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I intend to revamp this page in the very near future to include my current views on mind control, which I believe has been a major influence in society (but conspiratorial organisations using it are much weaker than they have previously been). Please return soon!
According to a Channel 5 programme entitled The World’s Greatest Conspiracy Theories, number One on the list with over half a million websites devoted to the issue, is mind control! The full top ten is listed in my page on conspiracy theories, on which I put forward my views on which are true and which are false. The programme claimed, and provided good evidence to justify the claim, that mind control is definitely a true conspiracy theory.
That programme was about machines being able to control the mind, but humans also have that ability. I suspect that everybody has the ability to a certain extent, even if they are not aware of it, but I am unsure of that theory.
Most hypnotists comment that people have got to want to be hypnotised for it to work. However, Derren Brown (who certainly seems to be the greatest expert in the world at mind control judging from his programmes on Channel 4 in the UK) can clearly hypnotise people who do not want to be hypnotised. In his stage show Something Wicked This Way Comes, the final performance of which was first broadcast shortly before Christmas 2006, he proved that his subjects were not stooges by throwing a cuddly toy (monkey) into the audience, which was thrown to someone else who then threw it to a third person, as a form of random selection. Whereas some (perhaps the majority) of people in the audience wanted to be hypnotised by him, that could not be true of everybody so to be confident of his skills working he needs to be able to use them on those who don’t.
Derren’s first series on Channel 4 was called Derren Brown: Mind Control but he had later series called Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind, and claimed that his abilities were merely tricks based on things like misdirection. His claims about his abilities are inconsistent, and (as I did not realise at the time but looking back now it is obvious) his explanation for how he performed one of his acts at the end of Something Wicked This Way Comes (in which a particular word that he predicted in advance was picked out of a random newspaper) was a complete lie. Derren stated that he had filmed the performance and showed edited highlights, with him surreptitiously inserting phrases like
“Daily Mail” in some of his dialogue. You were led to believe that your subconscious had interpreted the phrases to make more sense and that your conscious mind had not taken them in. I even gave that explanation in a version of the introduction of my book
Revolution Destroyed? that I wrote shortly after seeing the programme. However, it is inconceivable that the entire theatre audience was fooled in that way, as well as everybody who watched the programme on TV. Furthermore, although he did give an explanation for the page chosen in the newspaper, he did not explain how when the page was ripped up the correct piece of paper was chosen nor how the appropriate word on the page was selected.
In my opinion, Derren has some mechanism for reading the brainwaves of his subjects, and interacts with their senses in various ways to manipulate them.
It occurred to me recently that if Derren was a good person, he would have put his skills at the disposal of socialists in order to help create a better world. He has such advanced skills that this would make a big difference. It is more rational therefore to think that he has actually been aiding big business, perhaps by training people in right-wing conspiratorial organisations to use some of his techniques. I strongly suspect that my former best friend Julian Beard, who was out of touch with me for a few weeks and then had a completely different telephone voice, had been trained (perhaps at an MI5 training centre) to speak hypnotically on the phone. He may have been trained personally by Derren, but it is probably more likely that he was trained by a person or people who had themselves been trained by him.
Additionally, by calling his stage show Something Wicked This Way Comes, Derren was encouraging
people considering themselves “wicked” to come and putting off good people.
His book Tricks of the Mind was advertised at the end of the programme, and I bought and read it shortly afterwards. He claimed that he had not lied in any of his explanations but that he had deliberately avoided revealing many of his methods. It was very noticeable, however, that he gave away very few clues as to his techniques. Instead, large sections of the book were devoted to debunking religion and psychics. Due to my new opinions about Derren’s political motives, as well as my own views (that you can find out about from my God page), I strongly suspect his anti-religious points were made precisely because there is a lot of truth in religion (although much should be taken with a pinch of salt because many people involved in writing the Bible for example had political motives).
I discovered that I personally have certain abilities in the mind reading (and possibly controlling) department when I was on a train from Manchester to London. Two children were playing the game
“Guess Who” in which one player asks the other questions to try to work out which character (out of those on 24 cards) he or she has selected. I joined in, but tried to guess the character merely by touching the older child (a girl) on the arm and guessing which character she had chosen and saying the first name that came into my head. I did this and guessed correctly, twice in a row! Then I asked her to do likewise by touching me on the arm, and she guessed correctly as well! The chances of this happening by accident would be extremely small (one in 24x24x24) so it is certainly strong evidence of some sort of mind reading going on (but whether it was me influencing her mind to make the correct choice or her reading mine I am not sure). When I tried it with the younger child, it didn’t work (although whether that was because he was male or because he was too young and his brain had not developed enough I am not sure). I have not had the same experience again, or indeed shown any other mind reading/controlling ability, so perhaps it was just the particular set of circumstances. Another explanation (which is perhaps the most credible) is that I have subconsciously continued to have such an ability, but that my subconscious has not wanted to bring it to the attention of my conscious mind so that I would give off the impression that I am too powerful (by exhibiting it too frequently or talking about having strong abilities in this department).
Another very useful ability that I do seem to have, however, is being able to give off false brainwaves. A student nurse who said she was psychic, and appeared to be completely genuine from all my other interactions with her, completely misinterpreted what I was thinking at one point in time. I could have developed this ability as a result of becoming extremely anxious at one point in my life about having revealed a secret (that I wrongly thought was particularly important) by somebody being able to read my mind, although I am not sure how I came to that conclusion. This was one of the occurrences that led me to come into a psychiatric hospital ward for the second time in my life, so perhaps this provoked my subconscious into such subterfuge...
I have written a song/musical poem called The Surveillance State that is largely about mind reading and mind control (suggesting, for example, that TV detector vans may read brainwaves as well as mentioning Derren Brown). I have also written a Doctor Who-influenced song called 99 Blue Balloons, which mentions the Master (who is perhaps the equivalent of Derren Brown) having mind controlling abilities.
