Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 558
May 16, 2013
TIME TRAVEL SUCKS!
This educational film is endorsed for audiences of All Ages -- Past, Present and Future -- by the Wichahatchi, WY Chapter of the Order of Omega Time Travel Cult.
May 15, 2013
AUDIOBOOKS FROM LAWRENCE R. SPENCER
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Vermeer: Portraits of A Lifetime
by Lawrence R. Spencer, Produced by Alan Douglas
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SHERLOCK HOLMES MY LIFE
by Lawrence Spencer, Produced by Steven Cooper
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Alien Interview - Readers Edition
by Lawrence Spencer, Produced by Lawrence R. Spencer
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1001 Things To Do While You're Dead
by Lawrence Spencer, Produced by Kendra Hoffman
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The Oz Factors: The Wizard of Oz as an Analogy to the Mysteries of Life
by Lawrence R. Spencer, Produced by Barry Abrams
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THE DOMAIN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE RESCUE MISSION
by Lawrence Spencer, Produced by Kendra Hoffman
COMING SOON!
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The Big Bleep: The Mystery of A Different Universe
by Lawrence R. Spencer, Produced by John Bell
May 14, 2013
HOW TOTALITARIANS CONTROL YOUR MIND
Pin It"Let me repeat what I said at the very beginning of this book. The modern techniques of brainwashing and menticide those perversions of psychology can bring almost any man into submission and surrender. Many of the victims of thought control, brainwashing, and menticide* that we have talked about were strong men whose minds and wills were broken and degraded. But although the totalitarians use their knowledge of the mind for vicious and unscrupulous purposes, our democratic society can and must use its knowledge to help man to grow, to guard his freedom, and to understand himself." -- Joost A.M. Meerloo, MD, from the final page of the book "RAPE OF THE MIND".
(*menticide = definition: noun, "The destruction or undermining of a person's mental independence in order to alter his or her beliefs" ) ."
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HERE IS A LINK TO DOWNLOAD A FREE PDF VERSION OF THE BOOK --- http://www.pyreaus.com/downloads/rape_of_the_mind.pdf
A PAPERBACK EDITION IS AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON -- http://www.amazon.com/The-Rape-Mind-Psychology-Brainwashing/dp/1615773762
SINCE 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned human wreck confessed to having started the Reichstag fire in Berlin, Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo has studied the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective "truth" on their victims' minds. The first two and one-half years of World War II, Dr. Meerloo spent under the pressure of Nazi-occupied Holland, witnessing at firsthand the Nazi methods of mental torture .on more than one occasion. During this time he was able to use his psychiatric and psychoanalytic knowledge to treat some of the victims. Then, after personal experiences with enforced interrogation, he escaped from a Nazi 
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prison and certain death to England, where he was able, as Chief of the Psychological Department of the Netherlands Forces, to observe and study coercive methods officially. In this capacity he had to investigate not only traitors and collaborators, but also those members of the Resistance who had gone through the utmost of mental pressure. Later, as High Commissioner for Welfare, he came in closer contact with those who had gone through physical and mental torture. After the war, he came to the United States, where his war experiences would not permit him to concentrate solely on his psychiatric practice, but compelled him to go beyond purely medical aspects to the social aspects of the problem. As more and more cases of thought control, brainwashing, and mental coercion were disclosed - Cardinal Mindszenty, Colonel Schwable, Robert Vogeler, and others - his interest grew. It was Dr. Meerloo who coined the word menticide, the killing of the spirit, for this peculiar crime. His knowledge of these totalitarian procedures has been officially acknowledged; he served as an expert witness in the case of Colonel Schwable, the Marine Corps officer who, after months of subjection to physical and mental torture following his capture in Korea, was made to confess to having taken part in germ warfare. It is Dr. Meerloo's position that through pressure on the weak points in men's makeup, totalitarian methods can turn anyone into a "traitor." And in The Rape of the Mind he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people's minds. He presents a systematic analysis of the methods of brainwashing and mental torture and coercion, and shows how totalitarian strategy, with its use of mass psychology, leads to systematized "rape of the mind." He describes the new age of cold war with its mental terror, verbocracy, and semantic fog, the use of fear as a tool of mass submission and the problem of treason and loyalty, so loaded with dangerous confusion. The Rape of the Mind is written for the interested layman, not only for experts and scientists. Contents: Part One: The Techniques of Individual Submission. 1. You Too Would Confess. 2. Pavlov's Students as Circus Tamers. 3. Medication into Submission. 4. Why Do They Yield? The Psychodynamics of False Confession. Part Two: The Techniques of Mass Submission. 5. The Cold War against the Mind. 6. Totalitaria and its Dictatorship. 7. The Intrusion by Totalitarian Thinking. 8. Trial by Trial. 9. Fear as a Tool of Terror. Part Three: Unobtrusive Coercion. 10. The Child is Father to the Man. 11. Mental Contagion and Mass Delusion. 12. Technology Invades Our Minds. 13. Intrusion by the Administrative Mind. 14. The Turncoat in Each of Us. Part Four: In Search of Defenses. 15. Training Against Mental Torture. 16. Education for Discipline or Higher Morale. 17. From Old to New Courage. 18. Freedom -- Our Mental Backbone
May 13, 2013
HOW DO I LOVE THEE?
HOW DO I LOVE THEE?
I LOVE YOU AS A MOTHER
YOU NUTURE AND CARE FOR ME.
I LOVE YOU AS A LOVER
YOU INFLAME PASSION IN ME.
I LOVE YOU AS A CHILD
YOU TEACH AND INSPIRE ME.
I LOVE YOU AS A FATHER
YOU SHARE A LIFE WITH ME.
I LOVE YOU AS AN ANGEL
YOUR LIGHT PROTECTS AND GUIDES ME.
I LOVE YOU AS A LION
MY FEROCITY DEFENDS THEE.
I LOVE YOU AS A SPIRIT TWIN
TOGETHER IN ETERNITY.
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Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013
May 12, 2013
FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW
Jacob Barnett is a boy genius who was diagnosed with Autism. He has an IQ higher than Einstein. However, it's not the Autism or the Einstein that is really amazing.... It's what he has to SAY about creative thinking that I think is important.
Read the article link below. Watch Jacobs presentation on TED Talks.
STOP LEARNING. START THINKING. CREATE!
Boy genius diagnosed with Autism has IQ higher than Einstein
ETERNAL NOW
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest but left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Living on the West Coast, Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He also explored human consciousness, in the essay "The New Alchemy" (1958), and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
May 10, 2013
A REAL HERO
"An early description of the way contemporary culture is now full of re-creations and themed environments was provided by Umberto Eco. In a brilliant essay, Eco saw that we create these realistic fabrications in an effort to come up with something that is better than real -- a description that is true of virtually all fiction and culture, which gives us things that are more exciting, more beautiful, more inspiring, more terrifying, and generally more interesting than what we encounter in everyday life. In his description of Disney, Eco also saw that behind the facades lurks a sales pitch. Put these ideas together and you have a succinct characterization of the age, which is forever offering us something that seems better than real in order to sell us something." -- Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932 -- ) is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist.
