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From New Book "Forbidden Gates" On Emerging Mind Invasive Technology
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From
Sue Bradley’s chilling e-mail above discussing how the area of the right ear
(which was to be anointed for priestly hearing of God in the Old Testament) is
now being targeted by electromagnetic currents to illustrate how a person’s
moral judgment could be impaired, to the work of neurologist Olaf Blanke that
produced a “shadow person” by stimulating the left tpj
at the left ear, serious questions arrive about the mysteries of the mind and
what God may know that we don’t (and therefore why the priests were anointed
there) about spiritual gateways existing in these regions. Once again, by
interfacing with or manipulating the brain in this way, are we approaching a
forbidden unknown?
Another example of how
near-horizon neurosciences and human-machine integration may reconfigure human
brains to allow borderline (or more than borderline) supernatural activity
involves certain video games played before bedtime, which are being shown to
allow people to take control of their dreams, to shape the alternate reality of
dream worlds in a way that reflects spiritual warfare. According to LiveScience
senior writer Jeremy Hsu, published studies on the dreams of hard-core gamers by
Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada, found
that gamers experienced reversed-threat simulation in nightmares, which allowed
the dreamer to become the threatener
instead of the threatened. In other words, a scary nightmare scenario turned
into something “fun” for a gamer, allowing the player to assume the role of
the aggressor or demon attacker. “They don’t run away; they turn and fight
back. They’re more aggressive than the norms,” Gackenbach explained.
“Levels of aggression in gamer dreams also included hyper-violence not unlike
that of an R-rated movie,” and when these dreaming gamers became aggressive,
“oh boy, they go off the top.”[i]
From learning to influence
our private dreams via game-tech to having our dreams infiltrated and
manipulated by outside forces, disquieting ideas deepen. In the 2010 movie Inception
starring Leonardo DiCaprio, industrial spies use a dream machine called pasiv
to steal corporate secrets by means of invasion and “extraction” of private
information through a victim’s dreams. In a second scenario, the film depicts
ideas planted in the person’s mind (inception) so that the individual
perceives them as his or her own, thus allowing the victim to be steered toward
particular decisions or actions—a modern upgrade on brainwashing a la the Manchurian
Candidate. While the film Inception
is fantasy, it is based in part on near-future technology.
Electroencephalograms, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fmris),
and Computed Tomography (ct) scans
are already being used to “read and even influence the brain,” points out
Aaron Saenz at the Singularity Hub. But could the fundamental science that the
film Inception examines actually be
setting the stage for making it a reality? “We’re certainly working towards
it,” Saenz adds, continuing:
In the next few decades we
could have the means to understand, perhaps in rather detailed terms, what a
person is thinking. Once that barrier is passed, we may develop the means to
influence what someone thinks by directly stimulating their brain. [So] while
the mind is still a very mysterious place, it may not remain that way forever.[ii]
This trend toward
technological mind invasion and mind control is or should be a frightening
proposal for most people, especially those who value the concept of free
will. That is because most secular neuroscientists view free will as an
outdated religious notion related to “a fictional omnipotent divinity” (God)
who chooses not to interfere with the choices of individuals, thus leaving them
morally accountable for their actions and future judgment. There is even a
concerted effort on the part of some neuroscientists to find proof against free
will to illustrate that man is little more than an automaton whose decisions are
predetermined by a complex mixture of chemical reactions, past events, and even
nature, which work together to determine one’s course of action. In the 1970s,
Prof. Benjamin Libet of the University of California in San Francisco claimed to
have discovered proof of this theory through a series of tests in which a
“time gap” between a brain’s decision to act and the person’s awareness
of this decision led to the activity being carried out by the individual. His
findings ignited a stormy debate regarding the ancient philosophical question of
free will, says Naomi Darom for the online edition of Haaretz newspaper in Israel. “Are our decisions, the basis for our
ostensible free activities, made before we are aware of them? In other words,
does the brain ostensibly decide for us? And to what extent do we actually make
our decisions consciously?” Prof. Hezi Yeshurun explained how those engaged in
the brain research concluded “the question of free will is meaningless,
because...the
fact that your brain has actually decided in your absence and that I can know
what you’ve decided before you do, paints a picture of an automaton.”[iii]
To insinuate that a section
of the human brain makes decisions ahead of man’s independent awareness of
them opens a wellspring of opportunity for civil or military arms technology to
target that aspect of the brain and to develop methods for “inserting” ideas
in minds. Darpa, American
Technology Corp., Holosonic Research Labs, and
others are working on methods to adapt this science, where thoughts and ideas
can be projected or “implanted” in the brain and perceived by the individual
as his or her own. A while back, Wired
magazine reported on Darpa’s
“sonic projector” as well as troops studying the Long Range Acoustic Device
(lrad) as a
modified “Voice of God” weapon:
It appears that some of
the troops in Iraq are using “spoken” (as opposed to “screeching”) Lrad
to mess with enemy fighters. Islamic terrorists tend to be superstitious and, of
course, very religious. Lrad can
put the “word of God” into their heads. If God, in the form of a voice that
only you can hear, tells you to surrender, or run away, what are you gonna do?[iv]
Wired
went on to acknowledge how, beyond directed sound, “it’s long been known
that microwaves at certain frequencies can produce an auditory effect that
sounds like it’s coming from within someone’s head (and there’s the
nagging question of classified microwave work at Brooks Air Force Base that the
Air Force stubbornly refuses to talk about).” It is also reported that the
Pentagon tested similar research during the Gulf War of 1991 using a technology
called Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (ssss),
which evidently led to the surrender of thousands of Iraqi soldiers who began
“hearing voices.”
People of faith, including
church theologians and philosophers, should find the idea of using technology to
read the minds and manipulate the thoughts of individuals indefensible, as the
vanguard of free
will is fundamental to our religious and philosophical ethic. To humans,
autonomy of thought is the most basic of doctrines in which man is unrestrained
by causality or preordained by mystical powers. Yet how these
issues—neurosciences, brain-machine interfacing, cybernetics, mind control,
and even free will—could actually represent a prophetic confluence of events
that soon will combine in an ultimate showdown over the liberty of man may be an
unavoidable and beastly aspect of end-times prophecy.
Learn
more about FORBIDDEN GATES!
[i]
Jeremy Hsu, “Video Gamers Can Control Dreams, Study Suggests,” LiveScience (5/25/10) http://www.livescience.com/culture/video-games-control-dreams-100525.html.
[ii]
Aaron Saenz, “Is the Movie ‘Inception’ Getting Closer to Reality?”
(7/15/10) http://singularityhub.com/2010/07/15/is-the-movie-inception-getting-closer-to-reality-video/.
[iii]
Naomi Darom, “Will Scientists Soon Be Able to Read Our Minds?” Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/magazine/week-s-end/will-scientists-soon-be-able-to-read-our-minds-1.291310.
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