Psyop Expert: Secret Techniques For Psychological Power - Chase Hughes
In a Nutshell
Chase Hughes argues that modern psychological manipulation—driven by social media algorithms and engineered division—has created unprecedented loneliness and reduced critical thinking, as people perform artificial personas for external validation instead of living authentically. Brainwashing follows the F.E.A.R. cycle (Focus through novelty, Emotion via fractionation, Agitation through destabilization, Repetition) while influence works through Perception-Context-Permission engineering and interrogation protocols that shift how behavior becomes permissible. True confidence stems from tolerating social injury and processing emotional debt from childhood patterns, with body language revealing stress and insecurity through artery protection, blink rate changes, and lip compression rather than fixed deception signals.
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Chase Hughes describes his work as teaching psychology topics ranging from brainwashing to interrogation techniques applied to both self and others. The majority of his current work involves training sales teams, as sales has become heavily reliant on psychological methods. He has studied neuroscience extensively and spent his life understanding brain mechanics and how to shift human behavior beyond just interrogation contexts to modifying personal behavior.
Hughes confirms we are living in the most psychologically manipulated era in human history. While manipulation existed in ancient Rome through distraction tactics like gladiatorial events, the current era differs due to greater pervasiveness facilitated by digital media rather than solely a requirement for control.
The number one human fear discussed in psychology classes is public speaking, but Hughes clarifies this masks a deeper fear of being judged and ostracized. The human brain, wired from 200,000 years ago, interprets social rejection as a mortal threat equivalent to death, loss of reproduction opportunities, and tribal expulsion. In the 1980s, mistakes might be judged by 30-40 people, but social media has exponentially increased this to 5-10 million potential judges, fundamentally altering society and contributing to the current pandemic of loneliness.
Hughes references French philosopher Sartre's play depicting three people locked in a room where the door periodically opens but nobody leaves. Characters desperately seek confirmation of their identity from others rather than leaving. This illustrates how people remain trapped by the need for external validation of who they are.
In today's performative and artificial social environment, individuals constantly present their best selves while concealing shame and guilt. This leads to profound loneliness even in rooms full of people because individuals know others are interacting with a constructed persona rather than their authentic self. Friends and spouses may offer praise, but the individual recognizes this approval applies only to the performed version, not the real person who has never been truly seen.
The persona is incapable of receiving genuine love and can only receive praise at best. People love characters like Thor or Gladiator rather than the actors Chris Hemsworth or Russell Crowe. This explains why individuals may not feel authentic existential connection to their pursuits and successes, as others are applauding the role rather than seeing the true person.
Hughes recommends the film Pig starring Nicholas Cage, specifically a scene where Cage's character, who has stopped performing entirely, confronts a chef pretending to be someone for restaurant success. Cage states none of it is real and predicts the chef will wake up daily with less of himself remaining until nothing recognizable is left. This serves as an awakening moment demonstrating how performance erodes authentic identity.
Brainwashing operates through a four-step process spelling F.E.A.R.: Focus, Emotion, Agitation, and Repetition.
Focus
The fastest way to generate mammalian focus is novelty, breaking expected patterns repeatedly. This triggers the brain's attention mechanism similar to hearing a stick break in the woods.
Emotion
Fractionation involves rapidly moving someone in and out of hypnotic states, causing deeper immersion each cycle through increased GABA and theta wave brain states. Social media feeds replicate this by alternating between fear/scarcity content and brief uplifting moments like baby deer videos.
Agitation
This involves creating environmental disruption where the mammalian brain recognizes a changed landscape, such as rising oil prices or resource shortages, destabilizing the ability to predict future events.
Repetition
The cycle repeats continuously, creating a blank slate in individuals that serves as the baseline formula for brainwashing.
Hughes argues social media algorithms are not deliberately designed at a conference table to harm users but rather optimize for maximum revenue through engagement. The algorithm rewards content generating the most ad revenue by showing fear-inducing content followed by advertisements.
The deliberate manipulation occurs through engineered division: left-leaning feeds show the most extreme examples from the right, and vice versa, creating permanent judgments that all members of the opposing side are crazy and untrustworthy. This reduces critical thinking capacity by approximately 50% and makes populations 10 times more susceptible to manipulation.
Two Chinese intelligence officers authored a paper titled Unrestricted Warfare (available on Amazon) discussing asymmetric warfare against a country resembling the United States. The strategy involves getting populations to fight internally, distrust neighbors, and destabilize government from within rather than through conventional military engagement.
A former California mayor was proven to be a Chinese operative. Hughes suggests manipulation comes from countries in conflict and greedy corporations rather than a singular ancient conspiracy.
Absence of nuance in news coverage indicates manipulation. News presents prepackaged enemies, prescribed emotional responses, and disconnected stories without explaining connections between events.
Five factors determine trust in another person, ordered by importance:
- Confidence: Clear speech without reservations or academic language; presidents speaking at lower grade levels are approximately 35% more likely to win debates
- Discipline: Observable self-control and discipline
- Leadership: Ability to guide others
- Gratitude: Emotional stability and thankfulness in the present moment
- Enjoyment: Positive engagement
The brain's shortcut follows the loudest, clearest person without micro-hesitations, as these trigger automatic distrust responses.
Social destabilization follows a process of closing down systems, building internal pressure, then controlling where pressure releases. This controlled release often directs toward a prepackaged enemy. Tracking pressure (financial, economic, shipping, trade, oil) reveals more than tracking money from an intelligence perspective.
Algorithms reverse-engineered human brain function to maximize click-through rates and watch time. Stuart Russell, author of the canonical AI textbook translated into 100 languages and writer of Human Compatible, describes two algorithmic improvement methods: serving desired content or nudging preferences to make users more predictable.
This bidirectional relationship between predicting clicks and engineering predictability explains radicalization pipelines, where the goal is extreme predictability rather than any specific worldview.
When teaching persuasion and influence, Hughes emphasizes that skilled practitioners engineer conditions rather than outcomes. Creating the right conditions enables any desired behavior. The first goal involves building the perfect client by making individuals ideal recipients for specific messaging before attempting behavioral shifts.
A stage hypnotist performed a comedy club show where audience members on stage were instructed to act as police responding to a party. The audience was told to laugh, which made the participants increasingly upset. One participant was an off-duty police officer carrying a weapon who began firing a real gun into the crowd after being told someone had a gun.
Context dictates behavior regardless of a person's normal character. The officer was described as a good, well-meaning person who simply wanted to go out with his wife. The example demonstrates that context can override typical behavioral constraints.
Perception, Context, and Permission form a three-part system for influencing behavior. Changing perception about a situation allows reframing it as something else entirely. Shifting context then makes new behaviors permissible. Permission is the final element that signals the behavior is acceptable and makes logical sense within that context.
The core question when applying this system is identifying the context where desired behavior becomes automatic. If someone can be made to believe they are in a shooting range while actually standing in a bar, their behavior will differ significantly from their normal response.
The Milgram experiment demonstrated that people will shock strangers to what they believe is death within approximately 47 minutes at a 70% rate. No special script or hypnosis was used. A person in a lab coat simply engineered conditions that made the behavior permissible. The context itself made the shocking behavior acceptable.
An operator was tasked with getting someone to lay on the floor appearing unconscious within seven minutes in a social bar environment with a band playing. The operator achieved this in three to four minutes by telling the person he was a hypnotherapist, asking what she wanted to change about her life, and offering to give her more discipline. The context was shifted from being controlled to being helped, making the behavior acceptable.
A five-step protocol is used in interrogation rooms to shift context and perception to elicit confessions. The steps are:
- Socialize: Establish that the person is understood and is fundamentally good
- Minimize: Frame the behavior as not a big deal compared to worse actions others have committed
- Rationalize: Provide understandable reasons or background circumstances that led to the behavior
- Project: State that it is not their fault and anyone in their position would have made the same choice
An alternative question follows that presents two options, both of which are admissions of guilt but differ in motive.
A bait question is used to determine guilt by creating a dilemma. The question asks whether there is any reason a neighbor's Ring doorbell camera would show the person's vehicle in the area of a crime. An innocent person responds with immediate confidence and no hesitation. A guilty person faces a dilemma of either lying and being caught or placing themselves at the scene.
The punishment question asks what should happen to the person who committed the act. This works on both children and adults. In one example with children aged seven and eight, one child suggested extreme punishments while the other suggested a minor consequence, revealing which child was responsible for spilling chocolate milk.
One technique for creating rapport quickly is making an admission about a fault or insecurity that others might be embarrassed to share. Being honest about something personal that most people hide creates trust because genuine honesty is rare.
Another approach is expressing ignorance and fascination about something the other person takes pride in knowing. This creates connection through genuine interest rather than competition.
Contagious confidence is more effective than rapport alone. Confidence without hierarchy or status thinking is key. Hierarchy thinking collapses skills by pushing awareness behind the eyes rather than keeping it forward.
The principle states that wherever you speak from is where you speak to in others. Speaking from a place of hierarchy and status triggers the same in the listener. Speaking from genuine confidence triggers confidence in others.
Many training approaches focus on symptoms of confidence such as posture, hand gestures, and vocal projection without addressing the underlying causes. These surface-level techniques fail to produce congruent results when the person has underlying anxiety.
True confidence consists of two elements: a willingness to receive social injury and a generalized belief that things will work out okay. Social injury is the primary barrier preventing people from feeling confident. Role-based permission issues also block confidence when someone feels they do not belong in a particular environment.
Trump is considered a fabulous communicator who speaks at approximately a seventh-grade level. Many effective leaders speak at low reading levels to increase followability. He is self-serving and idiosyncratic, breaking from norms, but his communication is effective.
Effectiveness comes partly from volume and primarily from novelty, which generates massive focus in human beings. He functions as a master of novelty. His ideas are simple and followable even when long-term vision and detailed plans are less clear.
People with massive cultural influence typically have distinctive voices. If an impression of someone can be done easily, it indicates they have a signature speaking style. Examples include Jordan Peterson, Andrew Tate, Russell Brand (unnecessarily verbose and articulate with meandering sentences), Donald Trump (punchy with superfluous restatement and bravado), and Barack Obama (staccato and very sharp delivery).
A signature style of speaking is valuable. Impressions are typically not done as compliments. The ease with which someone can be imitated indicates ownership of verbal real estate. A good test of rhetorical effectiveness is how far an impression can deviate from the original speech pattern while still allowing listeners to recognize the target person.
Distinctiveness functions like a trademark. Unique vocal features, cadence, and quirks make a voice memorable and effective for branding.
The speaker is running a campaign against 11 Labs after discovering their voice was cloned without permission. Multiple AI-generated channels using their name and voice appear daily on YouTube. The cloned voice replicates specific regional verbal tics from northeast UK, including glottal stops and particular vowel sounds, along with a slight lisp the speaker works to correct.
The cloned voice is named "Archer" and has been used in advertisements. The speaker encountered a Qatar Airways executive while in Qatar and considered confronting the 11 Labs CEO about the unauthorized use.
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Mammalian insecurity responses include reduced arm swing, incomplete or interrupted movements, reduced downward eye contact, and body positioning that protects arteries. The humerus sits closer to the body to protect the brachial artery. Shoulders rise and the head lowers to protect carotid arteries. Arms may cross in front of the body (fig leaf gesture, named by Allan Pease), which also protects femoral arteries. Men are more likely to use this crossed-arms position; women are more likely to wrap a single arm around the abdomen to protect the uterus area.
Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape, was among the first researchers to systematically observe human behavior through an animal-behavior lens. He died recently in his 90s.
When observing two people, identify which person needs something more from the other and which is reacting to the other.
Lip compression is taught to venture capital professionals as a key signal during pitches. It indicates withholding information or emotion. When someone responds to a question with exaggerated positivity while compressing their lips, it suggests they are holding back. The recommended technique is to note the moment of compression and rewind the conversation to identify the preceding topic.
Desmond Morris theorized that lip compression and the tongue jut originate as early withholding behaviors learned in infancy. The tongue jut (pushing the tongue out) represents an early "no" response used to reject a nipple. Lip pursing serves a similar withholding function. These differ from hygienic gestures such as licking the lips, which are performed to increase attractiveness before delivering potentially questionable information.
There is no single behavior that definitively indicates deception. Observable behaviors reveal stress and deviations from an individual's baseline rather than lying itself. Constant behaviors (such as finger tapping) are less informative than changes in those behaviors. The key skill in reading body language is detecting change rather than memorizing fixed meanings.
Context is essential. A person pulling their arms inward might be responding to temperature rather than insecurity. Clusters of behaviors carry more weight than isolated signals. When multiple indicators appear together (increased breathing rate, pupil dilation, lip licking, new tapping behavior, loss of verbal fluency, tense shifts in language), the likelihood of stress increases.
Body language analysis operates on likelihoods, similar to meteorological forecasting, rather than certainty.
Real stress triggers both cortisol and epinephrine (adrenaline). The body attempts to burn off excess adrenaline through movement. Foot tapping, body shifting, or other frequent quick movements often begin 10-15 seconds after the stressor. Some individuals respond with stiffness and active tensing rather than visible fidgeting.
Primary insecurity signals:
- Protecting arteries (brachial, carotid, femoral)
- Single-arm wrap across abdomen (more common in women)
- Incomplete or interrupted gestures
- Self-doubt about permission, perception, and judgment
- Micro pauses in speech reflecting uncertainty about wording or delivery
- Sudden lip closure when lips were previously parted
Lip parting typically indicates interest; sudden closure signals emerging stress.
Open palms held at navel height increase perceived trustworthiness. This is called the "truth plane" by body language expert Mark Bowden. Hands above shoulder height should be rare. Smoothness of movement and presence (being in front of the eyes rather than self-consciously monitoring perception) are additional positive indicators.
After 9/11, New Yorkers were observed using a shared grief expression involving raised hands. Mark Bowden's research shows that open-palm gestures at navel level make listeners more likely to trust the speaker.
The speaker participates in The Behavior Panel, a YouTube show with four body language experts who analyze police body cam footage, celebrity videos, and missing-person cases. The channel gained a million subscribers during COVID and continues weekly breakdowns.
Four categories of pre-violence indicators are summarized as COPE: Concealment, Oxygenation, Preparation, and Expenditure (burning off energy).
Concealment behaviors include prolonged peripheral vision while breaking direct eye contact and dominant foot withdrawal or dominant shoulder movement away from the other person. Blading the body prepares for potential attack.
In the United States, law enforcement training emphasizes that drawing a concealed weapon requires creating a 90-degree angle with the body. Rapid movement into a 90-degree position warrants heightened attention.
Robin Dunbar's research in the book Friends notes that women typically stand perpendicular (180°) when talking, while men stand at approximately 120° (more bladed, shoulder-to-shoulder orientation).
Positioning side-by-side rather than face-to-face significantly reduces perceived threat during conversations. When men square up head-on at close distances of two or three feet, it triggers instinctive fight responses. Old West bars installed mirrors and bars along the wall so men could stand side-by-side while still seeing each other's faces in the mirror, which reduced bar fights by eliminating the confrontational posture. Conversations can occur fully through mirror reflections while both parties remain aligned facing the same direction.
Therapy styles exist where clients lie down with the therapist positioned to the side rather than sitting at the foot of the bed staring directly at the client. The Men's Sheds initiative in Australia addressed the difficulty men face discussing mental health by having participants work together on tasks facing the same direction. Men brought broken items to work on collectively, and over time conversations naturally shifted to personal topics like marriage difficulties and relationships with children. The principle is that men relate shoulder to shoulder while women relate face to face.
Men most often reach for the stomach area during uncertainty, scratching or adjusting clothing as a pacifying behavior. Women during stress reach back to lift their hair off the neck to ventilate heat buildup. Both behaviors occur unconsciously as self-soothing responses.
Exposing the neck during confrontational situations signals defiance and lack of fear. Men will lean back with arms spread to display arteries as a dismissive gesture indicating they are not intimidated.
During Wade Wilson's sentencing hearing for the Deadpool killer case, several nonverbal indicators were observable. Lip licking appeared as a hygienic gesture to improve appearance. The subject maintained a controlled posture without leaning forward, consistent with someone who values autonomy and self-governance. No blinking occurred during the exchange.
Blinking is one of the most reliable body language indicators studied. The average blink rate during conversation is approximately 15 blinks per minute. Under stress, blink rate can increase to 85-90 blinks per minute without conscious awareness. When focused on engaging content like an interesting movie, blink rate can drop to approximately 2 blinks per minute. Reduced blink rate indicates focus rather than relaxation. Psychopaths in interviews often display extremely low blink rates due to intense focus on the interaction rather than calmness.
Learning to detect body language while simultaneously managing one's own communication requires significant cognitive resources. For everyday use, focusing on three or four specific indicators and learning them one at a time is recommended. In sales contexts, increased blink rate when discussing financial terms signals discomfort that requires attention. On dates, increased blink rate indicates the topic should be changed.
The primary misconception is that any single behavior has a fixed meaning across all contexts. Blink rate is one of few reliable exceptions, though individual baselines such as those caused by asthma or allergies must be established first. The second major misconception is certainty in interpretation. Claims that specific behaviors definitively indicate deception are overstated, as no behavior expert can reliably identify psychopaths who have spent lifetimes developing composure and unconscious deception skills.
Danny Trejo described meeting Charles Manson in county jail. Manson was a small, poorly dressed man using a string as a belt. Manson demonstrated hypnotic ability and provided drugs to inmates. Manson explained that hypnosis cannot induce someone to perform actions they have never done before, as the mind lacks the reference for how to respond. This was demonstrated when one cellmate who had never used heroin could not be hypnotized into the experience, while those with prior experience responded to hypnotic suggestion.
Hypnosis can recreate certain drug experiences, particularly alcohol and potentially heroin, by first generating the negative physical responses associated with the substance. This approach works because the brain more readily accepts negative outcomes. Once the negative response is established, positive effects can be suggested without the negative component. Audio programs from the 1980s attempted to recreate marijuana experiences through recorded suggestion.
To encourage truthful disclosure in normal conversation, apply four sequential steps: Socialize by emphasizing shared values like friendship; Minimize by stating that others would understand and the matter is not a significant issue; Rationalize by explaining how the circumstances logically led to the outcome and that it was not entirely the person's fault; Project by affirming that the relationship matters more than the issue. This approach addresses the four primary barriers to truth-telling: fear that others will not understand, belief that the matter is a huge deal, concern that the action does not make sense, and assumption that the person is entirely at fault.
People carry concealed shame because numerous institutions have institutionalized shame as a mechanism of social control. Individuals assume they are uniquely flawed and that others do not share similar hidden struggles.
Everyone thinks it's just them hiding things from everybody else. If they start becoming real, everyone's going to leave them, they're going to be abandoned by friends, get outcast and judged. They have to keep hiding this. The reality is that it's literally 100% of people. Every single human being is carrying the exact same things and they all think it's just them. This is saddening but also beautiful because people share far more in common with the things they hide from each other than most would admit.
When encountering emotional debt, the patterns developed as a child to earn friends, keep friends, feel safe, or attain social rewards like appreciation or love become relevant. If something in childhood made one of those three things happen—friends, safety, and rewards—the brain says this worked and makes an app out of it. The brain creates an app and runs that app all the time. For the first couple years, it's an app consciously clicked on in social situations. By age 12 or 13, this is solidified in behavior.
This shows up in adulthood. A 34-year-old woman working in an office who had to kiss some bully's ass in middle school does the same thing as an adult. People carry these little childhood things without knowing it, this loaded childhood backpack. It has gone from being an app to being source code, carried into adulthood without awareness.
Any adult can be examined by going back in time to see what they did to get friends, safety, and rewards in childhood. The eight-year-old self reveals what they were trying to do. This is emotional debt. Every time people are not dealing with that stuff directly, every time they hide it from someone else, they're withdrawing from the account and overdrafting everything in life.
Concealment is one of the most cognitively exhausting things when it comes to human behavior. Concealment is more mentally taxing than doing calculus. Just trying to act like you have everything together in a social situation, faking it hard, is harder than calculus to our brains. A lot of people are paying this emotional debt. The costume is heavy. The costumes people are wearing are getting heavier and heavier because they keep adding stuff to it.
By the time people hit 18 or 19 years old, they're like a decorator crab. These crabs go around their whole life and find things on the beach and stick it and glue it onto their shells. They decorate their bodies with all kinds of crazy stuff—barnacles, sea urchin spikes, whatever they find. People do the same thing through life, sticking things on for protection that are not them at all. This leads back to going through life knowing that no one's ever known them.
Physicality is the best way to process emotions so that it doesn't get deposited into the bank account or used to withdraw from the bank account. Dr. David Berceli invented trauma release exercise, also known as trauma discovered. It has been known that people go into neurogenic tremors where the body looks like a little seizure with tremors going through it.
When a polar bear gets tranquilized by a researcher with a paralytic tranquilizer, the bear is laid out on the ground but conscious. This is terrifying, worse than an alien abduction. As the anesthesia wears off, the polar bear's body goes into convulsions, shaking movements, and big breaths—all completely autonomic, not consciously controlled. Squirrels do the same thing. After an impala gets bit by a tiger, zebras do the same thing.
Robert Sapolsky wrote a book called Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers about how nature knows what to do and doesn't suppress healing mechanisms. Humans suppress this tremor mechanism to avoid being seen as strange by people around them, to avoid indicating weakness, to avoid showing they were bothered. If someone jiggles around on the floor in front of the tribe, they'll think they're sick and might throw them over the cliff. Even if they don't identify it as leprosy or insanity, they know the person's capacity has been breached—the nervous system's ability to withstand something was taken over the edge, indicating weakness.
Dr. Berceli is not teaching a technique but helping people find the switch in the body that has been suppressed their entire life. After a rough deployment during 20 years in the military, trauma releasing exercise was done under a different brand name. It was the most profound emotional transformation experienced, other than psychedelics. The body knows how to do it. Every mammal on earth does this automatically. It is life changing and free. You go on YouTube and learn how to do it.
During a presentation after returning from deployment, the presenter asked people to raise their hand if they've ever seen a depressed squirrel or a zebra. A zebra doesn't get bit by a croc and go back to the tribe saying they had a bad day and need to curl up under a tree for nine days with people bringing food. Animals get over stuff a lot quicker than humans, even though humans make more meaning about situations.
Shame has been institutionalized on purpose by many different places. As little kids, people learn that if they feel shame about something, they need to conceal it and wall off a new part of themselves they don't need to show anybody. Shame doesn't make you a good person. A lot of people think that feeling ashamed about something makes them moral and good as a human being. It doesn't—it just ruins your life.
Rob Henderson referenced something from a book that someone's guilt seems to be proportional to their perceived likelihood of being caught. The amount of guilt felt tends to be proportional to how likely you perceive it that you're going to be caught for whatever you're guilty about. The level of guilt for something known you can't be caught for is much less.
The scales involve the severity of what was done and the likelihood of getting caught. You could kill somebody and immediately watch them be eaten by an alligator or python with no chance of being caught, but it's such a huge transgression that it would be taken very badly. Or you could throw chewing gum down right at the teacher's feet and not know if they saw. Those are the two ends of the spectrum of crime—the Overton window of crime.
The level of guilt felt about anything done is not just the severity of it or consciousness saying that was not your best self. It's how likely it is that you'll be caught. As that gets closer and closer, the level of guilt increases.
When the Epstein files came out, a lot of people got real quiet while waiting to see what was released. That day must have been horrible for those people. In the court of public opinion, the concealment tax being paid is significant. You know your name is in them. You know investigations and releases are happening.
Karma isn't needed to deliver spiritual justice. All that is is someone repeating their patterns and behaviors enough times until reality finally gives them what they deserve. If you're a bad person who treats most people poorly and screws them over, the only way to make it to the end of life without that coming to the surface is by basically beating the odds. You've stacked the deck against yourself, hoping you can tiptoe through this minefield and avoid all the tripwires.
If you do make it, you die having done it. Most people end up getting what they deserve. A mentor used to call that the person's safe is full—they've locked up a whole lot of stuff that's ready to bust open. They're easier to get to confess because their safe is so full. The concealment burden is high. The level of emotional stress, ambient emotional stress, is also high. People get to choose the release valve form.
How shame and childhood patterns relate to the trauma triangle might be wrapped up inside of that, though there's not much known about consciousness. There are so many people with so much certainty that would be embarrassing to show about exactly how the brain works. After studying neuroscience for nine years, the conclusion is there is zero clue how the brain works. We don't know where memories are stored. We don't even know what they're made of.
Experiments are showing that consciousness might be non-local. Panpsychists have been on the show. It looks like this is starting to explain a whole lot of stuff that was called anomalies that might not be anomalies. Rupert Sheldrake is one of these guys. Morphic resonance is a cool idea.
Stories stick with you for a good while. Hearing about a famous cult leader and a famous movie actor being in jail together wearing a rope around his waist getting loaded on heroin through hypnosis is memorable.
The Sheldrake thing with morphic resonance involves dogs detecting when their owners are coming home even when the vehicle, time, mode of transport, and person are altered—they go to the window. There was research about starlings dunking their heads into glass milk bottles. Before World War II in the UK, glass milk bottles with foil lids would be put out by the milkman. Birds realized they could pierce the foil and stick their beaks in to drink the top filtering. People would arrive at the doorstep and see an upended bird.
During World War II, because of the Battle of Britain and the blackout, there were no milk deliveries. All the birds had stopped learning this thing. When it came back, a generation of birds that had never seen a milkman and never seen milk bottles started doing it straight away. Rupert's guys did a statistical analysis of this.
There are examples of mice taught to solve a maze in LA where mice in New York are able to solve the maze more quickly. A 10-year-old boy in Japan proved that a butterfly retains the memory of its ancestors and that butterfly memory survives caterpillar metamorphosis. The caterpillar is fully liquidized going into a butterfly. The memory goes through not just generations but through the entire chrysalis phase of transformation.
When caterpillars, the boy gave them a tiny little shock on his own arm so he could feel it too, because he didn't want to give them too much shocking. He exposed them to lavender and a shock at the same time, over and over. When they become butterflies, he built a Y-shaped tube. They fly down this thing with a fork in the road with sugar water at the end of both, and one has a cotton ball with lavender on it. The butterflies that had the caterpillar trained went straight away from the lavender because they associated it with negative memory, and their offspring did the exact same thing.
Irreducible Substantiveness by Federico Faggin is an argument against materialist reductionism. The concept is that if studying music, going to the Philharmonic with 500 years to figure it out, the approach would be to chop the cello into 6,000 pieces and study it for 10 years under a microscope. Music is understood zero, but everything has been broken down into tiny parts. Then somebody finds the sheet music in front of the orchestra, and the lead scientist says to cut it up and put it under the microscope. The sheet music makes the music, but it looks like paper. The argument is that keeping breaking things down into elements misses the substance of what's really there.
Daniel Schmachtenberger has been on the show twice and has a great talk on emergence. The idea is that there can be combinations of things that allow properties to emerge that individually do not. Analyzing things in isolation doesn't explain what happens when they come together.
The inverse is that human beings locally reverse entropy. The entire universe is aiming toward entropy, and humans locally reverse it for a brief time. Ultimately the universe is going to win—the battle is ours but the war is always going to be theirs.
Studying DMT and saying it activates a receptor on the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor misses that ancestors saw the exact same thing for 4,500 years and that creates the entities. There's too much certainty about this stuff. More scientists need to finish sentences with as far as we know. If there was just a little bit more of as far as we know, science would advance a lot faster because it's dogmatic at this point.
The new show was conceived after taking an Adderall one morning, getting distracted doing work, realizing the Adderall wasn't taken, and taking another one—something never done before. Also doing a little daily microdose action. All that mixed together while sitting at a desk typing or going through emails led to the random thought to start a TV station.
The idea was to beat Fox, to beat mainstream news. A television studio was built and owned, with a daily news show about to start coming out. It's called Station 1 on YouTube. There are one or two videos out, but daily news is starting. Every day you'll get the news but also how everything being shown as different stories are actually connected—all the psyop layers with actual registers and receipts for every single thing of how the news is being used to frame a narrative. All of that will be made public. Every single day on the news, there will be information about what to look out for in the next 70 to 72 hours. If you see these three words in a bill that Congress passes at like 2:00 a.m., you need to watch out
Chase describes an upcoming daily intelligence brief project structured exactly like the president's daily brief from the director of the CIA. The format delivers daily news without any left or right political narrative. Each brief includes actionable intelligence such as warnings about specific investments, for example noting that if an oil company invests in a particular venture within four days, certain outcomes are likely to follow. The goal is for subscribers to receive this information every single day in the established CIA brief format.
Chase expresses confidence that the project will be well-received and useful to people seeking information free from partisan framing. He notes that genuine left versus right politics does not really exist in the way commonly presented.
Chase Hughes, ladies and gentlemen. Chase, you're an awesome man. I'm looking forward to speaking to you next time.
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