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Activists have spent decades sharing information to raise awareness. Yet those steeped in mainstream views often won’t even look at our information. Responses range from polite dismissal to overt criticism and attack, leaving activists scratching their heads. Pro-vaxxers leave the encounter stuck in their mainstream beliefs while activists come away thinking the pro-vaxxer is careless or stupid. But neither side is seeing clearly. Please allow me to explain…
The masses are psychologically manipulated. With vaccines, false narratives are anchored to a subconscious fear of death from infectious diseases. How that anchoring occurs is a matter for another discussion, but once it occurs, the implanted fear serves as a barrier that blocks conflicting information on the conscious level. Implanted false narratives appear logical to manipulation victims, so they see no need to waste their time with our “obviously illogical, dangerous opinions.” Because the root of this barrier is subconscious, it’s invisible to the conscious mind. Because it’s an emotional barrier, it only reacts—emotions don’t analyze or evaluate—and so its operation is automatic. The result? Manipulation victims don’t reject truth because of poor judgement; they literally *can’t* reach and process truth with their conscious intellects because a subconscious fear-of-death barrier blocks it. Fear of death, once triggered, will always beat information. (See Fear vs. Knowledge for a more complete explanation of manipulation psychology in both sleeper and aware communities.)
Now, don’t get me wrong. The information we share is a critical part of the equation. It is, after all, what the controversy is all about. But to raise awareness effectively, we must do more than simply share information. We must address the implanted subconscious fear barriers, or our audience will never be able to “reach” and fully process our information. In some cases, this requires doing the opposite way we typically do. For example, we often think that the more proof we provide, the more compelling our position will be. Yet, manipulated minds can usually process only small amounts of new information at a time—if any at all. Offer more than a little information, then, and the manipulated mind shuts down. Whether we realize it or not, our own awakening process involved a shift in perception, a shift on a subconscious emotional level that enabled our minds to pull in and process information that conflicts with the mainstream narrative. But while information can be summarized, the accompanying shift in perception can’t, as it’s a psychological process. Each person can only proceed down their own awakening path at the rate that their personal psychological makeup will allow. That’s different for each person. I’ve seen some people get to a level of awareness in a couple of years that took me 15 years to reach. Others, however, may require 15 years or more.
Unfortunately, it’s rare that you can bring someone new to the vax controvery fully up to speed quickly. Rather, the task is to get them started on their own path of awakening, only. These are very different things! For all one needs to get started on their own awakening path is to realize that we’ve all been lied to about vaccines. That step can occur with a single fact. So, the general rule here is that less is more. Start with very few facts, no more than would fill a single page including references, as most manipulated people can’t handle any more than that. If a person or audience indicates that they are open to more information, then keep going. But at the first sign of shutdown, you’re done—they can’t take in any more information.
Another point to consider is that no matter how diplomatic you are, when you try to educate a pro-vax person, you’re telling them that they’re wrong, that they’ve been fooled. Humans don’t like to be wrong; it’s embarrassing, uncomfortable. Like it or not, human behavior is powerfully influenced by discomfort. We reflexively steer away from things that are uncomfortable. Is there a way to educate people without telling them their wrong? Yes, by asking questions (when that’s an option). When you ask questions, you invite people to see for themselves, which is the only way anyone can ever truly see truth, anyway. Now, you can ask leading questions, to point them to what you want them to know, and while “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink,” you can increase the odds of your audience “drinking” by asking a question that invites them to look and see a critical new truth for themselves. A question leaves the person in charge, in control, which is a lot more comfortable than hearing, “you’re wrong,” which is alway the underlying message when we’re raising awareness. Bottom line, most people will hear the truth from themselves long before they’ll accept it from us. So, lead them to it.
Finally, it’s important to note that with awareness-raising efforts, we’re asking people to go to a very ugly, uncomfortable “place” where government officials and mainstream media can’t be trusted, and pharmaceutical CEO’s deliberately induce widespread disability and death for profit and other agendas. There is, naturally, very strong resistance to this! Much of this is subconscious; it would be exceedingly rare for a pro-vaccine person to think, “gee, that’s a very ugly picture of the world you’re painting, so I think I’ll just stick to my own world view, thank you very much.” But the only difference between a subconscious feeling and a conscious one is that the subconscious one operates invisibly and automatically—no less powerfully than a conscious one—while the conscious one gives the person the option to intervene and make a conscious choice.
So, raising awareness effectively requires sharing truth *and* successfully addressing powerful, implanted subconscious fear barriers.
As for us activists, when we conclude that pro-vaxxers are careless or stupid for not looking at our information, we reveal our own cognitive dissonance, our own lack of clarity about what’s really going on. But we aren’t careless or stupid, either. The same psychology that hides the truth from the masses keeps us from reaching real solutions. There are many parts and pieces to this, but one example is our misinterpretation of pro-vax behavior in our awareness-raising work. Once we’re clear about both parts of the equation, though, the information and the subconscious fear barrier, we’re empowered to go forward more effectively. The fear-barrier component is something to explore; there’s not a short answer to the “fear barrier” question. But as we explore ways to address it, we’ll become more effective at raising awareness.
So, we’re dealing with both an information war and a psychology war. But it’s really more a psychology war, for when you address the fear barrier successfully, the information virtually takes care of itself. There’s never been a lack of information—after all, we woke up—only a lack of most people’s ability to reach and process it; and that’s due to psychological manipulation. So while more information is never a bad thing, the far more critical component is the psychology.
Here's a link to a sample one-page introduction to the vaccine controversy, an example of minimal information to lead people to the “we’ve all been lied to” conclusion needed to get people started on their own awakening path. (Introducing the Vaccine Controversy). This is just an example; variations may be needed for various situations. But this is available “as is” or modified to all. May the above information and this document help you to be a more effective awareness raiser!
With gratitude,
Alan Phillips, J.D.
Vaccine Rights Legal Expert
An Introduction to Manipulation Psychology:
Fear vs. Knowledge (https://vaccinerights.com/fearvsknowledge)
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