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     david_mccarthy Intermediate Member Username: david_mccarthy Post Number: 181 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 216.227.115.112 |
Part 1 of 5 On the question of… Is this mind control or is this mental illness? Joe Szimhart has written an interesting article. Virtual mind control Paranoia and delusions about brainwashing Virtual (adjective): Existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact or form. —American Heritage Dictionary In my files I have collected communications from people who believe that cults and shadowy authority figures have conspired to control their minds in fantastic ways. These exceptional people contact a cult expert because they believe that one might not only believe them, but also that one might expose and suppress the cult or “agent” that persecutes them. Although most of these folks are harmless any one of them can be an awful nuisance if he or she believes that a deprogrammer can help them. When I had the time and patience I have tried to help the person sort out what is real and not real about their situation. Most of these people reject suggestions to seek medical help and many of them have had unsatisfactory encounters with doctors. In most cases the person will resist any suggestion that mental illness or misperception could be the entire cause of their belief in elaborate victimization. Most likely they accept the reverse that the sinister brainwashing is what makes them appear mentally ill. In some cases the person entertains a mix of reality and fantasy especially when they had been involved with a real cult that either kicked them out or strategically ignored them. With or without cult influence the brainwashing system in a paranoid person’s mind can reach Superman comic book proportions: Their secret mission was sabotage of me and anyone associated with me that poses a threat to a cover up. Secretly using an injection type laser method of brainwashing, with a computer driven system, networked with ultra-violet/infrared split beam (invisible beam) easily operated, even from a laptop, stationary or mobile. This system is capable of splitting off endless number of beams; over 200 are used at any given time. Injecting drugs with over 100 beams, 50 directly into the brain/brainstem, spine, face/throat; about 60/100 into the heart/vascular system, and organs from over twelve years use and has become life threatening. The drugs are clandestinely made as chemists refer to as “homemade” therefore the origins less traceable to untraceable. The passage above is an excerpt from a six pages long, unsolicited email that I received along with eleven named recipients in the late 1990s. I lost touch with the writer after one e0xchange. She called herself “Ann.” In language full of loose associations (flight of ideas) she sought help from anyone connected to a cult watch group. She asked me to investigate the brainwashing culprits that ruined her life after the “LAPD” arrested her friend who apparently died while incarcerated. Writers with mental illness have also been more specific and persistent in their quest for affirmation and assistance. One fellow sought my sympathy and help with a dozen or more emails and several phone. continued... | ||
| david_mccarthy Intermediate Member Username: david_mccarthy Post Number: 182 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 216.227.115.112 |
Part 2 conversations over the course of a year. He admitted that few people paid any attention to his eccentric claims: Even the persons who claim that I am an extremely dangerous paranoid schizophrenia [here he mentions several doctors by name] have either admitted, or would probably admit, that I “speak well.” This has been almost become a codified observation by the group that holds me in the highest suspicion. They tell me “you speak well” as though addressing the devil. For many years a stigmatizing group had stalked me. The adult who first gave me inhalants as a child was even named Don Ostro (Ostro is a word akin to ostracism). He and his brothers kidnapped me, and battered me on the streets, and took me to the towers at Kings’ Estate and forced me to use inhalants. I became so knocked out that they could lead me around, tell me to sit in puddles and sing to them. They knick-named me “queerbait.” That man admitted that “doctors” diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia, yet he preferred to believe in his ever-expanding confabulations about childhood abuse and a “cult” that still controlled his mind. His isolation in the real world from people who merely called him crazy drove him to seek validation in the virtual world of cyberspace. He even created a web site to elaborate on his victimization. Mind control or mental illness? Another example of mind control via invisible forces is from a woman who wrote a book that the publisher sent to me for review. Anatomy of a Life Possessed by Maria Ferrara Pema is a “memoir” published in 2002 about the author’s alleged possession by a Catholic monk and her anti-papist philosophy. She also calls for help with her foundation to fight cults and mind control. During her colorful young life she was an actress in Italy when she approached the monk who she says used her for a miracle to cure a paralytic boy. Her claim, the premise of the narrative, is that the monk thereafter telepathically controlled her body movements and life events. She insists that she was possessed, not mentally ill. Pema writes a long letter to the Pope to complain that the monk used “mind control.” Pema reports that she confronted the monk once, but his only reply was that she should seek the help of a psychiatrist. The author invokes New Age notions about quantum physics to scientifically support her claim on page 73: “We already know that our cells make very good transmitters and receptors; we can send out thoughts and wills to influence people far away.” Government agencies like the CIA and FBI are favorite subjects of authors with a paranoid style. One self-published tome with low distribution came to my attention because it names some of my colleagues in the cult awareness field. Trance Formation of America: The true story of a CIA mind control slave by Cathy O’Brien with Mark Phillips (1995) rambles intensely about how Phillips saved O’Brien and her daughter from “MK-Ultra [sic] programming”. MK-ULTRA was real enough since its inception in 1953 as a secret government project to find drugs and techniques that could remold the human mind. In part the CIA was looking for a “truth serum” when it unleashed LSD on Continued... | ||
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Part 3 its sometimes-unsuspecting human guinea pigs and later in the 1960s onto the streets of America. O’Brien is purportedly the only living survivor of the MK-ULTRA “Project Monarch.” Phillips, a former government worker who happened upon O’Brien in 1988 long after MK-ULTRA disappeared, states, “I was able to liberate MK-Ultra victims, Cathy O’Brien and her daughter, Kelly [then 8], from the invisible grip of this U.S. Government secret weapon of control.” The authors rely on both Phillips’ extensive knowledge of mind control lore and the memories provided by O’Brien to mount a campaign to “incite a legitimate federal investigation of her claims.” Phillips claims that as a result of his ongoing PTSD he mistakenly consulted “programmer Steve Hassen” [sic] for advice regarding Kelly. The author reports that Steve eventually came to Alaska to meet with Kelly, but Steve’s “agenda was to traumatize Cathy by using a well-known code to trigger her to run for her life—from me.” The “programmer’s” effect on Cathy and Kelly was temporary because they returned to Phillips. He calls the lead from a Time-Life reporter that led to his interaction with “Hassen” the “single biggest judgement error in pursuit of helpful information.” My reason for mentioning this intervention is not to analyze how Hassan (the correct spelling) handled the intervention, but how a paranoid, obsessed client might react to exposure and intervention. The “programmer” he hired became another virtual government agent. Phillips claims that the government had an “invisible grip” on Cathy and Kelly by dint of residual effects of brainwashing experiments. Everyone in authority in the book is somehow connected to a surreptitious government agent who is sent to “mind-control” Cathy and Kelly. The stories in the book are unbelievably lurid concerning the purpose of the mind control to make sex slaves for the president and other government officials. “Rather than use occultism on Kelly, Aquino traumatized her through sexual assault and high voltage tortures of the mind and body. She, like I, to this day carries numerous scars from this ‘non-satanic’ abuse base. I know from years of research, NASA technology, and Aquino’s programming combined with the Project Monarch standard food, water, and sleep deprivation and high voltage made Kelly a subject of state of the art genetically multigenerational MPD/DID psychological mind control engineering” (p. 112). “Aquino” in the book is Michael Aquino, a real one-time military intelligence officer and an avowed Satanist who founded the Temple of Set. The book indicts political figures George Bush, Dick Cheney, and particularly Senator Byrd as insiders in Cathy’s brainwashing and sexual abuse. A quick glance in March, 2005 at the couple’s web site (www.trance-formation.com) reveals that Kelly, 17, is in the custody of an organization in Tennessee. Of course, to the couple this means more sinister mind control. For Kelly it could mean a chance at recovery from a highly delusional thought system. As for Phillips’ view of “Hassen,” he connects the “deprogrammer” he mistakenly hired to Louis J. West and Margaret T. Singer. Phillips calls both Singer and West “Hassen’s UCLA psychiatrist friends.” He then indicts Hassen because Dr. West ostensibly worked for MK-ULTRA, as did Singer in his view. Continued.... | ||
| david_mccarthy Intermediate Member Username: david_mccarthy Post Number: 184 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 216.227.115.112 |
Part 4 Dr. West was the director of the UCLA Neuropsychiatry Institute, but Singer had nothing to do with it and she was a psychologist with a Ph.D. I knew and worked with both West and Singer over many years before they passed away. They had to put up with conspiratorial misinformation about their characters and legacies because of important work and early research they performed in the 1950s for the military on mind control. They were among the pioneers to bring light to the effects of brainwashing of American soldiers. Later, both of them, especially Margaret Singer, offered their expertise to assist thousands of victims of abusive cults. The distorted myths about Singer and West presented by paranoid writers only reinforce how delusional the writers remain. A smaller, more sensible yet conspiratorial volume is Mind Control in the United States by Steven Jacobson (1985). This book reinforces the notion that Big Brother is real and working behind the scenes to influence how we the people think and act. The author points to popular music, the film industry, and government efforts at anti-drug campaigns. Reefer Madness, a 1936 American government anti-drug propaganda film, gets an especially conspiratorial rating from Jacobson for what he alleges as the “hypnotic” double message inserted in the film: don’t smoke marijuana and do dope, but look how much fun the people are having while doing drugs! Jacobson would have us believe that a shadowy world of powerful figures work in concert to suppress free human expression. One of their techniques is to promote the very sins they condemn because there is money to be made. Jacobson has a cynical view of all-powerful leaders. He supports the work of the eccentric theosophist William Dudley Pelley (1890-1965) as an explanation for what the mind control engineers are doing to us. As the remedy Jacobson points to occult power: “Think of your subconscious mind as your link with The Force. Now imagine your conscious mind directing the power of the Force.” The author then quotes Pelley from Soulcraft: “The unleashing of this force within you is a mighty torrent; it is a molecular energy of a speed and variation encompassed by no human brain in concept; it is Force Triumphant, striking him dead who hath not the power to use it aright.” If you read the first section of this book, you should recognize Pelley as the founder of the legion of Silver Shirts, an avowedly Fascist political cult that had a strong influence on Guy Ballard who founded the “I AM” Activity in 1934. The connection between isolated individuals with delusions about mind control and writers like Jacobson that promote delusional solutions to mind control is in the virtual worlds that both claim to have intimate knowledge about. We might call it mind control gnosis about a world that is a living parody or parallel universe to what I might call a reality testable world. A feeling that paranormal forces, gods, or a benign deity guides or influences all life on Earth intrigues many of us. The New Age cult that intrigued me was full of teachings about other world powers (Ascended Masters) that affect all yet few recognize. Intimate knowledge (gnosis) about this hidden world gives some people a sense of an elite status if not an imagined or real power over others. However, some Continued... | ||
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Part 5 unfortunate souls have a severely disordered brain-mind function that makes it extremely difficult for them to sort through reality. Pseudo-scientific speculation that quantum physics has somehow verified or indicated the possibility of extrasensory perception, transpersonal powers, or occult forces that bend to human will finds support in books by a host of authors. Fritjof Capra (The Tao of Physics), Gary Zukav (The Dancing Wu Li Masters), Deepak Chopra (Quantum Healing), Rupert Sheldrake (A New Science of Life), and James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy) are but a small sampling. Jay Stevens (1987) Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream gives a full account of the development of LSD through MK-Ultra and its cultural effect on the social landscape of America. The authors refer to Stephen Hassan, the long time cult expert and intervention specialist in America, who wrote Combatting Cult Mind Control (1988). Margaret Thaler Singer with Janja Lalich (1995) Cults In Our Midst: The hidden menace in our everyday lives gives a good overview of Margaret Singer’s real work and philosophy regarding cults and mind control. William Dudley Pelley (1950) Soulcraft IBID: Volume 2, Chapter 18, page 16. Thank you Joe... David | ||
| whatchamacallit Intermediate Member Username: whatchamacallit Post Number: 238 Registered: 3-2006 Posted From: 24.177.245.142 |
Go, Joe ! I'd like to add that "Ramtha" told the audience a number of times, to read the book "Trance-Formation of America" and that the contents were very close to completely true based on the memory of mind-control victim Cathie O'Brien. I didn't read it for a long time and was so pressured by other students that I finally ordered it and read most of it. It was disgusting; filled with more government and military conpiracy junk than I've ever heard, with a strong inclusion of sexual deviancy. I never finished the book because it was so revolting to me, that not even for "Ramtha" could I read it to the end. It was a fear inducing tactic, in my opinion, on the part of JZ Knight, to coerce/shame/insist that students had to read that book. S/he has insisted students read other books, too. At times, the "reading list" was referred to as a REQUIRED reading list and was filled with POLITICAL topics. That was a blessing for me because I don't like being told what my political views are and neither do I appreciate that reading what I think was a porn novel, is healthy for my SPIRITUAL growth and evolution....except that it was one of the RED FLAGS for me...pushing me OUT the door of RSE. For THAT, I am glad. |
