The brain is a subtle and delicate instrument and we're way too eager to be dickering around inside it without any real understanding of what we're doing or what long-term effects we're having. Hypnotism is one of these things and many people even just discount it as a mere parlour trick. However, hypnotism is a very powerful tool, able to remove deeply held beliefs & thought patterns, replacing them with inserted memories and desires. From individuals to groups of millions and billions, us humans can be tinkered with and are being tinkered with on an almost daily basis to varying degrees. The really scary thing is that the majority of us have no idea how easily controlled we are. If you're reading this, I can guarantee your mind is being controlled to one degree or another, not because you're reading this, but because you are a functioning human being.

First of all, lets touch on individual mind control - before we get to the really scary stuff about mass mind control.

Claims of being controlled like this really came into their own with an American woman called Candy Jones. In the early 40's, she was one of the top pin-up models in the USA, so popular that in 1944 she appeared on 11 different magazine covers in 1 month. After her rush of fame, she slipped out of the popular media eye and tried running a couple of businesses, had a failed marriage and three sons. In the early 70's she remarried and got involved with her new husband's radio show, which was about UFO's, the Paranormal and Conspiracy Theories. By 1974, they published a book about Candy's life as a mind controlled "Super Spy" for the FBI.

Candy's new husband, John Nebel, noticed soon after their marriage that Candy seemed to have personality shifts and mood swings, so far from the gentle and charming woman he knew that he grew suspicious that something wasn't quite right. He began hypnotizing her and uncovered a personality named "Arlene". Over hundreds of hours of sessions resulted in a story in which Candy had been chosen by a doctor who was working for the government. This doctor then trained her through torture and hypnotism into having this new highly skilled alternative personality, Arelene, who would take over Candy and perform highly sensitive tasks, often overseas.

A lot has been written about the validity of their story, but we're not going to speculate about it here. It seems, at least at the time, that Candy believed it 100%, and it seems so did her husband. Either it's all true, or he implanted these thoughts and memories into her mind. Whichever is true, it's a prime case to showcase the power of hypnotism on an individual level.

Over the last 20 years or so there have been numerous cases where the implantation of false memories have caused various scenarios. Most of these commonly resulting in accusations of child abuse and satanic involvement where "buried" memories have been uncovered in people who showed no indications of such abuse before. Whilst obviously we're not saying that all abuse is fabricated, there have been a handful of cases where this has happened, probably most notably in the U.K., where during the early 90's there was a rash of "satanic panic" cases in which whole communities of children were taken from their families following accusations and memories "recovered" during therapy.

Ok! On to the really scary stuff.

You are mind controlled. I am mind controlled... we the masses are all manipulated and trained what to think, what to believe, what to want, what to support, how to behave... no this isn't some crazy conspiracy theory tin-foil-hats rant. It's unfortunately true.

We're already zombies.

We have, as a society in the west, been completely taken over without us even knowing it. We no longer make real decisions. We do what we're told in such a cleverly manipulated way we think we're the ones in control. We are puppeted so completely on every level, that we don't know it, and we don't really even care. As a mass, we can be whipped up into a baying mob and tricked into cheering on whatever they want us to. Things they don't want us to see are slipped past right under our noses, and as long as we're being entertained with enough drama and big promises we really don't care. Who are "they"? The governments and big businesses who through the media puppet us to an extreme. All that is actually mind-numbingly terrifying when you start scratching the surface of it. And as long as we get our reality tv and fast food, we don't give a hoot.

By this point you have probably written this off as just the rambling of some loonie. But that's where you're being manipulated again... your subtle training has worked. You'll just navigate away from this page and go check out the latest posts on your MySpace. It's ok, you're a sheeple, you're herded. You can't blame a sheep for not asking the shepard why no sheep ever dies of old age.

But, if anything I have said has made you at all curious, I'd like to direct you to watch a BBC documentary called The Century of Self, which explains in detail exactly how Freud's original research and insight into the mass mind of humanity has been built upon since around the 2nd world war and is now how we are controlled. After that, you might want to check out the other BBC documentary linked below called The Power of Nightmares, which will explain how governments use fear as the easiest way to keep us all in check. The psychological manipulation used by big corporations & governments to turn us all into pliant consumer Zombies without us even being aware of it is extraordinary.

It's a big bad world out there, especially since the wolves are wearing sheepskin.

Good luck.

References : please be aware some may contain uncomfortable images/information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Jones


Further Study : please be aware some may contain uncomfortable images/information.
http://www.freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=140 - The Century of Self
http://www.freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=135 - The Power of Nightmares - Ep. 1
http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/sciam.htm - Concerning false memories
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/dec/04/science.research1 - More on false memories