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    THE INFLUENCING MACHINE

    By Mike Coyle

    Copyright 1996 Mike Coyle

    November 1996

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    Foreword

    As this is being written mankind faces the ultimate threat to
    what remains of individual liberty and freedom. Our right, our
    heritage of free will and creative thought is in danger of being
    permanently denied by technology in the hands of bureaucrats,
    bankers, elitists and their minions who serve a spiritual
    conspiracy that dwells within, and can be aided by, each of us. A
    tyranny which demands power over, and obeisance from, all others.

    The most effective forms of mass mind control, i.e., behavior
    control, that have been used throughout the history of mankind by
    those who wish to conceal the true spiritual nature of life have,
    up to now, used intermediate methods to manipulate the behavior,
    attitudes and beliefs of man. These intermediate methods are as
    simple as words. And indeed, that is what they are; words which
    form religions, education, politics, economics, etc. Although the
    use of words has reached a point using subliminal methods that
    nearly skips the intermediate stage by entering directly into the
    subconscious mind, new methods are being, and already have been,
    developed to directly and remotely control human behavior at the
    most basic neuronal level of the brain without the intermediate
    step. And, because of this it may be almost impossible to resist.

    The hope is to present here enough evidence to convince the
    reader of the reality, possibility and inevitability of the
    technological development of machines which can control every
    thought and action of all human beings. A total and absolute
    dictatorship in the image of the machine. Welcome to The
    Influencing Machine.

    Past and Present

    "As well as having an armoury of tortures at its disposal, the
    gang also mobilises various techniques of mind control. One of
    these is 'brain-saying', which is a magnetically induced
    sympathetic surveillance at a distance, a silent mode of
    telepathic communication ... 'kiting', or the capacity to hijack
    the brain and to implant thoughts in it beyond the control and
    resistance of the sufferer..."[1]

    - John Haslam, Director of Bethlem Hospital, London, 1810

    "American interest in the hypnosis-EMR interaction was still
    strong as of 1974, when a research plan was filed to develop
    useful techniques in human volunteers. The experimenter, J.F.
    Schapitz, stated: 'In this investigation it will be shown that
    the spoken word of the hypnotist may also be conveyed by
    modulated electromagnetic energy directly into the subconscious
    parts of the human brain -- i.e., without employing any technical
    devices for receiving or transcoding the messages and without the
    person exposed to such influence having a chance to control the
    information input consciously'."[2]

    - Robert O. Becker, Nobel Prize nominee, 1985

    Although our modern electronic age has been in existence only
    since the turn of this century, individuals have been claiming
    that their minds were being remotely influenced and controlled by
    machines for at least two centuries. The medical profession and
    the public have classified people reporting these experiences as
    delusional. The most common diagnosis has been what is now termed
    Paranoid Schizophrenia, or what was formerly called Dementia
    Paranoides.

    Many of the specific effects and experiences these people have
    described can now be replicated by technology which can produce
    exactly the same effects within the human organism. Can reports
    of these experiences before the electronic age be dismissed as
    simply the result of delusions? Can all reports of these
    experiences in the present be dismissed as delusional when there
    is documentation proving the existence of technologies which can
    produce the exact same effects?

    The Air Loom

    The first recorded case of paranoia in medical literature was of
    one James Tilly Matthews, a London tea-broker who claimed his
    mind was being controlled by a gang operating a machine he
    called an "Air Loom" which was hidden in a London cellar and sent
    out invisible, magnetic rays. Matthews believed machines like
    the Air Loom were also controlling the minds of members of
    the British Parliament. He wrote letters to its members warning
    them about the machines and the conspiracy behind it. Matthews
    was committed to Bethlem Hospital as being insane. His case was
    published in 1810.[3]

    It might be easy to dismiss Matthews' claims of a machine that
    can control one's mind as simply the result of a delusion
    caused by a mental illness because of the early date. However,
    we shall see that his is by no means an isolated case. Let us
    go back in history and look a bit closer at the details. But
    first, we must set the stage here in the present.

    In 1994 Ronald K. Siegel, a Associate Research Professor in the
    Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA,
    wrote "Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia."[4] Dr. Siegel, an
    expert on hallucinations, edited a book on this subject in 1975
    with Louis J. West of MKULTRA fame.[5]

    MKULTRA, as well as projects BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, CHATTER,
    CASTIGATE, MKDELTA, MKNAOMI, THIRD CHANCE, MKSEARCH, MKOFTEN,
    etc., were covert CIA projects involving many prominent members
    and institutions of the medical and scientific communities to
    investigate and experiment with various forms of behavior
    modification and control using, in many cases, unwitting human
    subjects. In operation from the late 1940's until the early
    1970's, they delved into everything from drugs to hypnosis to
    electronics.[6]

    "Whispers" is a collection of case histories of paranoia that
    Siegel had studied. One of these cases is a man named Tolman who
    believes that his mind is being controlled by computers via a
    satellite system named POSSE (Personal Orbiting Satellite for
    Surveillance and Enforcement). Siegel implies that claims like
    this are similar to the James Tilly Matthews case.[7] And indeed
    they are, but it is clear that Siegel is trying to dismiss
    Tolman's claims by implying that similar reports existed two
    centuries before this technology could have existed.

    Interestingly, author Dorothy Burdick, in her 1982 book "Such
    Things Are Known" described what she claimed was her mind-control
    harassment by computers via satellites. She names Siegel as being
    the inventor of a device named FOCUS (Flexible Optical Control
    Unit Simulator) which can project hallucinations directly onto
    the retina so that the subjects can't distinguish the images from
    reality.[8] In Siegel's book Tolman claims that images are being
    directly transmitted into his brain. Siegel says, "You mean to
    tell me that here are machines capable of sending visual images
    directly into the brain?"[9] Burdick has been unwilling to
    divulge her source for the FOCUS information, and a search by
    this author turned up nothing specifically on FOCUS. However, in
    1968 Siegel published a professional paper titled "A Device for
    Chronically Controlled Visual Input" which is a description of a
    device he developed to project images directly into the brain of
    experimental animals via the optic nerve. He suggests further
    experimentation be "conducted on neonates (kittens) which have
    their total visual stimulation controlled from the time they open
    their eyes."[10]

    The implication that Siegel presents concerning James Tilly
    Matthews must be examined. In 1988, author Roy Porter presented a
    much more thorough and enlightening reexamination of this case
    and its startling connections to one of greatest events in
    history -- the French Revolution.[11] He also found connections
    to one of the most curious and least understood developments of
    the same period; the discovery of what we now call hypnotism,
    then called "animal magnetism" by one of its first proponents,
    Franz Anton Mesmer.[12]

    Illustrations of Madness

    Contrary to Siegel's implication, James Tilly Matthews was not
    just a London architect who happened to fall prey to a mental
    illness that was identified for the first time in published
    medical literature. Titled "Illustrations of Madness," it was
    written by John Haslam, who was in charge of Bethlem Hospital
    where Matthews was incarcerated. The work also contained
    Matthews' drawings of the Air Loom.

    Actually employed as a tea-broker, Matthews in the early 1790's
    had developed extensive contacts with David Williams who was
    associated with Girondin leaders Le Brun and Brissot. During
    1792, Matthews traveled between England and France carrying peace
    overtures to the British government in the hope of preventing a
    British declaration of war. He was arrested by the French in 1793
    after the Jacobins came to power because he was suspected of
    being a double agent. Held until 1796, and by his own account
    probably tortured, the authorities finally released him after
    determining that he was a "dangerous lunatic."[13] The Jacobin
    Club was a radical political club that played a controlling part
    in the French Revolution and was founded by prominent
    Freemasons.[14] The Jacobins were successful in advancing their
    radical cause over the more moderate Girondins and responsible
    for sending thousands of their opponents to death on the
    guillotine.[15] Michael Ramsey, a Scottish mystic, who had
    founded Knights Templar Freemasonry, created the Scottish degrees
    of Freemasonry with his Jacobite cronies while in France where he
    was tutoring the exiled sons of King James II during the early
    1700's.[16]

    Almost immediately on his return to England, Matthews began
    writing letters to various members of parliament accusing them of
    being involved in a plot to overthrow the British monarchy which
    he claimed was connected to the same Jacobin forces that had
    overthrown the French monarchy. "You and your fellow labourers in
    iniquity caused the Insurrection in Paris on the Thirty First on
    May Ninety Three," reads part of his letter to Lord Liverpool.[17]
    Matthews was committed in 1797 to Bethlem after accusing the
    ministry of "traitorous venality" from the gallery of the House
    of Commons.[18]

    Matthews insisted that the treasonous villains in this conspiracy
    were employing gangs of experts in the use of magnetism, i.e.,
    Mesmer's animal magnetism, to torture him, influence the minds
    of English authorities and to spy using the Air Loom. He claimed
    that the French had being using mesmeric methods for military
    purposes to cause the "surrendering to the French every secret
    of the British Government."[19]

    Matthews was claiming that the French were experimenting with
    hypnotism just as the CIA eventually would almost two centuries
    later during their MKULTRA experiments, and for basically the
    same purpose.

    Many political ideologies of the time, Edmund Burke, John
    Robinson, and the Abbe Barruel supported Matthews' contention
    that the French Revolution was the result of a conspiracy
    ultimately aimed at subverting European civilization and its
    political structure.[20] However, the most radical elements of
    the revolution of 1793 were quite explicit about their desire to
    export their anti-monarchist, republican ideals to the rest of
    the world. Many Frenchmen believed that the repressed masses in
    England and elsewhere were only waiting for a signal from Paris
    to throw off their oppressors and establish international
    "fraternite."[21]

    Magnetic Mesmerism

    The practices of Franz Mesmer, an 18th-century physician, became
    fashionable in Paris during the 1770's. Mesmer was able to affect
    medical cures by the use of a device he called a "baguet" which,
    he claimed, was the source of a curative magnetic fluid or
    current and a trance state he named "animal magnetism." The
    baguet was actually a large tub of water that contained iron
    filings.

    The Mesmerists of this era had recently become interested in the
    use of psychic powers -- "the sympathetic projection of thought
    and ideas at a distance."[22] We shall see how this idea
    fit perfectly with Matthews' claims of mind control.

    It is a historical fact that in 1784 the French government under
    Louis XVI ordered a commission headed by Benjamin Franklin to
    make a scientific investigation of Mesmer's claims.[23] Franklin,
    who had been a Freemason since at least 1731,[24] and company
    came to the conclusion that it was not the baquet that was
    responsible for the effective cures attributed to Mesmerism,
    but rather it was what we now call the hypnotic trance state,
    i.e., suggestion. In fact, Mesmer himself, unlike some of his
    dissenting followers, considered animal magnetism to be a
    dangerous and unwanted overload of the effects of baguet.[25]

    Therefore, as early as 1784 the French government was aware that
    the hypnotic trance was a scientific reality, and that it could
    be used to affect the mind. At least one author has speculated
    that a student of Mesmer's, Dr. Charles d'Eslon, physician to the
    Count a'Artois, the king's youngest brother who was destined to
    become Charles X of France, was possibly one of the
    "illuminated," i.e., a member of Adam Weishaupt's Illuminati.[26]
    Adam Weishaupt, ex-Jesuit priest, founded the Illuminati in 1779
    in the Strict Observance Lodge of Freemasonry of Munich,
    Germany.[27] Significantly, it was d'Eslon who differed with his
    mentor in that he believed, as did the Franklin commission, that
    it was the hypnotic trance which caused the cures by the power of
    suggestion.

    A number of authors have traced the origins of the French
    revolution, as well as the European revolutions throughout the
    nineteenth century, to Weishaupt's "revolutionary education,"
    i.e., his desire to create a subversive secret society grafted
    onto Freemasonry to topple the existing political and religious
    order of the time. It has been speculated that many of the
    Jacobin leaders were backed by the Illuminati.[28]

    The idea of projecting thoughts and ideas at a distance finds its
    parallel in James Matthews' descriptions of his torment, listed
    here by John Haslam, then in charge of Bethlem Hospital.

    "The Air Loom machine which assails Matthews, works on a variety
    of fuels of a disgusting nature, including 'effluvia of dogs --
    stinking human breath -- putrid effluvia -- ...stench of the
    cesspool', and so forth. Its rays assault both the body and mind,
    producing 'a list of calamities hitherto unheard of and for which
    no remedy has been yet discovered'. These include 'Fluid
    Locking', which renders Matthews speechless; 'Cutting Soul from
    Sense', which causes his feelings to be severed from his
    thoughts; 'Stone-making', which creates bladder stones;
    'Thigh-talking', which produces the auditory distortion of one's
    ear being in one's thigh; 'Kiteing', or the capacity to hijack
    the brain and to implant thoughts in it beyond the control and
    resistance of the sufferer; 'Sudden death-squeezing' or
    'Lobster-cracking', which involve the deployment of a magnetic
    field to stop the circulation and impede the vital motions;
    'Stomach-skinning', which removes the skin from the belly;
    'Apoplexy-working with the nutmeg grater', which violently forces
    fluids into the head, often with lethal effects; 'Lengthening the
    brain', or in other words, forcible thought distortion, which can
    'cause good sense to appear as insanity, and convert truth to
    libel'; 'Thought-making', which is the extraction by suction of
    one train of thought and its replacement with another..."[29]

    Matthews produced keyed diagrams of the Air Loom showing the
    different levers that bring about the various tortures by
    producing modulations of the magnetic waves and the members of
    the gang which operated it. Although his family and many members
    of the community tesified that he was a threat to no one,
    Matthews eventually died in 1815 while still an inmate of
    Bethlem.[30]

    One explanation of Matthews' claims could be that the torture he
    suffered while in prison caused a dissociative state that led to
    a pyschopathy. The medical profession, the CIA, as well as many
    others throughout history have discovered that torture, i.e.,
    trauma, can cause a victim to enter a dissociate state.[31]

    Dissociation, defined as "a psycho-physiological process whereby
    information -- incoming, stored, or outgoing -- is actively
    deflected from integration with its usual or expected
    associations,"[32] is the underlying mechanism for hypnosis.[33]
    "The hypnotic trance represents the best example of an
    artificially-induced dissociative state."[34] And the hypnotic
    trance renders the subject highly receptive to suggestion.

    Was Matthews simply insane or was there some actual connection to
    a form of mind control from an exterior source? This is the very
    question being faced today by many who are being presented with
    claims by people who insist that they are victims of manipulation
    by high-technology mind-control devices. And just as almost two
    hundred years ago the factors of psychology, hypnosis,
    technology, and political conspiracies were intertwined, so today
    the same conundrum arises. How can these alleged victims prove
    that their cases are not simply the result of delusions?

    We shall see that, unlike Matthews, today's victims can point to
    a wealth of documentation proving that government agencies and
    research centers have been developing technologies and methods
    with the same capabilities that people have been describing for
    two centuries. And that, lo and behold, these technologies
    involve elements of psychology, hypnosis, political conspiracies,
    and even devices that emit "rays" to control the behavior of
    others without their knowledge or consent. Sound familiar?

    [To be continued...]

    "Drugs and other behavior controls may be available by the year
    2000 to produce personality changes at will, to reward
    activities by hormonal flows (perhaps by remote control) in ways
    that overcome rational or egoistic (or super-ego) objection to
    continuation of the activity, and to punish other activities.
    Alternative techniques include radio waves, ultrasonic impulses
    (that cause uneasiness), induced hallucinations, and various
    forms of educative devices operating from infancy. These may be
    so effective that continuous control techniques would be
    superfluous, although, available for obdurate cases. Much of
    this may even be available or imposed under the rubric of
    mental hygiene..."

    - Herman Kahn, The Hudson Institute, "The Year 2000," 1967.

    Notes:

    [1] Haslam, John, Ed. Porter, Roy, Illustrations of Madness,
    London: Routledge, 1988, p. xxxiii.

    [2] Becker, Robert O., Selden, Gary, The Body Electric, New York:
    William Morrow, 1985, p. 321.

    [3] Haslam, John, Illustrations of Madness, London: G. Hayden,
    1810.

    [4] Siegel, Ronald K., Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia, New
    York: Crown Publishers, 1994.

    [5] Siegel, R.K., West, L.J., Hallucinations: Behavior,
    Experience, and Theory, New York: Wiley, 1975.

    [6] Marks, John, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, New
    York: Times Books, 1979.

    [7] Siegel, Ronald K., Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia, New
    York: Crown Publishers, 1994, pp. 54-88.

    [8] Burdick, Dorothy, Such Things Are Known, New York: Vantage
    Press, 1982, pp. 150-151.

    [9] Siegel, Ronald K., Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia, New
    York: Crown Publishers, 1994, p. 65.

    [10] Siegel, R.K., "A Device for Chronically Controlled Visual
    Input," Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1968
    Sept., 11(5), pp. 559-560.

    [11] Haslam, John, Ed. Porter, Roy, Illustrations of Madness,
    London: Routledge, 1988.

    [12] Ibid., p. xvi.

    [13] Ibid., pp. xv-xvi.

    [14] Lunden, Sven G., Annihilation of Freemasonry, The American
    Mercury, Eugene Lyons (editor), New York, feb. 1941, Vol. lII,
    No. 206, p. 189.

    [15] Microsoft; Funk & Wagnalls Corp., Encarta 96 Encyclopedia,
    "Jacobins," 1996.

    [16] Bramley, William, The Gods of Eden, New York: Avon Books,
    1989, p. 236.

    [17] Haslam, John, Ed. Porter, Roy, Illustrations of Madness,
    London: Routledge, 1988, p. xxi.

    [18] Ibid., p. xxiv.

    [19] Ibid., p. xxxiv.

    [20] Ibid., p. xxxvi.

    [21] Moffett, Cleveland, The Reign of Terror, New York: Ballantine
    Books, 1962, p. 69.

    [22] Haslam, John, Ed. Porter, Roy, Illustrations of Madness,
    London: Routledge, 1988, p. xxxvii.

    [23] Frankau, Gilbert, (Introductory Monograph) Mesmerism by
    Doctor Mesmer 1779, London: MacDonald, 1948, pp. 18-20.

    [24] Bramley, William, The Gods of Eden, New York: Avon Books,
    1989, p. 279.

    [25] Spence, Lewis, An Encyclopaedia of Occultism, New York:
    University Books, 1960, p. 218.

    [26] Frankau, Gilbert, (Introductory Monograph) Mesmerism by
    Doctor Mesmer 1779, London: MacDonald, 1948, p. 14.

    [27] Bramley, William, The Gods of Eden, New York: Avon Books,
    1989, p. 272.

    [28] Raschke, Carl A., Painted Black, San Francisco: Harper & Row,
    Publishers, 1990, p. 85.

    [29] Haslam, John, Ed. Porter, Roy, Illustrations of Madness,
    London: Routledge, 1988, pp. xxxii-xxxiii.

    [30] Ibid., p. xxxviii.

    [31] Ross, Colin, Trauma & Memory: Clinical Implications for
    Treatment, MindNet Journal, Vol. 1, No. 80a-b, Apr. 1996.

    [32] West, L.J., Dissociative reaction. In A.M. Freedman & H.I.
    Kaplan (editors), Comprehesive Textbook of Psychiatry, Baltimore:
    Williams and Wilkins Co., 1967.

    [33] Ludwig, Arnold M., The Psychobiological Functions of
    Dissociation, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, Vol. 26, No.
    2, Oct. 1983, p. 93.

    [34] Ibid., p. 94.

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