Brainwashing — a Political Weapon How much further has man gone? In 1927 or 1928 he developed a political weapon called “brainwashing.” A Russian by the name of Pavlov, who had been experimenting with the reactions and conditioning of dogs, was brought to the Kremlin by Stalin. He was put in a separate room and […]
dog experiments
Lecture: The Effectiveness of Brainwashing (3)
Pavlov talks about making a dog insane. I’d like to shake the paw of a dog the techniques contained in his book would make insane. These learned experiments by which we reduce a circle to a square and reduce a square to a circle while ringing gongs and dah-dah bells and feeding the dog and […]
Lecture: The Effectiveness of Brainwashing (2)
But the finding is a very, very interesting finding and a strange commentary on a line in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, a very strange commentary. It said, “Man is basically good.” The duress required to make man worse is so tremendous that I do not believe there is known to the communist […]
Lecture: Self-Determined Effort Processing (1)
I figured out all these various things, and I was sitting there in the chair and I said to myself, “I’d certainly like to be able—with the enthusiasm that I had when I was about sixteen—to go in and sit down to that typewriter and make that keyboard jump and the paper fly and have […]
Lecture: Basic Processing (2)
So here is this fellow trying to take care of the whole physical universe as he observes it. If he finds another fellow who will try to take care of the whole physical universe too, they will form a group. It takes affinity, communication and reality for this to take place; these two fellows will […]
Lecture: Basic Processing (1)
I was in the hospital up at Oak Knoll, and early that year they told me the war was over. I played the “Dead March” of Saul to myself and said, “Well, you’re really in bad shape, boy.” They argued with me. I didn’t think I was in bad shape but they wouldn’t pass me […]