Open Veils · Answer
How can a person protect oneself from such influences?
The deepest protection is not a technique — it is a rebuilt ontology. According to Ingo Swann's remote-viewing research and Robert Monroe's Gateway work, the first line of defense is knowing the architecture of your own consciousness before external systems map it for you. Hal Puthoff's declassified SRI protocols and the CIA Gateway Process document both treat coherent personal identity as the primary shield against psychotronic and psychological intrusion.
Evidence
- Ingo Swann, the primary architect of Coordinate Remote Viewing at SRI, insisted that most people are manipulated because they have never audited their own belief structure — they cannot tell which thoughts are native and which were installed.
- The declassified CIA Gateway Process report (approved 1983, released via FOIA) frames altered-state training as a method of achieving 'hemi-sync coherence' — a brain-state in which external suggestion loses purchase because the subject's internal signal is stronger than ambient noise.
- Rudolf Steiner's epistemological writings, particularly his work on 'Ahrimanic' influence, describe a protocol strikingly parallel to modern counter-manipulation literature: slow the stimulus, name the force behind it, and refuse to let fear compress decision-time.
- Whitney Webb and Richard Dolan both document how institutional manipulation operates through manufactured urgency and controlled authority — the very vectors the SRI and Monroe protocols are designed to neutralize at the individual level.
- His training protocols began not with targets but with self-mapping: identifying every assumption the viewer brought to perception.