Chapter 14

PSYCHIATRY - IN SEARCH OF DOMINATION

1948 - Greater World Control

With Aum we can see similarities with other psychiatric based groups, and in particular there are the ambitions of world famous psychiatrists. Some of those ambitions need to be reviewed here.

On June 18, 1940, psychiatrist JR. Rees gave a talk entitled "Strategic Planning for Mental Health" at the annual general meeting of the National Council for Mental Hygiene of the United Kingdom. He outlined psychiatry's responsibility for taking over all major fields of social endeavor, including religion:

"We can therefore justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard to the proper development of the human psych, even though our knowledge be incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity in our national life .... We have made a useful attack on a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church: The two most difficult are law and medicine."

Rees continued: "Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence .... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as salesmen, must lose our identity .... Let us all therefore, very secretly be "fifth columnists."

In 1948 "Dr." Brock Chisholm and a dozen other fellow conspirators in the World Federation of Mental Health and the World Health Organization took over the grass roots international organization of Clifford Beers and perverted it to their own planning. After this they had no real opposition in the world.

It was in the latter half of this century that psychiatrists were authorizing laws that would enable them to seize people on demand, confiscate property and acquit people of crimes under their own terms. t

Psychiatry taking over control of religions

While Aum was only one successful attempt to subvert religion by psychiatry, it is well worth our while to look at attempts in the West, where religion has been undermined and made far less.

G. Brock Chisholm, co-founded the World Federation of Mental Health in 1948 and stated, "...Psychiatry must now decide what is to be the immediate future of the human race. No one else can." It was Henry A. Wallace, then secretary of Commerce, suggested that Chisholm's message be mailed out to all ministers and priests.200 Psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan suggested that psychiatrists, like all great religious leaders, prophets and Jesus Christ, should bring religion up to date.201

And so they did. The following year Reverend Leslie Dixon Weatherhead of the Methodist Church in England established psychiatric clinics as extensions of parishes, where parishioners were given electric-shock, psychosurgery, tranquilizers and hypnosis, as part of Christianity.202

Germany

In Germany psychology took root in the churches and by 1972 the German Association for Pastoral Psychology was founded. Within six years fourteen centers were established, offering what is called 'group dynamic' techniques for use in community work and pastoral counseling by the clergy.203

The association extolled the program: "Pastoral psychology understands itself as a help for the communities in view of 'group dynamic' proceedings - e.g., the process of revalidation, or the search for the scapegoats, harmonization or shifting of guilt, which... can determine life in a community so strongly that the succession of Jesus Christ is no longer paid heed."

The German magazine Der Speigel reported that in Germany by 1983 there were more than 1,000 people practicing 'group dynamic' techniques each week - almost 60,000 per year. 204

The German institute for Education and Knowledge in 1977 concluded about the therapy: "'Group dynamics' in all its versions always has a totalitarian aspect... The use of 'group dynamic' methods as educational factors ...is such a deep intrusion into human structures of authority and motivation that you are entitled to call 'group dynamics' an anthropological revolution." 205

Switzerland

In Switzerland 'group dynamics' was being used extensively, and the following is an excerpt from a list of questions that was published in an article by the Swiss Catholic Weekly which came from a conference supposedly aimed at instruction for a celibate life. There were 16 questions about sexual pleasures, such as: "I estimate my current sexual activity as follows: I especially enjoy .... I especially miss .... I consider it a perquisite for real sexual pleasure if .... The most exciting sexual experience where I felt especially physically or emotionally happy was ...." And so the list goes on. 206

In another example of 'group dynamic' training for priests, participants were instructed to "thrust the pelvis back and forth", and then in pairs, place a cushion between each other at pelvis level and push against each other's genitals. 207

The United States of America

So as religion underwent what was termed "mental health orientation", society's moral structure underwent change. America became famous for its climbing divorce rate, its drugs and increasing crime. With these statistics came a decreasing church membership. Adding insult to its injury the clergy was unwittingly recruited into the ranks of psychiatrists. And it was with no surprise that clerics were soon under the spot light for their own sexual abuse.

The USA saw a psychological transformation as psychology took over religion. By 1961 between 8,000 and 9,000 clergymen in the U.S. had taken psychology-based 'clinical pastoral' counseling courses.

Rogerian Therapy

In 1950 the first edition of the US magazine Pastoral Counseling was published. On the board of this magazine was notable humanist psychologist and former president of the American Psychological Association, Carl R. Rogers. Rogers was also part of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute which had planned to make 'Sensitivity Training mandatory in schools and government agencies. With his fundamentalist Protestant background, he seduced the head of the Religion and the Health Committee of the Federal Council of Churches, who ultimately recommended Roger's psychotherapy methods as of benefit to ministers and other religious workers.208

With a government grant Rogers was to test his theories on twenty-four religious orders, including the Immaculate Heart of Mary convent. The result was that in two years the Immaculate heart of Mary was ruined. They had 60 centers when they started and only one remained at the end. Of the 560 nuns that began the programme 300 of them had petitioned Rome to leave their vows within the first year. They did not want to be under anyone's authority but the authority of their "inner selves".209

Another example of the failure was the Center For Feeling Therapy in Hollywood, which was found by Rogerian devotees, including a former Jesuit. In the 1980s the center became the target of the largest malpractice suit in California's history, after accusations of gross physical and mental abuse, sexual misconduct and fraud. Thirteen psychologists were cited in the case. 210

In the center one woman was given the assignment to have sex weekly with one of the leaders of the group. Women were forced to put their children up for adoption; others were told to abort them. William Coulson, a psychologist who worked with Rogers later recanted and confessed in an article in 1993 in the Catholic Press: "All the babies were killed, or sent away, in the name of getting in touch with the imperial self." Coulson also said later that what had been created was "really evil." 211

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