The use of an array of tactics to baffle the perception in conflict is not new, nor is the strategy confined to the human species. Predators who exploit the perceptual deficiencies of prey are common in nature. As human hunters wear camouflage spread scents and simulate game calls to imitate prey animals,
Paussid beetles forge chemical signals, blinding ant species they prey on to their presence among them in the nest.
A famous human organization employed similar tactics. Hasan ibn Sabah’s Assassins. Sabah reputedly learned the art and science of mind control from priests of the mysteries in Egypt, but whatever the source, Sabah’s Assassins used hypnotic induction, symbolism, stage magic and drugs create a belief system which delivered 100 % loyalty from adherents, and instant complete compliance with leader’s instructions even “suicide missions.”
Nation states have great difficulty securing large numbers of people willing to die on command. Hasan al Sabah’s Assassins prospered for 300 years, spreading their agents throughout the middle east because they knew how to create thousands of fanatically loyal followers.
When, after 300 years, the Assassin’s luck ran out and their fortress at Alamut (in what is now Iran) was overrun, the Assassin’s leadership captured and executed by the Mongols. What happened to the thousands of faithful assassins scattered throughout the middle east?
The assassins did what companies do after a scandal or serious defeat, they changed the name of the organization and continued to practice extortion and blackmail of nation states which had prospered them for three hundred years.
Just as the Arthur Anderson consulting firm changed itself to Accenture after being implicated in the Enron fraud, the Assassins reconstituted themselves under new leadership and rebranded, terrorized and blackmailed under a new name – the Ismailis.
The Assassins / Ismailis are known to have shared their tactics and technology with other groups such as the Knights Templar with whom they were allied and who shared their antinomian beliefs.
Groups today employing the Assassin’s mind control tactics command close to 100% loyalty and instant compliance with leaders’ instructions. Many groups and organizations, religious sects, cults and intelligence agencies have acquired the assassin’s MK technology and have worked diligently to improve it.
The assassin’s tactics are often called “trauma-based” mind control because they employ physical or emotional trauma to split off ‘alters’ or compartmentalized selves. Legacy or mainstream media uses unperceived images, subliminal and subsonic embeds, to deliver trauma inducing images/symbols and manipulate consumer perception and preferences with data concealed in both “advertising” and “entertainment” media content.
Human beings are highly suggestible, extremely imitative and profoundly irrational.
As professor Wilson Bryan Key put it, “What appears conscious, logical and reasonable has little persuasive significance.”
“Deceptions propagated by media, accumulate. When residual lies are formulated as social dogma and represented forcefully by media as orthodox reality, we must wholly accept, as good citizens, or entirely reject them, as immoral fools, traitors, and lunatics do. “
In May 1926 Viennese writer Karl Kraus responded to agitation for Anschluss, annexation by Germany, declaring that ‘the hypnotic power of newsprint media had created a ‘counterfeit reality’ in which ‘nothing is real except for the lies.’”
Perception, not the labels used to describe the nonverbal perceptual process, cannot be divided into simplistic categories such as conscious (cognitive) and unconscious (subliminal). Conscious and unconscious must be viewed as approximate overlapping states to be viewed on a scale of more-or-less, rather than either or. Perception as it affects the brain and body is totally integrated. All portions of the brain interconnect with all parts of the body. Body and conscious and unconscious mind are inextricable, and both have been “programmed from infancy with basic assumptions, unconsciously supported ideas are usually taken for granted.”
The only way to inhibit the function of overt disinformation and covert control tactics is to expose them.
NSA, US Military intelligence and allies and partners worldwide are doing this now. Whatever the ultimate extent of the public revelations, the existing damage is real, and remedial measures are required to initiate recovery with the objective of restoring function and educating the public about our collective cognitive vulnerability.