The Hidden Hypnotic Factor
Understanding Narratives, Identities, and Trance States in an Information War
Greetings Friends and Patriots,
As we all know, we’re currently fighting an “information war”, which really amounts to a battle of competing narratives.
Of course, not all stories are true—very few are even close to the truth. In the modern world narratives are, perhaps more often than not, a means of psychological combat; and the entire purpose of the mainstream media is to ensure that certain narratives are told and others are silenced. But, of course, I’m not telling you guys anything you don’t already know…
There’s a reason why sharing “facts” with hypnotized people doesn’t cause them to “wake up”. Today, I’m going to explain some of the reasons why this tends to be the case. There were many reasons why I chose to learn hypnosis, and one of those reasons is because I wanted to understand why so many people seem impervious to logic and facts.
I know some brilliant people who, despite their intellectual gifts, nonetheless trust the MSM implicitly—what, really, explains this phenomenon?
I didn’t decide to learn hypnosis to “hypnotize” people per se—I learned it, among other reasons, so I could once and for all figure out how to breach this “mental firewall” that the MSM has installed into the minds of so many of our friends and family. I also wanted to be sure that I could defend my own mind against weaponized forms of hypnosis.
I hope what I’ve learned will be of benefit to you as you participate in the efforts to restore America to greatness. In many ways, hypnosis is the “hidden factor” in information warfare, because it’s not merely about what information people hear—it’s about why they accept or reject said information at an instinctive/cognitive level.
Calibrating the Mind
When you’re fighting an information war, you need to calibrate your mind in a certain way to be an effective player for your team. One important lesson I learned while studying hypnosis is that if you aren’t in command of your own mind, then someone else is (unless you live in the woods with no civilizational contact whatsoever). This means that they can influence what beliefs you have, and what emotions you feel, among other things.
It's tempting to think, ‘that doesn’t apply to me,’ but I assure you that it does. The conscious mind simply doesn’t process information at the same rate as the subconscious mind, and with the use of metaphor, tonality, and other communication tools, it’s entirely possible to speak directly to the subconscious mind, bypassing conscious awareness altogether.
Now, did you know that hundreds of billions of dollars per year (that’s not an exaggeration) are spent on advertising in America alone? That’s a LOT of money being spent every year studying how to manipulate your consciousness.
What do you think the chances are that intelligence agencies catalogue all this information and wield it like a weapon against the people?
Of course, the advertising sector is not the only sector of society that concerns itself with molding consciousness a certain way—the same is also true for education, “news”, and entertainment.
How many companies control 99% of the world’s media again?
Many people in this world have no conscious awareness of the fact that they didn’t even invent their own personality—rather, they ‘collaged’ it together based on numerous influences, of both the subliminal and non-subliminal varieties. As the hypnotist and cartoonist Scott Adams has astutely pointed out many times: People think they come up with their own opinions, but in reality, their opinions are assigned to them by their favorite media.
To calibrate your mind properly means that you learn to perceive things as ‘directly’ as possible—that is to say, without being distorted by beliefs, wants, bias, etc. It’s fundamentally impossible to make genuine contact with reality while also trusting the MSM. Literally, it can’t be done.
Calibrating your mind is about remaining still when others are trying to get a rise out of you, and remaining as logical as humanly possible, even in the face of intense emotions. Above all, it’s about BEING YOURSELF even when the entire world wants you to be someone else.
As far as the subconscious mind is concerned, identity, beliefs and perception ARE reality.
How to Defend Your Mind
Firstly, let us define what hypnosis is: hypnosis is any form of communication that bypasses the minds “firewall” and stimulates an unconscious (aka automatic) response.
Stories are GREAT for this—you can ‘suggest’ entire belief systems and moral perspectives to someone by telling them a story in which the main character holds said beliefs/perspectives. What do you think ‘entertainment’ is for??
For the last year I’ve been building a study-at-home course entitled Self Defense Against Cultural Hypnosis that is based on the idea that ‘culture”’acts as a sort of meta-identity that contains numerous narratives within itself. These narratives, in turn, serve as the raw material out of which the people of a given culture create their own individual identities.
As the famous Stanford Prison experiment demonstrated, human beings have a remarkable tendency to act exactly as their sense of identity dictates.
Make no mistake—there’s nothing inherently wrong with being a member of a culture or identifying with its narratives. The problem is when a culture gets hijacked and then weaponized against itself. You see, all stories contain moral lessons, but if we don’t consciously recognize what those lessons are, then we won’t be able to defend their essential structure and purpose in the face of revision and degradation under the wrong hands.
Though there are many methods and techniques one can find for defending one’s mind, there’s one ‘master’ technique that, if practiced regularly, is guaranteed to strengthen your mind against manipulation to an astonishing degree. If you practice it, then, sooner or later, you’ll find yourself automatically resisting manipulation at both an intellectual and a gut level. Prepare to be shocked by the results.
It goes like this:
To safeguard your mind against the weaponized use of hypnosis, you need to check in with yourself from time to time that your beliefs, reactions, identity, thoughts, feelings, etc are REALLY from you.
Be mindful of those things that get an automatic response"out of you. Almost always, said "automatic response" is the result of the subconscious mind buying into a certain story/expectation. Your subconscious beliefs are most visibly active in those things that you do/say/think "automatically".
Ergo, make it a habit to periodically check in with yourself, and rid yourself of those ideas/feelings/thoughts/identities/etc that weren't really yours and/or were never true or logical in the first place.
Almost without exception, every single one of us has hidden strengths and talents that we don't know about, because they're buried under useless/false programming; and it's time for us all to become who we REALLY are—and no longer play along to the scripts that others wrote for us, without our knowledge, and often to our detriment.
More About Cultural Hypnosis
Does the fish recognize the water in which it swims?
You, my friend, are swimming in an ocean of language—of symbols, words, myths, and cultural assumptions, among other things.
According to some researchers, a certain percentage of people in this world ‘can’t be hypnotized,’ but this is not entirely correct. Everyone has the capacity to go into trance, and just because a person didn’t go into trance from watching a hypnotist dangle a watch doesn’t mean that they “can’t be hypnotized”. It simply means that that wasn’t the “right” method and/or the right moment for it to work”with that person.
If you practice what I’ve suggested above, then sooner or later you will learn how to spot it when you’re going into a “trance”, and you will be able to consciously choose not to go there.
In turn, this will inadvertently teach you quite a lot about human nature—give it enough time and you will uncover a lot of unconscious ‘material’ in yourself, and, most importantly, you will see how your thoughts, behavior, perceptions, etc, were being “driven” by said unconscious material.
What Is a Trance?
When I say “go into trance”, what I essentially refer to is going on autopilot. It can’t be stated any more succinctly than that: trance = autopilot.
The question always is, what “part” of the mind/subconscious mind/Self is “activating” and then “operating” the controls? Whenever you hear someone say, ‘I found myself doing xyz,’ what that means is they were in a trance. Trances are “programs” that auto-execute when someone is presented with a “trigger” of some sort that causes said program to “come online”. (It’s a tad difficult to describe in words, but the underlying concept is very simple).
A trance that empowers, heals, inspires, etc., could be thought of as a healthy trance; it’s okay to be on “autopilot” sometimes. Conversely, a trance that causes someone to think, feel, or act in a way that is detrimental to their well-being can be called a pathological trance. Every culture encourages, largely without realizing it, a customary set of “trances”, and our modern culture is absolutely overflowing with pathological suggestions and their resultant trance-states.
An example of a trance could be the ‘if I don’t work hard, then I’m a bum,’ whereby a person must toil day in and day out in order to be a “valid” man, student, employee, citizen, etc. There’s nothing wrong with having a good work ethic, but if your work ethic makes it impossible for you to relax, then that can lead to many health problems—which, ironically, could ultimately undermine your ability to work.
Another example of a trance could be the trance of ‘I’m a strong, independent woman.’ Again, there’s nothing inherently wrong with independence or strength—but where this trance becomes pathological is when a woman can no longer receive nice things from a man without feeling bad or distrustful about it to the point where she can’t connect with anyone anymore.
Notice… there’s a trance for every type of person out there.
If you’re a “this”, then you’re “this” way; if you’re a “that”, then you’re “that” way. For the most part, human beings assign characteristic behaviors to various identities, and then unconsciously act them out when they identify with them. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this—the point is simply that this process largely happens automatically.
Helping Others Wake Up
Every trance state has a reason for existing—a secret benefit, if you will.
Generally speaking, trances help us reduce cognitive bandwidth; so, in that sense, they’re all beneficial.
The body and mind benefit from the having the option to go on autopilot, otherwise your nervous system would become overloaded. Pathological trances, unfortunately are perceived as beneficial by the subconscious mind. For example, remember that ‘strong independent woman’ mentioned above? Perhaps she became that way because she was taken advantage of in the past. (As an aside, I believe that much “feminism” vs “manosphere” bickering amounts to nothing more than an artificially manufactured dialectic whose purpose is to ruin men and women’s ability to pair-bond. But that’s a story for another time.)
To make matters worse, a strong enough trance state can literally blind people to environmental stimuli that would otherwise be perceivable (much like how you might not hear someone call your name if you’re totally absorbed in a book or a movie). For the most part, you need to figure out what BENEFIT a person is getting from their “trance” before you can begin to undo said trance.
What identity or purpose is driving their trance? What benefit do they get from adopting said identity and/or pursuing said purpose? If you know the answers to these questions, THEN you have a shot at waking them up.
For example, I’ve managed to get a few hardcore feminists over the years to agree with me that it was better that Trump won over Hillary. I did this by firstly agreeing with them that women ought to not be treated like “objects”, then talking about how Epstein treated girls like objects, and then pointing out that Epstein would undoubtedly still be trafficking girls if Clinton had won instead of Trump.
See what I mean? Know what drives a person’s trance, and speak to THAT if you want them to change or wake up.
(Results, of course, will vary from person to person).
Conclusion, For Now
Believe it or not, but people frequently spend tens of thousands of dollars to learn, more or less, what you just read.
The above was shared because understanding the hypnotic element in information warfare is an absolute game-changer. Recognizing it will improve not only your ability to spread the truth to your friends, family and acquaintances, but it will also exercise your detective muscles to the nth degree.
To make a list of all the weaponized hypnotic techniques used by the MSM to manipulate the masses would take up far too much space for one article—but, more importantly, it’s not necessary.
If you do the exercise I shared above, then you will inevitably learn how hypnosis works on a deep, experiential level. And this will utterly transform the way that you digest information (which, after all, is being delivered to you by other human beings who may or may not have your best interests at heart).
Indeed, our very identity as Americans has been hypnotically used against us to get us involved in all sorts of foreign entanglements that have wasted the lives of many of our best men (God bless them); and the same powers that made that happen are still pulling many strings today. They know how to move the minds of the masses to do their bidding—they know how to use mass hypnosis to cause events of worldwide importance to happen or not happen.
Make no mistake—the more of us learn how to spot weaponized hypnosis in action, the harder it will be for the controllers to continue committing more atrocities.
At the end of the day, that’s what this is all really about.
American Hypnotist, signing off…
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watching all of my loved ones happily marching off the cliff "together" while I was trying to wake them up to the horror of what they were doing, is the thing I never expected to see in my lifetime. That so many could be so caught up in the brainwashing, and yet it was clear to me that there was danger in going along with the crowd. (and how could these really smart people be so stupid???)
I appreciate your pointing out that we are all susceptible to brainwashing.... that led me to study hypnosis, as well. For the same reasons you mentioned. To possibly deprogram loved ones, and to possibly inoculate myself against any unrecognized susceptibility.
Bottom line for an excellent article; one I’m saving to read again from time to time, ‘Make no mistake—the more of us learn how to spot weaponized hypnosis in action, the harder it will be for the controllers to continue committing more atrocities.’ Thank you!!
God bless.🙏