source: Reality Sandwich
Much of this information has been covered here already but it's nice to see common sense confirmed by academia for once. Of course, psychiatrists involved with the MK Ultra Project have been well aware of these occurrences for over half a century now but don't expect the documented history of their experiments to be published by the scientific establishment anytime soon. The following article needs some editing but it also publicizes academic research necessary for understanding the nature of military behavior modification programs. Illustrating this point is a quote from the neuroscientist, Diane Hennacy Powell, who was interviewed for the author's radio show: "Unfortunately, psychic research has never received adequate funding and the situation is even worse today in this economic climate. Some of the most compelling research was supported during the Cold War by various branches of US military intelligence, which felt that it could not afford to let the Russians become more advanced in this area. Some of this research was declassified in 1995 and there is still a wealth of information that is classified".
In this episode of Esoteric Voices, Diane Hennacy Powell talks about her research into the neuroscience of psychic phenomena. It started with her seeing a patient who started giving her a psychic reading that contained too much accurate information for her to ignore. She wondered how it was possible for people to know these types of things, and why there was a higher incidence of it occurring with people who are usually described as mentally ill.
One of the problems with researching psychics from a neuroscience perspective is that they are wary of having their brains scanned and risking exposure to radiation. What Powell did to overcome this was to look at already existing brain scans of patients who had higher incidents of psi experiences, which included people diagnosed as being bi-polor, having symptoms of ADD, or autism as well as people who have had head trauma, vivid dreams, or synesthesia.
Powell wrote a book called The ESP Enigma which reported her findings into the nature of consciousness. She found that psychic people tend be have more dominant right brains, and to that they have more activity in their limbic system, which is related to dreaming and emotional processing. She also found that DMT tends to activate the limbic system, and that it's present in our pineal gland or Third Eye, it's the active ingredient of ayahuasca, and that it's usually secreted during out-of-body or near-death experiences. more...
also related:
The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena by Diane Hennacy Powell offers a 'science-based' look at psychic phenomena.
source: The Daily Telegraph of London, via Dianehennacypowell.com
In layman-friendly style, Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell, a practicing psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and contributor to the Institute of Noetic Sciences, posits that the world is in the middle of a paradigm shift in its understanding of consciousness...From that jumping-off point, Dr. Powell combs through decades of published studies, experiments, investigations by the CIA, anecdotal evidence of psychic experiences, accounts of prophetic dreams, work by famous psychics such as Edgar Cayce, and the conclusions of Carl Jung and Albert Einstein on consciousness and the illusion of time...Psychic phenomena appear to be real and a potential in everyone, Dr Powell concludes, and she places blame on Western culture’s left-brained dominance for its failure to function more intuitively and psychically...And this psychiatrist, who also trained at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School before going into private practice, can hardly be labelled a New Age loon. As she puts it, “[T]urning a blind eye to psychic phenomena is no more an option than refusing to believe that spacecraft landed on the moon simply because we cannot explain the physics that made such a feat possible.”
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Rachmaninoff playlist
During a recent bicycle trip I had the misfortune of getting a flat in the middle of nowhere, however the walk back to the city was more than enjoyable since this provided an opportunity to listen to a Dizzy Gillespie collection, Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto and Been Caught Buttering by Pungent Stench, all in their entirety. Each recording is of the highest quality.
More Than Human? The Ethics of Biologically Enhancing Soldiers
By Patrick Lin, via The Atlantic
Our ability to "upgrade" the bodies of soldiers through drugs, implants, and exoskeletons may be upending the ethical norms of war as we've understood them.
If we can engineer a soldier who can resist torture, would it still be wrong to torture this person with the usual methods? Starvation and sleep deprivation won't affect a super-soldier who doesn't need to sleep or eat. Beatings and electric shocks won't break someone who can't feel pain or fear like we do. This isn't a comic-book story, but plausible scenarios based on actual military projects today....
As you might expect, there are serious moral and legal risks to consider on this path. Last week in the UK, The Royal Society released its report " Neuroscience, Conflict and Security." This timely report worried about risks posed by cognitive enhancements to military personnel, as well as whether new nonlethal tactics, such as directed energy weapons, could violate either the Biological or Chemical Weapons Conventions...what's needed is an upgrade to the basic human condition. We want our warfighters to be made stronger, more aware, more durable, more maneuverable in different environments, and so on. The technologies that enable these abilities fall in the realm of human enhancement, and they include neuroscience, biotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, and more.
While some of these innovations are external devices, such as exoskeletons that give the wearer super-strength, our technology devices are continually shrinking in size. Our mobile phones today have more computing power than the Apollo rockets that blasted to the moon. So there's good reason to think that these external enhancements someday can be small enough to be integrated with the human body, for an even greater military advantage.
Ethical and safety issues
Established standards in biomedical ethics-such as the Nuremberg Code, the Declaration of Helsinki, and others-govern the research stage of enhancements, that is, experimentation on human subjects. But "military necessity" or the exigencies of war can justify actions that are otherwise impermissible, such as a requirement to obtain voluntary consent of a patient. Under what conditions, then, could a warfighter be commanded (or refuse) a risky or unproven enhancement, such as a vaccine against a new biological weapon? Because some enhancements could be risky or pose long-term health dangers, such as addiction to "go pills", should military enhancements be reversible? What are the safety considerations related to more permanent enhancements, such as bionic parts or a neural implant?
Military-civilian issues
As history shows, we can expect the proliferation of every military technology we invent. The method of diffusion is different and more direct with enhancements, though: Most warfighters return to society as civilians (our veterans) and would carry back any permanent enhancements and addictions with them. The US has about 23 million veterans-or one out of every 10 adults-in addition to 3 million active and reserve personnel, so this is a significant segment of the population. Would these enhancements, such as a drug or an operation that subdues emotions, create problems for the veteran to assimilate to civilian life? Would they create problems for other civilians who may be at a competitive disadvantage to the enhanced veteran who, for instance, has bionic limbs and enhanced cognition?
In contrast, cognitive and physical enhancements aim to create a super-soldier from a biomedical direction, such as with modafinil and other drugs. For battle, we want our soft organic bodies to perform more like machines. Somewhere in between robotics and biomedical research, we might arrive at the perfect future warfighter: one that is part machine and part human, striking a formidable balance between technology and our frailties.
In changing human biology, we also may be changing the assumptions behind existing laws of war and even human ethics.
Our ability to "upgrade" the bodies of soldiers through drugs, implants, and exoskeletons may be upending the ethical norms of war as we've understood them.
If we can engineer a soldier who can resist torture, would it still be wrong to torture this person with the usual methods? Starvation and sleep deprivation won't affect a super-soldier who doesn't need to sleep or eat. Beatings and electric shocks won't break someone who can't feel pain or fear like we do. This isn't a comic-book story, but plausible scenarios based on actual military projects today....
As you might expect, there are serious moral and legal risks to consider on this path. Last week in the UK, The Royal Society released its report " Neuroscience, Conflict and Security." This timely report worried about risks posed by cognitive enhancements to military personnel, as well as whether new nonlethal tactics, such as directed energy weapons, could violate either the Biological or Chemical Weapons Conventions...what's needed is an upgrade to the basic human condition. We want our warfighters to be made stronger, more aware, more durable, more maneuverable in different environments, and so on. The technologies that enable these abilities fall in the realm of human enhancement, and they include neuroscience, biotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, and more.
While some of these innovations are external devices, such as exoskeletons that give the wearer super-strength, our technology devices are continually shrinking in size. Our mobile phones today have more computing power than the Apollo rockets that blasted to the moon. So there's good reason to think that these external enhancements someday can be small enough to be integrated with the human body, for an even greater military advantage.
Ethical and safety issues
Established standards in biomedical ethics-such as the Nuremberg Code, the Declaration of Helsinki, and others-govern the research stage of enhancements, that is, experimentation on human subjects. But "military necessity" or the exigencies of war can justify actions that are otherwise impermissible, such as a requirement to obtain voluntary consent of a patient. Under what conditions, then, could a warfighter be commanded (or refuse) a risky or unproven enhancement, such as a vaccine against a new biological weapon? Because some enhancements could be risky or pose long-term health dangers, such as addiction to "go pills", should military enhancements be reversible? What are the safety considerations related to more permanent enhancements, such as bionic parts or a neural implant?
Military-civilian issues
As history shows, we can expect the proliferation of every military technology we invent. The method of diffusion is different and more direct with enhancements, though: Most warfighters return to society as civilians (our veterans) and would carry back any permanent enhancements and addictions with them. The US has about 23 million veterans-or one out of every 10 adults-in addition to 3 million active and reserve personnel, so this is a significant segment of the population. Would these enhancements, such as a drug or an operation that subdues emotions, create problems for the veteran to assimilate to civilian life? Would they create problems for other civilians who may be at a competitive disadvantage to the enhanced veteran who, for instance, has bionic limbs and enhanced cognition?
In contrast, cognitive and physical enhancements aim to create a super-soldier from a biomedical direction, such as with modafinil and other drugs. For battle, we want our soft organic bodies to perform more like machines. Somewhere in between robotics and biomedical research, we might arrive at the perfect future warfighter: one that is part machine and part human, striking a formidable balance between technology and our frailties.
In changing human biology, we also may be changing the assumptions behind existing laws of war and even human ethics.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
US Miltary funds research into neurological processes involved with compromising core values
Given the disturbing history of military behavior management experiments, research into the neurological basis underlying the abandonment of core personal values will undoubtedly be applied in mass psychological warfare, particularly within the domain of the mainstream media. In light of widespread disapproval of the ballooning defense budget, militaristic propaganda of this variety has become necessary for convincing both the public and military service members that mass civilians casualties, reinforced by torture and the suspension of habeas corpus, are the only ways to ensure domestic security.
source:Science Daily, via Cryptogon
The Price of Your Soul: How the Brain Decides Whether to 'Sell Out'
ScienceDaily (Jan. 22, 2012) — A neuro-imaging study shows that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered cash to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those values that are willingly sold.
Sacred values prompt greater activation of an area of the brain associated with rules-based, right-or-wrong thought processes, the study showed, as opposed to the regions linked to processing of costs-versus-benefits.
Berns headed a team that included economists and information scientists from Emory University, a psychologist from the New School for Social Research and anthropologists from the Institute Jean Nicod in Paris, France. The research was funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation.
"We've come up with a method to start answering scientific questions about how people make decisions involving sacred values, and that has major implications if you want to better understand what influences human behavior across countries and cultures," Berns says....Research participants who reported more active affiliations with organizations, such as churches, sports teams, musical groups and environmental clubs, had stronger brain activity in the same brain regions that correlated to sacred values. "Organized groups may instill values more strongly through the use of rules and social norms," Berns says. more...
source:Science Daily, via Cryptogon
The Price of Your Soul: How the Brain Decides Whether to 'Sell Out'
ScienceDaily (Jan. 22, 2012) — A neuro-imaging study shows that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered cash to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those values that are willingly sold.
Sacred values prompt greater activation of an area of the brain associated with rules-based, right-or-wrong thought processes, the study showed, as opposed to the regions linked to processing of costs-versus-benefits.
Berns headed a team that included economists and information scientists from Emory University, a psychologist from the New School for Social Research and anthropologists from the Institute Jean Nicod in Paris, France. The research was funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation.
"We've come up with a method to start answering scientific questions about how people make decisions involving sacred values, and that has major implications if you want to better understand what influences human behavior across countries and cultures," Berns says....Research participants who reported more active affiliations with organizations, such as churches, sports teams, musical groups and environmental clubs, had stronger brain activity in the same brain regions that correlated to sacred values. "Organized groups may instill values more strongly through the use of rules and social norms," Berns says. more...
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Illuminati Insiders part 3
On an unrelated note, I've very briefly updated the Recent Encounters post because it seemed there was a need to qualify it as a drug-induced experience, given that it is probably one of the most "over the top" posts on here. Not that this minor change is going to suddenly convince a lot of people, but it's worth putting out there for clarification. Also, please don't misinterpret this post as a mockery of SRA victims because this is definitely NOT the intention. I don't want to come off as insensitive but you have to laugh sometimes!
Friday, February 10, 2012
Monarch Project analysis as disinformation: part 2
The following letter was sent to me by a reader and I am publishing it, along with my response, with his permission.
Hello VenusinPisces,
I just HAD to comment on your "Monarch Project analysis as potential disinformation, once again" blog post over at your excellent blog "watching the watchers." OF COURSE its is different to publicize and broadcast the many occult symbolism celebrities and performers employ in the mass media, and mass occult rituals. To draw the analogy between them and a private citizen in the community is totally out of touch with the reality! Private individuals do not influence millions of people at a time, effecting the minds of the youth, they exploited and paraded in front of our and our children's eyes as if it where their own will motivating their actions. Someone who is found to be a victim by abuse of this sort in one's community, say one's wife or daughter or son, that person needs to be taken away from the source of that abuse and helped, to broadcast that fact of this abuse would add humiliation to it, and stack on the abuse! I understand that it may seem unhealthy to brand certain very visible pop stars with the tag "sex slave" or "trauma based mind control," because it almost fetishes it, and dehumanizes these actual human beings, which is right in step with the agenda as far as I can see it (a cursory glance of course at what the horror genre is and is continuing to degenerate into will show you that.) However, as this spreads like a meme, the faster people will understand the horrible truth behind Hollywood and celebrities, and answer the "why" to their motivations. People need to know, people need to find empathy and recognize the MSM for what it is: pornography. Once you know the truth behind the scenes you are faced with a moral dilemma: is this okay?
I wish I was a little more coherent here.
Anyways, thanks for the good reads- I actually found your blog linked from another blog about Kurt Cobain linked from Red Ice.
We are in the apocalypse now, first to be unveiled is the seemingly chaotic world of celebrities, as they have been foisted into our lives taking the place of the gods. It makes sense now, and it doesn't make me happy.
Thanks,
Mark
Hello Mark,
Thank you for for taking the time to send this comment. I agree with you that people need to develop compassion which is why I originally questioned the tactic of exposing the private sexual abuse history of celebrities without their knowledge or consent. You are correct that many sexual abuse victims have to contend with feelings of shame, and publicizing that history without their consent can easily result in further psychological trauma. The point I was making is that there isn't anything unique about the psychology of celebrities that makes them invulnerable to the damage that can be caused by this kind of exposure. Furthermore, one of the reasons why so many celebrities have nervous breakdowns in the first place is because of the intense pressure of having the most intimate details of their personal lives scrutinized by complete strangers. And this is the exact kind of voyeuristic, invasive scrutiny that so many "mind control researchers", who claim to be motivated by concern, routinely engage in.
As for your statement that the apocalypse is beginning in the media, personally I think "the apocalypse" was started by religious fundamentalists who see illegal wars for mineral resources as a literal embodiment of Biblical doctrine. Many of them would agree with you about the need to address the evils of sex in the media, since that discussion detracts attention away from the mass civilian casualties and loss of civil liberties that have resulted from the foreign policies those same fundamentalists helped shape.
Where occult symbolism plays into this problem is in its relationship with fraternal orders who are in turn involved with child sex trafficking, paramilitary organizations and other criminal syndicates. The problem here is not with the symbols themselves but the context in which they are used, and the lack of ethics of the people who are using them. Within the Freemason-controlled entertainment industry, there is an established history of celebrities who are intimately connected to the military establishment being subjected to severe abuses such as psychiatric incarceration, sexual assault, forced drugging and electroshock. These are just a few of the practices that constitute the Monarch Project, which was created by the CIA specifically for the purpose of destroying and restructuring the human mind. This history can and should be exposed in order to document human rights violations so that they will never again be repeated. However, this exposure should also never happen at the expense of the health and sanity of those who were most harmed by the project.
Regarding your statement that the mainstream media is pornography, in my experience the sex industry is often a disturbing, dysfunctional place and the people involved in it, including the critics, are probably more likely than the rest of the population to fall somewhere along the narcissistic/sociopathic personality disorder spectrum. For that reason, I would not recommend for someone to choose it as their vocation. At the same time, the sex industry provides vital social and material support for countless people who otherwise would have none, and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that this support can and has saved many lives. So, I tend to be wary of any attempts to characterize the industry as inherently good or evil, since oversimplified polarities always fall short of accurately describing any complex situation.
As for the way that celebrities are negatively affecting the youth, I think that most negative effects from media saturation can first and foremost be explained by the social isolation that economic globalization inevitably leaves in its wake. Were it not for the destruction of localized communities through neoliberal economic policies, the kind of problems attributed to effects of the media would be far less severe. Case in point: the Southwestern Native American Zuni tribes traditionally held ceremonial dances which contained brief depictions of sex acts that were performed in front of the entire community as part of a larger story. According to social conservatism, these dances should have resulted in illegitimacy, single motherhood and all manner of social chaos. And yet, they didn't. In fact, amongst the Zunis, illegitimacy was unknown, divorce was a rarity and women's position in society involved a much greater degree of respect and autonomy as compared to virtually any woman in Europe or colonial America. Despite these unusual societal achievements, European colonists still believed they alone had the moral authority to "save" Zuni women from the horrors of the heathen dances. As a result of this unwarranted cultural arrogance, the entire Zuni community was massacred in order to bring them up to the standards of Roman Catholic piety.
I'm relating this story because it disturbs me to see parallels between the kind of arrogance described above and discussion of the Monarch Project, which has quite literally turned into a cultural witch hunt, with the most minimal occult imagery presented as evidence for "sex slavery", and at the expense of people who very well may have suffered horrific abuses. This comparison may seem like gross exaggeration but, given the history of persecution of occult practitioners in Nazi Germany, where many thousands of Freemasons and Rosicrucians were murdered in concentration camps, I think it is important to remember that paranoia has always preceded tyranny. For more information, check out the Secret Sun post on how occult symbols are deliberately planted in the media in order to whip up a manufactured controversy via fundamentalist hysteria, thus increasing revenue for media conglomerates. Given the direction our society is presently headed in, the potential for conspiracy culture to end up supporting neofascist fundamenalist agendas can't be stressed strongly enough.
Overall, I appreciate your letter because it does appear to be coming from a place of genuine concern and, when it comes to the subject of trauma-based mind control, that concern is very much warranted. Thanks again for your comment and feedback.
Sierra
Hello VenusinPisces,
I just HAD to comment on your "Monarch Project analysis as potential disinformation, once again" blog post over at your excellent blog "watching the watchers." OF COURSE its is different to publicize and broadcast the many occult symbolism celebrities and performers employ in the mass media, and mass occult rituals. To draw the analogy between them and a private citizen in the community is totally out of touch with the reality! Private individuals do not influence millions of people at a time, effecting the minds of the youth, they exploited and paraded in front of our and our children's eyes as if it where their own will motivating their actions. Someone who is found to be a victim by abuse of this sort in one's community, say one's wife or daughter or son, that person needs to be taken away from the source of that abuse and helped, to broadcast that fact of this abuse would add humiliation to it, and stack on the abuse! I understand that it may seem unhealthy to brand certain very visible pop stars with the tag "sex slave" or "trauma based mind control," because it almost fetishes it, and dehumanizes these actual human beings, which is right in step with the agenda as far as I can see it (a cursory glance of course at what the horror genre is and is continuing to degenerate into will show you that.) However, as this spreads like a meme, the faster people will understand the horrible truth behind Hollywood and celebrities, and answer the "why" to their motivations. People need to know, people need to find empathy and recognize the MSM for what it is: pornography. Once you know the truth behind the scenes you are faced with a moral dilemma: is this okay?
I wish I was a little more coherent here.
Anyways, thanks for the good reads- I actually found your blog linked from another blog about Kurt Cobain linked from Red Ice.
We are in the apocalypse now, first to be unveiled is the seemingly chaotic world of celebrities, as they have been foisted into our lives taking the place of the gods. It makes sense now, and it doesn't make me happy.
Thanks,
Mark
Hello Mark,
Thank you for for taking the time to send this comment. I agree with you that people need to develop compassion which is why I originally questioned the tactic of exposing the private sexual abuse history of celebrities without their knowledge or consent. You are correct that many sexual abuse victims have to contend with feelings of shame, and publicizing that history without their consent can easily result in further psychological trauma. The point I was making is that there isn't anything unique about the psychology of celebrities that makes them invulnerable to the damage that can be caused by this kind of exposure. Furthermore, one of the reasons why so many celebrities have nervous breakdowns in the first place is because of the intense pressure of having the most intimate details of their personal lives scrutinized by complete strangers. And this is the exact kind of voyeuristic, invasive scrutiny that so many "mind control researchers", who claim to be motivated by concern, routinely engage in.
As for your statement that the apocalypse is beginning in the media, personally I think "the apocalypse" was started by religious fundamentalists who see illegal wars for mineral resources as a literal embodiment of Biblical doctrine. Many of them would agree with you about the need to address the evils of sex in the media, since that discussion detracts attention away from the mass civilian casualties and loss of civil liberties that have resulted from the foreign policies those same fundamentalists helped shape.
Where occult symbolism plays into this problem is in its relationship with fraternal orders who are in turn involved with child sex trafficking, paramilitary organizations and other criminal syndicates. The problem here is not with the symbols themselves but the context in which they are used, and the lack of ethics of the people who are using them. Within the Freemason-controlled entertainment industry, there is an established history of celebrities who are intimately connected to the military establishment being subjected to severe abuses such as psychiatric incarceration, sexual assault, forced drugging and electroshock. These are just a few of the practices that constitute the Monarch Project, which was created by the CIA specifically for the purpose of destroying and restructuring the human mind. This history can and should be exposed in order to document human rights violations so that they will never again be repeated. However, this exposure should also never happen at the expense of the health and sanity of those who were most harmed by the project.
Regarding your statement that the mainstream media is pornography, in my experience the sex industry is often a disturbing, dysfunctional place and the people involved in it, including the critics, are probably more likely than the rest of the population to fall somewhere along the narcissistic/sociopathic personality disorder spectrum. For that reason, I would not recommend for someone to choose it as their vocation. At the same time, the sex industry provides vital social and material support for countless people who otherwise would have none, and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that this support can and has saved many lives. So, I tend to be wary of any attempts to characterize the industry as inherently good or evil, since oversimplified polarities always fall short of accurately describing any complex situation.
As for the way that celebrities are negatively affecting the youth, I think that most negative effects from media saturation can first and foremost be explained by the social isolation that economic globalization inevitably leaves in its wake. Were it not for the destruction of localized communities through neoliberal economic policies, the kind of problems attributed to effects of the media would be far less severe. Case in point: the Southwestern Native American Zuni tribes traditionally held ceremonial dances which contained brief depictions of sex acts that were performed in front of the entire community as part of a larger story. According to social conservatism, these dances should have resulted in illegitimacy, single motherhood and all manner of social chaos. And yet, they didn't. In fact, amongst the Zunis, illegitimacy was unknown, divorce was a rarity and women's position in society involved a much greater degree of respect and autonomy as compared to virtually any woman in Europe or colonial America. Despite these unusual societal achievements, European colonists still believed they alone had the moral authority to "save" Zuni women from the horrors of the heathen dances. As a result of this unwarranted cultural arrogance, the entire Zuni community was massacred in order to bring them up to the standards of Roman Catholic piety.
I'm relating this story because it disturbs me to see parallels between the kind of arrogance described above and discussion of the Monarch Project, which has quite literally turned into a cultural witch hunt, with the most minimal occult imagery presented as evidence for "sex slavery", and at the expense of people who very well may have suffered horrific abuses. This comparison may seem like gross exaggeration but, given the history of persecution of occult practitioners in Nazi Germany, where many thousands of Freemasons and Rosicrucians were murdered in concentration camps, I think it is important to remember that paranoia has always preceded tyranny. For more information, check out the Secret Sun post on how occult symbols are deliberately planted in the media in order to whip up a manufactured controversy via fundamentalist hysteria, thus increasing revenue for media conglomerates. Given the direction our society is presently headed in, the potential for conspiracy culture to end up supporting neofascist fundamenalist agendas can't be stressed strongly enough.
Overall, I appreciate your letter because it does appear to be coming from a place of genuine concern and, when it comes to the subject of trauma-based mind control, that concern is very much warranted. Thanks again for your comment and feedback.
Sierra
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