are clear. They do not realize they have been conditioned or brainwashed during the trial by a skillful defense lawyer who has, with his voice, or his look, or something else, associated stress or pain with a verdict of guilty.

5) Skillful attorneys and even judges can even sometimes hypnotize and brainwash witnesses, policemen, and others involved in the case by planting false evidence and hundreds of other tactics.

This fine art is practiced all of the time by slick attorneys and even some judges. To prevent it, the practice of allowing attorneys to throw out jurors they don’t like must be stopped immediately. It is often the only safeguard. Televising the trial is helpful, too, as the attorneys may be caught in the act so they may tone down their rhetoric.

Bureaucrats and bosses. These people can often condition employees or those under them using standard brainwashing methods. Here no one is locked up or facing starvation. However, the victim is the one who wants to keep his or her job, so the bureaucrat can often easily employ a reward and punishment system to control the lower level person’s behavior. It can be as simple as giving promotions to those who “cooperate”, or it can involve subtle intimidation, threats of censure, giving the best assignments to those who cooperate, and so on.

Companies and especially bureaucrats also often do this to their clients or customers. An important advantage of a capitalist economy over a socialist, bureaucratic economy is that the customer has more choices. This way, if a customer feels he has been treated badly, he simply patronizes someone else. This tends to greatly reduce the power of the bosses and companies to mistreat clients. In socialist nations, the people have no other choice than the government health care, welfare, food stamp program and so on, so abuse is rampant.

Revesral. Now and then, the underlings, employees, or customers learn how to brainwash the boss or the leader, with skillful use of the same techniques. This is much less common. An entertaining movie about this situation was Nine To Five that starred Dolly Parten.

Parents and Children. Children are very dependent upon their parents, so they make easy targets of brainwashing. In fact, some of the worst hypnosis and brainwashing occurs in families. It varies in severity and might just be simple conditioning of the child to act or speak in certain ways. Too often, it is far worse and involves beating, humiliating, embarrassing, and raping children at a young age. This is especially the case in Russia and the Middle Eastern nations.

At times, clever children turn the tables and effectively train their parents to do exactly as they child wishes by throwing temper tantrums and other tactics. Such children often have a hard time as adults because adults are harder to manipulate using temper tantrums.

Students. Grading, special favors, put-downs and other methods are used in most schools to punish and reward certain behaviors and ideas. The horrendous effects often last a lifetime.

Millions learn in school, for example, that they are inferior, stupid, incompetent, untalented, uncoordinated, ugly and failures thanks to careless or intentional brainwashing by teachers who are usually themselves brainwashed.

Students also learn not to be creative, not to question authority, not to do things differently from the accepted way, and so on in most schools today. Secretly, they fear punishment and humiliation that occurred when they were in school years before. That is how effective the “training” is in most schools.

This is why some people never learn much as adults. Schooling has been associated with pain and suffering. This syndrome affects millions around the world and stunts their intellectual growth. It is why home schooling and learning from computers, while perhaps unorthodox, is often much better.

At the professional level, this problem commonly causes doctors, attorneys, counselors and others to develop a narrow-minded, and often cynical outlook and a stern resistance to learning new ideas and new techniques such as nutritional balancing science.

Doctors. Doctors often brainwash their patients. The patient (note the word patient) is at a great disadvantage because he or she is often in pain, frightened, does not understand illness, and does not understand medical lingo that is designed to sound mystical and complex. Why else call joint pain “arthritis”, or call heartburn “GERD” (gastric esophageal reflux disease)?

Many doctors take advantage of this to reward patients who “comply” and punish those who ask too many questions or who do not follow orders.

A few patients know how to manipulate their doctor to get more drugs or more operations. So it can work both ways, but usually the patients lose.

Politicians. Politicians routinely brainwash their constituents. They do this by acting in confusing and conflicting ways to create stress. Then they reward those who vote for them with money or other perks such as construction contracts. Politicians such as Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Tze Tung were masters at using violence, threats of violence, well-chosen words, and rewards for the loyal ones to control huge numbers of people in really quite amazing ways.

Men and women. Brainwashing occurs all the time in the sexual and relationship areas. A separate section below discusses sexual aspects of brainwashing.

Even pets can brainwash their masters. While primitive, the animals devise crude means of rewarding or punishing the owner of the animal so the animal can get what it wants when it wants it.

Pet owners often think it is “cute” and go along, just as many people think that a child’s temper tantrums are sort of cute. Sadly, some women think that a man who begs, pleads, threatens and even perhaps rapes her is somehow “cute” and endearing because he “really loves her”. This is rather depraved, but one hears it from time to time.

REGULAR LEARNING AND TRAINING VERSUS BRAINWASHING

Sometimes these become confused. Here are a few of the main differences:

Ø Learning and training are done with the full consent of the person. Brainwashing always has either an obvious violent component or a hidden agenda component to it.

Ø Learning and training are often done by equals. This means there is no operator and there is no victim. Instead, two people come together to simply exchange information and experiences in a way that one instructs the other. Brainwashing is always at least an attempt to control and manipulate another who one believes is inferior or less powerful.

Ø Brainwashing always involves a negative, nefarious or evil process.

Ø Training and teaching another person can involve controlling the student, such as teaching a person how to fly an airplane with the teacher at the backup controls. However, with training the control over another is for good purposes, whereas brainwashing always involves degrading another.
For example, soldiers are trained to take orders. However, this is presumably to help save their lives, not to degrade them and hurt them.

Ø Brainwashing always involves inflicting pain and damaging another. This is, of course, not the case with learning.

Ø Brainwashing always involves operant conditioning to instill ideas in another person so they will be recalled at a later time. Learning and training may or may not use operant conditioning.

Ø Learning and training are usually designed to open, expand and strengthen the mind. Brainwashing is always a process and an attempt that seeks to close, diminish and ruin a person’s mind.

Ø Learning often results in improved self-confidence and a higher vitality level. Brainwashing can seem to improve self-confidence, but in fact always results in damaged self-confidence and a lower vitality level. Indeed, raising the vitality through nutritional balancing science is often a necessary key to breaking free of brainwashing.

WELFARE STATES AND BRAINWASHING

Roy Masters rightly points out that the same brainwashing methods used in prison camps are used by authority figures throughout modern society. For example, one may rightly say that the hidden goal of all welfare states is to make the people dependent upon government handouts so that the political class can control them and therefore brainwash them much easier and more thoroughly. In contrast, brainwashing citizens who have money, Constitutional rights, guns, and political power is far more difficult.

For this reason, when the state-run Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, the people had a terrible time thinking for themselves, and they still are having a problem some 20 years later. They were used to lies and deception from the government, and had grown hardened to the brainwashing tactics that are commonly used in all closed or tightly controlled society. This is a great hidden benefit of a capitalist, free market, laissez faire type of society that offsets some of its problems.

It people are generally far more healthy, vital and happy. Brainwashing still occurs in the more capitalist societies, but the political class has a much harder time doing it so it happens much less. This is also one reason why a free and competitive press, freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of religion, freedom to travel and free access to the internet are critical in society today.

THE EFFECTS OF BRAINWASHING AND HYPNOSIS UPON THE POPULATION

Brainwashing always:

1. Lowers people’s vitality level.

2. Stunts mental development, learning ability and creativity.

3. Reduces self esteem and self-confidence.

4. Causes incompetence, nervousness, irritability and fearfulness.

5. Ruins families and relationships.

6. Depletes a person nutritionally in almost all cases.

7. Seriously damages a person’s ability to cope with stress for all the reasons above and others.

8. Leads to chronic anger, depression, cancer, diabetes and hundreds of other diseases and disasters for people and society.

9. Many attempt suicide, and some attempt to kill or harm others whom they blame for the problem.

ADD, ADHD and Autism. One sad group in whom this is happening today are bright children. Many become labeled ADD and ADHD, and even autistic. Some turn into rebels and delinquents, and many are depressed. Rarely, one picks up a gun and often targets the school where the brain washing took place. The child only understands that something went wrong in that school. Preventing such events, and helping children to retain their natural curiosity, intelligence and initiative is one of the main purposes of talking about this difficult subject of brainwashing and hypnosis.

Attractive young women. This group is also disproportionately affected by sexual brainwashing, rape, intimidation, threats, seduction, hypnosis and other horrors. It is as if society has a prejudice against these often lovely women because they are attractive. It often begins in the family with emotional abuse, inappropriate touching or even rape or incest. The women are made to feel ugly, dirty, stupid and worthless. This affects all of society indirectly.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HYPNOSIS AND BRAINWASHING

These include:

1. Brainwashing always involves operant conditioning methods, while hypnosis may not. Hypnosis involves relaxation first, which is the opposite of the stress of brainwashing. Then it involves altering the deeper mind or “operating system” of a person in some way.

2. Brainwashing is more superficial than hypnosis. The latter usually depends upon very early childhood experiences, including even experiences in the womb. Brainwashing may use early childhood experiences to inflict pain, but the method is not dependent upon early childhood experiences.

3. Hypnosis does not need to be coupled with punishments or rewards to be effective or remain viable. Brainwashing is always associated with stress and pain.

4. Hypnosis and brainwashing often work better on different kinds of people. For example, a person who has been abused as a child is a better subject for brainwashing, but not necessarily hypnosis. This is because the person has experienced pain and is usually running from it. The threat or infliction of more pain is a more powerful motivator for such a person. This is why cults, at times, attract people who have been abused more as children.

Immature and unthinking people make better hypnotic subjects because they are just not thinking about things very much, so it is easier to relax them and get inside their heads, so to speak.

5. Hypnosis is often a much faster process. A post-hypnotic suggestion can be implanted in a 30-second TV commercial, for instance. Brainwashing, in contrast, usually takes more time than this, and sometimes takes months or even a few years.

6. Post-hypnotic suggestions often affect the emotional level of the brain, while brainwashing is more about the intellectual level. This is not wholly the case, but is generally so.

PHOBIAS AND FEARS VERSUS BRAINWASHING

Fears and phobias are simply conditioned or reflexive responses to various stimuli. They may be a result of brainwashing, but may be due to many causes. Phobias often occur accidentally, for example. If a child, for example, is bitten by a dog at a young age, the child might grow up terrified of dogs. This is a type of conditioning, but it is not due to classical operant conditioning methods, as described above. The child may, indeed, be “brainwashed” to be terrified of dogs, but it was accidental.

Brainwashing, as usually understood, is a very deliberate and precise process of altering or conditioning another person’s mind, in most cases, even if it is done unconsciously by a parent or teacher, for example.

UNCONSCIOUS BRAINWASHING

Parents, in particular, but also teachers, doctors, politicians and anyone in authority will often unconsciously use operant conditioning upon their “victims” or charges.

I found in medical school, for example, that insane teaching methods are still used, although they make little sense. For example, students and interns were made to work 24-hour shifts or even 36-hour shifts. This makes little sense as a way to provide excellent patient care, but the practice goes on anyway. When I would ask why, often the answer was that the senior staff member had to do it, so I must do it, too. However, I later figured out that working a very long shift or doing menial tasks in school are ways that stress is applied to students for brainwashing purposes, even if it is done unconsciously or somewhat so.

Parents and teachers do this to children on a regular basis as well, though not usually in such an extreme way. The child asks a question and instead of thinking through a logical answer, the parent or even a teacher will respond by saying “because I said so”. Another common answer is “this is how we do things around here”, or “just keep quiet and do as I tell you”.

All of these non-answers inflict pain upon children’s delicate minds. When the child goes along, he is rewarded by the parent or teacher. However, if the child objects, the “punishment” gets worse until the child capitulates. This is how a lot of children lose their center, lose their grounding, and lose their common sense by the age of 10 or even younger in some cases. Then we wonder why people do not question authority and cannot think clearly about issues that concern their lives.

The sad situaion in the schools. Sadly, the unconscious or semi-conscious brainwashing in public schools often gets worse, with silly rules in school that mean little to the child, and a process of forcing certain knowledge upon children in an order or sequence that makes little sense. The child is given no choice in the matter, and pain is coupled with objecting to “the system”. This is why education around the world is not working well. A separate article on this website addresses this topic in more detail called What Is Wrong With The School System?.

COPING WITH WIDESPREAD OPERANT CONDITIONING OF OUR CHILDREN AND OURSELVES

All of those reading this article have been subjected to at least some brainwashing as children. Some of it is quite inevitable, even in the best of homes. It is rare to find a parent who refuses to use punishment and reward to control a child’s behavior. Parents who were treated this way generally just repeat the behavior unconsciously, or semiconsciously.

The only alternative to this is to sit and confront a child with facts, reasons and so on each time something is asked of the child. This is ideal, but is not common. As a result, almost all of us are somewhat conditioned in this way.

The hope for our children and the next generations therefore lies in our ability to undo or reverse our own conditioning so that we do not unconsciously pass it on to the next generations, reducing their vitality and joy, and continuing the vicious cycle of unconscious or conscious brainwashing.

HOW TO BREAK FREE OF BRAINWASHING

Step 1. Awareness of the problem. A first step, and the purpose of this article, is to become aware that operant conditioning has been used upon you. This is often the most painful and important recognition. In other words, your mind, with its emotions and thoughts, is not exactly your own, though it appears that way. Rather it has been conditioned or used by others.

Allowing yourself to understand that you have been conditioned, however, can be a great relief. It can help you understand why you are not happy, at times, why you may feel lonely, depressed, alienated and unsure of yourself. It can help you to understand why some activities, people or situations cause unusual stress or pain for you. This can be anything, such as money, schooling, a job, or interacting with the opposite sex.

You must allow yourself to realize that your mind is not your own and that it has indeed been damaged, somewhat like a computer that is not working quite right. You may have thought the computer was okay, but that was just because the authority figures who brainwashed you told you so. In fact, this is a key ingredient in brain washing procedures. Part of the conditioning process can be to convince the victim that he or she is, in fact, normal or sane, when this is not the truth.

Step 2. Begin to challenge the brainwashing by reading new ideas. Once the awareness is clear that you are conditioned, begin to focus on restoring your mind by ridding it of its false ideas and conditioning. It is not that important, usually, that you know just how you were conditioned. It is much more important to expose the lies you were taught and release them.

The essential procedure at this stage is to entertain new thoughts and attitudes that will necessarily conflict with the conditioned ideas. You do this by reading this article, for instance, and perhaps others on this website. By learning new things, it will help bring perspective and this, in turn, makes it easier to challenge long-held beliefs that may be false, and to move forward with your healing.

Step 3. Know that anxiety, shame, and other unpleasant feelings or thoughts will arise when you challenge you programming or conditioning. The trick is not to be swayed and to keep moving through the anxiety or pain that arises. This is the most difficult and most important key to success in de-brainwashing yourself.

Reading new ideas that challenge your programming will cause intense anxiety or pain that is designed to stop you from continuing the de-programming process. The anxiety is designed to hold you in your brainwashed state. Therefore, it is essential to put up with the fear or anxiety, which is temporary, in order to break free.

Always use your tools, gimmicks and other methods to keep you going forward with deprogramming. Any therapies or procedures that might help you do this are good. Specific therapies that may help include:

Ø Nutritional balancing science. Balancing, nourishing, resting and rebuilding the body using this science, and not other nutritional methods, is extremely powerful to de-program you.
Besides increasing the adaptive energy or vitality level, can will help strengthen your will, improve your memory, speed up your brain’s ability to think and process, calm the nervous system and much more.

Ø The procedures – near infrared light sauna therapy, daily coffee enemas and the Roy Masters meditation with my modification. These are part of all nutritional balancing programs. However, I mention them separately as they can be so very helpful. Do not hesitate to do more of them if you are feeling anxious, irritable, or otherwise out of sorts. The sauna, in particular, is extremely calming.

Ø Foot and hand reflexology. This is also recommended as part of all nutritional balancing programs, along with simple yoga twists to adjust the spine and relax the body. More yoga than this is not recommended, however. Read the article entitled Yoga to learn why not. Foot reflexology, especially, can help greatly by smoothing and balancing the channel system of the body. I suggest using it daily or even twice daily, especially if you are feeling very anxious or upset.

Ø Strengthening the will. To de-program and re-program yourself may require strengthening the will. You will need the will to keep on moving through the anxiety and perhaps even some physical or emotional pain that is bound to occur during the de-conditioning process. Following a nutritional balancing program will help, as will other daily routines such as meditating, taking a short walk and other routines.

Ø Applying a counter-stress. A technique that is somewhat dangerous, but is used by some therapists, is to apply a counter-stress or counter-trauma to a person. This might take a verbal form, or even a physical action that forces the client to face his conditioning or brainwashing. One such method is called psychodrama, in which the person is encouraged to act out a painful scene from the past. By moving the body in certain ways and pronouncing the words just as they were said years before when a trauma or brainwashing occurred, the person may be helped to get in touch with the deeper aspects of the trauma in a non-threatening way. Then one can “redo the scene”, “reframe” and replay the situation with a more favorable outcome.
Such methods, however, are somewhat dangerous as they can also reprogram and strengthen the conditioning if they are not handled properly. It takes a skilled therapist to apply the proper counter-stress, so exercise care if you use this method.

Ø Religious conversion as a counter-stress. Milder forms of counter-stress therapy include religious conversion such as giving your life to God or Jesus. This, one can say, is a type of surrender or giving in, just as was the original trauma or shock. However, one gives one’s life over to a benign master instead of to the evil operator of a brainwashing scheme.
The benign master, usually Jesus, then “takes your sins” and guides you to a safer, saner life. This is one way to understand the sometimes amazing healings that occur in churches and at revival meetings.
Is religious conversion just another form of brainwashing? Some people accuse the Christian church or others of brainwashing its members with these techniques. This is an interesting critique. It might have some merit in some cases. However, the concept of undoing brainwashing and trauma by applying the counter-stress of turning one’s life over to Jesus is usually a positive way of dealing with often deep and entrenched conditioning.
I am not sure it is brainwashing as much as it is a counter-stress that is used to free a person from old conditioning. It is true that after such an experience, one often talks about it in ways that might make someone suspicious that a new brainwashing has occurred. However, instead of closing the mind and heart, it tends to open the mind and the heart, so I would not consider it brainwashing.
Satanic and other cults. However, joining some groups that promise to be a counter-stress to society can cause a deepening of a person’s already hypnotized and conditioned mind. Thus, before joining a religious or other group, or giving over one’s life to any group or process, one should investigate rationally exactly who and what is involved.

Ø Body work. While usually not needed, deep body work such as Rolfing, emotional release work or even deep massage can be helpful to break free of brainwashing because operant conditioning often moves a person out of touch with the body. Also, touching specific places on a person’s body can trigger old memories. Bodywork in some cases also helps one feel loved and attended to, and of itself may bring up traumas to be released.

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Addictions, brainwashing and 12-step programs. Addictions are often a result of brainwashing. Instead of facing the ugly truth about oneself – that one is not in control of one’s mind – many turn to alcohol, drugs, gambling or other distractions to deny the truth.

The basic idea in the 12-step programs is to expose the programming as much as possible, facing it head on with the support of others who are doing the same thing. This is a grerat help for thousands of people to move through the anxiety that always occurs when one challenges one’s operant conditioning from the past. This is probably why the 12-step programs are a a very successful formula for many people.

A strong personality is required to break free of brainwashing. Usually, only the strong in society are willing to put up with the anxiety and other unpleasant feelings that occur when one challenges one’s childhood programming. These individuals are often our heroes who hopefully become wise leaders to help others break free of their early brainwashing.

Those who resist brainwashing. In times past, those who did not succumb easily to programming by their parents, teachers and others were frequently beaten or even murdered as rebels, witches, and religious zealots. Today, such people are still sometimes booted out of schools, fired from jobs, and defamed in many ways, even though they often harm no one. They just express their feelings and don’t follow the crowd. Some would call them “politically incorrect”.

Real freedom of thought and initiative, while given lip service, is still not well accepted in modern human societies. Traditional societies are usually the worst offenders in this regard, but the principle applies everywhere.

INVOKING THE FATHER ENERGY AS A METHOD OF DE-HYPNOSIS AND DE-BRAINWASHING

This may seem like a strange topic, but the Christian concept of the trinity, particularly the father energy, is helpful to remove some brainwashing. One of the roles of a strong father is to protect the children from evils of all kinds. The father energy on planet earth is real. This energy is a more yang type of love, of the type Jesus displayed, as well as figures like Moses and Abraham in the Old Testament of the bible. One can invoke and pray to this energy and one may well receive help in perhaps unexpected ways.

HUMANS ARE NOT SOLELY IN CHARGE OF THEIR BRAINS AND DESTINIES

Roy Masters says that human beings are like newer drone aircraft, or an empty freight car. One must be pulled and controlled by some force. In other words, no one, he says, is really in control of himself. The only choice is to decide who or what will be your master. The bible states this idea as “no man can serve two masters”. The father energy is a master that is benign and that tends to undo many of the eddy currents that are set up by hypnotic suggestions and brainwashing. It is therefore very helpful for many people.

SEXUAL ASPECTS OF BRAINWASHING IN GENERAL SOCIETY

This discussion may seem far-fetched, but men and women routinely use classical brainwashing on each other. The process is given all sorts of fancy names such as courting, flirting, hooking up, or finding a mate. However, much of what goes on is very similar to, if not identical to the steps described above regarding brainwashing and even implanting post-hypnotic suggestions. This is an important cause for divorce and other marital problems.

Men brainwashing women. For example, men interested in sex or a relationship often apply stress to women by repeatedly calling them on the phone, visiting them, sending text messages or emails, giving them gifts and so forth. Some men can confuse the woman by mixing rewards with punishments or odd behaviors. For example, a man might invite the woman out but then embarrass her, hurt her feelings intentionally, or be rough in a sexual way. Rarely, the man will even try using physical force or violence. Women often do not realize that these behaviors are often calculated to upset, confuse and irritate the woman until she gives in.

At first, most women resist the advances of such men. But after a time – perhaps weeks, months or even a year - a funny thing happens. The woman may surprisingly “change her mind” and decide that the man is not so bad after all. She usually has no idea why this happens, so she goes with it and begins to “love” the man more.

What has occurred is the Stockholm Syndrome. The lady has experienced a particular type of stress response in which she reduces her stress by ‘going along ‘with the brainwashing operator, or the man, in this case.

In this way, many men get the sex or marriage they want from women who don’t realize until years later, or may never understand, why or how it happened. The woman often ends up extremely unhappy and depressed without a clue as to why she suddenly “fell in love” with this particular man.

Women brainwashing men. Men are not the only ones to use brainwashing on the opposite sex. Aggressive or just clever women often figure out how to use a combination of rewards and punishments to intimidate, upset and therefore alter the behavior of a man with whom they want marriage or perhaps just a sexual relationship. Methods used by women usually include flirting with the body, teasing the man sexually in ways that frustrate him, disrespecting his intellect or doing other little tricks to upset his delicate ego, and then rewarding him with sex, sweet gifts or making his favorite dinner.

Once again, a system or rewards and punishments is set up that the other person is barely aware of. To relieve the stress, the man slowly or perhaps suddenly finds himself “loving the woman”. He usually does not understand this. One hears men say “I can’t live with her, but I can’t live without her”. He is describing the Stockholm Syndrome again, but does not understand it. Often their dysfunctional relationship is taught to the children, who are brainwashed and hypnotized by the somewhat unconscious parents and the cycle goes on.

DOWNWARD MOTION AND BRAINWASHING

An esoteric understanding of brainwashing and hypnosis is that all brainwashing is upward movement of etheric energy. All healing and de-hypnotizing and de-brainwashing is downward motion of this same energy through the human body. The reasons for this are quite technical. An article on this website, Downward Motion And Healing, explains this interesting subject in more detail.

It is not by accident that a person who is confused is often said to be “mixed up”, “screwed up”, “messed up” or “fu….. up”. A person who is relaxed and confident may be described as “calmed down”.

These somewhat slang terms describe a feeling of motion of energy within the body that many people can feel. The feelings may relate directly to the effects of brainwashing and hypnosis upon a person.

VIRTUAL REALITY AND BRAINWASHING

All brainwashing involves setting up an alternative reality that stresses the victim. This can be called a virtual reality because they share some qualities. Both are contrived, and often both are set up with ulterior motives that are made as invisible or hidden as possible. Also, because both are contrived, both are easily manipulated by the operator or designer of the reality.

For example, a simple type of virtual reality occurs whenever one person lies to another person. This is all that is meant by a virtual reality.

A more subtle type of virtual reality occurs in schools. The classroom, as most people know, often has little to do with the real world. Schools also set up artificial ways to evaluate people such as odd tests that also have little to do with real world success.
It is no accident that many brilliant people such as Bill Gates of Microsoft, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Buckminster Fuller and hundreds of other geniuses did poorly in school and often dropped out. I found myself hating college because I could see they rewarded silly or non-creative behavior, while punishing those who were independent thinkers who did not happen to go along with the ideas of the professors. I am not so much blaming the schools and colleges for this. It is just the fact. Often, neither the parents, the teachers, nor the administrators realize fully how the schools create a virtual or fake reality that makes it extremely easy to brainwash the children with false ideas.

DRUG USE, ALCOHOL AND BRAINWASHING

Drugs and alcohol open the mind to invasion by discarnate entities and make it much easier to brainwash a person. In fact, most brainwashing today that is done by the military, for example, involves powerful drugs to speed the process.

The effects of drugs. These vary, of course, depending upon the drug used. However, they include:

· Dulling the mind. This is one of the most important uses of drugs to literally dumb down the person and prevent rational thought and resistance to the operator’s ideas. This can save months of time for the operator and is less messy than physical torture and other ways to wear down the victim.

· Lowering general vitality through toxicity or other means. This is another common use of drugs in brainwashing. It is easier than depriving a person of sleep, or beating a person to reduce his energy or vitality.

· More specific effects. Some drugs excite the mind, while others alter perception, cause anxiety, cause horrible sleepiness, and so on. Drugs such as Haldol, thorazine and others are commonly used for brainwashing. These have just been found to help the process, while others are less helpful.

More on drugs. The continuous use of even prescription drugs such as anti-depressants or tranquilizers are often used by operators to prevent victims from breaking free of brainwashing. The drugs work by maintaining a lowered mental acuity level or by depressing the victim’s mind in some other way.

Some drugs, such as LSD, mescaline, Ecstacy or others are claimed to have the opposite effect - to “open “the mind or “expand” the mind. However, among friends and clients that have used these drugs, and some still use them, I have not seen this happen to any significant degree. Perhaps they are more open-minded, and this is a slight benefit. However, it is offset by the sometimes very toxic effects of these drugs on the delicate brain centers. If they are “breaking free” of their brainwashing, it is unbalanced, and quite unhealthy and even dangerous for them.

Shamans have used mushroom extracts and other hallucinogenic plants for various reasons for thousands of years. Here the situation is different, in that the drug is used in a context of a culture and civilization that understands the drug thoroughly and has a lot of experience with it. However, I would warn everyone against using this method of unwinding or breaking free of brainwashing since the effects could be erratic and unpredictable with Westerners whose bodies are different from the native people. This is why I prefer nutritional balancing, a very solid, safe and perhaps slower method to open the mind and promote spiritual development.

Marijuana or cannabis. Some claim that cannabis will expand the mind. Once again, that is not my clinical experience as a doctor. Those who use this drug more than once a week, perhaps, are usually much less sharp mentally, often much less motivated, and it seems like the mind is dulled to a degree. None of this would tend to promote health and well-being. While I am sure it is helpful for a few people, overall the effects seem negative.

This discussion is important as more states consider “medical marijuana laws”, which are often just a back door way of legalizing pot smoking.

PSYCHIC VAMPIRISM AND BRAINWASHING

Another article on this website discusses Energy Vampirism. This is the phenomenon whereby one person can steal energy from another person by upsetting the other.

This is related to brainwashing, in particular. In almost all cases, the operator in a brainwashing setting is an energy vampire, sometimes called a psychic vampire. The entire process of brainwashing is often intended to create easy vampire victims by thoroughly upsetting the victim in a way that will go on for years. This is the main connection between vampirism, which is a pycho-physical-energetic process, and brainwashing, which is more of an intellectual and controlling process.

Hypnosis, by the way, is more of an emotional process, though it too is used by psychic vampires to rob people of energy.

PSYCHOTRONICS, RADIONICS AND MORE MODERN BRAINWASHING METHODS

In the past 50 years or so, electronic methods of brainwashing have been developed that are quite effective, especially against some people. They are more effective against those who have a weak mind, a weak will, and those who are more ill, more nutritionally deficient and more toxic with heavy metals. As this is a large subject, a separate article on this website entitled Psychotronics And Radionics discusses this important subject and how to combat it.

IS BRAINWASHING AND HYPNOSIS EVER A GOOD THING?

The answer, I would maintain, is no. That is why this article has been written. Unless we see and understand the phenomenon of brainwashing, it will just continue to cripple intellectually and emotionally millions around the world. Ending it is not easy, but it is slowly happening as people develop themselves spiritually and the truth becomes known.

BRAINWASHING INTERFERES WITH ONE’S GUIDANCE

Ridding the mind of its programming, conditioning and brainwashing is often the single greatest key to tuning into your own guidance, whether this be from your high self, God, angels, ascended masters or others.

In fact, a goal of hypnotic suggestions and brainwashing is to separate a person from his or her own knowing, intuition, common sense and guidance. It is as if everything a person thinks and even feels is always filtered or processed through one’s brainwashing. This is sad but true.

A RELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING OF BRAINWASHING AND HYPNOSIS

The Hebrew and Christian bibles may by discussing brainwashing and hypnosis when they believe that “we are all sinners”. This could be interpreted to mean that, to some degree, at least, our minds and hearts are not our own. They have been altered and distorted or twisted by certain forces on this planet.

A somewhat similar idea is found in A Course In Miracles, a controversial, but interesting religious book. It states that we are all perfect children of God, but we are all confused.

IS BRAINWASHING THE SAME AS TORTURE?

The answer is no. Torture is just inflicting pain of some kind. Brainwashing is a precise mixture of pain and rewards that are timed perfectly to alter consciousness in very specific ways.

Torture is always part of brainwashing, although the torture could be very subtle, such as confusing a child with odd requests. However, torture by itself is not the same as brainwashing.

POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND BRAINWASHING

The elites versus the individual in society. Today there is a clear effort by a group of planners, shall we say, to move the entire planet earth away from some traditional Western and Christian values of hard work, biblical principles such as the Ten Commandments, honesty, limited government by a constitution, and individual freedom.

This group prefers a society run by college-trained elites, based on a new set of political and moral values. Among the main ones are that feelings matter more than facts, truth is all relative rather than there being right or wrong, and nothing is absolute. Of course, this is nonsense. However, it is essential to confuse the mind if one is to brainwash the people easily. The “new”, “liberal” value system is really a virtual reality that is designed to make it easy for the leaders to stay in power by confusing and upsetting people. This is one reason they absolutely hate Christians who simply won’t go along with the gay agenda and the moral relativism agenda.

The rewards and punishments used today by the planners, as I will call them, are often of two kinds. One involves messages that human beings are killing the planet. I call this apocalyptic environmentalism. This is a lie, by the way. The earth is not dying, and in fact is in much better shape than it was 100 years ago when wood was the main fuel and building material and toxic chemical dumping was far more common.

The second area of punishments and rewards have to do with money. Instead of rewarding effort and hard work, which is what happens in a free market, capitalist society, the planners hand out money through government grants to those who go along with agenda. Meanwhile, they impose fines or high taxes on those who don’t go along. Oil companies, coal companies and other are labeled as “polluters”, and are singled out for even minor infractions of their myriad of laws, and others. This has a chilling effect on all business activity since anyone potentially could be found guilty of using too much oil or coal or something else that might not be good for the planet. While the idea of punishing polluters is good in theory, it is taken to extremes for the purpose of upsetting everyone, especially the smarter and more productive members of society, who are usually also the wealthier people and the ones in need of being controlled, according to the planners.

Other more sinister ways to control people today is for the government to take over their health care and their education costs.

Another method is to pronounce dire consequences to our present way of life, all of which are lies. I studied the work of Buckminster Fuller in the 1970s, as he was one of the first to challenge the environmentalists. Fuller turned out to be correct, while the others were claiming we would all be dead of pollution by 1990. Fuller said no, that humans are wise and the free market finds solutions for technical problems such as pollution, which he said is nothing more than a resource in the wrong place or time.

However, the prophets of doom are out in full force these days, scaring people about every single aspect of modern capitalist society. This, however, is mainly an old brainwashing tactic, since one must stress the people and upset them in order to control them.

The planners already control the “old media” – television and newspapers, mainly, another old-fashioned brainwashing method. They also control the public schools through unions, mainly, which is why they vigorously oppose home schooling and private schooling of the young. All tyrants have taken control of the media and education of the young for this reason. Thus one should always be suspicious of anyone who suggests more government funding of education, health care, the media, and all schemes such as “net neutrality”, “fairness doctrines” and other government intrusions into basic freedoms of speech, assembly and the press.

An old conflict that is coming to a head. This battle for people’s minds is not new on earth. It is just getting more obvious as the old order is fading. There has always been a conflict between the rights and freedoms of the individual versus the rule of elites who seek to control others.

The Republican model of society versus the socialist or communist model. America was to have been the shining light for the rights and value of the individual, personal freedom and biblical values. This is the essence of the American model of society, as written about clearly by the founders of America. It happens to be the best cure for some forms of brainwashing and even hypnosis.

Things have not worked out that well for America, but she may be moving back toward her founding values as her finances and world power begin to fade due to misguided policies that are bankrupting the nation and other forces at work in the world.

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