DARK TO LIGHT
Contagious psychogenic illness or psychic epidemics have not been adequately studied. This is curious given that we humans imitate most of our social behaviors and that this imitated behavior is seldom conscious. For example, Wittgenstein's students (according to Karl Popper) imitated characteristic mannerisms of his and even after his death, students of students, people who never met the philosopher, were still imitating and transmitting his mannerisms to succeeding generations far distant from the original stimulus.
Social imitation is morally agnostic, and imitated behavior can be a harmless mannerism or dangerous, irrational genocidal or self-destructive acts. Contagious self-replicating psychogenic illness are an undervalued factor in human social behaviors.
The Latahs
Latahism is usually described as a Malaysian "culture bound" phenomena. Some social scientist believe imitative behaviors in latahs are related to the "startle response" as seen in Tourette's syndrom and obsessive compulsive disorders. Lawrence Osborne wrote in the New York Times magazine, “The startle reflex is a universal one. When we are jolted by surprise, we tend to scream, shout obscenities or make involuntary gestures. And some of us are a lot jumpier than others. But with latahs, as sufferers are known, these reactions become prolonged to an extreme degree. In Malay village life, people who are susceptible to such exaggerated reactions are deliberately provoked further – through furtive pokes in the ribs or tin pots thrown behind their backs – to induce a frenzied startle-trance. Over time, latahs become so sensitive that trances can be triggered by a falling coconut. [Source: Lawrence Osborne, New York Times magazine, May 6, 2001 ++]
A far higher percentage of human behavior is imitation and experienced subjectively as free choice. "One puzzling characteristic of culture-bound syndromes is that they often take the form of social epidemics….In other words, instead of being physiologically rooted in every afflicted individual, some syndromes can be infectious in a purely mental way. But what starts the chain of infection? In the case of latah, no scholar can say for sure. It may be that, at one time, a neurological disorder produced exaggerated startle reactions in some Malaysian women – and that over time, as awareness of the affliction permeated the culture, the disease spread through social mimicry. [Source: Lawrence Osborne, New York Times magazine, May 6, 2001 ++]
Stress induced
“Across the river from the town center lies the sprawling suburb of Petra Jaya. Here, Iban and Dyak villages have begun sprouted up among the posh houses of Muslim ministers and Chinese businessmen, creating an incongruous patchwork of marble villas and wooden shacks. In this neighborhood, a pair of old ladies have become known in the markets of Kuching for their latah antics. One of them is Serai, a frail 75-year-old. She welcomes me inside her son-in-law's house, with its sweltering front room of gaudy pink couches. Thirty-five years ago, Serai explains, she was invited to join a wood chopping team of women in the forests outside Kuching. The work was arduous, and the other women constantly TEASED AND TORMENTED their inexperienced companion. "They poked and poked me," she recalls a little mournfully, "and I became latah."
“How can latah consistently strike two people at the exact same moment? It seems that Serai and Amin must have some control, even if they are unable to acknowledge it, over their affliction. And if they can remember what happens to them while in a trance state, then is it really latah? Is Michael Kenny right – that latah is more of a ritual than an illness?
Loud noises trigger the phenomena in a way very similar to "shock induction" a mass hypnosis technique that exploits the extreme receptivity to hypnotic suggestion in the immediate wake of a collectively traumatic event such as 9/11.
The latah phenomena is one example. There are hundreds, and they are not confined to any cultural or geographic area, "Yet here was the paradox: syndromes very like latah, Geertz reported, existed in several other cultures as well. In rural parts of the Philippines, for instance, a nearly identical condition known as mali-mali is widespread. In Siberia, there is a hyperstartle complex known as myriachit, while in Thailand it is known as baah-ji and in Japan, imu. In the 1930's, scholars made a curious film about hyperstartling among the Ainu, an ethnic minority in northern Japan. The faded reels show Ainu women being startled, waving their arms like windmills and running around in a frenzy. A form of latah has even been recorded among French loggers in Canada. (Perhaps they are startled by falling trees?) Sufferers are known in medical literature, rather improbably, as the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine. Were these all hyperstartle complexes different forms of latah, Geertz asked, or were they all unique syndromes? "
It is trivial to exploit our human propensity for imitation, as in latah-phenomena, and use it to create unconscious self-replicating social behaviors in a given culture for purposes or marketing or for social control.
It seems highly unlikely that a phenomena like this would be ignored by people interested in controlling human social and economic developments. NSA hints that we share this planet with a number of "alien" species. Perhaps pop culture is not the organic phenomena it appears to us but a cultivated cultural medium which permits the rapid transmission of ideas and behaviors more sophisticated than a startle response?
“Indeed, the power of culture to propagate mental illness has become a subject of increasing fascination in the West. In recent years, scholars have seen mysterious maladies proliferate in a way that echoes the spread of latah. Multiple-personality disorder, for example, flourished among white, middle-class American women in the 1980's. And more recently, American and European psychologists have begun tracking apotemnophilia – a new, disturbing condition in which sufferers desire to amputate one of their own limbs. The Internet, medical anthropologists say, is helping spread the condition globally. As with latah, there is no cure."
There may well be "a cure," or a way to impede the spread of these illnesses but nobody has looked!
>Kuru was first recorded among the South Foré at the beginning of the 20th century and it progressively became more common up through the 1950's. At its peak, it mostly afflicted women in their 20's and 30's. This caused major social problems. Normally, men had several wives and children were taken care by women. Now, however, there were too few marriageable women, and men were left with the child care duties. Men were resentful and confused by their situation. Since the South Foré had a personalistic explanation for illness, they logically assumed that Kuru was the work of witches who used contagious magic. As a result, people became very careful at cleaning up their house sites to make sure that witches could not obtain any of their hair, fingernail clippings, feces, or personal belongings. Witch hunts were organized and former witches were forced to confess and then join anti-witch cults. None of these steps slowed the rate of increase in the number of Kuru victims.
https://www2.palomar.edu/anthro/medical/med_4.htm
The Peterson car museum in LA offer big tax benefits to those who donate old cars.
Buy an old car. Discover old car was driven (possibly) by famous actor X or politician Y.
Famous actor X or politician Y's car is worth what the Peterson museum says it is. They ARe the authorities. Steve McQueen's jeep?
This is your lucky day anon, deduct half a million from your taxable income in return for your generous donation.
>No stranger to the museum world, Robert Petersen had operated the Petersen Motorama Cars of the Stars on Hollywood Boulevard near Grauman’s Chinese Theatre during the 1970s. Approximately 15 years after the adventure ended, Mr. Petersen proposed the idea of an automotive museum to the Board of Directors of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (whose vehicle collection then encompassed 66 cars and motorcycles) and offered a lead gift of $15 million to begin the project. An agreement was reached, the necessary financing secured, and a disused department store building was acquired in 1992 for the memorable sum of $11,111,111.11. <<<<!!!
https://www.petersen.org/
2 + 2 = 4
Why do we assume natural numbers aren't alive?
Pauli, Jung and Plotinus all thought they were living things, self aware mathematical matrix or field.
Best book on subject.
https://www.amazon.com/Sabbatai-Sevi-Mystical-Messiah-Bollingen/dp/069101809X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbatai_Zevi
IP collectors no doubt.
The whole cicada program also targeted people with special abilities.
Is someone looking for somebody or something they lost?
Big search program for what?
GCHQ
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https://www.gchq.gov.uk/information/daring-to-think-differently-and-be-different …
researching real vampires - nothing like the Bram Stoker literary ones.
literature is mostly in Golgottic script a proto cyrillic alphabet,
Wamps are real enough and hunted in Serbia - Order of Draconis - "draconian" being the measures used in dealing with this trans dimensional infection. Vampires (pronounced "WAMP-EARS" do not like hawthorn and it is from this wood we must fashion our stakes.
https://vampireunderworld.com/vampirism/hawthorn/
will post when citations references and images are ready but it look like Bosnia is a locus and has been for millennia - they are shape shifters, mind control/hypnotic induction specialists and the Monarch butterfly is a favored form - not a bat. They can shift to other forms, wolves are common. Curiously they are no stronger in these forms that they are as humans. No super powers.
fun paytriot puppet show w. their comms