NH - Dr. H.M. Shelton article: The Great Awakener

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[The Great Awakener

by Dr. Herbert M. Shelton

 

Understanding has been defined as " the power to make experience more

intelligible by analyzing it in the light of valid and appropriate

general concepts. "

 

The man who analyzes and understands may accept or reject on a basis

of intelligence. He carefully considers and weighs all the facts and

principles involved in a proposition and arrives at a decision.

Snap judgments and emotional acceptances or rejections do not grow out

of a process of this kind. When we accept or reject a new idea or a

new practice only because it disagrees or agrees or appears to

disagree or agree with our prepossessions and preconceptions, we are

guided, not by intelligence, but by prejudice and emotion.

Analysis is the sole guide for intelligent selection of alternative

courses of action. If we lack sufficient data to make a full analysis,

we do not accept or reject, but suspend judgment until more data can

be obtained.

Mass media, so popular today, not alone with advertisers, but also

with propagandists and pseudo-educators, make use of a form of

hypnotic technique in their efforts to sway the popular mind.

 

By the constantly reiterated slogan, by frequent repetition of words

and gestures, by holding the same image always before the minds of

their intended victims, they seek to create a state of

semi-somnambulism in which the poor victims of the mass media

processes do exactly as they are told.

 

The people are said to be " conditioned " by such processes. Not merely

the obvious, but also the hidden,

persuaders are employed in this mass conditioning of the minds of the

people.

 

Hitler's use of the " big lie " was made effective by the same process.

In advertising and in much of the propaganda of various groups in our

culture, the same effective use of the " big lie " is seen. No better

example of this can be offered than the constant stream of false

medical propaganda that pours from the presses.

 

Among a people who have been conditioned to " think " in slogans and to

follow the crowd in all things, truth has rough sledding. When a

revolutionary new truth that seems likely to disturb the status quo is

presented to the herd mind, the owner is likely to quote some popular

slogan and swing off into the jitterbug line.

 

In our mass conditioned culture none of us are ourselves: We are

faithful copies of what our masters want us to be.

 

Often arguing heatedly for or against this or that, we suffer a myopic

inability to peer beneath the surface and

discern the reality that lies below. We almost always miss the fact

that our acceptances and our rejections, as well as

the receptors and rejections, are all part of a very complex,

persuasive cultural process.

 

It is disheartening to listen to the discussion of contemporary

acceptances by the robot minds that constitute the product of our

overworked mass media. But the case is not as hopeless as it seems.

 

Truth has a way of awakening sleepwalkers and clearing the conditioned

cobwebs from their minds.

 

No man armed with the truth is ever welcome in any culture. He is spat

upon and discredited by the masters of the culture and their robot

underlings, in proportion to the extent that he is feared. But he

never fails to dehypnotize many of the victims of the mass-cultural

process.

 

Today we witness the gratifying sight of many sleepwalkers awakening

from their fever-dream as a result of coming in contact with Hygienic

truth.

 

We must bring this truth to more and more of the sleepers, that they

also may awaken. ]

(From Life Science Health System, p.1857)

 

All the best,

 

Bob Farrell

Personal Health Creation Coach