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	Thought control - SourceWatch
		Thought control can be accomplished by "providing people with a vocabulary, a loaded language that constricts rather than broadens understanding." This can be seen in the examples listed below which have been repeated constantly by President George W. Bush and members of the Bush administration since the events of September 11, 2001.
		"Thought control also discounts alternate belief systems and prevents questioning of the leader, doctrine or policy." It differs from groupthink in that in groupthink alternatives are overlooked or simply not taken into consideration.
		Thought control is frequently equated with brainwashing, a concept involving a lack of compunction regarding deceiving people and commonly associated with psyops, cults, mind control, and media control.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Thought_control (491 words)

	Mind control
		The belief that one's thoughts are being controlled via radio waves or telepathically is a frequent delusional component of psychosis.
		One of the symptoms of schizophrenia is the belief that one is subject to external mind control, often by use of some form of technology: these often involve less plausible proposed mind control technologies such as the use of microwave radiation or lasers to control thoughts.
		In science fiction and superhero fiction, mind control often is described as a means of how a person literally seizes control of the minds of the victims to the point where not only their bodies are placed under direct control, but also their consciousnesses as well to become puppets like slaves to the controller.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Mind_control.html (1483 words)

	Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
		For they look upon milieu control as a just and necessary policy, one which need not be kept secret: thought reform participants may be in doubt as to who is telling what to whom, but the fact that extensive information about everyone is being conveyed to the authorities is always known.
		Similarly, any thought or action which questions the higher purpose is considered to be stimulated by a lower purpose, to be backward, selfish, and petty in the face of the great, overriding mission.
		Thought reform bears witness to its more malignant consequences: for by defining and manipulating the criteria of purity, and then by conducting an all-out war upon impurity, the ideological totalists create a narrow world of guilt and shame.
	www.rickross.com /reference/brainwashing/brainwashing19.html (4888 words)

	Newswise
		Controlling the movement of a prosthetic limb, however, would require learning a wider range of movements, so the two monkeys were given new tasks and 180-degree changes in directions.
		This suggests that people who are paralyzed and have not had a chance to practice with their arms could still learn to move objects with thought control.
		This activity might be harnessed to control a prosthesis, but the technique and the electrodes used in the current experiments are not yet ready for human testing.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view/?id=THOUGHT.TWF (597 words)

	Thought Power / How to Control Thoughts
		Thought is focussed and given a particular direction and, in the degree that thought is thus focussed and given direction, it is effective in the work it is sent out to accomplish.
		The birth of a noble thought is a potent antidote to counteract an evil thought.
		Thoughts of hatred and anger should be controlled by generating thoughts of love, forgiveness, mercy, friendliness, peace, patience and non-violence.
	www.yoga-age.com /modern/thoughtpower.html (15694 words)

	Mind Control/Brainwashing/Thought Reform Exists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, thought reform programs can be distinguished from other social influence efforts because of their totalistic scope and their sequenced phases aimed at destabilizing participants' sense of self, sense of reality, and values.
		Thought reform programs rely on organized peer pressure, the development of bonds between the leader or trainer and the followers, the control of communication, and the use of a variety of influence techniques.
		The current effort by cult apologists to deny thought reform exists is linked to earlier protective stances toward cults in which apologists attempted to deny the cults' active and deceptive recruitment practices, deny the massive social, psychological, financial, spiritual and other controls wielded by cult leaders and thus dismiss their often destructive consequences.
	www.factnet.org /Thought_Reform_Exists.htm?FACTNet (1166 words)

	Understanding Scientology / Chapter 14: Brainwashing and Thought Control in Scientology -- The Road to Rondroid
		Brainwashing and Thought Control in Scientology -- The Road to Rondroid
		A third paradigm of mind control, or brainwashing, comes from George Estabrooks in his writing about hypnotism, about which he was an expert.
		In milieu control, the cult controls both the environment and the communication of the cult member.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /~dst/Library/Shelf/wakefield/us-14.html (3444 words)

	PSYCHE: Control of Conscious Contents in Directed Forgetting and Thought Suppression by Tony Whetstone and Mark D. Cross
		In the thought suppression paradigm, some participants are asked not to think about a particular subject, but to report (e.g., by ringing a bell) if the forbidden thought does enter awareness.
		A thought suppression experiment typically consists of two five minute phases, an expression phase, where participants are asked to think about a particular subject, such as a white polar bear, and a suppression phase, where participants are asked to suppress thoughts about a particular subject (Wegner, Schneider, Carter & White, 1987).
		In the thought suppression paradigm, the initial suppression group must first learn what to suppress before suppression can take place--even if it is a single thought--so we conceive of the initial suppression group being told what to suppress as comparable to the forget group studying List 1.
	psyche.cs.monash.edu.au /v4/psyche-4-16-whetstone.html (7001 words)

	Necessary Illusions Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky
		If the population is out of control and propaganda doesn't work, then the state is forced underground, to clandestine operations and secret wars; the scale of covert operations is often a good measure of popular dissidence, as it was during the Reagan period.
		Operations of domestic thought control are commonly undertaken in the wake of wars and other crises.
		The most effective device [of thought control developed in democratic societies] is the bounding of the thinkable, achieved by tolerating debate, even encouraging it, though only within proper limits.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Chomsky/Necessary_Illusions.html (3337 words)

	Monkey's brain signals control 'third arm' - 13 October 2003 - New Scientist
		Monkeys can control a robot arm as naturally as their own limbs using only brain signals, a pioneering experiment has shown.
		The activation of the biceps and wrist muscles was monitored, as was the velocity of the arms and the force of the grip.
		Once the neuronal model had developed an accurate level of prediction the researchers switched the control of the cursor from the joystick to the robotic arm, which in turn was controlled by the monkey's brain signals.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn4262 (516 words)

	Thought-Control and Spiritual Attainment
		But no matter what our calling in life may be, the power of thought and the control of thought are of great importance.
		A young man may become a missionary, in spite of opposition and discouragement, simply because his mind is steadfast and his thoughts directed towards the goal of his ambition.
		The former perseveres with real prayer and directing his thoughts to God, raising them continually to higher and better things; while the latter neglects his praying, does not persevere in the control of his thoughts, so that his spiritual life withers away and becomes dead through lack of nourishment.
	www.freewebs.com /powerofthought/thoughtcontrol.htm (1242 words)

	Roger L. Simon: Thought Control at Columbia?
		Controlling and managing the news is something that goes against a basic tenet of our democracy.
		Of course I oppose thought control and fake news of all sorts, including the likes of Armstrong Williams who has apologized on televsion so often now it is getting to be nauseating.
		Simon was a little hyperbolic in claiming that the NYT was controlling the news via a one-day exclusive.
	rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2005/03/thought_control.php (1903 words)

	(eic-13) Control by thought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This can be enough to enable simple practical uses such as that of a computer mouse cursor controlled by thought, but it restricts the complexity of tasks that can be tackled to the sophistication of software extensions that can be, for example, mouse operated.
		For example, it is known that in cases where a medical patient has lost the use of their limbs through spinal injury, the neurons controlling limb movement remain dedicated to that task for at least five years after such an injury.
		So if they can hook the 'move arm left' neuron up to the program controlling the mouse cursor, the user can have an almost instinctive connection to the movements of that cursor at the same level of thinking that they would have used to move their arm in the past.
	www.fleabyte.org /eic-13.html (1627 words)

	Intro to Cults 101
		Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China, by Robert Jay Lifton, M.D.; W. Norton and Co., Inc., 1963.
		Through this milieu control the totalist environment seeks to establish domain over not ony the individual's communication with the outside (all that he sees and hears, reads and writes, experiences, and expresses), but also -- in its penetration of his inner life -- over what we may speak of as his communication with himself.
		Cult mind control programs seek to mold recruits into the image of the cult leader(s), although the recruits may not be aware of this.
	www.orange-papers.org /orange-cultinfo.html (2947 words)

	Astral Voyage - Astral Projection - Thought Control
		Thought control should be a concern for us (total loss of the highest kind of freedom, in my opinion).
		Such remote control makes possible potentially frightening uses for altering the brain’s functioning.” What they are doing here is disrupting the processing of the mental thought waves (not necessarily controlling thoughts, but more like sabotaging the environment in which they are received --sort of like trying to talk to someone in a crowded bar).
		Then there is something much more alarming, and that is others directly controlling, intercepting or overpowering the thought waves that come down from our higher self to replace or twist what is interpreted by the brain.
	www.astralvoyage.com /projection/thought.html (904 words)

	Thought Control Is The True Self-Control
		In the words," Control the mind," is condensed all the wisdom, all the philosophy, and all the counsel which has ever been given in any effort to help mankind to acquire self-control.
		It is control of only the physical part of the self, while the mental goes on without attention; this is repression, but repression is not true control.
		To have cast these thoughts out of the mind or to have destroyed them at once would have been to go to the fountain head of all activity and withdraw the poison that was polluting the stream.
	www.psitek.net /pages/PsiTekRAWTATR42.html (1093 words)

	Mind control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Such applications, were they to exist, might include use by hypothetical religous cults, by governments as torture techniques used to obtain confessions, as psyops to break resistance movements, by the advertising industry to manipulate consumer habits, and by the public relations industry to manufacture consent or remediate corporate image in the event of a crisis.
		The feasibility of such control and the methods by which it might be attained (either direct or more subtle) are both subject to hot debates among psychologists, neuroscientists, and sociologists.
		Mind control is a common feature in many conspiracy theories, as it provides a mechanism by which an alleged conspiracy could maintain control over innocent people, prevent knowledge of the conspiracy's actions, or prevent the conspiracy theorist's intended audience from believing the theory's allegations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mind_control (5129 words)

	Lifton's Thought Reform
		Robert Jay Lifton was one of the early psychologists to study brainwashing and mind control.
		Whether it is a monastery or a behind-closed-doors cult, isolation from the ideas, examples and distractions of the outside world turns the individuals attention to the only remaining form of stimulation, which is the ideology that is being inculcated in them.
		This even works at the intrapersonal level, and individuals are discouraged from thinking incorrect thoughts, which may be termed evil, selfish, immoral and so on.
	changingminds.org /techniques/conversion/lifton_thought_reform.htm (972 words)

	Birth Control Pill - Information on Birth Control Pill - Birth Control Pill Home
		The birth control pill is an oral contraceptive that is taken by mouth to prevent an unwanted pregnancy.
		Initially, the birth control pill was not available to all women and it wasn’t until 1972 that it was.
		When you decide to give the birth control pill a try, you can then conclude, after you have experienced the side effects and have weighed the benefits and costs, whether the birth control pill is right for you and your body.
	www.birth-control-pill.org (491 words)

	Sports Psychology - Thought Control
		Having worked with and questioned athletes on their thoughts over a number of years, I can tell you that the number who do plan their thoughts is surprisingly small.
		Athletes spend a large percentage of their time thinking sport-related thoughts, but most of these are unplanned and random.
		Athletes often recall that their very best performances are accompanied by few thoughts, a feeling of complete control, effortless movements and a sense of being ‘on automatic pilot’.
	www.pponline.co.uk /encyc/0991.htm (1605 words)

	Thoughts on thought control Skeptical Inquirer - Find Articles
		Taylor is a research scientist in the physiology department of the University of Oxford.
		Anyone not familiar with the history of the term brainwashing will benefit from her summary of its origin with writer Edward Hunter in 1950 and its subsequent insertion into the dialogues on influence, advertising, reeducation, torture, thought reform, and cults.
		She relies heavily on the insights of Robert J. Lifton's seminal work Thought Re/arm and the Psychology of Totalism, about brainwashing in communist China.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2843/is_4_29/ai_n14816991 (867 words)

	Word Control, Thought Control, World Control
		This is accomplished by altering, over time, the very definitions of key words in our minds and in the dictionaries we turn to when we seek to clarify and resolve terms that seem ambiguous or "off" when we hear them used by pundits, or when we read them in the corporate media.
		Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s 1984 is already aware of the idea that controlling a people’s definition of words, controlling the meanings that those words evoke in the minds of the general public, is integral to achieving actual thought control of the populace.
		The words we use to describe our experiences, emotions and thoughts, the words we depend upon to define the meanings of all reality, to plumb its depths and approach its heights alike, are possibly the most powerful weapons for Light that we possess.
	signs-of-the-times.org /signs/thought_control.htm (3364 words)

	Thought Control Questionnaire
		The Thought Control Questionnaire (TCQ) is a 30-item instrument devised by Adrian Wells and Mark I. Davies (1994) to assess the effectiveness of strategies used for the control of unpleasant and unwanted thoughts.
		The concept of controlling one’s thoughts effectively is implicit in several treatment approaches for these problems such as thought stopping, controlled worry periods, cognitive re-appraisal and the use of distraction techniques.
		The results were consistent with the prediction that a relationship existed between dimensions of thought control and perceived impaired control of thought.
	www.swin.edu.au /victims/resources/assessment/affect/tcq.html (717 words)

	Thought Control of the Weather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This test of the power of thought energy was scientifically validated and shown to affect an entire city.
		Perhaps it is possible for a thought collective to control weather patterns but fear of success or fear of failure deters the modern mind from making such attempts.
		Jeffry R. Palmer Ph.D. - Author, Thought Energy Consultant and Syndicated Columnist, Is the author of "Judo for the Soul - The Art of Psychic Self Defense", as well as numerous articles and papers relating to metaphysics and the study of paranormal phenomena.
	www.unexplainable.net /artman/publish/article_2156.shtml (783 words)

	Introduction : Experiments in thought control : Nature
		By prerecording the neural signals of his 'motor intentions' and then playing that information back to computers calibrated to read that signal it was possible to Matt to exert control over a computer cursor and work prosthetic devices, even though his spinal cord was severed more than three years before the trials.
		Previous efforts in humans to control cursors on a computer screen have been limited to two dimensions.
		But advances in a field still in its infancy have shown that in the very first trial of new technologies significant advances have been made that could one day offer aid and a degree of independence and mobility to people who have suffered spinal cord injuries through disease or accident.
	www.nature.com /nature/focus/brain/experiments/index.html (212 words)

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