On the Need for New Criteria of Diagnosis of Psychosis in the Light of Mind Invasive Technology

Carole Smith

For those of us who were trained in a psychoanalytical approach to the patient which was characterised as patient centred, and which acknowledged that the effort to understand the world of the other person entailed an awareness that the treatment was essentially one ofmutuality and trust, the American Psychiatry Association's Diagnostic Criteriafor Schizotypal personality was always a cause for alarm. The Third Edition (1987) of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM) required that there be at least four of the characteristics set outfor a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and an approved selection of four could be:magical thinking, telepathy or sixth sense; limited social contact; odd speech;and over-sensitivity to criticism. By 1994, the required number of qualifyingcharacteristics were reduced to two or more, including, say, hallucinations and'negative ' symptoms such as affective flattening, or disorganised or incoherentspeech - or only one if the delusions were bizarre or the hallucination consisted of a voice keeping up a running commentary on the person's behaviouror thoughts. The next edition of the DSM is not due until the year2010.

In place of a process of a labellingwhich brought alienation and often detention, sectioning, and mind alteringanti-psychotic medication, many psychoanalysts and psychotherapists felt thateven in severe cases of schizoid withdrawal we were not necessarily wasting ourtime in attempting to restore health by the difficult work of unravelling experiences in order to make sense of an illness. In this way, psychoanalysishas been, in its most radical form, a critic of a society, which failed toexercise imaginative empathy when passing judgement on people. The work of HarryStack Sullivan, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Harold Searles or R.D. Laing - alltrained as psychiatrists and all of them rebels against the standard procedures - provided a way of working with people very different from the psychiatric model, which seemed to encourage a society to repress its sickness by making aclearly split off group the carriers of it. A psychiatrist in a mentalhospital once joked to me, with some truth, when I commented on the number ofcarrier bags carried by many of the medicated patients around the hospitalgrounds, that they assessed the progress of the patient in terms of thereduction of the number of carrier bags. It is too often difficult to believe,however, when hearing the history of a life, that the "schizophrenic" was notsuffering the effects of having been made, consciously and unconsciously, thecarefully concealed carrier of the ills of the family.

For someone who felt his mind wasgoing to pieces, to be put into the stressful situation of the psychiatricexamination, even when the psychiatrist acquitted himself with kindness, the situation of the assessment procedure itself, can be 'an effective way to drivesomeone crazy, or more crazy.' (Laing, 1985, p 17). But if the accountingof bizarre experiences more or less guaranteed you a new label or a trip to thepsychiatric ward, there is even more reason for a new group of people to beoutraged about how their symptoms are being diagnosed. A doubly cruelsentence is being imposed on people who are the victims of the most appalling abuse by scientific-military experiments, and a totally uncomprehending society is indifferent to their evidence. For the development of a new class of weaponrynow has the capability of entering the brain and mind and body of another personby technological means.

Harnessing neuroscience to military capability, this technology is the result of decades of research andexperimentation, most particularly in the Soviet Union and the United States.(Welsh, 1997, 2000) We have failed to comprehend that the result of thetechnology that originated in the years of the arms race between the sovietUnion and the West, has resulted in using satellite technology not only forsurveillance and communication systems but also to lock on to human beings,manipulating brain frequencies by directing laser beams, neural-particle beams,electro-magnetic radiation, sonar waves, radiofrequency radiation (RFR), soliton waves, torsion fields and by use of these or other energy fields which form theareas of study for astro-physics. Since the operations are characterised bysecrecy, it seems inevitable that the methods that we do know about, that is,the exploitation of the ionosphere, our natural shield, are already outdated as we begin to grasp the implications of their use. The patents deriving fromBernard J. Eastlund's work provide the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth's atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the powerinjection level, particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner farmore precise and better controlled than accomplished by the prior art, thedetonation of nuclear devices at various yields and various altitudes. (ref HighFrequency Active Auroral Research Project, HAARP).

Some patents, now owned by Raytheon,describe how to make "nuclear sized explosions without radiation" and describepower beam systems, electromagnetic pulses and over-the-horizon detectionsystems. A more disturbing use is the system developed for manipulating and disturbing the human mental process using pulsed radio frequency radiation(RFR), and their use as a device for causing negative effects on human healthand thinking. The victim, the innocent civilian target is locked on to, andunable to evade the menace by moving around. The beam is administered fromspace. The Haarp facility as military technology could be used to broadcast global mind-control, as a system for manipulating and disturbing thehuman mental process using pulsed radio frequency (RFR). The super-powerful radio waves are beamed to the ionosphere, heating those areas, thereby liftingthem. The electromagnetic waves bounce back to the earth and penetrate humantissue.

Dr Igor Smirnov, of the Institute ofPsycho-Correction in Moscow, says: "It is easily conceivable that some Russian'Satan', or let's say Iranian - or any other 'Satan', as long as he owns the appropriate means and finances, can inject himself into every conceivable computer network, into every conceivable radio or television broadcast, withrelative technological ease, even without disconnecting cables.and intercept theradio waves in the ether and modulate every conceivable suggestion into it. This is why such technology is rightfully feared."(German TV documentary,1998).

If we were concerned before about diagnostic criteria being imposed according to the classification ofrecognizable symptoms, we have reason now to submit them to even harsher scrutiny. The development over the last decades since the Cold War armsrace has included as a major strategic category, psycho-electronic weaponry, the ultimate aim of which is to enter the brain and mind. Unannounced, undebated and largely unacknowledged by scientists or by the governments who employ them -technology to enter and control minds from a distance has been unleashedupon us. The only witnesses who are speaking about this terribletechnology with its appalling implications for the future, are the victimsthemselves and those who are given the task of diagnosing mental illness areattempting to silence them by classifying their evidence and accounts as thesymptoms of schizophrenia, while the dispensers of psychic mutilation andprogrammed pain continue with their work, aided and unopposed.

If it was always crucial, under thethreat of psychiatric sectioning, to carefully screen out any sign of confusedspeech, negativity, coldness, suspicion, bizarre thoughts, sixth sense,telepathy, premonitions, but above all the sense that "others can feel myfeelings, and that someone seemed to be keeping up a running commentary onyour thoughts and behaviour," then reporting these to a psychiatrist, or anyone else for that matter who was not of a mind to believe that such things asmind-control could exist, would be the end of your claim to sanity and probably your freedom. For one of the salient characteristics of mind-control is therunning commentary, which replicates so exactly, and surely not without design,the symptoms of schizophrenia. Part of the effort is to remind the victim thatthey are constantly under control or surveillance. Programmes vary, but commonforms of reminders are electronic prods and nudges, body noises, twinges andcramps to all parts of the body, increasing heart beats, applying pressures tointernal organs - all with a personally codified system of comments on thoughts and events, designed to create stress, panic and desperation. This is mindcontrol at its most benign. There is reason to fear the use of beamed energy todeliver lethal assaults on humans, including cardiac arrest, and bleeding in thebrain.

It is the government system ofsecrecy, which has facilitated this appalling prospect. There have been warningvoices. ".the government secrecy system as a whole is among the most poisonous legacies of the Cold War .the Cold War secrecy (which) also mandate(s) ActiveDeception.a security manual for special access programs authorizing contractorsto employ 'cover stories to disguise their activities. The only conditionis that cover stories must be believable." (Aftergood & Rosenberg, 1994;Bulletin of Atomic Scientist). Paranoia has been aided and abetted by governmentintelligence agencies.

In the United Kingdom thefortifications against any disturbing glimmer of awareness of such actual or potential outrages against human rights and social and political abuses seem tobe cast in concrete. Complete with crenellations, ramparts and parapets,the stronghold of nescience reigns supreme. To borrow Her Majesty theQueen's recent observation: "There are forces at work of which we are notaware." One cannot say that there is no British Intelligence on them atter, as it is quite unfeasible that the existence of the technology is notclassified information. Indeed it is a widely held belief that the women protesting against the presence of cruise missiles at Greenham Common werevictims of electro-magnetic radiation at gigahertz frequency by directed energy weapons, and that their symptoms, including cancer, were consistent with suchradiation effects as reported by Dr Robert Becker who has been a constantly warning voice against the perils of electro-magnetic radiation. The work ofAllen Frey suggests that we should consider radiation effects as a gravehazard producing increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier, andweakening crucial defenses of the central nervous system against toxins.(Becker, 1985, p. 286). Dr Becker has written about nuclear magnetic resonance as a familiar tool in medecine known as magnetic resonance imaging orMRI. Calcium efflux is the result of cyclotronic resonance which latter can beexplained thus: If a charged particle or ion is exposed to a steadymagnetic field in space, it will begin to go into a circular or orbital, motionat right angles to the applied magnetic field.The speed with which it orbitswill be determined by the ratio between the charge and the mass of the particleand by the strength of the magnetic field. (Becker, 1990,p.235) The implicationsof this for wide scale aggression by using a combination of radar based energyand the use of nuclear resonating are beyond the scope of the writer, but appearto be worth the very serious consideration of physicists in assessing howthey might be used against human beings.

Amongst medical circles, however, ithas so far not been possible for the writer to find a neuroscientist,neurologist or a psychiatrist, nor for that matter, a general medicalpractitioner, who acknowledges even the potential for technologicalmanipulation of the nervous system as a problem requiring their professionalinterest. There has been exactly this response from some of England's mosteminent practitioners of the legal profession, not surprisingly, because theinformation about such technology is not made available to them. They wouldrefer anyone attempting to communicate mind- harassment as a psychiatricproblem, ignoring the crime that is being committed.

The aim here is not to attempt acomprehensive history and development of the technology of mind control. Thesevery considerable tasks - which have to be done under circumstances of the mostextreme difficulty - have been addressed with clarity and courage by others, wholive with constant harm and threats, not least of all contemptuous labelling.Their work can be readily accessed on the internet references given at the endof this paper. For a well-researched outline of the historical development ofelectro-magnetic technology the reader should refer to the timeline of dates andelectromagnetic weapon development by Cheryl Welsh, president of Citizensagainst Human Rights Abuse. (Welsh 1997; 2001). There are at least one and ahalf thousand people worldwide who state they are being targeted. MojmirBabacek, now domiciled in his native Czech Republic, after eight years ofresidence in the United States in the eighties, has made a painstakinglymeticulous review of the technology, and continues his research. (Babacek 1998,2002)

We are concerned here withreinforcing in the strongest possible terms:

i) The need for such abuses to humanrights and the threats to democracy to be called to consciousness, and withoutfurther delay.

ii) To analyse the reasons why peoplemight defend themselves from becoming conscious of the existence of suchthreats.

iii) To address the urgent need forintelligence, imagination, and information - not to mentioncompassion - in dealing with the victims of persecution from thistechnology, and

iv) To alert a sleeping society, tothe imminent threats to their freedom from the threat from fascist and covertoperations who have in all probability gained control of potentially lethalweaponry of the type we are describing.

It is necessary to emphasise that atpresent there is not even the means for victims to gain medical attention forthe effects of radiation from this targeting. Denied the respect of credulity ofbeing used as human guinea pigs, driven to suicide by the breakdown of theirlives, they are treated as insane - at best regarded as 'sad cases'. Sincethe presence of a permanent 'other' in one's mind and body is by definition anact of the most intolerable cruelty, people who are forced to bear it but whorefuse to be broken by it, have no other option than to turn themselves intoactivists, their lives consumed by the battle against such atrocities, theirenergies directed to alerting and informing the public of things they don't wantto hear or understand about evil forces at work in their society.
It is necessary, at this point, tobriefly outline a few - one might say the precious few - attempts by publicservants to verify the existence and dangers inherent in thisfield:

In reviewing the development of the art ofmind-invasive technology- there are a few outstanding achievements tonote:

In 1969 Dr Jose Delgado, a Yalepsychologist, published a book: "Physical Control of the Mind: Towards aPsychocivilized Society". In essence, he displayed in practical demonstrationshow, by means of electrical stimulation of the brain which had been mapped outin its relations between different points and activities, functions andsensations, - by means of electrical stimulation, how the rhythm of breathingand heartbeat could be changed, as well as the function of most of theviscera, and gall bladder secretion. Frowning, opening and closing of eyes andmouth, chewing, yawning, sleep, dizziness, epileptic seizures in healthy personswere induced. The intensity of feelings could be controlled by turning the knob,which controlled the intensity of the electric current. He states at the end ofhis book the hope that the new power will remain limited to scientists or somecharitable elite for the benefit of a "psychocivilized society."

In the 1980's theneuromagnetometer was developed which functions as an antenna and couldmonitor the patterns emerging from the brain. (In the seventies the scientistshad discovered that electromagnetic pulses enabled the brain to be stimulatedthrough the skull and other tissues, so there was no more need to implantelectrodes in the brain). The antenna, combined with the computer, couldlocalize the points in the brain where the brain events occur. The whole productis called the magnetoencephalograph.

In January 2000 the Lockheed Martinneuroengineer Dr John D. Norseen, was quoted (US News and World Report, 2000) ashoping to turn the electrohypnomentalaphone, a mind reading machine, intoscience fact. Dr Norseen, a former Navy pilot, claims his interest in the brainstemmed from reading a Soviet book in the 1980's claiming that research on themind would revolutionize the military and society at large. By a process ofdeciphering the brain's electrical activity, electromagnetic pulsations wouldtrigger the release of the brain's own transmitters to fight off disease,enhance learning, or alter the mind's visual images, creating a 'syntheticreality'. By this process of BioFusion, (Lockheed Martin, 2000)information is placed in a database, and a composite model of the brainis created. By viewing a brain scan recorded by (functional) magneticresonance imaging (fMRI) machine, scientists can tell what the person was doingat the time of recording - say reading or writing, or recognise emotions fromlove to hate. "If this research pans out", says Norseen, "you can begin tomanipulate what someone is thinking even before they know it." But Norseen sayshe is 'agnostic' on the moral ramifications, that he's not a mad scientist -just a dedicated one. "The ethics don't concern me," he says, "but they shouldconcern someone else."

The next big thing looks like beingsomething which we might refer to as a neurocomputer but it need notresemble a laptop - it may be reducible to whatever size is convenient for use,such as a small mobile phone. Arising from a break-through and exploitation ofPSI-phenomena, it may be modelled on the nervous-psychic activity of the brain -that is, as an unbalanced, unstable system of neurotransmitters and interactingneurones, the work having been derived from the creation of a copy of a livingbrain - accessed by chance, and ESP and worked on by design.

On receiving a communication from thewriter on the feasibility of a machine being on the horizon which, based on theproject of collecting electromagnetic waves emanating from the brain andtransmitting them into another brain that would read a person's thoughts, orusing the same procedure in order to impose somebody else's thoughts on anotherbrain and in this way direct his actions - there was an unequivocal answer fromIBM at executive level that there was no existing technology to create such acomputer in the foreseeable future. This is at some variance with the locatingof a patent numbered 03951134 on the Internet pages of IBM Intellectual PropertyNetwork for a device, described in the patent, as capable of picking up at adistance the brain waves of a person, process them by computer and emitcorrecting waves which will change the original brain waves. Similar lettersaddressed to each of the four top executives of Apple Inc., in four individualletters marked for their personal attention, produced absolutely no response.This included the ex- Vice President of the United States, Mr Al Gore, newlyelected to the Board of Directors of Apple.

Enough people have been sufficientlyconcerned by the reports of victims of mind control abuse to organise The GenevaForum, in 2002, held as a joint initiative of the Quaker United Nations Office,Geneva; the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research; the InternationalCommittee of the Red cross, and the Human Rights Watch (USA), and Citizensagainst Human Rights Abuses (CAHRA); and the Programme for Strategic andInternational Security Studies, which was represented by the Professor andSenior Lecturer from the Department of Peace Studies at the University ofBradford.

In England, on May 25, 1995, theGuardian newspaper in the U.K. carried an article based on a report by NicLewer, the peace researcher from Bradford University, which listed "more than 30different lines of research into 'new age weapons'."some of the research soundseven less rational. There are, according to Lewer, plans for 'pulsed microwavebeams' to destroy enemy electronics, and separate plans for very-low-frequencysound beams to induce vomiting, bowel spasm, epileptic seizures and also crumblemasonry." Further, the article states, "There are plans for 'mind control' withthe use of 'psycho-correction messages' transmitted by subliminal audio andvisual stimuli. There is also a plan for 'psychotronic weapons' - apparently theprojection of consciousness to other locations - and another to use holographicprojection to disseminate propaganda and misinformation." (Welsh,Timeline). Apart from this notable exception it is difficult to locateany public statement of the problem in the United Kingdom.

Unfortunately, the problem ofcredulity does not necessarily cease with frequent mention, as in the UnitedStates, in spite of the number of reported cases, there is still not sufficientpublic will to make strenuous protest against what is not only alreadyhappening, but against what will develop if left unchecked. It appears that theadministration believes that it is necessary and justifiable, in the interestsof national security, to make experimental human sacrifices, to have regrettablecasualties, for there to be collateral damage, to suffer losses in place ofstrife or war. This is, of course, totally incompatible with any claims tobe a democratic nation which respects the values of human life and democracy,and such an administration which tutors its servants in the ways of suchbarbaric tortures must be completely condemned as uncivilised andhypocritical.

Disbelief as a DefenceMechanism

In the face of widespread disbeliefabout mind-control, it seems worth analysing the basis of the mechanismsemployed to maintain disbelief:

i) In the sixties, Soviet dissidentsreceived a significant measure of sympathy and indignant protest from westerndemocracies on account of their treatment, most notedly the abuse of psychiatricmethods of torture to which they were subjected. It is noteworthy that we seemto be able to access credulity, express feelings of indignant support when wecan identify with victims, who share and support our own value system, and who,in this particular historical case, reinforced our own values, since they wereprotesting against a political system which also threatened us at thattime. Psychologically, it is equally important to observe that support from asafe distance, and the benefits to the psyche of attacking a split-off 'bad father', the soviet authorities in this case, presents no threat to one'sinternal system; indeed it relieves internal pressures. On the other hand,recognizing and denouncing a similar offence makes very much greater psychicdemands of us when it brings us into conflict with our own environment, our ownsecurity, our own reality. The defence against disillusion serves tosuppress paranoia that our father figure, the president, the prime minister, ourgovernments - might not be what they would like to be seen to be.

ii) The need to deposit destructiveenvy and bad feelings elsewhere, on account of the inability of the egoto acknowledge ownership of them - reinforces the usefulness of persons orgroups, which will serve to contain those, disowned, projected feelings whicharouse paranoid anxieties. The concepts of mind-invasion strike at the veryheart of paranoid anxiety, causing considerable efforts to dislodge them fromthe psyche. The unconscious identification of madness with dirt or excrement isan important aspect of anal aggression, triggering projective identification asa defence.

iii) To lay oneself open to believingthat a person is undergoing the experience of being invaded mentally andphysically by an unseen manipulator requires very great efforts in the self tomanage dread.

iv) The defence against the unknownfinds expression in the split between theory and practice; between the scientistas innovator and the society who can make the moral decisions about hisinventions; between fact and science fiction, the latter of which can presentpreposterous challenges to the imagination without undue threat, because itserves to reinforce a separation from the real.

v) Identification with the aggressor.Sadistic fantasies, unconscious and conscious, being transferred on to theaggressor and identified with, aid the repression of fear of passivity, or adread of punishment. This mechanism acts to deny credulity to the victim whorepresents weakness. This is a common feature of satanic sects.

vi) The liberal humanist traditionwhich denies the worst destructive capacities of man in the effort to sustainthe belief in the great continuity of cultural and scientific tradition; thefear, in one's own past development, of not being 'ongoing', can produce thepsychic effect of reversal into the opposite to shield against aggressivefeelings. This becomes then the exaggerated celebration of the 'new' as theaffirmation of human genius which will ultimately be for the good of mankind,and which opposes warning voices about scientific advances as being pessimistic,unenlightened, unprogressive and Luddite. Strict adherence to this liberalposition can act as overcompensation for a fear of envious spoiling of goodpossessions, i.e. cultural and intellectual goods.

vii) Denial by displacement is alsoemployed to ignore the harmful aspects of technology. What may be harmful forthe freedom and good of society can be masked and concealed by the distributionof new and entertaining novelties. The technology, which puts a camera down yourgut for medical purposes, is also used to limit your freedom by surveillance.The purveyors of innovative technology come up with all sorts of new gadgets,which divert, entertain and feed the acquisitive needs of insatiable shoppers,and bolster the economy. The theme of "Everything's up to date in KansasCity" only takes on a downside when individual experience - exploding breastimplants, say - takes the gilt off the gingerbread. Out of every innovation forevil (i.e. designed for harming and destroying) some 'good' (i.e. publicdiversion or entertainment) can be promoted for profit orcrowd-pleasing.

viii) Nasa is sending a spacecraft toMars, or so we are told. They plan to trundle across the Martian surfacesearching for signs of water and life. We do not hear dissenting voicesabout its feasibility.

Why is it that, when a personaccounts that their mind is being disrupted and they are being persecuted by anunseen method of invasive technology, that we cannot bring ourselves to believethem? Could it be that the horror involved in the empathic identificationrequired brings the shutters down? Conversely, the shared experience of theblasting of objects into space brings with it the possibilities of sharedpotency or the relief that resonates in theunconscious of a massiveprojection or evacuation - a shared experience which is blessed in the name ofman's scientific genius.

ix) The desire 'not to be taken in',not to be taken for a fool, provides one of the most powerful and common defencemechanism against credulity.

Power, Paranoia and UnhealthyGovernments

The ability to be the bearer andcontainer of great power without succumbing to the pressures of latentnarcissistic psychoses is an important matter too little considered. The effectof holding power and the expectation and the need to be seen as capable ofsustaining it, if not exercising it, encourages omnipotence of thought. In thewake of this, a narcissistic overevaluation of the subject's own mentalprocesses may set in. In the effort to hold himself together as the possessor,container and executor of power, he (or indeed, she) may also, undergo a processof splitting which allows him, along with others, to bear enthralled witness ofhimself in this illustrious role. This may mean that the seat of authority isvacated, at least at times. The splitting process between the experiencing egoand the perceiving ego allows the powerful leader to alternate his perception ofhimself inside and outside, sometimes beside, himself. With the reinforcement ofhimself from others as his own narcissistic object, reality testing isconstrained. In this last respect, he has much in common with the otherpowerful figure of the age, the movie star. or by those, in Freud's words, whoare "ruined by success."

In a world, which is facingincreasing disillusion about the gulf between the public platforms on whichgovernments are elected, and the contingencies and pragmatics of retainingdefence strategies and economic investments, the role of military andintelligence departments, with their respective tools of domination and covertinfiltration, is increasingly alarming. Unaccountable to the public,protected from exposure and prosecution by their immunity, licensed to lie aswell as to kill, it is in the hands of these agents that very grave threats tohuman rights and freedom lies. Empowered to carry out aggression throughclassified weapon experimentation which is undetectable, these men and women arealso open to corruption from lucrative offers of financial reward from powerfuland sinister groups who can utilize their skills, privileged knowledge andexpertise for frankly criminal and fascist purposes.

Our information about thepsychological profiles of those who are employed to practice surveillance onothers is limited, but it is not difficult to imagine the effects on thepersonality that would ensue with the persistent practice of such an occupation,so constantly exposed to the perversions. One gains little snatches of insighthere and there. In his book on CIA mind control research (Marks, 1988), JohnMarks quotes a CIA colleague's joke (always revealing for personalitycharacteristics): "If you could find the natural radio frequency of a person'ssphincter, you could make him run out of the room real fast." (One wonders ifthe same amusement is derived from the ability to apply, say infra-sound above130 decibels, which is said to cause stoppage of the heart, according to onevictim/activist from his readings of a report for the RussianParliament.)

Left to themselves, these servants ofthe state may well feel exempt from the process of moral self-scrutiny, but thework must be dehumanising for the predator as well as the prey. It is probablytrue that the need to control their agents in the field was an incentive todevelop the methods in use today. It is also an effectively brutalisingtraining for persecuting others. Meanwhile the object, the prey, in a bid fornot only for survival but also in a desperate effort to warn his or her fellowsabout what is going on, attempts to turn himself into a quantum physicist, apolitical researcher, a legal sleuth, an activist, a neurologist, apsychologist, a physiologist - his own doctor, since he cannot know what effectsthis freakish treatment might have on his body, let alone his mind. There arealways new methods to try out which might prove useful in the search to findways of disabling and destroying opponents - air injected into brains and lungs,lasers to strike down or blind, particle beams, sonar waves, or whatevercombination of energies to direct, or destabilise or control.

Science andScepticism

Scientists can be bought, not just bygovernments, but also by sinister and secret societies. Universities canbe funded by governments to develop technology for unacceptably inhumaneuses. The same people who deliver the weapons - perhaps respectedscientists and academics - may cite the acceptable side of scientificdiscoveries, which have been developed by experimenting on unacknowledged,unfortunate people. In a cleaned up form, they are then possibly celebrated as abreak-through in the understanding of the natural laws of the universe. It isnot implausible that having delivered the technical means for destruction, theinnovator and thinker goes on, wearing a different hat, to receive his (or her)Nobel Prize. There are scientists who have refused to continue to do work whenthey were approached by CIA and Soviet representatives. These are the realheroes of science.

In the power struggle, much lies atstake in being the first to gain control of ultimate mind-reading andmind-controlling technology. Like the nuclear bomb, common ownership would seemby any sane calculations to cancel out the advantage of possession, but there isalways a race to be the first to possess the latest ultimate means of massdestruction. The most desirable form is one that can be directed at otherswithout contaminating oneself in the process - one that can be undetected andneatly, economically and strategically delivered. We should be foolish to ruleout secret organisations, seeing threat only from undemocratic countries andknown terrorist groups.

As consumers in a world which isincreasingly one in which shopping is the main leisure activity, we shouldconcern ourselves to becoming alert to the ways in which human welfare may havebeen sacrificed to produce an awesome new gadget. It may be the cause forcelebration for the 'innovator', but brought about as the result of plugging inor dialling up the living neuronal processes of an enforced experimentee. If we are concerned not to eat boiled eggs laid by battery hens, we might notregard it morally irrelevant to scrutinise the large corporations producingelectronically innovative 'software.' We might also be wary about theorigins of the sort of bland enticements of dating agencies who propose findingyour ideal partner by matching up brain frequencies and'bio-rhythms'.

We do not know enough about thebackground of such technology, nor how to evaluate it ethically. We do not knowabout its effects on the future, because we are not properly informed. Ifgovernments persist in concealing the extent of their weapon capability in theinterests of defence, they are also leaving their citizens disempowered of theright to protest against their deployment. More alarmingly, they are leavingtheir citizens exposed to their deployment by ruthless organisations whoseconcerns are exactly the opposite of democracy and humanrights.

Back in the UnitedKingdom

Meanwhile, back in England, theDirector of the Oxford Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Professor ColinBlakemore, also the elective Chief Executive of the Medical Research Councilwrites to the author that he "... knows of no technology (not even in thewildest speculations of neuroscientists) for scanning and collecting 'neuronaldata' at a distance." (Blakemore, 2003, ) This certitude is at distinct variancewith the fears of other scientists in Russia and the United States, and notleast of all with the fears of the French neuroscientist, Jean-Pierre Changeuxof the French National Bioethics Committee already quoted (see page 5). It isalso very much at odds with the writing of Dr Michael Persinger from theBehavioural Neuroscience Laboratory at Laurentian University in Sudbury,Ontario, Canada. His article "On the Possibility of Directly Accessing EveryHuman Brain by Electromagnetic Induction of Algorithms" (1995), he describes theways that individual differences among human brains can be overcome and comes toa conclusion about the technological possibilities of influencing a major partof the approximately six billion people on this planet without mediation throughclassical sensory modalities but by generating electromagnetic induction offundamental algorithms in the atmosphere. Dr Persinger's work is referred to byCaptain John Tyler whose work for the American Air Force and Aerospaceprogrammes likens the human nervous system to a radio receiver.(1990)

Very recently the leading weeklycultural BBC radio review had as one of its guests, the eminent astro-physicistand astronomer royal, Sir Martin Rees, who has recently published a book, "OurFinal Century", in which he makes a sober and reasoned case for the fifty-fiftychance that millions of people, probably in a 'third-world country' could bewiped out in the near future through biotechnology and bio-terrorism - "by erroror malign release." He spoke of this devastation as possibly coming from smallgroups or cults, based in the United States. ".few individuals with the righttechnology to cause absolute mayhem." He also said that in this century,human nature is no longer a fixed commodity, that perhaps we should contemplatethe possibility that humans would even have implants in the brain.

The other guests on this programmewere both concerned with Shakespeare, one a theatre producer and the other awriter on Shakespeare, while his remaining guest was a young woman who had awebsite called "Spiked", the current theme of which was Panic Attack, that is tosay, Attack on Panic. This guest vigorously opposed what she felt was thepessimism of Sir Martin, regarding his ideas as essentially eroding trust, andinducing panic. This reaction seems to typify one way of dealing with threat andanxiety, and demonstrates the difficulty that a warning voice, evenfrom a man of the academic distinction of Martin Rees, has in alertingpeople to that which they do not want to hear. This flight reaction wasreinforced by the presenter who summed up the morning's discussion at the end ofthe programme with the words: "We have a moral! Less panic, moreShakespeare!"

The NewBarbarism

Since access to a mind-readingmachine will enable the operator to access the ideas of another person, weshould prepare ourselves for a new world order in which ideas will be, as itwere, up for grabs. We need not doubt that the contents of another's mindwill be scooped up, scooped out, sorted through as if the event was a jumblesale. The legal profession would therefore be well advised to consider the lawson Intellectual Property very judiciously in order to acquit themselves with anydegree of authenticity. We should accustom ourselves to the prospect ofrecognizing our work coming out of the mouth of another. The prospect ofwide-scale fraud, and someone posturing in your stolen clothes will not be apretty sight. The term "personal mind enhancement" is slipping inthrough the back door, to borrow a term used by the Co-Director of the Centerfor Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and it is being done throughtechnologically-induced mental co-ercion - mind raping and looting. Inplace of, or in addition to, cocaine, we may expect to see 'mind-enhanced'performances on "live" television.

The brave new science ofneuropsychiatry and brain mapping hopes to find very soon, with the fMRI scanner- this "brand new toy that scientists have got their hands on" - "the blob forlove" and "the blob for guilt", (BBC Radio 4: All in the Mind, 5 March, 2003).Soon we will be able to order a brain scan for anyone whose behaviour strikes usas odd or bizarre, and the vicissitudes of a life need no longer trouble us inour diagnostic assessments. In his recent Reith Lectures for the BBC (2003),Professor Ramachandran, the celebrated neuroscientist from the La Hoya Institutein San Diego, California, has demonstrated for us many fascinating things thatthe brain can do. He has talked to us about personality disorders and shown thatsome patients, who have suffered brain damage from head injury, do not have thecapacity to recognise their mothers. Others feel that they are dead. And indeedhe has found brain lesions in these people. In what seems to be an enormous buteffortless leap, the self-styled "kid in a candy store" is now hoping to provethat all schizophrenics, have damage to the right hemisphere of the brain, whichresults in the inability to distinguish between fantasy (sic) and reality.Since Professor Ramachandran speaks of schizophrenia in the same breath asdenial of illness, or agnosia, it is not clear, and it would beinteresting to know, whether the person with the head injury has been aware orunaware of the head injury. Also does the patient derive comfort and a betterchance at reality testing when he is told of the lesion? Does he feelbetter when he has received the diagnosis? And what should the psychoanalysts -and the psychiatrists, - feel about all those years of treating people of whosehead injuries they were absolutely unaware? Was this gross negligence? Were weabsolutely deluded in perceiving recovery in a sizeable number ofthem?

It is, however, lamentable that aneuroscientist with a professed interest in understanding schizophrenia shouldseek to provide light relief to his audience by making jokes aboutschizophrenics being people who are "convinced that the CIA has implanteddevices in their brain to control their thoughts and actions, or that aliens arecontrolling them." (Reith Lecture, No 5, 2003).

There is a new desire forconcretisation. The search for meaning has been replaced by the need forhard proof. If it doesn't light up or add up it doesn't have validity. Thephysician of the mind has become a surgeon. "He found a lump as big as agrapefruit!"

Facing up to the Dread and Fear ofthe Uncanny

Freud believed that an exploration ofthe uncanny would be a major direction of exploration of the mind in thiscentury. The fear of the uncanny has been with us for a very long time. The evileye, or the terrifying double, or intruder, is a familiar theme in literature,notably of Joseph Conrad in The Secret Sharer, and Maupassant's short story, LeHorla. Freud's analysis of the uncanny led him back to the old animisticconception of the universe: ".it seems as if each one of us has been through aphase of individual development corresponding to the animistic phase inprimitive men, that none of us has passed through it without preserving certainresidues and traces of it which are still capable of manifesting themselves, andthat everything which now strikes us as 'uncanny' fulfils the condition oftouching those residues of animistic mental activity within us and bringing themto expression." (Freud: 1919. p.362)

The separation of birth, and thechildhood fear of 'spooks in the night', also leave their traces in each andevery one of us. The individual experience of being alone in one's mind - thesolitary fate of man which has never been questioned before, and upon which thewhole history of civilised nurture is based - is now assaulted head-on. Since growing up is largely synonymous with acceptance of one's aloneness, theeffort to assuage it is the basis for compassion and protection of others; it isthe matrix for the greatest good, that of ordinary human kindness, and is at theheart of the communicating power of great art. Even if we must all live and diealone, we can at least share this knowledge in acts of tenderness which atonefor our lonely state. In times of loss and mental breakdown, the starkness ofthis aloneness is all too clear. The best of social and groupconstructiveness is an effort to allay the psychotic anxieties that lie at thebase of every one of us, and which may be provoked under extreme enoughconditions.

The calculated and technologicalentry into another person's mind is an act of monumental barbarism whichobliterates- perhaps with the twiddling of a dial - the history and civilisationof man's mental development. It is more than an abuse of human rights, it is thedestruction of meaning. For any one who is forced into the hell of living withan unseen mental rapist, the effort to stay sane is beyond the scope oftolerable endurance. The imaginative capacity of the ordinary mind cannotencompass the horror of it. We have attempted to come to terms with theexperiments of the Nazis in concentration camps. We now have the prospect ofsystematic control authorised by men who issue instructions through satellitecommunications for the destruction of societies while they are driving newJaguars and Mercedes, and going to the opera.

This is essentially abouthumiliation, and disempowerment. It is a manifestation of rage acted out bythose who fear impotence with such dread, that their whole effort is directedinto the emasculation and destruction of the terrifying rival of theirunconscious fantasies. In this apocalypse of the mind the punitive figure wellsup as if out of the bowels of the opera stage, and this phantasmagoria isacted out on a global scale. These men may be mad enough to believe theyare creating a 'psychocivilised world order". For anyone who has studied damagedchildren, it is more resonant of the re-enactment from the unconscious,reinforced by a life devoid of the capacity for empathic identification, of theobscenities of the abused and abusing child in the savage nursery. Otherpeople -which were to them like Action Man toys to be dismembered, or BarbieDolls to be obscenely defiled - become as meaningless in their humanity aspixillated dots on a screen.

Although forced entry into a mind isby definition obscene, an abbreviated assessment of the effects that mind-invaded people describe testifies to the perverted nature ofthe experiments. Bizarre noises are emitted from the body, a body knownwell enough by its owner to recognise the noises as extrinsic; air is pumped inand out of orifices as if by a bicycle pump. Gradually the repertoire isaugmented - twinges and spasms to the eyes, nose, lips, strange tics, pains inthe head, ringing in the ears, obstructions in the throat, pressure on the boweland bladder causing incontinence; tingling in the fingers, feet, pressures onthe heart, on breathing, dizziness, eye problems leading to cataracts; runningeyes, running nose; speeding up of heart beats and the raising of pressure inthe heart and chest; breathing and chest complaints leading to bronchitis anddeterioration of the lungs; agonizing migraines; being woken up at night,sometimes with terrifying jolts ; insomnia; intolerable levels of stress fromthe loss of one's privacy. This collection of assorted symptoms is a challengeto any medical practitioner to diagnose.

There are, more seriously, if theafore-going is characterised as non-lethal, the potential lethal effects sincethe capability of ultrasound and infra-sound to cause cardiac arrest, and brainlesions, paralysis and blindness, as well as blinding by laser beam, or inducingasphyxia by altering the frequencies which control breathing in the brain,epileptic seizure - all these and others may be at the fingertips of those whoare developing them. And those who do choose to use them may be sitting with theweapon, which resembles, say, a compact mobile telephone, on the restauranttable next to the bottle of wine, or beside them at the swimmingpool.

Finally - if the victims at thispoint in the new history of this mind-control, cannot yet prove their abuse, itmust be asserted that, faced with the available information about technologicaldevelopment - it is certainly not possible for those seeking to evade suchclaims - to disprove them. To wait until the effects become widespreadwill be too late.


If, in the present confusion andinsecurity about the search for evidence of weapons of mass destruction, weconclude that failure to locate them - whatever the truth of the matter-encourages us to be generally complacent, then we shall be colluding with verydark forces at work if we conclude that a course of extreme vigilance signifiesparanoia. For there may well be other weapons of mass destruction beingdeveloped and not so far from home; weapons which, being even more difficult tolocate, are developed invisibly, unobstructed, unheeded in our midst, usinghuman beings as test-beds. Like ESP, the methods being used on humans have notbeen detectable using conventional detection equipment. It is likely that thesignals being used are part of a physics not known to scientists without thehighest level of security clearance. To ignore the evidence of victims is todeny, perhaps with catastrophic results, the only evidence which mightotherwise lead the defenders of freedom to becoming alert to the development ofa fearful new methods of destruction. Manipulating terrorist groups andgovernments alike, these sinister and covert forces may well be very thankfulfor the professional derision of the victims, and for publicignorance.

Copyright -The Author

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