In these times of growing confusion and delusion, we must learn all we can about how to keep our minds free from coercive manipulation.
1. "Prisons We Choose to Live Inside," by Doris Lessing (1986).

amazon.com/dp/B00C4TK31Q/
2. "The Rape of the Mind: the Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing" (1956).

amazon.com/dp/B00TQH84BA/
3. "Cults in Our Midst," by Margaret Thaler Singer (1995).

amazon.com/Cults-Our-Midst-Continuing-Against/dp/0787967416
4. The APA-suppressed DIMPAC report. DIMPAC stands for "Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control."

cesnur.org/testi/DIMPAC.htm
5. "The Manipulated Mind: Brainwashing, Conditioning, and Indoctrination," by Denise Winn (1983).

amazon.com/dp/B004M8T17E/
6. "Influence," by Robert B. Cialdini (1984). [From The Dark Side]

amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Robert-Cialdini/dp/006124189X
7. "The Undiscovered Self," by Carl Gustav Jung (1957)

amazon.com/dp/B00HA841KA/
8. "We," by Yevgeniy Zamyatin. "We" novel of dystopian fiction, smuggled out of the Soviet Union in the 1920s, the book that inspired George Orwell to write "1984."

amazon.com/dp/B00KR3HV3O/
9. NJ Safe and Sound is an organization intended to guard against family separation through the cult technique known as "predatory alienation."

njsafeandsound.org/
10. "The Power of the Powerless" (1978) is an extraordinary essay written by the Czech playwright, dissident, and later president Vaclav Havel (d. 2017).

vimeo.com/112110628
To: CharlesOConnell
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08/10/2016 12:42:06 AM PDT by
Impala64ssa
(You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
To: CharlesOConnell
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08/10/2016 2:52:41 AM PDT by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(<<<<<a<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
To: CharlesOConnell
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08/10/2016 2:56:02 AM PDT by
Tunehead54
(Nothing funny here ;-)
To: CharlesOConnell
We’re gonna need stone cold fighters in the senate and house if these fers manage to weasel themselves back into the whitehouse. They’ll eff up, it’s in their nature and it will be time to party like it’s 1999 all over again.
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08/10/2016 3:22:12 AM PDT by
RC one
To: CharlesOConnell
Bfl - thanks for additional links. Best keywords?
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08/10/2016 5:12:37 AM PDT by
cyn
(Benghazi)
To: CharlesOConnell
"If someone tries to kill you, you kill them right back" -Malclom Reynolds
Sage advice from SciFi.
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so_real
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