Here is some relevant information on why psychedelic users may have been targeted by this. Other victims have identified this as a spiritual war and among many things it is. The first publication also goes into why they are doing this. Long standing manipulation is becoming less and less successful. Being that we are in the greatest leap forward in human history all of us find ourselves in uncharted territory and with the advancement of psychology and technology this is what has arrived.
One of the most important philosophical and psychological challenges of the new millennium lies in reconciling humanity’s seemingly innate urge for the existence (and apprehension) of the truly transcendental, with the fact that all the best
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Consciousness and Cognition
Volume 39, January 2016, Pages 28-37
Review article
The epistemic innocence of psychedelic states
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ChrisLetheby
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Highlights
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Recent research suggests
psychedelic drugs can cause lasting psychological benefits.
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Psychedelic transformation often involves epistemically questionable ‘mystical’ states.
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Besides costs, psychedelic transformation can yield naturalistic epistemic benefits.
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In some cases, these benefits are significant and otherwise unavailable.
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In such cases, psychedelic states are ‘epistemically innocent imperfect cognitions’.
Abstract
One recent development in epistemology, the philosophical study of knowledge, is the notion of ‘epistemic innocence’ introduced by Bortolotti and colleagues. This concept expresses the idea that certain suboptimal cognitive processes may nonetheless have epistemic (knowledge-related) benefits. The idea that delusion or confabulation may have psychological benefits is familiar enough. What is novel and interesting is the idea that such conditions may also yield significant and otherwise unavailable epistemic benefits. I apply the notion of epistemic innocence to research on the transformative potential of psychedelic drugs. The popular epithet ‘hallucinogen’ exemplifies a view of these substances as fundamentally epistemically detrimental. I argue that the picture is more complicated and that some psychedelic states can be epistemically innocent. This conclusion is highly relevant to policy debates about psychedelic therapy. Moreover, analysing the case of psychedelics can shed further light on the concept of epistemic innocence itself.
To victims of this, the whole experience may initially seem random lunacy, but all of it has a purpose. In what may seem like madness is a psychological algorithm designed to reprogram a victims thinking and thus affect behavioral change and neutralize targeted people.