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   How does Non-Technological Mind Control Work?   
      
   A technical overview of mind control tactics   
      
   ¿Cómo Trabaja el Control Mental? : Una apreciación global técnica de   
   las tácticas del Control Mental   
      
      
   Terminology note: Today Mind control or brainwashing in academia is   
   commonly referred to as coercive persuasion, coercive psychological   
   systems or coercive influence. The short description below comes from   
   Dr. Margaret Singer professor emeritus at the University of California   
   at Berkeley the acknowledged leading authority in the world on mind   
   control and cults. This document, in substance, was presented to the   
   U.S. Supreme Court as an educational Appendix on coercive   
   psychological systems in the case Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology   
   89-1367 and 89-1361. The Wollersheim case was being considered related   
   to issues involving abuse in this area.   
      
   Coercion is defined as, "to restrain or constrain by force..." Legally   
   it often implies the use of PHYSICAL FORCE or physical or legal   
   threat. This traditional concept of coercion is far better understood   
   than the technological concepts of "coercive persuasion" which are   
   effective restraining, impairing, or compelling through the gradual   
   application of PSYCHOLOGICAL FORCES.   
      
   A coercive persuasion program is a behavioral change technology   
   applied to cause the "learning" and "adoption" of a set of behaviors   
   or an ideology under certain conditions. It is distinguished from   
   other forms of benign social learning or peaceful persuasion by the   
   conditions under which it is conducted and by the techniques of   
   environmental and interpersonal manipulation employed to suppress   
   particular behaviors and to train others. Over time, coercive   
   persuasion, a psychological force akin in some ways to our legal   
   concepts of undue influence, can be even MORE effective than pain,   
   torture, drugs, and use of physical force and legal threats.   
      
   The Korean War "Manchurian Candidate" misconception of the need for   
   suggestibility-increasing drugs, and physical pain and torture, to   
   effect thought reform, is generally associated with the old concepts   
   and models of brainwashing. Today, they are not necessary for a   
   coercive persuasion program to be effective. With drugs, physical   
   pain, torture, or even a physically coercive threat, you can often   
   temporarily make someone do something against their will. You can even   
   make them do something they hate or they really did not like or want   
   to do at the time. They do it, but their attitude is not changed.   
      
   This is much different and far less devastating than that which you   
   are able to achieve with the improvements of coercive persuasion. With   
   coercive persuasion you can change people's attitudes without their   
   knowledge and volition. You can create new "attitudes" where they will   
   do things willingly which they formerly may have detested, things   
   which previously only torture, physical pain, or drugs could have   
   coerced them to do.   
      
   The advances in the extreme anxiety and emotional stress production   
   technologies found in coercive persuasion supersede old style coercion   
   that focuses on pain, torture, drugs, or threat in that these older   
   systems do not change attitude so that subjects follow orders   
   "willingly." Coercive persuasion changes both attitude AND behavior,   
   not JUST behavior.   
      
   THE PURPOSES AND TACTICS OF COERCIVE PERSUASION   
      
   Coercive persuasion or thought reform as it is sometimes known, is   
   best understood as a coordinated system of graduated coercive   
   influence and behavior control designed to deceptively and   
   surreptitiously manipulate and influence individuals, usually in a   
   group setting, in order for the originators of the program to profit   
   in some way, normally financially or politically.   
      
   The essential strategy used by those operating such programs is to   
   systematically select, sequence and coordinate numerous coercive   
   persuasion tactics over CONTINUOUS PERIODS OF TIME. There are seven   
   main tactic types found in various combinations in a coercive   
   persuasion program. A coercive persuasion program can still be quite   
   effective without the presence of ALL seven of these tactic types.   
      
   TACTIC 1. The individual is prepared for thought reform through   
   increased suggestibility and/or "softening up," specifically through   
   hypnotic or other suggestibility-increasing techniques such as: A.   
   Extended audio, visual, verbal, or tactile fixation drills; B.   
   Excessive exact repetition of routine activities; C. Decreased sleep;   
   D. Nutritional restriction.   
      
   TACTIC 2. Using rewards and punishments, efforts are made to establish   
   considerable control over a person's social environment, time, and   
   sources of social support. Social isolation is promoted. Contact with   
   family and friends is abridged, as is contact with persons who do not   
   share group-approved attitudes. Economic and other dependence on the   
   group is fostered. (In the forerunner to coercive persuasion,   
   brainwashing, this was rather easy to achieve through simple   
   imprisonment.)   
      
   TACTIC 3. Disconfirming information and nonsupporting opinions are   
   prohibited in group communication. Rules exist about permissible   
   topics to discuss with outsiders. Communication is highly controlled.   
   An "in-group" language is usually constructed.   
      
   TACTIC 4. Frequent and intense attempts are made to cause a person to   
   re-evaluate the most central aspects of his or her experience of self   
   and prior conduct in negative ways. Efforts are designed to   
   destabilize and undermine the subject's basic consciousness, reality   
   awareness, world view, emotional control, and defense mechanisms as   
   well as getting them to reinterpret their life's history, and adopt a   
   new version of causality.   
      
   TACTIC 5. Intense and frequent attempts are made to undermine a   
   person's confidence in himself and his judgment, creating a sense of   
   powerlessness.   
      
   TACTIC 6. Nonphysical punishments are used such as intense   
   humiliation, loss of privilege, social isolation, social status   
   changes, intense guilt, anxiety, manipulation and other techniques for   
   creating strong aversive emotional arousals, etc.   
      
   TACTIC 7. Certain secular psychological threats [force] are used or   
   are present:That failure to adopt the approved attitude, belief, or   
   consequent behavior will lead to severe punishment or dire   
   consequence, (e.g. physical or mental illness, the reappearance of a   
   prior physical illness, drug dependence, economic collapse, social   
   failure, divorce, disintegration, failure to find a mate, etc.).   
   Another set of criteria has to do with defining other common elements   
   of mind control systems. If most of Robert Jay Lifton's eight point   
      
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