by Cyclops, Survival Blog:
A recent headline read: “Corporate Executive Pays to Deprogram Daughter After Freshman Year”. Years ago, the process of deprogramming might have been reserved for a prisoner of war (POW), or a victim of a cult. Not anymore. A normal adolescent attending any one of the couple thousand colleges or universities in America will be subjected to indoctrination and thought control. In the case of this headline, one parent decided to do something about it.
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The sad reality is that anyone living in America today is subjected to a constant onslaught of inputs from someone who wants to influence our mind, adjust our attitude, or control our behavior. In Tucker Carlson’s newly launched streaming website, he reveals that “News coverage in the west has become a tool of repression and control. Journalists act as censors on behalf of entrenched power…they hate the truth.” Institutions we used to rely upon to seek truth, such as schools and media, are now devoted to thought control and propaganda.
We are literally swimming around in a sea of misdirection, misinformation, propaganda, truth-bending, psychological coercion, and mind control. Those who are behind this know that you will eventually succumb; that is, if you haven’t deliberately constructed defensive ramparts in your thinking to protect your mind.
After all that you have invested in preparing your home and family to survive in extreme circumstances, have you given the same level of preparation to protecting your mind? Are you as equipped to recognize and resist the brainwashing to which you are most assuredly being subjected as you are equipped to survive a power outage? If you are vulnerable to someone controlling your mind, all your other preparations are in vain.
One might say, “I’m too smart and firm in my convictions to be brainwashed.” Pride goes before fall, as they say. Often the most easily brainwashed individuals are very intelligent and idealistic. We are all human, and the human mind operates by certain rules. Those who are trained to coerce and control know how to use a subject’s intelligence, ego, and biology to build a trap that is nearly impossible to avoid or escape. Intelligence and conviction are not enough to guard against modern coercion techniques; one must be trained to recognize and resist specific brainwashing techniques.
This six-part article will unveil examples of many of the commonly used brainwashing methods. The tactics that this article will summarize are loosely organized within four major categories: isolation, fear, deception, and paralysis. Along the way, I will provide actual cases where particular techniques are used. All examples are real and true, and references are provided along the way when necessary. If a fact is unreferenced, then it is readily available in the public domain. (While some of the examples demonstrate extreme use of mind control techniques in situations that may not relate to your life, don’t be fooled into thinking that similar techniques couldn’t be used on you in more subtle ways that do relate to you.) Hopefully, surveying the major mind control techniques available to bad actors will give you greater foresight when they are used on you.
At the end of the article, we will explore some ways to guard against mind control attacks over and above simply being aware of the commonly used methods. In the meantime, let’s begin our survey of techniques by examining the impact of isolation, and the types of isolation that can be used in coercion and brainwashing.
ISOLATION
All of us make meaning and form our thoughts and opinions based on inputs from our surroundings. Those surroundings might include physical information, such as sunlight and temperature. They might include chemical information, such as our blood sugar level, drugs in our system, or the amount of protein in our system. They might include social inputs, such as a conversation with a loved one, watching the news, or acceptance from others. To be isolated from these and other inputs will disorient us, decrease our ability to take in and analyze the information we need to process what is going on, and make us more susceptible to suggestions from someone who wants to control us. See how many types of isolation you can identify in the following case study of a young man recruited by a cult.
CASE STUDY: USE OF ISOLATION TO GROOM AND RETAIN A CULT RECRUIT
Sandy was an intelligent, capable, healthy 29-year-old male. He went to a good college, grew up in a normal family, didn’t drink or use drugs. He enjoyed reading, and considered himself more insightful than most people around him. Since graduating from college, he had found steady employment; but nothing that was particularly demanding of his own sense of giftedness. One day, while perusing books at a local bookstore, he saw a flyer for a book club that was reading and discussing an obscure author of interest to him.
Sandy began to attend the book club regularly. He made friends easily with the other members in the group. He thought it a little odd that they asked him to sign a non-disclosure agreement when he began, but he accepted their explanation of how nobody outside the book club would really appreciate the type of thinking that occurred during the meetings; and people needed to feel ‘safe’ to expose their thoughts without fear of having them become public. With each meeting, Sandy found a new energy from the people in the club; finally he has come in contact with people who understand him and appreciate his unique intellect. Sandy felt that he finally was ‘on track’. His appetite for the readings increased; soon he spent most of his time outside of work in some form of research that related to the book club.
