My Popular Mechanics piece on bioelectromagnetic weapon reseach is now online, and as Sharon Weinbergers intriguing Washington Post article last week made clear, there has been a great deal of military research into the area of “mind control” (though they would prefer to use the term “behavior modification.”)
Many people believe they are being targeted by such weapons. Certainly it’s a growing phenomenon in the U.S.:
”In the United States, you don’t see nearly as many mentally ill people anymore who have delusions and hallucinations with regard to God and the saints as you did 20 or 30 years ago, when I first doing this work. In our secular society, it’s more a matter of, well, the President or the C.I.A. is affecting my behavior by radio waves or microwave receivers in my teeth.”
But the problem goes way back. One case from London was James Matthews, who said he was being influenced by an implant in his head by a gang using a weird electromagnetic device. This group, one of many, he called the Air Loom Gang, and among the tortures they inlicted on him were implanting thoughts (‘kiteing’), stopping him from speaking (‘fluid locking), cutting his circulation (‘sudden death squeezing) and brain lengthening which would ’cause good sense to appear as insanity, and convert truth to libel’.
So far so typical, except that the case was described in 1810 by John Haslam, the apothecary at the notorious Bedlam correctly the Bethlehem Hospital , the original lunatic asylum. This was the first ever full length clinical description of a single patient, one apparently suffering from delusions of control.
So was Matthews simply a lunatic? Bedlam staff said so, but two doctors declared him completely sane. It seems that Matthews was not incarcerated on medical grounds but on the orders of Lord Liverpool, the Home Office minister, who Matthews had accused of being part of a nefarious plot.
Matthews claimed he had been negotiating a peace settlement with France and had been betrayed. Oddly enough, some of Matthewss story appears to be true; when his mission to Paris failed the French threw him into prison. He behaved quite sanely; in Bedlam Matthews learned architectural drawing, and drew up plans a new hospital building. The Governors gave him 30 for his work and some of the features of his design were incorporated into the new Bedlam. His family maintained he was eccentric but sane.
Haslams account of Matthews Illustrations of Madness: Exhibiting a Singular Case of Insanity was intended to prove that Matthews really was mad. But Matthews kept his own notes on his treatment, notes which found their way to a committee investigating Bedlam some time after his death. These undoubtedly influenced the committee’s decision to dismiss Haslam and order that patients should be treated more humanely in future.
Lord Liverpool went on to become Prime Minister. His approach to dealing with dissent included the Peterloo Massacre, the Cato Street Conspiracy - a plot to kill the king which was actually a set-up by a government spy — and the Derbyshire Insurrection, which was also incited by government agents provocateur.
If Matthews was the victim of a plot, what about the infernal engine which afflicted him, the mind-control machine he called the Air Loom? According to Matthews, it sent out invisible magnetic rays which influenced a magnet implanted in his head and produced many diagrams of it . We may fairly assume that this was a reflection of the fashionable interest in mesmerism and animal magnetism of this period. The alternative is that he was trying to describe advanced technology in an age before the discovery electromagnetic radiation or the electrical nature of the nervous system — and that way surely lies madness.
The case has many parallels with the modern descriptions of ‘gang stalking’ recounted in Sharon’s article and suggests that the situation is a complex one. And if bioelectromagnetic weapons ever actually reach the stage of being fielded, then simply labeling people who claim they are being targeted as ‘crazy’ will no longer be an option.
– David Hambling
UPDATE 3:20 PM: These days lots of people are also worried about the effects of electromagnetic smog. Until scientists like the bioelectromagnetics researchers get to grips with this it will reamin with the fringe, like the makers of this anti-EM spray.
And for an musical last word, it’s hard to beat this.
ALSO:
* Inside the Mind Control Conspiracy, Part I
* Inside the Mind Control Conspiracy, Part II
* U.S. Bioelectromagnetic Weapons Research
* Air Force Plan: Hack Your Nervous System
* Moscow’s Remote-Controlled Heart Attacks
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This is the stuff of the silly season and I guess when ever the dicussion is about defense and warfare this comes up.
The problem is where is the proof? Science is solving many why many of these events happen, one diagnosisable problem that can explain many hallucinations is a condition forst diagnosed in 1760 called “Charles Bonett Syndrom”.
It’s only amatter of time before more of these puzzles will be answered. Meanwhile put the death rays away.
ALLONS,
Byron
“Stewart’s Platoon”
I’ve written about Charles Bonnet Syndrome before (nb, you have to say it with a French accent) — and although delusions of control might be related they are clearly very different.
The proof is that people have been having these experiences for over 200 years. As to the cause, that’s what we need to find.
Death rays are another matter…
I have to ask, with all these stories has anyone ever done a double-blind study scanning the environment of these people with appropriate EM/ultrasound detectors? I mean, if someone claims they are being controlled and you get them to talk about it in a room with detectors (of which they are unaware) and they claim an instance of control without a flicker on the detectors then that could be useful ammunition in convincing them that this is psychological.
And if you DO get a flicker on the detectors, you’ve already got a bunch of people who will be glad to publicize this. It seems pretty win-win.
Mr. Hambling, In your 200 years article, you asked the bioelectromagnetics community to work on the issue of electrosmog. I tried to email you directly, this is all I could find.
Louis Slesin of Microwave News provides an explanation for why there have been no public comments/research and surely won’t be, over the EMR bioeffects controversy, let alone electrosmog by those in the bioelectromagnetic scientific community. Slesin wrote:
EMF research is an underfunded backwater of the scientific community. Before the congressionally mandated $65 million RAPID program got under way last year, most of the available research funds came from the electric utility industry through EPRI and from the DOE, an agency not known for putting radiation safety ahead of its other program objectives. EPRI and the DOE do not look kindly on those who publicly highlight possible health risks.
This is the grubby side of science, where many researchers are as interested in securing contracts and grants
This article is NO major headliner. It IS a Legend, however.
The Air Force was using bioFeedback and Nuero-pathological feedback.….….…thats where you control a computerized/desktop airplane up/down, speed and level and course heading with mind/brain electrical impulses. Bio-Feedback is a little more suddle than NPF. We had training and evaluation schedules based on our specific Bio-FeedBack reports, per each person in my squadron from the colonel to us, the lowley missile monkeys.
That was also back in the days when the iNternet was a single line of LED’s spelling out words and numbers on a huge CRT, running from left to right.
So, go figure the gap between mind control/reading capibility and where we were scientificly, in technology 35+ years ago.
This was being done in 1973–78. 351st SAC Wing/Minuteman MMT, Whiteman AFB, MO
I kid you NOT.
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It’s quite sad to hear of the number of young people
who get into trouble with the law each year because
they believe that other people are talking about or
persecuting them. From what I have read, this often
happens because they do not know that they are hearing
voices until it is too late. Voices can be heard both
inside and outside of the head; the voices can also be
heard to emanate from people’s lips, the tv, radio,
passing cars, from MULTIPLE locations outside of the
head (in external space). Certain regions of the
brain that register the spatial location of sounds are
activated when this happens. Numerous studies are now
being done on how the brain locates the spatial source
of a sound. For example, please see “Listening with
two ears”, an article from Scientific American (2006).
Perhaps, the government, media, and medical
profession should start a campaign to educate and warn
youngsters in schools, colleges and universities about
the dangers posed by auditory hallucinations. Then, a
minority of people with psychosis will not react
violently when they hear auditory hallucinations.
Well, I think that the first and the most important thing that you should tell her is that she should not follow any of the instructions given to her by the voices or in visions. She may talk to the voice/vision, but, should not do anything in the real world on the basis of what the voice/vision tells her; for ex. she should not leave the house if the voices tell her to. In other words, she should not follow what are called “command hallucinations”. I would like to quote some passages from an article from the New York Times on the reality of the voices:
“The findings of studies using brain scanning techniques like positron emission tomography (PET) or functional magnetic resonance imaging (M.R.I.) underscore how persuasive auditory hallucinations are to those who experience them. When patients are hallucinating, areas of the brain involved with auditory perception, speech, emotion and memory show increased blood flow, indicating greater nerve cell activity.
”These people are not just crazy; they’re telling you what their brains are telling them,” said Dr. David Silbersweig, an associate professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University who has studied hallucinations with brain-imaging.“
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“Dr. Hoffman noted that transcranial magnetic stimulation applied to Wernicke’s area appeared to suppress hallucinations in some schizophrenics. ”My view is that in schizophrenia it is not just inner speech or an acoustic memory that is misinterpreted,” Dr. Hoffman said. Instead, he said, patients ”are actually having perceptual experiences that have the same clarity and vividness of external speech.”“
Please tell her that what she saw was NOT God and demons but products of her own mind. The world that we see around us is not only a product of energy and matter but also of our own brains. When our brain receives sensory information from the external world, certain brain circuits are activated. In schizophrenia certain brain regions activate on their own without receiving external sensory information due to problems with the brain’s white and gray matter. Thus people who hear voices have experiences that are very real to them, just as people who take drugs or LSD may have illusions that are real to them. However, these experiences are products of their own minds and not of the outside world.
I wonder whether you can also warn your sister to inform you or a close family member if she starts to feels that other people are talking about her or are persecuting her — she may HEAR them talking about her or SEE and HEAR them talking about her. Certain areas of the brain that register the spatial location of sounds are activated when a person hears voices. Thus your sister may hear voices, talking about her, coming from the neighbour’s house etc; this sometimes happens when auditory hallucinations are heard (see, ‘Listening with two ears’, Scientific American, 2006).
I would encourage you’ll to type in the words “people talking” and “auditory hallucinations” in google, you will find that many voice hearers believe that other people/neighbours etc are talking about/persecuting them (and this often leads to violence) — before they find out that they are hearing voices.
When I first started hearing voices, I was quite scared, but, am now comfortable. The voices/visions may go away in time.
who or where can someone go to who is being targeted by harassment through electromagnetism and energy? to get real help, not psychological.
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