Mind Manipulation. Dr. Haha Lung

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СКАЧАТЬ at a cellular level, directly influencing physical tissues and organs. This is one explanation for the documented power of voodoo-type curses to kill.

      Medicine has documented the “placebo effect,” in which patients given sugar pills they believe to be powerful narcotics relieve their own pain through the power of suggestion. Less well known is the “nocebo effect,” in which patients, believing themselves to have terminal illnesses (or to be under curses) literally make themselves sick and die. In these instances, the patient’s belief sets off a chain of mental images that culminate in the person physically making himself sick, perhaps even dying from fright.

      Types of Symbols

      “. . . the mind of man contains only so many visions.”

      —Judith Hooper and Dick Teresi,

       The Three-Pound Universe

      How we respond to visualized symbols depends on the background and context in which the symbols appear and on the conditions under which we originally encountered their meaning.

      There are three types of symbols: universal symbols, cultural-religious symbols, and symbols that have purely personal meaning. Adept mind-slayers learn to recognize and wield these different kinds of symbols in order to mentally and physically affect others’ thoughts and actions.

      Universal Symbols

      Some symbols are universal and are found in all times, in all parts of the world. Psychology pioneer Carl Jung (1875-1961) called these universal symbols “archetypes.”

      For instance, in the 1920s, University of Chicago scientist Heinrich Kluver discovered four shapes that appeared in all mescaline hallucinations: the spiral, the tunnel (or funnel), the cobweb, and latticework (criss-crossing lines or honeycomb patterns). These “geometric constants” were subsequently verified in studies at UCLA in the 1970s.¹

      Such studies indicate that our brains are already hard-wired with certain universal symbols, the four discovered in these two studies, and perhaps others yet to be isolated.

      Cultural-Religious Symbols

      The meanings of other symbols are determined and defined by whatever particular culture or religion happens to be dominant at the time. Such symbols include religious figures and totems, tribal standards, and patriotic emblems.

      Often in a culture, a particular religious or political figure will take on importance as a symbol to others, either positive or negative (e.g. Hitler, Gandhi, or Martin Luther King).

      Personal Symbols

      The third type of symbol is based on our individual experiences, pleasurable or traumatic.

      Despite rationalizing, all of us respond to universal symbols and to cultural and political symbols. That’s why Madison Avenue and other mind manipulation adepts are so good at making us buy things we don’t need. In many instances however, personal interpretation of symbols seems able to override cultural, political, and even universal meanings of common symbols.

      Take for example the near-universal depiction of the Father/Creator/ God as a stern-faced old man with long white hair and a long white beard.

      Compare Michelangelo’s paintings of God with those of the Greco-Roman statues of Zeus and Jupiter, in turn, with those of Chinese “Immortals.”

      Although our logical adult brains might argue for God as a genderless, disembodied spirit, if we were raised under the scrutiny of a patriarchal culture or religion, this image of a wise and stern all-powerful father figure remains the symbol our brains “recognize” as God. This image in turn is compiled from, and associated with, images in our minds of omniscient wisdom and omnipotent authority.

      While this Father/God symbol is near-universal, and is culturally and religiously reinforced, any such image must still be filtered through our personal symbol dictionary. For example, one individual dreaming of a wizened white-haired and bearded figure will feel blessed and awe-inspired by the image because it would represent his cultural/religious symbol of the benevolent patriarchal God. Conversely, a second dreamer, the victim of parental child abuse, may wake up screaming in terror at the image of an oppressive and abusive father figure dominating his dream.

      The Power of Believing

      The most important consideration determining how a person responds to any particular symbol is the amount of mental energy (focus) that person invests into that particular symbol, that is, how strongly he believes in that symbol.

      The symbol of Uncle Sam (another stern white-bearded father figure, by the way) declaring “I want you!” is enough for some impressionable young people to pack up their ol’ kit bags and head for the front. For others, the symbol of Uncle Sam does not evoke feelings of patriotism, pride, and unquestioning obedience. For these, hostile foreign nationals for example, the symbol of Uncle Sam may incite hatred and fear.

      Belief is the most powerful of mental filters, determining whether information we reassemble inside our minds is reality, or merely a reflection of the way we’d like things to be.

      It is both the actual and perceived power pumped into a symbol by a culture, clan, or by a traumatized individual himself that observant and opportunistic mind-slayers evoke and manipulate through use of that symbol.

      Remember: It is belief that gives symbols their power. In other words, symbols are effective only when they stimulate a belief response in the subconscious.

      Why do symbols work? Why are they such effective tools in the mind-slayer’s bag of tricks?

      One theory behind why symbols work so well, affecting us both mentally and physically, is that symbols bypass the critical and logical conscious part of our minds and talk directly to the nonjudgmental subconscious level of our minds.

      It is at this subconscious level that the most adroit of mind-slayers ply their craft.

      To recap:

      The brain is not a camera. What the brain sees through the five senses is an all-too-often imperfect reconstruction.

      Filters placed between an object (or information) perceived by the senses and the brain’s reconstruction of that information influence and interfere with the brain’s accurate reconstruction of that information.

      These filters include such things as personal beliefs, strong emotion, past trauma, and cultural and religious prejudices.

      By deliberately imposing such filters between the information perceived by the senses and its reconstruction in the brain, an accomplished mind-slayer can control how another person’s mind sees.

      MASTERING THE MIND (HARAGAGEI)

      “Faced with a threatening challenge or confronted by overwhelming odds, the untrained body panics. It is left to the mind to realistically assess the situation and decide the proper course of action: flight or fight, resistance or surrender, life or death . . . A trained mind is an asset, a tool for survival.”

      —Dirk Skinner, Street Ninja

      It is often said we humans use only 10 percent of our brains.

      The truth is that we only consciously use a small percentage of our mental potential and, of the 10 percent or so we do consciously use, СКАЧАТЬ