Subliminal Programming
Subliminals are hidden suggestions that only your subconscious
perceives. They can be audio, hidden behind music, or visual,
airbrushed into a picture, flashed on a screen so fast that you don’t
consciously see them, or cleverly incorporated into a picture or
design.
Most audio subliminal reprogramming tapes offer verbal suggestions
recorded at a low volume. I question the efficacy of this technique-
if subliminals are not perceptible, they cannot be effective, and
subliminals recorded below the audible threshold are therefore
useless. The oldest audio subliminal technique uses a voice that
follows the volume of the music so subliminals are impossible to
detect without a parametric equalizer. But this technique is patented
and, when I wanted to develop my own line of subliminal
audiocassettes, negotiations with the patent holder proved to be
unsatisfactory. My attorney obtained copies of the patents which I
gave to some talented Hollywood sound engineers, asking them to
create a new technique. They found a way to psycho-acoustically
modify and synthesize the suggestions so that they are projected in
the same chord and frequency as the music, thus giving them the
effect of being part of the music. But we found that in using this
technique, there is no way to reduce various frequencies to detect
the subliminals. In other words, although the suggestions are being
heard by the subconscious mind, they cannot be monitored with even
the most sophisticated equipment.
If we were able to come up with this technique as easily as we did, I
can only imagine how sophisticated the technology has become, with
unlimited government or advertising funding. And I shudder to think
about the propaganda and commercial manipulation that we are exposed
to on a daily basis. There is simply no way to know what is behind
the music you hear. It may even be possible to hide a second voice
behind the voice to which you are listening.
The series by Wilson Bryan Key, Ph.D., on subliminals in advertising
and political campaigns well documents the misuse in many areas,
especially printed advertising in newspapers, magazines, and posters.
The big question about subliminals is: do they work? And I guarantee
you they do. Not only from the response of those who have used my
tapes, but from the results of such programs as the subliminals
behind the music in department stores. Supposedly, the only message
is instructions to not steal: one East Coast department store chain
reported a 37 percent reduction in thefts in the first nine months of
testing.
A 1984 article in the technical newsletter, “Brain-Mind Bulletin,”
states that as much as 99 percent of our cognitive activity may
be “non-conscious,” according to the director of the Laboratory for
Cognitive Psychophysiology at the University of Illinois. The lengthy
report ends with the statement, “these findings support the use of
subliminal approaches such as taped suggestions for weight loss and
the therapeutic use of hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming.”
Mass Misuse
I could relate many stories that support subliminal programming, but
I’d rather use my time to make you aware of even more subtle uses of
such programming.
I have personally experienced sitting in a Los Angeles auditorium
with over ten thousand people who were gathered to listen to a
current charismatic figure. Twenty minutes after entering the
auditorium, I became aware that I was going in and out of an altered
state. Those accompanying me experienced the same thing. Since it is
our business, we were aware of what was happening, but those around
us were not. By careful observation, what appeared to be spontaneous
demonstrations were, in fact, artful manipulations. The only way I
could figure that the eyes-open trance had been induced was that a 6-
to 7-cycle-per-second vibration was being piped into the room behind
the air conditioner sound. That particular vibration generates alpha,
which would render the audience highly susceptible. Ten to 25 percent
of the population is capable of a somnambulistic level of altered
states of consciousness; for these people, the suggestions of the
speaker, if non-threatening, could potentially be accepted
as “commands.”
Vibrato
This leads to the mention of VIBRATO. Vibrato is the tremulous effect
imparted in some vocal or instrumental music, and the cyle-per-second
range causes people to go into an altered state of consciousness. At
one period of English history, singers whose voices contained
pronounced vibrato were not allowed to perform publicly because
listeners would go into an altered state and have fantasies, often
sexual in nature.
People who attend opera or enjoy listening to singers like Mario
Lanza are familiar with this altered state induced by the performers.
ELFs
Now, let’s carry this awareness a little farther. There are also
inaudible ELFs (extra-low frequency waves). These are electromagnetic
in nature. One of the primary uses of ELFs is to communicate with our
submarines. Dr. Andrija Puharich, a highly respected researcher, in
an attempt to warn U.S. officials about Russian use of ELFs, set up
an experiment. Volunteers were wired so their brain waves could be
measured on an EEG. They were sealed in a metal room that could not
be penetrated by a normal signal.
Puharich then beamed ELF waves at the volunteers. ELFs go right
through the earth and, of course, right through metal walls. Those
inside couldn’t know if the signal was or was not being sent. And
Puharich watched the reactions on the technical equipment: 30 percent
of those inside the room were taken over by the ELF signal in six to
ten seconds.
When I say “taken over,” I mean that their behavior followed the
changes anticipated at very precise frequencies. Waves below 6 cycles
per second caused the subjects to become very emotionally upset, and
even disrupted bodily functions. At 8.2 cycles, they felt very high
an elevated feeling, as though they had been in masterful meditation,
learned over a period of years. Eleven to 11.3 cycles induced waves
of depressed agitation leading to riotous behavior.
The Neurophone
Dr. Patrick Flanagan is a personal friend of mine. In the early
1960s, as a teenager, Pat was listed as one of the top scientists in
the world by “Life” magazine. Among his many inventions was a device
he called the Neurophone-an electronic instrument that can
successfully programm suggestions directly through contact with the
skin. When he attempted to patent the device, the government demanded
that he prove it worked. When he did, the National Security Agency
confiscated the neurophone. It took Pat two years of legal battle to
get his invention back.
In using the device, you don’t hear or see a thing; it is applied to
the skin, which Pat claims is the source of special senses. The skin
contains more sensors for heat, touch, pain, vibration, and
electrical fields than any other part of the human anatomy.
In one of his recent tests, Pat conducted two identical seminars for
a military audience-one seminar one night and one the next night,
because the size of the room was not large enough to accommodate all
of them at one time. When the first group proved to be very cool and
unwilling to respond, Patrick spent the next day making a special
tape to play at the second seminar. The tape instructed the audience
to be extremely warm and responsive and for their hands to
become “tingly.” The tape was played through the neurophone, which
was connected to a wire he placed along the ceiling of the room.
There were no speakers, so no sound could be heard, yet the message
was successfully transmitted from that wire directly into the brains
of the audience. They were warm and receptive, their hands tingled
and they responded, according to programming, in other ways that I
cannot mention here.