Wide-field mind control refers to systems which can influence or affect the mental functioning or mood of people over a large geographic area. This page deals with wide-scale influencing via physical effects like electromagnetic fields and acoustic phenomena rather than by, for example, television broadcasts. Even if the percentage of a population susceptible to the influencing is small or the probability of influencing is low, significant effects could result from influencing a large enough population.
This is a transcript of a CNN Special Assignment show, "Electromagnetic Weapons and Mind Control," [*] from around 1985. It is online at the Mind Control Forum. DeCaro: CNN enlisted the help of noted physicist Dr. Elizabeth Rausher and electrical engineer Bill VanBise to build and test an RF mind-interference machine from data found in Soviet scientific literature.
The machine itself was inexpensive and easy to construct using parts from a consumer electronics store. It emits a weak magnetic field pulsed at extremely low frequency.
As the subject of the test I was blindfolded and my ears were blocked to prevent inadvertent clues as to what was happening. A magnetic probe was placed about 18 inches from my head.
As the experiment began, two signal generators produced waveform patterns that were transmitted by the magnetic probe at about one one-thousandth of the Earth's magnetic field strength.
VanBise -- watching a chart recorder: Describe anything that you see, if any.
DeCaro: In the control room VanBise varied the waveforms being generated. In another room I could see waveforms changing shape in my mind.
DeCaro during experiment: A parabola just went by.
Rausher: A parabola just went by.
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DeCaro: ... Later, I asked VanBise what a weapon using this technology could do.
VanBise: Induce basically what would be considered hallucinations in people; direct them to do things against their so-called better judgment...
DeCaro: How easy would it be to assemble a weapon from existing off-the-shelf parts?
VanBise: Three weeks, I could put together a weapon that would take care of a whole town.
DeCaro: We showed the results of our test to Dr. Robert Becker, a two-time Nobel nominee for his work in the biological effects of electromagnetism.
Becker: This is a very significant experiment because it carries our understanding of how vision is actually performed a step further into the mystery.Michael Persinger's article "On the Possibility of Directly Accessing Every Human Brain By Electromagnetic Induction of Fundamental Algorithms" [*] from Perceptual and Motor Skills, June 1995, is archived at MindNet.
This excerpt is from a 1977 Washington Post article by John L. Wilhelm, titled "Psychic Spying? The CIA, the Pentagon and the Russians Probe the Military Potential of Parapsychology." Despite the title and the references to parapsychology, the end of the article mentions research into ELF (extremely low frequency) radiation and mind control. The research was conducted at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and at the Navy's Electronics Laboratory Center.
This is an outline of a chapter from the book, The Invisible Third World War, by Walter Bowart and Richard Sutton. The author is not listed. It discusses "the Eugene wavelength," [*] a powerful radio signal measured in Eugene, Oregon in 1978.
See also Subliminal Influencing.