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The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein

Best Stories about Mind Control

77 books — 20 voters

Who Built the Moon? by Christopher Knight

Visions, Apparitions, Alien Vistors by Hilary Evans

Secret Cipher of the Ufonauts by Allen Greenfield

Sir!.. It's Hitler's Belly Buttons!.. ..They've All... ..Vanished!!

124 books — 6 voters

Healing the Unimaginable by Alison Miller

The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook by Deborah Bray Haddock

Dissociative Identity Disorder psychology books (Multiple Personality Disorder)

132 books — 17 voters

Inside Versus Outside by Attilio Stajano

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Neighborhood Vigilante Redemption Committee by C.R. Baker

Self-Experiments with Consciousness and Hypnagogia by Sirley Marques Bonham

The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia by Julia Simner

•Innie/Outie Delusion

101 books — 2 voters

Sci-Fi Dolls

2 books — 2 voters

The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon

Mind Control Fiction

339 books — 144 voters

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“ Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been a visiting writer in several authoritarian and totalitarian states, and usually the question answers itself. Someone in a café makes an offhand remark. A piece of ironic graffiti is scrawled in the men's room. Some group at the university issues some improvised leaflet. The glacier begins to melt; Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been a visiting writer in several authoritarian and totalitarian states, and usually the question answers itself. Someone in a café makes an offhand remark. A piece of ironic graffiti is scrawled in the men's room. Some group at the university issues some improvised leaflet. The glacier begins to melt; a joke makes the rounds and the apparently immovable regime suddenly looks vulnerable and absurd. But it's almost impossible to convey the extent to which North Korea just isn't like that. South Koreans who met with long-lost family members after the June rapprochement were thunderstruck at the way their shabby and thin northern relatives extolled Fat Man and Little Boy. Of course, they had been handpicked, but they stuck to their line. There's a possible reason for the existence of this level of denial, which is backed up by an indescribable degree of surveillance and indoctrination. A North Korean citizen who decided that it was all a lie and a waste would have to face the fact that his life had been a lie and a waste also. The scenes of hysterical grief when Fat Man died were not all feigned; there might be a collective nervous breakdown if it was suddenly announced that the Great Leader had been a verbose and arrogant fraud. Picture, if you will, the abrupt deprogramming of more than 20 million Moonies or Jonestowners, who are suddenly informed that it was all a cruel joke and there's no longer anybody to tell them what to do. There wouldn't be enough Kool-Aid to go round. I often wondered how my guides kept straight faces. The streetlights are turned out all over Pyongyang—which is the most favored city in the country—every night. And the most prominent building on the skyline, in a town committed to hysterical architectural excess, is the Ryugyong Hotel. It's 105 floors high, and from a distance looks like a grotesquely enlarged version of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco (or like a vast and cumbersome missile on a launchpad). The crane at its summit hasn't moved in years; it's a grandiose and incomplete ruin in the making. 'Under construction,' say the guides without a trace of irony. I suppose they just keep two sets of mental books and live with the contradiction for now. ...more ”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

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“ One channel is the Stress Channel and the other is the Peace Channel. We really do have a choice about what we listen to. The Peace Channel can only be heard when we are present in the moment, when we are in the now. To tune in to the Peace Channel, all we have to do is be, experience, notice, and naturally respond to what is arising in the moment. To tune into the Stress Channel, we just have to start believing our thoughts again. [...] Eliminating stress is just a matter of tuning out the nega ...more ”
― Gina Lake, What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment

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