Thought viruses can have a strange power. Have you ever had a catchy
jingle, phrase or song that seems to go round and round in your head,
and you are unable to clear your head of it? This according to some
experts is a thought virus, or meme. They usually start from a single
source, but can spread to millions with varying effects. Some can be
uplifting while others, dangerous and even destructive e.g. spread of
Nazism during the 2nd world war. Richard Dawkins suggests
memes propagate themselves from the initial source by passing from brain
to brain, radiating from mind to mind, and persisting for long enough
to be recognised as a meme.
As well as a person possessing a consciousness, he/she is also part of a
group consciousness, a set of shared beliefs, ideas and moral attitudes
which operate as a unifying source within a society. That person also
possesses a personal subconscious and belongs to part of a collective
unconscious which is of a universal and an impersonal nature to
individuals in a group. Thought viruses can affect individuals and
groups, at both the conscious and subconscious level.
People are open to suggestion, and if their conscious mind isn’t their
subconscious could be. Just try keeping that jingle out of your head
when you’re trying to go to sleep at night. If a meme is planted in
somebody’s mind it acts like a parasite in the brain, staying there and
replicating by being passed on to others. This can be among peers or
passed from generation to generation. This is a form of brainwashing is
part of everyday life beginning with myths, legends and religion, in
childhood. (I’m not calling religion, just stating you tend to believe
the one you’re brought up with). Some viruses are short lived while
others pass from generation to generation and are more or less
indestructible. If you have a meme in your head that needs removing, the
first step towards a cure is accepting it for what it is and trying to
be an individual and not a carbon copy.
Deep inside the subconscious are thoughts, emotions, and memories that
centre on aspects of your life that according to Jung and Freud
influence a person’s attitude and behaviour, which helps shape their
personality. A core pattern of these emotions such as bitterness or
fears organized around a common theme, such as status, is known as a
complex. These can also be positive or negative resulting in good or bad
consequences. Examples include attitudes towards the opposite sex and
family members. Powerful complexes can impede or make impossible
intentions of the conscious will, and noticeably affect the memory
causing a state of compulsive thinking and acting. A master manipulator,
whether good or evil, is able to recognise and affect these complexes
in individuals or even sizable groups, through both actions and speech.
It’s a kind of hypnotic character. In the case of Nazism Hitler was able
to incite a crowd into a mass hysteria, to perform the unthinkable.
So let us now take a look at the darker side of thought viruses. To
take a well documented example when a former member of the satanic
church fell out with his leader, he was told, ‘I see you taking a
revolver from the draw. I see you placing it to your head. I see you
pulling the trigger.’
A few days later he blew his brains out. Was this the power of suggestion?
Let us take a closer look.
Was the man mentally ill? – Probably not!
Could medication have helped him? – Possibly, or certainly have prolonged the time to his death!
Was he weak minded? – Exactly the same thing occurred with an entire country during the 2nd
world war when the Nazis were infected by a madman to commit
atrocities. It is ridiculous to think his mind was stronger than an
entire nation!
I can’t explain exactly how it works, or the suffering involved, only
it’s kind of like an obsessive compulsive disorder that ends in death.
In the end the victim ends up in a sort of mind prison, this is an
extremely painful form of complex. It occurs when someone’s mind becomes
held, or trapped, in a hell-like situation inside their mind. They
cannot free their mind form it, and it can cause acute trauma. It can
even freeze the mind in time and place and distort memory to the state
of hallucination. They might even become so desperate they take their
own life. However, it’s best not to. Some people believe the consequence
of suicide itself is a kind of mind prison. The shame and guilt of an
individual that can’t let go, places them in a self imposed holding
zone, with other negative beings that share the hell, before angels can
return them to the source/God. Extreme forms of mind prison may be
illustrated by science fiction, such as where the mind of a criminal is
drawn and caged inside a prison box ‘room of infinite white
nothingness.’
Mind control involves using systematic and unethical methods to persuade
others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator which is to the
detriment of those being manipulated.
Classic techniques are designed to breakdown a person’s mind by
dehumanizing. Methods include psychological harassment, sensory
deprivation, degradation and group social pressure. However, sneaky
thought viruses are very underhand and can be introduced into society
almost undetected. Take world domination via children’s writing for
example!
The strange occult doings at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, and
also movies such as the Blair Witch Project, furthered by devil
worshipping rock musicians such as ‘Cocaine’ Kurt and Marlyn Manson,
could be spawning a collective consciousness (or sub consciousness) of
Satanism. Are the dark arts masked inside literature, film and music
affecting our kids? Interest in witchcraft is sky rocketing in children,
many of whom believe the world of magic to be real compared to the
‘mundane’ bible’. Instead of Sunday school, they spend their weekends
playing games taken from the book of spells, summoning four headed dogs,
and other ‘imaginary?’ demons. Satanic churches, and cults like the
Illuminati and Kabbalah Centre, have never been more en vogue. Children
are very impressionable and books, movies and trendy music, surely are a
magical way to turn them towards the macabre. Vulnerable as ever, 20%
our kids in the UK will now have a mental health disorder in any given
year. One in fifteen deliberately self harm, there are 24,000 suicide
attempts made by 10 to 19 years olds in England and Wales each year,
many are on drugs, and in places up to 1 in 20 have been sexually
assaulted. The devil must really be laughing in his fiery hell.
Less pleased are Christian fundamentalists. To quote
hebrew4christians.com, ‘Almighty God cannot be ‘conjured’ or treated as
an object, since He is Master of the Universe and subject to no one. We
do not need incantations or abracadabra to conjure up feelings to help
us overcome the existential void that haunts us. We can trust in the
love of our father in heaven as exemplified in the gracious sacrifice of
His son for us. In the end we need to trust in Him as a small child
trusts in the love of his father.’
This can understandably be extremely trying when the rest of world is
attempting to steal your money, blow up your house and rape your
sister. I guess that’s the nature of true faith.
Joe recently helped develop the British Woodlands food webs educational simulation for Newbyte and is donating his share of The Last Tiger (available Amazon kindle) children’s fantasy novel profits to the Animals on the Edge conservation project.
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