Serge Benhayon can’t do this –The Myth of Brainwashing and Thought

Reform

In my first blog The Myth of Brainwashing and Thought Reform – Esther Rockett

Acupuncturist does not know anything about cults – Part 1, I explained how there was no

credible evidence of any techniques that resulted in thought reform or brainwashing. In fact,

this theory was no more than a science fiction fantasy, developed by the CIA to ensure the

American public was not demoralized by POW taking up the beliefs and values of their

communist captors. This fantastical theory was then adopted by the anti-cult movement as the

perfect ruse to validate their kidnapping and ‘deprogramming’ of those they believed they were

‘rescuing’ from dangerous cults. There was no basis to this theory and its main proponents

pretty much wrecked their careers promoting this nonsense (Anthony, 1999).

Another part of the discredited CIA theory is

that there are powerful covert hypnotic

techniques that overwhelm free will. Esther

Rockett claims that Serge Benhayon’s lectures

and meditations are hypnotic and put his

audience in dissociative states that then

allows him to control thoughts, beliefs and

behavior.

Esther Rockett has absolutely no evidence of any such effect and has absolutely no professional

basis upon which to make assessments of dissociative states. She also has no person that has

been so affected – it is all innuendo and false assertions. Esther Rockett Acupuncturist is not a

clinical psychologist, psychiatrist and has no training whatsoever to make a psychiatric

diagnosis of dissociation.

What is more, there is no such thing as covert

hypnosis. The consensus of scientific opinion is

that hypnosis cannot be used to overwhelm

free will and is ineffective in getting anyone to

do anything that they do not want to do. What

is more hypnosis cannot make anyone believe

anything they do not want to believe (Anthony,

1999). The most eminent scientific researcher

on hypnosis has said that the imagined

‘coercive’ power of hypnosis is nothing more

than a cultural myth that has been used in the

propaganda war against new religions

(Spanos, 1991, 1996).

There is no such thing as ‘trance induction/hypnosis techniques’ (these are all the fictional creations of Margaret Thale Singer and her band of anti-cultists) and there are no direct

witnesses attesting to such ‘regression’ and ‘paranoid states’, and particularly no professionals doing so. What Esther Rockett claims is simply unsupportable. She uses these compelling words to suggest credibility for her cause – yet when it is examined it falls to dust. Esther Rockett and Lance Martin is deceiving their readers. That brainwashing could impose a false personality is also the work of fiction and so far-fetched that it only occurs in works of science fiction such as The Manchurian Candidate.Sound research has shown that the personality is robust and does not alter in response to changes in belief or religious conversion (Paloutzian et al., 1999). We conclude that Esther Rockett has no evidence of what she is espousing. She appears gullible and open to suggestion, especially if she believes what she sees on a TV show. What is more there are no covert hypnosis techniques that produce dissociation and as a result thought reform – this is pure science fiction – and it is highly manipulative of her readers to present this material and suggest there is any basis to it – it was dismissed in 1980, and thus Esther Rockett needs to come into 2014. There is a duty to tell the truth, a truth that is for all and not just a fabricated truth that suits Esther Rockett’s and Lance Martin’s misguided crusade.

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