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Hypnosis is a phenomenon used by “priests in Egypt and Greece in ‘sleep temples’ hundreds of years before Chirst,” writes Margaret O. Hyde in Brainwashing and Other Forms of Mind Control.¹ Expert Dr. George H. Estabrooks wrote in his 1943 book Hypnotism that professor Clark Hull of Yale Univeristy compared hypnosis to the conditioned reflex.² Speaking as the chairman of the Department of Psychology of Colgate University, Estabrooks said, “I can hypnotize a man without his knowledge or consent into committing treason against the United States,” writes Jerry E. Smith in HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy.^{3, i}

Carla Emery noted in Secret, Don’t Tell: The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism that “Estabrooks proposed, over and over, that superspies with one-way amnesia should be created by deliberate personality splitting.” ⁴ Walter Wager writes in his 1975 book turned movie Telefon about brainwashed sleeper agents that “the perfect deep-cover agent…is the one who doesn’t know he or she is an agent.” ⁵ Estabrooks explains in Hypnotism:

The possible uses of hypnotism in warfare cover a wide field.… The use of hypnotism in warfare represents the cloak and dagger idea at its best – or worst.… [If] we deliberately set up this condition of multiple personality to further the ends of military intelligence,…the proper training of a person…would be long and tedious, but once he was trained, you would have a super spy.…

Such a subject prepared for use as a super spy would be a nightmare to any intelligence department:… a synthetic hypnotic spy with a dual personality is extremely hard to detect.… Under the conditions of warfare they would be a constant source of danger.… First, there is no danger of the agent’s selling out. More important would be the conviction of innocence which the man himself had, and this is a great aid in many situations.… Finally, it would be impossible to “third degree” him.…

If we care to translate that into the field of crime, we can see the ease with which we could prepare a watertight alibi.… Hypnotism in crime is very close to hypnotism in warfare.…

A nation fighting with its back to the wall is not worried over the niceties of ethics. If hypnotism can be used to advantage, we can rest assured that it will be so employed.⁶

Secretly funded by the CIA, the Head of the American, Canadian, and World Psychiatric Associations, Dr. Ewen Cameron, employed his “psychic driving” process from 1957 to 1964 to “depattern” hundreds of patients in Canada. Using powerful drug cocktails, extreme electroconvulsive therapy, induced comas, and playing a patient’s own recorded words back to them repeatedly,ⁱⁱ the purpose of psychic driving was to rebuild a subject’s personality. His human guinea pigs would inevitably become worse off after treatments. Eventually Cameron would admit his experiments weren’t as effective as he had hoped.

It took five decades, but several victims of Ewen Cameron’s Mind Control experiments were finally entitled monetary compensation after a successful class action lawsuit filed by lawyer Alan Stein on behalf of Janine Huard. The brooksbulletin.com news website reported that “in 1994, 77 patients were awarded $100,000 each from the federal government but more than 250 others were denied compensation because they were not ‘totally depatterned.’” ⁷

Jonathan Edwards discovered a simpler method of affecting change during a religious crusade in 1735. Dick Sutphen reports in The Battle For Your Mind: Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today at his DickSutphen.com website:

By inducing guilt and acute apprehension and by increasing the tension, the sinners attending his revival meetings would break down and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards was doing was creating conditions that wipe the brain slate clean so that the mind accepts new programming.⁸

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Notes

ⁱ Hypnosis isn’t recommended for people under age 14, since young people are particularly sensitive to the experience.
– “2nd hypnotist rescues students stuck in trance; Private school show unfurls after hypnotized students don’t snap out of it,” CBC News, 15 June 2012, at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/06/15/quebec-hypnosis-show-high-school.html (retrieved: 17 June 2012).

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ⁱⁱ From 1953 the Canadian psychiatrist Dr Donald Ewen Cameron began to use the Cerebrophone, renamed the Dormaphone, as part of a technique he called “psychic driving”. Following electroshock therapy, during which “unwanted” memories were erased, Cameron’s exhausted patients would fall into a deep sleep, sometimes for several days, while messages were repeatedly played to them through the Dormaphone. Cameron, notorious for his cold and often unethical approach, became a key figure in the CIA’s MK-Ultra investigation into brainwashing and mind control, where psychic driving was used to “reprogramme” subjects. Some later sued Cameron for malpractice.
Mark Pilkington, “Night School,” 2 March 2005, at http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/mar/03/research.highereducation1 (retrieved: 25 February 2013).

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¹ Margaret O. Hyde, Brainwashing and Other Forms of Mind Control (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1977), p. 82.

² G.H. Estabrooks, Hypnotism (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1957, 1943), p. 211.

³ Jerry E. Smith, HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1999), p. 128; See also George H. Estabrooks & Nancy E. Gross, The Future of the Human Mind (London: Museum Press Ltd., 1961), p. 216.

⁴ Carla Emery, Secret, Don’t Tell: The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism (MI: Acorn Hill Publ. Co., 1998), p. 128.

⁵ Walter Wager, Telefon (New York: Macmillan Publ. Co., Inc., 1975), p. 23.

⁶ Estabrooks, Hypnotism, pp. 175, 179, 193, 194, 198, 200, 201, 204, 205, 206.

⁷ Dene Moore, “Montreal woman seeks class-action approval over CIA mind control experiments,” www.brooksbulletin.com, 7 January 2007, at http://www.brooksbulletin.com/news/national_news.asp?itemid=59666 (retrieved: 20 May 2008).

⁸ Dick Sutphen, The Battle For Your Mind: Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today, at http://www.dicksutphen.com/html/battlemind.html (retrieved: 12 March 2011).

See also

Kevin Crosby, “Spy,” in Tinfoil Hat, SkewsMe.com, at http://skewsme.com/tinfoilhat/chapter/spy/ (retrieved: 22 January 2013).

Kevin Crosby, “Hypnosim in Warfare,” SkewsMe.com, at http://www.skewsme.com/hypnosis.html (retrieved: 12 March 2011).

“Hypnosis,” Wikipedia.org, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis (retrieved: 15 November 2008).

“George Estabrooks,” Wikipedia.org, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Estabrooks (retrieved: 15 November 2008).

“Donald Ewen Cameron,” Wikipedia.org, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan_Cameron_(MKULTRA) (retrieved: 15 November 2008).

“Jonathan Edwards (theologian),” Wikipedia.org, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Edwards_(theologian) (retrieved: 15 November 2008).

“Trainee hypnotist forced to call in help after girls at Canadian private school are locked in a trance for FIVE HOURS,” MailOnline, 18 June 2012, at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161364/Trainee-hypnotist-calls-mentor-girls-Canadian-private-school-locked-trance-hours.html (retrieved: 25 June 2012).

“On 2 July 1951 approximately 1:00 p.m. the instruction began with [deleted] relating to the student some of his sexual experiences. [Deleted] stated that he had constantly used hypnotism as a means of inducing young girls to engage in sexual intercourse with him. [Deleted], a performer in [deleted] orchestra, was forced to engage in sexual intercourse with [deleted] while under the influence of hypnotism. [Deleted] stated that he first put her into a hypnotic trance and then suggested to her that he was her husband and that she desired sexual intercourse with him.”
– “Sexual Abuse by CIA Instructor: Image of Original Declassified CIA Document,” CIA Document Mori ID: 140393, page 1, 9 July 1951, at http://www.wanttoknow.info/mind_control/foia_mind_control/cia_sexual_abuse_mind_control (retrieved: 28 August 2012).

Related videos

“Telefon (1977) U.S. Trailer Charles Bronson, Don Siegel,” vivadjango video at YouTube.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qg0w8qbBQo (retrieved: 15 November 2008). (Watch it here)

“Ewen Cameron, Memory Thief – Part 1,” www.bbc.co.uk, ectorg video at YouTube.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aPPdKewAHc (retrieved: 15 November 2008). (Watch it here)

“Ewen Cameron, Memory Thief – Part 2,” www.bbc.co.uk, ectorg video at YouTube.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82OdRogOfEA (retrieved: 15 November 2008). (Watch it here)

“Ewen Cameron, Memory Thief – Part 3,” www.bbc.co.uk, ectorg video at YouTube.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Py20Zrm6s (retrieved: 15 November 2008). (Watch it here)

“RARE Pentron “Dormiphone” playing its tape cartridge.,” A weirdo with electronics and pencils. video at YouTube.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-1Mb9OE-Dk (retrieved: 25 February 2013). (Watch it here)

“Students stuck in ‘trance’,” video at WorldNow.com, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161364/Trainee-hypnotist-calls-mentor-girls-Canadian-private-school-locked-trance-hours.html (retrieved: 25 June 2012). (Watch it here)

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