Mind Control and You

(THIS IS JUST AN INTRO — CONSIDER READING IT ALL TO GET SOME IDEA OF WHAT WE ARE DEALING WITH AND WHERE IT ALL CAME FROM)

Unveiling MKULTRA

Why I Mapped the Mind’s Hidden Architecture

No sane person sets out to write 50,000 words on mind control. And yet, here we are.

I’ve been studying this theme for the last few years with my ‘study group’ – watching patterns emerge across seemingly unrelated domains. But finding the right framework to discuss it proved challenging. How do you talk about something this vast without sounding paranoid or academic to the point of inaccessibility? The four-part allegory—The LaboratoryThe TheaterThe NetworkThe Mirror—finally gave me the structure I needed.

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You Don’t Have to Read All of This

I know most people have little time or interest in wading through this much content on such a challenging topic. That’s completely fine. It can be consumed as a traditional essay series, a sprawling research document, a reference point, or simply sections to explore based on what intrigues you. It might even become a springboard for your own research.

Why is it so lengthy? Pattern recognition requires volume—a few instances might be coincidence, but dozens across different domains reveal an architectural signature. The length isn’t verbosity; it’s necessity. But candidly, this was also just me needing to get this off my chest.

If you prefer audio to text, I was honored that the brilliant and courageous Naomi Wolf had me on her podcast to discuss this series. She first invited me last week:

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“Radical Philosopher Josh Stylman: Is Reality Manufactured?”
“In a magisterial four-part series of essays, technologist Josh Stylman shares his deep research into the history and methods of cultural production over the past 120 years. He highlights the founding of the secretive UK institute Tavistock and reveals how cultural and ideological notions, narratives, and even personalities were intentionally produced a…

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And we just had a follow-up conversation yesterday that went even deeper…

Outspoken with Dr Naomi Wolf
“Josh Stylman: Is Reality Constructed?”
“Josh Stylman returns to discuss Part Three of his series on mind manipulation. From celebrity concert rituals to the Nazi occult to your earbuds—are clues to the manipulation of consciousness all around us? Did the world shift in 2012? Is the Internet of Humans underway…

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These discussions dive into the implications of cognitive sovereignty in our current technological landscape and explore some of the most compelling patterns from the series.

Throughout this process, I walked several tightropes that can be challenging to balance:

First, presenting an academically credible case while making it accessible to general readers—similar to how Marvel movies work for both comic book enthusiasts and casual viewers. Documentation matters, but so does readability.

Second, discussing ideas that sound improbable without coming across as a complete lunatic. When the documented history involves government mind control programs and patents for neural manipulation, the challenge isn’t finding evidence—it’s presenting it in a way that doesn’t immediately trigger dismissal.

Third, creating content that’s both educational and engaging. Information alone isn’t enough if readers can’t connect with it emotionally or conceptually.

Whether I succeeded at any of these is entirely up to you as readers. My goal wasn’t to convince but to document and connect—to map territories that are typically kept separate.

This project started with questions I couldn’t shake – about why reality feels increasingly curated, why we see the same events so differently, why our attention seems less our own each day. I didn’t begin with conclusions seeking evidence; I started with observations seeking patterns.

What emerged wasn’t one smoking gun but thousands of coordinated sparks across history, media, technology, and culture. The patterns became impossible to ignore. Consider just a few of the most compelling:

  • Dr. Louis Jolyon West’s recurring presence at pivotal historical moments – from examining Jack Ruby after Kennedy’s assassination to visiting Timothy McVeigh in prison after the Oklahoma City bombing. The statistical probability of the same CIA-funded mind control researcher appearing at so many historically significant events defies pure coincidence.
  • McLean Hospital serving as both an MKULTRA research site and the institution that “treated” numerous creative figures who emerged with dramatically altered personalities and creative directions – from Sylvia Plath to James Taylor to Ray Charles.
  • The overwhelming documentation of neural influence technology in patents – not speculation but actual technical specifications showing the evolution from classified research to consumer products. Apple’s recent patent for monitoring brain waves through AirPods represents the culmination of a technological lineage that began in government laboratories.

These examples represent just a fraction of the evidence I’ve gathered. Believe it or not, what I published is actually a condensed version—I could easily have made this five times longer, but the challenge wasn’t finding patterns but deciding which ones to include without overwhelming readers (though I realize I may have done that anyway).

These examples aren’t isolated anomalies—they’re glimpses of a deeper architecture.

Why mind control is the root of everything

I realized that mind control isn’t just another topic—it’s the foundation that makes all other manipulation possible. If consciousness itself can be programmed, everything downstream—culture, politics, economics, identity—becomes malleable. The fights we think we’re having about ideology or values are often surface manifestations of deeper programming. Without control of perception and thought, the other systems lack their power. This is why the battle for cognitive sovereignty is so crucial.

Edward Bernays’ propaganda techniques were just the beginning. When Operation Mockingbird revealed the CIA’s systematic infiltration of media organizations, it demonstrated something far more insidious than mere propaganda—a recognition that humans are mimetic creatures whose thoughts can be directed through controlled information channels. Our rulers understand this fundamental aspect of human psychology and have refined their methods accordingly.

For new readers interested in the foundations of these ideas, my earlier works provide context for this larger exploration. The Information FactoryEngineering Reality, The Technocratic BlueprintFiat EverythingDivided We Fall, and The Second Matrix each examine different facets of how perception is constructed and deployed. These essays map how synthetic reality manifests across various domains, but mind control represents the source code behind it all—the most fundamental level of manipulation. In software terms, it’s at the bottom of the stack.

Beyond a Single Essay

I’ve spent the last few years going down these rabbit holes, and yes, I’m the guy derailing dinner conversations with CIA mind control operations while everyone else is discussing the latest Netflix series. I’m fully aware I’ve transformed into the Charlie Day meme—wild-eyed, connecting invisible dots with red string, trying to explain that yes, all of this really does connect. The difference is my evidence actually exists in declassified documents.

The deeper I dug, the more I realized this isn’t just another topic to file alongside “interesting things I’ve researched.” This is the operating system everything else runs on. It’s not a subject—it’s the lens through which all subjects must be viewed. If our perception itself is being engineered, then everything downstream—from politics to culture wars to what brand of toothpaste you prefer—becomes secondary.

Friends asked why I didn’t just write a “normal” essay. But I’d already crossed the event horizon of this research—once you start seeing the connections, it becomes impossible to unsee them or to explain them briefly.

So yes, I wrote what amounts to a small book on mind control. I’m not entirely sure what that says about my mental health or social life, but I do know it wasn’t a choice—it was something I had to get out of my system.

I’ve only scratched the surface here. There’s way more to explore, but this is the story I thought I’d tell for now. And it’s not a topic that you write about once and it goes away. If what I’m suggesting is correct, it’s critical to understanding the war we’re fighting for freedom of our minds.

I wrote this because I needed to make sense of my own experience. Because ignoring patterns doesn’t make them disappear. Because sovereignty starts with recognition.

If you see what I’m seeing—welcome to the conversation. If not, that’s okay too. Just keep looking at the world with fresh eyes. Sovereignty starts with recognition, whether or not you agree with my map.

from:    https://stylman.substack.com/p/unveiling-mkultra?publication_id=24667&post_id=163400365&isFreemail=true&r=19iztd&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Let’s Protect Our Kids

6 ‘Noncompliance’ Strategies for Protecting Kids and Teens in 2023

Since 2020, parents have had to contend with increasingly brazen efforts by governments, schools, foundations, Big Tech, Big Pharma and others to hijack, injure or destroy children’s minds and bodies. Here are some strategies for parents to help kids resist the pressure to comply.

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Since 2020, parents have had to contend with increasingly brazen efforts by governmentsschoolsfoundationsBig TechBig Pharma and others to hijack, injure or destroy children’s minds and bodies.

Far from being piecemeal or merely opportunistic responses to a convenient “pandemic,” these assaults on children — and adults, too — reflect a well-financed, long-term control agenda aimed at implementation of digital identities, social scoring and “full monitoring and tracking of every human being through … mechanisms already in place.”

At the “Defeat the Mandates” rally in January 2022, Children’s Health Defense Chairman and Chief Litigation Counsel Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., asserted, “Nobody in the history of the planet has ever complied their way out of totalitarian control” and reminded the public, “Every time you comply, you get weaker.”

Kennedy also warned, “they’re coming for our children.”

As if in confirmation, infantskindergartners and college students were badgered throughout the year to get — and then suffered atrocious damage from — COVID-19 shots, despite overwhelming evidence that the jabs urgently needed to be withdrawn from the market.

Clued in to these and other dangers crowding around their children, a growing number of parents recognized the need for noncompliance.

Keeping noncompliance as the watchword for 2023, here are some actions that could make a real difference in the coming year.

Choose home schooling

In a nine-part series written earlier this year, journalist Corey Lynn of Corey’s Digs described comprehensive social engineering efforts — “obedience training” — rolling out in coordinated fashion in 110 countries, in part via school-based “Social and Emotional Learning” programs.

Implemented by educators, counselors and other professionals in “public schools, charter schools, after-school programs, summer camps, virtual schools and remote schooling,” the goal is, according to Lynn, “shaping minds, regulating emotions, controlling behaviors, instilling twisted beliefs, and building an obedient workforce.”

As Anna L. Noble put it in an April 2022 article in The Defender, “Schools provide a useful testing ground to experiment with ways to hold the attention of children, develop nudges, and elicit desirable behavioral responses.”

Scathing education whistleblower Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, a now-deceased former senior policy advisor for the U.S. Department of Education, decried the “deliberate dumbing down of America” and traced the education system’s shift “from academics to behavioral modification” back to at least 1965.

Iserbyt observed that the Department of Education did not exist prior to its 1979 creation under the Carter Administration, stating, “There is nowhere in the constitution that calls for a Department of Education.”

Even private schools, under the thumb of the agenda-driven National Association of Independent Schools, appear to have lost any vestiges of “independence,” with enrollment contracts reportedly prohibiting parents “from ‘[voicing] strong disagreement’ with school policy or curricula, under threat of expulsion.”

Instead of continuing to expect something different from an “abusive” educational system, Lynn suggests that home schooling can be a powerful form of noncompliance.

Many parents apparently agree — responding to schools’ disastrous imposition of measures like remote learning and masking in 2020, a record number of households turned to home schooling.

Prior to COVID-19, roughly 3.4% of school-age children were home-schoolers, but by the start of the 2020-2021 school year, the U.S. Census Bureau’s estimate had risen to 11.1%.

Home schooling is now the fastest-growing form of education in the U.S.

Stop the poisoning

Earlier this month, more than a third of parents surveyed (35%) — up from less than one-fourth (23%) in 2019 — questioned school vaccine mandates,

And this was only the latest in a string of reports addressing rising parental ambivalence about “routine” childhood vaccines.

These trends suggest that a critical mass of parents is coming to see vaccines as a “con man trick,” understanding that promises of vaccine safety were false and conflict-of-interest-riddled well before COVID-19 shots came along — and in fact, since the very inception of childhood vaccination programs.

The world’s vaccine experts conceded this point in a roundabout manner at a World Health Organization Global Vaccine Safety Summit in late 2019, as did Danish researcher and long-time vaccine insider Christine Stabell Benn at around the same time.

Benn commented, “Vaccination opponents are justified in being concerned [about safety],” adding:

“No vaccines have been studied for their non-specific effects on overall health, and before we have examined these, we cannot actually determine that the vaccines are safe.”

Benn’s colleague Peter Aaby admitted, also in 2019, “Most of you think that we know what all our vaccines are doing; we don’t.”

In mid-2021, Benn and Aaby cautiously argued against COVID-19 shots for children in the high-status BMJ scientific journal.

Given the shocking odds of vaccine injury that already prevailed prior to COVID-19 — conservatively estimated in a 2010 government-commissioned report at one in every 39 vaccines administered — it is not surprising that the carnage from COVID-19 jabs would now be swelling the ranks of questioners and “ex-vaxxers.”

However, vaccination — even with its payload of known and undisclosed toxic ingredients and apparent batch-to-batch variability — is far from the only vehicle for poisoning our most vulnerable.

Parents willing to do their own research and forge their family’s own nutritional and healthcare path will find that it may be within their reach to lessen, if not entirely eliminate, their children’s exposure to other common poisons such as food additivesglyphosateorganochlorine and organophosphate pesticides and over-the-counter drugs like acetaminophen, all of which come with vastly underreported dangers.

Reduce screen time

In 2006, author Richard Louv coined the term “nature-deficit disorder” in the subtitle to his book “Last Child in the Woods,” suggesting that today’s “wired generation,” with parents’ conscious or unconscious permission, has unwisely prioritized screens over time in nature.

With the worsening of children’s screen habits over the past several years, the nature deficit has become a “hot topic.”

Worried researchers also describe how screens are displacing “developmentally beneficial activities” as basic as sleep, physical activity, family interactions and book reading.

The related problem of screen or social media addiction — linked not just to sleeplessness but to eating disorders and outcomes like suicide — has become the focus of lawsuits alleging that social media companies “aggressively” deploy algorithms designed to addict children and adolescents.

Discovering the major role that “social influencers” seem to play in the exploding phenomenon of “rapid onset gender dysphoria” among girls, author Abigail Shrier’s top recommendation in her book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” is to not give one’s daughter a smartphone.

As “Financial Rebellion” and the Solari Report’s Catherine Austin Fitts explains, “Children are targets of some of the most powerful people and dangerous technology on the planet,” and it is parents’ job to “understand this and protect them.”

Teach kids to use cash, not plastic

In late 2020, Bank for International Settlements General Manager Augustín Carstens shared central bankers’ unfriendly vision of a monetary system enabling complete control of all transactions through central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) which, ominously, would also allow central banks to turn people’s money on and off at will.

Unfortunately, the younger generations are marching heedlessly toward this dystopian vision, with millennials, according to 2021 research by Capital One, “increasingly moving away from cash spending” in favor of digital payment systems.

Pushing a “convenience” narrative, some banks — seemingly unaware that CBDCs threaten their own future — are promoting the cashless agenda by offering high school debit cards that double as school ID cards, telling parents they’ll no longer have to “worry about lost lunch money.”

Fitts is a strong proponent of revitalizing the use of cash.

Parents can help by not only being cash role models themselves but by having their children “start handling cash when they are young.”

In 2015, Editor-at-Large Janet Bodnar of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance opined that “using cash is the best way to get young minds thinking wisely about money,” including older teens who can benefit from “the discipline of managing a stash of real cash.”

Bodnar dismissed as flawed the parental argument that plastic can teach kids “financial responsibility.”

A British math expert told The Guardian in 2021, “Being able to handle money and buy something yourself is very special: it builds up your confidence with money.”

Don’t fall for mental health traps 

Over the years, many parents have learned to be wary of recommendations coming from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an agency so accustomed to conflicts of interest and fake science that it is not embarrassed to use the same PR firm as Big Pharma.

Thus, calls for more mental health screening and greater access to “care” — from birth through young adulthood — by CDC and CDC/pharma front groups like the American

Academy of Pediatrics deserve careful scrutiny.

As recently outlined in The Defender, cradle-to-grave psychiatric surveillance is a stealth tool for social control, and also risks stigmatizing and potentially life-threatening consequences like overdiagnosis, overmedicalization and overmedication.

Schools increasingly serve as the delivery mechanism for mental health screening and services, but as the Los-Angeles-based Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) — a mental health watchdog group — warned in a fact sheet, the “subjective and unscientific” mental health screening tools that schools are using are “developed by psychiatrists predominantly with financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.”

According to CCHR:

“Mental health screening asks young students embarrassing, personal and potentially upsetting questions that psychiatrists have worded in such a way that no student could escape being labeled mentally ill at some point during their education.”

CCHR adds, “These questionnaires can result in psychological or psychiatric intervention in the lives of a child and his or her family — often against their will or under threat.”

For households that are not home schooling, the watchdog group recommends that parents become aware of what is happening, sign exemption forms prior to mental health screening or counseling and “unite to get psychiatric screening expelled from schools.”

Stop financing the enemy

Author and researcher Dr. Naomi Wolf recently braved the cold in front of her alma mater Yale University to make the case that the university’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates turn students into “medical hostages” and constitute human trafficking.

In her Substack account of the Yale visit, Wolf described conversations with parents, who said “their children had begged them not to speak out, not to call the Dean, not to advocate for them to protect them from these injections, in any way,” due to the fear of reprisal and expulsion.

However, parents have a duty to make sure their young people understand what they are trading off for prestige — including, potentially, their health, their future fertility or their life.

Moreover, even if, as Wolf alleges, universities are now more beholden to government contracts than to those who pay tuition, college students and their parents still represent a powerful economic bloc capable of voting with their feet.

One tool at parents’ disposal, suggests Wolf, is to escrow potential donations to show universities the funds they are missing out on.

But parents who give their current or soon-to-be college students the permission and courage to shun any higher education institution that shows itself willing to poison them and deprive them of their constitutional freedoms can offer their children an even more powerful life lesson.

A high school student who recognized that “mandates will not end as long as we participate” developed a letter for college admissions offices (available as a template for others) that says:

“At this time, I’m only considering schools, colleges or universities that do not require a Covid-19 vaccine and that would mean the initial series, any boosters and including upcoming requirements to be considered ‘up to date.’ Medical freedom and body autonomy are my highest priority.”

Say no to the control grid

Although this article has focused on measures to protect young people, the control grid — in the form of interventions like digital IDsvaccine passports and CBDCs — is also coming after adults.

As Kennedy wrote in the afterword to his bestseller, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” “We can bow down and comply … Or we can say no. We have a choice, and it is not too late.”

CHD.TV’s “Financial Rebellion” offers weekly suggestions on how to not comply.

In Kennedy’s words:

“We can say no to compliance with jabs for work, no to sending children to school with forced testing and masking, no to censored social media platforms, no to buying products from the companies bankrupting and seeking to control us. These actions are not easy, but living with the consequence of inaction would be far harder. By calling on our moral courage, we can stop this march towards a global police state.”

from:    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/protecting-kids-teens-noncompliance/