Mind Manipulation. Dr. Haha Lung

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      In his book Street Ninja, Dirk Skinner says that the more you know about how the human body is put together, the easier it is to take it apart.

      The same holds true for the human mind.

      The more we understand about the basic functioning of the human brain—how it “sees” the world around it, how it processes and stores information—the easier it is for us to guard the frontiers of our own minds while successfully mounting a campaign against the minds of our enemies.

      HOW THE BRAIN SEES

      The brain sees and then stores information, even the most complex of information, as simple picture-symbols. This holds true whether the brain is taking in information only through the eyes or through one of the other senses—hearing, smell, taste, or touch.

      Try this experiment: Ask people to describe a spiral staircase. After searching for words to describe the staircase, observe how they inevitably draw pictures (symbols) of it in the air with their hands.

      Now ask someone, “How many sides does a pyramid have?” Most people will say “three,” correcting themselves only after you point out that a triangle has three sides, a three-dimensional pyramid, five. When you say “pyramid,” your friend’s brain hears “triangle” since the brain stores the memory of a pyramid (complex) behind the picture-symbol of a triangle (simple) in the “things that remind me of a triangle” file.

      Consider this: “The United States of America” is a vast and complex notion. The concept of “U.S.A.” incorporates such subconcepts as “liberty” and “the pursuit of happiness.”

      However, as complex as the actual physical entity of the U.S.A. is, all it takes is seeing a flag with stars and stripes, a scowling poster of Uncle Sam, or hearing a patriotic song on the radio for our brains to visualize the U.S.A. in all its glory.

      Mind-masters, from Army recruiters to political spin-doctors, know the value of symbols that cause our minds to involuntarily form thoughts and images, symbols that trigger responses within us whether we want our minds to or not!

      The Power of Visualization

      Recent research conducted at Stanford University has verified what master mind manipulators have known for centuries: that mentally picturing doing an action in our minds causes our nervous system to react as if we were actually doing the action being imagined.

      World-class athletes know the positive potential of such deliberate voluntary mental visualization training. In fact, an estimated 90 percent of sports figures practice some form of visualization. Shadow boxing employs visualization, as do ritual forms (kata) of martial arts.

      On the more sinister side, unscrupulous mind-slayers know that involuntary visualization (e.g. reliving a catastrophic failure or traumatic assault over and over in the mind) serves only to perpetuate feelings of powerlessness and self-loathing.

      Mind-slayers also know that simple words or even gestures can be used to purposely trigger involuntary images in another’s mind. If you doubt this, flip a stranger “the bird” and see how quickly your single raised middle finger affects that stranger’s mood. Why? Not because the digit itself is threatening, but because of the images the person forms in his mind when seeing that single finger.

      Visualization works because, contrary to popular conception, our eyes are not cameras perfectly recording all the things that cross in front of our eyes. For example, when we look at an object, say a tree, we are not actually seeing the tree perfectly reflected off some mirror in our brain. What we are seeing in our mind’s eye is our brain’s reassembled image of that tree.

      Like Star Trek’s matter-transporter, our eyes “disassemble” the tree into manageable data-bytes (with information relating to the object’s shape, size, color, etc.) and then “beam” (relay) that information in the form of electrical impulses into our brain, where an image of the tree is then reassembled.

      Between breaking down the image into storable data bytes and reassembling those data bytes inside our heads, dozens of different filters affect how accurately we reassemble those data bytes.

      These filters include:

      • Physical defects in the structure of sense organs (such as colorblindness, poor hearing, or lack of taste buds);

      • Defects in the brain itself (chemical imbalances, either natural or self-induced);

      • Strong emotion and psychological concerns (e.g. fear, lust, or jealousy);

      • Socially-imposed constraints and taboos (e.g. religious or racial prejudices).

      These filters affect how accurately an object (or an idea, for that matter) is reassembled inside our heads.

      Killer Symbols

      What teenager hasn’t experienced an embarrassing wet dream? How is it that nightmares make our hearts beat faster? Why does merely thinking about asking the prom queen out on a date, asking the boss for a raise, or having to prepare for an important speech make us literally break out in a cold sweat?

      It is because images from our internal world, our mind, can affect us externally by making us physically ill or ill at ease.

      It is no secret that mental symbols can cause physical symptoms. For example, racist symbols may excite us, frighten us, or piss us off, causing us to tremble with rage. Likewise, patriotic symbols and team emblems stir our blood, causing our chests to swell with pride. In other words, a mental image or symbol can easily have physical consequence as significant as an actual physical experience.

      Some experts maintain that mental СКАЧАТЬ