I really ought to put together a top-ten list of my all-time favorite weird mysteries. Besides the holographic nature of reality one I mentioned earlier, I would have to say mind control is also really high on the list. I just found a rather rambling article about something called “Operation Open Eyes” which is supposed to be one of the systems whereby so-called Manchurian Candidates are created for espionage/assassination purposes. The article takes a few tangents, but there are some cool ideas in it. Some of my favorites:

1. Subjects who undergo a certain level of control have their personalities overwritten - not completely, but with just enough details to create a convincing back-story. At a higher level, they will even have fake families created for them, which consist of deep-cover intelligence personnel. The subject will even have family photos created for them. Also, once the subject is “triggered” and performs their crime, whether its a murder, or whatever, these “family-members” can be rounded up for news media coverage and can talk about how the subject always had a “deeply troubled past,” etc.
2. They talk a little bit about how major politicians often receive this mind-control formula in order to be repatterned with the appropriate agendas which support the intelligence groups or whatever.
3. Indoctrination needs to be updated, and in some cases can be done on a mass scale. For example, subjects may be invited unknowingly to a lecture of film which contains messages to reinforce the subject’s programming, but which will not be noticed as unusual by others attending the event. They also give the example that agents will be planted in the audience at such events in order to publicly ask a question or bring up a point which will act as the trigger for sleeper subjects in the audience.
4. When subjects commit high profile murders or other crimes and are caught, they supposedly won’t be able to remember their hypnosis and programming, because somehow all of it is regressively attached onto pre-existing memories from childhood.
5. If you were a subject of such a mind control operation as this, there’s pretty much no way that you would ever know it. According to this anyway. It’s kind of cool (and probably a sure path to madness) to imagine that details of your life are actually constructs deliberately planted by some super secret intelligence group.
6. According to this, major advertising firms also work in collusion with the intelligence community to pass along subconscious triggers to activate sleeper cells within particular target communities. This also makes me think a bit about how maybe all segments of the population are actually sleeper cells programmed for various tasks: working at shitty jobs, buying products we don’t need, etc etc.
7. A sleeper may live a completely ordinary life up to the point where they are activated by a trigger. Or, they may never be activated, and thus continue on unawares.
8. The famed Project Monarch was a story created and released in order to throw off serious investigators into the field of mind control. They don’t mention this, but I think there were also some cases in the 70’s which “conclusively proved” that mind control phenomena are not real. Perhaps this was also a cover for them to continue their research with impunity.

Anyway, like I said, that article goes on and on. That’s one of the number one problems with articles about mind control, is that they always stretch at times into the realms of the ridiculous. Which maybe is intentional though, as described above. If you program somebody to believe that aliens or demons or something visited them, when it was actually agents leaving you hypnotic plants, you instantly discredit anything that person ever says about the subject later on because they’ll just be babbling all kinds of nonsense in the midst of stuff which might potentially be very real.

On that note, here’s an article I read a while back which, at the time, seemed really interesting because of the level of technical details that it went into in regards to mind-control programming. It’s called the Network of Stolen Consciousness. The article talks a lot about how subjects are abused ritually and intentionally to create traumas which force the subjects to dissociate from reality, creating complex network of “alters” or alternate personalities. It also talks about shit like inter-generational networks of cults and intelligence agencies working together to create and maintain mind-control subjects. This article has all kinds of weird interesting very specific stuff in it and is worth reading if you’re interested in this field.

To me, it’s also interesting to read about some of these alleged techniques for mind-control programming, and then compare them to what we commonly call “education.” A lot of what goes on in schools and what kids are subjected to in general seems eerily similar to low-level versions of some of this programming. Perhaps not with as overtly sinister motives, but the idea would be to create children who dissociate with their true selves and desires and learn to be subservient to a system of rewards and punishment which can then be transferred over to successive “masters” in the workplace. John Taylor Gatto has some good books along very similar lines about how our education system was set up and maintained by industrialists in order to support a particular organization of the economy and the society which would support it.

Anyway, fun stuff for fucking up your mind with.