If you were Chief of CIA Consciousness Ops
By Jon Rappoport
There is an obsession to say that everything is made out of something.
Who knows where it started? With the Egyptian pyramid builders? The Sumerians?
In the modern era, the fervor has reached a high point.
Physicists, biologists, and chemists are relentless in their
pursuit of consciousness as a function of the brain. It has to be the
brain. All those synapses and neurons and chemicals...and underneath
them, the atoms and the sub-atomic particles...somehow these tiny
particles conspire to produce consciousness and awareness.
Yet these same scientists deny that a sub-atomic particle
carries any trace of awareness. The particles flow. They obey laws.
That's all.
So the experts are painted into a corner. They then
speculate: "Well, you see, the increased ability to process information,
the complexity of structure---naturally, this implies consciousness."
No it doesn't.
A Ferrari is complex. So is the Empire State Building. So is the IBM's best computer. And? Where is the consciousness?
You, sitting there right now, reading these words---you
understand the words; you KNOW you're reading them; you're not just
processing information. YOU ARE CONSCIOUS.
If a physicist wants to say that you, knowing you're reading,
are just a phenomenon of atoms in motion, let him try, let him explain.
Let him do more than bloviate.
Imagine you were the chief of a CIA section called
Consciousness Covert Ops. What would you try to do, given that your
motive, as always, is control?
You would try to convince the population that consciousness
isn't free and wide-ranging and powerful and independent. You would try
to narrow the popular belief about consciousness.
What better way than to focus on the brain as the seat of all awareness?
"The brain functions according to laws. We're discovering
more and more about those laws. We can determine when the brain is
malfunctioning. We're learning how to correct those malfunctions."
Indeed.
You're spinning narrative about the brain as if it were a car
that has to visit the shop. That's what you want. You want to make
people believe their brains need fixes, because, after all, you come out
of the long tradition of CIA MKULTRA mind control.
When the brain comes into the shop, you can try to reprogram
it. You can experiment. You can apply the latest technology. You can
attempt to insert controls. You can place monitors in the brain, in
order to observe it in real time.
At a more basic, yes, philosophic level, you want to
eliminate any sort of movement claiming that consciousness is separate
from the brain. You want to snuff that idea out. It's
counter-productive, to say the least. It could give rise to a
renaissance of an old outmoded notion called: freedom.
What could be more free, more independent, more unique, more
creative than individual consciousness that has a non-material basis?
You want to do everything you can to equate consciousness
with the brain and, thus, the modern idea of the computer. Yes, the
computer. Perfect.
"Consciousness is a computer operating at a very high level."
"All computers can be improved."
"All computers can malfunction. They can be repaired."
And then, the ultimate coup:
"Consciousness? A very old idea that, in light of the
progress of technology, has no merit. It's really information
processing. The brain handles that. The brain is a computer. We're
learning how to build a better brain..."
You're shifting the focus of the old 1950s MKULTRA program,
which mainly involved drugs and hypnosis, to a new arena. You're coming
at the territory inside the skull from a number of angles. You're the
next generation of Brave New World.
And right across town, the Pentagon and its research branch,
DARPA, is deeply involved in a number of allied research projects. For
example, the cortical modem, a little piece of equipment that costs
about $10.
The gist? Insert proteins into neurons, and then beam photons
into those proteins, thus creating image displays that bypass the
normal channels of perception.
Virtual reality with no headset. The project is still in its
early stages, but the direction is clear: give the "user" an image
display beyond his ability to choose.
It's touted as an overlay. The person, walking down the
street, can still see the street, but he can also see what you give him,
what you insert into his visual cortex. Of course, as the technology
advances, you could take things further: block out physical reality and
immerse the person in the virtual.
DARPA's enthusiasm about this project, as usual, exceeds its
current grasp, but its determination to succeed is quite genuine. And
the money is there.
Think about this. Which way is a bright college student going
to go? He can study ancient philosophy, in the least popular department
on campus. He can read the Vedanta, and plow through its explications
of consciousness. Or he can study biology and physics, and then try to
land an entry job with the Pentagon, where he can fiddle with the human
brain for fun and profit. This student has been thoroughly immersed in
computers since he could crawl. He understands what they do and how they
work. He's been taught, over and over, that the human brain
(consciousness) is a computer. So what path will he take?
Over and above everything I'm pointing out in this article,
there is a human capacity called imagination. It's the wild card in the
deck. It's the greatest wild card ever known. It is, in fact, the
cutting edge of consciousness. It invents new realities. It releases
gigantic amounts of buried energy. And it's entirely an individual
proposition.
I built my second collection, Exit From The Matrix, on that
basis: the liberation and expansion of imagination. Not just in theory,
but in practice. There are dozens of imagination techniques to work
with.
Brain=computer=consciousness is the greatest covert op on the
planet. It's supported with major money and labs and journals and
armies of psychiatrists and neurological professionals and physicists
and the military.
And the op is completely false, because, again, the very
scientists who push it are saying the brain is composed of sub-atomic
particles THAT CONTAIN ZERO CONSCIOUSNESS.
Think about that.
They're saying consciousness arises out of particles that have no consciousness.
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