Recovery From Menticide - The Rape Of The Mind And Enthrallment To Imposed Authority

Margaret Anna Alice has proposed a 12-step recovery program - but there must be outside intervention for it to have a chance of working. Very few victims can free themselves on their own...

Margaret Anna Alice writes:
“Free men in a free society must learn not only to recognize this stealthy attack on mental integrity and fight it, but must learn also what there is inside man’s mind that makes him vulnerable to this attack, what it is that makes him, in many cases, actually long for a way out of the responsibilities that republican democracy and maturity place on him.”

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“This means that the more familiar people are with the concepts of thought control and menticide, the more they understand the nature of the propaganda barrage directed against them, the more inner resistance they can put up.”

—Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind (Kindle, paperback, hardcover, audiobook)

If you recognize any of the above signs in yourself, not to worry. Just follow this twelve-step recovery program, and you’ll be thinking clearly, logically, rationally, and independently in no time!”

Except that enthralled people will not recognize any of the signs. They are the victims of seduction - most recently, by this process: “An isolated person is weak. By slowly isolating your victims, you make them more vulnerable to your influence. Take them away from their normal milieu, friends, family, home. Give them the sense of being marginalized, in limbo—they are leaving one world behind and entering another. Once isolated like this, they have no outside support, and in their confusion they are easily led astray. Lure the seduced into your lair, where nothing is familiar.” [1] What is being written about above is a way to prevent enthrallment in those who haven’t been caught in the trap. I think her approach - (see below) fails on the first step - "realize that you have been ... lied to, swindled ...". Getting to that self-realization is the hard part, and it only really happens through the interaction of others. And not shouting, either, but listening and asking questions to find out about the enthralled person's state of mind, their concerns, what drives them to act as they do, their fears and their desires. This calls for a great degree of empathy and understanding, and active listening, in which you ask questions to deepen your understanding. And after doing this for a while, you can point out contradictions, and ask about them, contradictions the enthralled person is likely to see in their daily life - but not make the vital connection. Once the contradiction is in their mind - and they won't be able to resolve it, they may come to you and point out other contradictions - and then they're on the path to realization - and escape - needed for her first step. Have a look at this - repeat it a couple of times:

... Then, you can let them into the rest of it, but not all at once... and they'll have feelings of anger, regret, and remorse. The things that Megan said in her video are very important.

Another thing you might want to have a look at is this: https://ratical.org/ratville/AoS/4Args4ElimTV.html#X, especially the part about hypnotic induction, the thought-stopping phrases such as "trust the science" and so forth, which preclude people from seeing contradictions and making connections - but Megan's video is crucial.
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OK, here are the 12 points of her approach:
”1) Acknowledge that you have been deceived.

There is absolutely no shame in this—indeed, it is a sign of wisdom, humility, and growth…”

If you’ve spent your entire life depending on what we term as “mainstream media” for truth about what is going on in the world - and most people have been carefully conditioned by their schooling and acculturation to do so, when those sources all start speaking with the same voice, saying the same things, using short phrases with highly emotional content, which evoke strong emotional states such as fear of harm, injury, or death, your reason and critical intelligence are bypassed. They evoke a fight or flight response - and when you can do neither, the result is paralysis - learned helplessness (see https://www.simplypsychology.org/learned-helplessness.html). And when in this state, people just go along with what they are told - their will to resist is overcome.

So it’s not so much deception, as something much more primal, much deeper. Deception is of course used, but the payload is the emotional content. So perhaps #1 should be “You realize that your will to resist lies and nonsense was overcome by overt psychological manipulation by people with bad motives and intentions.”

The response to people in authority who tell lies about material facts, designed to induce fear and uncertainty is simple: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” All of the authority figures who have been a part of this have done this - have told lies which have put people in fear and uncertainty - from the outset, and they have either directly admitted this, or have openly contradicted themselves. In law, we call people like this perjurers, and their further words are worthless - they’re finished, their words are no longer received, but ignored. And the same should be done for those in authority who have done this.

When you acknowledge that you have been deceived about material facts by a person in authority and those deceptions harm you or others, you should resolve to never believe any more words uttered by the deceiver - including any advice they give out or mandates or directives they hand out. Bad acts must have consequences, or they will be repeated.
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“2) Turn off the television.” I absolutely agree, I was a fanatic television watcher until about the first Gulf War in 1991, and recognized its hypnotic effects in my parents, who were CNN addicts. I got into an argument with them a couple of days after I showed up for two week’s stay, and noticed something spooky - they were repeating CNN talking points and phrases verbatim, almost as if they were in a state of hypnosis… So I decided to do an experiment - I disconnected the fuse in the cable box, which “broke” it. After about two days of CNN withdrawal, our conversations changed markedly, and although they didn’t necessarily agree, the verbatim quotes went away… so I “fixed” the cable box, and by that evening, after a solid day of TV trance, the spooky verbatim talking points were back in full force. I let it go on for a couple of more days - then “broke” the cable box again - with similar results to the first time - and “fixed” it again - and again with similar results, namely verbatim repetition of CNN talking points and phrases. They never figured it out, either, but it was quite interesting, to put it mildly.

Something good to read about this:
”As the largest category of terms that people use to describe their television viewing relates to its hypnotic effect, I asked three prominent psychologists, famous partly for their work with hypnotism, if they could define the TV experience as hypnotic and, if so, what that meant.

I described to each the concrete details of what goes on between viewer and television set: dark room, eyes still, body quiet, looking at light that is flickering in various ways, sound contained to narrow ranges and so on.

Dr. Freda Morris said, “It sounds like you’re giving a course outline in hypnotic trance induction.”

Morris, who is a former professor of medical psychology at UCLA and author of several books on hypnosis, told me that inducing trances was really very easy. The main method is to keep the subject “quiet, still, cut down all diversions and outside focuses,” she said, and then to “create a new focus, keep their attention and at a certain point get them to follow your mind.

“There are a great variety of trance states. However, common to all is that the subject becomes inattentive to the environment, and yet very focused on a particular thing, like a bird watching a snake.”

“So you mean,” I said, “that the goal of the hypnotist is to create a totally clear channel, unencumbered by anything from the outside world, so that the patient can be sort of unified with the hypnotist?”

She agreed with this way of putting it, adding that hypnotism has power implications which she loathes. As a result she uses her first session with patients to teach them how to self-hypnotize, reducing her power over them. “I don’t use tricky signals to set them off anymore, or get them to look into my eyes. That encourages their giving power to me; however, I’m sorry to say that most doctors don’t encourage self-hypnosis. I guess they want the power.”

Dr. Ernest Hilgard, who directs Stanford University’s research program in hypnosis and is the author of the most widely used texts in the field, agreed that television could easily put people into a hypnotic state if they were ready for it.

He said that, in his opinion, the condition of sitting still in a dark room, passively looking at light over a period of time, would be the prime component in the induction. “Sitting quietly, with no sensory inputs aside from the screen, no orienting outside the television set is itself capable of getting people to set aside ordinary reality, allowing the substitution of some other reality that the set may offer. You can get so imaginatively involved that alternatives temporarily fade away.

“A hypnotist doesn’t have to be interesting. He can use an ordinary voice, and if the effect is to quiet the person, he can invite them into a situation where they can follow his words or actions and then release their imagination along the lines he suggests. Then they drift into hypnosis.”

Dr. Charles Tart, professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis, author of several best-selling books on altered states of consciousness, told me, “Hypnosis is probably the closest metaphor as a state but I don’t know if I could equate it [with television watching]. Hypnosis is a state where you destabilize the ordinary state and then eventually get people into an altered state where they will follow a particular stimulus input much more strongly and with much less critical reflection than they would normally; there is certainly a lot of comparability there.”

Tart explained that the way you induce any altered state of consciousness is by: disrupting the pattern of ordinary awareness, and then substituting a new patterning system to reassemble the disassembled pieces. He said this applied to any altered state of mind, from drug-induced alteration to Sufi dancing or repetitive mantras, and, he said, it could also apply to television.

Morris said that since television images move more quickly than a viewer can react, one has to chase after them with the mind. This leaves no way of breaking the contact and therefore no way to comment upon the information as it passes in. It stops the critical mind. She told me about an induction technique called “confusion.” which was developed by a pioneer in hypnotism, Dr. Milton Erickson. “You give the person so much to deal with that you don’t give him a chance to do anything on his own. It’s fast, continuous, requiring that he try to deal with one thing after another, switching around from focus to focus. The hypnotist might call the patient’s attention to any particular thing, it hardly matters what. Eventually, something like overload is reached, the patient shows signs of breaking and then the hypnotist comes in with some clear relief, some simple instruction, and the patient goes immediately into trance.” https://ratical.org/ratville/AoS/4Args4ElimTV.html#X
Lots of really familiar content here, if you think about it, and by no means is it constrained to old-fashioned TV watching, lots of things can induce trance - even voice on radio or podcasts… Be careful of what you consume and how you consume it - or it may consume you…

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“3) Stop reading newspapers and magazines.

The New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post—these aren’t the “trustworthy sources” they tell you they are. While there may have been a sliver of integrity in earlier generations of these institutions, they are now full-time corporate harlots and government disinformationists.”

Every publication reflects the biases and politics of its owners - or those who control the owners. WaPo has a close tie to the National Security State - CIA, NSA, and so forth - and NYT is closely tied to the Uniparty Establishment. So if you want an in depth presentation of their point of view on current events, and past history, they can be useful. They’ve been Establishment bullhorns for at least 100 years, Upton Sinclair wrote about them and the national press in The Brass Check, in 1919 - https://ia600203.us.archive.org/7/items/cu31924026364251/cu31924026364251.pdf I bought a mint condition copy of this off the Net for a penny - plus $3 shipping. It’s a good read - and worth your time. I read Foreign Affairs, the publication of the Council on Foreign Relations - they have an excellent website as well, the Nation, the Spectator, Chronicles, and the Wall Street Journal - which is interesting, the ideological biases of the front page and editorial pages are often in conflict. You have to think about what you read, and be aware of the biases. There’s no such thing as “objective journalism”, and there never was, and if someone claims to do that, they’re conning you big time and taking you for a fool. I don’t give publications like that the time of day.

Another good source is this: https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/hj/chomskyhermanpropmodel.pdf

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“4) Stop listening to NPR and other legacy radio stations.

Like all other mainstream sources, these entities have lost whatever credibility they once possessed and have become ideological indoctrination outlets.“

”Major corporate support and donations from listeners like you…” Money talks, and your $10 per month is no match for megacorps, so keep that in mind. There are some places with non-corporate radio - support those stations - and that’s about it… I listen to WIBW in Topeka for their weather coverage in severe storms, they do an excellent job, better than any website I’ve seen, whose information is 5 minutes delayed, and thus worthless. And I occasionally listen to the farm report and so forth. But that’s about it for legacy radio.

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Excellent advice here: “

5) Eliminate or minimize the time you spend on social media.

If you must use social media, limit your time and focus on connecting with people you know, love, and respect.

6) Break out of the Big Tech bubble.

Realize Wikipedia and every other source of mainstream information have been corrupted. All of the major platforms filter, censor, shadowban, and pump out disinformation. Your perception of reality has been curated to conform to a specific narrative, and Big Tech, Big Brother, and Big Media are all colluding to project the same film reel on the wall.

What they don’t want you to do is to turn on the light, open the door, and walk outside the room to look behind the wall, let alone exit the building.

Do it anyway. Unshackle your mind.

Ditch Google for alternative search engines like Presearch, Qwant, Brave, or Swiss Cows. Use multiple search engines when looking up a topic to see how the findings and rankings differ.

Opt for free-speech–friendly video platforms like Rumble, Odysee, bitchute, Brighteon, and Brand New Tube over the muzzling YouTube.

Instead of listening to talking heads regurgitating press releases, do your own research. Seek out scientific papers on your topic of interest at PubMed and ResearchGate. When reviewing a paper, always look for a conflict of interest statement and funding sources first to assess how biased the results may be. Take the time to read through the content—not just the abstract and conclusion. Oftentimes, authors intentionally craft those parts to circumvent censorship, but the data itself tells a different story. Other times, studies are simply designed to fail.

7) Cultivate a Beginner’s Mind.

Reignite your curiosity. Shed your cognitive biases, ideological predilections, and preconceived notions. Strive to distinguish your own original thoughts from those that have been implanted.

Ask heaps of questions—especially “why.” Ask yourself why you believe something and on what evidence you are basing this belief. Drill down to your root premises and see if they withstand scrutiny.

When you encounter “news,” apply logic; reason; knowledge of history; and your memory of what life; general health advice; and your rights and liberties were BC (Before COVID). Imagine how your BC self would view the morally inverted, totalitarian world we’re living in today and the absurdities you’ve been trained to accept through operant conditioning and repetition.

Actively resist groupthink. If you study or work in an academic, corporate, or other organizational setting, step back and see if everyone tends to believe the same things. Play devil’s advocate. Take John Stuart Mill’s advice and argue your opponent’s side. Stretch your mind. Practice heterodox thinking. Shatter your Overton Window.“

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“8) Watch interviews, lectures, panel discussions, and other educational content from the scientists and doctors of integrity the spin doctors told you to fear.”

Here, in this section, Margaret Anna Alice sets forth a large number of videos to listen to, and they’re all good and interesting, but I refer back to my comment on her first point - “The response to people in authority who tell lies about material facts, designed to induce fear and uncertainty is simple: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” All of the authority figures who have been a part of this have done this - have told lies which have put people in fear and uncertainty - from the outset, and they have either directly admitted this, or have openly contradicted themselves. In law, we call people like this perjurers, and their further words are worthless - they’re finished, their words are no longer received, but ignored. And the same should be done for those in authority who have done this. When you acknowledge that you have been deceived about material facts by a person in authority and those deceptions harm you or others, you should resolve to never believe any more words uttered by the deceiver - including any advice they give out or mandates or directives they hand out. Bad acts must have consequences, or they will be repeated.”

If you’re interested, you can watch the videos, they expose the entire web of lies and deceptions in exquisite detail, but it really just comes down to ignoring those who have lied and brazenly and openly admitted it, or who have brazenly and openly contradicted themselves - and refusing to obey and openly resisting their illegal mandates - “Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God” - B. Franklin.
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“9) Choose your entertainment judiciously.

Virtually everything barfed out of Hollywood and major streaming services is engineered to emotionally manipulate you and mold your malleable mind, but the productions spewed out over the past decade are particularly carcinogenic.”

Yep, I’d definitely go with that. She suggests a number of films, some of which I will recommend here, and I’ll add a few of my own. These are all old enough to be available on DVD: Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, Satyricon (by Fellini), Fahrenheit 451 (Truffaut), Z (Costa-Gavras), The Train (1965, about the French Resistance), To Kill A Mockingbird, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Apocalypse Now, The Killing Fields, Seven Days In May, The Matrix, Koyaanisqatsi, The Great Escape, A Bridge Too Far, High Plains Drifter, Braveheart, Kelly’s Heroes - there are more, but that’s a good start.
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“10) Read! Read lots and lots of books!

You’d be astonished how many books you can consume just by playing audiobooks while you’re cooking, driving, doing chores, exercising, and falling asleep. You can even listen to them at a faster speed, as long as you can still absorb the meaning.”

Listening isn’t the same as reading, and I strongly suggest actually reading print, rather than listening to someone else read the book. One advantage to this is that it’s easy to stop and mark your place, mark pages to come back to, and make notes on what you’ve read, when you’re reading a print book - which things are pretty tough to do with audiobooks. But definitely do read. I may put up a book list later… Most of the books listed by Margaret I’ve read, but they can be rough sailing. If you’re not used to reading a lot, and aren’t particularly widely read, you’ll miss a lot of referents.

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[there are two more points which are very important - but it’s 5am now. I’ll address them tomorrow.]
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Here’s Margaret’s article, I recommend that you read it, it and the references therein are worth your time:

Letter to the Menticided: A 12-Step Recovery Program

[1]https://ia803106.us.archive.org/12/items/TheArtOfSeductionRobertGreene/The%20Art%20of%20Seduction%20Robert%20Greene.pdf