70. A Spiritualist's view on Mind Manipulations, Information and Psychological Warfares
- Vijayabhaskar Natarajan
- May 29
- 5 min read
Updated: May 31
Let me start with some insight into the spend on cybersecurity operations.
Quoting from the References:
In 2023, spending in the cybersecurity industry reached around 80 billion U.S. dollars, with forecasts suggesting that the market will eclipse 87 billion U.S. dollars by 2024. Global spending on cybersecurity has been increasing since 2021.
The belief is that ‘Data is the new holy grail’! and hence for all the right reasons, including to avoid existential crisis, organizations and governments are spending millions as protective, proactive measures. And hence, believe me – this spend on cybersecurity is going to be raising in coming years to epic proportions!
Now I picture this –
EXAMPLE-1:
Person A sees a picture of a guy in a local meat shop.
Possible interpretation by A: The guy has come to buy food for his family etc.,
Assume that while looking at this picture, A hears an audible smirk.
Possible interpretation by A: This guy has come to buy food for his family, and he is likely to be cheated
Assume that while looking at this picture, A hears a cursing word.
Possible interpretation by A: This guy has come to buy food for his family, but he is not sensitive about the poor and hungry.
I will give another example:
EXAMPLE-2:
A local community decides to build a school in their community.
Every body agrees and are happy with the decision.
A business man, pitches its idea - that instead of a park, a warehouse can be built that can generate employment opportunities for the locals. (what kind of bias forms in the mind at the word 'business man'?)
A community group led by a real estate magnet, says it is better to build a shopping complex. (what kind of bias forms in the mind at the word 'real estate magnet'?)
A local politician, advised by a lobby group, wants to enhance the local economy and thinks of building a industrial estate with warehouses and shopping complexes in it. (what kind of bias forms in the mind at the word 'politician'?)
Everybody decides to vote and then there is no clear majority!
The plan is shelved temporarily for a year or two. And the kids continue their trip to the nearby neighbourhood schools.
Despite the 'bias' mentioned above, why is there an impediment?!
So on and so forth.
What are we witnessing?
Mind manipulations, information and psychological war fares being launched at one’s sub-conscious mind not only by the hidden criminal minds but also by others who are plying their trade through various media. A combination of subconscious inputs coming through varied media outlets, also distorts the perception (This is dangerous!). Reinforcing, repetitive such events, builds an alternative unviable or unacceptable belief system inside an ordinary person! Are we letting the people life their life in an unchained manner?
Who may be doing this?
AI technologies like recommendation engines, ‘customers also bought’ options. These technologies should be 'off' by default.
Paid social media, TV channels and cinemas. Instead of the government, business houses and ideological organizations own the media houses with possible profit as a motive. At least some of these options should be genuinely owned by those wishing people all the goodness.
Goodbye to - good olden days that gave us well researched/carefully thought articles without bias!
Lobbying agents pushing for policy changes via carefully curating politicians and by planting advertisements and television episodes (even sometimes scenes are carefully set to push a hidden agenda). Hiring celebrities and using their popularity to push products or any such. This is akin to sending messages to you that you would avoid normally by targeting your subconscious mind. (the celebrity you like, anchors your mind and the message that you would normally avoid gets sent to your subconscious mind)
Sometimes alternate ideologies, cultural changes and more are pushed inside your minds through any media that you may come by - say even from ad boards in the train station!
Bias and selective hearing aggravates this condition.
If you are a serious spiritualist, you have to avoid this dangerous and deep pit fall. If you are allowing yourselves to be manipulated by others, especially by targeting your subconsciousness, then, in a spiritual sense, you are still a primitive and not ready.
What is the antidote for this condition?
For Individuals –
Be highly individualistic and make sure the choices you accept are validated by your own in-built value systems.
Read a lot, be a polymath, be gentle and open. if possible, travel and widen your knowledge horizon. Believe in reinforcement learning – and if any subject touches you deeply, know about it from multiple sources. Sometimes – enjoy seclusion and meditate.
Sometimes, get cured in the lap of mother nature.
Be connected to arts, music, reading and if possible – writing too. (I have personally experienced the fact that, you gain lot more clarity when you put your thoughts as words).
Stay away from over exposure to media and settle for talking with your genuine friends.
Whatever be your profession – give it your 100% and enrich your understanding of this profession in each passing day.
Be mindful about evolution and involution in a single life!
Don’t be a net consumer – give it back to the society in some form.
For groups –
Invest in building appropriate value systems in children at schools.
Control your media and technology products, responsibly, and not be only profit minded.
Identify eminent and genuine personalities and give them limelight in the society.
Remove social evils like lobbying if the people’s will and interests are being violated in the process and that tends to make, democracy a laughingstock.
Impart psychological principles and modus operandi of manipulating agents (as individuals or as groups) as part of fundamental learning to help make people be aware of mind manipulating techniques, information and psychological war fares.
Build policies and laws favouring the general public and aimed at thwarting any media-based content dissemination that is altering their state of mind (without them knowing or noticing) in a negative way as part of ensuring and upholding ‘Freedom of Choice”. Common man is not a sophisticated person – hence the informed and well learned decision makers should make sure the group policies support them in their ‘Freedom of Choice”. This is because – each man, has to live life to the fullest extent using his own “FREE WILL”. Any direct or indirect mind-bending techniques is nothing but a CRIME that is not acknowledged by existent legal systems. Hence, even technology-based systems and media should give the common man a choice to redeem his free will under all circumstances and that should be effort less to do.
Reduce the information overload (especially technology aided) on senior citizens and make their life a lot more less stressful. For example, When they need help, they need a human to speak to, not some advanced voice activated automated systems!
A person who is subjected to such persistent sub-conscious assault (he may have a penchant for a stream of content of a particular genre, or he may be a generalist), – instead of becoming a flowery bush, he eventually becomes something like a thorny/flowery bush and finally into a withering thorny bush!!
We are all giving so much thought and consideration for cybersecurity because the money involved in launching attacks or to counter it runs into billions. Money makes it count!
What about this large scale, psychological damages or impairments or impediments being set (though, perhaps sometimes - no harm in really intended!) to general public in a subtle and/or overt way ?
Shouldn’t we take our mental health seriously?
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Hari Om!
