The Battle For Your Mind: Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public

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it from unlawful duplication for sale by other companies, in this
case, I invite individuals to make copies and give them to friends or
anyone in a position to communicate this information.
Although I've been interviewed about the subject on many local and
regional radio and TV talk shows, large-scale mass communication appears to
be blocked, since it could result in suspicion or investigation of the very
media presenting it or the sponsors that support the media. Some government
agencies do not want this information generally known. Nor do the Born-
Again Christian movement, cults, and many human-potential trainings.
Everything I will relate only exposes the surface of the problem. I
don't know how the misuse of these techniques can be stopped. I don't think
it is possible to legislate against that which often cannot be detected;
and if those who legislate are using these techniques, there is little hope
of affecting laws to govern usage. I do know that the first step ...

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inducing guilt and acute apprehension and by increasing
the tension, the "sinners" attending his revival meetings would break down
and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards was doing was creating
conditions that wipe the brain slate clean so that the mind accepts new
programming. The problem was that the new input was negative. He would tell
them, "You're a sinner! You're destined for hell!"
As a result, one person committed suicide and another attempted suicide.
And the neighbors of the suicidal converts related that they, too, were
affected so deeply that, although they had found "eternal salvation," they
were obsessed with a diabolical temptation to end their own lives.
...

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