{"id":64811,"date":"2021-12-14T21:52:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=64811"},"modified":"2021-12-14T21:52:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:52:50","slug":"menticide-dont-fall-victim-to-consciousness-control-technologies-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/menticide-dont-fall-victim-to-consciousness-control-technologies-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Menticide: don\u2019t fall victim to consciousness control technologies & techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the new book, The War on You<\/em>, it is documented how corporate and state elites use information, money, law, and psychology in an effort to control your thoughts and behaviours for their own ends. Most of the psychological warfare documented in the book is a result of living in a fragmented, for-profit culture over which the person has little control.<\/p>\n

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In case these unconscious structures fail to keep people in their place, the military, secret services, governments, and corporations have developed an impressive array of deliberate consciousness-control technologies and behavioural analysis firms targeted towards the person.<\/p>\n

Brain chips<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US Central Intelligence Agency\u2019s (CIA) conscience control experiments, dating back to the 1950s, are well-known. Their MK-ULTRA experiments in sensory deprivation continue to be used on Guant\u00e1namo Bay captives. But until Ian Cobain\u2019s book \u201cCruel Britannia<\/em>\u201d, few people knew that British psychologists had pioneered the use of sensory deprivation for conscience control.<\/p>\n

During WWII, Lord Swinton \u201cpressed the Home Office for permission to open an MI5 interrogation centre<\/em>,\u201d codenamed Camp 020<\/em>. Brightly lit for 24 hours, a resident doctor reportedly said that the Camp induced \u201cmental atrophy and extreme loquacity<\/em>\u201d in its victims. A resident medical officer named Harold Dearden \u201cdreamed up the regimes of starvation and of sleep and sensory deprivation<\/em>.\u201d The Camp was one of a number, including the MI19-run Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre, later renamed A19.<\/p>\n

After the War, several individuals convened to share intelligence on conscience control. They represented the Defence Research Policy Committee, the Joint Intelligence Bureau, the Canadian Defence Research Board, the CIA\u2019s Research and Development Board, and the Psychology Unit at McGill University (Montreal). The latter was led by Donald Hebb.<\/p>\n

The scientists referred to their psychological devastation techniques as \u201cmenticide<\/em>.\u201d Hebb subjected terrier puppies to prolonged isolation before pursueing it on consenting postgraduate students. The British and American governments and the CIA funded Hebb\u2019s successors, including his former student Dr Maitland Baldwin. Baldwin found \u201cthat sensory deprivation would almost certainly cause irreparable psychological damage<\/em>\u201d in humans.<\/p>\n

The CIA\u2019s \u201cKubark Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual<\/em>\u201d (1963) was based on MK-ULTRA. One of the MK-ULTRA psychiatrists was McGill University\u2019s Dr Ewen Cameron, a colleague of Hebb. Cameron \u201csubjected hundreds of psychiatric patients to large doses of electroshock and total sensory isolation, and drugged them with LSD and PCP<\/em>,\u201d writes journalist Naomi Klein. In 1960, Cameron lectured to the Brooks Air Force Base, stating that sensory deprivation \u201cproduces the primary symptoms of schizophrenia<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tulane University was allegedly involved in the operations, using the services of a state-hospital, as well as funding by a CIA front company called the Commonwealth Fund, to conduct research. The Washington Post<\/em> reports that the \u201cquest to turn humans into robot-like assassins via electrodes planted in their brains<\/em>\u201d led to a number of lawsuits, in which several ex-servicemen claim to have been unwitting human test subjects. Plaintiff Bruce Price claims that in 1966, he was ordered into a building full of lab animals in which he was strapped to a gurney. Price kept waking up with bruised arms and covered in blood. A later CT scan, obtained by Price\u2019s lawyer, appears to show that he had been implanted with a conscience control device.<\/p>\n

Beyond Freedom & Dignity<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the 1950s, the psychologist B.F. Skinner utilised the Russian (and later Soviet) scientist Ivan Pavlov\u2019s conditioning techniques to falsely argue that that is how human beings learn. Geneticists pointed out that the potential for knowledge actually comes from innate brain structures, not solely from repetitive learning. But Skinner was correct in that people can be conditioned, if the conditioning is maintained, to behave in certain ways and under certain conditions.<\/p>\n

Skinner\u2019s work culminated in the publication of his book \u201cBeyond Freedom and Dignity<\/em>\u201d (1971), in which he argued that humanity should be scientifically controlled via a blend of Orwellian and Huxleyan social architecture designed to end both human freedom and dignity. Skinner failed to persuade elites to impose a blanket control system. But such a system is gradually creeping in, based on these kinds of ideas.<\/p>\n

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In his work on \u201cnudging<\/em>,\u201d Barack Obama\u2019s former advisor Cass Sunstein argues that, like rats in a maze, people should be given the illusion of choice in what he and co-authors call choice architecture. Conspiracy forums should be \u201ccognitively infiltrated<\/em>,\u201d he says, and the supposed rationalism of the official line inserted into chat-rooms. More ominously, he says behavioural science teams should be expanded to control public opinion, for benign reasons, like \u201cnudging<\/em>\u201d smokers to quit.<\/p>\n

The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) was founded by the UK\u2019s Tory-Liberal coalition government in 2010. The Cabinet Office said: \u201cThe Behavioural Insights Team, often called the \u2018Nudge Unit\u2019, draws on insights from academic research in behavioural economics and psychology, to apply them to public policymaking<\/em>.\u201d The professed aims of the BIT may sound innocent enough: to use insights in human behaviour from the fields of neuroscience and cognitive psychology to influence behaviour (hence the \u201cnudge<\/em>\u201d) in positive directions, such as helping people to eat more healthily, keep appointments, and pick up litter.<\/p>\n

The first aspect<\/u> to be said about the BIT is the moral question of using subconscious ploys to consciously manipulate human behaviour. This takes away agency and thus autonomy from the individual. That is called manipulation. In fact, policymakers are so interested in the subject of how to use psychology, as opposed to force, to control people that there is even \u201cThe Persuasion Handbook<\/em>\u201d (2002, SAGE).<\/p>\n

The second issue<\/u> is consent. In clinical and psychological trials, the consent of the subject is required. Who consents to be manipulated by the government?<\/p>\n

Putting aside the moral issues, the third problem<\/u> is that of context. The government only cares about your health when it affects government spending. As it defunds and privatises, the British government doesn\u2019t want people draining the National Health Service with smoking- and obesity-related complaints. It is cheaper to use manipulation techniques as a kind of preventative medicine than it is to properly fund services that everyone can enjoy. The same applies to the British government\u2019s handling of Covid-19. Rather than spending money on testing, tracking, and tracing, the government used \u201cnudge<\/em>\u201d units to contain the virus on the cheap by social distancing and clapping for the National Health Service.<\/p>\n

The fourth problem<\/u> with the BIT is mission creep. As is standard practice in our Western kleptocracies, the public paid for the foundation and research of the BIT until it was profitable enough to be part-privatised. The BIT now operates in several countries and produces reports on everything from policing to labour productivity; all in the interests of humanity, of course.<\/p>\n

Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG)<\/strong><\/p>\n

By 2010, the British government\u2019s spy agency, GCHQ and the US agency the NSA, were working together on JTRIG: the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group. The organisation was secret until Edward Snowden leaked some of the organisation\u2019s files. Many of the files were published by the journalist Glenn Greenwald in The Intercept<\/em>.<\/p>\n

One document from 2011 is worth quoting at length. It says that \u201cJTRIG targets a range of individual, group and state actors across the globe who pose criminal, security and defence threats<\/em>.\u201d JTRIG operations also targeted the online \u201chacktivist<\/em>\u201d group Anonymous.<\/p>\n

\u201cJTRIG staff use a range of techniques to, for example, discredit, disrupt, delay, deny, degrade, and deter<\/em>.\u201d Both established and up-and-coming political analysts, journalists, pundits, personalities and other influential people who challenge the British state may find their websites and social media accounts hacked or incriminating evidence planted on their computers.<\/p>\n

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Picture above is from top secret documents of the JTRIG program. The scope of JTRIG\u2019s mission includes using \u201cdirty tricks\u201d to \u201cdestroy, deny, degrade [and] disrupt\u201d enemies by \u201cdiscrediting\u201d them, planting misinformation and shutting down their communications. According to Edward Snowden, these influence programs became a \u201cmajor part\u201d of GCHQ\u2019s operations by 2010 \u2013 the same year the UK government established its Behavioural Insights Team.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>The techniques include: uploading YouTube videos containing persuasive messages; establishing online aliases with Facebook and Twitter accounts, blogs and forum memberships for conducting HUMINT [human intelligence] or encouraging discussion on specific issues; sending spoof emails and text messages as well as providing spoof online resources; and setting up spoof trade sites.<\/p>\n

The document goes on to note that \u201cJTRIG provides most of GCHQ\u2019s cyber effects and online HUMINT capability<\/em>.\u201d GCHQ\u2019s mandate is huge: the whole of Europe, and likely well beyond. It is difficult, therefore, to grasp the potential scope of JTRIG. Above, we noted the civilian government\u2019s use of behavioural science to manipulate society. The JTRIG documents confirm that operatives also study and employ techniques from the human sciences:<\/p>\n

HUMINT operations can be grounded in scientific theory and evidence from social psychology (i.e., social cognition, attitudes, persuasive communications, conformity, obedience, interpersonal relationships, trust and distrust, and psychological profiling), including its applications to advertising and marketing, and from criminology (i.e., crime prevention).<\/p>\n

The document\u2019s Annex reveals some of the books in the JTRIG library: \u201cThe Handbook of Trust Research<\/em>\u201d, \u201cInfluence: Science and Practice<\/em>\u201d, \u201cHacking the Human: Social Engineering Techniques<\/em>\u201d and \u201cSecurity and Countermeasures<\/em>\u201d. JTRIG lists as, and advises using, the following for propaganda operations: \u201cUsing stereotypes; Substituting names\/labels for neutral ones; Censorship or systematic selection of information; Repetition; Assertions without arguments; [and] Presenting a message for and against a subject<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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