MASS HYPNOSIS

The Grand, the Grisly, and the Delusory

This is a 3-parter. I hope you’ll read the first; the second is short, and the third pertains to a specialized interest.

I started this post to comment on a 39,000-word essay which I encountered in 2011, about Barack Obama’s use of mass hypnosis in his speech making (Part 1).

My intention is to share some of the techniques which any trained speaker could use to exert this type of influence. If it weren’t Obama (Barry Soetoro), it would simply be someone else.

Mass hypnosis is used by someone who doesn’t want to speak plainly and share truthful information. Therefore, they are a LIAR and perfect fodder for the LIAR$$WORLD blog.

Barry got a hefty dose of ribbing about his reliance on the teleprompter during his 8 years as POTUS. I once saw him speak extemporaneously in Germany and he was pathetic – about as articulate as a skid row bum with a hangover. I felt embarrassed for him!

Keep this in mind because it hints at theatrical techniques which are employed unconnected to content; in other words, Barry was trained in execution, but his level of comprehension was optional.

This all fits with him being a turtle on a fencepost and “coming out of nowhere” right into the oval office. Many felt this back in the day.

Please don’t think I’m just picking on him, though. Consider:

Obama 12 years to the White House

35y IL State Senator

43y IL US Senator

47y President

JFK 14 years to the White House

29y MA US Representative

35y MA US Senator

43y President

GWB 5 years to the White House

49y TX Governor

54y President

… and

Dwight David Eisenhower

In 1940 an army major.

In December 1943 general over all the allies in Europe.

In November 1952 elected US President, at age 62.

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So there ─ 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans, fair enough?

… and a total of 4 turtles.

JFK is largely sacrosanct due to his assassination. However, his father Joe was among the select few who were tipped off before the 1929 stock market crash and went on to prosper magnificently. That’s a high-ranking insider, to be sure.

Baby Bush’s grandfather, Prescott, was a creature of the Harrimans, which takes us back to The Robber Barons. Daddy Bush, a psychopath, once cried in telling how he had to apologize to his son Jeb there was no time for him to be President too.

Eisenhower was a creature of Bernard Baruch, Illuminati fixer extraordinaire, and premier war criminal. When WW2 ended, Churchill came to the US and visited Baruch in NYC before deigning to visit Truman in DC.

Barry Soetoro was nurtured and groomed by Penny Pritzker … yeah, those people.

“So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

**Benjamin Disraeli’s 1844 political novel Coningsby (Disraeli was a true insider)

PART 1: THE MOST AMAZING SPEAKER

The excerpts in the following section will be from the paper mentioned, unless otherwise specified.

Here is a (link) to a PDF of the full paper, author(s) unknown.

Barack Obama’s speeches contain the hypnosis techniques of Dr. Milton Erickson, M.D. who developed a form of “conversational” hypnosis that could be hidden in seemingly normal speech and used on patients without their knowledge for therapy purposes. Obama’s speeches intentionally contain:

Trance Inductions <> Hypnotic Anchoring <> Pacing and Leading <> Distraction and Utilization <> Critical Factor Bypass <> Stacking Language <> Preprogrammed Response <> Linking Statements <> Causality Bridges <> Secondary Meanings <> Imbedded Suggestions <> Emotion Transfer

Obama’s techniques are the height of deception and psychological manipulation, remaining hidden because one must understand the science behind the language patterns in order to spot them. This document examines Obama’s speeches word by word, hand gesture by hand gesture, tone, pauses, body language …

“Conversational Hypnosis” is an accepted label for this technique. Next, the author describes the theoretical mechanism by which the hypnotist accesses the subconscious mind. Obviously, no one knows for sure how the human mind works, but these explanations are helpful:

The critical factor is the part of the mind that logically analyzes and scrutinizes all information like a filter, and decides what information is allowed to pass into your subconscious mind and become part of what your mind accepts as unquestionably true, like your deepest and most powerful emotions, drives, and instincts.

It is the primary cognitive defense that usually stops all information and rationally analyzes it, whether consciously or unconsciously. It keeps your computer-like subconscious mind from literally believing that you are a chicken when someone calls you a “chicken”, and keeps you from literally believing that you are a square (box) when somebody calls you a “square” …

AND

The reason hypnosis is used for such psychological change, is that the critical factor allows in only what it accepts as true. Without bypassing the smoker’s critical factor, a smoker has a difficult time quitting because they have a difficult time accepting as absolutely true the information that they are a nonsmoker, because their critical factor and conscious mind knows differently and doesn’t let the information through.

(Arnie): I will refer to the “critical factor” as “The Guard.”

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PACING AND LEADING

Pacing is preparatory to the implanting of a suggestion (the lead). Pacing is typically slow, with pauses. A series of obviously true statements are given, which lower The Guard’s defenses, then the desired notion/concept is inserted into the subconscious. The author makes an apt analogy:

… if many people entering the club are searched by the security guard and nothing questionable is found, the security guard’s defense efforts become tired, lazy, and lowered.

The author gives examples of pacing and leading from an Obama speech in Denver 2008:

In this speech, Obama essentially said “as I stand before you tonight” three separate times, around the beginning, middle, and end of the speech to continue pacing the audience throughout …

In the same speech, Obama says “now is the time” six times throughout …

Obama also says essentially “this moment” five times, serving the same pacing purpose.

Here is one example of each phrase:

But I stand before you tonight because all across America something is stirring. What the naysayers don’t understand is that this election has never been about me. It’s been about you.

AND

Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American.

AND

This moment ─ this election ─ is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive.

LINKING

Between the preparatory pacing statement(s) and the to‑be‑implanted lead(idea/notion) we find linking words: “and, as, because, that is why” – to name four prominent examples.

“We need change…and…that is why I will be your next President.”

Yes, we probably need change. Yes, change will happen regardless. BUT … that doesn’t mean “I” will be the next President. BUT … sorry folks, that is what your subconscious mind might think under this dynamic!

It doesn’t matter whether the cause and effect linking statement has any truth or logical connection to it. It works because it links statements the subject knows subconsciously to be true, with statements from the hypnotist …

A holographic truth. A simulacrum of the truth. A cartoon truth.

The author points out that Obama (or whoever … I’m not here to pick on Barry exclusively) rarely spoke about detailed policy criticisms or suggestions because:

If he went into specifics, he would not be pacing, he would be encouraging the use of the conscious mind, something he is attempting to avoid.

Wow. Involving the conscious mind is a no‑no.

SLOW PACING

Pacing tends to be slower than typical conversation, and for a reason.

The conscious mind typically encounters and handles single-meaning concepts, but the subconscious mind frequently perceives and processes multiple meanings, even for simple items. In the realm of hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) this is referred to as “trans-derivation” or Transderivational Search (TDS).

This means that if we would like someone to have specific thoughts, we can invisibly lead them to those thoughts by mentioning entirely different things that we know are connected in some way.

For example, if we want to cause thoughts of the ocean to begin to enter someone’s mind, we might talk about seagulls, salt, or sand dunes.

**Max Trance (internet link)

Makes sense, right? Your subconscious mind contains EVERYTHING you’ve ever been exposed to (well, a ton of it anyway) and your mind draws analogies constantly. John Wayne reminds me of Monument Valley which reminds me of dry sand which reminds me that … holy crap, I’m thirsty!

Here are two other headings from the above-quoted source:

How To Invisibly Direct Attention

How To Modify Someone’s State With Transderivational Search

(Sidenote): You know what? To hell with these people. They’re manipulators. Anyone who practices this stuff feels superior to his/her “client” or “patient” or audience.

One of my favorite Bible quotes is:

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

**John 1:47-48 (KJV)

The Ferrar-Fenton Bible uses the word “duplicity” instead of guile.

All of this scheming really steams me and is the reason for LIAR$$WORLD blog to begin with. We must love our neighbor and be plain spoken.

(Ahem, deep breath, rant over).

So, the slow pacing leaves room for the trans-derivation process and

The searching through these various meanings is part of what distracts the rational part of the mind as part of hypnotic induction, even if we are not consciously aware of our search between different meanings.

AND

The unconscious mind responds to openings, opportunities, metaphors, symbols and contradictions.

VISUAL IMAGERY

Visual imagery, like Obama’s, is a key component of facilitating hypnotic trance induction. Using metaphor in hypnosis is especially effective because it engages the conscious and unconscious mind at the same time, communicating logically while activating imagination and emotion …

AND

An emotional response is an unconscious response. Raising of emotion is a fundamental technique in hypnosis to make the subject more programmable, more effectively, because emotion is a subconscious reaction, and can be connected to other subconscious elements …

I’m sure you know that modern advertising appeals to the emotions, first and foremost.

You’ve seen the 19^th Century print ads such as this:

“…the finest and most crisp the world can show.” ─ make your claims, appealing to logic, and hope prospective buyers believe you.

In the 20^th Century this format was scientifically superseded by emotional manipulations. Best example: modern TV pharmaceutical ads showing people smiling at picnics or walking their Golden Retriever (oh, and by the way, our drug might help, especially if you don’t mind side effects).

Another form of emotion inducement is sensory triggers. Examples:

… “turn the page”, and “a breeze is blowing across this nation,…and change is in the air.”

STACKING

These techniques are cumulative in their effect, most certainly within a given session of exposure. By use of stacking (repetition) The Guard gets fatigued and becomes “sloppier” in its restrictions.

STORYTELLING

This is a favorite of mine and can be applied to many situations. The author is good at explaining and giving examples, as shown in the following two paragraphs.

(from the 2007 State Democrat convention in San Diego):

OBAMA: “It has now been a little over two months (pause) since we began (pause) this campaign for the Presidency. (pause) In that time we have traveled all across this country. (pause) And before every event we do (pause), I usually have a minute to sit quietly and (pause) collect my thoughts. (pause) And recently, I’ve found myself (pause) reflecting on (pause) what it was that led me (different tone, and thumb and forefinger anchor for “me”) to public service in the first place.”

First, notice how much Obama uses storytelling in his major speeches, especially at the beginning of nearly all of his speeches. Storytelling is a primary hypnotic tool because it employs images, metaphor, the imagination, rhythm, makes us feel like children, and takes us to another time and place so the mind tells itself “it is only a story” and allows it to pass into the subconscious. However, this is just the beginning.

It is only a story! The Guard can take a bathroom break or maybe even order a pizza.

I know there are highly technical ways in which TV can mesmerize us but just think of the broad ramifications of this back door to the subconscious. Most of what we watch (me included) is only a story. Imagine what manner of nonsense can ride in on the slipstream enabled by this massive loophole.

And here it might do well to mention the painful truth that people who think they are not vulnerable to propaganda actually ARE. Again, me included (Arnie, kicking and screaming, “No, not me, no, not me!”)

DISTRACTION

The is the beginning Obama’s speech in St. Paul, MN, 3 June 2008 after securing the Democrat nomination:

Of course we have the slow pace with pauses but notice the number sequences.

The Guard processes “54” and OK’s it. Then “16” – piece of cake. Then “thousands” of miles. The Guard feels comfortable with that, common enough – New York to L.A. is well over 2 thousand. Then “millions”. The human mind cannot visualize a million things. Now The Guardian is distracted, trying to get its arms around this number. What comes sneaking in next is a series of “becauses” which are the end goal of the paragraph. Then it is all neatly tied together with the indisputable “I’m standing here. I’m talking.”

Ya gotta admit, that’s some clever stuff.

PART 2: HYPNOTIC SAVAGERY

My archives contain the word “hypnosis” 2,498 times and the word “hypnotic” 2,169 times. It makes sense, since my studies involve manipulation and deception. The cabal everywhere and always crave control, and hypnosis, quite often, hints at offering it.

One result from the search led me to a 72-page paper featuring excerpts from a 550-page book entitled Secret, Don’t Tell (Subtitle: The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism) (1997) by Carla Emery. (Sidenote: this book is featured on Amazon for $350 hardcover, $53.27 paperback, used … indicating rarity).

Her chapter “Mind-Control Research: Goals and Methods” begins with a quote from Journey into Madness (Subtitle: Medical Torture and the Mind Controllers) (1988) by Gordon Thomas, a 400-page book about secret mind experiments of the 20^th Century.

Here is that quote, expanded:

In working on this book, I have had to come to terms with my own emotions — a sense of disbelief, bewilderment, disgust and anger and, more than once in the early stages, a feeling that the subject was simply too evil to cope with. Nothing I had researched before could have prepared me for the dark reality of doctors who set out deliberately to destroy minds and bodies they were trained to heal: the realization that physicians are part of a killing machine provoked, and still does, a special horror. Throughout the interviews I worked through much of my personal conflict, whether to stop or go on, knowing that at every turn there would be further personally unsettling revelations: I survived by constantly reminding myself of a professional obligation to be balanced about doctors whose actions in the end raise a fundamental question: how did they become the way they were, and are?

For the most part they did not give the impression, outside their work, of being totally evil; certainly, they rarely filled the popular imagery of demonic figures. Equally, it must be said it is demonic that they are not demonic. And, without doubt, there is a deeply disturbing psychological truth that what they do does not require a personality which is anywhere close to sadistic: their behavior confirms that what can be properly called ‘ordinary people’, nurtured and tutored to find places within the oldest caring profession, can go on to perform acts of authentic wickedness.

**Gordon Thomas

Later in the paper she quoted from The Search for the Manchurian Candidate (1979) by John Marks, a 240-page book. Before you get too excited about its being a “what really happened” book, note that it was published by Penguin Books, totally mainstream, and a PDF is currently downloadable from the CIA. Nevertheless, this excerpt is revealing:

Inexorably, the ARTICHOKE men crossed the clear ethical lines. Morse Allen believed it proved little or nothing to experiment on volunteers who gave their informed consent. For all their efforts to act naturally, volunteers still knew they were playing in a make-believe game. Consciously or intuitively, they understood that no one would allow them to be harmed. Allen felt that only by testing subjects “for whom much is at stake (perhaps life and death),” as he wrote, could he get reliable results relevant to operations. In documents and conversation, Allen and his coworkers called such realistic tests “terminal experiments” ─ terminal in the sense that the experiment would be carried through to completion. It would not end when the subject felt like going home or when he or his best interest was about to be harmed. Indeed, the subject usually had no idea that he had ever been part of an experiment.

In every field of behavior control, academic researchers took the work only so far. From Morse Allen’s perspective, somebody then had to do the terminal experiment to find out how well the technique worked in the real world: how drugs affected unwitting subjects, how massive electroshock influenced memory, how prolonged sensory deprivation disturbed the mind. By definition, terminal experiments went beyond conventional ethical and legal limits. The ultimate terminal experiments caused death, but ARTICHOKE sources state that those were forbidden.

For career CIA officials, exceeding these limits in the name of national security became part of the job, although individual operators usually had personal lines they would not cross. Most academics wanted no part of the game at this stage—nor did Agency men always like having these outsiders around. If academic and medical consultants were brought along for the terminal phase, they usually did the work overseas, in secret. As Cornell Medical School’s famed neurologist Harold Wolff explained in a research proposal he made to the CIA, when any of the tests involved doing harm to the subjects, “We expect the Agency to make available suitable subjects and a proper place for the performance of the necessary experiments.” Any professional caught trying the kinds of things the Agency came to sponsor—holding subjects prisoner, shooting them full of unwanted drugs— probably would have been arrested for kidnapping or aggravated assault. Certainly, such a researcher would have been disgraced among his peers. Yet, by performing the same experiment under the CIA’s banner, he had no worry from the law. His colleagues could not censure him because they had no idea what he was doing. And he could take pride in helping his country.

**John Marks

Here is a clarification of the term ARTICHOKE:

Senator Frank Church Commission published a Report on the Foreign and Military Intelligence Activities of the United States15 in April 1976. The Church report included, at Chapter 15-F, information about chemical and biological activities, and at Chapter 17, information about “Testing and Use of Chemical and Biological Agents by the Intelligence Community.” It reported on Project Chatter, Project Bluebird/Artichoke, MK-ULTRA, MK-NAOMI and other programs through which the US Government conducted experiments on human subjects against their will and to their detriment.

**Katherine Watt

This is disheartening because most of these enterprises involve the services of medical doctors, psychiatrists, and psychologists.

Supposedly, these are “smart” people who “understand human behavior.” I’m sorry, but they don’t understand anything.

Several years ago, I realized that there is a flaw in the Ten Commandments: actually, the worst sin in life is to use one’s GOD-GIVEN talents and intelligence to dominate your less competent fellow citizens.

I decided adultery falls under covetousness and added mine at the end.

(Arnie’s Ten Commandments):

I am the Unitary Godhead, come to me in peace.

Put up no other god or hegemon, including yourself.

Invoke My Name in gentleness only.

Keep a time of withdrawal from the mundane world.

Honor your parents and all others as if the same.

Do not covet, nor practice prideful disdain.

Do not steal or commit fraud.

Do not bear false witness to persons or truths.

Do not murder.

Do not lever your talents against those less gifted.

PART 3: MASS HYPNOSIS … NOT

Roughly speaking, the COVID-19 “era” occurred during the years 2020_2021_2022. The following topic came into prominence at the end of the second year.

Specific people that I will mention (Malone, Rogan, Kirsch, Desmet, Rogers, Mercola, Breggin) only appear as part of history, and I imply no insight as to their current mindset or intellectual activities. We are discussing a turbulent time when confusion reigned, and we now enjoy the luxury of hindsight.

Yet hindsight must be flexed to be useful. One reason I was never too panicked about “COVID‑19” was that I knew about the Model State Emergency Health Powers Acts, which could afford the state and federal governments martial powers over the populace – a cabal wet dream to be sure. Another reason I was fairly sedate was I knew that the 1918 Flu Pandemic was wildly misrepresented and the 1300’s Black Plague occurred at a time of dismal public hygiene practices.

In December 2021, an American doctor named Robert Malone used the phrase “mass formation psychosis” on the Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) podcast. Malone used this phrase to describe people taking action to protect themselves against the COVID-19 virus, such as getting vaccinated or undergoing tests, suggesting these behaviors could be symptoms of mental illness. Multiple experts denounced Malone’s claims as misinformation, and in the years since, they have largely maintained that there was no evidence of psychosis behind protective COVID-19-related behaviors.

**BetterHelp Editorial Team (link)

I remember this was the start of the conversation in the US. It caused quite a stir. Notice this source defends the silly rules of the time.

If you want the full explanation of mass formation, here is an excellent video featuring Prof. Mattias Desmet (Clinical Psychology) of University of Ghent, Belgium. It’s really quite interesting, something I was never aware of before now. Multiple similar occurrences have been recorded in history and well-studied.

What’s strange is that YouTube hasn’t censored it yet after nearly 1M views! When they do, here’s the Mattias Desmet Odysee link.

**Steve Kirsch, December 2021

(the YouTube link ─ watch?v=uLDpZ8daIVM)

Apparently, the talk was never censored/deleted, but Kirsch was right in stating the possibility. It has accumulated 10,117 comments. Since YouTube was, and remains, an aggressive censor, perhaps the cabal wants us to cogitate over the Mass Formation theory of behavior. This would make sense because it, at its heart, (spoiler alert) ends up blaming the victim.

From the same month, here is a nifty summary of the Mass Formation theory, by a man with a highly analytical mind:

Dr. Desmet argues that “mass formation is a specific phenomenon that emerges if certain conditions are met”:

The conditions are:

1. A lack of social connectedness;

2. A lack of meaning;

3. Free-floating anxiety (that is unconnected to any mental representation); and

4. Free-floating frustration and aggression.

(Obviously our modern society met all of these conditions prior to COVID.)

And then he argues that “a narrative is distributed via mass media that focuses anxiety and aggression on a certain object” (in this case a virus).

** Toby Rogers

Here is a current take on the matter, acquired for this post:

Mass formation describes how large groups of people can become collectively fixated on a single narrative, often losing critical thinking and individual judgment, and sometimes tolerating behaviors they would normally reject. The idea draws on historical studies of crowd behavior, including Gustave Le Bon’s “group mind” theory, which suggested that individuals in crowds lose personal responsibility and become highly suggestible.

According to Mattias Desmet, a Belgian clinical psychologist, mass formation occurs when certain societal conditions are present: widespread loneliness, weak social bonds, a sense of meaninglessness, free-floating anxiety, and frustration. Under these conditions, a population may become highly receptive to a unifying narrative or “object of anxiety,” which provides a sense of purpose and social connection. The process involves stages similar to crowd psychology: submergence (loss of individual identity), contagion (emotional influence from the group), and suggestion (shared unconscious affecting decisions).

**Microsoft Copilot

(Arnie cautions): You’ve seen the TV trial dramas where the seasoned lawyer admonishes the less experienced colleague, “Never ask the witness a question you don’t know the answer to.” I would apply that to Wikipedia and the AI query programs: “Only ask a question you either know the answer to OR intend to verify.”

For context in regarding Desmet’s work, Le Bon’s book, The Crowd, was published in 1895. I would consider Le Bon’s analysis of physical crowds to be a limited behavior and not fully informative of nation-wide behaviors nor of our modern electronic virtual groupings.

Desmet’s book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, appeared in May, 2022. I have not read it, and I don’t remember anything of Le Bron’s, which I read about 25 years ago.

Let us read one more outline of Desmet’s ideas, from words spoken by Desmet during a June 2022 interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola:

So, mass formation is like a kind of group dynamic that emerges in society under very specific conditions ... And one of the most crucial is that it makes people … incapable of taking a critical distance from what they believe in.

… once people are in the grip of a process of machination, they typically show tendency to commit cruelties towards the people that do not buy into the narrative, or do not go along with the narrative.

And they typically do so as if it is an ethical duty … If you understand it, you can make sure that the crowd, the mass, will first destroy itself, or will exhaust itself, before it starts to destroy the people that do not go along with the mass.

… And in the full technical, psychological, sense of the word, it’s hypnosis, and a kind of hypnosis emerges on the very specific conditions.

A classical dictatorship at a psychological level is very primitive, is just society that is scared of a small group dictatorial regime because of its aggressive potential.

… A totalitarian state is based on a completely different psychological mechanism. It’s based on mass formation, which is a hypnosis, which emerges under very specific conditions, which were met just before the emergence of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and which were met again even more just before the Corona crisis.

… It’s a different kind of totalitarianism now, it’s not the same, it’s a technocratic totalitarianism.

I have abridged these quotations to save you time, not to distort his meanings.

From what I glean, he’s saying that people have things they believe and, often enough, they are reluctant to change their beliefs … and sometimes they can get rather mean about the whole thing. Is this really a new insight?

Then he references the Bolshevik Revolution and the rise of Nazi Germany.

As to the Russian Revolution (1917-1923), all the changes were brought about by abject violence and levels of terror that are difficult to describe to someone who inhabits a peaceful environment. That’s a far cry from free floating anxiety. Bad analogy.

I can see where one might use the Nazi era to greater effect – burgeoning convictions, perceived ethical duties, committing cruelties – AND many have portrayed Hitler as a hypnotic speaker, which resonates with the theme of this post.

BUT, let me remind you of what planet we inhabit: LIAR$$WORLD.

Therefore, we can’t understand history without endeavoring to dig beneath the surface of the stock explanations.

Antony C. Sutton wrote Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution and Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler. Both books describe how the International Bankers (in essence, the cabal) financed both political movements. There are plenty of other books that reveal such secrets but these two are especially convenient for my point at hand.

Unless you learn at least something about alternative analyses such as this, you are simply lost, with no hope of understanding anything.

Desmet claims the populace excites itself into a hypnotic state, due to general malaise. Unless you subtract out the portion of influence incurred by BIG MONEY and seasoned manipulators in a remarkably troubled time, your theory is crap.

The following contains a famous Nazi quote (frequently abridged) about inciting a peaceful citizenry to go to war:

“Why, of course the people don’t want war,” Goering shrugged. “Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America , nor for that matter in Germany . That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.”

“There is one difference,” I pointed out. “In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.”

“Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”

**Herman Goering, as related to Gustave Gilbert during the Nuremberg trials, from the book Nuremberg Diary.

Now, that’s something you can hang your hat on!

One more sequence from Desmet:

So, as I mentioned, mass formation emerges in a society when very specific psychological conditions are met. And the most crucial condition is that many people should feel socially isolated or lonely. There should be many people that stopped resonating with their natural and social environment. And for instance, just before the Corona crisis, the number of people that felt lonely was extremely high, probably higher than ever before in history.

They feel aggressive, frustrated, but they don’t know what they feel aggressive for, or what they feel frustrated for ... Social isolation, lack of meaning-making, free-floating anxiety, frustration and aggression, is highly aversive, because if people feel anxious, but without knowing what they feel anxious for, they typically feel out of control. They feel they cannot protect themselves from their anxiety. And under these conditions, something very typical might happen.

If under these conditions, a narrative is distributed through the mass media, indicating an object of anxiety … there might be a huge willingness to participate in a strategy to deal with the object of anxiety, no matter how absurd the strategy is.

“…just before the Corona crisis, the number of people that felt lonely was extremely high…”

Sure, pal, yeah, that was the whole problem right there.

“…people feel anxious, but without knowing what they feel anxious for…”

Horse pucky! We were anxious because the entire world was turned into a nightmarish theater of the absurd OVERNIGHT. All the crimes against humanity were freshly conceived and meticulously orchestrated ... AND … because of the disease-related context, most people thought “there must be some logic at play.” This is cognitive dissonance on stilts.

Lastly, Peter Breggin and his wife Ginger wrote a 6,700-word takedown of Desmet’s musings, in July of 2022. I consider this an excellent dissection of his theorizing, and it helped me clarify my viewpoint on the matter.

We will finish with a few excerpts from that piece, which is still available online (link) and I encourage you to read it. (The remaining quotes are from their essay).

Mattias Desmet: Mass Hypnosis Expert or Trojan Horse? The Full Story

Originally posted on America Out Loud, July 27, 2022

by Peter Breggin MD & Ginger Breggin

There was no reason to invent or apply a new concept like mass formation to explain the misery, apathy, and docility, seen in the general population and even among our colleagues. Individual doctors had, and continue to have, many good reasons to feel helpless, marginalized, and overwhelmed. Physicians who so much as voice doubt about the dominant views on COVID-19 are continuing to lose their teaching appointments, their clinical positions, their board certifications, and even their medical licenses. They continue to be censored and removed from Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter for simply disagreeing with the CDC, FDA, NIH, or even the media like ABC or CNN. Very few in the medical community dare to refuse vaccinations for themselves or their patients.

Now, in one of the greatest betrayals of their patients in medical history, only the bravest among physicians are refusing to go along with jabbing infants, who have nothing to gain, since COVID-19 will not harm them, and everything to lose, including their good health, their reproductive capacities, and their lives.

Millions of other citizens are similarly intimidated and censored. Many are required to submit to vaccinations under threat of losing their jobs, educational opportunities, or participation in competitive sports. And if any dare questions the COVID-19 narrative, they continue to be ostracized, censored, shamed, and made to feel guilty by coworkers, friends, and family members ─ and even rejected by their personal physicians.

The simple truth is that what Desmet calls mass formation or mass hypnosis is the response of normal human beings to extreme threats and harassments, and the loss of personal freedom. Add to that the isolation that was more widespread and rampant when he was finishing his book in November 2021 and the escalating threat to our constitutional democracies — it would be a miracle if anyone survived unscathed.

The bewildered, stupefied, demoralized, and compliant looks on the faces of so many people, including many of our colleagues, are similar to the responses of abused children, battered women, inmates confined in state mental hospitals, inmates of prisons, and citizens of brutal totalitarian regimes. I saw the same look on the faces of people forced to live in East Berlin shortly before the Berlin Wall came down.

The kindest comment I can offer here is that the Covid $camdemic was so unique that people were especially open to a strange explanation of what they were witnessing in their lives and in the public sphere.

Furthermore, the so-called mass formation has nothing whatsoever to do with the madness of crowds or mass hypnosis, which are Desmet’s favorite comparisons and sources of “science.” Crowds were outlawed during the worst COVID-19 oppression.

AND

Desmet’s book is a classic example of blaming the victim — the group hypnotizes itself, he argues. But he goes much further into a bizarre assertion that the abusers do not even exist!

When I was about 6 years old, my adult neighbor, one summer porch day, asked me if I knew where the wind came from. He then went on to explain that a leaf on a tree moves, then that causes another leaf on the tree to move, and soon a cascade of moving leaves happens and – voila! – before you know it a wind is produced and spreads to neighboring areas.

Although I didn’t know where winds came from, I knew he was full of shit.

That’s what Desmet reminds me of.

The Breggins again:

1. Mass formation arises from the victims themselves, who communicate it to each other in a mysterious or even mystical fashion. Desmet compares it to mass hypnosis or to the madness of crowds.

2. Because the hypnotic force supposedly arises from the group itself, there are no leaders, authorities, or elites to blame for it. In fact, the concept of elites is a fiction generated by the mass formation.

3. Consistent with blaming the victim, Desmet says there are no conspiracies behind COVID-19. None. No one planned all the destructive policies, strategies, and practices. It was a series of human mistakes and poor judgment, typical of ordinary people doing their best.

4. Desmet believes all the scholars, journalists, scientists, and other people who are, in fact, unearthing and documenting conspiracies behind COVID-19 are suffering from a variant of mass formation or mass hypnosis. Out of their personal psychological “needs,” they make up simple-minded conspiracy theories in order to focus on something outside themselves.

5. Desmet’s concept of mass formation robs people of their individual value and free will. The “masses” and the scholars and researchers who unmask the conspiracies behind COVID-19 are described as helplessly driven by their unconscious motives and their needs. This is how authoritarian abusers always think about their victims — as devoid of value and free will — which enables these abusers to justify manipulating and controlling them.

Good points all, and on a final note, they promote their own book about the Plandemic era. I’ve read it and it’s excellent. You can buy a Kindle version for only $2.99 (which indicates they want to share their work for the common good).

Our book, COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey, shreds Desmet’s theory of “mass formation” by demonstrating that there are well-organized global predators who have been planning all the worst aspects of COVID-19 tyranny since Bill Gates announced the Decade of Vaccines in 2010.

(Desmet wrote a rebuttal September 4, 2022):

Am I an expert in Mass Formation or a Trojan Horse?

OK, then, this is Arnie signing off. Thanks for stopping by!

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