Timothy Leary had designed the '8-Circuit Model' of basic states of mind that humans can exist in; the lower 'circuits' being mostly about basic survival and primitive thought-realities, & the higher 'circuits' bringing man closer to some kind of enlightenment.
Robert Anton Wilson uses this 8-Circuit Model in a book called 'Prometheus Rising', which I read on my holiday with great interest:
The 8-Circuits (if I understood them correctly), basically go like this:
Circuit 1: Basic survival. Fight or Flight. The search for a nurturing mother/safety/shelter
Circuit 2: Territory. Mine vs yours. Understanding of 'pecking order' of your group/community. Power/submissiveness
Circuit 3: Semantics. Starting to think more complex ideas, but getting lost in the ideas/words. Creating a 'map' of the world, a paradigm, etc that can be communicated.
Circuit 4: 'Moral' Socio-sexual Circuit: ideas of 'right and wrong'... ethics. How to deal with ideas of sex, raising children, culture etc.
Circuit 5: Finding Happiness. Joy. Being alive in the spirit and having an awe of creation. Transcending mere thoughts, and reaching a higher level of consciousness. Love, love, love!
Circuit 6: Collective realization. Experiences of dissolving ego, realizing Union of Everything.
Circuit 7: 'Meta-Programming'; being aware of the mind/spirit/brain relationship and consciously re-programming yourself, extracting old patterns that are wrong and training your mind to work for your 'higher self'.
Circuit 8: Non-Local Quantum consciousness. Being everywhere and anywhere simultaneously, sensing beyond your physical body.
NOW:
One interesting part of 'Prometheus Rising' is a chapter called HOW TO BRAINWASH PEOPLE.
Citing many examples of CIA Mind control, various religious cults, Jim Jones, etc etc... Wilson demonstrates a very known formula for brainwashing people;
You must re-program the LOWER circuits, in order, starting from the bottom.
1. 1st the lowest circuit is attacked; you TRAUMATIZE the person, make them fear for their life. In this state, ALL the other circuits shut off. Reduce the subject to an infantile state; ie; 1st-circuit vulnerability. This can also be seen in many 'Re-Birth' rituals in various cults, secret societies, and religions. Also found in Marine Corps techniques of isolation to strip the soldier of his own identity; when he comes out he is a malleable fighter for his superiors to shape as they please.
2. When the subject survives the 1st-circuit trauma, give them some FOOD. Make them feel warm and safe after such a bad experience. Provide nurturing, a welcome into the 'group'. This is why many people who have been kidnapped develop strange attractions to their kidnappers. The subject will attach itself to this and learn to trust and believe anything it is told, for fear of falling back to a 1st circuit state.
3. Tell the subject what you want them to BELIEVE. Create a new 'reality' in their mind that will shape their beliefs and paradigms. They already 'trust' you, so this is when you can insert whatever you want. RAW actually explains that sometimes its even BETTER to tell them things that the rational mind will not easily accept, so the subject can be doubly convinced that they 'had it all wrong', and be ridiculed/shunned for speaking such blasphemies, etc. This creates a group mind, and fear of speaking against your peers out of fear for being 'kicked out'.
4. Creating a new map of morality. 'Good guys' and 'Bad guys', good vs evil, heaven and hell. What is considered acceptable and desirable vs what is considered atrocious or repulsive.
Robert Anton Wilson says that if you can successfully strike these 4 lower circuits in the correct order, depending on the level of programming-severity, you can essentially 're-program' (brainwash) a person thoroughly. Their new 'reality' is so deeply rooted that it is nearly impossible for the victim to ever properly question it, or dare think anything beyond it.
I am proposing that, among other things, 9/11 was a mass-population re-programming exercise, done specifically with this 8-Circuit Model as its framework.
Consider:
Circuit 1: You are UNDER ATTACK. Chaos. Unpredictability. Horror, death. FEAR. Images americans have never even considered before. Reduce the population to an infantile state.
Circuit 2: Patriotism. In-Group/Out-Group. 'YOU ARE EITHER WITH US, OR YOU ARE WITH THE TERRORISTS'. National pride, Homeland 'Security', etc/
Circuit 3: Semantic Mental Map of the World; give the people a new model of the world where 'Terrorists' are everywhere, scheming in caves, and being 'harboured' by countries everywhere. WAR ON TERROR.
Circuit 4: Define 'Morality', one where 'Freedom' vs 'Jihad' is at the core of everything. Talk of 'Democracy' and 'Dictators', 'freedom', and 'oppression'... 'EVIL DO-ERS' (as Bush Jr used the phrase). What is right in the 'eyes of God vs Allah', etc. Convince the people that the west is 'right', and islamic ways are 'wrong'. Use this to justify 'freeing' people from their darkness.
*It could be argued that Circuit 5 is then artificially satiated with a steady supply of over-the top entertainment and violently marketed materialsm (celebrity worship, reality-TV, Hollywood blockbusters, iphone games, facebook, etc)
If this is indeed a tried, tested, and proven method of brainwashing... is it just coincidence that the events and political semantics of 9/11 follow it so perfectly?
