from http://www.sutphenpublishing.com/articles/battle.htm

"The Battle for Your Mind Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today By Dick Sutphen"

". On numerous occasions, the information has helped to bring public attention to the misuse of conversion tactics. Some government agencies don't want this information generally known, for the techniques are used in armed forces basic training. Some Christian Fundamentalists, cults, and human-potential trainings would also prefer that the public remain unaware of how they are recruiting new members. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Summary of Contents:

The Birth of Conversion / Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism in 1735 The Pavlovian explanation of the three brain phases Born-Again preachers: Step-by-step how they conduct a revival and the expected physiological results The "voice roll" technique used by preachers, lawyers and hypnotists New trance-inducing churches The six steps to conversion The decognition process Thought-stopping techniques The "sell it by zealot" technique True believers and mass movements Persuasion techniques: "Yes set," "Imbedded Commands," "Shock and Confusion" and the "Interspersal Techniques," Subliminals Vibrato and ELF waves Inducing trance with vibrational sound Even professional observers will be "possessed" at charismatic gatherings The "only hope" technique to attend and not be converted Non-detectable Neurophone programming through the skin The medium for mass take-over "

-- Flash (flash@flash.hq), March 28, 2000

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-- Flash (flash@flash.hq), March 28, 2000.

Very interesting Flash. I have a friend that is a life-long member in the Church of Scientology and he has given me an insight into the ongoing battle they are waging with the forces of mind control. Scientologists themselves are constantly under attack for being a cult. I dont profess to know much about their agenda but they have quite a few high profile members around the world, including John Travolta.

It is my understanding that the author of Battlefield Earth and Dianetics (SP?), Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, is the founder of the church. Battlefield Earth has been made into a major motion picture starring Travolta and allegedly financed by the Church. They are under siege over allegations of subliminal messages being buried within the film. This should turn out to be the best publicity the project could hope for and I am looking forward to seeing the movie and maybe reading the book.

-- Ra (tion@l.1), March 28, 2000.

The "bible" of brainwashing is William Sargents _Battle for the Mind_,1957, Doubleday &Co., reprint 1975, Greenwood Press. I had to special order my copy.

If you want to see something really interesting, examine the window of activity and content immediately preceding the demise of the old board, the construction of the Uncensored Board and the activity patterns on the Uncensored Board, especially just after its inception and just prior to the recent "slump".

Now that data, Flash, may give the nucleus of another chapter for anyone desiring to follow up on Sargent.

Thoughts?

-- another government hack (keep_watching2000@yahoo.com), March 28, 2000.

agh,

I'd like to posit a theory as to why this board, (and EZBoard) will inevitably will lose posters.

The majority of us came together to try to make some sense of Y2k. Y2k isn't an issue for most people anymore, so those of us still hanging around have discussed ALL KINDS of reasons for what happened and why, and once that's done, people will move on with their lives, or discuss issues that aren't as important. There was a time when I'll bet I posted 20 times a day at the old TB, and I'm down to an average of ten a day now. (Come to think of it, if you include my spam, I'll bet I was the most active poster at TB :o) At any rate, unless people have a new direction to keep them together, we're bound to lose people and post less.

As a matter of fact, without a common goal, we're likely to see more arguements, and flaming, and that'll cause people to leave. I remember a chapter in my college diversity class book, that explained this exact phenomenon, and I'll see if I can dig it out within the next couple of days and write it up. I think it's called "classroom theory" or something like that, and it describes research where kids at camp were in a similar situation as us, and what happened.

Chow for now,

~*~

-- (Ladylogic@...), March 28, 2000.

If you thought censorship of a forum was over the edge, how about censorship of the whole internet? -
If you are a Scientologist, the filter is in your browser!

Church of Scientology members must accept extensive censoring for them to get "the freedom to access the internet"!

http://www.geo cities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/8627/

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Operation Clambake present:

Church of Scientology Censors Net Access for Members

http://www.xenu. net/archive/events/censorship/

Introduction

As we all know, the Internet can sometimes come up with surprises. Who amongst us has not typed a few words into a search engine, only to see among the hits the sort of links we might be a little concerned about our children reading?

This is due to the fact that a) there is no central censorship of the 'net, and b) unlike, say, libraries, where you have to make an effort to go and get out a book, open it and read it, web pages are delivered to your PC immediately.

So it is quite natural that parents of children with net access might want to use some additional means of filtering what they can see, in order to prevent them from accessing sites or information that we do not want them to. For this reason, software designed to filter net access on the basis of a number of keywords has been available for some time, including packages such as CyberSitter and Net Nanny.

There has already been some controversy over such packages: in particular, CyberSitter, which was produced in association with a fundamentalist Christian group, was so restrictive that even accessing a site such as http://www.sussex.com was refused, because the URL contains the word "sex". More outrage was inevitable when it was discovered that CyberSitter was also filtering out sites with absolutely no pornographic or offensive content, apparently on the basis that they dealt with issues of gay rights.

But at least such tools are designed to be installed voluntarily by someone in a position to make an informed decision about what they want to do.

From kids to cults

In contrast, a recent development publicised on the Internet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, a rallying point for critics of Scientology, raises serious questions regarding the use of such tools. In 1998, the Church of Scientology started to issue its members with a compact disk, on which was installed a number of pieces of software, including Netscape Navigator. This CD was provided to church adherents under colour of providing them with Internet access software and a web page design tool in order that they could create "personalised" web pages and surf the net. The documentation for this CD also stated that:

"(6) agree to use the specific Internet Filter Program that CSI has provided to you which allows you freedom to view other sites on Dianetics, Scientology or its principals without threat of accessing sites deemed to be using the Marks or Works in an unauthorized fashion or deemed to be improper or discreditable to the Scientology religion".

What most people who installed Netscape Navigator from this CD would not realise was that a censorware program had been incorporated into the installation process. This program gives no indication of its presence on the system, and offers no means of de-installation.

So what did the Church of Scientology want to "protect" its members from, and how did they go about doing it?

Literally babysitting

First of all, the CoS censorware filters out a number of well-known critical sites, by making it impossible to connect to URLs with certain combinations of characters in them. Secondly, certain words are filtered out of the data stream and replaced with spaces. Were those words to be solely to do with the aspects of the CoS scriptures that they claim they are protecting their members from, then perhaps the software could be argued to be "protecting" members. But it goes a lot further than that: in tests, it has been shown that the filter blocks words like "Lisa McPherson" (the woman who died at CoS HQ in 1995, after having been locked in a room for seventeen days), as well as the email ID's and web page addresses of many well-known critics and ex-members of the organisation. The censorware program also interferes with the ability of the individual on whose computer it is running to use IRC: if certain words appear on an IRC channel to which the computer is connected, the net censorware software causes the computer to be summarily kicked from the channel.

This clearly goes much farther than a mere attempt to protect its members from reading material that the CoS claims it is against their religion to read, and enters the realm of outright censorship.

How many CoS members who have installed this CD are aware that every aspect of their net use is now subject to censorship via a piece of software that they never asked for, and have no means of removing?

"I'd prefer to die speaking my mind than live fearing to speak." -- Arnie Lerma, critic of CoS

Link to: Operation Clambake: Exposing Scientology

http://www.xenu.net/

-- Debbie (dbspence@usa.net), March 28, 2000.

Ra - I look forward to seeing "Battlefield Earth" myself. It will be interesting to dissect and analyse it. I regard the Church of Scientology as one of the most successful non-governmental mind control operations around. I've been observing mind control and cults for a long time through various friends and associates. Fortunately, I'm not much of a joiner, so I never got entangled. Most people think of mind control as only the "heavy duty", Manchurian Candidate type of stuff. In reality, I see it going on around us all the time through TV, direct-marketing, some religious activities, etc. I think that my reduced susceptibility is related to how little TV I watch. Until very recently, I probably watched no more that 20 hours or so in the last 7 years. Lately I got cable again, and sometimes tape movies or important stuff, like the Three Stooges. I have read some of Sutphin's earlier material and thought it was worthwhile. He used to run sort of a "new age" book and seminar business, so he knows how it's done. It's nice having an "insider" "spill the beans" about some of their techniques.

Hack - Thanks for the recommendation on William Sargent. I'll definitely check it out. Your recommendation about analyzing the activity around the demise of the "old board" and the birth of the Uncensored Board, plus the recent "slump" sounds intriguing. I'll have to ponder it. I suspect that you have been around a lot longer than me, and know the various personalities who participate here a lot better than I do. Also, knowing what went on for a time prior to the demise of the old board would be helpful. I'd enjoy any observations or conclusions that you care to make.

-- Flash (flash@flash.hq), March 28, 2000.