Mind Control

When Does “Altering Brain Function” Become “Mind Control”?

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From Frontiers in System Neuroscience, this article looks at the resurgent interest in functional neurosurgery for “psychiatric illness.” The preferred approach is deep brain stimulation (DBS) technology, “because it allows clinicians to directly alter the functions of targeted brain regions, in a reversible manner, with the intent of correcting diseases of the mind, such as … Read more

Sharon K. Farber – Cults and the Mind-Body Connection

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We tend to think of cults as exerting mind control over their members, a kind of psychological enslavement, and this is partially true. However, as Dr. Farber argues, the way to obtain control of the mind is through the senses – music, incense, chanting, drumming, dancing, touch. Mind control, as she shows below, can often … Read more