<!-- pgtop --> WHEN we fall under the spell of a charismatic figure, areas of the brain responsible for scepticism and vigilance become less active. That's the finding of a study which looked at people's response to prayers spoken by someone purportedly possessing divine healing powers...
Read the rest at Brain shuts off in response to healer's prayer - life - 27 April 2010 - New Scientist (https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627574.200-brain-shuts-off-in-response-to-healers-prayer.html)
pnicholson
07-22-2010, 10:04 PM
it's an interesting article. i can see where 'turning off' could be helpful in a specific healing situation, but jim jones serving kool aid is the other end of that spectrum.
i say
be very
discerning
when
turning
off
the
brain.
Speak2Truth
07-23-2010, 05:15 PM
Charismatic politicians are cultivated to generate this exact effect as well. It was a key component of Obama's victory over Hillary Clinton. While she presented solid political plans and agendas, he spoke in sonorous tones of "hope" and "change" and posed and moved his hands about... and people voted for him with absolutely no understanding of what he was talking about.
Obama Supporters - support him for McCain's Policies and Palin for VP
Howard Stern Show airs interviews with Harlem Obama Supporters
https://www.bpmdeejays.com/upload/hs_sal_in_Harlem_100108.mp3
Obama Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage!!!
YouTube - Obama Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage!!! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI)
Political demagogues strive to create ideological allegiance that further shuts down certain areas of the brain, creating an emotional defense reaction to discussion of issues that challenge primary programming. That is why ideologues use the education system to inculcate youth with certain notions about "carbon footprints" or the "failure" of free-market capitalism - or patriotism and love of the Constitution and the Founders of this nation. Once the mind has been steeped in certain notions, it will shut down processing of information that may challenge such notions.
Democrats and Republicans Both Adept at Ignoring Facts, Study Finds
Brain bias, resulting from ideological indoctrination, shuts down processing of contradictory information
Democrats and Republicans Both Adept at Ignoring Facts, Study Finds | LiveScience (https://www.livescience.com/strangenews/060124_political_decisions.html)
Throughout the ages, those with an understanding of these mental processes have utilized them for good or evil. This is the true power of one person over another - the ability to manipulate known mental processes to achieve desired results without the "victim" even being aware of what is being done.
Derren Brown, whose videos are on YouTube, shows the real power behind that understanding.
pnicholson
07-23-2010, 07:09 PM
a worthy article and video by john pilger re: the marketing of obama:
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Obama’s First 100 Days:
The Madmen Did Well
by John Pilger (https://original.antiwar.com/author/pilger/), April 29, 2009
The American soap Madmen (https://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/) offers a rare glimpse of the power of corporate advertising. The promotion of smoking half a century ago by the "smart" people of Madison Avenue, who knew the truth, led to countless deaths. Advertising and its twin, public relations, became a way of deceiving on a scale imagined by those who had read Freud and applied mass psychology to anything from cigarettes to politics. Just as the Marlboro Man was virility itself, so politicians could be branded, packaged, and sold.
It is 100 days since Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. The "Obama brand" has since been named Advertising Age‘s "marketer of the year for 2008 (https://adage.com/moy2008/article?article_id=131810)," easily beating Apple. David Fenton of MoveOn.org describes Obama’s election campaign "an institutionalized, mass-level, automated technological community organizing that has never existed before and is a very, very powerful force." Deploying the Internet and a slogan plagiarized from the Latino union organizer Caesar Chavez – Si se puede! – "yes, we can," the "mass-level, automated technological community" marketed its brand to victory in a country desperate to be rid of George W. Bush.
No one knew what the new brand actually stood for. So accomplished was the advertising – a record $75 million was spent on TV commercials alone – that many Americans actually believed Obama shared their opposition to Bush’s wars. In fact, he had repeatedly backed Bush’s warmongering and its congressional funding. Many Americans also believed he was the heir to Martin Luther King’s legacy of anti-colonialism. Yet if Obama had a theme at all, apart from the vacuous "change you can believe in," it was the renewal of America as a dominant, avaricious bully. "We will be the most powerful!" he declared.
read the rest of the article at:
Obama’s First 100 Days: The Madmen Did Well by John Pilger -- Antiwar.com (https://original.antiwar.com/pilger/2009/04/28/obamas-first-100-days-the-madmen-did-well/)
and a video by john pilger:
YouTube - John Pilger - Obama Is A Corporate Marketing Creation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfVULT8vdUk)