The cure of all implanted behavior is charmingly simple, requiring an understanding and the living application of just one principal. However, from a personal perspective as well as a national security one, it would be wise first to explore the antidote’s evil twin.

A 19th century psychologist, F. C. Hecker, discovered what you are about to read and decided to soft- pedal his findings — with good reason. Hecker discovered the importance of what modern psychologists call “transference, the redirection of loyalties from one to another.” 

In a chapter of his book entitled “Sympathy,” he stressed the existence of an increased rate of suggestibility in any community led or inhabited by (infected) individuals.

As surely as the bubonic plague is contagious, those in close proximity can absorb the unstable mentality of determined manipulators. This causes people to embrace, as moral equivalents, reason and folly, good and evil, while diminishing the value of virtue.

Hecker was referring to an altered state of consciousness through which the masses could be made docile enough to believe and do anything, all from subtly encountered suggestions.

On a brighter note, it is good to know that no suggestion is permanent unless continuously reinforced. Daily doses of resentment and the close proximity of symbols, such as the innocuous-appearing crucifix around the necks of passersby, might well have the effect of the typical post-hypnotic reinforcement for a religious belief system, implanted years ago.

Perhaps you can already see the dangerous ground I am treading. Is it possible that you are not really the Christian (or any other persuasion) you believe you are? Are you the slave of some diabolical substitute?

You must wake up and get unstuck from the reinforcing effects of suggestions. Severely traumatized people have a difficult time breaking free from the past. The core of their being has become intertwined with the identity of an original hate object.

Survival often requires perpetual servitude to vile affections. In many cases, the problem becomes a fear of rejection, a favorite tease of manipulators. This is the reason you cannot say no to unreasonable requests.

Hecker compares the similarity of the programmed masses with the first efforts of an infant mind. “The behavior of children is based on imitation. When imitation exists in the highest degree the victim loses all power of will.

"Far be it from us to attempt to awaken all the various tones of this cord, whose vibrations reveal the profound secrets which lie hidden in the innermost recesses of the soul. "

F. C. Hecker

This occurs as soon as the impression on the senses has become firmly established, producing a condition like that of small animals fascinated by the sight of a serpent.

Hecker’s findings place the independence of the greater proportion of mankind in a very doubtful light. This is the genesis of communism, holding the principals of consensus. It is this forced consensus that demolishes the mind and spirit of the individual.

It also supplants the free thinker with an identity shaped through social approval or disapproval. Here is where a strange sympathy arises for the perversion of good. The homeless are often the recipients of such sympathies by do-gooder manipulators.

More allied to a morbid communal sympathy is the diffusion of violent excitements, especially those of religious or political nature. These have so powerfully agitated nations of ancient and modern times that they caused a total loss of power over the will of the people, resulting in actual diseases of the mind and body.

Russian psychiatrists thoroughly understood the principals of demolishing the collective mind and establishing a morbid sympathy for perversion. This is the mechanism for the transference of the people’s loyalties from their own common sense to those in power. 

Describing this pernicious trait is one thing, charting the fix is quite another. Hecker wrote, “Far be it from us to attempt to awaken all the various tones of this cord, whose vibrations reveal the profound secrets which lie hidden in the innermost recesses of the soul. We might well want powers adequate for so vast an undertaking.”  

It has long been known that any excitement of an emotional nature, such as that found at rock concerts or highly charged religious preaching, can hypnotically transform loyalties and induce the very transference described above.

The deadliest shocks are those delivered through deprivation, extreme violence and a history of horrible confusion and injustice. Historical tyrants like Stalin have no corner on this market. Parents too, can play this game.