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Gloria Naylor, the highly acclaimed author of The Women of Brewster Place, is back.
Unfortunately, the Chicago Sun-Times book editor declined to review her latest work, 1996, because the book was released a couple of months ago.
But I was fascinated by Naylor's subject -- mind-control. And, frankly, I don't think Naylor is getting her proper due. Besides being a major African-American writer, in 1996, she raises some troubling questions about the erosion of freedoms in this country and our government's ability to put someone's life under a microscope.
Published by Third World Press, 1996 is Naylor's first book in seven years. Although there is considerable confusion over when the manuscript was actually released, an excerpt appeared in Black Issues Book Review on Sept. 1. But for the most part, Naylor's latest manuscript has been uncharacteristically marginalized.
'I am in a battle for my mind'
In a strange way, that marginalization heightens the intrigue.
The fictionalized memoir purports to detail what became of Naylor's life after she moved to a secluded stretch of St. Helena Island. Her intention was to spend a year writing in the serene island setting, plant a garden and spend time enjoying the lifestyle she had worked hard to obtain.
But shortly after moving into her home, Naylor has a run-in with an eccentric Jewish neighbor who "had at least a dozen cats." When "Eunice" refuses to keep the cats out of Naylor's garden, and Naylor ends up taking matters into her own hands, the dispute turns ugly.
Eunice's brother also happened to be the head of the National Security Agency. The bad blood between the women led to Naylor's being investigated as a drug-dealer and labeled as a dangerous anti-Semite. It wasn't long before Naylor discovered that she was being followed everywhere she went. When the harassment became unbearable, Naylor fled her Southern refuge and returned to New York, where the scrutiny escalated into mind-control.
Of course, this is where the controversy comes in. Did the events Naylor described actually happen? Did the writer suffer some kind of nervous breakdown?
"I didn't want to tell this story. It's going to take courage. Perhaps more courage than I possess, but they've left me no alternatives," Naylor writes at the beginning of her book. "I am in a battle for my mind. If I stop now, they'll have won, and I will lose myself."
A run-in with a neighbor
After giving readers the bare bones about her beginnings, Naylor shares a place that was to be her slice of heaven, but ultimately became her piece of hell.
"I would sit at a folded table in the sunroom that gave me a view of the water, drinking my morning coffee in a pink mug that said 'Hers' in blue lettering. That table, with its one chair and that mug, were my only possessions besides a trailer camping bed that I picked up secondhand. But this, indeed was mine. I looked over at the plantation house and thought about how things had come full circle. My people once worked this land as slaves, and here I was, owning part of it."
Later, after the run-in with the neighbor, Naylor describes a fictitious telephone conversation her neighbor had with her brother:
"What is it, Eunice?"
"Orwell is dead. My baby is gone."
A cat, he thinks. She's calling me about a damn cat. "Sorry to hear that, Eunice. Was it a peaceful death?
"He was poisoned."
"How do you know that?"
"I had an autopsy. It was rat poison. Gloria Naylor killed him."
"Who's Gloria Naylor?"
"A woman who lives across the road from me."
"And how do you know she did it?"
"Because she hated my cats. She told me so. And she hates me, too, because I'm a Jew."
Exorcising demons
Of course, that conversation is fiction because the only thing Naylor knows for sure is what she claims happened to her. She could only speculate about the motivations, as well as the power of people who could invade a life to the degree they invaded hers.
The author understands that some people will simply think she is using her writing to cover up a nervous breakdown.
"I can't worry about that," Naylor said during a recent telephone interview. "With my entire career, I try to do the best that I can and leave the rest to the reader. It is just like child abuse. There are some people, when the child comes to them and says 'Uncle Johnny did X, Y, Z,' there will be some parents who will not believe the child, and there is no amount of evidence that will make them change their minds."
Given the continued debate over some provisions of the Patriot Act, Naylor's "fictionalized memoir" raises the right questions at the right time.
Writing the book was a "real catharsis," Naylor said.
"It was like purging. But really, it was no different from the other books I have written in that each of them exorcised from me some sort of demon."
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Originally posted by heather65
interesting info you've presented. she's an author i've enjoyed reading. sorry to hear about her going through this ordeal. have you read the washingtonpost.com article by sharon weinberger dated jan. 14,2007? that article led me to learn about other incidents that are similar to what she described in the radio interview that has been experienced by harlan girard.
in the article it states that dennis kucinich tried to introduce a bill in 2001 to ban the use of psychotronic weapons but, was derided and the bill was dropped.
Originally posted by heather65
have you read the washingtonpost.com article by sharon weinberger dated jan. 14,2007?
Originally posted by Vault-D
Originally posted by heather65
have you read the washingtonpost.com article by sharon weinberger dated jan. 14,2007?
Here is the Washington Post article. And you can read her blog here.
Gloria Naylor seems like an odd target, if she's been chosen. A nationally recognized figure, with a gift for language? Aren't they keen to keep this project on the down-low?
Originally posted by masonwatcher
I know that the majority of the harassment is designed to trivialise the life of the victim and cow us into compliancy as a bully would, but also being brutalised induces a susceptibility to be influences by all sorts of cultish techniques like neurolinguistics. This is the mind control aspect that I think many misconstrue as mind reading.
Originally posted by Vault-D
Originally posted by masonwatcher
I know that the majority of the harassment is designed to trivialise the life of the victim and cow us into compliancy as a bully would, but also being brutalised induces a susceptibility to be influences by all sorts of cultish techniques like neurolinguistics. This is the mind control aspect that I think many misconstrue as mind reading.
That's an interesting idea, and actually makes some kind of sense. Can NLP be effective when, rather than rapport, the target/victim is brutalized or paranoid?
My original questions remain, though: why choose these victims? Whether these attacks are defined criminally or dastardly or evil or experimental, these attacks are (by all accounts) coordinated efforts. To what end, exactly? I don't mean to imply that anyone here has definitive answers, but those with experience might have theories.
Originally posted by masonwatcher
I also know that nuerolinguistic experts can give the impression of being mind readers.
An example of this kind of neurolinguistic techniques, which is routinely used on me, occurred in the tube when I was shopping in the West End in London. A woman followed me into the carriage after a long day walking about Oxford Street (I intended to go for a curry in the East End). Although there were plenty of seats available, she sat directly in front of me and produced a newspaper. I hadn't really noticed her until I realised the paper she had was a photocopy on account of the quality of paper. Being in the habit of reading other people's newspapers in the tube from a distance, I noted that the headlines read 'Go Home' yet the article below related to the price of petrol. I got up and leaned over to see what she was reading. It was blank!
Originally posted by LowLevelMason
What does any of this have to do with secret societies?
Originally posted by scientist
Originally posted by masonwatcher
I also know that nuerolinguistic experts can give the impression of being mind readers.
An example of this kind of neurolinguistic techniques, which is routinely used on me, occurred in the tube when I was shopping in the West End in London. A woman followed me into the carriage after a long day walking about Oxford Street (I intended to go for a curry in the East End). Although there were plenty of seats available, she sat directly in front of me and produced a newspaper. I hadn't really noticed her until I realised the paper she had was a photocopy on account of the quality of paper. Being in the habit of reading other people's newspapers in the tube from a distance, I noted that the headlines read 'Go Home' yet the article below related to the price of petrol. I got up and leaned over to see what she was reading. It was blank!
I am extremely, extremely curious as to how you equate that to Neuro Lingustic Programming?
It seems these days, NLP is just a catch-all scapegoat for misunderstood methods of influence.
Originally posted by LowLevelMason
reply to post by masonwatcher
Like who? Do you have any evidence of this statement? What secret society is involved here?
en.wikipedia.org...
www.searchlightmagazine.com...
There is nothing to stop you from posting actual evidence regardless of "legal action," as long as the evidence is generalized and does not address your specific case.
Scientology is not a secret society or cult, its a religion.
Also, your link about RedWatch just said its a very bad website, no proof of any harassment or that it is a secret society.