Chapter 9

PAIN - DRUG - HYPNOSIS

    In reviewing the mind-control and brainwashing controversy today in the light of Aum it is important to go back in time to when such theories were new. There was a term written almost forty years ago that covers all other latter day terms for this subject. This older term is still a clinically apt description and usable today.

    More than a quarter of a century, L. Ron Hubbard was researching the same phenomena. In his book, Science of Survival, 1951, he outlines what he had discovered and named as pain-drughypnosis.96

    "Pain-drug-hypnosis is a wicked extension of narcosynthesis, the drug hypnosis used in America only during and since the last war." He explains, "...an individual in a hypnotic trance will rarely perform an immoral act even though commanded to do so by the hypnotist, unless that individual would perform such acts.

    "Drug hypnotism does not have to be done with the individual's consent. An individual who is drugged can receive and obey hypnotic commands given to him by the doctor or operator and will continue to obey these commands after waking from the drugged sleep."

    After describing a typical means of administering such a treatment the text continues, "Thereafter, the operator works much as in ordinary hypnotism. Drug hypnosis can be administered with such wording that the patient will also forget that he has ever been given drug hypnosis. Drug hypnotism, then, can be done without the consent of the subject and is commonly so done even by doctors in the normal course of practice. There is nothing new or strange about drug hypnosis. It occasionally fails to work as the operator intends, and it does not usually strike against the individual's normal moral tone ...."

    He continues, "But pain-drug-hypnosis, due mainly to the intent of the operator, is a much more viscous procedure.

    "It has been discovered that a drugged individual when beaten and given orders would invariably obey these orders regardless of the degree to which they flouted his moral tone or his position or his best interests in life."

    He further states, "An individual might be given pain-drug-hypnosis on Tuesday night and wake up on Wednesday morning without knowledge of the fact that he had been slugged when he stepped out of his car, given an injection, painfully beaten but not so as to leave any marks, and put quietly into his own bed. This individual does

    not know that anything unusual has happened to him, nor will he suspect it even when he is confronted with the fact that his conduct is extremely changed along certain lines.

    Also, "The extensiveness of the use of this form of hypnotism in espionage work is so wide today that it is long past the time when people should become alarmed about it."

    L. Ron Hubbard continued his research over the next decades searching for, and finding exact ways, to locate precisely and erase the affects of pain-drug-hypnosis.

    Quite simply this implies that it has been possible to control a person through paindrug-hypnosis from as early as 1951, though Mr. Hubbard noted in a research journal later in 1960 that one specific example of pain-drug-hypnosis had surfaced in May 1950

    Mr. Hubbards research also indicated that without the operator, possibly a victim of pain-drughypnosis could be expected to return to a relatively normal life, depending on the commands given to him while undergoing pain-drug-hypnosis. Also, it would seem that should an operator came back into the vicinity of his victim then that victim could be expected again to fall again under the control of the operator.

Dr. Donald Ewin Cameron

    The book by Gordon Thomas is called Journey into Madness, Medical Torture and the Mind Controllers.97 It is an expose of CIA and other intelligence agency psychiatric mind altering technology. This book is the book Dr. Hayashi of Aum claimed was the text that the Aum doctors had based all their psychiatric experimental treatments on.98

    Per Thomas's book one of the foremost proponents of the psychiatric mind-controlling techniques was former head of the World Psychiatric Association, Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Donald Ewin Cameron who did work with the CIA, and visited Japan in 1963.E

    Cameron was paid by the CIA from as early as 1957 to perform psychiatric mindaltering experiments. These experiments included drugging people unconscious for 16 hours a day while administering them electric shock, and sometimes LSD, while also playing to them either positive or negative messages on taped loops. Often after the words were spoken, the victim was given further electric shock through the head. This was what Cameron termed "psychic driving". Its intention was to drive the person by

    subconscious hidden mental commands.100 Cameron had many students assisting from many countries from around the world, including Japan. 101 Patients lay around in drug induced comas. They would scream in the hallways as a result of their torture.

    There was a second technique Cameron used which he called depatterning. 102 102 By repeated electric shock meant to remove the pattern of thought and behavior. Patients would no longer recall what had happened. Many would forget their entire lives. Some of these patients later sued the CIA with partial success.

    In the next chapter we will deal with this phenomena of Cameron and his influence on Aum in greater detail. If one reviews what actually happened at Aum, one realizes that the use of electroshock and drugs were rampant. This kind of treatment was common to the work of Dr. Donald Ewin Cameron and it was this treatment which practiced by the Aum doctors.

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