By Berit Kjos – May 18, 2009
“…the subject which will be of most
importance politically is Mass Psychology…. The populace will not
be allowed to know how its convictions were generated…. As yet there is only one country which has succeeded
in creating this politicians paradise.[1]
Bertrand
Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1960.
The methods used to make learning
and confession [group authenticity and sharing] palatable and
workable are borrowed freely from evangelism, psychiatry and science.
The language and ideals of each of these fields were taken over
and given new meanings
and new interpretations in accordance with communist need. Brainwashing
is a combination of this fake evangelism and quack psychiatry
in a setting of
false science.[2]
Edward Hunter,
Brainwashing
“For many generations we have bowed our
necks to the yoke of the conviction of sin. We have swallowed all manner
of
poisonous certainties fed us by our parents… If the race is to
be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil, it must be psychiatrists
who take the original responsibility. … Can such a program of
re-education
or of a new kind of education be charted?”[3]
Dr. Brock Chisholm,
first head of the World Health Organization
“If you by any means forget the Lord your
God, and follow other gods… you shall surely perish….”[4]
Deuteronomy 8:19
Julea Ward knows what it means to suffer for her faith — in America. As
a graduate student in Eastern Michigan University’s counseling program, she
was assigned to a male homosexual student. Since her conscience prevented her
from supporting his chosen lifestyle, she sought advice from her supervising
professor and was told to refer the student to another counselor.
When she met with the student to explain the change, she neither counseled
nor confronted him. Instead she explained her convictions and shared her faith.
Her supervisor was not pleased!
In his article, “When
Conscience is Criminalized,” Joe Coffmann explains what happened next:
“Julea was summoned to appear before a disciplinary hearing and told
that if she wanted to continue on with her graduate program, she would have
to submit to a ‘remediation‘ program so that she could see ‘the error
of her ways.’ She refused to be forced into a re-education program designed
to convert her from biblical faith, and as a result, she was kicked
out of school…..“Does it scare you that the people overseeing her program weren’t content
with the fact that she acted properly and with integrity? Does it scare
you that they wanted her to change not just her actions, but her religious
beliefs? If you have a child in a publicly funded college or university,
this should make all kinds of alarms go off in your head….”
[5]
He’s right. But I’m not
surprised. Back in the 1940s (and earlier), globalist visionaries agreed that
Biblical Christianity must be quenched —
or changed — before a world government could be established.
Among the influential leaders of this movement was
Canadian psychiatrist
Brock Chisholm, the first head of The
World Health Organization (WHO), a UN agency. Notice his hostility toward
God’s moral guidelines in his report titled “Re-establishment of Peacetime Society:”
“Misguided by authoritarian dogma, bound by
exclusive faith, stunted by inculcated loyalty, torn by frantic heresy…and
loaded down by the weight of guilt … the unfortunate human race, deprived
… of its reasoning power and its natural capacity to enjoy the
satisfaction of its
natural urges, struggles along under its ghastly self-imposed burden.
The results, the inevitable results, are frustration, inferiority, neurosis
and inability to enjoy living, to reason clearly or to make a world fit
to live in…“The government of a
country cannot organize and impose any social developments or external relations
which are too far ahead of the state of maturity of its citizens. There
would otherwise result internal conflict and dissension, producing a reactionary
government and a retreat to a less mature stage of social development. Any
such reaction now becomes a dangerous threat to the whole world…. [F]or
the very survival of large parts of the human race, world understanding,
tolerance, and forbearance have become absolutely essential….“There is something to be said for taking
charge of our own destiny, for gently putting aside the mistaken old ways
of our elders if that is possible. If it cannot be done gently, it may have
to be done roughly or even violently — that has happened before.”[3]
Where? In the Soviet Union? Keep in
mind, Chisholm’s
friend Alger Hiss published this report in his
socialist/communist
magazine, International Conciliation. The
two men apparently shared a common vision of a world without God or freedom!
Preparing the world for global change
While Stalin was implementing
his
“scientific” brainwashing system in the Soviet Union, the free West
(especially England, Canada and the USA) generally
ignored it. No moral
outcry was heard when millions of Russians were slaughtered or herded to
labor camps. Why?
Actually, many Western leaders
supported
the Russian “experiment.”
What’s more, they were already
building a global network to
research and impose the same mind control strategies on the rest of the world.
So, in 1948, two years after Brock Chisholm took control of the WHO, the World Federation for Mental
Health (WFMH) was founded. It would “enjoy consultative
relationship with several UN agencies and… national groups”[7]
but
remain free from government oversight.
Dr. Chisholm, Margaret Mead and
other social “scientists” wrote its founding document, “Mental Health and
World Citizenship.”[6]
Notice their
attitude toward traditional American values:
“Social institutions such as
family and school impose their imprint early…. It is the
men and women in whom these patterns of attitude and behavior have been
incorporated who present the immediate resistance to social, economic
and political changes. Thus, prejudice, hostility or excessive nationalism
may become deeply embedded in the developing personality… often
at great human cost.“…change will be strongly
resisted unless an attitude of acceptance has first been engendered.”
Today, more than half a century
later, that “attitude of acceptance”
is fast becoming the norm. Nations around the world are conforming to the
mind-changing pattern
set in the 1940s. The global network of “mental health” partners is working
to prevent anything that would hinder collective and
dialectical thinking
in the rising global village. Outside that network, few notice how its tentacles
are reaching into community health programs and civil society in nations around
the world.[8]
Of course, we are not supposed to see the web
of control and connections behind the scenes. As Peggy Noonan pointed out in
a recent
WSJ article, the “indecipherable language of government” brings confusion,
not clarity. She suggests a reason for why our “government doesn’t speak clearly
about what it’s doing” these days: it doesn’t want to hear responses such as
“Oh, that’s not a good idea,” or, “The cost of that will kill us.”[9] Our visible leaders don’t want us to
know the unconstitutional intentions of the
bureaucratic hierarchy behind the scenes!
The fact that we are inundated with
mind-dulling distraction
only adds to our confusion. Across the country, many Americans fill their “free time”
with trivia, entertainment, a feeling-based rather than fact-based media, and
unending streams of suggestive ads and propaganda. Some of it is almost unavoidable.
But it all fits together in the current transformation.
Aldous Huxley warned us
about planned distractions long ago. Surrounded by British
Fabian Socialists
,
he became increasingly troubled about the spread of totalitarianism. So, after
the deadly fallout from Communist and Nazi tyranny, he expressed his concerns
in
Brave
New World Revisited:
“In Brave New World non-stop distractions of the most fascinating
nature… are deliberately used as instruments of policy,
for the purpose of preventing people from paying too much attention
to the realities of the social and political situation.…“Only the vigilant can maintain their
liberties… A society, most of whose members spend a great part of
their time… in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of
mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments
of those who would manipulate and control it.“In their propaganda today’s dictators rely
for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationalization
— the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as
true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the
arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used
in the interests of the Party or the State.“As the art and science of manipulation come to be better understood,
the dictators of the future will doubtless learn to combine these techniques
with the non-stop distractions which, in the West, are now threatening
to drown in a sea of irrelevance the rational propaganda [propagation
of actual facts] essential to the maintenance of individual liberty….”[10]
Yes, factual information is
vital to freedom! When we know the facts, we won’t surrender to
lies and illusions. When we put the facts together into a clear picture of
reality, we won’t be deceived. And when we know God’s Truth as well (which Huxley didn’t),
we won’t fear the rising world system, for we trust Him whose strength is sufficient
for every challenge.
Faith in our
sovereign God sustained Julea in her battle with the educational
establishment. After all, following her Bible-trained conscience was a costly
choice! It put her right into the camp of faithful disciples who, through the
centuries, would rather
suffer with Jesus than compromise their faith.
Such faith flies in the face of today’s socialist transformation. Contemporary
change agents demand mindless compliance! They don’t object to “Christians”
who conform to the culture. But they can’t tolerate individual thinkers with
personal convictions that hinder compliance. As
Edward
Hunter wrote in
Brainwashing,
“The achievement of this [Communist] submission
is the immediate short-range objective of brainwashing. The man does not
have to be a true believer so long as he is convinced that he has no alternative
to following Red instructions. Hope — the prospect of any alternative in
life, no matter how slim — must be wiped out of his mind entirely before
communism can feel safe with him.”[2]
Prepare your child
to stand firm on God’s Truth
Antonio Peck didn’t know his New York elementary
school wanted to change his values. So when his teacher told him to make an
environmental poster for Parent’s Day, the kindergartner simply combined what
he had learned in class with the message on his heart. He drew:
-
People picking up litter.
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Children holding hands around the globe.
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A white-robed man kneeling in one corner.
Antonio didn’t tell anyone that the man in the
corner was Jesus, but his teacher guessed it. Later, when his poster hung on
a wall along with nearly 80 others, his picture looked different. One corner
had been folded up, hiding the kneeling man and part of Antonio’s name.
Antonio felt embarrassed and confused. Why shouldn’t
Jesus who created the world be in the picture? It didn’t make sense.
“This is simply a case of requiring students
to be responsive to the educational curriculum,” explained Paul Battaglia, the
attorney who represents Baldwinsville Elementary School in Syracuse in the First
Amendment lawsuit. “It is not at all a case of great religious significance,
but simply a case where a student was asked to… perform a particular lesson
and give back certain material and failed to do so.”[11]
But Antonio did fulfill the assignment. He included the environmental vision
of earth stewardship and unity. His only “failure” was his refusal to exclude
Jesus.
“He didn’t follow the teacher’s instructions despite being given two opportunities
to do so,” Battaglia said. “It’s unfortunate, but the school
has
particular curriculum standards it must enforce.”
Curriculum standards with no flexibility — even
in kindergarten? Why?
Today, students who refuse to conform to the
global indoctrination planned six decades ago often face increasing pressure,
intimidation and censorship. Such punishment works well on most children. In
a nation trained to crave human praise more than God’s approval, few will endure
exclusion or rejection for Jesus’ sake.
But Antonio stood his ground and passed the test
— twice. He would not remove Jesus from his picture of the earth. A little
boy in New York chose to face humiliation and reproof rather than compromise
his faith and deny His ever-present Lord.
May we be as brave.
“…in
nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now
also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Philippians 1:20-21
Endnotes:
1. Bertrand
Russell, The Impact of Science on Society (New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1953); page 30.) Cited by Lewis Albert Alesen, Mental Robots
(Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1960); page 26.
2. Edward Hunter,
Brainwashing
(Farrar, Straus and Cudahy,1956), pps. 202 and 148.
www.crossroad.to/Quotes/brainwashing.html
3. G. Brock Chisholm,
“The Re-Establishment of Peacetime Society,” Psychiatry, February 1946.
4.
God’s Warnings for
our Times at
www.crossroad.to/HisWord/verses/8-18-28.htm
5. Joe Coffmann,
“When
Conscience is Criminalized” (5/14/20)
www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=529674
6.
“Origins
of the World Federation for Mental Health” at
http://www.psych.org/pnews/98-01-19/hx.html
7.
“Mental Health and World Citizenship,” founding document of the World
Federation for Mental Health, pages 7 and 8. Distributed by the National
Association For Mental Health, Inc., 1790 Broadway, New York 19, N.Y.
8. “Future
challenges for Mental Health” at
http://www.rehab-international.org/aboutri/social_commissions/mental_health.html
9.
Peggy Noonan, “What’s
Elevated, Health-Care Provider?” May 16-17, 2009.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124233351737120903.html#printMode
10. Aldous Huxley, Brave New
World Revisited (Perennial Library,1958), pps. 36-37.
www.crossroad.to/Excerpts/books/transformation/brave-revisited.htm
Poster With Picture of Jesus Lands Kindergartner in Court, CCNS News,
April 3, 2001. This link is now obsolete.
12.
See “Anti-Christian
Bias in Education” at
www.crossroad.to/articles2/08/ed-watch/6-10-anti-christian.htm and
A
Federal Curriculum for Preschoolers: Mental Health & Gender Issues in Head Start.
HR 1429 and
www.crossroad.to/articles2/08/ed-watch/6-10-anti-christian.htm