Mind Control - Required Reading For All Ten Year Old Girls

Required Reading For All Ten Year Old Girls ~ A Manifesto on Body Image and Self Confidence...

As part of my Laid Bare themed week, I have invited one or two of my industry friends to write guest posts for me on the issue of body image.  I'm delighted this morning to be sharing a feature written byAnna Kasparian, one third of the blogging wonder-trio that is Any Other Wedding - recently featured in Brides Magazine as the best wedding blog for offering emotional support.

I'll not deny that being the Mother of two little girls, reading through this post had me shed a tear or two, and I'd very much like to know your thoughts too, so please take a moment to leave a comment at the end...

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Happy Birthday! Being ten is brilliant! No, really, it is. It means you're growing up, but that you can still get away with an awful lot of stuff.  Now go.  Eat cake. Play with your friends. Have some adventures.

And then read this.

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I know school and homework and your parents' nagging can feel rubbish at times. But you're lucky, you know? You have choices and chances of which your grandmother, her grandmother, even your mother could never have dreamed. You can go to University. You can work in any profession you choose. You can love who you want, say what you want, be whoever you want to be.

The world is at your feet. Your choices are your own, and no-one can take them from you. You can live freely, fully, and without shame. You can be you, unashamedly you. Nothing should stop you feeling like you can conquer the world.

Except one thing probably will.

Here's the hard bit, kid. There's a whole industry out there hell bent on making you feel like you aren't quite enough. It thrives on cutting you down, on holding you back, on making you thinner, smarter, prettier. It will take hold of you, get into your blood and under your skin, and chip away at your sense of self. It’ll start slow.  It’ll ramp it up so much that you will wonder whether what you have to offer the world is enough.

Two words.  It is.

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This industry is all pervading.  It reaches into every corner of your psyche. There's no escape. You can't hide. You'll be force-fed stories about how you should be, how you should feel, how you should look. On billboards and in films and on the television and in magazines you'll see pictures of women with impossible bodies and perfect faces, living out perfect lives.  You will look at those women and you will think "why not me?" You will look in the mirror and learn not to see your beauty but how to focus on your flaws. You will hate your hips, which are wider than other girls’.  You will hate your stomach for not being as flat.  You will hate your face for not being as beautiful.  You will live by the word "should". You will learn to measure yourself by what you could be, rather than what you are.

Shocking Shoot? Or an innocent play on little girls dressing up?
Ten year old Thylane Loubry Blondeau models for French Vogue.  Image Source.

But here’s the good news.  You’re better than that.  It's up to you to change it. And you can.

The perfect women out there?  They aren’t real.  It’s an image, a fairy tale, a story fed to you to make you buy more makeup, more clothes, anything to disguise who you really are. 

What’s real is you. 

Fighting the beauty myth and winning isn’t something you can do alone.  You know those friends you have, the ones who truly make you laugh and accept you as you really are?  They’re sane, good, smart friends.  Keep them.  Nurture that friendship.  Find more like them.  As you get older, you’ll learn that   real beauty has little to do with a killer body and lustrous hair and everything to do with kindness and integrity and self worth.  When it gets tough, and it will, those are the friends that will remind you how to be you without apology or explanation.

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One day, when your big love story plays out, you might meet someone who helps you to embrace your imperfections and use them to make you stronger.  But don’t even think about looking for that until you feel beautiful, in and of yourself.  Otherwise, trust me, it’ll be a train-wreck of a relationship.      

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Growing up is exhausting. You’ll make mistakes, and that’s okay.  But don’t let that mistake be wasting your time worrying about how you look, or how to fit in.  Because when you’re there, thin enough, attractive enough, you still won’t be happy and you’ll still want to change.  Growing up is hard enough without chasing that impossible ideal.

Spend your time dreaming, adventuring, exploring, learning.  You’ll become a hell of a grown-up, one that everyone loves, one that is really beautiful.

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What a thought provoking and beautifully written piece - thank you Anna.  Please take a moment to visit the wonderful Any Other Wedding wedding blog today when you have a few spare moments where you can read more from Anna and her co-bloggers Claire and Aisling.

Ladies, please discuss....

With love all,

Annabel

Mind Control - Tortured Gospel

It is a little difficult to force yourself to think of tornadoes when you’re in sunny California. On my flight into Santa Barbara I could see the tail end of the gray whale migration from a few thousand feet in the air. Outside the tiny municipal airport (with its full-body scanner) I see palm trees swaying in the wind. The air smells like flowers. Life is too easy in California for me ever to live here. I need more angst in my diet. I can’t come to the sunny coast, however, without the Eagle’s “Hotel California” replaying endlessly in my head. It was the running joke at Nashotah House that the real Hotel California was located in the woods just outside Delafield, Wisconsin. The haunting lyrics by Don Felder, Don Henley, and Glenn Frey managed to capture the witch’s brew of mind control, humiliation, and desire that laced that little, gothic seminary in the woods. Yet even sitting in California with its full greenery in March, I see that Pat Robertson is blaming the devastation of the recent tornadoes on lack of prayer.

Blaming the victim is a classic fascist technique, and it is very easy to proclaim one’s own righteousness when not in harm’s way. Herein lies the darkest sin of the self-justified; they think themselves specially blessed and therefore not responsible to help the victims. While flying over the Santa Ynez Mountains, seeing the smoke from California wildfires climbing like the terminal flames of Babylon, I could hear a voice like a choir of fascists singing, “Alleluia And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.” Schadenfreude fuels too much of the evangelical worldview. According the Gospel writers, when Jesus foresaw the destruction of Jerusalem, he wept. WWJD, Rev. Robertson?

Tornadoes look so much like divine judgment that it is almost understandable how a naïve believer might see them as coming from God. We, however, are the gods destroying our own planet with the accompanying degradation of the weather. Neo-cons deny the fact of global warming. It is not a myth or a theory, there is inconvertible proof that it is happening. Still, it is more convenient to blame God. After all, chances of him showing up to deny false charges, as history repeatedly shows, are very slim. Ask any innocent woman tied to a stake in Medieval Europe accused of being a witch. Apparently the divine calendar is too full to worry about the troubles of hundreds of thousands, or even a few millions who are falsely accused. Why not send some terror from the sky? It is hard to think of such things in sunny California. Yet as the “good news” of the televangelists spreads to the ends of the earth, even those forever in the sun will need to stand in judgment before a very capricious deity.

PodCast! - Mind Control And Persuasion With Dantalion Jones

A few weeks ago I got interview by James Williams of RichFitUSA.com.

James has a small but passionate group of sales people in his business that he calls "The Wolf Pack". Each of the group is dedicated to mastering persuasion NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES. They are the most dedicated students of persuasion I've yet seen. 

The interview was captured on podcast so have listen!

 

What To Look Out For To Stop Mind Contro

In order to stop mind control the first thing you have to consider is what stage the process is at.

Is the person at the stage where the new ideas are being introduced or have they already made some kind of commitment and changed some ideas and beliefs. This is an important distinction because once the person has changed their beliefs (and it can occur very early in the process) it's much more difficult to stop mind control and undo the effects.

Let's have a look at the first situation, where a person is meeting the manipulator for the first time, or even the third or fourth time. The manipulator can be a con man, super-salesman or a cult leader or other compliance professional.

Some basic principles

In 1979 Anderson and Zimbardo wrote a paper on how to stop mind control called 'On resisting social influence'.

They point out that when information is deliberately hidden or distorted, it is impossible to make unbiased decisions. People can be led to believe they are making their own decisions and freely choosing. Therein lies the danger, because these kind of decisions have a profound and lasting effect on our thinking and behavior, simply because of the fact that we think we have used our own reasoning and justifications to make up our own mind.

We are most influence-able in situations that seem normal where we don't think we need to be sceptical. But we need to remember that in sectarian relationships the aggressor is aiming that his victim "suspends his rational judgements and surrenders emotionally to the relationship".

They suggest that mind control "exists not in exotic gimmicks, but rather in the most mundane aspects of human existence: the inner pressure to be bonded to other people, the power of group norms to influence behavior, the force of social rewards (such as smiles, praise, a gentle touch). We influence one another, intentionally or unintentionally, using the most basic principles of social psychology, motivation and social learning. It is people in convincing social situations and not gadgets or gimmicks that control the minds of the people. The more worried we are about being seen as ignorant, uncultured, untalented of boring, and the more ambiguous the events are that are to be evaluated, the more likely we are to take on the beliefs of those around us to avoid being rejected by them."

As humans, we don't like rejection. We are social creatures and want to be part of a community. But there is a difference between maintaining your integrity and sense of self within the group, and being totally taken over by the group as occurs in a destructive sect or cultic relationship.

So where do we draw the line? Is it possible to tell the difference between benign social influences and destructive mind control?

Can we stop mind control?

The answer is yes, and we need to be vigilant and to use the following strategies in various situations in order to be able to stop mind control from happening..

Be on the lookout for discontinuities between somebody's ideals and their actual behaviors. If what they say does not match what they do, beware! (If older members of the group are justifying the leaders incongruencies, this should be even more alarming.)

Observe communications, checking for any hidden agendas behind the obvious content.

Be prepared to disobey simple situational rules or polite social customs if you think it's necessary.

Be on the lookout for situational and group pressures in your physical and social surroundings.

Never do anything unusual or anything you don't want to do just to please others.

Recognise conditions in which you are vulnerable. (Major life events, loss, grief, depression, after failing exams, losing a job and so on.)

Don't be pushed into making a decision. Reserve the right to defer a decision or say no. If you think you need to get more information, do so. Or look for other sources of information. Effective persuaders appear to be just like us. Be very wary of excessive emphasis on topics of mutual interest in order to stop mind control before it's too late.

Be wary of requests for a small commitment now… And an open-ended contract for later.

Practice "seeing through" your programmed responses to authority.

Notice who is controlling whom in social situations, and why.

If there is disagreement, state your arguments with conviction. If necessary practice creative arguments why listening to persuasive messages to avoid automatically accepting them.

Strong self worth can stop mind control

Learn to keep your sense of self-worth even in intimidating circumstances.

As far as possible, do not accept the initial premise that someone is better or more competent than you.
Don't accept generalizations or inadequate explanations to your questions or challenges. Complex communication does not make conclusions acceptable. Be careful too, of false analogies, semantic distortion, euphemisms and jargon.

Be wary of "You won't understand it now but you will in the future". A real expert can explain his field so that even a 10-year-old understands.

Always look for other information and criticisms before joining a group and investing your time and money.

Train yourself and your children to notice the influence "tricks" in the language used in, for example, advertisements.

Avoid negative dialogue about yourself, especially if it is generated by somebody else.
Think of being different as being 'important' rather than inferior.

Emotional manipulation

When our attention is forced on to ourselves by being made to feel bad or wrong or different, we become self-conscious and we begin to wonder what other people will think of us. This makes us more susceptible to mind control.

Effective manipulators control our emotions. Beware of people who create emotion-laden conflicts, especially if they are offering a solution as well!

Avoid situations where someone makes you feel guilty, stupid or awkward.

Do not confess to anything or give information that can be later used against you.

Do not make decisions when you are stressed, especially in the presence of the person causing the stress.
When you're feeling very strong emotions, your ability to think critically is reduced. Do what you need to do to relax, even if it means leaving the situation.

Be very aware of those creating fear and guilt. These are very powerful emotions for influencing beliefs and attitudes.

If somebody claims to be making sacrifices on your behalf, thank them with words. Don't be drawn into a repayment in kind.

Decisions

You should hear warning bells and see flashing lights when someone emphasizes your freedom of choice of the alternatives they have offered.

And also when they point out that you have lost some freedom, but with them you can get it back again. Especially if you feel very strongly that you actually want it.

Revise any commitments and decisions you made in the past if they are no longer beneficial.

Groups

Be very careful if you seem to be making a lot of very good friends very quickly in a new group. If everybody makes you feel special, intelligent and repeatedly tells you that you will do well with them, you need to reassess what's actually happening if you are to stop mind control early in the process.

If you are being offered simple, complete answers to complex problems it should be treated as a warning sign. "Just do this thing and your life will be different!"

If you're told that you need to get out of your mind, or that your problems are based on your thinking, be careful that it is not simply a way of creating a state of passive acceptance.

Programming

The authors recognise that mind works by manipulating people's programmed responses in social interactions.

Since then Robert Cialdini has written about what he calls the six weapons of the influence. You can read more about his principles here.

This might seem like an incredibly long list of things to have to look out for to stop mind control. But just ask any ex-cult member who has received professional treatment) about it, and not only will they be able to add to this list, but they will also tell you that this kind of thing should be taught in schools to children so that they not only recognize it but can stop mind control.

But what if somebody is already 'manipulated'? They have already changed their beliefs and behaviors and are committed in a relationship or in a group. In this case the steps needed to stop mind control are somewhat more complicated.

A Selection of Mind Control Movies

Mind control movies on the increase?

It seems that there is more and more mind control movies nowadays. It's probably a reflection of the growing awareness of the damage being done by psychopaths and manipulators in our society today. And of course, the more extreme psychopaths, the serial killers and rapists, sell tickets at cinemas.
Some movies demonstrate very well the nature of psychopaths, others demonstrate the effects of mind control and still others illustrate how life is for the members of a destructive sect. Here are some examples of each.

Mind control movies - psychopaths

Edward Norton plays a psychopath in "Stone", who manipulates the prison psychologist (Robert DeNiro) into making mistakes and letting him go free, He even gets his wife to seduce the psychologist!
Terrence Malick's "Badlands" has Martin Sheen playing the role of a psychopath, killing his girlfriend's father and then going on the run. Of particular interest, however, is Sissy Spacek's role of the girlfriend. Notice in particular the lack of emotion after the death of father and frequently, while she is commenting in the background, she talks about all sorts of highly emotional things without the faintest emotion in her voice.

"I, psychopath" is a great movie about a self-proclaimed psychopath who wants to be tested to confirm if he's a psychopath or not. You will learn a lot about how psychopaths think and function from this film. He's even caught on camera insulting and abusing the interviewer, one of the typical methods used in mind control. You can watch the movie free here

Another free movie is "Fishead" which examines the role psychopathy plays in the current financial crisis in the world. There are two issues here. One is the psychopaths themselves who are in positions of leadership. The second is the role of antidepressants in causing a lack of empathy in decision makers. You can watch it here (sign up is free).

"The Devils Double" is another great movie about a man who was forced to be the double of Hussein's son. In this you can see the childish, impetuous nature of a psychopath, with the desire for instant gratification. Also obvious is the sudden temper, the viciousness, the sexual delinquency and the total lack of respect for others that is typical of psychopaths.
"The Last King of Scotland" is another fantastic portrayal of a psychopath by Forest Whitaker. There are a lot of examples of the sudden changes of mood, one moment being friendly, the next moment aggressive and threatening, in order to control and manipulate. Highly recommended!

Mind control movies - sects

"Red State" is about three teens looking for sex who get caught up in a fundamentalist religious sect who kill sexual deviants. A lot of interesting things here about the mind-set of group members including the conflicts they sometimes have. The FBI's handling of this sect is also of interest in this movie!

"Los Esclavos Felices" is a movie that was supervised by Alfredo Silletta, a well known anti-sect journalist. This is a brilliant portrayal of the recruitment and indoctrination in a sect. It is a Spanish movie, but it's well worth a look if you want to understand how sects function. To someone who has not been in a sect it may seem a bit far fetched, but ex-members of sects will recognize a lot of what happens in the movie.
"The Island" is about people in a sheltered environment waiting for their turn in a lottery to be able to go to the island. It turns out that they are clones grown for the organ spares of their 'owners'. The bounded reality of the sect is depicted here very well.

Mind control movies - the effects

"The Wave" is a German movie where a teacher tries to create the experience of life in a dictatorship for his students. It demonstrates nicely the effects of group pressure on individuals and how quickly people can change their beliefs and ideals.

"Dogville" is a brutal demonstration of firstly, how people can be manipulated to treat others badly, and secondly, how somebody in a vulnerable position can be captured by a group and subjected to all sorts of horrors. This movie is not recommended for people in a very sensitive state of mind.
"1984" George Orwell's classic tale of life in a totalitarian environment. Timeless!

"Bridesmaids" (2011). Not strictly a movie about mind control but it displays the isolation that can occur as a result of mind control. The main character is the chief bridesmaid organizing a friends wedding. Another friend wants the job and sets about to discredit the main character, and does so as well as any good psychopath!

(It turns out she's not actually a psychopath, she does feel guilt and remorse. However, the first half of the movie is a good demonstration of the devastating effects of a psychopath at work.)

Anthony Hopkins deserves a mention in any list of mind control movies. In "The Road to Wellville" he plays the eccentric leader of a health spa, which is essentially a parody of a health and fitness sect. He also plays the lead role in the famous Hannibal Lecter series, which is about a psychopathic serial killer.
And the recent TV series "Homeland" is not only very entertaining, it demonstrates many of the aspects of emotional manipulation used by psychopaths to control others, as well as the extent to which victims of mind control can be manipulated (I will say no more in order not to spoil it!)

Entertainment and education

This is just a short list and it seems that there are many other mind control movies being turned out today. The manipulators seem to have captured even the interest of movie makers and theatre goers!!

We are going to have to find a way to deal with the damage and destruction that psychopaths cause. At the moment society and the legal system are not sufficiently organized to deal with what is happening. Mind control movies are not only entertaining but they help to increase awareness of the problem and shows people that psychopath does not always mean 'serial killer'. In fact, it is estimated that about 1% of the population today are psychopaths!

Mind Control - 33 Easy Speaking Hacks to Make You Sound Smarter

Posted on Tuesday March 6, 2012 by Staff Writers
 
The next best thing to being an intelligent person is having people think you’re intelligent. Of course there are things you can do to become brainier; going to college springs to mind. But let’s face it, these methods take a long time, and they’re no help for you trying to impress that girl or guy at that party you’re at right now. Don’t drop out of school, but these speaking hacks will help you come across as being smarter than the average bear. Just please don’t be that guy who uses them all in one night.

1. Memorize a fact and drop it into a conversation Since all you’re trying to do is sound smarter, before you head to a cocktail party memorize a little-known fact, like Princes Charles and William will never travel on the same plane so that in the event of a crash, at least one will survive to protect the throne.
   
2. Shyness is pride Even if you’re brilliant, you won’t sound that way if you present your case weakly. Don’t worry about what people are thinking about you and focus on making your point forcefully.
   
3. Steer the conversation Instead of trying to fake your way through a conversation on a topic you’re clueless about, subtly direct it into an area more up your alley and go to town.
   
4. Nail down “who” and “whom” It’s always funny when someone clearly trying to sound more intelligent misuses “whom.” Here’s the way to tell: just answer the question. Who did it? He did. Whom should I thank? Thank him.
   
5. Memorize pi Have this one ready to go when someone says the word “pie.” Learn it to a max of 50 places; it’s long enough that no one will upstage you.
   
6. Fake a British accent I say, our friends across the pond sound ever so much smarter than us Yanks. Obviously the goal here is British scientist, not Russell Brand.
   
7. Cut out crutch words It’s tough to sound smart when you say “like” and “um” every few seconds. Train yourself not to resort to these crutch words.
   
8. Don’t commit If you never speak, you won’t sound dumb but you sure won’t sound any smarter. Instead, hedge. Say “I’m waiting for more conclusive evidence” when pressed for your opinion.
   
9. Beat around the bush When you’re talking business, hedging is also known as using jargon. With a crowd of people who aren’t in your industry, use all those acronyms and industry-speak that a colleague would get but will mystify the uninitiated.
   
10. Criticize intangibles This was designed for a work environment but it applies anywhere. An easy way to sound superior is to dog other people on unquantifiable traits like motivational skills or how much they’re a team player.
    
11. Fabricate statistics No one is really going to check that crazy figure you made up to back up your interesting story. If they do, just say you mixed up the magazine you got it from. Was it GQ? Or maybe it was Men’s Journal?
    

12. Don’t mention your source Even if it’s completely true, you won’t sound very smart saying you got that fact you just shared from watching “Family Guy.” You don’t have to lie, just say you “heard that somewhere.”
    
13. Use sound bites You don’t have to read the Wall Street Journal cover to cover every day to sound smart. Scan a few headlines from different sections before heading out the door and pretend you’re totally up-to-speed.
    
14. Speak to two people Everyone agrees that if you can speak to two people well, you can do the same with 200 people. The trick here to boost your confidence and sound smarter is to find two agreeable faces in that audience of 200 and speak only to them.
    
15. Learn a couple foreign language phrases The key to this hack is memorizing a few phrases in a foreign tongue. Go as obscure as possible to lower your odds of coming across an actual speaker of that language who’ll try to engage you in conversation.
    
16. Read Amazon book reviews Who’s got the time to read a whole book? Use Amazon’s user-generated book reviews for inside information that makes it sound like you read what you haven’t.
    
17. Ask questions With a little bit of information you can pose questions to someone else and then call them out if their answer is wrong, instantly making you look like a god among mortals.
    
18. Tell people you only read The Economist This will a) impress people who always mean to read The Economist but end up reading People … and b) imply that you’ve tried every other possible news magazine and they all fell short of your high standards.
    
19. You say it best … …when you say nothing at all. Tacking on a phrase like “It is what it is” to the end of a conversation just makes you sound less intelligent.
    
20. Get in the last word On the other hand, there is something to be said for getting the final say. Simply repackage what others have said and put it out there with a tone that says, “and now the subject is put to bed.”
    
21. Cheat Alex Trebek has been sounding smarter than contestants for years, but as Sean Connery revealed, the guy reads from a card! Use your smartphone to surreptitiously pull up a pertinent fact to contribute to a conversation.
    
22. Name drop Let a famous thinker or writer give your argument weight and make you sound like you know what you’re talking about. Our personal favorite: Noam Chomsky.
    

23. Say “I prefer their early stuff” Someone discussing a band you aren’t familiar with? Use this line to appear more discerning, but use with caution: the line between cool and tool here is very thin.
    
24. Gesture Gesturing while speaking actually might make you smarter by helping you have better recall. Even if it doesn’t, people’s attention will be divided between your words and watching your hands and they might miss you saying something incorrect.
    
25. Talk the loudest Probably because it conveys confidence, if you talk the loudest, the people around you will assume you are an authority on the subject.
    
26. Speak slowly Is Jeff Goldblum smart? Just by watching his movies we have no way to prove or disprove that he is. But he comes off like some kind of cool scientist in interviews just by taking his time to say things.
    
27. Master the mic If you are giving a miked-up presentation, you’ll look like an idiot if you’re holding it too close to your face or a speaker. Take a few minutes to practice the right way to use it.
    
28. Remember a few quotes Winston Churchill said, “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.” See what we did there?
    
29. His or her It’s PC to say “their” when referring to one person, but it’s not really correct. It sounds smarter to say, “The owner of this sandwich should know his or her lunch is about to be eaten.”
    
30. Don’t overshoot Know your limits. If you aren’t 100% sure you’ve got a grasp of that $10 word, go with something you know.
    
31. Master the metaphor Sometimes when you have nothing relevant to contribute, your best option is to say something right out of left field, leave, and let your audience assume what you said must be brilliant because it couldn’t possibly be that moronic. Try, “A single Russian hair outweighs half a Pole.”
    
32. Answer questions with questions Teachers do this to encourage students to find their own answers. You can do this when you have no clue what the answer is.
    
33. Make up words Most people have limited vocabularies. You’ll have to assess your audience to see if you can get away with this, but if you sprinkle in a legitimate-sounding word of your own design, people will simply assume you know a word they don’t.
    

CIA Secret Experiments on Mind Control A National Geographic Documentary ViD

One of the best documentaries exposing top secret government mind control programs is National Geographic’s CIA Secret Experiments.

For an even more revealing documentary on the same topic by the History Channel, click here.

Here’s how the film is described on the National Geographic website at the first link above:

“It’s the height of the Cold War and the United States government is desperate to combat the spread of Communism. The CIA launches a highly classified, top secret research program into the covert use of biological and chemical agents. In simulated attacks on enemy populations, entire cities in America are contaminated with bacteria, exposing millions of Americans to germ warfare. But the real focus of the research is on mastering the art of mind control.

“Psychiatrists at top academic institutions work under secret contract with the agency. Psychiatric patients, prisoners, even unwitting members of the public are exposed to a startling array of experiments designed to facilitate interrogations, induce amnesia and program in new behavior. Every psychological technique is explored, including hypnosis, electroshock therapy and lethal cocktails of drugs. What was the extent of these brainwashing experiments? How did the CIA become involved in such far-reaching and disturbing research? Join us as National Geographic presents: CIA Secret Experiments.”

This powerful National Geographic video documents how for decades, top secret government projects worked virtually non-stop to perfect means of controlling the human mind. Though for many years the government denied that these projects even existed, the details have long been preserved in thousands of pages of now declassified government documents reluctantly released through the Freedom of Information Act. LSD and electroshock therapy in huge doses given to unsuspecting citizens are only a part of this unbelievable program.

CIA Secret Experiments blows the lid off years of chilling experiments, drawing on the above-mentioned declassified documents and interviews with some of the victims. Hear from John Marks, the author of In Search of the Manchurian Candidate, who originally broke the story of the CIA’s abuses by unraveling the mysteries contained in the declassified documents. Learn how many of the most important records pertaining to the mind control experiments were destroyed by the director of the CIA in an attempt to prevent the details from ever being known.

The projects involved brutal, at times lethal experiments on thousands of unsuspecting citizens in direct defiance of law, all ethical codes, and basic human rights. Interviews with top psychiatrists, lawyers, and victims send chills up the spine. U.S. intelligence agencies spent millions on these mind control projects with a goal of creating programmable human spies. A former head of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Ewen Cameron, is one of many highly respected doctors who erased the personalities of thousands of unsuspecting victims, while many in the profession simply turned a blind eye.

For an abundance of reliable, verifiable information further describing these and other top secret mind control programs and their impact on our world, see our Mind Control Information Center at http://www.WantToKnow.info/mindcontrolinformation.

For an excellent two-page summary of the top secret government mind control projects, including numerous, verifiable footnotes, see http://www.WantToKnow.info/mindcontrol. 

Mind Control - Review of "The Control Book" by Peter Masters

The Control Book is about the fine art of taking control of your partner. It's about the processes involved, about taking control, using control, about ensuring that you have control, and-importantly-about giving control back once you are done with it. The book discusses how this works-the psychology of it-and looks at what can go right, and at what can go wrong and how to fix it. It considers the role of authority in the equation, and looks at how to manage the control you have over someone so that it is both effective and rewarding for you both. I believe that a very large part of the activities which we include under the umbrella of BDSM rely explicitly or implicitly on control being asserted over one person by another. My goal in this book is to talk about control, explain what it is, demonstrate it, show how to take it, how to give it, how to manage it, and more. I want you, the reader, to be aware of the ebb and flow of control around you and through you.

Review: 5 Stars - Psychologically Deep Analysis
As a prodomme and psychotherapist I am impressed by this book. It is quite good in the use of Jungian archetypes and how they are seen in domination and submissive choices. This book is not light. If you truly want the deep down reasons why people are or choose to be submissive or dominant this gives some intense answers. I liked it.

Review: 5 Stars - An Insightful, Revealing Read
Peter Masters gets inside the conscious, subconscious and the unconscious of us all as he deconstructs, and reconstructs what it is about control that for some of us is an immensely delicious turn-on. Within the context of BDSM play, the book delves into the whys and wherefores of control and the power exchange. The book steps back and analyzes the steps, thought processes, results and possible ramifications of the use/exchange of control. This is an especially refreshing read in the BDSM realm which is deluged with too many (some are quite anemic) how-to books on the mechanics of the lifestyle. Each chapter leaves you to ponder questions you must answer within yourself. A great read for the serious player, or a novice who wants to take a walk on the psychological side of the lifestyle. My only complaint is that it should have been a bigger book, as I think this subject could be examined further.

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