Priming, Predictive Programming, and Hollywood
Throughout history, images and stories have played a crucial role in establishing lasting control or influence over societies and cultures. The captivating and captivating qualities of storytelling and the creation of myths through fables, poetry, and drama have proven successful methods of
influencing public opinion for centuries.
In ancient Greece, Plato saw the same thing when he observed the charming skills and alchemical powers of poets and rhetoricians over the hearts and minds of Greek citizens. The same storytellers and “image-makers” existed in Persia, Babylon, and countless other empires, writes Rhoda Wilson .
With the advent of Hollywood and the silver screen, this alchemical tradition of poets and priests took on a new magical dimension.
The following is an abridged version of the article ” Hollywood, Predictive Programming, and You: Are We Living in a Science Fiction Movie? ” by David Gosselin , originally published by Canadian Patriot .
Pull open the curtain
Recent revelations about the art world and the ties between the entertainment industry and intelligence agencies have sparked interest in the secrets behind the Hollywood curtain.
In modern storytelling, new images are like shadows cast on the cave walls of the “silver screen.” These industries and their associated online streaming services boast many “good movies” with captivating storylines, dialogue, plots, and character development—many of which essentially adhere to the formal rules of Aristotle’s classic Poetics . But the impact of films on the collective imagination is a topic less discussed. Different films have conveyed different messages with varying degrees of subtlety.
A clever, hidden hypnotic technique used in these forms of fiction is “priming.” People can be primed by watching the experiences of others, for example, in films, allowing them to detach from their own lives and immerse themselves in new stories. This has led to a massive priming industry that offers people various scenarios and dystopian futures to play out. But everyone knows it’s just fiction .
In the latest installment, ” Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning I,” for example, a rogue artificial intelligence (“AI”) takes control of the world. It uses people as avatars to play out various games and scenarios. No one knows for sure who or what is real, and there are multiple possibilities, but everyone is convinced they must play the game, essentially deferring the question of the larger reality to “the Entity.”
Does that sound strangely familiar?
Amidst the mass confusion, a recurring theme and incantation emerge in the film: nothing is real. Reality is impossible to discern; the audience must defer their reasoning to the omniscient AI entity.
Here we see modern hypnotic techniques at work, which allow a message or command to penetrate the subconscious. The technique works by creating what the world’s leading hypnotist and co-creator of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), Richard Bandler, calls a state of “soft confusion.”
By confusingly yet artfully flooding the conscious mind with details, it becomes overwhelmed, leaving the subconscious open and ready to receive new “information.” In other words, a clear message is embedded and communicated through a nest of confusing statements.
Bandler calls this “layering realities,” which often involves telling a story within a story, within a story, within a story. The speaker or narrator might suggest one thing but mean something else, or something completely opposite.
The speaker might be talking about one thing and then say something else. Which details belong to which story remains unclear at the conscious level, but with proper nesting and sequencing, listeners are left with a set of instructions they can naturally carry out at the subconscious level.
Bandler was a student of anthropologist and sociologist Gregory Bateson, known for the CIA’s MK-Ultra program.
Besides conducting LSD experiments on shell shock and trauma victims for the CIA’s MK-Ultra program at the Menlo Park VA Hospital, Bateson also lectured at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he encouraged Bandler to establish a hypnosis project and develop hypnosis into a complete and formalized system. In collaboration with John Grinder, who also taught Bandler at Santa Cruz, this resulted in the creation of NLP, whose insights have been thoroughly adapted and integrated into modern public discourse, entertainment, and the “self-help” world throughout the West.
It’s no surprise that the same techniques of hypnosis and narrative structure, which appear in some interesting ways in Mission Impossible, bear an eerie and strange resemblance to the current discourse about the role of AI in shaping decision-making for all of humanity.
Consider, for example, a recent discussion in which World Economic Forum guru Yuval Hariri warned that the general public must prepare for the impending takeover by AI.
Will the future of humanity now be determined by AI? Is this a movie, reality, or just the latest example of predictive programming by the magicians behind many of the most popular science fiction stories?
Fictional stories can be used to prepare audiences or induce altered states of consciousness. But what happens when we ask the same audience to imagine a healthier, alternative future?
And here perhaps the ‘magic’ of movies becomes clearer.
It’s just fiction
The primary genre that shaped Hollywood’s “cave drawings” in the 20th century was the world of so-called science fiction. A new genre of magical imagery was created by practitioners, some of whom had ties to military intelligence and related agencies.
Take, for example , H.G. Wells , the father of modern science fiction. Wells happened to be one of the most outspoken proponents of world government, population control, and global eugenics programs in the early 20th century .
Wells also happened to be a leading figure within Fabian Socialist circles and the British literary elite, including Lord Bertrand Russell, Bernard Shaw , D.H. Lawrence, and many popular writers. All were committed to global eugenics, world government, and the creation of a modern liberal imperial order—or, as Wells once called it, a new “liberal fascist.”
From War of the Worlds and The Time Machine to The Island of Dr. Moreau and The World Set Free , Wells continued to foresee and reinterpret humanity’s future.
Both his fiction and nonfiction were based on the idea that humanity should be under the strict control of a scientific priesthood, presiding over a new world religion of eugenics and a world government responsible for selective human breeding. Sometimes the breeding would lead to disaster, as in The Island of Dr. Moreau; sometimes the inventions in his “fictional” works would lead to near-extinction and pave the way for global governance, as in The World Set Free; but time and again, Wells captured the imagination and offered a new worldview under the guise of “fiction.”
Stranger in a strange and stranger land
Most of the popular and influential science fiction stories since Wells’s time have come from the same small group of not-so-disguised Luciferians. Take, for example, Frank Herbert, L. Ron Hubbard, and Robert Heinlein.
As explored in a New Republic article titled ” Charles Manson’s Science Fiction Roots: How L. Ron Hubbard and Robert Heinlein Influenced a Murderous Cult ,” their works allegedly led to all sorts of historical events that are stranger than fiction.
Heinlein wrote the science fiction novel ‘ Stranger in a Strange Land’ (1961) and Hubbard wrote the self-help guide ‘ Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health’ (1950).
Stranger in a Strange Land tells the story of a Martian-born messiah who preaches a doctrine of free love, leading to the founding of a religion whose followers are connected by ritual water sharing and intense empathy. Dianetics would later serve as the basis for Hubbard’s religion, Scientology.
Herbert, Heinlein, and Hubbard all wrote for the same groundbreaking science fiction magazine, Astounding Science-Fiction . The magazine was edited by John Campbell, author of the science fiction novella ” Who Goes There? “. Campbell’s novella was famously adapted as the screenplay for ” The Thing ,” which tells the story of a shape-shifting, killer alien who can mimic and imitate any other human or life form, leading to mass paranoia and death among people trapped in an Arctic research base.
But what was the purpose of all these writers? As the author of The New Republic explains in the article:
In reality, the hidden theme of “hard science fiction” has always been mystical transcendence, imagining how the promise of religion could be fulfilled through space-age technology. Time and again, Campbell’s writers—not only Heinlein and Hubbard, but also Frank Herbert of Dune fame—envisioned technological paths to transcendence.
The article goes on to describe the remarkable way in which illiterate lifelong criminal Charles Manson, who found himself in prison again and again, magically created a new kind of family, which became known as “The Family.”
This could all still be pure coincidence, but Heinlein himself also enjoyed creating and curating his own free-love sex cult:
Heinlein had an open marriage with Leslyn, a poet and script editor. He had a habit of encouraging his close male friends to take Leslyn as a mistress. As Hubbard would later marvel, “Heinlein practically forced me to sleep with his wife.” Sharing his wife’s body was, for Heinlein, a form of male bonding and served as a precursor to the communal orgies he imagined in Stranger in a Strange Land, which helped the members of his imaginary religion build group solidarity.
Hubbard and Heinlein also shared an interest in the supernatural. Along with their friend Jack Parson, a rocket scientist, they investigated the teachings of occultist Aleister Crowley and ventured into black magic.
Like Heinlein and Manson, Hubbard also had a penchant for creating his own cult. As his son revealed, Hubbard himself believed he was the literal reincarnation of Lucifer. The science of Dianetics, which formed the basis for a cult that controlled Hollywood known as Scientology , was the original “self-help guide,” supposedly offering humans the means to reach their fullest potential.
Whether that meant performing all your own movie stunts as a fully realized aspiring secret agent like Tom Cruise, creating your own new religion to unlock the hidden “human potential” of high-achieving individuals like Hubbard himself, or painting with fake baby blood and writing spirit cooking recipes on walls to challenge the “limits” of human and performance art like Marina Abramovic , the world of “self-help” has been central to the attempt to change the image of a whole, healthy, and happy human being.
In many ways, the “self-help” movement was the crucial Trojan horse that helped restructure and reorient Western civilization away from a healthy image of the self-made human being, toward the unique image of God, and toward an outright worship of the self, devoid of any context or higher understanding of natural law beyond the realization of one’s mere absolute will.
Hubbard and Heinlein were both retired U.S. Navy officers and were both associated with the satanic Agape Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis, which was once led by the extraordinary satanic “beast-man” Aleister Crowley himself.
Unfortunately, at least two of the three authors of ” astonishing science fiction” shared , in different ways, the same essential Luciferian-futurist ethic. From “free love” to ” self-help ,” science fiction served as a clever vehicle to spread this new ethos for a new kind of bold, fearless, self-actualizing humanity ready to unlock its deeper, hidden “human potential.”
The last of the “ amazing science fiction” trio was Herbert, the author of the Dune series, which is still churning out new blockbusters in 2024.
In each case, Herbert, Heinlein, and Hubbard presented their own distinct but complementary views on human nature, always couched in entertaining, action-packed stories.
At this point, we understand this story is strange enough, but it just keeps getting stranger and stranger. So why stop there? In David McGowan’s book ” Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon ,” the author describes the origins of the so-called “Peace and Love” generation in Laurel Canyon, which connects to our story in another ” truth is stranger than fiction ” way. As McGowan writes:
Another famous resident of Laurel Canyon was science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, who lived at 8775 Lookout Mountain Avenue. Like so many other characters in this story, Heinlein graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and served as a naval officer. He then embarked on a successful writing career. And despite the fact that he was, objectively, a fanatical right-wing politician, his work was warmly received by the flower power generation.
If that short biography seems vaguely familiar, it’s probably because it’s nearly identical to the biography of a man named L. Ron Hubbard, whom you may have heard of.
Heinlein’s best-known work is the novel Stranger in a Strange Land, considered enormously influential by many in the Laurel Canyon scene. Ed Sanders wrote in The Family that the book “helped lay a theoretical foundation for Manson’s Family.” Charlie often used terminology from Strange Land when addressing his followers, and he named his first son born in the Family, Valentine Michael Manson, in honor of the book’s protagonist.
Heinlein, a retired naval officer like Hubbard, lived near a secret military facility (equipped with several film studios), the secret Lookout Mountain Laboratory, overlooking Laurel Canyon, where the flower power generation was said to have originated. To this day, little is known about this top-secret Lookout Mountain Laboratory.
But thanks to McGowan we do know the following:
During its lifetime, the studio produced some 19,000 secret films – more than all Hollywood studios combined (which, in my opinion, makes Laurel Canyon the true “movie capital of the world”).
Officially, the facility was operated by the U.S. Air Force and performed no scandalous tasks other than processing AEC footage of atomic and nuclear tests. However, the studio was clearly equipped to do much more than just process film. There is evidence that Lookout Mountain Laboratory housed an advanced research and development department that was at the forefront of new film technologies.
Technological advancements such as 3D effects were apparently first developed at the Laurel Canyon site. Hollywood luminaries such as John Ford, Jimmy Sewart, Howard Hawks, Ronald Reagan, Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, Hedda Hopper, and Marilyn Monroe were allowed to work on secret projects at the facility. There is no evidence that any of them ever spoke about their work at the clandestine studio. (McGowan, 55-56)
McGowan then lists the various founders of the rock hippie scene who were inspired by and spread Heinlein and his associates’ message of “free love,” including David Crosby and Frank Zappa, both of whom were staunch right-wing politicians and came from families connected to the establishment or the military-industrial complex, yet led the hippie flower power movement into the era of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.
As for Stranger in a Strange Land itself, it inspired a cult following of its own, with several bands using the same title for their own musical renditions, including Iron Maiden and Thirty Seconds to Mars .
The question is: if the purpose of these stories or songs was to present a certain view of humanity, shrouded in the magical veil of ‘fiction’ and ‘entertainment’, how many other works of art are used in a similar way or for similar purposes today?
We must not forget the enchanting power that poetry and related art forms exert on us, nor underestimate the enchanting power of their magically skilled followers. Like Plato, we can adore a novel, film, or story, but we must always be wary of the magicians behind the scenes, lest we allow them to create reality for us.
So let us proceed with caution, lest we play the wrong film or discover the reality that magicians, shamans, and conjurers would rather us not see. In reality, our true reality is one that modern magic has all too often hidden, but which humanity’s greatest stories will always inevitably reveal.
Works Cited
- Bandler, Richard. Richard Bandler’s Guide to Trance Formation: How to Harness the Power of Hypnosis to Ignite Effortless and Lasting Change. Health Communications, Inc. (2008).
- Carey, John. The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939. Academy Chicago Publishers (2002).
- McGowan, David . Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops and the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream. HeadPress (2014).
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