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Analysis of Haiti Earthquake among other World Affairs

If you’re an old school epidemiologist like me, you will notice that there are a few discrepancies in the conventional wisdom discussed at Conspiracy Theory: Haiti EarthQuake Natural or Man Made? - not only in the data that’s there, but moreover in the data that’s not there.

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Give Away: One Sentence Persuasion

“One Sentence Persuasion” report by Blair Warren? It goes something like this:

“People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions and help them throw rocks at their enemies.”

In this report, Blair Warren condenses his report in this single sentence, so it’s easy for us to remember. He explains how politicians and cults manipulate the masses by confirming suspicions, how commercials manipulate our desires, and how strangers break up families by encouraging unsatisfied dreams and unrequited love.

Blair does not bother mentioning the label, “devil’s advocate,” although this is exactly what he’s talking about. That’s why he knows that some people could be offended by the concepts in his report; it’s not within the cognitive commitments of the average person to understand that big business and big politics does not have his interest at heart.

Basically, by using the concepts in “One Sentence Persuasion” to get what we want, we’re using the emotional securities and cognitive commitments of immature people in our favour; we’re playing the devil’s advocate.

I can give you one example of this. In fact, I’ll give you an example from an article I recently read at Elliot Wave International, “Bailing Out Speculators Just Like a Bad Liver Transplant” which gives us a pretty good analysis of how this “bailout” by the U.S. Gov’t is really working.

In this case, the smokescreen is by mainstream media, namely NY Times, to stroke the emotional securities of it’s readership with the soft earmark of “Quarantine.” Mainstream media reporters do the bidding of powerful people behind the scenes. Fox News, for example, is the most powerful, Tavistock trained, devil’s advocate in mainstream news; they serve the agenda of their masters - not the people.

Therefore, this begs the question: Do you have any problem playing the devil’s advocate considering so many other people are doing it? That depends on what you want - doesn’t it? The end justifys the means, perhaps. That depends on your desires which should always play second fiddle to your prospect.

In any type of communication, the other person always sets boundaries induced by their cognitive commitments created by their emotional securities. Those emotional securities are set by culture and social mood, which the average person follows.

Are you an average person? I don’t think so, or else you wouldn’t be here. For this reason, I’m giving you “One Sentence Persuasion.”

Please subscribe to Way of the MindGate Newsletter. Then you will be redirected to the Refer a Friend page for the download link to find your personal copy of “One Sentence Persuasion.”

Thanks for stopping by. Happy Holidays!

Sincerely,

Randolph, HealingMindN

Give Away: Cult Recruitment Tactics on the Web

Get your personal copy of “RUNNING HEAD: RECRUITMENT TECHNIQUES OF CULTS ON THE WEB, A Comparative Study of Persuasion and Recruitment Techniques Exhibited by Organized Groups on the Internet.” by Maria Kjaerland, M.Sc, Laurence Alison, PhD Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool & Samantha Lundrigan, P.hD Department of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington.

This paper covers all of the mainstream methods of advertising that we see every day. For example, when it mentions happy, smiling faces as a tool for selling products, I think of drug commercials. Those happy, smiling faces are a tool for web types of cult recruitment as well - of which you are probably familiar. For example:

* Scientology
* Mormonism
* Heaven’s Gate (used the web quite heavily)

Now, this paper covers new religious movements (NRMs) on the web in general, but you will understand how the tactics are applied by just about everyone who wants to make money on the web - including me - using the basic methods of recruitement:

* Rule of Reciprocity: Incentives to buy, Subscription to Newsletter, Free Information, etc.
* Authority: For example, Where the authority claims some sort of special or superior knowledge.
* Liking: Example, Photographs of smiling people.
* Scarcity: For example, The offering of higher awareness and consciousness by the NRM, The offering of ways to improve relationships with other people, etc.

I got the examples above from a table of examples from this report on page 14.

This 10 page report with 5 pages of reference materials pretty much hits the nail on the head as far as mainstream advertising and recruitment methods. And You’re going to recognise a lot of names and organisations on this report.

What stands out in this report for me is the following passage which fingers the cult recruitment tactics of most of my affiliations including Burt Goldman, Jose Silva’s daughter, Gary Craig and his EFT movement, and a host of others, who are actually nice people, but their marketing teams use cult tactics:

“Information based recruitment techniques focus upon disseminating the ideology of the movement through writings from the “leader,” the purchase of books, and offering subscriptions to newsletters whilst the image based recruitment techniques offer promises of successful relationships, happiness, an association with attractive and famous people and even cosmic awareness. The latter portrays the NRM as friendly, approachable and desirable. With this comes the promise of empowering the new recruit with the capacity to change one’s life instantly - a significant incentive for the disaffected…”

I would like to make that kind of promise too. In fact, I will because I’m pretty sure I hit the nail on the head with this new product. As I understand from seasoned web gurus, If you try to sell to everyone, then you end up selling to noone.

Then I thought, “What if I try selling to just one person at a time - this idea of revealing their passion to uncover their hidden talents - while everyone else has to wait in line for theirs?” Now, that’s scarcity.

This report only points fingers; it doesn’t sink anyone’s battleship. I have no problem in sharing this report with you because it has everything to do with vibration.

You ever hear new age people use the word “vibration?” They say things like, “you’ll be in a higher vibration when you use this method of reiki, matrix energetics, etc…” In fact, they’re using the cult recruitment tactic of scarcity and these cult tactics appeal to lower vibrations that aspire to higher vibrations - like when we go to church every sunday.

On the other hand, I would prefer to raise your vibration, so you make objective, informed decisions. When you have a higher vibration, then you can understand things my point of view, so I don’t have to use any cult recruitment tactics on you.

Besides, I’m just not that good at cults. I would prefer to talk with you like a friend.

In reciprocity for Cult Recruitment Tactics on the Web, please subscribe to Way of the MindGate Newsletter. Then you will be redirected to the Refer a Friend page for the download link. It would be nice to have one more of your friends understand cultish behavior on the web - which is basically “mind control.” That’s what Way of the MindGate is all about - isn’t it?

Happy Holidays,

Randolph Fabian Directo
HealingMindN Medicine Man



Microwave Mind Control Video



The only problem I have with this video is that it keeps using the label “spys.” Is “spy” a proper label for someone who wants to scramble your brains with microwaves? What would be a better label?

FYI: Here are a few U.S. patents that involve the direct transmission of information via microwaves:

US PATENT 4,877,027–HEARING SYSTEM –Sound is induced in the head of a person by radiating the head with microwaves in the range of 100 megahertz to 10,000 megahertz that are modulated with a particular waveform. The waveform consists of frequency modulated bursts. Each burst is made up of ten to twenty uniformly spaced pulses grouped tightly together. The burst width is between 500 nanoseconds and 100 microseconds. The pulse width is in the range of 10 nanoseconds to 1 microsecond. The bursts are frequency modulated by the audio input to create the sensation of hearing in the person whose head is irradiated.

US PATENT 4,858,612 - HEARING DEVICE –A method and apparatus for simulation of hearing in mammals by introduction of a plurality of microwaves into the region of the auditory cortex is shown and described. A microphone is used to transform sound signals into electrical signals which are in turn analyzed and processed to provide controls for generating a plurality of microwave signals at different frequencies. The multifrequency microwaves are then applied to the brain in the region of the auditory cortex. By this method sounds are perceived by the mammal which are representative of the original sound received by the microphone.

But it’s not like we wouldn’t know. It’s like the professor says (the one who bombarded himself with microwaves), you’re going to hear clicking or chirping prior to any kind of manipulation with microwaves.  A few articles that I’ve seen on this subject claim that only “two clicks” is all you will hear before the eventual “programming.”
Of course, microwaves are only one way. The Flanagan Neurophone is based on an ultrasonic carrier that travel the perpheriphy and the nerves, completely bypassing the regular avenue of sound waves, until they reach your cochlea where you can hear them.

Super efficient learning processes have been associated with regular use of the Flanagan Neurophone. A fun device available through Future Tech!

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Mumbai: A Deadly Attack on Meditation?

I’ve been subscribing to Google Alerts for a while on “meditation.” To my dismay, news of the terrorist attack in Mumbai have been showing up in these alerts in the last few days. Here are a few example headlines:

US Jewish, meditation groups’ members die in Mumbai

(kplctv.com)

Virginians Slain in Attacks Lived Out Peaceful Ideals

“It’s an unbelievable tragedy that he should be struck down by terrorists when his whole life was about creating peace,” said Marcia Kaspark, Alan Scherr’s ex-wife. “His whole life was about spirituality…”

(Washington Post)

Drawn to India for meditation

Kiwi couple David and Vinka Clemmett were taking part in a meditation programme by a group called Synchronicity when they were caught in the Mumbai terror attacks…

(Stuff.co.nz)

Nashvillians watched as bodies fell in India cafe

Two Nashville-area women who went to India to study the art of taking the mind to a peaceful state of relaxation were recuperating from gunshot wounds Friday.

Andreina Varagona, a Nashville yoga and meditation studio owner, and Linda Ragsdale, an Old Hickory author and illustrator, were shot by terrorists while dining in a hotel restaurant in Mumbai…

(tennessean.com)

Kelowna couple seeks peace, finds terror in Mumbai

For seven hours Wednesday Kelowna’s Maya Koftinoff suffered the agony of not knowing what had happened to her parents who were staying at the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai when it was attacked and overrun by terrorists intent on killing westerners.

Her parents Larry and Bernie Koftinoff — who own the specialty food Sunshine Market in Kelowna — had travelled to India two weeks ago with a U.S.-based meditation group the Synchronicity Foundation…

(The Vancouver Sun)

Canadian actor’s spiritual journey to India shattered by three bullets

A Canadian actor’s long-planned spiritual journey to India saw its peace shattered by bursts of gunfire that left him hospitalized Thursday in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.

Michael Rudder, a Genie-nominated actor from Montreal, was resting in the critical-care unit of an Indian hospital following surgery to treat three bullet wounds. He was reported to be in stable condition early Friday…

(Michael Rudder, of Montreal, was shot three times while in the restaurant area of Mumbai’s luxury Oberoi-Trident Hotel, said Bobbie Garvey, vice-president of the Synchronicity Foundation, a U.S. based meditation group.)

(The Canadian Press)

Canadian actor, yoga instructor among those shot in Mumbai attacks; reports

Bobbie Garvey, vice-president of the Synchronicity Foundation, said a group of Canadians, Americans and others were injured while on a meditation retreat when the violence broke out on Wednesday…

(National Post)

Tennessee woman injured in India terrorist attacks

A Tennessee woman was injured in the terrorist attacks in India.

Andi Varagona is from Oak Ridge, but now lives in Nashville.

According to her Web site, she’s a musician who now goes by the Sanskrit name Rudrani Devi and teaches meditation classes.

Her mother told 10 News that Devi was in India on business and was due to return home next week…

Armed Islamic terrorists simultaneously attacked several hotels, restaurants, a train station and tourist sites. The terrorists claimed they were going after Americans and Britons…

(WBIR.com)

As you can see, my google alerts on “meditation” were literally flooded with this news of terrorist attacks. As far as the terrorist claims of who they were targeting, “oh, really?” Why did you attack the Jews then? You couldn’t tell them from westerners? Not that it justifys any of your actions.

I can’t shake this feeling now that some body (Islamic group?) is attacking my brethren. But why? Then I thought to myself, “What kind of power to meditators have that these so called terrorists want to take away?”

The Maharishi Effect

I mention the Maharishi Effect only briefly at my page on Meditation in Mental Health. This effect is actually very powerful and was a key component of Dion Fortune’s Society of Inner Light as I discuss at Holy life, HealingMindN:

Dion Fortune’s “Society of Inner Light” during WWII had the threefold purpose of protecting Great Britain, blocking and destroying the evil which had taken over Germany, and laying the foundations for a better and more just world after the war. We must wonder about the still unresolved mystery of Hitler’s fanatical deputy, Rudolph Hess, and his strange, some say, insane flight to England on the night of May 10, 1941 bearing a peace offer. There are strong indications that far more forces were at work rather than a guilty conscience.

Let’s look a little closer at the Maharishi Effect at this excellent article: US Department of Defense using meditation for “Strategic Stress Management:”

Extensive scientific research indicates that the best way to reduce collective societal stress, eliminate extremism and thereby snuff out war and terrorism, is to adopt an ancient strategy. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has revived the ancient Vedic technology of Invincible Defense Technology (IDT) in a non-religious manner. It has been quietly and successfully used by members of many faiths to eliminate conflict in the past…

Extensive research shows that the group size needed to reduce social stress depends on population size. It needs to be at least the square root of 1% of the population.

To calculate this number, multiply the population size by 0.01, and then take the square root of this number. For instance, the U.S. population is approximately 305 million. 305,200,000 x 0.01 = 3,052,000. The square root of 3,052,000 is approximately 1,747, so a group of at least 1,747 IDT experts is needed. The group size needed globally is currently about 8,126. Studies show that when these thresholds are crossed, the “Maharishi Effect” (ME) takes place.

Crime goes down, quality of life indices go up, war and terrorism abate. For instance, an ME intervention was studied in the U.S. capital in 1993. Predictions were lodged in advance with government leaders and newspapers. An independent Project Review Board approved the research protocol. Crime fell 23 percent below the predicted level when the group size reached its maximum. Temperature, weekend effects, or previous trends in the data failed to account for changes. Social Indicators Research published the results…

Perhaps, this is only coincidence, but I can’t shake the feeling that meditation groups especially were targeted for this reason.

It’s exactly for this reason that I don’t like to put all my “eggs in one basket” like other people. I receive invitations to these UFO/conspiracy type lectures and festivals, but I go to these events, I can’t shake the feeling that we’re putting all our “eggs in one basket.”

I hope I’m wrong, but I never would have fathomed the idea of terrorists targeting meditation groups, but that seems to be what happened. According to the above research, it’s because these so called “terrorists” also know about the Maharishi Effect.

Like I said, I hope I’m wrong, but I can’t shake the feeling.

Thanks for your time,

Randolph, HealingMindN




Video: CIA Mind Control

During the Cold War, the CIA launched a highly classified program aimed at mastering the art of mind control.



U.S. Soldiers may be in it for God and Country, but what exactly is the U.S. Gov’t’s intention with all the druggings, shockings, poisonings and brain washings of American Citizens?

Your answers are deeply appreciated. Thanks!




Interpreting Media: TV Mind Control NLP

Fox News strikes again with yet another double speak interview; this time with Kevin Barret, professor of Winconsin U. The Kitchen Synch blog got there before me, so here are three < ten minute interviews at Interpreting Media - TV Mind Control.

Fox News “journalists” of the “most powerful news network on television,” (so they say) slaughter yet another interview of what could have been enlightening information by a college professor with their rude, manipulative, adolescent mentality.

I still remember when Fox News monkeys did this to Dr. Joseph Mercola when he addressed avian flu in his book. The “journalist” doing the interview actually pretended to be Dr. Mercola’s good friend at first, but when the on air interview time came, this “journalist” went berserk with the NLP in order to attack, berate, and defame Dr. Mercola with NLP terms like “water rolling off a duck’s back” to describe the evidence around bird flu as they showed ducks in a lake. Then the interviewer called him a “quack” during narration.

Although these so-called reporters are rude and manipulative, and no good information ever comes across to the audience through these discrediting type interviews because of constant Fox Newsesque interruptions, these so called “interviews” really do give the best demonstrations of NLP on TV.

I’ve mentioned Tavistock Institute somewhere in my blog before; as I mentioned before, they helped the political factions get WWII started, most likely helped Bush convince the people that invading Iraq is “good,” and helped the multinational pharma co’s get 80 to 90% of the American People beginning in grade school to get hooked on prescription drugs among a lot of other distasteful activities.

Tavistock counselors are most likely coaching Fox News “journalists.” It’s clear that Tavistock has no moral compass about who they help with what activity. It probably has something to do with “who can pay their price.”

I don’t watch Fox News. I do catch it sometimes when someone else has it on. The problem is this “most powerful news network on TV” makes me sick with their nonsense. Monty Python’s Flying Circus makes more sense compared to Fox News. At least, Monty Python nonsense is laughable - unlike Fox News “journalists” laughing at their audience because they know they’re getting away with…

If you have no time for nonsense, but would like a convenient ebook on Tavistock Methods including NLP and power persuasion tactics to take with you, study, and implement where ever you go, then please have a look at Keys to Power Persuasion:

 

Persuasion Secrets Revealed At PowerKeys Publishing
Discover the secrets of persuading others to your way of thinking. Make anyone do anything once you learn the secret keys behind the science of persuasion.




P.S. I have to ask you something: Would you allow anyone to speak rudely to you and constantly interrupt you with their discursive, adolescent banter while they do their little sign language to you as you tried to give an important speech on your work? Probably not.P.S.S. At Al Neal Mind Control, I refer to a 2 hour video by Al Neal. This video might be available in stores like ebay or some other strange place if you don’t have broadband.

In the video, Al Neal refers to “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand was a courtesan of one of the Rothschild Brothers who are described at my site, Evil Mind.

Within “Atlas Shrugged” is a kind of fiction wherein the main character is literally telling the reader, “don’t think for yourself - you don’t have a mind of your own - leave the thinking to the experts…” among other horrid things.

According to Al Neal, “Atlas Shrugged” is proudly displayed in the homes of members of the illuminati (high ranking members of skull & bones, freemasons, Bilderberger members, etc.).

From the evidence, “Atlas Shrugged” is a kind of ‘bible’ philosophy shared by these people and seems to be philosophy shared by the “journalists” of Fox News; they don’t want you to think for yourself. You should leave the thinking to them, the “experts.” They know their audience - too well.

Art of Prose: How JK Ellis Changed His Name

About 4 months later after I published an essay in a contest held by JK Ellis, his name is now Dantelion Jones. That name came out of the blue, but that fact that he changed it was my fault - and I’m feeling somewhat guilty. I didn’t think it was possible until it happened, but this essay that I wrote especially for JK Ellis actually caused him to change his name.

If you look back at the first post on this subject, Art of Prose: rapport, I specifically wrote, “There are elements in this story that appealed especially to JK Ellis - elements of which he is probably not aware, but you will be…”

Now, I’m making you aware. There is an imbedded command in that essay that I wrote specifically for JK Ellis. In this writing contest JK Ellis asks people to write the most evil, slanderous things they could possible imagine about him while still maintaining some elements of truth.

As a subscriber to his email marketings, I had learned several things about JK Ellis: He likes to quote famous people; He likes Milton Erickson mind control methods; and he courts darkness.

In the essay I wrote (#12), there is no real judgement or labeling going on that you read in the other essays at http://mindcontrol101.com/essays.html; it’s all a sensual experience attached to concepts told in pretty much the way that Erickson would tell to his patients. I also happen to be a big fan of Erickson because of his story telling methods that would directly relate to his patients and their mind patterns. In fact, I’ve been a fan of his work for decades.

What’s interesting about this story is that it contains many elements of truth - scary irrefutable truths mixed in with half truths interlaced with intensely sensual imagery as it relates to those truths as experienced by a central character - a method that Erickson never really revealed in his notes. You had to listen to him. I suppose you could say he was using the politician’s method as discussed by Alan Tutt in Keys To Power Persuasion, but in the context of a story.

Our central character likes traveling to explore bizarre, paranormal things. I also had the sense that JK Ellis has a passion for the same; this along with several elements I discussed earlier on Art of Prose established JK Ellis’ rapport with the central character.

Let me sum up the truths for you from the essay, first: There actually is a restaurant where fried bologna is a favourite in Dayton, Ohio at an intersection of Highway 4 where Marl Road splits off. Military officers actually do like to stop at this restaurant. Marl Road really is surrounded and shadowed by tall trees; it’s also a restricted road because it leads straight to the tarmac of Wright-Patterson AFB, a fabled area for strange UFO sightings. I’m pretty sure that JK Ellis probably had all of this at the back of his mind as he read the essay.

There are also the Ellis Town Truths: There really was an Ellis Town in 1883, but in the UK. The town really was made of brick and metal rails with a cobblestone road. The women’s fashion back then really were those suggestive jersey dresses if not steam punk with nothing underneath. The attitudes back then really were sexually free with harlots roaming the streets. You could say that I did my research because the image I painted is historically accurate.

Now, for the half truths: Ellis Industries really does exist, so I made up this super secret, 3rd party security force, “JK Ellis Industries.” The Shadow Beast was taken from the Montauk Project; there are actual pictures of this shadow beast destroying a building in the book. Supposedly it was the manifestation of Duncam Cameron’s dark side when he was in the Montauk Chair. Shadow Beast also represents the darkness which JK Ellis consistently courts in the form of his “mysterious” persona.

This Shadow Beast also manifests itself as a beautiful, exotic woman, Esprit Contrôle, who makes our central character feel really good and strong at times when he was at his weakest. Our central character courts the shadow beast just as JK Ellis courts his. He doesn’t want any common harlot. He wants the woman who gives him power, the Shadow Beast.

Oh yes, the clicking in our protagonist’s head: The clicking sound is due to a directed beam of microwaves at the cerebrum. There are several U.S. patents that describe this process for using microwave beams to deliver subliminal suggestions directly to the human mind. Supposedly, the Shadow Beast was also precipitated from the ether using the same microwave antenna array used for mind control during the Montauk Project. The same beast is able to direct microwaves in the same fashion - in theory.

There are also the vastly empty fields on either side of Marl Road. Supposedly, these fields are where strange things land and set up shop as an extension of “aerospace research.” There are theories floating around that these fields are not actually empty, that this is just an “illusion.” Since space and time are inextricably connected, I came up with Ellis Town in one of those spaces in a time bubble, 101 years ago. That 101 Sound familiar?

I have to admit. I crafted so many elements into this story that when I look at it again, I amaze myself. For example, JK Ellis said that a requirement of this essay was that the URL, mindcontrol101.com had to be mentioned at least once. I found several ways to covertly and subconsciously insert this term:

“MCIONNDT1R0O1L:” The words, mind control 101 embedded within itself.
“Bewusstseinskontrolle LOL:” German for Mind Control; LOL, a play on 101.
“101 Lortnoc Dn IM:” Obviously, it’s spelled backwards.
“Esprit Contrôle… She laughed out loud:” French for Mind Control; laughed out loud, another play on 101
“don’t come…” A play on dot com.

Now for the truly covert elements. Carl Jung had a regular trigger statement for his patients, “Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes.” When you dwell on what this means, you will actually go into a trance. In fact, Jung would ask his patients to quietly ponder what that statement means to them. By using this same trigger, we can cause a person to be open to suggestion.

Our central character had already established rapport with JK Ellis by the time he heard this Jungism in his mind. As the story continued this caused JK Ellis to really see the story with his mind’s eye as he read it without any critical analysis.

Throughout the story, JK Ellis probably identified more with the central character than Ellis Town or JK Ellis Industries - Mainly because that central character is courting the darkness, the shadow beast, the sensuous, exotic woman who makes him feel good. JK Ellis Industries and their “tour” was making our central character feel pretty miserable and helpless through most of the story. The only saving grace was our lovely shadow beast, Esprit Contrôle.

At the end of Ellis Town, our protagonist has an altercation with JK Ellis Industry Military Personnel, one of them a highly decorated officer. He beats these military personnel to a pulp and shoots them. This happens after one of the officers calls our central character Mr. Ellis, to which he violently responds, “My name is not Ellis!” Thereafter, he steals away Esprit Contrôle.

Since JK Ellis identified more with the central character while he despised JK Ellis Industry Personnel as he left Ellis Town behind him, that was the nail in the coffin for JK Ellis. Now, there’s Dantelion Jones. I deeply apologise to JK Ellis because I had no idea that words on a page could do that - until now.

I guess that makes me dangerous in a way, but I choose to be a HealingMindN, so I’m not out to get anyone, not consciously.

Thanks for your time,

Randolph




Trance Logic of Higher Price

Here’s a little secret about my trance logic. Don’t tell anyone. I grew up with an irrational family. In fact, I recognised how irrational a lot of adults were as I grew up - especially my teachers. My friends and a lot of other school mates were also irrational because they wanted to emulate the adults.

I’m pretty sure that I was also infected by that irrational bug; as you understand, it’s not a question of if, but in how many ways. My trance logic tells me that I can teach you something; that’s why you’re here.

I tried to combat what seems like irrational behavior in the past. In the process, I have sacrificed social status and relationships. I have learned that it’s better to go with the flow of irrationality in culture in order to survive rather than try to change the predominant mind patterns around me, so I end up teaching people how great they are.

What I didn’t know (and what your social studies professor did not want you to know) is that there is a new branch of research that is actually studying irrational thinking – and even more interesting is that . . .

The research is mounting that our irrational choices are actually predictable.

This revelation has significant impact because some of this new knowledge about human thinking and behavior is being used to manipulate you. Often it’s used to direct you into making decisions that are not in your best interest. So I think knowing more about this is essential.

Thankfully, Dan Ariely, a professor at Duke University, just wrote a book summarizing the latest research in this field (behavioral economics). His book, Predictably Irrational, is a must-read. You can get it at Amazon or any other bookseller.

The research: price affects athletic performance

Here is one study Professor Dan did on physical stamina:

Dan’s team stationed themselves at the university gym. They offered an energy drink to student exercisers. The drink claims to “elevate your game.” To one group, they charged the regular price for the drink. To the other, the researchers marked the drink down to 1/3 of the regular price.

After the students exercised, the researchers asked the students if they felt more or less fatigued than they normally did after a workout.

Both groups of students said they felt less fatigued than normal.

But, get this. The students who drank the higher-priced version of the drink felt less fatigue than the group that paid 1/3 the price! This is a weird variation of the placebo effect. The students are obviously going by the judgemental heuristic that if it’s a high price, then it must be good.

(If it was me, and a market research group wanted to make me their guinea pig, I would want it for free - but don’t tell anyone…)

The research: price affects mental performance

The exercise test was based on self-reporting. Here’s a study on mental agility:

To validate the results, the researchers did the same experiment in a different setting. They gave two groups of students anagram puzzles to solve. One group did the anagrams after drinking the full-priced energy drink, while the other group had drunk the discounted energy drink.

In this case, the group that drank the higher-priced drink (remember: it’s the same drink!) scored 28% higher on the anagram tests. Does that seem crazy? (What may sound crazier still is something that I said in an article a while back. I’d like to reiterate it: We are all in a trance state; that trance, whether positive or negative, influences our performance in real life. You can read more about this phenomenon in Constructs of Belief.)

There are more studies, but I’m not going to cite any more intellectual property from Dan’s research. I recommend you read Predictably Irrational if you’re interested.

What this means to you

The point is that it’s not rational for a lower price on an identical product to lower the results of the product, but there is overwhelming evidence that it does. It is a predictably irrational behavior.

The mechanism here seems to be that the lower price lowers “expectancy,” which in turn reduces the placebo effect. Volumes could be written about the placebo effect, and the power of belief to create tangible results in performance and healing (both positive and negative trance logic).

Now you know what’s going on when you see those junk mail ads for weak nutritional supplements at ridiculously high prices, yet the literature touts it as the greatest thing since the fountain of youth.

Those advertisers know exactly what they’re doing; they’re taking advantage of your trance logic.

What about that circuit exercise machine that’s been in magazines for years? Have you seen it? It’s always advertised at around $14, 600? In fact, the materials and workmanship make it look like a maximum of around $2000. But the rational in the ad is fascinating: The rational is that you’re going to be sold on it later if not now, then you’re going to sell it to your friends, and so on and so forth.

You know why that machine works so well? Because at $14,600 it better work! You can believe that after that major investment that a person is going to set aside at least four minutes a day for vigorous exercise. The machine itself isn’t that much better than the most expensive bowflex system, but the higher price forces purchasers to use it - out of obligation. The trance logic is, “At that price, it MUST WORK!

Would four minutes of vigorous exercise a day without that machine produce the same results? If your mind pattern and trance logic tells you that you are going to be in shape doing a vigorous set of squat thrusts, pull ups, and jump rope, then YES.

Ask any pro athlete; they do functional exercises according to their discipline which has little to do with the “ROM.” On the other hand, if you’re a CEO of a big company with little time on your hands, then it kind of makes sense; this must be the market. (I just can’t see the average blue collar going deep into hock for the “ROM” because they don’t get enough exercise.)
The relationship between the placebo effect, judgemental heuristics, and the trance state is even more interesting and open-ended. But let’s end here for now.

Hopefully you’ll get time to read Professor Dan’s, Predictably Irrational.

Have a great weekend.

Sincerely,

Randolph, Medicine Man at HealingMindN

P.S. The price of oil, thus, the gas we get at the pumps is the biggest, most obvious example of irrational behavior affecting price. The economic analysts at Elliot Wave International blame the prices, not on lack of oil, but on “Fearful, bullish moods by investors:”

Crude oil rallied to a new all-time high on Friday, July 11 – $147.27 a barrel, intraday. But glance at the headlines, and it’s hard to call the reasons analysts cite as the cause for the $5-rally as bullish news. It all boils down to “tensions between Iran and the West and worries about supply” – same old “concerns” that have been with us for months…

Read the rest of this article at $147 Oil: What Is Driving Up Prices?

BTW: Once you learn how to control your own reality, all that irrational trance logic goes out the window:


Free Yourself, Review and Influence the Matrix


Influencing social mood: example

I don’t like to focus on bad things or bad influences in this world because that tends to give those bad things power. I like to focus on the good things and your real power to change your reality. For now, let me give you an example of mainstream media that endeavors to take that power away from your reality by replacing it with fear and rumors of wars.

The following extract is from cnn.com:

Global warming could increase terrorism, official says

Global warming could destabilize “struggling and poor” countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council told Congress on Wednesday.

Climate change “will aggravate existing problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions,” Thomas Fingar said. “All of this threatens the domestic stability of a number of African, Asian, Central American and Central Asian countries.”

People are likely to flee destabilized countries, and some may turn to terrorism, he said.

“The conditions exacerbated by the effects of climate change could increase the pool of potential recruits into terrorist activity,” he said.

“Economic refugees will perceive additional reasons to flee their homes because of harsher climates,” Fingar predicted. That will put pressure on countries receiving refugees, many of which “will have neither the resources nor interest to host these climate migrants,” he said in testimony to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

Reactions to the report broke down along partisan lines, with Democrats generally praising it and Republicans expressing doubts. Committee members had concerns about the report’s secrecy, reliability and use of intelligence resources.

Global warming may have a slight positive effect on the United States, since it is likely to produce larger farming yields, Fingar said…

Wealthy countries will be able to handle the situation better than poorer ones, he said…

The impact of fighting and preparing for climate change may be greater than the effect of global warming itself, Fingar said…

Fingar said the intelligence community had relied on the science of others because it did not itself monitor climate change. He said the assessment was based on midrange predictions of global warming.

Oh, dear.

There’s also petty theft in the US because of global warming and economic depravity. Does that mean everyone is potentially a terrorist the worse things get? Of course not. “Terrorist” is just a convenient label that eliminates any grey areas.

You saw that last statement from the article. This finger person is building inverted pyramids by relying on the science of others. He’s making grand assumptions.

The problem is as I stated in the post, Social Mood: Influencing the Elements: Mainstream media shapes public opinion. Public opinion becomes social mood, then social mood precipitates social patterns including whatever dramatic/traumatic events induced by that mood.

I’m not saying that the people precipitated the events of 9/11/01. The problem is that most people allow their emotional securities to be shaped and molded by mainstream media in such a way that they do not clearly comprehend and mostly deny all the facts behind the events of 9/11/01; such facts do not jive with the reality of the presiding social mood and emotional securities. They prefer the negative hallucinations which they label, “conspiracy theory.”

Most people do not want to face the reality of implicating their authority figures for any kind of wrong doing. Most people do not want and do not like the idea of having control over their own lives. Most people do not want to think and feel for themselves; they weren’t raised that way. They want the newspapers, magazines, TV, and big screen movie actors to do that for them. “That’s what authority figures are for…” is what they say.

You know what? I agree with you. “That’s what authority figures are for…” as long as they’re good people. So here’s a bit of advice, a rule to live by, a law of living life, holy scripture. If you’ve never heard this one, it’s time to get back to your roots, you lazy bastard:

Matthew 24:

[1] And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
[2] And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
[3] And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
[4] And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
[5] For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
[6] And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
[7] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
[8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.
[9] Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
[10] And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
[11] And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
[12] And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
[13] But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
[14] And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
[15] When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
[16] Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
[17] Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
[18] Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
[19] And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
[20] But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
[21] For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
[22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
[23] Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
[24] For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
[25] Behold, I have told you before.
[26] Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
[27] For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
[28] For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
[29] Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
[30] And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
[31] And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
[32] Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
[33] So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
[34] Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
[35] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
[36] But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
[37] But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
[38] For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
[39] And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
[40] Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
[41] Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
[42] Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
[43] But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
[44] Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
[45] Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
[46] Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
[47] Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
[48] But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
[49] And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
[50] The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
[51] And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.