#55 - MANUFACTURING THE CONSENSUAL DOMAIN: George Estabrooks, Milton Erickson, and Weaponized Hypnosis
Added 2021-03-28 21:07:08 +0000 UTCDimitri and Khalid discuss the groundbreaking, unsettling hypnosis research of psychologists George Estabrooks and Milton H. Erickson, programming hypnotic operatives during World War 2, Estabrooks’s eager correspondence with J. Edgar Hoover, hypnotizing subjects without their consent, inducing multiple personalities, right-wing hypno-informants infiltrating communist movements, Estabrooks’s sublimated eugenics and proto-transhumanist beliefs, Erickson’s experiments with automatic writing, the susness of NLP, and Scientology’s bold claim in 2004 that Al Qaeda suicide bombers were being scientifically hypnoprogrammed by arch-sicko psychlo Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri.
