A GREAT MENTAL RESET?

Review of "The Indoctrinated Brain", written by David Lorimer

This review of The Indoctrinated Brain, originally published in Paradigm Explorer #145 by David Lorimer of the Scientific and Medical Network, is shared here with kind permission for your reading.

Michael Nehls

Michael Nehls is a physician and molecular geneticist specialising in immunology who has received the Hanse Prize for Molecular Psychiatry for his pioneering findings on Alzheimer’s disease development, prevention and therapy – highly relevant to the thesis of his very important and eye-opening book on the neurobiology of propaganda. Work on mind control goes back to the post-war period, and the book is informed by the dystopian novels of Aldous Huxley George Orwell, extensively quoted here (see also my review of Michelle Stiles on the history of propaganda in No. 143). The author stresses that all the facts he presents are based on publicly available documents and scientific studies, and he leaves readers to decide for themselves about the validity of his hypothesis, having set out his case.

He applies neuroscience to the behavioural modification campaign undertaken during the Covid crisis by showing how the deliberate deployment of consciousness-altering narratives of fear and anxiety represents an attack on the hippocampus as the nexus of autobiographical memory and individuality. This has made us ‘deindividualised, more suggestible, more forgetful, more compliant, and less able to engage in critical thinking and creative reasoning.’ (p. ix in foreword by Naomi Wolf) He argues that it is this fear combined with the adverse effects of the spike protein, especially in the gene injection (aka vaccine, p. 88), that changes and damages the brain.

Nehls elaborates on the larger political and economic context within which the war on personal freedom has been and is being conducted in order profitably to maintain power and control over humanity and engineer a transition towards a centralised world government technocracy through the UN – rule by experts. By keeping us in a permanent state of emergency, we become more amenable to the ‘solutions’ being advanced by elite groups such as the World Economic Forum intent on the imposing their new totalitarian operating system of coexistence – the Great Reset - on humanity by 2030. One of their questionable underlying assumptions is that there are technological answers to social problems. The Covid pandemic response was pre-planned at Event 201 in October 2019, and was rolled out as envisaged (you can look this up on the Internet). This included manipulative narrative management and censorship of so-called misinformation and disinformation, as well as an exclusive reliance on an experimental vaccination as the cure, which in turn entailed the suppression of clinically viable early treatments including administration of Vitamin D – Nehls shows on the basis of scientific studies (p. 6) how adequate levels of Vitamin D provide strong immunological protection. As a medical doctor, it is his task to save lives and strengthen the immune system – hence the importance of preventive measures.

The seven chapters rigorously set out the arguments in great detail, enabling readers to understand the reprogramming of the human brain and the deliberate tactics used in this respect. The purpose of indoctrination is ‘to implant an ideological narrative into people’s brains – a new belief that allows no discussion and no contradiction. The goal is obedient, unthinking conformity. The means to this end is controlled selection of information, intensive propaganda, and psychological manipulation, up to coercive measures and threats of punishment… Indoctrination is to be understood as a vicious attack on our humanity, on our personality, and ultimately on the most precious thing of all: freedom of thought. Resisting indoctrination is a lifelong endeavour. It is a matter of preserving one’s freedom of thought and search for meaning.’ (p. xv)

Nehls explains the key role of the hippocampus as a neurobiological correlate of chronic exhaustion in society and its role in autobiographical long-term memory by means of the continuing production of what he calls index neurons (pp. 46 ff). Recent studies show that declines in ongoing hippocampal neurogenesis may be linked to compromised cognitive-emotional resilience. If this process is disturbed, stress hormones rise excessively in unfamiliar situations, which may lead to ‘ego depletion,’ anxiety and depression, which Nehls has found may be a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease (see also his book The Exhausted Brain). A sense of purpose turns out to be an important preventive measure, along with exercise, nutrition, a supportive social life, and proper sleep. Due to a global deficiency in Vitamin D levels, we have come to think that a decline in hippocampal volume is normal, when it should in fact be maintained throughout life (p. 65). In fact, such a decline is ‘ultimately a representation of the normality of a mentally exhausted society.’ This is a hugely important lifestyle point in a society based on constant acceleration and correspondingly rising stressors. Specifically, Covid-19 measures served as a means of hippocampal destruction, reaching even into the foetus in pregnant women, who were never part of clinical trials. All of this is still vehemently denied.

It is impossible to summarise the detailed arguments in relation to the many levels of evidence presented, which is why I strongly recommended reading the book itself, which will certainly have a transformative effect on your understanding of specific issues as well as the big picture. Chapter 6 presents Nehl’s analysis of the endgame and the potential role of AI control, which leads him to ask: ‘How can we preserve the value of the human being in the wake of the AI automation of almost every aspect of life? What is the value of human being anyway? Is it only to be found in his productivity? What does it really mean to be human? (p. 178)

The closing chapter – Daring to be more Human (Kind) – proposes some guidelines, while inviting readers to assess for themselves the overall argument. Nehls thinks that the overall process of usurping global power will go according to plan unless we mount a peaceful resistance to this process. He points out that no one can escape the basic principle: ‘he who is silent is consenting; he who does not resist is accepting what will happen to him.’ (p. 183) He quotes Jean-Claude Juncker, former president of the European Commission to the effect that the technocrats decide on a policy and wait to see if there is any resistance. If not, ‘we continue step-by-step until there is no turning back.’ This is where we are.

Nehls argues that humans are fundamentally good, but that ‘negative news stories [tapping into our negativity bias] feed into the notion that man is evil’ and must therefore be controlled through surveillance and strict rules. However, as he points out, ‘What we need is cooperation not confrontation, intelligent collaboration instead of destructive opposition.’ (p. 192) What we have seen is the weaponisation of empathy and selflessness for evil to bring about conformity (‘protect your grandmother’). The problem is that empathy [for the in-group] and xenophobia go hand in hand, and need to be replaced by rational compassion. In going forward, ‘we must believe in the possibility of success, and above all in ourselves, in the belief that the co-operative power and social capacity of human nature will defeat the technocratic mechanisms of the oppression, both spiritual and material.’ (p. 207) Ultimately, he points out, ‘we have no choice but to resist being forced into a certain worldview, and time is of the essence.’ We need ‘a genuine evolution of human coexistence,’ understanding that human nature is basically good, and a society of the future should be based on this premise.’ (p. 208) So the book is both a deeply informative warning and a manual for human resistance.