Month: March 2008

We love that emotional roller coaster while feeling safe at the same time. That’s the purpose of mainstream fiction. Isn’t it? It’s a vicarious need to feel what another person is feeling while still maintaining the ability to return to our lives. This is the reason why movies, music, and written fiction are such a success – in that order.

Along that emotional roller coaster, we experience real-life feelings of those other people, as if we were right there with them. Unlike a roller coaster, we have stops along the way. You’ve had those times when you feel conflicted? You’ve had those times when the turns you should take in life should be clear, but they’re not.

Our protagonist in essay #12 at http://mindcontrol101.com/essays.html also has feelings of ambivalence at times.  Let’s summarise how he feels throughout the story first:

• Adventurous
• Cornered
• Trapped
• Boxed-In
• Paralysis
• Impotence
• Fear
• Confusion
• Curiousity
• Skepticism
• Disgust
• Anger
• Power

There are probably a few that I missed, but this is pretty much the list – except for one particular feeling.  Do you know which one is missing from here?  This is the feeling that comes into to cause that ambivalence – mainly during our protagonist’s weakest moments.  Have you guessed already?

Got it?

Good.

You probably remember the mysterious woman with the ruby painted lips, appropriately named “Esprit Controle.”  She’s not exactly a love interest of our protagonist, but she does ring his bell.

That’s right.  Esprit Controle induces feelings of lust in our hero (?) at his weakest moments.  At one point he felt scared, confused, paralysed, impotent, but when Esprit sauntered in with his refreshment, a kind hand, and a warming smile, all of that negativity was shut out.

In fact, the first thought in his mind was to steal her away – even though she was part of the operation. And what do you, as the reader, feel?  If he actually does this, then he would be justified.  Right?  In a way, you attached that justification to the way he was feeling.  N’est pas vrai?

Our hero was unjustifiably trapped and branded like an animal for no particular reason, so however he reacts in retrospect is open season.  Isn’t it?   Our hero is righteous and justified in doing whatever he has to escape from this bizarre situation.

At the outset, he justifies his feelings by the ignominious actions of others in our minds.   By the same token, he justifies the actions attached to his feelings.

When our hero tours Ellis Town, he has more feelings of confusion and fear than lust, perhaps even disgust when he passes “ye olde spunquellis.”  But when he meets Esprit again, he even gets an amazing testosterone surge that gave him power to knock out armed guards and steal away Esprit.

Was he justified?  You tell me.  Obviously, it wasn’t too smart because she was still part of the operation.  Our hero was just acting on his lust – induced by Esprit Controle.

Tell me.  What have you done at the spur of the moment because of “Esprit Controle?” How were you justified and righteous in your actions?  Did you feel justified because you saw someone in a movie or commercial do the same thing?
I’m asking you this because popular media works very closely with Esprit Controle; she’s an integral part of mainstream news agencies, marketing, advertising, politics, you name it.  She’s the most beautiful person you can imagine – when she wants to be.  Most of the time she’s a dangerous dream – come to life.

I hope you had a chance to read the winning essay at http://mindcontrol101.com/essays.html.

If not, then please look up essay #12. For those of you who have read it, you probably feel like it has Twilight Zone, Prisoner, X-Files theme going. And you’re right. Those were all of my favourite TV shows.

In essay #12, we take advantage of persistence of thought in the reader. Through thorough descriptions we force the reader to imagine what is happening. First, we force the reader to use his/her own judgemental heuristics on objects and places as a kind of reference point.

Two detailed reference points are when the protagonist in the report studies something up close: He studies the insignia on the guard’s uniform without actually using the word “insignia.” He studies the picture of a phoenix on an old newspaper without actually recognising that this is a phoenix, yet his description is tell tale.

This method is akin to Alan Tutt’s “Blonde’s Secret Weapon” in Keys To Power Persuasion. The reader is drawn into the story by having to create his/her own continuity through persistence of thought. That continuity are the reader’s own answers to certain riddles here and there such as the definition of “insignia” or what does the classic phoenix insignia look like?

These insignias are symbols and they are recognised as such in the mind. This sets the mind in gear for interpreting internal symbols such as dream symbols with their attached intentions.

Two big picture reference points are Ellis Town and the clouds above. Ellis Town is made of bricks and metal rails and has a cobblestone road going down the middle; this imagery makes the town quite solid in the reader’s mind. As a dream symbol, the road represents the path that we follow, so this pulls on the attention of the reader even further. Internally, we are always drawn to a clear path – especially when that path contains some interesting attractions.

Above the road we have clouds which usually represent confusion. In dreams, clouds usually represent an amorphous mass that obscures necessary details. But, in Ellis Town, we have something special overhead: Lenticulars.

Lenticular clouds represent a kind of lens wherein someone is on the other side studying you like a specimen under a microscope. That’s why these lenticulars are “concealing” something. Although our protagonist never said this, we assume that he is being studied from above by some unknown intelligence.

This “report” is rife with dream symbols, common and uncommon, exactly for the purpose of stimulating judgemental heuristics, therefore, the thoughts and feelings of the reader. I will have a separate post on Persistence of Thought, which is based upon our judgemental heuristics.

Of course, the most important aspect of this report are the feelings it induces in the reader. Remember, the first paragraph or so has already established rapport with the reader. The feelings you induce through intense, internal imagery makes you a master at the art of prose. This art form is the basis for the most sensational, yet successful sales pitches.

We cover feelings in the next post of Art of Prose.

If you want to have a complete guide to the art of prose right now, please have a look at Keys To Power Persuasion.

Happy Mind Control,

Randolph

You ever want to be a good story teller to capture people’s attention? I did ever since grade school. The teachers and students really liked my stories. I remember that I kind of enjoyed writing them, but I enjoyed seeing the reaction to them even better.

I forget if it was fifth or sixth grade when I started testing different writing styles to see what ellicited the most positive reactions. I also found out what kind of content ellicited the most negative reactions – which was also very amusing – because I was a kid.

I discovered that the use of a sensual experience to the readers/audience has the greatest impact. Can you imagine a little ten or eleven year old exploring the facets of mind control marketing? Such was my life. Of course, I had no idea that’s what I was doing. I just thought it was fun.

For the moment, I’d like to focus your attention on essay #12 at http://mindcontrol101.com/essays.html. I’ll go over a few points in this essay every now and then to make you understand why it won first place in this “mind control” essay contest.

Skim over it first. Notice that there are no opinions, postulations, posturing or assumption of authority in this essay; all it’s “reporting” is the experience, a sensual experience of strange events made familiar.

As you see it contains the standard where, when and why the protagonist is there. The difference is in how the story is delivered. First off, everyone has experienced a twisted day in their lives. When someone wants to tell you how their beautiful day became twisted, of course, people can completely relate, so they want to hear more. That first, short paragraph has already established rapport with the reader.

Within this same, short paragraph, the color blue is attached to a moving object, a car. Royal blue is attached to the sixth chakra as an extension of the eyes and other senses. Here we allow the reader to “settle” on the proper color themselves through persistence of thought (which I will discuss in another post).

As a dream symbol, a car moving represents the path we take in life. A blue car moving opens the senses to inner thought, imagination allowing the experience to be complete generated from within as a kind of inner intention of moving.

Do you understand where the power is coming from? In the art of prose, we generate that intention and imagination in the reader through the proper triggers. Corporate blue exists exactly for this purpose: To stimulate the imagination of their market as well as their workers.

This is also the reason advertisers use dream imagery extensively in their commercials: Although the commercial is dismissed as nothing more on the conscious level, the symbols and recurring familiar imagery have deep meaning to their audience that tends to stick in the mind. This is also what essay #12 achieves by simple, yet powerful words on a page.

Enjoy the “report” for now. There are elements in this story that appealed especially to the JK Ellis – elements of which he is probably not aware, but you will be. Stay Tuned. Thanks for your time.

Happy Healing,

Randolph

As your prospect imagines what you are saying in the process of interpreting your words, they are partaking of the experience and being affected by it. We use this principle to process languages as experiences. What is the “colorful label” used to describe this principle?

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