(09-26-2023, 09:18 PM)Ninurta Wrote:(09-26-2023, 05:05 PM)BodhisattvaStyle Wrote: Thanks for the comments everyone. This topic has always been of great interest to me. I had actually deleted this post after I had written it because of the sloppy way in which I presented it. I hadnt been posting recently because IMO there hasnt been much interesting news lately. I ran across that article and posted my thoughts in a hurry. After reading it later I realized how sloppy and rushed the post was. I had deleted it, but it was back up this am. I was going to rewrite and present this a little mot constructively.
I restored the thread. I saw that it had been deleted, read through it, and felt it was a worthy and timely topic. The last iteration of it was the one I restored.
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Okay, thanks. I had sort of figured that's what it was. It is a fascinating topic.
I'd like to drop this here and show where I started and where I made the connection. This is from the CIA declassified files.
http://all.net/journal/deception/MKULTRA...oject.html
Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program Of Research In Behavioral Modification
MKULTRA Subproject No. 83
This declassified CIA memo was written on April 18, 1958 by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, chief of the Chemical Division of the agency's Technical Services Staff. Gottlieb, who oversaw many of the MKULTRA projects, reviewed covert CIA support for research studies of "controversial and misunderstood" areas of psychology such as hypnosis, truth drugs, psychic powers and subliminal persuasion.
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DRAFT/
18 April 1958
DRAFT/
18 April 1958
MEMORANDUM FOR: THE RECORD
SUBJECT: MKULTRA, Subproject No. 83
MKULTRA Subproject No. 83
This declassified CIA memo was written on April 18, 1958 by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, chief of the Chemical Division of the agency's Technical Services Staff. Gottlieb, who oversaw many of the MKULTRA projects, reviewed covert CIA support for research studies of "controversial and misunderstood" areas of psychology such as hypnosis, truth drugs, psychic powers and subliminal persuasion.
In addition [portion censored] will begin to develop similar technical surveys on other controversial and misunderstood areas. These will include, though not necessarily in the next year:
a) a revision and adaptation of material already developed on deception techniques (magic, sleight of hand, signals, etc.)
b) psychic phenomena and extrasensory perception
c) subliminal perception
d) hypnosis
e) "truth serums"
f) expressive movements (body type, facial characteristics, etc.)
The definition of "subliminal perception:"
Su
Subliminal perception refers to visual and auditory information presented at a speed and or intensity that is below the conscious threshold of perception through one or more channels and thus not readily apparent to the subject (Moore, 1982)
http://members.aect.org/edtech/ed1/29/29...2C%201982).