Brain Washing

Thinkers of renaissance needed to battle hard to present their ideas. Middle age power structures were losing their grip, but yet completely not shattered. They continued to hold power in the name of religion and tradition. Common people were warned to be aware of radical thinkers who were portrayed as vultures who are out there to contaminate innocent minds.

Today, free thinkers are not seen as vultures but indeed there are many forms of vultures that are waiting to lure our minds in order to achieve their ends. Corporate, Cultic groups, Government mechanism, and Political parties are all battling for our thought process. They want us to believe them unconditionally and surrendering to their propaganda. The best way to persuade any person is using the process called brain washing.

Following are the methods used in brain washing a person. When you attend any meeting or seminar and if they use any one or combination of few methods of the following process, be aware they are attempting to brain wash you. Of course all can’t be brain washed, but sizable people are prone to be affected.

1. The “Voice Roll” Technique: it is patterned and paced style of speaking in order to induce trance. The speaker is talking to the beat of metronome or speaking as though every word in a monotonous patterned style.

2. TheBuild-up Process: Inducing Altered States: First an assistant address the crowd generates excitement and expectation about the main speaker. Next a group of young women or men sing a soothing song. During the singing one person will display kind of euphoria, at this point audience attention totally focused upon communication and the main speaker opens his address.

3. Bonding by Fear and Suggestion: The speaker induces fear by pointing out to a group or some idea. The hate propaganda is explained using visual image. Usually a known fact will be cited at first then extrapolated to another extreme level. Under trance, quite many of us fail to use our neo-cortex to reason out, thus end up believing everything.

4. The “Sell It By Zealot” Technique: Before the meeting is complete, kind of informal agreements are made with audience to go out spread their message to other people. Their argument would be that many must know about the message. So sell it by zealot will be their emphasis.  

5. Jargon: The introduction of jargon—new terms that have meaning only to the “insiders” who participate. Vicious language is also frequently used, purposely, to make participants uncomfortable.

6. Lack of Humor: No Release, No Resistance. There is no humor in the communications. There may be jokes and humor after you have become part of the group. Keeping the other person in tension is a must to drive a point effectively.