"Mind" Blowing Article on Watchtower Indoctrination! MUST READ!

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  • What-A-Coincidence
    What-A-Coincidence

    The author (from Australia) makes some great points.

    http://www.noelbatten.com/watchtower.pdf
    46 pages long

    Some excerpts:

    I began to investigate the Watchtower teachings after seeing a phenomenal number of
    Jehovah Witnesses attend my office with depression and fatigue related illnesses. One such
    client invited me to study with her and her colleague and when I did, I noticed they were
    unknowingly using a form of direct clinical hypnosis on me, introduced through their study
    magazines, which is the same as I have used to treat people for phobias. The only difference
    was, they were using it on me “to give me phobias about life outside the Watchtower
    movement” and for blood transfusion.

    it is my opinion they deplete the mental potential of thousands of
    adults and children who attend expecting to be taught Christian ethics but instead, are
    given a self-destructive attitude towards life and towards the efforts of personal
    development in life.

    The United Nations Religion Declaration requires, leaders of religion must be responsible
    and their teachings must not diminish mental capacity or cause difficulties to health
    . It is
    my opinion the Watchtower Society is violating this Declaration and it is time they were
    held accountable. After counseling many Jehovah Witnesses it is my opinion their mental
    capacity to answer certain questions has purposefully been suppressed through hypnosis.

    As an experienced clinical hypnotist who studied the early principals of Charcot
    hypnosis introduced to America by Freud in 1908, I believe the chairman of the
    Jehovah Witness movement at that time, Joseph Rutherford, a student of
    psychology, applied Charcot’s hypnosis to the format of the J.W. meetings in 1914
    and this hypnosis format is being used to this day. The way “all” Jehovah Witness
    minds are blocked off from understanding specific simple sentences, is my proof.


    Jehovah Witnesses have had their self-thinking skills removed through hypnosis!
    After counseling many J.W’s and studying with them, I came to the opinion that
    hypnosis has been used to stop them from thinking for themselves. By using the
    enclosed 190 scriptures worded from their own Bible, anyone can test J.W’s to
    prove their mind has been hypnotized to remove reasoning and self-thinking skills.

    They never study from a Bible! One will read a little bit of their study story and the
    other will read the Bible verse quoted in the story from the Bible, a bit of story, then
    a Bible verse, etc. As you read along with them, the little bit of story stimulates your
    right brain and the Bible verse stimulates your left brain, so it causes a continuous
    and definite back and forth thinking action, which creates the same effect as a
    swinging pendulum. This specially designed study story will have a gradual
    hypnotic effect even if you only study with one of them as it is the different subjects
    of reading, causing the left brain-right brain use. When two of them are present
    however, this back and forth action of the mind is further stimulated by hearing the
    person on your left, then the person on the right. Back and forth, back and forth.
    This prevents your mind from finding time to examine the information, which is the
    prerequisite of hypnosis. Their main meetings follow the same format and have
    done, since Joseph Rutherford, learned this principal from Freud around
    1914.(Questioning J.W’s with the enclosed scriptures will show the blocked mind.)

    Watchtower insists all Jehovah Witness meetings
    worldwide “must not deviate” from their meeting format
    Since psychology student Joseph Rutherford designed the following meeting format
    in 1914, it has never changed and J.W. elders are instructed they are not allowed to
    change the meeting format in any way. They are also supplied with monotone music
    tapes and songs from America which have the story triggering phrases written into
    them, which are designed to further support the hypnotic stories.

    Watchtower teachings encourage depression, which in turn provokes disease
    After attending public meetings, home study sessions and sales meetings with the
    Jehovah Witnesses I quickly learned, the procedures the Watchtower society of
    America makes their members follow, do not apply positivity, security and personal
    development and do not create inner happiness. Watchtower promotes a constantly
    negative fear based teaching, which I don’t believe children should be exposed to.
    It is my opinion they promote these negative fear based teachings to prevent the
    members of Jehovah Witnesses families from becoming close and homely, so they
    will continue being slaves to sell magazines and collect donations door to door.

    Jehovah Witnesses are God loving people who have the best of intentions for the
    people they approach. They offer themselves as servants without asking for
    anything in return, it is my belief they are, unfortunately, deceived into becoming
    servants of the Watchtower tax-free moneymaking machine, instead of servants of
    God.

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  • Awakened07
    Awakened07
    Jehovah Witnesses have had their self-thinking skills removed through hypnosis!
    After counseling many J.W’s and studying with them, I came to the opinion that
    hypnosis has been used to stop them from thinking for themselves. By using the
    enclosed 190 scriptures worded from their own Bible, anyone can test J.W’s to
    prove their mind has been hypnotized to remove reasoning and self-thinking skills.

    -Usually (and some time ago), I would write this off as sensationalist conspiracy theory, but lately I have picked up a couple of older Watchtowers from the bottom of a drawer (in order to throw them out), and as two of the topics caught my eye, I wanted to see what the WTS had to say, and started reading. And now, such a long time since I last read a magazine, I can't believe I ever believed it! Not just doctrine, but the way they are reasoning. It makes no sense to me now. I certainly feel like my thinking skills must have been removed. Hypnotism may sound extreme, but it could at least explain the change in me I'm currently experiencing.

  • Gill
    Gill

    Interesting article and certainly true that the WT material promotes depression, illness and unhappiness. It also encourages the abdication of personal thought processes.

    The question I am left with is, is it a deliberate policy, the hypnotic nature of the literature, or is it just caused by constant repetitive reading and boredom brought on by the literature? IF you say something often enough people will believe it simply because it is repeated and JWs are forced into reading WT literature at least five hours a week never mind the personal reading on top. So is it a master plan or just the inevitable consequence of reading the WT materials?

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    Good article.

    'Joseph Rutherford, a student of psychology, applied Charcot’s hypnosis'

    I wonder if there is any documentation. It certainly is believeable. He had been a politician before getting on board w the wt group.

    S

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    I went to page 26, as the title is 'Freud introduced hypnosis to America in 1914, the same time as
    Joseph Rutherford, student of psychology introduced the
    Watchtower study magazines that utilize hypnosis.' I was hoping for more details. Unfortunately, except for the title, detail and documentation were not there.

    S

  • justhuman
    justhuman

    Great article!!!Unfortunately JWs will never read it(unless they start to become apostates)!!!. It is extraordinary the way that WT hypnotizes their members. Only if you get out from that cult you know that you have been fallen into a MIND CONTROL CULT. And this is how most of the experts are viewing WT

    When I left 7 years ago I have tried to reason some family members regarding my decision. Unfortunately they are so hypnotized that they cannot think SIMPLE facts. After my seperation, my wife still accusses that I "left the truth" and I became an idolater(Christian Orthodox) I tried for many years with mild way to show her that WT are a banch of false prophets and she wouldn't understand. Why? Because she is in a deep hypnosis. When she was feeling that her belief system was in danger she would stop the discussion and leave. WT has build an excellent deffence system for their followers, since they cannot be there to monitor them.

    Simple questions like: Who gave you the Bible, she wasn't able to answer, or how do you know that you have the "truth"since it is changing from time to time, and Russell would have been an apostate. Or how come God chose Russell a 17 year old unaducated guy, with no Biblical backround, burried in a Masonic graveyard with occultic symbols, and reject other dominations(Orthodox Church, Catholic Church) that have apostolic succesion and history of 2000 years?

    Personaly I believe that JW's are brainwashed and most of them are in a hypnotic status. Indeed this is why the GB are focusing to attend to ALL of their meetings, because they know that trought the meetings JWs are hypnotized, and it doesn't take much efford to hypnotize people. Now it makes sense when graduately stop attending meetings that no longer you feel to go back there.

    As for raising children indeed WT is the most unhealthy inviroment to raise them

  • kifoy
    kifoy

    Awakened:

    And now, such a long time since I last read a magazine, I can't believe I ever believed it! Not just doctrine, but the way they are reasoning. It makes no sense to me now.

    I experience the same. We use to receive the magazines from my parents. Reading trough some of it, often make me laugh. The reasoning is so naive! And even in a simple non-religious article about hummingbirds or something, there's always the "moral" (Jehovah, creator, paradise, blah, blah) in the last paragraph.

    The Batten article was really powerful, thanks WAC. But unfortunately it will only make sense to those who already have seen, or beginning to see, the "truth about the Tooth"...
    Those still under hypnosis will only bring up the red thought-stopping flag and cry "persecution!"

    kifoy

  • JH
    JH

    I agree 100% that the Watchtower is using a form of brainwashing on the dubs. This would explain why they act like 1's and 0's, when told to. Either you can talk to other JW's or you shun them on the spot, all or nothing reasoning.

    When you're brainwashed, you don't go half way.

  • ButtLight
    ButtLight

    I started a thread quite some time ago about this, here is another article about it. Long, but good. There are other things in the link worth reading too.

    http://www.energeticsolutions.com.au/great_watchtower_deception.html#compere_narator_usher

    A Comparrison Between A Jehovah's Witness Meeting
    And A Clinical Hypnosis Session

    The Compere, the Narrator and the Usher All Jehovah's Witness meetings have a compere who stands in the centre of the stage and reads a special weekly study story, paragraph-by-paragraph, from a Watchtower study magazine supplied from Watchtower head office in America. Then they have a narrator who sits off to one side of the stage, to read the scripture from a bible which Watchtower have written into the study story at the end of each paragraph being read by the compere. After the compere and narrator have finished interacting to read a paragraph followed by a scripture, then another paragraph followed by another scripture, etc, etc, when the study story is completely finished, which takes around twenty to thirty minutes, an usher walks up the isle amongst the congregation with a microphone on a long pole that allows him to reach it in amongst the congregation so members of the congregation can speak into the michrophone to give their answers to the compere, as he reads out a list of questions that Watchtower have written in the study magazine, at the end of the story.

    What shocked me to the core, was that while listening to what was being read out and observing what the compere, the narrator and the usher were doing, it suddenly hit me like a brick to the back of the head, that this method of teaching is what Sigmund Freud taught in the early nineteen hundreds as "Conscious Hypnosis". (I assure you, this is not just simple brainwashing, it is advanced clinical hypnosis which, in time, has the ability to completely take over a person's free-will and mental judgment and reasoning skills and turn that person into a totally non-thinking zombie-like robot who will do anything they are told to do, even if they are told to commit suicide.

    This principal of hypnosis is similar and is, over time, just as mentally overpowering as the one used by television hypnotists who make people selected for the show, believe they are a chook, a dog, an elephant or something that makes them act absolutely rediculous in front of the viewing audience, in order to show how completely overpowering hypnosis can be. Even though people who are not dedicated to the Jehovah's Witness movement, can see that the blood scriptures only relate to not "eating" blood and that refusing a blood transfusion to save your own life, is absolutely rediculous, Jehovah's Witnesses are just as oblivious as the people who carry on like a chook, a dog or an elephant, on television, for all to see.)

    Freud's Four Rules Of Clinical Hypnosis

    Let me explain how Freud's principal of Clinical "Conscious Hypnosis" works so you can compare it with how Watchtower has designed the Jehovah's Witness meetings to be run.

    The story I originally read on Freud's Conscious Hypnosis, explained that in order to affect the unconscious mind so severely that the mind can fully block off to pain, for example: hypnosis used before a surgical operation as a pain suppressant, instead of using anaesthetic, due to the patient being allergic to anaesthetic, or to program the mind to completely block off fears that create phobias of spiders and heights etc, it is essential to use the following four rules of hypnosis, all at the same time.

    1. A therapist using hypnosis must make sure the person being hypnotised, is well-relaxed, because if the conscious mind is excited or hyperactive, hypnotic suggestions cannot get past conscious judgment and reasoning skills, into the unconscious mind to create a totally overpowering hypnotic state. Watchtower puts out a song book with over one hundred songs that have words and music which create a slow subliminal tone to relax the congregation. Not one song in this Watchtower song book, has an up-tempo beat like the songs sung in the Orthodox Church. Every song they play induces relaxation.
    2. After promoting relaxation, a therapist using hypnosis must get the person being hypnotised to focus on something that causes the eyes to repeatedly move from left to right, which prevents a part of the brain that deals with judgment and reasoning, the prefrontal cortex, from focusing on the hypnotic suggestions being spoken, to do it's job of rejecting anything being said which the person being hypnotised, doesn't agree with, or believe in. In other words, getting a person to relax and causing continuous left to right eye movement allows a therapist to bypass conscious judgment and reasoning skills in order to program that person's brain to become so manipulated that you can actually change the autonomic functions of the mind and body. It is so overpowering that it can block out the excruciating pain of a major surgical operation, stop the eyes from being able to see one particular number or word written on a piece of paper and even take away a person's love for life and will to live, sufficiently to cause them to commit suicide. (You cannot possibly do this with basic brainwashing techniques used, for example, by football coaches who have their team repeatedly chant their mission statement before each game and each training session, to become devoted to turning up to practice and to focus fully on winning when they play.)The way that Watchtower has created this left-to-right eye movement, is to have the compere standing in the centre of the stage reading one paragraph of the story from the study book and the narrator sitting off to one side, reading a bible verse after each paragraph. As the congregation watches, not only do their eyes continually move from left to right which stops them from listening and examining the words of the story to reject what they don't agree with, but if they are not watching, their ears will hear the words spoken by the compere on the right and the narrator on the left.
    3. A therapist using hypnosis must also design a story with at least four hypnotic suggestions in it, catering for our four main emotions of reasoning, and, that covers the belief that you want the unconscious mind to become conditioned to believing. To further support the story, it is also necessary to give socially accepted reasoning to the story intermittently as you deliver it to the person being hypnotised. (As a therapist, I used medical research results and other therapists often use basic survey results, but Watchtower simply uses bible scripture.) This procedure is so powerful over normal mind and body functions, that you can use it to have a person eat an extremely sour onion and truly believe they are eating a juicy peach, without that onion causing any tears or allowing the person to realise that they are biting into an onion. It is also so powerful that it can make a person refuse a blood transfusion if their life depends on it, or even worse, make parents stop medical doctors from giving their young child a blood transfusion, when his/her life depends on it, thus causing death to their own child. This is the ultimate form of hypnotic mental takeover and the leaders of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society have applied it to their study procedures, in an extremely effective manner. The leaders of Watchtower have designed their study stories to have the four hypnotic suggestions within the story they want their Jehovah's Witness followers to believe in and have added bible scriptures after one or two paragraphs, in order to give the compere and the narrator their job to do to create left and right eye and hearing movement to produce the hypnotic effect. These study stories are so important to Watchtower to establish a hypnotic effect in all Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide, that they insist to all the leaders of each individual congregation centre in every country, that they must not stray from using the study story in every meeting or change the position of the compere and narrator or leave out the use of the usher for the all-important question time, held at the end of each story. Watchtower head office in New York, supplies every Jehovah's Witness meeting hall in every city of every country, with new study books each month, so that every Jehovah's witness world wide is subjected to this hypnotic process every time they attend a Jehovah's Witness meeting at any meeting hall. Even the Jehovah Witnesses who come to your home in pairs to study with you, are told to study from the Watchtower booklet sitting with you at your table, and one of them will read the story and the other will read the scripture, so that the exact same hypnotic effect is at work on you, in your own home even before you actually decide to commit yourself to attending the local Jehovah's Witness meeting hall as a congregation member. Jehovah's Witness followers are usually beautiful God-loving people who do not have a clue that this is going on, but I assure you, several managers at the very top of the Watchtower organisation in New York, are fully in control of this sinister deception that is killing more than a thousand Jehovah's Witnesses every year.) Reference for this statistic:- "Blood On The Altar" by author, David A Reed.
    4. When the therapist's hypnosis session is completed, at a time immediately after the left-to-right eye movement has been stopped, the therapist must ask a list of at least four questions which cover each of the four versions of the hypnotic suggestion story, so that the person being hypnotised, begins to think consciously about what was done during the hypnosis session, to bring the newly-programmed belief out of the unconscious mind and establish it as a fully accepted conscious belief. This last part of the session is essential as it joins the conscious mind with the unconscious mind to expand the brain's total acceptance of the hypnotic effect.

      This task is covered extremely well by Watchtower's use of the questions supplied at the end of each story printed in the Watchtower study magazine and the usher who Watchtower has instructed to walk the isle to extend the michrophone to those who wish to answer the questions.

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