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The Power of Music: Mind Control by

Rhythmic SoundBy R. Douglas Fields | October 19, 2012

New Orleans, October 16, 2012 -You

walk into a bar and music is thumping. All heads are bobbing and feet tapping in synchrony.

Somehow the rhythmic sound grabs control of the brains of everyone in the room forcing

them to operate simultaneously and perform the same behaviors in synchrony. How is this

possible? Is this unconscious mind control by rhythmic sound only driving our bodily

motions, or could it be affecting deeper mental processes?The mystery runs deeper than previously thought, according to psychologist Annett

Schirmer reporting new findings today at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New

Orleans. Rhythmic sound “not only coordinates the behavior of people in a group, it also

coordinates their thinking—the mental processes of individuals in the group become

synchronized.”

This finding extends the well-known power of music to tap into brain circuits controlling

emotion and movement, to actually control the brain circuitry of sensory perception. This

discovery helps explain how drums unite tribes in ceremony, why armies march to bugle

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and drum into battle, why worship and ceremonies are infused by song, why speech is

rhythmic, punctuated by rhythms of emphasis on particular syllables and words, and

perhaps why we dance.

Schirmer and her graduate student Nicolas Escoffier from the University of Singapore first

tested subjects by flashing a series of images on a video monitor and asked them to quickly

identify when an image was flipped upside down. While participants focused on this task, a

synthetic drumbeat gently tapped out a simple four-beat rhythm in the background,

syncopated by skipping the fourth beat of each measure.

The results showed

that when the image was flashed on that missed beat, the subjects identified the inverted

image much faster than when the image was flashed at times out of synch with the beat or

when the images were presented in silence. Somehow, the brain’s decision making was

accelerated by the external auditory rhythm and heightened at precise points in synchrony

with the beat. Since the power of rhythm in boosting cognitive performance was evident on

the missing beat when no sound was presented, the effect could not have had anything to

do with the sound of the drumbeat acting as a stimulus. Mental processing must have fallen

into a rhythm of heightened expectation and superior performance on the anticipated beat.

Next the researchers attached electrodes to the scalp of such subjects to determine if the

brain’s electrical activity was somehow affected by the rhythm of the sound. The EEG

recording detects the combined electrical activity of thousands of neurons working together

in the cerebral cortex. Just like the roar of a crowd at a baseball game, waves of electrical

activity in the brain are generated when individual neurons in the cerebral cortex are

combined in action. The EEG recordings showed that the waves of brain activity (alpha and

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beta waves) became synchronized around the auditory rhythm. That is, the ongoing

oscillations of brain waves became phase shifted so that the peak of the wave always

occurred at a precise point relative to the next beat in the drum rhythm. Rhythmic sound

synchronizes brain waves.

The brain wave recordings also revealed

a more surprising effect of rhythmic sound on brain function. Any sensory stimulus, such asseeing a picture or hearing a sound, will generate a brief brain wave in the region of cerebral

cortex where such information is received and processed, much like the crack of a bat at

home plate causes an eruption of cheers in a stadium. The researchers found that the

sensory-evoked brain wave measured at the back of the skull over the region where vision is

processed, peak each time the image was presented, but when the image was presented

simultaneously with the missing drumbeat, the electrical response evoked by the picture

was bigger than when the image was presented out of rhythm or flashed on the screen in

silence. These visual circuits are more responsive when the image appears in synch with the

auditory rhythm.

This region of the brain processes the earliest steps in vision, the circuits that detect visual

input. This means that our perception of the external world entering our mind through our

eyes is affected by the rhythm of what we hear. Something seen at a point precisely in beat

with an auditory rhythm is more likely to be perceived than if it appears out of synch with

the rhythm. This gating of visual input by auditory rhythm does not require a prolonged

meditation on the rhythm to cause the person to enter into some sort of a trance-like state;

the effects are nearly instantaneous. “Within a few measures of music your brain waves

start to get in synch with the rhythm,” Schirmer says.

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Steven Pinker has said that music is “auditory cheesecake,” with no particular advantage in

the evolution of our species. Schirmer feels their new results do not support that view.

“Rhythm facilitates our interpersonal interactions in term of not only how we move, but

how we talk and think,” she concludes. “Rhythm facilitates people interacting by

synchronizing brain waves and boosting performance of perception of what the other

person is saying and doing at a particular point in time.” Rhythm, whether the lyrics to a

song or the meter of a poem facilitates language processing, she concludes, and she is now

undertaking new experiments to further test this idea. “When people move in synchrony

they are more likely to perceive the world in synchrony, so that would facilitate their ability

to interact.”

What is Brain washing

The term "brainwashing" came into common language through the work of American

journalist Edward Hunter who was an expert of Oriental issues; the very word being the

direct translation of Chinese "hsi-nao". By "hsi-nao" the Chinese meant certain techniques in

dealing with adversaries and/or training of officials. To the Western usage the term

"brainwashing" spread in the 1950s through several publications depicting the treatment of

American soldiers at Chinese prison camp during the Korean War 1950-1953.

Below is a list of the usual brainwashing/mind control techniques used in schools, hospitals,

army, religious cults, totalitarian states; with political prisoners and dissidents, mentally

insane, some versions of psychoterapy, etc., etc. "Indoctrination" is a more slight and more

subliminal form of brainwashing (e.g. commercials). However, these concepts are nothing

short of controversial and open to various interpretations, which should be kept in mind

while perusing the Web sources below.

Judging by the extremely diverse material on the subject found from the Net, the funny

thing about the term "brainwashing" itself is that it can be handily appropriated by just

anyone -- whether they were right-wing or left-wing, religious people or anti-cultists -- to

support their claims of their opponents (supposedly using these "brainwashing" techniques)

being miserable, no-good wretches (see: propaganda). I became not a little bit cynical afterwallowing through tons of Web pages by religious bigots, downright wackos (most usual

was the claim of government having secret mind control experiments with microwaves) and

so-called (American right-wing fascist/racist) patriots, but tried to put here those that I

found useful or at least interesting myself. (In other words, after browsing an otherwise

decent and respectable-looking page for a while you might start smelling a rat.) I can't

guarantee the information found from some of these pages is totally unprejudiced or

scientifically verifiable under skeptical observation. So, it's up to you to decide whether to

believe them or not.

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1) HYPNOSIS - Inducing a high state of suggestibility, often thinly disguised as relaxation or

meditation.

a. Repetitive Music (most likely with a beat close to the human heart 45 to 72 beats per

minute). Most likely used during "study sessions" as the teacher will say the music helps you

relax and concentrate better!

b. Voice Roll -- A "voice roll" is a patterned, paced style used by hypnotists when inducing a

trance. It is also used by many lawyers, several of whom are highly trained hypnotists, when

they desire to entrench a point firmly in the minds of the jurors. A voice roll can sound as if

the speaker were talking to the beat of a metronome or it may sound as though he were

emphasizing every word in a monotonous, patterned style. The words will usually be

delivered at the rate of 45 to 60 beats per minute, maximizing the hypnotic effect.

c. Room "Feel" - The way a room feels is essential to hypnotizing unknowing subjects. It

needs special lighting, florescent lights are best because they aren't too dim, but aren't too

harsh. Also, Room Temp helps a bit, usually a little cooler than normal room temperature.

You need to have the unknowing subjects very relaxed, perhaps even close to falling asleep.

2) PEER GROUP PRESSURE - Suppressing doubt and resistance to new ideas by exploiting

the need to belong.

3) "LOVE BOMBING" - Creating a sense of family through physical touch, thought & feeling

sharing and emotional bonding.

4) REJECTION OF OLD VALUES - Accelerating acceptance of new lifestyle by constantlydenouncing former beliefs and values.

5) CONFUSING DOCTRINE - Encouraging blind acceptance and rejection of logic through

complex lectures on an incomprehensible doctrine.

6) METACOMMUNICATION - Implanting subliminal messages by stressing certain key words

or phrases in long, confusing lectures.

7) REMOVAL OF PRIVACY - Achieving loss of ability to evaluate logically by preventing

private contemplation.

8) DISINHIBITION - Encouraging child-like obedience by orchestrating child-like behaviour

9) UNCOMPROMISING RULES - Inducing regression and disorientation by soliciting

agreement to seemingly simple rules which regulate mealtimes, bathroom breaks and use

of medications.

10) VERBAL ABUSE - Desensitizing through bombardment with foul and abusive language.

(Physical abuse, such as torture, is the more extreme form of this.)


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11) SLEEP DEPRIVATION AND FATIGUE - Creating disorientation and vulnerability by

prolonging mental an physical activity and withholding adequate rest and sleep.

12) DRESS CODES - Removing individuality by demanding conformity to the group dress

code.

13) CHANTING OR SINGING - Eliminating non-cult ideas through group repetition of mind-

narrowing chants or phrases.

14) CONFESSION - Encouraging the destruction of individual ego through confession of

personal weaknesses and innermost feelings of doubt.

15) FINANCIAL COMMITMENT - Achieving increased dependence on the group by 'burning

bridges' to the past, through the donation of assets.

16) FINGER POINTING - Creating a false sense of righteousness by pointing to theshortcomings of the outside world.

17) ISOLATION - Inducing loss of reality by physical separation from family, friends, society

and rational references.

18) CONTROLLED APPROVAL - Maintaining vulnerability and confusion by alternately

rewarding and punishing similar actions.

19) CHANGE OF DIET - Creating disorientation and increased susceptibility to emotional

arousal by depriving the nervous system of necessary nutrients through the use of specialdiets and/or fasting. Also applying drugs for these purposes fall in this category.

20) GAMES - Inducing dependence on the group by introducing games with obscure rules.

21) NO QUESTIONS - Accomplishing automatic acceptance of beliefs by discouraging

questions.

22) GUILT - Reinforcing the need for 'salvation' by exaggerating the sins of the former

lifestyles.

23) FEAR - Maintaining loyalty and obedience to the group by threatening soul, life or limb

for the slightest 'negative' thought, word or deed.

Three Principles of Re-Education

1) REPETITION - Going through the same subject over and over again until it is known by

heart.

2) ACTIVITY PEDAGOGICS - The subjects are never left alone nor give any private time of

their own, they are always in activity.


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3) CRITICISM AND SELF-CRITICISM - The subjects are supposed to feel uncertain; under the

constant threat of being humiliated and despised.

In the Korean War the "criticism and self-criticism" sessions held for the American prisoners

of war by the Chinese clearly had deeper effects than the POWs could initially comprehend,

and when they found out, it was too late. In the beginning many prisoners found this wholeprocedure just childish, and were inclined to take it merely as something of a joke, but

without them being able to realize it, the situation of being subjected constantly to the

criticism of one's comrades became humiliating.

That a grown-up person should publicly discuss one's habits or inclinations -- some of them

of very private nature -- confess one's faults, receive strong criticism for insignificant

misdemeanours, will not be indeed in the course of time anything to be considered childish

or playful: it simply will be experienced as insulting. This continuing feeling of humiliation

became crucial in the gradual psychological break-up of the prisoners' personalities.

Furthermore, this ongoing process of "criticism and self-criticism" was bound to causemistrust for one's own comrades: it was the tactics of "divide and conquer" as the ancient

Romans would have called it. ("Criticism and self-criticism" were also widely applied during

China's "Cultural Revolution" starting in 1966, as a method of "re-education".)

Remote Viewing & Remote Influencing by Jim Fallon

Remote viewing is a "mental projection" with your mind to another person or place and observing

with your inner eyes what is taking place there, or what a person is doing and/or the details of a

distant location. It is a form of telepathy or thought transference, which is the communication of

impressions from one mind to another. This technique allows one to tune into the thoughts,

feelings, desires and awareness of another person. Remote influencing is the ability to project your

own thoughts, feelings, and desires to influence another person.

How does it work?

Serge King, in his book, Mastering Your Hidden Self (1985), talks about this. "... We remain in contact

with everything we sense by means of 'sticky' aka threads, like drawn out strands of bubble gum,

that never break and never get tangled. Every time we renew contact, another thread is formed, so

that we are connected to certain people and places by cords rather than threads. In addition, by the

power of thought we have the ability to send out an 'aka finger' to places or people we have never

been in contact with, and thereby seek out information or have an influence."

The basics of the technique presented here uses the third principle of Huna, "Energy Flows Where

Attention Goes." It also uses Piko Piko breathing to energize the "third eye," and intent and

visualization to help reinforce the Aka thread, by visualizing an aka link from one Huna power center

to another, to establish a "communications" link. This allows information to be received and

"transmitted."

In Remote viewing, the mind subjectively (non-physically) detects subjective information about a

subject, and then converts that information into a form that you can understand, such as a mental

image, or words, or a feeling. It is important when using the technique that all information and

impressions are not to be discarded.

The mental image (of what you remotely view) is not the actual communication. It is the end result

of a mental process, just as the words or pictures on the computer monitor are the result of your

instructions (given via the keyboard and the mouse) interacting with the word processing (or image

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processing) program, which then interacts with the computer hardware to produce light and dark

pixels that you recognize as words and images.

The technique:

Piko Piko:

Remote influencing:

Inhale with your attention on your navel. Visualize what you are trying to do, or the result of whatyou want at the navel. Exhale with your attention at your forehead, about 1 to 2 inches behind the

forehead. Visualize that this energy radiates out, like an aka finger or "thread" going to the other

person's forehead. As you visualize this hold the image of what you're trying to do. Send it out in one

strong intense vibration with the exhale breath.

Remote viewing or receiving:

This is the reverse of the manner in which the signal was sent out. Inhale, as you see the aka finger

attached to the persons forehead. Exhale, and bring the attention to your navel. Visualize

information coming inward towards you through the aka finger, coming inward towards the navel

centering at the navel.

Remote broadcasting:

Rather than send the vibration out of the forehead, bring it up to the top of your head. Hold theimage at the navel on the inhale, on the exhale, attention is brought to the top of the head, and see

the energy spreading out like a cone. You can work with any single aspect described above or

combine them in various ways for many purposes. When finished with any of the techniques, just

visualize that the Aka cord is dissolving.

Practical Uses

HEALTH

You can use Remote Viewing to sense health problems and then take corrective action with Remote

Influencing to restore perfect health for yourself and others.

With Remote Influencing, you help complement doctors' efforts by working from the inside of your

subconscious mind and powerfully thinking yourself and others healthy!

You can even reshape your body image and easily attain by mind power alone your perfect anddesirable weight and shape.

Since all your body cells are replenished and recreated every 7 years (20 days for your skin) you can

Remote Influence you morphogenic fields to recreate better, younger and more pleasant body

structures and skin complexion.

With Remote Viewing you can detect health problems and threats to your health, and then take

action both physically and mentally with Remote Influencing to protect your health or restore and

maintain optimum health for yourself and your loved ones.

While your doctor works from the outside-in with physical medicine, you help by working from the

inside-out.

RELATIONSHIPS

Remote View your relationships and foresee potential problems before they develop. You then see

the other person's real desires and needs, and can sense barriers. This allows you to respond

appropriately. You then know the best way to improve your love life and relationships.

Use Remote Influencing to magnetically attract a partner or perfect soul mate, improve your love

life, and create happiness. Remote Influencing allows you to connect to that person on a deeper

level and help bring about permanent changes that will establish deep rapport, and then be able to

intensely take pleasure in your relationship for the mutual joy and benefit of both.

Remote View your children to see what they are doing, and then Remote Influence them BEFORE

someone else influences them - the wrong way!

EDUCATION

Use Remote Viewing to intuit what test subjects might be asked of you. Remote Influence your

success at easily achieving the highest grades and attaining impressive academic credentials.


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Use remote viewing to detect any information needed. It is all in the Aka field. You can do more than

detect the facts. You can also learn how this information was applied, and the results achieved. In

other words, you can learn from other's experiences, and apply them to your own situation.

CAREER AND BUSINESS

Use remote broadcasting to subjectively communicate with potential customers who need and can

benefit from your product. This will not only help the customer by helping them to achieve theirgoals and solve problems in their lives, it will help you to increase sales. Any way you want to

imagine broadcasting your message is fine, such as imagining that you are speaking into a

microphone at a TV or radio station and your message is being broadcast by a large broadcasting

station tower.

Remote View a better job, then use Remote Influencing to get hired.

Remote Influence a promotion or raise.

Remote View the job interview before being interviewed and know beforehand the needs and wants

of the company, then use Remote Influencing to establish rapport and convince them that you are

the employee that they need.

Remote View to start your most successful new own business.

Remote Influence for more customers and increasing sales.Remote Influence your employees' performance.

Use Remote Viewing to detect the information that will help you solve problems, then use Remote

Influencing to implement your ideas and influence others that you have the answers.

INVESTMENTS

Remote View the most appropriate and safest investment vehicles that will keep your financial

assets safe and growing through these troubled times.

Timing is essential in all investment decisions, and you can Remote View the right moment to enter

and/or exit an investment vehicle and "know" when to switch to another one.

Remote Influence the success of your financial investment prosperity. Using Remote Influencing

erase past bad anxiety-causing experiences so that they do not arouse the exact fear of lack that

may have caused prior losses to start with.Get the "inner knowing" that, no matter what, you will be just fine and protected on many levels.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Become Fearless - Increase Energy - Enhance Self-Esteem - Reduce Stress - Achieve Your Perfect

Weight - Think Yourself Healthy - Find Love - Improve Your Love Life - Negotiate What You Want -

Become A Success - Create Happiness.

Influence others from a distance. Leave mental reminders and create an instant AKA connection.

Establish instant rapport with anyone you meet. Create a feeling of trust, connection, and

enjoyment.

Concentrate with total focus and clarity, whenever you choose.

When you have more information, you are able to make better decisions. And you get better results.

This is enhancing "luck"." You are "lucky" because you have more information to work with and

therefore get better results.

Neurolinguistic Programming

Definition

Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) is aimed at enhancing the healing process by changing the consci

ous and subconscious beliefs ofpatients about themselves, their illnesses, and the world. These limiti

ng beliefs are "reprogrammed" using a variety of techniques drawnfrom other disciplines including h

ypnotherapy and psychotherapy.

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Purpose

Neurolinguistic programming has been used to change the limiting beliefs of patients about their pro

spects of recovery from a wide varietyof medical conditions including Parkinson's disease, AIDS, migr

aines, arthritis, and cancer. Practitioners claim to be able to cure mostphobias in less than one hour,

and to help in making lifestyle changes regarding exercise

, diet, smoking

, etc. NLP has also been use

dto treat allergies. In other fields, claimed benefits include improved relationships, communication,

motivation, and business performance.

Description

Origins

NLP was originally developed during the early 1970s by linguistics professor John Grinder and psycho

logy and mathematics studentRichard Bandler, both of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Studying the well-

known psychotherapist Virginia Satir, the hypnotherapist Milton Erickson, the anthropologist Gregor

y Bateson, andothers whom they considered "charismatic superstars" in their fields, Grinder and Ban

dler identified psychological, linguistic andbehavioral characteristics that they said contributed to th

e greatness of these individuals. On the other hand, they found that personsexperiencing emotional

difficulties could be similarly identified by posture, breathing pattern, choice of words, voice tone, ey

emovements, body language, and other characteristics.

Grinder and Bandler then focused on using these indicators to analyze and alter patterns of thought

and behavior. After publishing theirfindings in two books in 1975, Grinder and Bandler parted compa

ny with themselves, with a number of other collaborators, and with theUniversity of California, conti

nuing their work on NLP outside the formal world of academia. As a result, NLP split into a number o

fcompeting schools.

Popularized by television "infomercial" personality Anthony Robbins and others, NLP was quickly ado

pted in management and self-

improvement circles. During the 1990s, there was growing interest in NLP's healing potential.

In a health-

care context, practitioners of neurolinguistic programming first seek to identify the negative attitude

s and beliefs with which aclient has been "programmed" since birth. This is accomplished by asking q

uestions and observing physical responses such as changesin skin color, muscle tension, etc. Then, a

wide variety of techniques is employed to "reprogram" limiting beliefs. For example, clientswith chro

nic illness such as AIDS or cancer might be asked to displace the despair and loss of identity caused by the disease byvisualizing themselves in vigorous health. Treatment by NLP practitioners is often of

shorter duration than that of other alternativepractitioners, but NLP self-

help seminars and courses can be quite expensive.

For those who wish to try self-

treatment with NLP, a wide variety of books, audio tapes, and videos are available.

Precautions

NLP is particularly popular in the self-improvement and career-

development fields, and some trainers and practitioners have littleexperience in its use for healing. P

ractitioners should be specifically asked about this.

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Because NLP is intended to enhance the healing process, it should not be used independently of oth

er healing methods. In all cases ofserious illness, a physician should be consulted.

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