'The average Joe knows nothing about thought manipulation'

From Survivors of Extreme Abuse The Awful Rowing Toward Social Emancipation:

So, how can truth telling be a transformative force?

On a personal level, telling your story is universally recognized as a crucial component of the healing process, but it's also important that our stories be heard. Contrary to the old axiom, ignorance is usually not bliss. Except possibly in the short term. Ignorance is helplessness.

The public needs to understand who's been doing what behind its metaphorical back so that people can protect and empower themselves and their loved ones. A population kept in the dark is a population vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation.

Survivors of extreme abuse have intimate knowledge of unspeakable treachery going on behind closed doors, including the deliberate, trauma-based dissociation of children, child, drug and arms trafficking, child pornography and murder. We can also identify the criminals committing these crimes, some of which are perpetrated by vast organized crime syndicates. In spite of great efforts by those in power in the last few years to normalize torture and state-sanctioned murder, the public would not abide these horrors if they had this information, if they knew what was going on.

I also want to put in a plug for imagination here, because after enlightenment, transformation requires creative dreamers. Imagine, for example, if all the personal histories in this room were published in one huge volume. Imagine if each one of us had the benefit of knowing what all of us know: All the hard earned wisdom of how to navigate this horrific mess, all the validation – it would be profoundly transformational. And imagine if that book were widely distributed and well read. What if there were a book right next to Howard Zinn's “A People's History of The United States” called “A People's History of Ritual Abuse-Torture and Mind Control?”

What if you could walk into your local police station, report ritual abuse crimes, and their first question were “Who's the leader of the cult?” instead of “Are you on any kind of medication?” What if you could tell your District Attorney that you'd been deliberately dissociated, and that one of your splits had been used to perpetrate a crime, and she said, “Do you have your handler's contact information?” Instead of “How did you get in here?”

If secret societies, from backwater covens to shadow governments, to transnational corporations, were exposed for what they are, radical reform would be possible, because a citizenry armed with the truth about who's really doing what can demand accountability. So we're all stewards of important insights, and what we chose to do, or are able to do with that knowledge does have an impact on other human beings. As Goethe said: “None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.”

People need to wake up to the fact that the human mind is vulnerable to manipulation. The average Joe knows nothing about thought manipulation, let alone deliberate dissociation. We need to wake up Joe.

Cognitive scientist and political analyst George Lakoff wrote a book about the political ramifications of how the mind works called Don't Think of an Elephant. He talks about why we human folk are susceptible to unconscious manipulation, and why it's crucial in a democracy that people understand how and why. He writes: “Most of us think we know our own minds. This is because we engage in conscious thought, and it fills much of our waking life. But what most people are not aware of, and are sometimes shocked to discover, is that most of our thought – an estimated 98 percent – is not conscious.” He points out that “Deft politicians (as well as savvy marketers) take advantage of our ignorance of our own minds to appeal to the unconscious level.” 98 percent – that's a lot of real estate open to exploitation, and some of us have had a whole lot of that space commandeered against our will.

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