c. Electronic Dissolution of Memory: Missing Time, and Missing History
As previously noted,
one of the major problems that early mind manipulation research
encountered was the “disposal” problem, i.e., how would the
perpetrators of the experiments keep the experiments secret? One
way, of course, was to simply have the participants murdered, but
the other way, erasure of certain parts of their memory, was a more
efficient “method” and one which, if means for doing so could be
developed, would have its own benefits in the arsenal of mind
manipulation. The goal was “EDOM,” or “Electronic Dissolution of
Memory.” It is accomplished by nothing more complicated than the
“blockage of synaptic transmission in certain areas of the
brain,”146 similar to what
happens in an ordinary stroke. The effect, again, can be produced
by electromagnetic “jamming” of the signals of neural pathways,
with the result that there is an “erasure of memory from
consciousness” in “certain areas of the brain.”147 The result is
“missing memory,” which, if one looks at it a different way, is
nothing but the abductees’ “missing time” phenomenon, for by
erasing memory, one is erasing time,
and by erasing time — if performed on a large enough group of
people, one is perforce erasing history.148
Without certain
memories, a person’s — or a group of
persons’ — context for interpreting events and making decisions
will inevitably change, so memory erasure can also be viewed as a
means of social manipulation for the purpose of producing a certain
class of actions. Again, the obvious implications for the putative
“technologies of revelation” is rather obvious.
But there is another
possibility that such electromagnetic mind manipulation might have,
and within the context of the possibility of truly planetbusting
weapons, it is a frightening one, for one must ask: would a normal,
sane person press a button and blow up a planet, à la George Lucas’
celebrated “Death Star” in his epic movie Star
Wars? Probably not. What is required is no longer a “normal
soldier,” but an insane one:
There have always been recruits for even the most hazardous duties; what need of hypnosis?The need, in fact, is absolute.The modern battlefield has little place for the traditional soldier. Advanced weaponry requires an increasing level of technical sophistication, which in turn requires a cool-headed operator. But the all-too-human combatant — though capable of extraordinary acts of courage under the most stressful conditions imaginable — does not possess inexhaustible reserves of sang-froid.... As Richard Gabriel, the excellent historian of the role of psychiatry in warfare, writes:“Modern warfare has become so lethal and so intense that only the already insane can endure it....”....According to Gabriel, the military intends to meet this challenge by creating “the chemical soldier,” a designer-drugged zombie in fighting man’s uniform...149
But there may be no
need for drugs at all, but merely the requisite electromagnetic
field or “template” over a given region with a given target group
of “soldiers,” for we have already seen the ability of this
technology to produce emotional states and actions otherwise not
normally experienced by an ordinary person, which would include the
ability to induce “insane rages” for no reason. Why use drugs,
which will leave traces — evidence — in the body, when
electro-magnetic waves will do the same trick, and produce no
detectable traces?