On the Need for New Criteria of Diagnosis
of Psychosis in the Light of Mind Invasive Technology
Carole Smith
For those of us who were trained in a psychoanalytical approach to
the patient which was characterised as patient centred, and which acknowledged
that the effort to understand the world of the other person entailed an
awareness that the treatment was essentially one of mutuality and trust, the
American Psychiatry Association’s Diagnostic Criteria for Schizotypal
personality was always a cause for alarm. The Third Edition (1987) of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM) required that there be at least four of the characteristics
set out for a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and an approved selection of four
could be: magical thinking, telepathy or sixth sense; limited social contact;
odd speech; and over-sensitivity to criticism.
By 1994, the required number of qualifying characteristics were reduced
to two or more, including, say, hallucinations and ‘negative ‘ symptoms such as
affective flattening, or disorganised or incoherent speech – or only one if the
delusions were bizarre or the hallucination consisted of a voice keeping up a
running commentary on the person’s behaviour or thoughts. The next edition of the DSM is not due until
the year 2010.
In place of a process of a labelling which brought alienation and
often detention, sectioning, and mind altering anti-psychotic medication, many
psychoanalysts and psychotherapists felt that even in severe cases of schizoid
withdrawal we were not necessarily wasting our time in attempting to restore
health by the difficult work of unravelling experiences in order to make sense
of an illness. In this way, psychoanalysis has been, in its most radical form,
a critic of a society, which failed to exercise imaginative empathy when
passing judgement on people. The work of Harry Stack Sullivan, Frieda
Fromm-Reichmann, Harold Searles or R.D. Laing - all trained as psychiatrists
and all of them rebels against the standard procedures – provided a way of
working with people very different from the psychiatric model, which seemed to
encourage a society to repress its sickness by making a clearly split off group
the carriers of it. A psychiatrist in a mental hospital once joked to me,
with some truth, when I commented on the number of carrier bags carried by many
of the medicated patients around the hospital grounds, that they assessed the
progress of the patient in terms of the reduction of the number of carrier
bags. It is too often difficult to believe, however, when hearing the history
of a life, that the “schizophrenic” was not suffering the effects of having
been made, consciously and unconsciously, the carefully concealedcarrier of the
ills of the family.
For someone who felt his mind was going to pieces, to be put into
the stressful situation of the psychiatric examination, even when the
psychiatrist acquitted himself with kindness, the situation of the assessment
procedure itself, can be ‘an effective way to drive someone crazy, or more crazy.’
(Laing, 1985, p 17). But if the accounting of bizarre experiences more or
less guaranteed you a new label or a trip to the psychiatric ward, there is
even more reason for a new group of people to be outraged about how their
symptoms are being diagnosed. A doubly cruel sentence is being imposed on
people who are the victims of the most appalling abuse by scientific-military
experiments, and a totally uncomprehending society is indifferent to their
evidence. For the development of a new class of weaponry now has the capability
of entering the brain and mind and body of another person by technological
means.
Harnessing neuroscience to military capability, this technology is
the result of decades of research and experimentation, most particularly in the
Soviet Union and the United States. (Welsh, 1997, 2000) We have failed to
comprehend that the result of the technology that originated in the years of
the arms race between the soviet Union and the West, has resulted in using
satellite technology not only for surveillance and communication systems but
also to lock on to human beings, manipulating brain frequencies by directing
laser beams, neural-particle beams, electro-magnetic radiation, sonar waves,
radiofrequency radiation (RFR), soliton waves, torsion fields and by use of
these or other energy fields which form the areas of study for astro-physics.
Since the operations are characterised by secrecy, it seems inevitable that the
methods that we do know about, that is, the exploitation of the ionosphere, our
natural shield, are already outdated as we begin to grasp the implications of
their use. The patents deriving from Bernard J. Eastlund’s work provide the
ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth’s atmosphere at
strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level, particularly if
random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better controlled
than accomplished by the prior art, the detonation of nuclear devices at
various yields and various altitudes. (ref High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Project, HAARP).
Some patents, now owned by Raytheon, describe how to make “nuclear
sized explosions without radiation” and describe power beam systems,
electromagnetic pulses and over-the-horizon detection systems. A more
disturbing use is the system developed for manipulating and disturbing the
human mental process using pulsed radio frequency radiation (RFR), and their
use as a device for causing negative effects on human health and thinking. The
victim, the innocent civilian target is locked on to, and unable to evade the
menace by moving around. The beam is administered from space. The Haarp
facility as military technology could be used to broadcast global mind-control,
as a system for manipulating and disturbing the human mental process using
pulsed radio frequency (RFR). The super-powerful radio waves are beamed to the
ionosphere, heating those areas, thereby lifting them. The electromagnetic
waves bounce back to the earth and penetrate human tissue.
Dr Igor Smirnov, of the Institute of Psycho-Correction in Moscow,
says: “It is easily conceivable that some Russian ‘Satan’, or let’s say Iranian
– or any other ‘Satan’, as long as he owns the appropriate means and finances,
can inject himself into every conceivable computer network, into every
conceivable radio or television broadcast, with relative technological ease,
even without disconnecting cables…and intercept the radio waves in the ether
and modulate every conceivable suggestion into it. This is why such technology
is rightfully feared.”(German TV documentary, 1998).
If we were concerned before about diagnostic criteria being
imposed according to the classification of recognizable
symptoms, we have reason now to submit them to even harsher scrutiny. The
development over the last decades since the Cold War arms race has included as
a major strategic category, psycho-electronic weaponry, the ultimate aim of
which is to enter the brain and mind. Unannounced, undebated and largely
unacknowledged by scientists or by the governments who employ them – technology
to enter and control minds from a
distance has been unleashed upon us. The only witnesses who are speaking
about this terrible technology with its appalling implications for
the future, are the victims themselves and those who are given the task of
diagnosing mental illness are attempting to silence them by classifying their
evidence and accounts as the symptoms of schizophrenia, while the dispensers of
psychic mutilation and programmed pain continue with their work, aided and
unopposed.
If it was always crucial, under the threat of psychiatric
sectioning, to carefully screen out any sign of confused speech, negativity,
coldness, suspicion, bizarre thoughts, sixth sense, telepathy, premonitions,
but above all the sense that “others can feel my feelings, and that someone seemed to be keeping up a running
commentary on your thoughts and behaviour,” then reporting these to a
psychiatrist, or anyone else for that matter who was not of a mind to believe
that such things as mind-control could exist, would be the end of your claim to
sanity and probably your freedom. For one of the salient characteristics of
mind-control is the running commentary, which replicates so exactly, and surely
not without design, the symptoms of schizophrenia. Part of the effort is to
remind the victim that they are constantly under control or surveillance.
Programmes vary, but common forms of reminders are electronic prods and nudges,
body noises, twinges and cramps to all parts of the body, increasing heart
beats, applying pressures to internal organs – all with a personally codified
system of comments on thoughts and events, designed to create stress, panic and
desperation. This is mind control at its most benign. There is reason to fear the
use of beamed energy to deliver lethal assaults on humans, including cardiac
arrest, and bleeding in the brain.
It is the government system of secrecy, which has facilitated this
appalling prospect. There have been warning voices. “…the government secrecy
system as a whole is among the most poisonous legacies of the Cold War …the
Cold War secrecy (which) also mandate(s) Active Deception…a security manual for
special access programs authorizing contractors to employ ‘cover stories to
disguise their activities. The only condition is that cover stories must
be believable.” (Aftergood & Rosenberg, 1994; Bulletin of Atomic
Scientist). Paranoia has been aided and abetted by government intelligence
agencies.
In the United Kingdom the fortifications against any disturbing
glimmer of awareness of such actual or potential outrages against human rights
and social and political abuses seem to be cast in concrete. Complete
with crenellations, ramparts and parapets, the stronghold of nescience reigns
supreme. To borrow Her Majesty the Queen’s recent observation: “There are
forces at work of which we are not aware.” One cannot say that there is
no British Intelligence on the matter, as it is quite unfeasible that the
existence of the technology is not classified information. Indeed it is a
widely held belief that the women protesting against the presence of cruise
missiles at Greenham Common were victims of electro-magnetic radiation at
gigahertz frequency by directed energy weapons, and that their symptoms, including
cancer, were consistent with such radiation effects as reported by Dr Robert
Becker who has been a constantly warning voice against the perils of
electro-magnetic radiation. The work of Allen Frey suggests that we should
consider radiation effects as a grave hazard producing increased
permeability of the blood-brain barrier, and weakening crucial defenses of the
central nervous system against toxins. (Becker, 1985, p. 286). Dr
Becker has written about nuclear magnetic resonance as a familiar tool in medecine
known as magnetic resonance imaging or MRI. Calcium efflux is the result of
cyclotronic resonance which latter can be explained thus: If a charged
particle or ion is exposed to a steady magnetic field in space, it will begin
to go into a circular or orbital, motion at right angles to the applied
magnetic field.The speed with which it orbits will be determined by the ratio
between the charge and the mass of the particle and by the strength of the
magnetic field. (Becker, 1990,p.235) The implications of this for wide scale
aggression by using a combination of radar based energy and the use of nuclear
resonating are beyond the scope of the writer, but appear to be worth the very
serious consideration of physicists in assessing how they might be used against
human beings.
Amongst medical circles, however, it has so far not been possible
for the writer to find a neuroscientist, neurologist or a psychiatrist, nor for
that matter, a general medical practitioner, who acknowledges even the potential for technological
manipulation of the nervous system as a problem requiring their professional
interest. There has been exactly this response from some of England’s most
eminent practitioners of the legal profession, not surprisingly, because the
information about such technology is not made available to them. They would
refer anyone attempting to communicate mind- harassment as a psychiatric
problem, ignoring the crime that is being committed.
The aim here is not to attempt a comprehensive history and
development of the technology of mind control. These very considerable tasks -
which have to be done under circumstances of the most extreme difficulty - have
been addressed with clarity and courage by others, who live with constant harm
and threats, not least of all contemptuous labelling. Their work can be readily
accessed on the internet references given at the end of this paper. For a
well-researched outline of the historical development of electro-magnetic
technology the reader should refer to the timeline of dates and electromagnetic
weapon development by Cheryl Welsh, president of Citizens against Human Rights
Abuse. (Welsh 1997; 2001). There are at least one and a half thousand people
worldwide who state they are being targeted. Mojmir Babacek, now domiciled in
his native Czech Republic, after eight years of residence in the United States
in the eighties, has made a painstakingly meticulous review of the
technology, and continues his research. (Babacek 1998, 2002)
We are concerned here with reinforcing in the strongest possible
terms:
i) The need for such abuses to human rights and the threats to
democracy to be called to consciousness, and without further delay.
ii) To analyse the reasons why people might defend themselves from
becoming conscious of the existence of such threats.
iii) To address the urgent need for intelligence, imagination, and
information - not to mention compassion - in dealing with the
victims of persecution from this technology, and
iv) To alert a sleeping society, to the imminent threats to their
freedom from the threat from fascist and covert operations who have in all
probability gained control of potentially lethal weaponry of the type we are
describing.
It is necessary to emphasise that at present there is not even the
means for victims to gain medical attention for the effects of radiation from
this targeting. Denied the respect of credulity of being used as human guinea
pigs, driven to suicide by the breakdown of their lives, they are treated as
insane – at best regarded as ‘sad cases’. Since the presence of a
permanent ‘other’ in one’s mind and body is by definition an act of the most
intolerable cruelty, people who are forced to bear it but who refuse to be
broken by it, have no other option than to turn themselves into activists,
their lives consumed by the battle against such atrocities, their energies
directed to alerting and informing the public of things they don’t want to hear
or understand about evil forces at work in their society.
It is necessary, at this point, to briefly outline a few – one
might say the precious few – attempts by public servants to verify the
existence and dangers inherent in this field:
* In January
1998, an annual public meeting of the French National Bioethics Committee was
held in Paris. Its chairman, Jean-Pierre Changeux, a neuroscientist at the
Institut Pasteur in Paris, told the meeting that “advances in cerebral imaging
make the scope for invasion of privacy immense. Although the equipment needed
is still highly specialized, it will become commonplace and capable of being
used at a distance. That will open the way for abuses such as invasion of
personal liberty, control of behaviour and brainwashing. These are far from
being science-fiction concerns…and constitute “a serious risk to society.”
(“Nature.” Vol 391, 1998.
* In January
1999, the European Parliament passed a resolution where it calls “ for an
international convention introducing a global ban on all development and
deployment of weapons which might enable any form of manipulation of human
beings. It is our conviction that this
ban can not be implemented without the global pressure of the informed general
public on the governments. Our major
objective is to get across to the general public the real threat which these weapons represent for human rights and
democracy and to apply pressure on the governments and parliaments around the
world to enact legislature which would prohibit the use of these devices to
both government and private organisations as well as individuals.”
(Plenary sessions/Europarliament, 1999)
* In October
2001, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich introduced a bill to the House of
Representatives which, it was hoped would be extremely important in the fight
to expose and stop psycho-electronic mind control experimentation on
involuntary, non-consensual citizens. The Bill was referred to the Committee on
Science, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services and International
Relations. In the original bill a ban was sought on ‘exotic weapons’ including
electronic, psychotronic or information weapons, chemtrails, particle beams,
plasmas, electromagnetic radiation, extremely low frequency (ELF) or ultra low
frequency (ULF) energy radiation, or mind control technologies. Despite the
inclusion of a prohibition of the basing of weapons in space, and the use of
weapons to destroy objects or damage objects in space, there is no mention in
the revised bill of any of the aforementioned mind-invasive weaponry, nor of
the use of satellite or radar or other energy based technology for deploying or
developing technology designed for deployment against the minds of human
beings. (Space Preservation Act, 2002)
In reviewing the development of the art of mind-invasive
technology– there are a few outstanding achievements to note:
In 1969 Dr Jose Delgado, a Yale psychologist, published a book:
“Physical Control of the Mind: Towards a Psychocivilized Society”. In essence, he displayed in practical
demonstrations how, by means of electrical stimulation of the brain which had
been mapped out in its relations between different points and activities,
functions and sensations, - by means of electrical stimulation, how the rhythm of breathing and heartbeat could
be changed, as well as the function of most of the viscera, and gall
bladder secretion. Frowning, opening
and closing of eyes and mouth, chewing, yawning, sleep, dizziness, epileptic
seizures in healthy persons were induced.
The intensity of feelings could be controlled by turning the knob, which
controlled the intensity of the electric current. He states at the end of his
book the hope that the new power will remain limited to scientists or some
charitable elite for the benefit of a “psychocivilized society.”
In the 1980’s the neuromagnetometer
was developed which functions as an antenna and could monitor the patterns
emerging from the brain. (In the seventies the scientists had discovered that
electromagnetic pulses enabled the brain to be stimulated through the skull and
other tissues, so there was no more need to implant electrodes in the brain).
The antenna, combined with the computer, could localize the points in the brain
where the brain events occur. The whole product is called the magnetoencephalograph.
In January 2000 the Lockheed Martin neuroengineer Dr John D.
Norseen, was quoted (US News and World Report, 2000) as hoping to turn the electrohypnomentalaphone, a mind
reading machine, into science fact. Dr Norseen, a former Navy pilot, claims his
interest in the brain stemmed from reading a Soviet book in the 1980’s claiming
that research on the mind would revolutionize the military and society at
large. By a process of deciphering the brain’s electrical activity,
electromagnetic pulsations would trigger the release of the brain’s own
transmitters to fight off disease, enhance learning, or alter the mind’s visual
images, creating a ‘synthetic reality’. By this process of BioFusion, (Lockheed Martin, 2000) information is placed in a
database, and a composite model of the
brain is created. By viewing a brain scan recorded by (functional) magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, scientists can tell what the person was doing
at the time of recording – say reading or writing, or recognise emotions from
love to hate. “If this research pans out”, says Norseen, “you can begin to
manipulate what someone is thinking even before they know it.” But Norseen says
he is ‘agnostic’ on the moral ramifications, that he’s not a mad scientist –
just a dedicated one. “The ethics don’t concern me,” he says, “but they should
concern someone else.”
The next big thing looks like being something which we might refer
to as a neurocomputer but it need
not resemble a laptop – it may be reducible to whatever size is convenient for
use, such as a small mobile phone. Arising from a break-through and
exploitation of PSI-phenomena, it may be modelled on the nervous-psychic
activity of the brain – that is, as an unbalanced, unstable system of
neurotransmitters and interacting neurones, the work having been derived from
the creation of a copy of a living brain – accessed by chance, and ESP
and worked on by design.
On receiving a communication from the writer on the feasibility of
a machine being on the horizon which, based on the project of collecting
electromagnetic waves emanating from the brain and transmitting them into
another brain that would read a person’s thoughts, or using the same procedure
in order to impose somebody else’s thoughts on another brain and in this way
direct his actions – there was an unequivocal answer from IBM at executive
level that there was no existing technology to create such a computer in the
foreseeable future. This is at some variance with the locating of a patent
numbered 03951134 on the Internet pages of IBM Intellectual Property Network
for a device, described in the patent, as capable of picking up at a distance
the brain waves of a person, process them by computer and emit correcting waves
which will change the original brain waves. Similar letters addressed to each
of the four top executives of Apple Inc., in four individual letters marked for
their personal attention, produced absolutely no response. This included the
ex- Vice President of the United States, Mr Al Gore, newly elected to the Board
of Directors of Apple.
Enough people have been sufficiently concerned by the reports of
victims of mind control abuse to organise The Geneva Forum, in 2002, held as a
joint initiative of the Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva; the United
Nations Institute for Disarmament Research; the International Committee of the
Red cross, and the Human Rights Watch (USA), and Citizens against Human Rights
Abuses (CAHRA); and the Programme for Strategic and International Security
Studies, which was represented by the Professor and Senior Lecturer from the
Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford.
In England, on May 25, 1995, the Guardian newspaper in the U.K.
carried an article based on a report by Nic Lewer, the peace researcher from
Bradford University, which listed “more than 30 different lines of research
into ‘new age weapons’…”some of the research sounds even less rational. There
are, according to Lewer, plans for ‘pulsed microwave beams’ to destroy enemy
electronics, and separate plans for very-low-frequency sound beams to induce
vomiting, bowel spasm, epileptic seizures and also crumble masonry.” Further,
the article states, “There are plans for ‘mind control’ with the use of
'psycho-correction messages’ transmitted by subliminal audio and visual
stimuli. There is also a plan for ‘psychotronic weapons’ – apparently the
projection of consciousness to other locations – and another to use holographic
projection to disseminate propaganda and misinformation.” (Welsh, Timeline). Apart from this notable
exception it is difficult to locate any public statement of the problem in the
United Kingdom.
Unfortunately, the problem of credulity does not necessarily cease
with frequent mention, as in the United States, in spite of the number of
reported cases, there is still not sufficient public will to make strenuous
protest against what is not only already happening, but against what will
develop if left unchecked. It appears that the administration believes that it
is necessary and justifiable, in the interests of national security, to make
experimental human sacrifices, to have regrettable casualties, for there to be
collateral damage, to suffer losses in place of strife or war. This is,
of course, totally incompatible with any claims to be a democratic nation which
respects the values of human life and democracy, and such an administration
which tutors its servants in the ways of such barbaric tortures must be
completely condemned as uncivilised and hypocritical.
Disbelief as a
Defence Mechanism
In the face of widespread disbelief about mind-control, it seems
worth analysing the basis of the mechanisms employed to maintain disbelief:
i) In the sixties, Soviet dissidents received a significant
measure of sympathy and indignant protest from western democracies on account
of their treatment, most notedly the abuse of psychiatric methods of torture to
which they were subjected. It is noteworthy that we seem to be able to access
credulity, express feelings of indignant support when we can identify with
victims, who share and support our own value system, and who, in this
particular historical case, reinforced our own values, since they were
protesting against a political system which also threatened us at that
time. Psychologically, it is equally important to observe that support from a
safe distance, and the benefits to the psyche of attacking a split-off
‘bad father’, the soviet authorities in this case, presents no threat to one’s
internal system; indeed it relieves internal pressures. On the other
hand, recognizing and denouncing a similar offence makes very much greater
psychic demands of us when it brings us into conflict with our own environment,
our own security, our own reality. The defence against disillusion serves
to suppress paranoia that our father figure, the president, the prime minister,
our governments - might not be what they would like to be seen to be.
ii) The need to deposit destructive envy and bad feelings elsewhere, on account of the inability
of the ego to acknowledge ownership of them - reinforces the usefulness of
persons or groups, which will serve to contain those, disowned, projected
feelings which arouse paranoid anxieties. The concepts of mind-invasion strike
at the very heart of paranoid anxiety, causing considerable efforts to dislodge
them from the psyche. The unconscious identification of madness with dirt or
excrement is an important aspect of anal aggression, triggering projective
identification as a defence.
iii) To lay oneself open to believing that a person is undergoing
the experience of being invaded mentally and physically by an unseen
manipulator requires very great efforts in the self to manage dread.
iv) The defence against the unknown finds expression in the split
between theory and practice; between the scientist as innovator and the society
who can make the moral decisions about his inventions; between fact and science
fiction, the latter of which can present preposterous challenges to the
imagination without undue threat, because it serves to reinforce a separation
from the real.
v) Identification with the aggressor. Sadistic fantasies,
unconscious and conscious, being transferred on to the aggressor and identified
with, aid the repression of fear of passivity, or a dread of punishment. This
mechanism acts to deny credulity to the victim who represents weakness. This is
a common feature of satanic sects.
vi) The liberal humanist tradition which denies the worst
destructive capacities of man in the effort to sustain the belief in the great
continuity of cultural and scientific tradition; the fear, in one’s own past
development, of not being ‘ongoing’, can produce the psychic effect of reversal
into the opposite to shield against aggressive feelings. This becomes then the
exaggerated celebration of the ‘new’ as the affirmation of human genius which
will ultimately be for the good of mankind, and which opposes warning voices
about scientific advances as being pessimistic, unenlightened, unprogressive
and Luddite. Strict adherence to this liberal position can act as
overcompensation for a fear of envious spoiling of good possessions, i.e.
cultural and intellectual goods.
vii) Denial by displacement is also employed to ignore the harmful
aspects of technology. What may be harmful for the freedom and good of society
can be masked and concealed by the distribution of new and entertaining
novelties. The technology, which puts a camera down your gut for medical
purposes, is also used to limit your freedom by surveillance. The purveyors of
innovative technology come up with all sorts of new gadgets, which divert,
entertain and feed the acquisitive needs of insatiable shoppers, and bolster
the economy. The theme of “Everything’s up to date in Kansas City” only
takes on a downside when individual experience – exploding breast implants, say
– takes the gilt off the gingerbread. Out of every innovation for evil (i.e.
designed for harming and destroying) some ‘good’ (i.e. public diversion
or entertainment) can be promoted for profit or crowd-pleasing.
viii) Nasa is sending a spacecraft to Mars, or so we are told.
They plan to trundle across the Martian surface searching for signs of water
and life. We do not hear dissenting voices about its feasibility.
Why is it that, when a person accounts that their mind is being
disrupted and they are being persecuted by an unseen method of invasive
technology, that we cannot bring ourselves to believe them? Could it be
that the horror involved in the empathic identification required brings the
shutters down? Conversely, the shared experience of the blasting of objects
into space brings with it the possibilities of shared potency or the
relief that resonates in the unconscious of a massive projection or
evacuation – a shared experience which is blessed in the name of man’s
scientific genius.
ix) The desire ‘not to be taken in’, not to be taken for a fool,
provides one of the most powerful and common defence mechanism against
credulity.
Power, Paranoia
and Unhealthy Governments
The ability to be the bearer and container of great power without
succumbing to the pressures of latent narcissistic psychoses is an important
matter too little considered. The effect of holding power and the expectation
and the need to be seen as capable of sustaining it, if not exercising it,
encourages omnipotence of thought. In the wake of this, a narcissistic
overevaluation of the subject’s own mental processes may set in. In the effort
to hold himself together as the possessor, container and executor of power, he
(or indeed, she) may also, undergo a process of splitting which allows him,
along with others, to bear enthralled witness of himself in this illustrious
role. This may mean that the seat of authority is vacated, at least at times.
The splitting process between the experiencing ego and the perceiving ego
allows the powerful leader to alternate his perception of himself inside and
outside, sometimes beside, himself. With the reinforcement of himself from
others as his own narcissistic object, reality testing is constrained. In
this last respect, he has much in common with the other powerful figure of the
age, the movie star. or by those, in Freud’s words, who are “ruined by
success.”
In a world, which is facing increasing disillusion about the gulf
between the public platforms on which governments are elected, and the contingencies
and pragmatics of retaining defence strategies and economic investments, the
role of military and intelligence departments, with their respective tools of
domination and covert infiltration, is increasingly alarming.
Unaccountable to the public, protected from exposure and prosecution by their
immunity, licensed to lie as well as to kill, it is in the hands of these
agents that very grave threats to human rights and freedom lies. Empowered to
carry out aggression through classified weapon experimentation which is
undetectable, these men and women are also open to corruption from lucrative
offers of financial reward from powerful and sinister groups who can utilize
their skills, privileged knowledge and expertise for frankly criminal and
fascist purposes.
Our information about the psychological profiles of those who are
employed to practice surveillance on others is limited, but it is not difficult
to imagine the effects on the personality that would ensue with the persistent
practice of such an occupation, so constantly exposed to the perversions. One
gains little snatches of insight here and there. In his book on CIA mind
control research (Marks, 1988), John Marks quotes a CIA colleague’s joke
(always revealing for personality characteristics): “If you could find the
natural radio frequency of a person’s sphincter, you could make him run out of
the room real fast.” (One wonders if the same amusement is derived from the
ability to apply, say infra-sound above 130 decibels, which is said to cause stoppage
of the heart, according to one victim/activist from his readings of a report
for the Russian Parliament.)
Left to themselves, these servants of the state may well feel
exempt from the process of moral self-scrutiny, but the work must be
dehumanising for the predator as well as the prey. It is probably true that the
need to control their agents in the field was an incentive to develop the
methods in use today. It is also an effectively brutalising training for
persecuting others. Meanwhile the object, the prey, in a bid for not only for
survival but also in a desperate effort to warn his or her fellows about what
is going on, attempts to turn himself into a quantum physicist, a political
researcher, a legal sleuth, an activist, a neurologist, a psychologist, a
physiologist – his own doctor, since he cannot know what effects this freakish
treatment might have on his body, let alone his mind. There are always new
methods to try out which might prove useful in the search to find ways of
disabling and destroying opponents – air injected into brains and lungs, lasers
to strike down or blind, particle beams, sonar waves, or whatever combination
of energies to direct, or destabilise or control.
Science and
Scepticism
Scientists can be bought, not just by governments, but also by
sinister and secret societies. Universities can be funded by governments
to develop technology for unacceptably inhumane uses. The same people who
deliver the weapons - perhaps respected scientists and academics - may cite the
acceptable side of scientific discoveries, which have been developed by
experimenting on unacknowledged, unfortunate people. In a cleaned up form, they
are then possibly celebrated as a break-through in the understanding of the
natural laws of the universe. It is not implausible that having delivered the
technical means for destruction, the innovator and thinker goes on, wearing a
different hat, to receive his (or her) Nobel Prize. There are scientists who
have refused to continue to do work when they were approached by CIA and Soviet
representatives. These are the real heroes of science.
In the power struggle, much lies at stake in being the first to
gain control of ultimate mind-reading and mind-controlling technology. Like the
nuclear bomb, common ownership would seem by any sane calculations to cancel
out the advantage of possession, but there is always a race to be the first to
possess the latest ultimate means of mass destruction. The most desirable
form is one that can be directed at others without contaminating oneself in the
process - one that can be undetected and neatly, economically and strategically
delivered. We should be foolish to rule out secret organisations, seeing threat
only from undemocratic countries and known terrorist groups.
As consumers in a world which is increasingly one in which
shopping is the main leisure activity, we should concern ourselves to becoming
alert to the ways in which human welfare may have been sacrificed to produce an
awesome new gadget. It may be the cause for celebration for the ‘innovator’,
but brought about as the result of plugging in or dialling up the living
neuronal processes of an enforced experimentee. If we are concerned not
to eat boiled eggs laid by battery hens, we might not regard it morally irrelevant
to scrutinise the large corporations producing electronically innovative
‘software.’ We might also be wary about the origins of the sort of bland
enticements of dating agencies who propose finding your ideal partner by
matching up brain frequencies and ‘bio-rhythms’.
We do not know enough about the background of such
technology, nor how to evaluate it ethically. We do not know about its effects
on the future, because we are not properly informed. If governments persist in
concealing the extent of their weapon capability in the interests of defence,
they are also leaving their citizens disempowered of the right to protest
against their deployment. More
alarmingly, they are leaving their citizens exposed to their deployment by
ruthless organisations whose concerns are exactly the opposite of democracy and
human rights.
Back in the
United Kingdom
Meanwhile, back in England, the Director of the Oxford Centre for
Cognitive Neuroscience, Professor Colin Blakemore, also the elective Chief
Executive of the Medical Research Council writes to the author that he “...
knows of no technology (not even in the wildest speculations of
neuroscientists) for scanning and collecting ‘neuronal data’ at a distance.”
(Blakemore, 2003, ) This certitude is at distinct variance with the fears of
other scientists in Russia and the United States, and not least of all with the
fears of the French neuroscientist, Jean-Pierre Changeux of the French National
Bioethics Committee already quoted (see page 5). It is also very much at odds
with the writing of Dr Michael Persinger from the Behavioural Neuroscience
Laboratory at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. His article
“On the Possibility of Directly Accessing Every Human Brain by Electromagnetic
Induction of Algorithms” (1995), he describes the ways that individual
differences among human brains can be overcome and comes to a conclusion about
the technological possibilities of influencing a major part of the
approximately six billion people on this planet without mediation through
classical sensory modalities but by generating electromagnetic induction of
fundamental algorithms in the atmosphere. Dr Persinger’s work is referred to by
Captain John Tyler whose work for the American Air Force and Aerospace programmes
likens the human nervous system to a radio receiver. (1990)
Very recently the leading weekly cultural BBC radio review had as
one of its guests, the eminent astro-physicist and astronomer royal, Sir Martin
Rees, who has recently published a book, “Our Final Century”, in which he makes
a sober and reasoned case for the fifty-fifty chance that millions of people,
probably in a ‘third-world country’ could be wiped out in the near future
through biotechnology and bio-terrorism – “by error or malign release.” He
spoke of this devastation as possibly coming from small groups or cults, based
in the United States. “…few individuals with the right technology to cause
absolute mayhem.” He also said that in this century, human nature is no
longer a fixed commodity, that perhaps we should contemplate the possibility
that humans would even have implants in the brain.
The other guests on this programme were both concerned with
Shakespeare, one a theatre producer and the other a writer on Shakespeare,
while his remaining guest was a young woman who had a website called “Spiked”,
the current theme of which was Panic Attack, that is to say, Attack on Panic.
This guest vigorously opposed what she felt was the pessimism of Sir Martin,
regarding his ideas as essentially eroding trust, and inducing panic. This
reaction seems to typify one way of dealing with threat and anxiety, and
demonstrates the difficulty that a warning voice, even from a man
of the academic distinction of Martin Rees, has in alerting people to that which
they do not want to hear. This flight reaction was reinforced by the presenter
who summed up the morning’s discussion at the end of the programme with the
words: “We have a moral! Less panic, more Shakespeare!”
The New
Barbarism
Since access to a mind-reading machine will enable the operator to
access the ideas of another person, we should prepare ourselves for a new world
order in which ideas will be, as it were, up for grabs. We need not doubt
that the contents of another’s mind will be scooped up, scooped out, sorted
through as if the event was a jumble sale. The legal profession would therefore
be well advised to consider the laws on Intellectual Property very judiciously
in order to acquit themselves with any degree of authenticity. We should
accustom ourselves to the prospect of recognizing our work coming out of the
mouth of another. The prospect of wide-scale fraud, and someone posturing in
your stolen clothes will not be a pretty sight. The term “personal mind
enhancement” is slipping in through the back door, to borrow a term used
by the Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and it is
being done through technologically-induced mental co-ercion – mind raping and
looting. In place of, or in addition to, cocaine, we may expect to see
‘mind-enhanced’ performances on “live” television.
The brave new science of neuropsychiatry and brain mapping hopes
to find very soon, with the fMRI scanner - this “brand new toy that scientists
have got their hands on” - “the blob for love” and “the blob for guilt”, (BBC
Radio 4: All in the Mind, 5 March, 2003). Soon we will be able to order a brain
scan for anyone whose behaviour strikes us as odd or bizarre, and the
vicissitudes of a life need no longer trouble us in our diagnostic assessments.
In his recent Reith Lectures for the BBC (2003), Professor Ramachandran, the
celebrated neuroscientist from the La Hoya Institute in San Diego, California,
has demonstrated for us many fascinating things that the brain can do. He has
talked to us about personality disorders and shown that some patients, who have
suffered brain damage from head injury, do not have the capacity to recognise
their mothers. Others feel that they are dead. And indeed he has found brain
lesions in these people. In what seems to be an enormous but effortless leap,
the self-styled “kid in a candy store” is now hoping to prove that all
schizophrenics, have damage to the right hemisphere of the brain, which results
in the inability to distinguish between fantasy (sic) and reality. Since
Professor Ramachandran speaks of schizophrenia in the same breath as denial of
illness, or agnosia, it is not clear,
and it would be interesting to know, whether the person with the head injury
has been aware or unaware of the head injury. Also does the patient derive
comfort and a better chance at reality testing when he is told of the
lesion? Does he feel better when he has received the diagnosis? And what
should the psychoanalysts – and the psychiatrists, - feel about all those years
of treating people of whose head injuries they were absolutely unaware? Was
this gross negligence? Were we absolutely deluded in perceiving recovery in a
sizeable number of them?
It is, however, lamentable that a neuroscientist with a professed
interest in understanding schizophrenia should seek to provide light relief to
his audience by making jokes about schizophrenics being people who are
“convinced that the CIA has implanted devices in their brain to control their
thoughts and actions, or that aliens are controlling them.” (Reith
Lecture, No 5, 2003).
There is a new desire for concretisation.
The search for meaning has been replaced by the need for hard proof. If it
doesn’t light up or add up it doesn’t have validity. The physician of the mind
has become a surgeon. “He found a lump as big as a grapefruit!”
Facing up to
the Dread and Fear of the Uncanny
Freud believed that an exploration of the uncanny would be a major
direction of exploration of the mind in this century. The fear of the uncanny
has been with us for a very long time. The evil eye, or the terrifying double,
or intruder, is a familiar theme in literature, notably of Joseph Conrad in The
Secret Sharer, and Maupassant’s short story, Le Horla. Freud’s analysis of the
uncanny led him back to the old animistic conception of the universe: “…it
seems as if each one of us has been through a phase of individual development
corresponding to the animistic phase in primitive men, that none of us has
passed through it without preserving certain residues and traces of it which
are still capable of manifesting themselves, and that everything which now
strikes us as ‘uncanny’ fulfils the condition of touching those residues of
animistic mental activity within us and bringing them to expression.” (Freud:
1919. p.362)
The separation of birth, and the childhood fear of ‘spooks in the
night’, also leave their traces in each and every one of us. The individual
experience of being alone in one’s mind – the solitary fate of man which has
never been questioned before, and upon which the whole history of civilised
nurture is based - is now assaulted head-on. Since growing up is largely
synonymous with acceptance of one’s aloneness, the effort to assuage it is the
basis for compassion and protection of others; it is the matrix for the
greatest good, that of ordinary human kindness, and is at the heart of the
communicating power of great art. Even if we must all live and die alone, we
can at least share this knowledge in acts of tenderness which atone for our lonely
state. In times of loss and mental breakdown, the starkness of this aloneness
is all too clear. The best of social and group constructiveness is an
effort to allay the psychotic anxieties that lie at the base of every one of
us, and which may be provoked under extreme enough conditions.
The calculated and technological entry into another person’s mind
is an act of monumental barbarism which obliterates– perhaps with the twiddling
of a dial – the history and civilisation of man’s mental development. It is
more than an abuse of human rights, it is the destruction of meaning. For any
one who is forced into the hell of living with an unseen mental rapist, the
effort to stay sane is beyond the scope of tolerable endurance. The
imaginative capacity of the ordinary mind cannot encompass the horror of
it. We have attempted to come to terms with the experiments of the Nazis
in concentration camps. We now have the prospect of systematic control
authorised by men who issue instructions through satellite communications for
the destruction of societies while they are driving new Jaguars and Mercedes,
and going to the opera.
This is essentially about humiliation, and disempowerment. It is a
manifestation of rage acted out by those who fear impotence with such dread,
that their whole effort is directed into the emasculation and destruction of
the terrifying rival of their unconscious fantasies. In this apocalypse of the
mind the punitive figure wells up as if out of the bowels of the opera
stage, and this phantasmagoria is acted out on a global scale. These men
may be mad enough to believe they are creating a ‘psychocivilised world order”.
For anyone who has studied damaged children, it is more resonant of the
re-enactment from the unconscious, reinforced by a life devoid of the capacity
for empathic identification, of the obscenities of the abused and abusing child
in the savage nursery. Other people -which were to them like Action Man
toys to be dismembered, or Barbie Dolls to be obscenely defiled - become as meaningless
in their humanity as pixillated dots on a screen.
Although forced entry into a mind is by definition obscene, an
abbreviated assessment of the effects that mind-invaded people
describe testifies to the perverted nature of the experiments. Bizarre
noises are emitted from the body, a body known well enough by its owner to
recognise the noises as extrinsic; air is pumped in and out of orifices as if
by a bicycle pump. Gradually the repertoire is augmented - twinges and spasms
to the eyes, nose, lips, strange tics, pains in the head, ringing in the ears,
obstructions in the throat, pressure on the bowel and bladder causing
incontinence; tingling in the fingers, feet, pressures on the heart, on
breathing, dizziness, eye problems leading to cataracts; running eyes, running
nose; speeding up of heart beats and the raising of pressure in the heart and
chest; breathing and chest complaints leading to bronchitis and deterioration
of the lungs; agonizing migraines; being woken up at night, sometimes with
terrifying jolts ; insomnia; intolerable levels of stress from the loss of
one’s privacy. This collection of assorted symptoms is a challenge to any
medical practitioner to diagnose.
There are, more seriously, if the afore-going is characterised as
non-lethal, the potential lethal effects since the capability of ultrasound and
infra-sound to cause cardiac arrest, and brain lesions, paralysis and
blindness, as well as blinding by laser beam, or inducing asphyxia by altering
the frequencies which control breathing in the brain, epileptic seizure – all
these and others may be at the fingertips of those who are developing them. And
those who do choose to use them may be sitting with the weapon, which
resembles, say, a compact mobile telephone, on the restaurant table next to the
bottle of wine, or beside them at the swimming pool.
Finally – if the victims at this point in the new history of this
mind-control, cannot yet prove their abuse, it must be asserted that, faced
with the available information about technological development – it is
certainly not possible for those seeking to evade such claims – to disprove them. To wait until the effects
become widespread will be too late.
* For these and
other reasons which this paper has attempted to address, we would call for an
acknowledgement of such technology at a national and international level.
Politicians, scientists and neurologists, neuroscientists, physicists and the
legal profession should, without further delay, demand public debate on the
existence and deployment of psychotronic technology; and for the
declassification of information about such devices which abuse helpless people,
and threaten democratic freedom.
* Victims’
accounts of abuse should be admitted to public account, and the use of psycho-electronic
weapons should be made illegal and criminal,
* The medical
profession should be helped to recognise the symptoms of mind-control and
psychotronic abuse, and intelligence about their deployment should be
declassified so that this abuse can be seen to be what it is, and not
interpreted automatically as an indication of mental illness.
If, in the present confusion and insecurity about the search for
evidence of weapons of mass destruction, we conclude that failure to locate
them - whatever the truth of the matter – encourages us to be generally
complacent, then we shall be colluding with very dark forces at work if we
conclude that a course of extreme vigilance signifies paranoia. For there may
well be other weapons of mass destruction being developed and not so far from
home; weapons which, being even more difficult to locate, are developed
invisibly, unobstructed, unheeded in our midst, using human beings as
test-beds. Like ESP, the methods being used on humans have not been detectable
using conventional detection equipment. It is likely that the signals being
used are part of a physics not known to scientists without the highest level of
security clearance. To ignore the evidence of victims is to deny, perhaps with
catastrophic results, the only evidence which might otherwise lead the
defenders of freedom to becoming alert to the development of a fearful new
methods of destruction. Manipulating terrorist groups and governments alike,
these sinister and covert forces may well be very thankful for the professional
derision of the victims, and for public ignorance.
Copyright - The Author
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