Secret, don't tell

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Carla Emery's Book "Secret, Don't Tell" Introduction Dedication .....iii This book Is For You .....iv Thanks .....iv Foreword .....vi Introduction......vii Defining Unethical Hypnosis .....vii History of Criminal Hypnosis .....viii Secrecy and Denial .....viii Information Control Is Mind Control .....ix Contents at a Glance .....x Part I -Case Histories of Criminal Hypnosis Svengali: Abusive Stage Hypnosis in Literature and Life Svengali and Trilby .....1 Exploitation of Female Stage Mediums .....3 “Voodoo Death” on Stage .....4 Hypnotic Subject Killed on Stage .....4 Abusive Hypnosis in Literature .....5 Case History: “Z” Kantor .....6 Zebediah Kantor .....7 Adam Begins the Hypnosis .....7 Missing Time .....7 Exploitation .....8 Arrests and Jail .....10 Karl du Prel .....10 Trial .....11 Dr. Kroener Learns the Truth .....11 Kroener’s Book .....12 Post-War Events .....12 Case History: Mrs. E. .....13 The Day It Began .....14 Suggested Sickness, Suggested Healing .....15 Murder Suggestions .....16 How Intense Can Hallucinated Pain Be? .....16 Suicide Suggestions .....17 Mr. Evan Goes to the Police .....18 Mayer Cracks the Case .....18 Word Associations .....20 Bergen’s Assistant .....21 Mayer’s Book .....21 The Trial .....21 Case History: Palle Hardwick .....22 The Predator: Nielsen .....22 The Prey: Palle Hardwick .....22 Palle’s Childhood and Youth .....23 From HIPOCORPS to Capture .....23 Trial and Imprisonment .....23 Nielsen the “Guru” .....23 Palle Learns “Yoga” .....24 From Trance to Hypnosis .....24 Social Isolation .....25 Palle Accepts “X” As God .....25 Preparation for a “Mission” .....27 Palle Out of Prison .....27 An Arranged Marriage .....28 Training for Robbery .....29 Guru Failures .....29 First Bank Robbery .....30 Second Robbery and Murders .....31 Capture, Interrogation, Psych. Evaluation .....32 Interrogation .....32 Informers .....32 Psychiatric Evaluations .....33 Dr. Reiter Enters the Case .....34 Futile Attempts to Hypnotize Palle .....34 Evipan Breaks the Seal .....34 Palle, the Somnambulist .....35 Training .....35 Transference .....35 Classical Conditioning .....36 Testing .....37 Somnambulist Palle Is Demonstrated .....37 Induction Cue, by Phone .....37 Hypnotist: "Artificially-Induced Superego” .....37 Induction Cue, in Writing .....38 Amnesia and Posthypnotic Suggestions .....38 A Criminal Suggestion .....38 Regressions .....39 Guarantee Truthful Regression .....39 Suggested Autobiography .....40 Trial Preliminaries .....40 Palle’s Dreams .....41 Psychological Reports, Grief .....43 Reiter Loses Hypno-Control .....45 Trial and Appeals .....47 Palle Teeters on the Brink .....49 “New Evidence” .....50 Psychological Assessments .....51 Nielsen Hits Again .....52 Appeal Denied .....52 Reiter’s Book .....53 Case History: Candy Jones 54 Childhood, Youth, and Career .....54 Candy Jones: Model .....55 Lieutenant Candy Jones .....56 A Telephone Induction .....56 Marriage, Money Problems .....57 CIA Recruits a Courier .....57 An Odd Burglary .....58 Mail Service .....58 A Favor for Donovan .....58 The Proposition .....59 Candy Signs Up .....59 Mind-Splitting Use for Imaginary Childhood Playmate .....60 The Hypnosis Begins .....61 Disguised Induction .....61 Induction Hardware .....62 Drug Inductions .....62 Candy’s Conditioning/Training .....62 Artificial Personality Split ...63 Induction Cues .....64 Isolation .....64 Telephone Induction .....65 Training a Hypno-Agent .....66 Courier in Action .....66 Torture and Shame Experiments .....67 Nice Treatment .....67 Torture .....68 Measurable Degrees of Agony .....68 Snake-in-the-Box Experiments .....69 Shame .....70 Demonstration at Langley .....71 Candy Fights Back .....71 Suicide Orders .....71 Better Wed Than Dead .....72 Arlene Begins to Appear .....73 John Hypnotizes Candy .....73 Arlene Spills the Beans .....74 John, Candy, and Arlene .....75 Dentists and Doctors .....76 John Battles Arlene .....77 Bain Writes Candy’s Story .....78 Publishing and Publicity .....78 Publicity Tour .....79 John, Candy, and Bain Are Silenced .....80 Unquenchable Truth .....80 Part II - A Partial History of U.S. Government Mind-Control Research U.S. Research on Hypnosis and Mind Control Begins .....81 The Personalities .....81 Donovan Organizes the OSS .....81 Clark Hull .....82 Lovell Hires On .....82 Estabrooks Promotes “Super-Spy” .....83 Unknowing Subjects .....83 Estabrooks Promotes Secrecy - and Reveals Secrets .....84 Estabrooks, M.H. Erickson, and the FBI Experiment .....85 How to Program an Unknowing Hypnotic Subject .....85 False Fronts .....86 Wiener Links Computer Research with Neuroscience .....86 Cybernetics .....86 Military Mind-Control Research Begins .....87 Watkins Experiments 87 Conditioned Subject Doesn’t Resist Induction .....87 Interrogation Use of Hypnosis .....87 A Military Offense Caused by Hypnosis .....88 Suggested Murder .....89 Brainwashing Research Begins .....89 Secret Agencies, Secret Research, Secret Operations .....90 OSS Ends and CIA Begins 91 CIA Mind-Control Research Projects 92 BLUEBIRD .....93 ARTICHOKE: CIA/Military Hypnosis Research .....93 MKULTRA .....93 Who Led The Mind Control Race: Soviets or U.S.? .....94 National Security Agency .....95 Largest, Wealthiest, and Most Powerful .....95 Turf Wars .....96 Of Secret Agencies and Investigative Reporters .....96 Fastest and Most Secret .....97 Classified Documents .....97 A Mission to Eavesdrop .....98 Legal or Illegal .....98 Electronic Mindreading .....99 New Branch of Psychology: “Military Psychology” .....100 Mind-Control Research: Goals and Methods .....102 Terminal Experiments .....102 Where Terminal Research Was Done .....104 Cameron’s Patients .....105 CIA Settles w/ Canadian Nine 106 Medical Ethics .....106 Mind-Control Research Goals .....107 Disguised Induction .....107 Hypnotic Memory Training .....107 Hypnocouriers .....108 Sealing .....109 1950s CIA Hypnogoals, and Probable Outcomes ......109 (1) Identify Hypnotically Susceptible Personality .....109 (2) Which Mind Control Method for Each Personality? .....110 (3) Time Needed to Establish Mind Control? ......110 (4) Is the Conditioning Permanent? ......110 (5) Can the Conditioning Be Reversed? .....110 (6) What Could Go Wrong During the Conditioning? .....110 (7) How Complete Will the Control Be? .....111 (8) Can Complex Conduct Be Hypnocontrolled? .....111 (9) Are Personality Changes Caused By Hypnotic Suggestion Detectable? ....111 (10)Can Preconditioning Be Detected? .111 (11) Can a Preconditioned Subject Be Reprogrammed? .....111 (12) Can We Reprogram a Reprogrammed Hypnoprogrammed Person? .....112 (13) Perfect Amnesia? ......112 Personality Restructuring .....112 Research on Personality Restructuring .....113 Hypno-conversions .....113 Physical Methods of Psychiatry .....115 Amnesia Research .....116 Hypnoprogramming Uses for Amnesia .....116 Broken Feedback Circuit .....116 Secret Will Rule .....116 One-Way Amnesia .....116 Narcohypnosis 117 Hyperventilation .....117 Barbiturates .....117 Police Use of Barbiturates .....118 Research on Narcohypnosis .....118 Barbiturate Plus Stimulant .....119 Project CHATTER .....119 Barbiturate Forces Induction? .....119 Back in the Real World .....119 A Summary of Mind-Control Uses of Barbiturate .....120 1) Amnesia .....120 2) Immobilization .....120 3) Forced Trance Induction .....121 4) Opportunity to Carry Out Hypnosis Training .....121 5) Speed of Induction .....121 6) Depth-Conditioning .....121 7) Rapport .....121 8) Suggestibility .....121 9) Addiction .....122 Rohypnol .....122 Electroshock .....123 Shock to Increase Suggestibility .....123 CIA Researches Using Shock to Increase Suggestibility .....123 Tien Shocks Bad Wife into Good Wife .....124 Shock to Cause Retroactive Amnesia .....126 CIA Research on Using Shock to Cause Amnesia .....126 Three Stages of ECT Amnesia .....126 First Stage .....126 Second Stage .....126 Third Stage ......126 Regressive Shock .....127 Post-Shock Recovery .....127 Shock to Cause “Calm” .....127 The History of Deliberate Personality Splitting ......128 The “Dual I” .....128 CIA Researches Subconscious Isolation .....130 History of Research on Artificial Neurosis .....130 Pavlov Applies Freud .....130 Luria Researches Artificial Neurosis .....131 Failed Conditioning Method .....131 Success .....131 Artificial Neurosis Comes to the U.S. .....132 Focus Shifts to Child, Real or Suggested .....133 Freudian Hypnosis Researchers .....133 Natural Development of Multiple Personality .....135 The Controllable Child .....136 Dependence .....136 Does Not Clearly Distinguish Fantasy from Reality .....136 Accepts Logical Inconsistencies .....136 Obedience ......136 Natural Amnesia ......136 Assumption That Might Makes Right .....136 Greater Imprinting Capacity .....136 Hypnochild Given Artificial Neurosis .....136 Brickner’s Technique, Summarized .....137 Operation Often: A Case History .....138 Long-Term Operator-Subject Relations .....139 Complete, Helpless Obedience .....139 Combined Technologies .....139 Induction, Disorientation, and Reorientation .....140 First Induction .....140 Disorientation .....141 Reorientation As Fish .....141 Capacity Regression .....141 Training for “Can’t Come Up” .....142 Little Girl .....143 Deprivation/Partial Restoration Technique .....143 Sex Conditioning: A Pseudo-Oedipal Stage .....143 Types and Degrees of Suggested Physiological Arousal .....144 Masochism Suggestions .....144 An Oedipal Experience .....145 Limbic/Emotional Programming .....146 Limbic Anatomy .....146 Limbic Function .....146 Maximized Drive to Remember Conditioning .147 Maximized Drive to Repress Conditioning .....147 Maximized Dominance over Competing Programming .....147 SEX=HYPNOSIS .....148 SO ASHAMED: Guilt Training .....148 Hilgard’s Type One and Type Two Hypnotic Amnesias .....148 DON’T REMEMBER: Amnesia Resolves Drive Conflict .....149 Amnesia Results in Split Personality .....149 Communication Rules ....151 Military Limbic Hypnoprogramming .....150 Operation Mind Control .....150 Project Monarch .....151 Obedience Training .....152 Aversive Conditioning ......152 Classic Pavlovian Conditioning .....152 Artificial Superego: Rules .....152 Electroconvulsive Shock .....153 Electroshock in Military Hypnoprogramming .....154 Psychic Driving .....154 Cue Statement: a Dynamic Implant .....155 Grateful for Her “Cure” .....156 Proud to Be a Good One .....156 Cover Personality .....156 Interlocking Amnesias .....156 Shifting the Rapport .....157 Language: Backwards and Too Soft to Hear .....158 Information, Interviews, and Incidents .....159 John Marks Uncovers Secrets, Then Hides Them Again .....159 Marks Files FOIA Request .....160 Bumbling, Ineptitude, and Failure? ......160 The Big Lie .....161 A Brief, Strange Phone Conversation .....162 “They Wouldn’t Hesitate to Kill You” .....162 “Joe”: A Case History .....163 Trouble Remembering Names and Faces (Prosopagnosia) .....163 Driving Dogs “Crazy” .....164 Difficult Civilian Adjustment .....164 Joe Gives a Warning .....165 R.J. Thinks They Killed His Author-Friend .....165 Of Patsies and Assassins .....166 Lee Harvey Oswald .....168 Jack Rudy .....168 Sirhan Sirhan .....169 Mind-to-Mind Trance Inductions .....171 Friend Tries a Hit .....171 A Pattern Emerges .....173 History of a Psychic .....173 Psychic Research .....174 Cold War Psychic Research .....174 ESP Is a Trance Phenomenon .....175 Teacher from the Psychic Institute .....177 Psychiatry Is No Longer a Joke .....180 “A” Was Not Available .....180 “B” Is for Background .....180 “C” Is for Counterintelligence .....181 “D” Is for Dangerous .....181 Analysis of a Hit .....183 1. Thought Projection .....184 2. Imperceptible Induction Pressure .....185 3. Confusing Routine of Hand Pressures .....185 4. Erotic Signal .....185 5. Forced Articulation of Pre-Speech Thought .....185 6. Brainprint .....188 7. Mind-reading .....188 Of Biochips and Cyborgs .....189 Musings .....190 Part III - Trance Phenomena Trance as a Personal Experience .....193 Trance: The Subjective Experience .....195 Light Trance, Deep Trance, or Hypnosis? .....195 Natural Trance .....196 Light Trance .....196 Deep Trance .....197 “Hypnosis” Defined .....198 Trance Training .....199 Hypnosis? or Just Advertising? .....200 Advertising to the Unconscious .....201 Media Can Displace Reality .....201 Television and Children .....202 HDTV .....203 Subliminals .....203 Visual Subliminals .....203 Audio Subliminals .....203 A Subliminal Sales Event .....204 Ten Important Hypnotic Phenomena .....205 1) Suggestion .....206 Suggestion Targets Automatic Obedience .....206 Direct vs. Indirect Suggestions .....206 2) Rapport .....206 Rapport As a Focus on the Hypnotist’s Voice .....206 Rapport as Love .....206 Rapport as Addiction .....206 Rapport as Bonding .....208 Rapport Also Impacts the Hypnotist .....208 The Freudian View of Rapport .....208 3) Automatism .....208 Suggestion Intends Automatic Obedience .....208 Words as Conditioned Stimuli .....209 Hypnotic Conditioning .....209 Unconscious Reflex Dominance Attributes ..... 210 1) Chronological Sequence .....210 2) Emotional Intensity .....210 3) Depth .....210 4) Strength of Drive .....210 5) Repetition .....210 6) Amnesia .....210 Habit .....210 Simultaneous Automatic and Conscious Behavior .....211 Conversion .....211 4) Catalepsy .....213 Suggested Catalepsy .....213 Catalepsy to Test Trance Depth and to Deepen It .....214 Deep Trance Catalepsy .....214 Catalepsy vs. Catatonia .....214 “Bridge” Phenomenon .....214 5) Hallucination .....215 Normal and Abnormal Hallucinations .....215 Interview with an Ex-hypnotist .....216 Positive Hallucination .....217 Negative Hallucination .....217 6) Anesthesia .....217 Anesthesia Reveals Trance Depth .....218 Anesthesia in Stage Demonstrations .