"The False Memory Syndrome Foundation board is almost exclusively composed of former CIA and military doctors currently employed by major universities. None have backgrounds in ritual abuse - their common interest is behavior modification." -- Psychic Dictatorship in the United States http://www.alienjigsaw.com/Part_IV/pom2.html Project Open Mind The Technology Go To: Introduction | Part One | Part Three | Part Four | Part Two The goal of this portion of Project Open Mind is to introduce the reader to the technologies that might be involved in answering the question: Are some alien abductions government mind control experiments? Even if we decide all alien abductions are carried out by alien Beings, this information will still be helpful to our understanding of how humans might be controlled. If we decide some abductions are carried out by a nefarious force within our government, or that the alien abduction phenomenon is a "cover" for a covert project being carried out by other humans, understanding this information may help us terminate some or all of these activities. I have divided the following information into seven sections. Please understand that I am only giving a brief history or description of each of these subjects since there has been enough information published about all them - with the exception of Section II - in order to write six separate books. The information I will cover includes: I) A Brief History of Electronic Stimulation of the Brain, II) Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral Control and Electronic Dissolution of Memory, III) Applications of Electroencephalography, IV) Hypnosis, V) Microwave Radiation, VI) A Dubious Defense, and VII) Virtual Surgery - Virtual Reality. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Section I A Brief History of Electronic Stimulation of the Brain or ESB In 1928, scientists discovered what they called a "violence center" in the hypothalamus of the brain. They found that when the posterior region of the hypothalamus in an animal's brain was destroyed, the animal remained in a permanent state of rage. Soon, scientists discovered that instead of destroying this area of the hypothalamus, all they needed to do was stimulate it to produce the same effects of rage and violent behavior. Then came the invention of thin needle-like electrodes that could be inserted into any part of the brain without causing permanent damage. Scientists discovered that they could connect these brain stimulators to an apparatus which would enable the animal to stimulate its own brain.[53] Obviously, when the animals were given a choice, they preferred to stimulate other areas of their brains such as the pleasure centers, rather than the violence or pain centers. With funds donated by the Rockefeller Foundation to McGill University, a psychiatric facility named Allan Memorial was established in 1943, and a Dr. Ewen Cameron became head of the facility. With additional funding from the CIA during the 1950s, Cameron used experimental techniques on his patients, most of whom were women. One of Cameron's therapies was called "depatterning," and was described as "the breaking up [of] existing patterns of behavior, both the normal and the schizophrenic, by means of particularly intensive electroshocks, usually combined with prolonged drug induced sleep."[54] What he created were "mind vegetables." Cameron left these unfortunate people with very few memories. However, he didn't stop there. Cameron would then use another technique on his patients that he called "psychic driving." During this part of his "therapy" he would bombard the patient with repeated verbal messages that were "emotionally loaded" and mentally abusive. The patients were forced to listen to audio recordings all night long as they lay (drugged) in their beds because Cameron ordered that speakers be placed under their pillows.[55] After approximately two weeks or more, he would then force his patients to listen to so-called positive psychic driving tapes apparently to induce new thinking patterns. Cameron victimized his patients through unproved behavioral modification techniques. Also during the decades of 1940 and 1950, a neurosurgeon (at McGill University) named Wilder Penfield and his colleague performed brain stimulation experiments on the exposed brains of patients during neurosurgery. What they discovered was that their patients' brains could be stimulated in such a way that would make them remember past events. The doctors also discovered that their patients' brains could be stimulated to make them experience, "eerie feelings of familiarity." Their patients were alert during these procedures, but "they reported that things and people in the operating room were somehow familiar. Some said they felt that everything around them had happened before or was part of a dream."[56] Most everyone who has taken a basic psychology course has been introduced to Jos� Manuel Rodriquez Delgado, the neurophysiologist who, in 1964, became famous for stopping a charging bull in a bull ring with a simple push of a button on a black box Delgado held in his hands. This "amazing feat" was carried out by the use of electronic brain stimulating devices that had been implanted into the brain of the bull. It is still a matter of controversy as to whether Delgado actually controlled the bull's behavior, or if the bull was preoccupied with the pain he was experiencing due to the brain stimulation. When Delgado arrived at Yale University's Medical School in 1950, the equipment to carry out brain stimulation was bulky and expensive. Soon, with the help of Delgado and funds from the Office of Naval Research, the equipment became much smaller and more convenient. By the 1970's an entire brain stimulating device could be implanted under the skin and it could remain there during the entire life of the individual. According to Scheflin and Opton in The Mind Manipulators, one of Delgado's future predictions included, "Micro-miniaturized computers [that] may be implanted under the skin to provide 'on demand' stimulation for specific neuronal pools without disturbing on-going behavior...[scientists will be able to] give light to the blind...sound to the deaf...and induce pleasure and friendliness in human beings."[57] During the 1970s, research performed by a team of scientists headed by William Dobelle "implanted 64 electrodes in the visual cortex areas of totally blind volunteers' brains. Stimulation of the cortex by a single electrode created some primitive visual experiences, causing a subject to 'see' a phosphene - a tiny spot of glowing light that seemed to be located several feet in front of the viewer's face. Dobelle's team discovered that if a number of electrodes were activated at the same time, subjects could discern meaningful patterns among simultaneously occurring phosphenes...one subject who had been accidentally blinded several years earlier was able to see various patterns and shapes, and even to differentiate letters of the alphabet."[58] Researcher's are currently working on more sophisticated devices to help the blind see. For example, "A blind person will one day be provided with an artificial eye that consists of a highly miniaturized TV camera mounted in a glass enclosure. The images will be converted by a tiny computer that will send the information to the visual cortex through implanted electrodes."[59] In 1975, another scientist working at Tulane University in New Orleans named Dr. Robert Heath also conducted experiments involving ESB. Dr. Health, whose principle research was the psychobiology of psychosis and violence, is considered to be an extremely controversial scientist. For over twenty-five years "he implanted stimulating and recording electrodes deep within the brains of a wide variety of people."[60] There was yet another scientist fervently working to control human behavior during the 1970s as well. However, this scientist, Joseph A. Meyer was a computer specialist with the NSA, the National Security Agency. Scheflin and Opton write, "[Meyer] proposes attaching tracking devices, which he calls 'transponders,' to half of all Americans who have ever been arrested for a crime other than a traffic violation...."[61] The authors continue their discussion of Meyer's plan, "We need not concern ourselves about electronic oppression, Meyer implies, because we are already in a state of permanent guerrilla warfare. On one side are the economic surplus slum dwellers; on the other side is the rest of us. It is the slum dwellers who are the real targets of the transponder system, and they are already subject to so much punishment from police, courts, jails and prisons that the transponder system would be a relief."[62] The following is a partial list of what scientists have achieved using brain stimulating devices: The acceleration, slowing down or stopping of the heart Inhibition of the maternal instinct Adjusting the diameter of the pupil at will Helping stroke victims recover from paralysis Forcing people to talk, to be silent, to become friendly, and to become erotically aroused Inducing pleasure, orgasm and pain Blocking an individual's thinking processes Summoning memories and creating hallucinations Dramatically altering an individual's behavior According to Bowart, "In 1969 Dr. Delgado pleaded that the U.S. Government increase research into ESB, Electronic Stimulation of the Brain in order to produce the fundamental information which would give birth to a 'psycho-civilized society.' He said that the needed research could not be 'generated by scientists themselves, but must be promoted and organized by governmental action declaring conquering of the human mind a national goal at parity with the conquering of poverty or landing a man on the moon.' "[63] By the 1970's it was publicly known and proven that cerebral stimulation could dramatically change the behavior of human beings. Most of the cases we read about in pop-psychology books and psychology texts are the positive ways that psychobiologists use cerebral stimulation to "eliminate symptoms of violence and uncontrollable aggression," or other negative behaviors which some scientists incorrectly label as "symptoms."[64] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Section II Radio-Hypnotic Intracerebral Control and Electronic Dissolution of Memory According to Lincoln Lawrence, author of Were We Controlled? "RHIC involves radio contact with a subject who has been previously hypnotized and taught to perform certain actions and maintain certain attitudes. Post hypnotic suggestions are transmitted by radio waves triggering a certain preconditioned behavior..."[65] In a 1977 Gallery Magazine article sited by Scheflin and Opton, Lawrence states, "the Electronic Dissolution of Memory alters time senses by emitting radio waves and ultra-sonic signal tones which act upon memory storage chemicals in the brain."[66] The Electronic Dissolution of Memory is accomplished by "electronically jamming the brain" thereby causing the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, "to create static which blocks out sight and sounds. You would then have no memory of what you saw or heard; your mind would be a blank."[67] Acetylcholine was the first neurotransmitter to be discovered and is the most common neurotransmitter found in the brain. Acetylcholine is described as the neurotransmitter secreted by motor nerves to excite skeletal muscles and it is activated by the vagus nerve (the tenth cranial nerve in the medulla that innervates most organs of the abdomen), as well as the nerves that control most internal organs.[68] Important to our discussion, is that acetylcholine is one of the primary neurotransmitters involved in memory. Memory involves different parts of the brain and four different processes: 1) a sensory registry, 2) immediate memory, 3) short-term memory, and 4) long-term memory.[69] In addition, each of these four processes has its own time scale. Another common neurotransmitter involved with learning and memory is norepinephrine. There are several neurotransmitters and amino acids involved with learning and memory and each has a specific function.[70] It seems logical that if electrical impulses are used to bombard a person's brain, a complex neurochemical organ, this will affect the individual's neurotransmitters. If these levels are sufficiently altered, then memory would also be affected. As far as I can tell, RHIC-EDOM first surfaced in Lincoln Lawrence's book in 1967. According to Bowart, "Lawrence...may have had much more evidence [about RHIC] than he was allowed to present. His credentials indicated that he had been 'working in liaison with the department of defense.' "[71] In 1975 a journalist named James L. Moore claimed he had been given secret documents by CIA personnel describing RHIC-EDOM.[72] If this is some kind of elaborate hoax, then why would it surface again almost ten years later and be connected with the CIA? If this was an intentional leak, what could the agency gain by releasing this information? It would certainly be of great value to humanity if Moore would share (of had shared) these documents with other researchers.[73] Interestingly, according to Bowart, "A research and development team at the Space and Biology Laboratory of the University of California at the Los Angeles Brain Research Institute found a way to stimulate the brain by creating an electrical field completely outside the head. Dr. W. Ross Adey stimulated the brain with electric pulse levels which were far below those thought to be effectual in the old implanting technique."[74] In addition, by 1975, scientists were also testing a primitive "mind reading" machine with positive results.[75] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Section III Interesting Applications of Electroencephalography The EEG provides overall information about a person's mental state and the EEG can also tell us a little about a person's response to a specific stimuli. "There is, however, much 'background' noise in the form of ongoing spontaneous brain waves, and this makes it difficult to identify what brain wave changes are occurring due to a specific stimulus. A relatively new variation of the EEG uses computers to extract the background noise so that brain wave responses can be identified. These wave patterns associated with specific stimuli are called evoked potentials [or evoked responses]."[76] "In the words of Edward Beck, one of the early evoked-response pioneers, 'a unique and identifying quality....many individuals may be recognized by the distinguishing characteristics of their evoked response...In other words, a person's evoked response is like a fingerprint of the brain. ' "[77] This idea has fascinating applications if you are using an intracerebral implant with EEG capabilities to identify an individual. Not only could you pinpoint the proximity of the individual by using something like the GPS, Global Positioning System, you could monitor their evoked responses as part of your bio-telemetry data collection. The P300 response or P3 wave, is a "long latency response" that your brain has to a stimulus. It can be created by clicks, tones, flashes of light or practically any other stimulus that a person can detect. Scientists are able to measure it and it is believed "to represent a decision-making activity endogenous to the cortex." In the late 1970s, scientists were studying this and other ways of measuring attention under a grant from the Department of Defense.[78] "In the case of the P300 question...the distinction is between an electronic toy that can detect sensory stimuli, or the much more exciting prospect that the P300 represents one of the first objective measurements of brain activity corresponding to an act of the will. If the second alternative could be proven, psychobiologists would possess an electronic probe capable of detecting the exact instant when a person has made a decision. And, most important of all, they will know it prior to any action on the person's part!"[79] During my abduction experiences, I've often thought, "They know what I'm going to do before I do it..." This is how quickly the aliens think and respond. Is it telepathy, or is it technology? 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