MIND CONTROL IN THE UNITED STATES by Steven Jacobson (Critique Publishing, PO Box 11451, Santa Rosa CA 95406) — reviewed by Robert Larson
Those of us who are positive, knowledge-seeking individuals of the New Age understand that most problems of the world have very simple and easy solutions. But so often, common misconceptions of the nature of the problems blinds people to the solutions. Many of us know, through personal experience, of the effectiveness -- especially in healing -- of alternative technologies. Yet the majority of people are totally unaware of these alternatives. Indeed the majority of people accept as normal, problematic states of affairs that are totally unnecessary, Why do so many accept war, famine, disease, poverty, inflation, taxes and so many other forms of suffering and oppression? Why are so many people on going-nowhere paths, feeling helpless and powerless, feeling that everything is being done to them; that they can make no positive change in the world? Why do they fail to see the beneficial alternatives that we know exist? An understanding of this may be found in MIND CONTROL IN THE UNITED STATES by Steven Jacobson.
In this new book, Steven Jacobson examines the concept that manipulation of the way people think has become quite a refined art and that a ruling class/establishment makes extensive use of this to maintain the status quo. (The author focuses in on the Council of Foreign Relations, the Bilderbergers and the International Monetary Fund as the ruling class/establishment. Although it seems a little simplistic as presented by the author, much has already been written convincingly demonstrating that these groups are at least a substantial part of a power elite.) This manipulation involves hypnosis, propaganda and mental programming. Mental programming is explained as; distracting the conscious mind, then programming the naked subconscious through repetition of an idea. The technique is used in music, TV, radio and movies.
The movie Reefer Madness is one of the better examples. This 1936 movie, while full of half-truths and lies about the dangers of marijuana, at the same time subliminally encouraged young people to try marijuana. Consequently, while legislation was being passed against marijuana, there was a simultaneous growth of interest in trying marijuana. Almost overnight a big source of revenue was created for law enforcement and organized crime.
Mr. Jacobson also points out excellent examples of language manipulation that seem to be right out of Orwell's 1984. But this "news-speak" was out of the Nixon administration during the Vietnam War. Examples include calling bombing missions "protective reaction strikes," a refugee camp a "new life hamlet" and the American invasion of Cambodia an "incursion."
Other subjects discussed in MIND CONTROL include: Communism and the peculiarity of Western governments claiming to oppose it while at the same time exporting technology and economic assistance to the Soviets, Christian fundamentalist TV preachers and their precision at manipulation, Occult knowledge and church suppression of it, parapsychology and the CIA's keen interest, and the CIA's interest in hallucinogenic drugs.
Jacobson does not go into great depth on most of the subjects but brings them together to form an excellent outline of the field of mind control. Most importantly, the book sounds a strong warning: There are [23] powerful groups exerting great effort -- through devious and covert means -- at controlling our thinking. That means suppressing alternative thinking that threatens the existing power structure. That so many people cannot see positive alternatives to world dilemmas, or cannot even imagine that world dilemmas are so often created and maintained by establishment forces to perpetuate their own control, would seem to indicate that Jacobson's theory is correct and the manipulators are having great success. We do, however, get the message from MIND CONTROL that we can reverse the process by informing ourselves and informing others. (This book itself is a step in that direction.)
"Knowledge is power." "They" know that this is true. So "they" try to monopolize knowledge knowledge and ration it out to us canned, filtered, processed and diluted. But "they" need our apathy. Let's not give it to "them."
MIND CONTROL IN THE UNITED STATES (Critique Publishing) has an excellent bibliography for those wishing to do further research.
MIND CONTROL IN THE UNITED STATES can be purchased from Critique Publishing, P.O. Box 14451, Santa Rosa CA 95406. ($4.95 plus $1.50 p&h)
Critique Publishing also publishes CRITIQUE – A Journal of Conspiracies and Metaphysics. This excellent journal comes out twice a year. Subjects covered include Psychic Warfare, Secret Societies, CIA, KGB, Vatican, UFOs, Sufism, Banking, Assassinations, Cults, Anomalies, Global Elites, Gnostic Gospels . . . and this incredible list goes on.
Contributors to CRITIQUE have included Al Fry, Robert Anton Wilson, John Keel, Riley Hansard Crabb, Colin Wilson, Peter McAlpine, Steven Jacobson, and many others.
*****
THANK YOU, MR. CLEMENS
"A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter lives, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice and invented hell - mouths mercy and invented hell - mouths golden rules and forgiveness multiplied seventy times seven and invented Hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him."
Mark Twain in "The Mysterious Stranger"
"Mind Control in the United States"
"Subliminal perception is a process, a deliberate process created by communications technicians, by which you receive and respond to information and instructions without being consciously aware of the instructions. Scary? You bet your life it is. And, as Jacobson details in this book, it is happening in America today. Mind Control in the United States is an introduction to the history and practice of subliminal communication. It outlines the principles of mental programming, i.e. that an initial distraction must be followed by repetitive commands, and it tells you how these ideas are implemented." - Preface by Antony C. Sutton
INCLUDES: Nineteen Eighty-Four • Principles of Mental Programming • The Power of Music • T.V., Radio, and Movies • Hypnosis and "Reefer Madness" • Information Control • Manipulation of Language • Monopoly of Mass Media • Mental Programming and Mass Media • The Power of Money • The Ruling Elite and "World Government" • Education as Propaganda • Communism • The Bible and Fundamentalism • Occult (Secret) Knowledge • Parapsychology • Drugs • The Secret of Marijuana • The Origin of Man • Powers of the Subconscious Mind • Kali Yuga • and extensive bibliography.
This title appears to be out of print, and has limited availability.
Online, there is a PDF edition on Scridb.com, and used editions on Amazon.com
References
- Louis Gasnier's Reefer Madness, a.k.a. Tell Your Children, The Burning Question, Dope Addict, Doped Youth, Love Madness. Filmed in 1936, released on the "exploitation" circuit by Dwain Esper in 1938/39. The film, intended as a morality play, has become a cult hit among the very pro-cannabis groups it attempts to villify. Public domain in the U.S.: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2FZgErvNTE>
- Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1947. Print. [As one of the classics of 20th century literature, 1984 has been republished in many languages over countless editions, none of which are difficult to find: <http://amzn.to/1vywkIW>.]
- Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens). No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger: Being an Ancient Tale Found in a Jug and Freely Translated from the Jug. 1902-1908. Unpublished. [The story of Mark Twain's final novel is itself a noteworthy item: Wikipedia is a starting point; and a "definitive" re-edition: <http://amzn.to/1pUwHwx>]