The Battle For Your Mind.pdf

The Battle For Your

Mind - Mass Mind Control

Techniques In America

By Dick Sutphen

1-20-2000

Persuasion and Brainwashing

Techniques Being Used On The Public Today

Introduction

I’m Dick Sutphen and this tape is a studio-recorded, expanded version of a talk I

delivered at the World Congress of Professional Hypnotists Convention in Las Vegas,

Nevada. Although the tape carries a copyright to protect it from unlawful duplication for

sale by other companies, in this case, I invite individuals to make copies and give them to

friends or anyone in a position to communicate this information.

Although I’ve been interviewed about the subject on many local and regional radio and

TV talk shows, large-scale mass communication appears to be blocked, since it could

result in suspicion or investigation of the very media presenting it or the sponsors that

support the media. Some government agencies do not want this information generally

known. Nor do the Born-Again Christian movement, cults, and many human-potential

trainings.

Everything I will relate only exposes the surface of the problem. I don’t know how the

misuse of these techniques can be stopped. I don’t think it is possible to legislate against

that which often cannot be detected; and if those who legislate are using these techniques,

there is little hope of affecting laws to govern usage. I do know that the first step to

initiate change is to generate interest. In this case, that will probably only result from an

underground effort.

In talking about this subject, I am talking about my own business. I know it, and I know

how effective it can be. I produce hypnosis and subliminal tapes and, in some of my

seminars, I use conversion tactics to assist participants to become independent and self-

sufficient. But, anytime I use these techniques, I point out that I am using them, and those

attending have a choice to participate or not. They also know what the desired result of

participation will be.

So, to begin, I want to state the most basic of all facts about brainwashing: In the entire

history of man, no one has ever been brainwashed and realized, or believed, that he had

been brainwashed. Those who have been brainwashed will usually passionately defend

their manipulators, claiming they have simply been “shown the light” ...or have been

transformed in miraculous ways.

The Birth of Conversion: Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism in 1735.

Conversion is a “nice” word for brainwashing...and any study of brainwashing has to

begin with a study of Christian revivalism in eighteenth century America. Apparently,

Jonathan Edwards accidentally discovered the techniques during a religious crusade in

1735 in Northampton, Massachusetts. By inducing guilt and acute apprehension and by

increasing the tension, the “sinners” attending his revival meetings would break down

and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards was doing was creating conditions

that wipe the brain slate clean so that the mind accepts new programming. The problem

was that the new input was negative. He would tell them, “You’re a sinner! You’re

destined for hell!”

As a result, one person committed suicide and another attempted suicide. And the

neighbors of the suicidal converts related that they, too, were affected so deeply that,

although they had found “eternal salvation,” they were obsessed with a diabolical

temptation to end their own lives.

Once a preacher, cult leader, manipulator or authority figure creates the brain phase to

wipe the brain-slate clean, his subjects are wide open. New input, in the form of

suggestion, can be substituted for their previous ideas. Because Edwards didn’t turn his

message positive until the end of the revival, many accepted the negative suggestions and

acted, or desired to act, upon them.

Charles J. Finney was another Christian revivalist who used the same techniques four

years later in mass religious conversions in New York. The techniques are still being

used today by Christian revivalists, cults, human-potential trainings, some business

rallies, and the United States Armed services...to name just a few.

Let me point out here that I don’t think most revivalist preachers realize or know they are

using brainwashing techniques. Edwards simply stumbled upon a technique that really

worked, and others copied it and have continued to copy it for over two hundred years.

And the more sophisticated our knowledge and technology become, the more effective

the conversion. I feel strongly that this is one of the major reasons for the increasing rise

in Christian fundamentalism, especially the televised variety, while most of the orthodox

religions are declining.

The Three Brain Phases: The Pavlovian Explanation

The Christians may have been the first to successfully formulate brainwashing, but we

have to look to Pavlov, the Russian scientist, for a technical explanation. In the early

1900s, his work with animals opened the door to further investigations with humans.

After the revolution in Russia, Lenin was quick to see the potential of applying Pavlov’s

research to his own ends.

Three distinct and progressive states of transmarginal inhibition were identified by

Pavlov. The first is the equivalent phase, in which the brain gives the same response to

both strong and weak stimuli. The second is the paradoxical phase, in which the brain

responds more actively to weak stimuli than to strong. And the third is the ultra-

paradoxical phase, in which conditioned responses and behavior patterns turn from

positive to negative or from negative to positive.

With the progression through each phase, the degree of conversion becomes more

effective and complete. The way to achieve conversion are many and varied, but the

usual first step in religious or political brainwashing is to work on the emotions of an

individual or group until they reach an abnormal level of anger, fear, exitement, or

nervous tension.

The progressive result of this mental condition is to impair judgement and increase

suggestibility. The more this condition can be maintained or intensified, the more it

compounds. Once catharsis, or the first brain phase, is reached, the complete mental

takeover becomes easier. Existing mental programming can be replaced with new

patterns of thinking and behavior.

Other often-used physiological weapons to modify normal brain functions are fasting,

radical or high sugar diets, physical discomforts, regulation of breathing, mantra chanting

in meditation, the disclosure of awesome mysteries, special lighting and sound effects,

programmed response to incense, or intoxicating drugs.

The same results can be obtained in contemporary psychiatric treatment by electric shock

treatments and even by purposely lowering a person’s blood sugar level with insulin

injections.

Before I talk about exactly how some of the techniques are applied, I want to point out

that hypnosis and conversion tactics are two distinctly different things—and that

conversion techniques are far more powerful. However, the two are often mixed...with

powerful results.

How Revivalist Preachers Work

If you’d like to see a revivalist preacher at work, there are probably several in your city.

Go to the church or tent early and sit in the rear, about three-quarters of the way back.

Most likely repetitive music will be played while the people come in for the service. A

repetitive beat, ideally ranging from 45 to 72 beats per minute (a rhythm close to the beat

of the human heart), is very hypnotic and can generate an eyes-open altered state of

consciousness in a very high percentage of people. And, once you are in an alpha state,

you are at least 25 times as suggestible as you would be in full beta consciousness. The

music is probably the same for every service, or incorporates the same beat, and many of

the people will go into an altered state almost immediately upon entering the sanctuary.

Subconsciously, they recall their state of mind from previous services and respond

according to the post-hypnotic programming.

Watch the people waiting for the service to begin. Many will exhibit external signs of

trance—body relaxation and slightly dilated eyes. Often, they begin swaying back and

forth with their hands in the air while sitting in their chairs. Next, the assistant pastor will

probably come out. He usually speaks with a pretty good “voice roll.”

The “Voice Roll” Technique

A “voice roll” is a patterned, paced style used by hypnotists when inducing a trance. It is

also used by many lawyers, several of whom are highly trained hypnotists, when they

desire to entrench a point firmly in the minds of the jurors. A voice roll can sound as if

the speaker were talking to the beat of a metronome or it may sound as though he were

emphasizing every word in a monotonous, patterned style. The words will usually be

delivered at the rate of 45 to 60 beats per minute, maximizing the hypnotic effect.

The Build-up Process: Inducing Altered States

Now the assistant pastor begins the “build-up” process. He induces an altered state of

consciousness and/or begins to generate the excitement and the expectations of the

audience. Next, a group of young women in “sweet and pure” chiffon dresses might come

out to sing a song. Gospel songs are great for building excitement and involvement. In

the middle of the song, one of the girls might be “smitten by the spirit” and fall down or

react as if possessed by the Holy Spirit. This very effectively increases the intensity in the

room. At this point, hypnosis and conversion tactics are being mixed. And the result is

the audience’s attention span is now totally focused upon the communication while the

environment becomes more exciting or tense.

Assured Continuation: Fleecing the Flock

Right about this time, when an eyes-open mass-induced alpha mental state has been

achieved, they will usually pass the collection plate or basket. In the background, a 45-

beat-per-minute voice roll from the assistant preacher might exhort, “Give to God...Give

to God...Give to God....” And the audience does give. God may not get the money, but

his already-wealthy representative will.

Bonding by Fear and Suggestion

Next, the fire-and-brimstone preacher will come out. He induces fear and increases the

tension by talking about “the devil,” “going to hell,” or the forthcoming Armegeddon.

In the last such rally I attended, the preacher talked about the blood that would soon be

running out of every faucet in the land. He was also obsessed with a “bloody axe of

God,” which everyone had seen hanging above the pulpit the previous week. I have no

doubt that everyone saw it—the power of suggestion given to hundreds of people in

hypnosis assures that at least 10 to 25 percent would see whatever he suggested they see.

Testimony: Creating Community Spirit

In most revivalist gatherings, “testifying” or “witnessing” usually follows the fear-based

sermon. People from the audience come up on stage and relate their stories. “I was

crippled and now I can walk!” “I had arthritis and now it’s gone!” It is a psychological

manipulation that works. After listening to numerous case histories of miraculous

healings, the average guy in the audience with a minor problem is sure he can be healed.

The room is charged with fear, guilt, intense excitement, and expectations.

Miracles

Now those who want to be healed are frequently lined up around the edge of the room, or

they are told to come down to the front. The preacher might touch them on the head

firmly and scream, “Be healed!” This releases the psychic energy and, for many, catharsis

results. Catharsis is a purging of repressed emotions. Individuals might cry, fall down or

even go into spasms. And if catharsis is effected, they stand a chance of being healed. In

catharsis (one of the three brain phases mentioned earlier), the brain-slate is temporarily

wiped clean and the new suggestion is accepted.

For some, the healing may be permanent. For many, it will last four days to a week,

which is, incidentally, how long a hypnotic suggestion given to a somnambulistic subject

will usually last. Even if the healing doesn’t last, if they come back every week, the

power of suggestion may continually override the problem...or sometimes, sadly, it can

mask a physical problem which could prove to be very detrimental to the individual in

the long run.

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