hypnolibertarian

Well, I’m afraid the answer is that you can’t.  Richard Bandler tends to laugh when a workshop he is doing is coming to the last couple of days and say, “Even though you know what I’m doing it works.”  Just so.  One of the things I am doing in this blog is exposing the techniques that are used to condition us.  That exposure is, in my opinion, a good thing.  However, it does not guarantee that we will be free of conditioning once we have this knowledge.

During the Korean war, the North Koreans became masters at brainwashing, destroying the mind, not only for information, but to turn brave U.S. soldiers into good Communists.  The war lasted long enough (far too long) for experts in the U.S. to identify what was happening, what techniques were used, and exactly how they worked by interviewing POWs that escaped or who were exchanged.  They then created a training course that showed these techniques to soldiers, thinking that if they knew what would be used against them, captured soldiers would not succumb to the brainwashing done by the enemy.

It didn’t work.  Not even a little bit.

The soldiers who were trained fell victim to the brainwashing techniques in exactly the numbers and exactly the same way as those soldiers who had not taken the course.  Knowing how these techniques work is no defense against conditioning.

Unfortunately, neither is a determination not to be conditioned.  Going around saying to yourself, “I won’t let it work.  I won’t be conditioned.” not only does not work and lets the messages slide right by into the subconscious, but it conditions you by the very act of resisting, chanting to yourself, tension, and release of tension.