Mind Programming: From Persuasion and Brainwashing, to Self-Help and Practical Metaphysics

by Eldon Taylor

The New York Times best-selling author of Choices and IllusionsIt is the 21st century and we have experienced a technology explosion that has granted us a cornucopia of luxuries and opportunities. At this point, virtually anything seems possible. However, along with the positive developments are ominous collaborations designed to deprive us of an inherent birthright—the power of a free mind.Mind Programming is a riveting expose on the plethora of research that has been carried out simply to discover ways to control your every thought and desire. What you will learn will both shock and horrify you. Tweaking your psyche has become big business. Never again will you be able to ignore the truth—your very thoughts are not your own. Mind Programming provides the tools to take back control and reprogram your own mind. Eldon Taylor provides the insight, information, and easy-to-use methods that will empower you to realize the life of your dreams. You were not meant to be the product of another’s manipulation, whether in attitude and mood or in ambition and consumption.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Self Help, Reference, Writing, Personal Development

362 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Eldon Taylor has made a lifelong study of the human mind and has earned doctoral degrees in psychology and metaphysics. He is a Fellow with the American Psychotherapy Association (APA) and a nondenominational minister.

Eldon was a practicing criminalist for over ten years while completing his education. He supervised and conducted investigations, and testing to detect deception. His earliest work with changing inner beliefs was conducted from this setting, including a double blind study conducted at the Utah State Prison, 1986-87. Eldon is President and Director of Progressive Awareness Research, Inc. For more than twenty years, his books, tapes, lectures, radio, and television appearances have approached personal empowerment from the cornerstone perspective of forgiveness, gratitude, self responsibility and service.

Eldon now lives in the countryside of Washington State with his wife and their two sons. Apart from his family and work, his true passion is horses.

Reviews

[Bas · Rating 1 out of 5]

The first part was interesting, but the second half was a gigantic hippy love-fest. God meets The Secret meets The American Family Association. This ruins what could have been a good read.

[Chris Healey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting & well presented book that begins by setting the stage for why self-work is important for everyone & goes on to give the reader a solid toolkit they can use for self work regardless of their goal. The techniques are very comprehensive & are presented so as to be useful to a wide audience. Consequently it’s a great resource & will definitely lead you to further reading which he frequently suggests.

The last couple of chapters could trigger those who are averse to new-agey speculation connecting quantum physics & consciousness but the overall tone of the author as well as his eclectic experience make even this section far from vapid.

Unfortunately my copy was missing the CD but I’ll definitely be downloading some MP3 from his website.

Likeable, interesting & importantly useful.

[Froztwolf · Rating 3 out of 5]

Odd and eclectic book. Reads almost like someone gathered a number of blog posts and sorted them by content into what is a coherent whole. While a thread runs through the entire thing, the topics start at the tricks of advertising and salesmanship, segway from there into the harmful effects a negative mind can have, continues into ways one can use to improve one's mind and make it more positive, and ends with talk of future research.

While there isn't much exclusive or unique material in the book, the topics are linked in a way that I haven't seen done in other books. Despite that, I'm personally familiar with most of the topics mentioned and in such a short book the author wasn't able to go into much detail on each one, so for me it had limited usefulness.

A few chapters read almost like advertising for the author's own InnerTalk program, and I suspect the book owns it's existence to that as much as anything else.

An interesting read, but if you are already familiar with subconscious manipulation and modern popular metaphysics then you won't learn much new. Might still be worth it at only 360 pages.

[Mario · Rating 1 out of 5]

Leí este libro hace muchos años.

En retrospectiva, después de haber leído varios tipos de libros hasta la fecha, me doy cuenta que el autor no sabe explicar. Aquí el problema no se trata de si la información es real o no sino que simplemente la información no es digerible, al menos no para todo el público.

En la primera parte del libro me llegué a perder entre los nombres de los involucrados, los proyectos... mientras leía se sentía como si hubieran copiado y pegado la información de Wikipedia.

La 2da. parte fue peor. Después de haberte enseñado lo asqueroso que puede llegar a ser el mundo intenta venderte la solución con ciertas técnicas o ejercicios. Por el amor de Dios intenté infinidad de veces el ejercicio de visualización y nunca funcionó. Las instrucciones son muy ambiguas, vagas y cortas. No sirven esos ejercicios.

Actualmente desconozco cuál es el género del libro y la verdad no me interesa. Si es de autoayuda o desarrollo personal pues definitivamente no cumplió su función.

[Pinar · Rating 1 out of 5]

Internetten de bulabileceğiniz dağınık bilgilerle dolu bir kitap. Kitaptaki tavsiyeler belki işe yarayabilir ama herhangi bilimsel analizden oldukça uzak. Kitabın ilk bölümü "zihnimizi kontrol ediyorlar" üzerine, ikinci bölümü de sözüm ona kendi zihnimizin kontrolünü ele almak üzere teknikler anlatıyor ama işe yarar kısmı belki iki sayfa falandır. Ben o kısmı da bulabildiğimi söyleyemeyeceğim.

[Armands Putnieks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lot of useful info for everyday life.
Many interesting things and facts about conciousness and unconciousness.

[Luis Martinez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Altered States of Consciousness: Insight into the mind waves.

[Ken · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not sure how to classify this book - is it about Persuasion or Spiritual or even Sef-Help?

Seem to be 3 separate books (part 2 and 3 are better)

Wish Mr Taylor had elaborated more on the topic "guarding against overstimulation" instead of just 3 pages .......may be the topic for his next book.

Do visit his website, it contains a lot of material there too.

Mr Taylor seems to be sincere in wanting to change the world for the better (who doesn't if asked, but most don't care or donot pay attention)

[Jamie Belanger · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting read, but at many points I got the impression that the descriptions, stories, and case studies were just acting as setups to advertise other books and subliminal CD programs. I really don't know if that was intended. I found it a little off-putting at first, then I started to appreciate the irony. All in all, this reads more like a blog post series than a textbook about mind control.

Overall, I felt there were enough stories of people and case studies to make the majority of the book interesting and worth reading, at least once.

[Tamra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Subliminal messaging works by bypassing critical consciousness. Can be used to further nefarious political or consumer interests, but individuals can learn to harness power of suggestion for personal growth. Quotes: "Not only is our reality a matter of choice, but so is the power we give it." "Whatever the mind can conceive in sufficient detail, it can create." " Memories aren't erased--they're suppressed."

[Charlotte · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. I love Eldon's work and approach and there were many things that made this book a worthwhile read (the 7 fundamentals are a nice synthesis of wider teachings). However, I must admit that I was expecting more. It felt a bit disjointed and there were no 'A-ha' moments for me. Perhaps I'm too familiar with Eldon's work and this would be a book more suited to an Eldon newbie, or at least someone unfamiliar with the material within.

[Piper Draconi · Rating 1 out of 5]

I found this book to overtly bias and heavily opinionated with the authors conservative and religious views. I quit after page page 89; excerpt: "It takes an act of society and an orchestrated effort by educators to produce an atheist. In a sense, atheism is a product of brainwashing."

Really? Thanks but no thanks.
I'll keep searching for a more impartial read on Mind Control.

[Rj Velotti · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the second book I read from Eldon Taylor. I like the fact that he references his previous books and as well as gives the synopsis so I could clearly understand his points. As a hypnotist, his work and books is a must for all hypnotist and I believe as important as Dr. Ericsson

[Ladybug]

Great book on the way that all of us are continually controlled/brainwashed/ and how easily it happens.

[Jlhammer63 · Rating 3 out of 5]

liked the second half better than the first. Loved the free CD.

[Joyce · Rating 1 out of 5]

covers alot...bits and pieces...

[Vivalc · Rating 3 out of 5]

First part of the book is interesting but slow. Second part of the book much better thank the first part.

[Will Jeffries · Rating 4 out of 5]

This guy is pretty good at explaining things. For more information, go to: http://www.eldontaylor.com/

[Ozzieblue · Rating 2 out of 5]

A bit of a disappointment. Too dry and dense. Some of the material was useful, but only in a limited fashion.

[Bilal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hypernatural truth.

[Thomas Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

[Eugenia · Rating 3 out of 5]

intersting but oriented mainly on american readers so at times i felt like skipping half the chapters or simply not too caught up by the cause. there are some rather interesting parts though.

[Roberts Smitins · Rating 5 out of 5]

NLP meets LOA. This is a very useful book. It contains some simple and powerful techniques and practices. This is a wonderful combination - simple and effective/powerful.

[Zoe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting. First part was very informative, and the second part useful.

[Matt Hochwalt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not good.