By  Franz J. T. Lee
 

(As Friendly Thanks for Our Wonderful Chats, on this Topic,
This Dialogue is Dedicated to Carl Zimmerman & Jeff Loranger.)

January 1, 2000. 

Mind Control & Religion
 
 

Scene:  Philosophy Seminar

(Prof. Coseino and his brilliant students, celebrating the New Millennium.)

Coseino: Welcome to our first seminar of the New Millennium! Certainly, you all enjoyed the celebrations of the Old Millennium. So, what's New? What's the News?

Albert: (Quite shy, in a low tone) I feel new, I feel like the "Man of the Century"!

Elvis: (Quite jolly, in a rock tone) I'm a newcomer in your class, a new visitor;  in this sense, everything is really new to me. But, everything in this class seems so cosy, I feel relaxed like a spoilt "Teddy Bear".

Coseino: Welcome on board, Elvis. Thanks for joining the Crew. Any other new stranger?

Nicole: (Quite excited, like a flying saucer) Yes, I'm part of the innovation; William invited me to your class. We are great friends and he told me great things about this energetic class.

Coseino: Well, well. We welcome all the other newcomers, and we wish them A
Happy New Philosophy Year!

Patricia: If you don't mind, we have selected a very special theme for today, pertaining to Essence  a n d  Existence. We would like to discuss Ideology, Idolatry, Manipulation, Indoctrination and Education, in one word, to debate the Event of the Millennium: Mind Control.

Coseino: Excellent. I have exactly that in mind. However, it is an extensive, very  complex topic; we have to approach it very disciplined and systematically, by studying its major elements in detail, one by one; then we will have to relate them, hence, extracting the existence of Mind Control; only then, we could visualize its methods of social application, of mental putrefaction, thereafter we will illuminate its effective results, its cui bono, and finally, we can deliberate how to resist Mind Control, how to emancipate ourselves from its lethal, fatal, mortal strychnine. We will need a couple of more classes, in order that all of us may accomplish this valiant fait accompli.

William and Nicole: (in unison): What? A feat already accomplished!

Coseino: Surely, a "Controlled Mind" is a Slave, it could seduce, could control other weak uncontrolled minds, but a Master, a Man, Big Brother, the Pope, all of them must have very clear minds, in order to be able to develop excellent scientific devices, instruments and tools of Mind Control. Who approaches me to tell me that the Pope is "Holy", is deeply "religious", that the Vatican is the "Holy See of Absolute Truth", and that this is the very reason, why the Pope so effectively preaches the gospel truth, and why he is so "infallible", has already lost sight of galactic reality, and, without any second thought, I would send him/her straight to Wilhelm Reich or to Frantz Fanon to test the degree of his/her totally controlled mind. In general, this also applies to the believers in personal, private gods, in religious and holy "spirits".

Bill: Prof. Coseino, did you accomplish the feat of emancipating yourself from Mind Control?

Coseino: What a logical question! I'll give you a methodological answer.
There are levels, degrees and mensions of Body  a n d  Mind Control. Billions, performing mainly manual, corporeal Labour, are physically controlled. Look at the millions of body-builders, doing flex appeal exercises during their leisure hours, and then you would understand what I'm referring to. Look at the workers and secretaries in the distribution sector of capitalism, and listen to the controlled straw that flows from their lips. Have a serious discussion with the members of the intelligentsia, with the engineers, with the specialists, and try to discuss mental, intellectual, theoretical and philosophic issues with them, and you will be surprised how limited, how controlled they are. Have a serious chat with the millions in the USA who had celebrated the "Year 2000" at Times Square, and look how "square" they are, how "squarely controlled" they are!

Now, answering your direct question, in a direct fashion, a "controlled mind"
cannot see, think, say or analyse the above! This does not suggest that I have not been mind controlled some time or the other, or that I will never ever be mind controlled again. In this "Man's World", within this Patria, we can never be emancipated from Mind Control; here and now, we have no panacea whatsoever against Mind Control. As long as Labour exists, we will be victims of Mind Control; as long as we labour, we will be permanently experiencing the machine-gun fire of Mind Control bullets and bytes.

Nicole: A brilliant reply. An excellent explanation, Prof. Coseino.

Indira: Could we elaborate some of the elements of Mind Control over the last millennium?

Coseino: My dear students, it's your turn now. please, introduce us to some of the basic elements of Mind Control. Kindly present these in simple terms, not in high flown complex style, not in the way, in which you are forced to do it in other "Social Science" classes. Please do not use the sociology jargon of Juergen Habermas! Also, do not hide "ignorance" behind Latinized and Greek sophistry and phraseology! Also, remember, thinking is not "Saturday Night Fever", a celebration of the Year 2000 at Times Square! It has inter-related degrees, it is complex, complicated.

Karl: (Very excited) I think that we have mentioned one of the major elements already: Religion, Religious Mind Control.

Coseino: Fine. We'll discuss this aspect of Mind Control today. Mahatma, where does the concept "religion" come from? Do you have a foggy idea about this?

Mahatma: (finding himself in his element, in the seventh heaven) Yes, For sure, it is foggy, and it has much to do with fog, smoke and smog. But, where there is real smoke, there must be a real fire somewhere! Let's first talk about the real thing, thereafter, we'll face the smogy, ideological fantasy, the mind-controlling demon.

Coseino: Please give us its etymological origin.

Patricia: I'll help you.

Karl: Patricia, don't you think that originally religion had to do with savoir pour prévoir, with "positive science", with knowledge to predict the future?

Patricia: To a limited extent, yes. But, what you just mentioned is a modern invention of August Comte. The problem is more subtle. The term "religion" operates the other way around, backwards, towards the past, in the sense of "re-incarnation". It is a pre-Copernican feudalist, absolutist concept. "Religio" is probably derived from "religare" (to bind back) or religere (to repeat the steps of a previous process). In Europe, around 1517, it replaced "faith" as a concept, hence one no more spoke about Christian Faith, but about Christian Religion.

Mahatma: Thanks, Patricia, you're a real darling. Historically, Christian Religion was spread in Spain, by means of the development of Spanish Political Power, of Spanish Control, especially Mind Control. All along the eastern coast and in the Baetis valley, various anthropomorphic deities of the Romans neutralized or simply conquered earlier nonanthropomorphic gods, particularly in the Romanized towns and cities. Greek and Phoenician divinities were simply identified with Roman ones. In other Spanish regions, the native deities survived a little longer.

Coseino: And what happened to the Arab or Egyptian gods?

Mahatma: The so-called mystery religions appeared already in the first centuries AD around the Eastern Mediterranean; especially those of the Egyptian goddess: Isis. Also they were eventually integrated and spiritually controlled. For example, in 312 AD, Hosius was converted to Roman Catholicism, was then ordained as  Bishop of Cordoba, and finally, he became chief religious adviser of the Emperor Constantine, in matters relating to mind control of his subjects.

Karl: How was traditional religion justified?

Jeanette: This is my field; at present I am attending some lectures on the Philosophy of Religion. Certainly, the rulers need a spiritual basis, on which they can then construct their religious mind control edifice. Firstly, the Ruler, of course, a Man, considers himself as the Ultimate Power, Being and Value. His only problem, in order to achieve total control, is how to get the message over to the masses, to the "Damned of the Earth". It should be veiled, obscure, foggy; it must be indirect; it must be a cocksure device.

Martina: What generally happens is, that people with a bi-cameral mind base their world outlook on a fundamental feeling of absolute dependence. They are awe-stricken by the grandeur of the universe, by the human character of the moral struggle, by the artistic and poetic reflections on "human nature". No problem with all these, as long as they are authentic, natural, social and historic.

However, these are the green pastures, the happy grazing grounds, on which the howling werewolves hunt their religious victims.

Jeanette: All these human and moral values are then canalized towards an
Ultimate Being and Power, as the 19th-century British poet, Matthew Arnold, had confirmed with Illuminati precision, towards a "power, not ourselves, which makes for righteousness."

Karl: And how could one summarize the religious views of the last century of the first millennium?

Mahatma: Yes, by then, already the religious bell was tolling for billions across the globe. It's not a matter of attending Church or not, or whether we are atheists or not, it is simply a fact, that we are suffering from the after effects of a full dose of the "prozac of the people", which has produced an army of hallucinating, delirious individuals, who worship myriad of personal, individual gods and souls.
Of course, to answer the question directly, there is an acknowledged hunger drive in contemporary times to give a moral direction to Illuminati Technology, to the Information Highway and to Globalization; and "modernized" religion seems to many to bring with it the need for a new view of the universe, of "Science Finding God", even though the "Illuminated Ones" may not themselves be adherents of a particular religion. In fact, many still search for "alternative religions", "not infiltrated by Mind Control". They do not realize, that the very desire to invent a religion, to search for a soul, for a personal beta version of god, that all these are fatal after effects of centuries of bombardment with the "opium of, by and for the people" and do not differ from any official religious content.

Karl: And what do the findings of psychology say about this democratic "opium"? What is our heritage from Freud and Jung?

Coseino: As stated before, religious mind control departs from certain psychological realities like feelings and emotions, it incorporates awe, wonder and reverence. The "natural" concern for moral and aesthetic "human" values are scientifically deviated to specific control centres, where the individual or the group can seek the appropriate "civilized" and "cultured" actions to embody these "sacred" values.

Already in the cradle, in the Kindergarten, the modern individual has been mind-controlled to characterize behaviour not only as good or bad, but also as holy or satanic, and to classify people not only as virtuous or unvirtuous but also as godly or Luciferian. That is why staunch Christians classify us as the Anti-Christ, and why we classify the Illuminati as being satanic. This is the logical product of successful religious Mind Control.

As a direct reply to Karl, we should remember that the forerunner of the Psychology of Religion was Jonathan Edwards, an 18th-century American theologian. He wrote the two famous works:  A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God (1737) and A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746).

A century later, his pioneering books bore psychological fruits; during the epoch of "religious revivals", at the time of the 1830 and 1848 revolutions, but also of the "Communist Manifesto", when Mind Control became a capitalist necessity,
his works were consulted to discover at what age "conversion", that is, religious mind control, often takes place.

However, the psychological aspect of total mind control was achieved only with the research work of two American psychologists: Edwin Diller Starbuck's Psychology of Religion (1889) and the classical treatment by William James's Varieties of Religious Experience (1902).

To know the findings of psychology with reference to religion, a brief study of the works mentioned above will reveal the psychological mind control strategy at its best. The experts in religious mind control converted the "crisis experience" of the individuals in modern capitalism into a "natural growth" towards totalitarian control.

Karl: Please give us some details.

Coseino: To the extent that Psychology became more analytical, the control interests moved towards the "abnormal", towards channelling neuroses, night and day dreams, towards more easily controllable spheres. Using techniques of hypnosis and  induction of drugs, the psycho-therapeutic era was ushered in; in other words, the pharma-psychological mind control set in.

What did Freud think about all this? About religion? He was very clear about the method of control. Having studied his Ludwig Feuerbach very well, according to Freud, religion is simply an illusion, is a fantasy structure from which a man must be liberated. Of course, the liberated "man" is the future Illuminati, the "Bill" of the end of the 20th century! He is to grow to maturity; Freud himself paved the road: in his treatment of the "unconscious", he "progressed" toward atheism.

Karl: And what about Jung?

Coseino: As we already stated in a previous class, the Swiss psychiatrist Jung suggested that a "racial unconscious" provides dominant archetypes (which imply innate tendencies to form symbolic images, like "Brown Sugar" or "Swastikas") and that these provide a psychological approach to belief in various forms of a God. In other words, he discovered the after effects of the "prozac of the people", of the "collective unconscious".

Karl: Now I understand why Psychology distinguishes between religious people who are: "extrovert" or "introvert" (Jung), "healthy minded" or "sick" (William James), and "objective" or "subjective" worshippers (J. B. Pratt).

Coseino: And you could imagine which ones of these religious people are "extrovert", "healthy minded" and "objective".

Karl: Of course, the mind-controlled ones!

Coseino: And, as far as religious "feelings" are concerned, the Protestant theologian, Rudolf Otto could tell you all about his mind-controlled "Idea of the Holy", he coined the unique concept of the "numinous"; i.e., of Big Brother, of the Illuminati, of the God who is both awesome and appealing, both fearful and attractive.

Max: (with a startling voice) I'm also a philosophic "nerd", but Prof. Coseino, could you please tell us something about the religious findings in sociology? At present I'm studying the "Authoritarian Personality", within the context of "The Eclipse of Reason", hence I would really welcome some remarks on this issue.

Coseino: Bravo, Max! Could anybody help out?

William: As usual, time is running out. In a nutshell, I would like to mention the following: According to modern sociologists, the ideas and images of a religion are direct products of its social culture in which it flourishes. All our notions about  birth and death, marriage and the family, and art and music, have mushroomed in a religious context.

Although Religion has condemned social abuses, yet it also has been associated with exploitation, reaction and oppression. Recently, Sociology of Religion is  concerned with making use of sociological criteria and of demographical and statistical studies in planning "birth control", the "Mission of the Church" in the 21st century, and in appraising religious significance to halt progressive demographic explosion on a world scale. In other words, it voiced its aid to massacre the world population by 2050, and to give a religious justification to this sacred mission.

Alfred: I'm always interested in mysteries, in the twilight zones. What does the history of religions reveal?

Mahatma: As far as I could see, at the dawn of human existence, strange enough, there had been a belief in a single Being, in Mother Nature, in Gaia. Much later, with the advent of patriarchy, polytheism, the belief in souls and spirits emerged. The belief in individual souls and spirits was a patriarchal invention, was the result of the emergence of the labour process.

Patricia: Some scholars believe that once a golden age of innocence and
harmony had existed, a kind of Garden of Eden; according to others, the life of the earliest human beings was nasty, brutish, and short, a kind of Behemoth or Leviathan.

Mahatma: However, the point is, that these scholars found no common factor, no universal, essential characteristic, which pertained to all earlier religions. The only thing which can be said about earlier religions is, that they all underlined,  that reality is not restricted solely to what is perceived by sense experience itself.

Of course, this aspect is of great interest to us. Original religion pointed to other forms of reality; bourgeois capitalist reality only permits money, capitalist reality. It controls the mind only to see this reality and nothing else; for this very reason Formal Logic was developed and eternalized in language and words.

Adam: Which situation can we regard as being "religious"?

Patricia: Now, we are getting to the core of the matter, because the question concerns our Triagory "Transcendence". Originally, religion challenged the labour reality, denying that it is the only existing one. The patriarchal labour reality is pinned between space and time parameters, is a zigzag, tictac tactic, which only Albert Einstein dared to question at the beginning of the 20th century. Hence, a situation is regarded as religious when through its spatiotemporal features, or rather, through its challenge of "normal" motion, it discloses other mensions, other objective and subjective realities. In this sense, all religions are transcendental.

Adam: But, I prefer the so-called primitive "animism" as compared to modern Vatican religiosity.

Patricia: Why?

Adam: Animism sees the world as having life, energy, power, and feeling. It perceives the "human being" as cosmic, and the Cosmos as human.

Furthermore it believes in mana -- in the biblical "manna", not in the breakfast of the Gods, but in a power or force somewhat similar to the scientific concept of energy, of orgone.

Patricia: And, what about "totemism"?

Jeanette: Totemism is more complex, is a more sophisticated form of animism. It involves a highly complex system of beliefs and practices whereby an animal or plant becomes a totem. As Karl explained in another class, it becomes a type of "Blue Angel", a focal symbol for the life and well-being of a clan. The tribe is sustained by a power that the totem symbolizes and expresses. For example, the "Blue Angel" neutralizes the effects of Mind Control. Thus, in this way, the patterns of tribal behaviour are maintained by taboos. Persons, things, and behaviour themselves become taboo. Things highly charged with sacred power are prohibited to ordinary "profane" members, and they must keep at a safe distance. Of course, here already we notice how natural powers are projected into infinity, how they become alien to "human beings", and then as a supernatural power threaten their very creators. This is the
central mechanism which all rulers have utilized to practice religious mental control. 

Jeffrey: Thanks, Jeanette. However, how is the transcendent interpreted in "primitive" religions?

Indira: As far as I know, as stated before, it is interpreted in terms of an Ultimate Being or Power, usually as Mother Nature. Later, bourgeois scholars would call this "theism". It interprets one, life-giving, cosmic power, a type of natura naturans. Later, for example, in Ancient Greece, polytheism posited many cosmic, personal powers, on whose "activities" the Cosmos depended.

Jeffrey: But, Indira, where does the idea of seeking salvation in the beyond come from, and what is its relation to Mind Control?

Indira: I know that you love The One, and its Unity, but your question pertains to a central term of our Philosophy, it refers to the Bezug, to Relation. Of course, so-called "primitive" religion pointed to other realities, but its transcendence implied that a specific RELATION to Cosmic Power would bring forth "salvation", in our terminology, would generate historic emancipation.

Salvation did not necessarily mean a unio mistica with some divine god; as the
the early 20th-century British philosopher J. M. E. McTaggart had already pointed out, salvation can simply be a "state of bliss" without any god whatsoever, or as Spinoza has explained, it can simply be a "state of ultimate peace", liberated from Illuminati terror and mind control. The overwhelming majority of mankind believe in religious transcendence, hence as mind-controlled slaves they have no problem whatsoever concerning "Mind Control". We have this problem, and for us, as we will see later, transcendence has other connotations.

Adam: Excellent, Indira! As a staunch Christian, I always have a very serious problem. In our contemporary world, filled with atrocities like the Second World War, Stalinism, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Rwanda Massacres, the Illuminati, heinous Mind Control, etc., how can I still believe in the existence of a God, of Jesus Christ, and of a Holy Ghost?

Indira: Well, Adam, I'm sorry; firstly, that's your own, very personal problem, and you'll have to solve it all by yourself. Nothing on Earth and Nobody in Heaven will come to your rescue! However, I must tell you, because of this divine incoherence, many a lamb for God got lost. Many people have argued just like you. They resisted "conversion", mind control, by arguing that, if the Holy Father cannot rid the world of Illuminati evil, he is not omnipotent; if he could, but he won't, then he is Satan; if he is all powerful and all-good, but not all-wise, even if he tries his utmost divine best, then there are bound to be natural or social disasters, as occurred the other day in Venezuela. The classical expression of your problem was treated in the  Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779) of David Hume, who had sent the whole Holy Trinity, the whole De Luxe Version of God, straight  into the paper basket. John Start Mill tried to compromise, by allowing a "basic version" of God, a limited divinity, a compassionate, sympathetic fellow-sufferer. Prof. Coseino, we have passed the time limit, urgently we have to terminate our class today!

Coseino: Next time much more about the Elements of Mind Control. For today, most unfortunately, we must stop here. Hasta la vista!

(Reluctantly, the class disperses. The millennium has just begun! Everything is still under Control, under Mind Control.)

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