by Timbit » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:42 am
I think that it is still true by today's standards that a person under hypnosis cannot be ordered to do anything that they would otherwise not do consciously. I'm not so sure from what I read that Dr. Cameron (and others like him) were not successful in taking or producing a hypnotic state that triggered an [i]already[/i] programmed mind, that was later activated by hypnosis, or some sort of trigger.
The experiments they conducted such as on Linda McDonald, rendered her physically and mentally to a vetative state whereby her memory was completely removed and all normal human functions were erased. She had to learn the most basic things like going to the bathroom.
I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination here, and this is only my opinion, but say Linda McDonalds 'void' mind was programmed, into another set of personality protocols for the specific purpose of responding to an external trigger. It would seem possible then, that even as she recovered to her normal life cognitively, she could have been unaware that a second, independant personality, also lived within her mind, known only to those who established it, and also held the key to activate it.
These walking time bombs are not a new theory. In David's writing and in the Lincoln Park thread, there were many experiments independant of the LSD experiments for example, that used children as subjects in order to produce this split personality for purposes used by military (at least at that time). Knowing what we do about the extent of the programming used on those children, and in other instances such as those described in the link, my assumption is that over the past several decades, it has probably been perfected.
Mind control is something again, as in inducing psychosis, as you noted at Gitmo. God only knows how those techniques will affect the prisoners over the years to come. There are many ways to control a person through 'legitimate' means; or a population, or congregation or what have you. Manipulation, even at extreme levels, has to have benefit for purposes of control.
But to take a perfectly innocent mind, and produce from it a monster from within, capable of being manipulated to do acts that it would normally not do under any other circumstances, is like implanting a physical transmitter of some sort, that at the turn of a switch, an alternate person takes over.
And again different from Linda McDonald, part of that extensive 'other' personality, would have no recall of being programmed in the first place. Whatever action they were programmed to do would not relate back to a way to prove that any external control existed in the first place. Who would believe that just a regular everyday banker for instance, suddenly went on a rampage and killed all the executives at a board meeting and claimed to have been programmed to do so. We would conclude that some psychosis was dormant and suddenly he just went postal. Nobody in their right mind would just suddenly up at kill people right?
But are conclusions like that always necessarily correct. We can only make presumptions on what we know, and that is precious little. Even after the early experiments of the late 1920's to today, nobody is going to admit such extreme conditions exist in people that are not there naturally.
I agree with you that there are certainly worse experiments going on today that we are unaware of. Like what we are beginning to understand now in that regard, will it be another 70 years before we begin to understand what mankind has done to itself?
Tim
___
I have absolutely nothing clever to say......but I'm workin' on it.