The basis of mass mind control
by Jon Rappoport
May 23, 2014
“Aliens visiting Earth would report back to their superiors: ‘It’s quite amazing, those people worship images. They know it and they pretend not to know it.’” — Hypnotherapist Jack True.
This is a backgrounder for my mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, which contains many exercises designed to liberate an individual from the standardized perception of reality—and usher in his own creative reality.
Mass mind control focuses on two elements: image and feeling.
By linking the two primary elements, it is possible to short-circuit thought and “cut to the chase,” when it comes to enlisting the allegiance of huge populations.
Two seemingly unrelated events spurred my interest in mass mind control.
On the evening of April 12, 1945, I listened to a radio report on the death of Franklin D Roosevelt. I was seven years old.
I became upset. I didn’t know why. I was angry at my own reaction.
Forty years later, I pulled into a gas station near my apartment in West Los Angeles. I got out of my car and took the cap off my gas tank. I looked to my right and saw Tony Curtis sitting in his car. I was shocked.
A few days later, I began making notes under the heading of “image-emotion cues.” At the time, I was working as a reporter, writing articles for LA Weekly. I knew next to nothing about mind control, MKULTRA, Soviet psychiatric gulags, Chinese re-education programs, or US psychological warfare operations.
But because I had been painting for 25 years, I knew something about the power of images.
I remembered my first exhibition of paintings in LA, at my friend Hadidjah Lamas’ house. We had hung my work in her large living room and dining room. Hadidjah had enlisted the services of a friend who had videotaped me painting in my studio, and at the exhibition she set up a television set out on her patio and continuously played the videocassette.
People came through her front door, almost automatically walked through the house to the patio, as if guided by an unseen hand, and watched the video; then they came back inside and looked at the paintings.
They would stop at a painting and say: “That picture was in the video!” It excited them.
My first note on “image-emotion cues” was, “Investing an image with importance. Projecting emotion into an image.”
Projecting emotion into a newspaper image of the president, FDR. Projecting emotion into the screen image of Tony Curtis. Projecting emotion into a video of a painter working in his studio.
When people encounter an image, when they invest it with importance, they project feeling into the image—and this all happens in a private sphere, a private space.
If this didn’t happen, there would be no way to control populations through images. It wouldn’t work. It all starts with a person setting up his own personal feedback loop that travels from him to an image and back again.
Coming out of World War 2, US psychological warfare operatives knew they could turn their skills to political purposes. They had just succeeded in making Americans believe that all Japanese and German people were horribly evil. They had been able to manipulate imagery successfully in that area. Why couldn’t they shape America’s view of a whole planet that lay beyond personal experience?
They could and they did. But the power to do that emanated from the fact that every person invests images with feeling. That’s where it really starts.
I had seen the 1957 film, Sweet Smell of Success, a number of times. I admired it. Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis gave tremendous performances. When, decades later, I saw Curtis sitting in his car at that gas station, I was “working from” the emotion I had invested in his onscreen image. It produced a sense of shock and paralysis for a few seconds.
Other people might have rushed up to Curtis and asked for his autograph. With me, it was shock, cognitive dissonance. Ditto for the death of FDR. I was working off newspaper pictures I’d seen of him, and the feeling I’d invested in those presidential images. Other people, when FDR died, went out into the street and hugged their neighbors and wept openly. For me, it was upset and shock and anger.
There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with investing emotion in images. It can be exhilarating. It can be uplifting. As a painter, I know this in spades. Putting emotion into images can, in fact, vault you into a different perception of reality.
But on the downside, it can also take you into lockstep with what media/propaganda operatives want you to experience, second-hand.
We focus to such a degree on how we are being manipulated that we don’t stop to consider how we are participating in the operation. And our own role is clear and stark: we invest images with feeling.
So how does one individual’s projection of feeling into an image become a uniform projection of the same feeling into one image, by millions of people? How does what one person invests privately become mass mind control?
Through external instruction or cues. And also, by engendering the idea that there is only a limited palette of emotions to work with in the first place.
Why do millions of people fall into line?
Because they don’t realize they started the whole ball rolling themselves. All they know is: images are connected to feelings.
If they knew they were the real power in the whole operation, if they knew they were investing feelings into images all day long, if they could actually slow down enough to see how they do this….then they would be far less prone to taking instruction about what feelings they “ought to” invest in second-hand images.
Hypnotherapist Jack True unceremoniously put it to me this way: “If a dog could analyze how he got from eating meat to drooling at the sound of a bell that came at feeding time, he could stop drooling.”
(If Chris Matthews could analyze how his own voluntary investment of feeling in the image of Barack Obama sends a tingle up his leg, he could stop tingling.)
We see images of people rioting all over the Middle East. We see burning flags and crowds outside embassies. We’re supposed to invest our own anger and resentment into those images. Unless we’re suddenly told those rioters are actually “the good rebels,” in which case we’re supposed to invest our joy in the images.
We see a picture of miles of flat farmland and (GMO) corn waving in the breeze. We’re supposed to invest that image with feelings of happiness and pride.
Nowhere are we told we can back up a step and realize that we are the ones who begin the whole process, by projecting feelings into images. Any images.
When I was 19, I was sent to a trained expert in New York to take a Rorschach (ink-blot) Test. I was displaying signs of what would now be called Oppositional Defiance Disorder.
The expert said he wanted me to tell him everything I saw in each ink-blot. I took him at his word.
An hour later, I was still working on the first blot. I was describing everything from bats and owls and chickens to space ships and buckets of hidden treasure in caves.
Well, I was cheating a little. I wasn’t really describing what I saw. I was imagining. I was taking off from what was on the page and improvising. This was outside the bounds of the Test.
The expert was seething. He was sweating, because he had many other blots to show me, and it was late in the afternoon, and he was looking at spending the entire evening with me. Finally, he held up his hand and put an end to the Test.
I wasn’t playing his game. Among other sins, I wasn’t investing a limited palette of feelings in the images. Therefore, my choices of “what to see” in the blots expanded greatly.
When I go to a museum, I like to watch people stand in front of abstract paintings. Many of them are stumped. They’re trying to figure out what feelings they “are supposed to” project into the painting. They’re looking for “instruction,” and there isn’t any. They’re asking for mind control, and they’re not getting it.
Fanaticism of any kind begins with individuals projecting feelings into images. This is harnessed by leaders, who then choose the images and direct which feelings are permitted. The tempting prospect for the follower is: participation in a drama that goes beyond what he would ordinarily experience in life. This is bolstered by the idea that what he is doing is moral.
In an election season, people on the left are urged to project messianic feelings into images of X. People on the right are cued to invest feelings of pride, hope, and “tradition” into images of Y. The real candidates aren’t actually experienced.
Since Vietnam, shooting wars have been more difficult to sustain among soldiers. “In the old days,” feelings of hatred could be projected into images of enemies that included civilians, so overtly killing everybody on foreign soil was easier to accept. Now, soldiers are taught “enemy combatant” and “civilian” are two different images that require the injection of two different feelings.
Here at home, police and military are taught, more and more, to invest feelings of suspicion into images of American civilians. This is an acceleration of mass mind control for law enforcement.
The astonishing number of civilians who participate in government and corporate surveillance of the public, through technological means, learn to invest “dead empty feelings” into images of citizens, as if these targets are nothing more than ciphers, units.
Bizarre instances of police detaining and questioning parents who allow their children to play unsupervised reveal another accelerating trend. These confrontations start with neighbors snitching on the parents. The neighbors have learned to invest feelings of panic, suspicion, and anger in images of “free children.”
In all these cases, there is no real experience. It’s all second-hand. It’s all feeling-projected-into-image.
In the medical arena, countless advertisements and news stories are geared to convince people to invest feelings of trust in images of doctors. The suggestion, “Ask your doctor if X is right for you,” is framed as the solution to a little problem. The problem is set this way: Drug X is wonderful; drug X has serious adverse effects; what to do? Solution: ask your doctor; trust him; he knows.
As the class of victims in society has grown by leaps and bounds, including any group that can organize and promote itself as needing help or justice—going miles beyond the people who really do need assistance—citizens have been trained to invest feelings of sympathy and concern for all images of victims everywhere, real or imagined. This, too, is mass mind control.
Pick an image; invest feelings in it. Facts don’t matter. Evidence doesn’t matter.
You’ve heard people say, So-and-so (a celebrity) has become a caricature of himself. Well, that’s what it means. The celebrity has projected massive feelings of approval into a concocted, cartoonish image of himself.
As a society, we can go on this way until we become a horrific cartoon of a cartoon (well, we’re already there), or we can step back and discover how we invest emotion into images, and then use that process to pour feelings into visions of our own choosing and invent better futures.
Since the dawn of time, leaders have portrayed themselves as gods. They’ve assembled teams to promote that image, so their followers could project powerful emotion into the image and thereby cement the leaders’ control and power.
The game isn’t new. Understanding the roots of it within each individual could, however, break the trance of mass mind control.
During the first West Nile fake outbreak of 1999, I spoke with a student who had just dropped out of medical school. He told me he’d been looking at electron-microscope photos of the West Nile Virus, and he suddenly realized he was “supposed to” invest feelings of “great concern” in those images.
Somehow, he broke free from the image-feeling link. He was rather stunned at the experience. His entire conditioning as a medical student evaporated.
Parents all over the world are having the same experience vis-a-vis vaccines. They realize they’re supposed to invest fear in images of germs and disease, and they’re also supposed to invest feelings of hope and confidence in images of needles and vaccines. They see the game. They’re supposed to remain victims of mass mind control.
But they’ve awakened.
We’ve all been taught that what we feel is always and everywhere out of our control. These feelings are simply part of us, and we have to act on them. The alternative would be to sit on them and repress them and turn into androids, robots.
This is simply not true. There are an infinite number of feelings, and as strange as it may sound, we can literally invent them.
This, it is said, is inhuman. It’s a bad idea. It’s wrong. It would lead us to “deserting the human community.”
Nonsense. That’s part of the propaganda of mind control. If the controllers can convince us that we’re working from a limited map of emotions and we have to stay within that territory, they can manipulate that limited set of feelings and trap us.
The power of art is that it shows us there are so many more emotions than we had previously imagined. We can be much freer than we supposed.
The synthetic world of mind control and the handful of feelings that are linked to images is what keeps us in thrall.
The world—the world of what we can be—is so much wider and more thrilling and revealing.
Jon Rappoport
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
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Here’s an interesting question for you Jon : what if the imagery we were shown live on 9/11, [as archived on line : https://archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive/ ], was not in fact genuine, and that we were instead shown 100% digitally created [i.e prefabricated on computers] artificial imagery of planes approaching buildings, towers collapsing top to bottom in 9 and 11 secs. [according to the N.I.S.T.] etc. etc. ?
Then we have all been investing our emotions in fabricated imagery, and have all been operating very much inside the matrix still, haven’t we? 🙂 .
Further Down “The Rabbit Hole”?
The 9/11 researcher who has, I believe, very convincingly demonstrated that all of the imagery we were all shown “live” on 9/11 was in fact pre-fabricated on computers, and not genuine live imagery, is Simon Shack.
In 2008 he made a film called “September Clues”, which serves as an introduction to his research into the 9/11 imagery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gORu-68SHpE
However, the main bulk of his still ongoing 9/11 imagery research is to be found at his website, here:
http://septemberclues.info/
I think you will find his research very interesting [to say the least] if you take the time to fully explore/consider his proposals.
Regards, onebornfree.
http://onebornfrees911researchreview.blogspot.com/
If you have any questions/observations you may contact me at : onebornfreeatyahoodotcom
Outside of the Bible, 9/11 is/was the biggest con in recent history.
You’re overlooking the constitution. It’s had much more effect than 9/11.
All cons and propaganda come from “a” truth. The “con” is to deceive and hurt you and the truth is to educate and help you. Nuf said, think about it hard.
Well I live in New Zealand – over here what happened on 9/11 for the likes of us over here it all happened on 9/10 – this realisation helps deal with the number image syndrome afflicting that event
THANK-YOU!!!!
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How should I feel after reading this?
Oh’ let me decide 🙂
Wonderful words that can help everyone @Mr. Rappoport.
Have a great weekend
At a young age, we begin learning how to instantly recognize the faces of our socionic duals – our soul mates. Each socionic personality type has a particular patterns of emotions in their faces, and not only that, they even have certain facial bone structures that can be recognized as well. So you learn which people are beautiful to you, and when you see them, they instantly trigger powerful emotions from your subconscious.
You also learn which people are ugly to you, the people who conflict with you, the people who are cruel to you, the people who are incompatible or boring or uninteresting to you. You learn to recognize their facial patterns as well. By merely glancing quickly at the face of a stranger, you have at least a vague (or perhaps quite clear and specific) idea of the future possibilities of a relationship with that person. Could you be friends? Could you be soul mates? Could you be enemies, or would you merely bore each other and find nothing to talk about or do together? All of this knowledge, this lifetime of experience and memory, builds up in your subconscious and is triggered instantly at the sight of a face.
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The effect of the image is even more dangerous when, after the programmed reflexive emotional response, consciousness kicks in and you suddenly “discover” what a fine person you are to be experiencing such an emotion. It is the beginning of the process of becoming a prig, a state from which the path back to wholesome human fellowship is usually arduous.
This all makes sense if we live in a vibrational universe. Read the teachings of Abraham Hicks for more details, or watch the rather simple movie The Secret.
Hey Jon,
We all need to expand from within and without. I like your articles because they’re so different from the mainstream shit-machine of never-ending stories based on fear and lies. I don’t really understand why the majority of people have such a tough time seeing the truth. I’m not talking about the “whole truth” mind you, just totally obvious things that a blind man could see. Whether it be the atrocity of 911 committed by traitorous elements inside our government or those duel citizen criminals who love to spread murder and horror all over the earth or the smaller brand of psychopath who terrorizes our communities on a smaller scale (cops and robbers). Whatever the flavor of tyranny and oppression, I’d love to see it dissolve into nothingness.
well said John Doe
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A brilliant piece from this brilliantly perceptive writer…
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Mind Control
I think the effect described here is so extraordinarily strong because people watch ever more TV and videos whilst they talk and listen less. And, of course, they read and reflect and discuss what they’ve read less. We’ve got our eyes “wide shut”, forgot that human communication is basically made up of sound. At every corner (being a private teacher) I hear that modern brain research found out the superiority of seeing to listening in learning. Almost whenever I merely put in against these specialists that there are different types of cognizance with different people I’m looked at like a dinosaur, if not mildly laughed at.
In English our creative brain capabilities are regularly even generally called “imagination”. When we don’t use the same word derived from Latin “imago” (just a bit differently pronounced) in German, we say “Vorstellungskraft”. The power of mental projection. (That’s the closest I get at the moment in translating the term.)
Thanks again for Your work, Jon.
I disgree that human communication is based on sound. It is estimated that some 90% of communication is based on body language. Why else would vision be more important than listening?
Also, there is not any part of the human brain that has not been found to be absent in at least one person, including the brain stem.
What about words? What about it, just as an example, that people in Europe who oppose the EU-monster are called anti-European, even Europe-haters by our mainstream media? Where is the picture, the body-language in that? They nonetheless put all the power they have into this procedure.
Sometimes the truth about seemingly very complex complicated issues is rather, well, SIMPLE. We all need to take our own minds back, and begin using them ourselves, for the benefit of ourselves, and therefore, for the benefit of those closest to us.
“Mass mind control focuses on two elements: image and feeling.
By linking the two primary elements, it is possible to short-circuit thought and ‘cut to the chase,’ when it comes to enlisting the allegiance of huge populations.”
My God, how we, the American people have been manipulated, and used, by the .01/1%, in the vast majority of cases, without even realizing the DEPTH of the deception. OMG.
Read NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY, by Gary Allen (1972), to understand why we live under a ONE-PARTY SYSTEM that masquerades as a “Two-Party” System, and that, the SAME International Central Bankers, who own and operate the so-called “Federal” “Reserve” System of Banks here in the U.S. and on Wall St. POSE as “Free Market” Capitalists or “Free Enterprise” Capitalists, when we now know – that ALL MARKETS ARE RIGGED. “They”, the .01/1% are MONOPOLISTS, (Globalists, Corporatists, Fascists) who use the U.S. Government, and governments around the world, to SUBSIDIZE their privately-owned corporations with U.S. Taxpayer $$, such as in the Banker Bailout of late 2008 (what are banks? corporations) thus shielding themselves, and their private wealth, their real estate, mansions, private islands, yachts, bentleys. We, the American people, are SUBSIDIZING our own debt-enslavement, at the hands of the 545 Criminals in the District of Criminals – Washington, D.C.
And, to make matters worse, these same International Central Bankers, behind-the-scenes, also FINANCE SOCIALISM (Communism).
In 1917, Paul Warburg, and Jacob Schiff, both Rothschild-agents, on Wall St., handed Lev Bronstein (aka Leon Trotsky) $20 Million (USD) in gold, when Bronstein/Trotsky boarded a ship, in New York Harbor, bound for Russia, and the Rothschild-financed overthrow of the Romanov Family Dynasty. Meanwhile, in Germany, Max Warburg (Paul’s brother) handed Lenin $6 Million (USD), and provided Lenin safe passage, from Germany into Russia, aboard a SEALED train.
“Out of 388 members of the new Russian government, only 16 happened to be Russians. One was an American Black. And all the rest, all the rest, 371, were Jews. Of these 371 Jewish Bolshevik leaders, no less than 265 of them were from the Lower East Side of New York City. So you see, the Russian Revolution wasn’t Russian at all.”
Source: All America Must Know the Terror That is Upon Us –
http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPages/ToolBarTopics/Articles/Featured_Authors/strom,_kevin/kevin_strom_works/Kevin_Strom_1991-1994/Kevin_A._Strom_19930814-ADV_All_America_Must_Know_the_Terror_That_Is_Upon_Us.html
The question we must ask ourselves now, is: What, exactly, do these International Central Bankers have up their sleeve, for the United States?
Dual Citizenship — Loyal to Whom?, by Dan Eden for View Zone
http://www.viewzone.com/dualcitizen.html
“The Jewish members of the conspiracy have used an organization called the Anti-Defamation League as an instrument to try to convince everyone that any mention of the Rothschilds or their allies is an attack on all Jews. In this way they have stifled almost all honest scholarship on international bankers and made the subject taboo within universities.” — Gary Allen, in his book “None Dare Call It Conspiracy” (1972). pg. 38.
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It’s also about who defines the meaning and therewith magic of certain symbols: Be it the Christian Cross or the Swastika or the Pentagram or the Pyramid with the Eye or The Six Pointed Star. They’re shown everywhere, all the time, laden with what is attributed to them and what surrounds them.
The Pentagram, for instance, is for many a sign of Evil, even the Devil, whereas with Leonardo and through Golden Section and on many flags it is the Symbol of Man.
In runic lore the fifth rune is “mannuz”, stands for man, the one who measures.
They fumble around with all this, and more. Vile, dire, wicked interpretations as frequent as You dare count. They even go to the point, like Rudolf Steiner, to say that right angles are bad to your health, for in these breed bad ghosts. And people believe that. (Usually living in dwellings with more or less upright walls. At least here in Germany.)
There is the point: It is belief.
To just trust some quack of notoriety and wealth and power, or just that He hath sum’ groupies, just ’cause others trust him too, or ’cause one has to trust at least someone or something, not being able to trust oneself, ones friends and relatives: There it all sets in.
If peoples’ belief in God were pure and personal, a goal Luther at least partly set, we would no way behold this kind of malleable foolishness that turns humans into sheep.
For mass mind control, everything is used. They hammer on all your senses and – not yet realized or further formed – extrasenses. It’s their job. There is a lot of experience and expediency in the trade, no doubt.
They will use your wishes, they will create them, they will twist your language (what you say or/as well as what you shouldn’t say anymore); if you realize it or not.
The tide, though, may already be turning. MANY big lies have in the last few years already become overt for far mor people than before; yes, many are just desparate, seeing that shills take over all “popular” movements all too soon whenever they gain momentum.
This is indeed no small game. There are tens of thousands of trained specialists of the second rank, very effective, still very often; and there is still no shortage of sublieutenants and arselickers and flunkeydom and petty greedy rabble and cowards of the cravenest sort, all their prostitutes and sidethugs, the scum they can hire and make happy for less than half a used napkin out of their big trough of dough.
Nay, I ain’t pessimistic. They’re fracking themselves to their end. One can see it not only in that real gas industry.