Subliminal Advertising Leaves Its Mark On The Brain

[Helios Panoptes]

Science Daily — University College London researchers have found the first physiological evidence that invisible subliminal images do attract the brain's attention on a subconscious level. The wider implication for the study, published in Current Biology, is that techniques such as subliminal advertising, now banned in the UK but still legal in the USA, certainly do leave their mark on the brain.

Using fMRI, the study looked at whether an image you aren't aware of ¬-- but one that reaches the retina -- has an impact on brain activity in the primary visual cortex, part of the occipital lobe. Subjects' brains did respond to the object even when they were not conscious of having seen it.

Dr Bahador Bahrami, of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and the UCL Department of Psychology, said: "What's interesting here is that your brain does log things that you aren't even aware of and can't ever become aware of. We show that there is a brain response in the primary visual cortex to subliminal images that attract our attention -- without us having the impression of having seen anything. These findings point to the sort of impact that subliminal advertising may have on the brain. What our study doesn't address is whether this would then influence you to go out and buy a product. I believe that it's likely that subliminal advertising may affect our decisions -- but that is just speculation at this point."

Subjects wore red-blue filter glasses that projected faint pictures of everyday objects (such as pliers and an iron) to one eye and a strong flashing image known as 'continuous flash suppression' to the other. This recently developed technique effectively erases subjects' awareness of the faint images so that they were unable to localise the faint images on screen. At the same time, subjects performed either an easy task -- picking out the letter T from a stream of letters, or a task that required more concentration in which subjects had to pick out the white N or blue Z from the same stream.

During the harder task, the subjects' brains blocked out the subliminal image and the fMRI scan did not detect any associated neural activity. This finding -- that the brain does not pick up on subliminal stimuli if it is too busily occupied with other things -- shows that some degree of attention is needed for even the subconscious to pick up on subliminal images.

Dr Bahrami said: "This is exciting research for the scientific community because it challenges previous thinking -- that what is subconscious is also automatic, effortless and unaffected by attention. This research shows that when your brain doesn't have the capacity to pay attention to an image, even images that act on our subconscious simply do not get registered."

The research challenges the theory of the pioneering American psychologist and philosopher, William James, (1842--1910), who said: "We are conscious of what we attend to -- and not conscious of what we do not attend to".

The team's findings show that there are situations where consciousness and attention don't go hand in hand.

Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by University College London.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070308121938.htm

[gandalf]

Cultural Instauration: A history of government interest in Subliminal Audio Programming

The following essay by “John Boisdarc” provides some background and support to the intriguing concept of Alexander Thiele, as presented by him to this month’s Ateney (Athenaeum) in Moscow. Much of his presentation I reproduce at the end of John’s piece. It announces itself as “a Successful Group Evolutionary Strategy using Subliminal Audio Programming”.

GW

Let me first of all attempt to dispel any preconceived notions that subliminal programming is bunk. It is a curious aspect of subliminal programming that people do not wish to recognize its effectiveness, even while it is being worked upon them successfully, non-stop, 24/7, via television, radio, and almost every other form of electronic entertainment (including, since the 80’s, subliminal messages embedded in screen savers used on personal computers).

The question must be asked: why do the victims of this precision technology refuse to recognize its efficacy, despite the fact that it is being constantly, successfully used against them? In order to answer the question, we must examine the relatively recent origins of subliminal programming as it is perceived by the public. I will strive to be as mercifully brief as possible.

In 1957, a journalist named Vance Packard produced a book, The Hidden Persuaders. It was a huge hit. Among other things addressed in his book, he examined the use of subliminal advertising techniques. (Subliminal means “below the limen”, a term psychologists use to describe the threshold of consciousness.) Mr Packard also critiqued the use of subliminal methodology in swaying the body politic in its choice of elected politicians - a practice he had studied and documented in depth.

As I have said, the book was immensely popular, and the public outcry of indignation, at having been abused in such a sinister manner caused US Representatives Frank Boykin (AL) and Craig Hosmer (CA), in 1958, to introduce into Congress two bills proposing to outlaw the use of subliminal advertising and projection by radio and television, and prescribing penalties for the same. Both bills died on the vine, quite probably because the politicians, having witnessed in recent elections the powerful effects of subliminal persuasion upon the body politic, were disinclined to discard this powerful weapon. Therefore, subliminal projection, not having been outlawed, continued to be used and refined.

Now, fast-forward to 1973. Dr Wilson Bryan Key published a book, Subliminal Seduction. It was the first of a series that eventually became classroom material in high schools, colleges, and universities. Dr Key´s works addressing subliminal manipulation of the general populace were somewhat overwrought, quite harebrained in places, and in at least one instance Dr Key acknowledged having falsified data. (Some of you will recognize his work as representing “revelation of the method”, but that is another topic). Suffice it to say, that Dr Key´s primary accomplishment - if not his intent - was the popularization of the notion that subliminal programming is voodoo science, and bunk. Nevertheless, one year later, in 1974, the Federal Communications Commission found it necessary to issue an edict ostensibly forbidding the use of subliminal projection, stating:

We believe that the use of subliminal perception is inconsistent with the obligations of a licensee, and therefore we take this occasion to make clear that broadcasts employing such techniques are contrary to the public interest. Whether effective or not, such broadcasts clearly are intended to be deceptive.

Their vague decision - toothless, actually - was reinforced three years later by another, similar ruling in 1977. This is all a matter of public record. More recently, a furor was also generated in the United States during the year 2000 presidential campaign, when the Republican National Committee was reproached for the use of poorly disguised subliminals in an anti-Al Gore television commercial. They were caught red-handed, but their methods since have apparently not been as crude. Despite the duplicitous rulings of the FCC, subliminal projection has continued to be used against our people, mercilessly.

Now, among this astute assembly there may be one or two folks who never watch television or listen to radio, and if so, I wish to congratulate them on that account. But as for the rest of us: do we really believe that subliminal programming does not work? Well, I believe it does work. Just as have many of you, I have spent my life trying to salvage a fitting civilization for our people, and have found myself more often than not defeated at almost every turn. I cannot compete with television and radio, newspapers and film, and popular music. The powerful subliminal directions they command from everyone in their thrall are the modern-day source of the destruction of the West; the Imperium we seek is deliberately thwarted by the subliminal programming foisted upon our people.

This subliminal programming technology has been refined and perfected, and used against our Folk as a weapon of destruction; destroying our sense of social identity; exacerbating our innate individualistic tendencies to our detriment; all of it geared to prevent our development of a successful group evolutionary strategy; causing us to self-destruct as a race. Well, I´ve got some news for you: we can use that weapon, too. Swords cut both ways.

Now let me tell you something about Jean D’Arc ...

John Boisdarc

Excerpts from an essay by Alexander Thiele: Cultural Instauration

The Perfection of a Successful Group Evolutionary Strategy using Subliminal Audio Programming (to become the Most Formidable Opponent Our Enemies Have Ever Encountered)

Like you I have invested my life with studying and thinking about our people and the historical struggle for the ethical and moral proposition necessary to safeguard our ethnic genetic interests. In that regard my purpose is the same as yours: to legitimize and build a movement for our racial defense; Our White Imperium: Europe - Russia - America.

... The objective of my participation in this Athenaeum is to present our people with a solution that no one has ever brought to a forum like this. The solution is: a group evolutionary strategy that uses high technology positive subliminal audio to free our people from the media’s suicide inducing hypnosis and to get on with the end game of our self directed evolution, now.

Subliminal is defined as: below or slightly outside the threshold of normal waking consciousness. Sublime, its linguistic root indicates - elevated or lofty in thought, to make higher, nobler, or purer.

Subliminal audio programming is probably the most powerful human resource technology known. The reason you do not already know about it is because it is being heavily suppressed by our enemies. The last thing they want is for you to use it. Why is that?

Ethnic tendencies are automatic, unconscious mechanisms, but despite the power of these ancient mechanisms, they can be suppressed or diverted from their original purpose by cultural programming that takes advantage of some recently evolved cognitive machinery: the conscious processing mechanisms of the human prefrontal cortex. [Kevin MacDonald, Psychology and White Ethnocentrism, 2007, The Occidental Quarterly]

Subliminal programming is a fact of modern life.* The Americans in particular are exposed to it day and night enslaved without a point of reference from birth to death by anti cultural subliminally delivered signals.

Anthropology shows us that the frontal cortex of the brain is what separates us from the chimpanzees. It is a recent development, supposedly less than a few hundred thousand years old.

The study of IMPLICIT or instinctive behavior and EXPLICIT or learned behavior shows that learned behavior is centered in the frontal cortex.

Study has also shown that things like the concept of race identity is also centered there. This was determined by MRI observation of the brain while pictures were being flashed before the test subjects eyes. [MacDonald]

How does positive subliminal programming work?

It works by synchronizing both hemispheres of the brain which unifies and protects the mind from the negative subliminal assault. This causes the externally implanted double mind and its accompanying catatonic state to disappear do to your increased awareness. It also stimulates the frontal cortex, the center of the reasoning mind, which opens the individual person for the ultimate spiritual transformation: the desire to act on their God given ability for self directed evolution. By using these tools we really can become The Ubermench, now, in this generation, and bequeath the ability of future generations to do the same. It is our technology too.

What do Subliminal Programming signals consist of?

All subliminal audio products consist of tones called the carrier frequency which stimulate the frontal cortex and verbal affirmations which stimulate the mind. These signals are repeated over and over and over and are amalgamated by some percent each listening, exactly the way language is acquired. The developers’ commentaries reveal that they use the most modern equipment to determine which tones and frequencies produce the most dramatic stimulation of the brain. According to them, post mortem biopsies on classically trained musicians and articulate speakers show that such persons have a much heavier dendrite concentration on the left frontal lobe than people not so trained. As this is where speech and quick thinking are centered some developers have concentrated on sound frequencies that effect it specifically. They appear to have proven that listening to certain tones can cause the brain to actually develop dendrites, the neuro pathways used to conduct the brains business. Thus a person who exposes them selves to these sounds under optimal conditions can quickly realize a better functioning mind. The commentary by Centerpointe.com, on the development of their program called Dive, is more than worth anyone’s effort to acquire. The more one listens the more one gains. Explicit becomes Implicit, just like language.

Historical Use of Bell Tones to Stimulate the Pre Frontal Cortex

Bells and gongs have been used as signals for thousands of years. Less well known is the fact that the geniuses who discovered and refined bell tone technology knew then that the sound of certain bell tones could create powerful conditions inside the mind of a person praying. That must be why bell tones were used as an aid to facilitate prayer during the Middle Ages.

The protocol for services used by the Church in the early 1400s went like this: three times per day the church bells would be rung to call the faithful to prayer. Once congregated the Priest would say a few words relative to the present situation, read a passage from the bible and then the church bells would be rung again to help the people pray. Specifically, the church bells rang while the faithful prayed. This had an effect on people, as it was designed to, and the most spectacular example we know of is the life story of Jean d’Arc.

... Jean d’ Arc heard the church bells while she was still in her mothers womb and of course too on the very day she was born.

... As she grew into more consciousness Jeannette’s prayers were for the deliverance of her people from the serious depredations of the on-going war. According to the archive her favorite prayer was The Angels Prayer. ... And one day in the summer of her 13th year, while working in her family’s garden, she began to experience her grand vision. Over the next five years, to the sound of the ringing church bells, the vision became a mission from God. After considerable consultation with her family and those in authority who would listen to her she went off to make war on the enemies of her people.

... Jean d’ Arc’s life story is the preeminent example of a human being who instinctively responded to the influence of the calibrated audio resonance built into the bell by the craftsmen who cast it for the purpose they designed. After coming of age she consciously exploited the tone of the bell in the village church of Domremy as the window to her source of power every day of her life. Her vast and far reaching accomplishments attest to the power of the bell when animated by a person serious about their business and receptive to their own progress.

What can positive subliminal programming do for our Race?

First - Positive subliminal audio programming is the antidote to the media’s external influence. It gives us a conscious choice and thus actual control over our own programming. This enables the self to sublimate the individualistic ego to a wider range of empowering perspectives heretofore discourage by the enemy media. Powerful perspectives allow individuals to better direct their unique abilities towards the tasks required of effecting a successful group evolutionary strategy.

Second - this is real self directed evolution and our people can actually increase our deliverable intelligence by a few percent in a short period of time, as long as we set the example.

Third - with sharper minds we will have sharper daggers and as night follows the day we will become more effective fighters.

... No other technology can enable an average person to quickly master the infinite facets of themselves and the wide range of skills necessary to compete in the world today. We can do this with these super high technology audio tools. To suggest that our enemies are not using the same is plain naive. Use them or be used by those that do.

Now that we recognize that this technology is a key tool of political power in the modern world it is imperative that its diffusion goes far and wide amongst our people as quickly as possible. What would happen to our situation if we had 100,000 with a faith to equal just 1% of Jean d’ Arc?

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