In Colonial America, the unruly were put in medieval stocks and pillories as a relatively mild form of punishment and humiliation.  The public display was part of a social spectacle designed to encourage conformity and suppress the individual thinker and those committing criminal acts not warranting stronger measures.  But those condemned to the stocks were subject to a variety of abuses.

Today, our minds can be tortured, directed and contained through subtler but more nefarious means.  We are still put in mental stocks – chemical straightjackets – from Ritalin, to antidepressants, to hormones, prescriptions and recreational drugs.  On the other hand, there is an alleged war on drugs.  All drugs, even alcohol, tobacco and sugar are big business.

It’s all part of The Spectacle, whether the source is mega corporate drug companies (Big Pharma), global drug rings, or designer independents.  Issues include suppression of direct mystical experience (pharmacratic inquisition), sexuality, and self-determination.  Drugs rule, or he who controls the drugs rules and controls by means of drugs, among other ways.

Cultural Cold War

We’ve developed even more cruel and unusual punishment for would-be “free thinkers,” and dissidents since the era of MK Ultra, the CIA mind control programs.  After the era of the Manchurian Candidate, the attempt to make the perfect assassin, CIA experimented with a variety of drugs designed to neutralize or disable the enemy, or to use as truth serums.  They also used electroshock, sensory deprivation, and radical hypnosis.

It was determined LSD was no good for mind control, but that didn’t mean it couldn’t be an influential social control.  Once the drug became associated with the counterculture, it was banned, which only made it more attractive. (1967). Yet it still worked its magic by deflecting energy and attention into druggie lifestyles instead of social activism. 

The counterculture failed to realize that in adopting the ‘spiritual’ drug, they were inadvertently “sleeping with the enemy”, the CIA.  The therapeutic promise of the drug was lost on the conservative government.  However, it still gave rise to the Human Potential movement and mind spas like Esalen, which also had a root in CIA experiments in extraordinary human potential, parapsychology, and creativity.  As with many panaceas, the substance is both a cure is a poison – a dream to some, a nightmare to others.

Their favorite stepchild was LSD, developed at Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland. but later manufactured for the government by Eli Lilly.  in 1953, the CIA asked Eli Lilly to make them up a batch of LSD, Eli Lilly synthesizes LSD at the CIA's behest. 1955 –

Aldous Huxley's first LSD trip; the publication of Huxley's Heaven and Hell . Eli Lilly has been featured as one of the most unethical of all drug companies by the Wall Street ... and, years ago, promoted their product, LSD, heavily. . Lysergic acid diethylamide Eli Lilly holds a US Patent for Lysergic Acid Amides, Serial No. 473,443, issued February 28, 1956.

There is one Eli Lilly piece of history so bizarre that if told to many psychiatrists, one just might get diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and medicated with Zyrprexa. Former State Department officer John Marks in The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control, The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences (1979)—along with the Washington Post (1985) and the New York Times (1988)—reported an amazing story about the CIA and psychiatry. A lead player was psychiatrist D. Ewen Cameron, president of the American Psychiatric Association in 1953. Cameron was curious to discover more powerful ways to break down patient resistance. Using electroshock, LSD, and sensory deprivation, he was able to produce severe delirium. Patients often lost their sense of identity, forgetting their own names and even how to eat. The CIA, eager to learn more about Cameron’s brainwashing techniques, funded him under a project code-named MKULTRA. According to Marks, Cameron was part of a small army of the CIA’s LSD-experimenting psychiatrists. Where did the CIA get its LSD? Marks reports that the CIA had been previously supplied by the Swiss pharmaceutical corporation Sandoz, but was uncomfortable relying on a foreign company and so, in 1953, the CIA asked Eli Lilly to make them up a batch of LSD, which Lilly subsequently donated to the CIA.  http://zmagsite.zmag.org/May2004/levinepr0504.html

Buckminster Fuller pointed out that throughout history the smartest people were directed into specialties that kept them from getting the “Big Picture” so kings remained unthreatened by them in their power.  Academia still forms and directs our thinking processes and what kind of opportunities are open to us.

Those whose imaginations range into the areas of suppressed science quickly find out it is neither supported nor tolerated.  Funding and careers are at stake, and in some cases lives.  Are there some things we should not know?  Dangerous subjects? Forbidden subjects?

In these days thick with conspiracy theories, it isn’t hard to imagine yet another one.  But perhaps the most useful approach is to take a look backward to find the taproot of forces manipulating our society today.  Are sinister forces shaping our moral, educational, political, economic, and cultural lives?  Is the fruit of that poisoned tree coming to fruition?

The answer is a hearty, “Yes.”  In fact, insiders say that no pop culture phenomenon since the 50’s is an accident.  Once TV entered virtually every home, mind control experiments came to a rather abrupt halt; they weren’t needed.  Mass mind control from the cradle to the grave had been accomplished.  The era of Madison Avenue, stylish fads in possessions and beliefs had begun.  Recent political propaganda, spin doctoring, and agit-prop have become painfully obvious to the initiated.

But the antecedents of programmed consumerism go back much further to the time of Freud and fomenting political forces in Great Britain.  The mother of all propaganda machines can be found in The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London and its forerunner Tavistock Clinic or Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which has tremendously influenced both left and rightwing thinking and put itself in the service of the “racket of war.”

A great game is being played on us unawares, and we are pawns in that game.  Call it “Global Architectronics.”  Public opinion cannot only be manipulated, it can be created, a perception not a reality. But, who or what would want to shape and control public opinion?  We can ask ourselves like Parcival in the Grail Castle, “Who do these things serve?” and/or follow the modern investigative imperative to “Follow the Money.”

Heavy Rests the Crown

Since civilization began, monarchs and their militaries have sought to control their own populations and those who threatened them.  One of the most effective means of doing so predates civilization arising in the superstitious world of neolithic period. 

By healing, birth and death rites, and oracles shamans gained a stranglehold on the minds of their followers with magical medicine and mysterious incantations.  They told the people what to expect in the future and what fearsome and mysterious forces were operating out of view in nature.

Drugs were also a staple in the medicine kit, both to kill pain and to provide pleasure and communion in tribal celebrations.  These drugs revealed a separate reality, populated by fabulous and fearsome creature of the imagination.  After these close encounters, naturally, their shamans claimed to placate the demonic and serve the greater good.  Shared beliefs bound groups together in common cause with a groupthink worldview.  They “belonged.”  But shamanism and sorcery are centered truly around illusion and power, not spirituality.  It is an attempt to define the reality – to impose a definition of reality.

Shamanism finds its modern counterpart in psychology/psychiatry but also in the cultural fad of the New Age movement, a nostalgic, if self-absorbed, spirituality.  And the founding of Tavistock is rooted in the careers and theories of many of the most imminent mind doctors of the last century: Freud, Jung, Laing, Bateson, and more.

Headshrinking

Further, these “headshrinkers” then teamed up with the master manipulators of the intelligence services to compare notes and create bleeding edge projects in mind control and global orchestration.  Among other phenomena, this eventually gave rise to wholesale brainwashing, mind control, the human potential movement, New Age thought,  and global power plays.

Tavistock shenanigans are at the root of both World Wars and the Cold War, and New World Order.  No stranger to imperialistic machinations, the British fostered foment.  Marx’s Communist Manifesto was born in England to create an economic and ideological enemy to capitalism for the war machine.

When the Bolshevik Revolution got out of control, British and American elites, including the Bush family stepped up to fund a buffer from Stalin, named Hitler.  Both Communism and Fascism were funded by London banker fatcats of the industrial revolution.  The Third Reich rapidly got out of control, too, but there was money to be made from all sides by stirring up trouble.  Resources, such as fuels took on global importance, and those who wanted took it from those who had natural resources. 

Exploitation of the colonial era carried on in a new form, under new names like today’s World Bank and other corpoglomerate neocon organizations that are virtual nations unto themselves, or think they are like Halliburton.  International corporate raiders now plunder nations with easy credit like they used to do to the individual consumer.  And they are currently doing it to US citizens via the mortgage industry, Wallstreet, and the Federal Reserve.

The same folks who brought you fundamentalism in the U.S. also brought you Zionsim and its reactionary counterpart, Wahabbism and terrorism.  In fact, it is the source of virtually every well-established “-ism” to visit itself upon our belief systems by creating false belief structures.

POPE OF DOPE: Tim Leary, the Drug Culture and the CIA Agenda

Leary has been called, tongue in cheek, the Spy Who Came in From the Mold, an allusion to the fact LSD is manufactured from ergot mold—ergotamine.

Beginning in the 1950s the Central Intelligence Agenc began a research program code named Project MKULTRA. Experiments included administering LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, prostitutes, mentally ill patients, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions, usually without the subject's knowledge. The project was revealed in the US congressional Rockefeller Commission report

Prior to October 6th, 1966, LSD was available legally in the United States as an experimental psychiatric drug. (LSD "apostle" Al Hubbard actively promoted the drug between the 1950s and the 1970s and introduced thousands of people to it.) The US Federal Government classified it as a Schedule I drug according to the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

An agent provocateur (plural: agents provocateurs, French language, "inciting agent") is a person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group. Agents provocateurs typically represent the interests of another group, or are agents directly assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate, or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group.

Was the Summer of Love a summer of mind control, too?  Was the entire counterculture “sleeping with the enemy,” the CIA by taking LSD trips?  “Go ask Alice” was an invitation down the hyperdimensional rabbithole for a whole generation.  The unwary CIA victims got no such invitation, and their toxic reactions mimicked psychotic breaks.  The first scientifically conducted trips were often “bad trips.”

LSD produced by Eli Lilly was released into an ocean of war protest with the specific agenda to distract and discredit this youthful peace movement.  The war between liberals and conservatives has been carefully engineered to deflect attention into self-indulgence and provincial religiosity.

The coup took place from within with the seemingly willing cooperation of influential leaders, who while they weren’t “in” on the plot, certainly popularized and fostered it.  And the High Priest at the top of the list, Harvard psychology professor Timothy Leary, certainly fit the old Tavistock mold.  Early in his career he wrote an exemplary psychological test that was used for profiling prisoners, among other applications.

In an interview for High Times magazine in February 1978, Leary said:

“If you look back, many things that we thought were accidents turned out were not accidents. The entire LSD movement itself was sponsored originally by the CIA, to whom I give great credit. I would not be here today if it had not been for the foresight and prestige of the CIA psychologists, so give the CIA credit for being truly an intelligence agency. ”

Mind control researcher Walter Bowart interviewed Leary in the 1970s, and the acid guru had some interesting things to say about his association with the CIA. Asked, “Do you think CIA people were involved in your group in the sixties?” Leary responded, “Of course they were. I would say that eighty percent of my movements, eighty percent of the decisions I made were suggested to me by CIA people… I like the CIA! The game they’re playing is better than the FBI. Better than the Saigon police. Better than Franco’s police. Better than the Israeli police. They’re a thousand times better than the KGB. So it comes down to: whom are you going to work for? The Yankees or the Dodgers?”

That conspiracy goes back to the 1930s, when the British sent Aldous Huxley to the United States as the case officer for an operation to prepare the United States for the mass dissemination of drugs. We will take this conspiracy apart step-by-step from its small beginnings with Huxley in California to the victimization of 15 million Americans today. With ‘The Aquarian Conspiracy’, the British Opium War against the United States has come out into the open.

Global Architectronics

Hermann Hesse not only wrote the classic introspective novels Siddhartha and Steppenwolf, but won the Nobel prize in Literature (1946) for his final masterwork published under two titles in English: The Glass Bead Game or Magister Ludi. This work (set in the 23rd Century) describes a cadre of individuals and their headmaster -- the Magister Ludi -- engrossed in interdisciplinary play engineering cultural values from behind the scenes. Hesse never forthrightly explained just how the game is played, but gave many hints to its structure for future aspirants seeking solutions to the critical predicament of mankind through Global Architectronics.

The Glass Bead Game requires that its players synthesize aesthetics and philosophy. The Glass Bead Game is thus a mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colors on his palette. The Game's synthetic, non-linear information play is a forerunner of virtual reality.

After each symbol conjured up by the director of a Game, each player was required to perform silent, formal meditation on the content, origin, and meaning of this symbol, to call to mind intensively and organically its full purport. The members of the Order and of the Game associations brought the technique and practice of contemplation with them from their elite schools, where the art of contemplation and meditation was nurtured with the greatest care.

The variety of the phenomenal world reached perfection and ultimate cognition only in the divine Unity. Thus, "realizing" was a favorite expression among the players. They considered their Games a path from Becoming to Being, from potentiality to reality...We would scarcely be exaggerating if we ventured to say that for the small circle of genuine Glass Bead Game players the Game was virtually equivalent to worship.

The name Castaglia, the place of knowledge, is the Italian form of the Latin Castalia, which was the Roman name for the spring on Mount Parnassus where dwelt the mythical Muses. Castalia was also the name for the abstract realm of the intelligentsia. Under the shifting hegemony of now this, now that science or art, the Game of games had developed into a kind of universal language through which the players could express values and set these in relation to one another. Let the game begin?

Post-Metaphysical Spirituality

What happens when the prey realizes its predicament and become the predator?  In intelligence parlance, it is called Counter Measures, and that is just what is required by agent provocateurs in today’s world to maintain even the slightest semblance of ever-elusive “freedom.”  This is summarized nicely in the movie The Matrix, where Neo navigates his way through an artificially constructed maze of situations and synthetic environments the participants mistake for reality.

REFERENCES

Dr. John Coleman, The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Cultural, Political, and Economic Decline of the United States of America.