Mind Control related info

by Markfromcali 3 Replies latest jw friends

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  Markfromcali

  So I thought it'd be nice to have a thread that would have it all in one place, here's an interesting bit about it showing up in architecture:

  When we walk into a Gothic cathedral, for example, we invite the building to inspire us. We understand and accept that the huge, pointed arches symbolically reach to the heavens ... When we enter, the external world disappears and we are transported into another. We lose our sense of bearing and become vulnerable to the second battery of psychological tricks.

  These structures utilize more subtle design features that only an art-history student would be able to discern. Most of us are unaware, for example, that the shadowy band of arches and columns beneath the highest set of windows is called the "triforium," or that its architectural purpose is to evoke fear. It is an optical trick: Filled with slightly hidden doorways on inaccessible balconies--often leading nowhere at all--the triforium draws our eyes but provides us with no answers. It is meant to remind us of secret cabals within the church, and the mysterious knowledge they possess.

  The miraculous architecture and its more subtle coercive cues quite forcibly convince us of the power of the religious institutiou to which it was dedicated.

  In the Middle Ages, the coercive power of architecture was so well appreciated, in face, that builders formed secret societies dedicated to keeping these technologies to themselves. Very few people understood how a vaulted arch was actually constructed, or why it defied gravity. Architects and the institutions they served maintained their authority by keeping this information guarded--the same way technology companies protect hi-tech secrets today.

  -Coercion by Douglas Rushkoff
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  Markfromcali

  How Neuromarketers Tapped the Vote Button in Your Brain to Help the GOP Win the House

  Darryl Howard, a consultant to two Republican winners on November 2, says he crafted neuromarketing-based messages for TV, direct mail and speeches for Senate, Congressional and Gubernatorial clients in 2010. “We measure everything including the storyline, level of the language, images, music. Using critical point analysis, we identify specifics that may drive voters away or attract them," he says. The techniques are non-invasive, and include measuring muscle, skin, and pupil response. "We prefer our methods over some EEG/fMRI methods because our approach is quicker and more importantly can be done in the script phase, saving production time and money and tells us the level of honesty of the ad.”

  "The real risk is that politicians will not want us to know that they are using influencing tools," says Patrick Renvoise, a neuromarketing consultant. "The one with the most knowledge wins and this probably explains why a lot of people are reluctant to talk about neuromarketing, especially with the word politician in the same sentence.”
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  Markfromcali

  Does anyone know of a good documentary in connection with Dr. Donald Camerons CIA funded mind control research in Canada? I guess it falls under MKULTRA so anything along those lines would also be of interest. I'm watching The Sleep Room but could do without the dramatization especially as it's really long.
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  Markfromcali

  After talking about using scents like potpourri at Victorias Secret, roasted chicken at Publix markets and augmented new car smell at dealerships, Rushkoff writes: (in 1999)

  By todays standards, such efforts are considered primitive. According to a new class of scent analysts, who presented their findings to the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Association of Chemoreception Sciences, the above odors can be dismissed as mere "ambient scents." Because these scents are already associated with the products they are meant to sell (even potpourri is associated with a woman's lingerie drawer), they depend on simple olfactory association. True scent coercion involves changing human behavior through pure olfactory stimulation using scents that work directly on the synaptic structures of the brain, not on the conscious mind. Studies by these chemoreception scientists have demonstrated that casinos purposefully scented with new, receptor-specific chemicals derived from plant extracts, insect venoms, and animal hormones boast a forty-five percent increase in slot-machine use. Other studies have shown that a person believes less time has passed when he waits for service in a chemically scented environment than if he waits in an unscented one. The molecular compositions and exact neural functions of these scents are well-guarded industry secrets.