Social Conditioning and Mass Mind Control

Posted On June 24, 2025 / Written by Dr. Linda Gadbois

How We’re Being Programmed by the Media

We’re all living in an age where social conditioning and mind control have been perfected and taken to a new level due to our advancement in various forms of media. You don’t have to read articles written about it anymore to try and understand how it works, you can witness it as it’s taking place and observe the effects it has in producing how you perceive reality. One of the challenges we face as humans is we have all been bestowed with two aspects of the mind, called the subconscious and conscious mind, which function in a complementary manner, where one acts to “program” the other through suggestion formed into a reality in the imagination. They act “on each other to stimulate each other into an active state of expression”. This relationship can be understood by observing how your thoughts and emotions are always coupled, where one always gives rise to the other, and together, they combine to form your perception of reality. Not so much in the objective sense, but in the subjective sense of the imaginary story that plays out in your mind as a form of altered reality that’s superimposed over the actual outer reality, shaping how you perceive it.

I’m not going to give a long drawn-out description of the nature and function of each aspect of your mind, because I provide plenty of information about the triune nature of the mind on my website. Here I’m going to describe how it works through your own internal (mental) processes, forming the basis for how you shape your relationship and interaction with everyone and everything around you. It’s only by recognizing how you create your own response by aligning yourself with ideas that are normally foreign to you, becoming a willing participant in co-creating a mass delusion through the mental attitude and emotional state you adopt, that you can begin taking control and intentionally directing your own thoughts and actions. This is a very basic step in self-awareness and self-realization that will allow you to begin exercising your will in deciding who you are, what you value and stand for as a person, and how you choose to conduct yourself.

I do want to start by pointing out a psychological process, however, one you may have heard about before, because it’s a basic procedure as a three-part strategy used for executing any mainstream agenda. This process starts by creating a problem, then embellishing and sensationalizing it in a way that invokes strong emotions in reaction to it, and then . . . offer the solution. This is a basic template used for mass manipulation because it works beautifully and is extremely effective. I’m not going to point out what I consider obvious tactics currently being played out on the world stage and what they’re meant to produce as a group mindset, because this is for you to become aware of on your own. The idea isn’t to have someone point things out or try to tell you what’s true and what’s not, but for you to learn how to recognize them based on your own internal awareness. When it comes to your own mind and will, you can’t allow yourself to be “led” or guided by a process someone else is dictating for you, because this is simply trading one form of control (being led through suggestion) for another you deem more accurate, benevolent, or beneficial. All I’m going to point out and invite you to participate in is becoming aware of your own inner processes and understanding the power emotions have in shaping your thoughts, beliefs, and actions.

One of the things you want to become aware of is your instinctual nature, associated with your subconscious mind and animal soul, which has a strong need and desire to be a part of a social group or tribal community. This part of you has a strong drive for self-preservation and survival and lacks the ability to think about things as a means of evaluating them rationally. Your instinctual nature doesn’t come as a direct awareness or rational thought process capable of evaluating ideas but is felt internally as strong feelings that invoke an automatic emotional reaction (animals act without thinking). It functions through emotions in producing automatic behaviors in response to whatever we’re picturing in our mind as a reality. When you experience a strong emotional trigger, you literally go unconscious and operate almost exclusively out of the memories you have associated with the emotions. Your subconscious operates in a very different way from your conscious mind, which is the aspect of your mind that forms the mental pictures that your subconscious reacts to. The interaction between these two parts of us forms the basis for all our internal conflict and the endless debate and moral negotiation that takes place internally between what we experience as “different parts” of ourselves. Your emotional nature plays a major role in your decisions, most of which center around your initial conditioning as a child and whether or not to comply with the group consensus.

If you don’t have a clear idea of “who you are”, how you feel, what you stand for, and what you know in your heart (conscience) to be true, then you’ll be easily swayed one way or another through various forms of emotional manipulation coupled with sensationalized ideas. Hopefully the process I’m going to describe will help you become much clearer on who you are in terms of your character and moral values, so you can begin using your will in a much more conscious and deliberate way to create yourself with a deeper sense of meaning and purpose.

Start by first recognizing the power of emotions. As you go through your day, in ordinary situations, notice how the emotions and attitudes of others around you affect you. In the ordinary sense you sense other people’s energy in a subtle manner internally through the energetic process of resonance. When someone is expressing intense emotions near you, or directed towards you, they stimulate and bring alive those same emotions within you, forming the basis for whatever interaction that transpires between you or a group of people that you’re a part of. If you’re unaware (unconscious) of what’s happening you engage automatically, take on the same attitude and posture, and literally become “like them” in terms of emotional dialogue and behavior. You become a willing participant in their drama (self-made illusion) and act to co-create it as a part of your reality.

Notice that emotions of any kind, whether self-generated internally or being outwardly expressed by others near you, shape the nature of your thoughts and what type of reality as a possible experience you form out of your thoughts. As we think we generate, invoke, and give rise to emotions in response to our thoughts, and vice versa. As we’re triggered by an emotion from an outside source it acts to naturally generate correlating thoughts, usually formed out of a memory where we were experiencing the same type of emotion, and we form an internal reality as a kind of virtual experience. As we form an internal reality as a means of preparing ourselves for possible outer experience of the same kind, we mentally (energetically) tune ourselves to the same type of experience in our outer environment.   

This process doesn’t work in a lop-sided manner through what’s now being called the Law of Attraction, it works through the Law of Polarity (a fundamental law), as both attraction and repulsion. If we become angry or pissed off, we not only resonate with whatever there is around us that feeds our anger and hostility, we also repel or drive away (fail to recognize) whatever will counteract our anger, transforming it into a feeling of peace and understanding. If we become afraid and timid, we engage with everything around us that generates and fortifies more of the same feeling, while failing to see or be able to access what will cause us to feel strong and courageous or forthright. If we become reverent and compassionate, then we attract and are attracted to what gives us more of the same feeling, while disconnecting and separating ourselves from what promotes disdain and cruelty. So whatever emotional state we’re in we tune ourselves to that state, attracting and perceiving more of it, while disconnecting and failing to see whatever contradicts it.

Relationships

Whenever you first meet someone, no matter who they are or what the situation is, subdue your judgments regarding them, subdue your thoughts, and stay connected to how you feel inwardly in relation to them. How does being around them make you feel? What are you sensing? What part of your inner nature do they naturally appeal to and bring out in you? As you interact with them what attitude and perspective do you naturally begin taking on and engaging in? Notice, without bias (as much as possible), who and how you become in relation with them, and ask yourself, do I like how I feel, and do I want more of this? Or do I dislike who I become and begin experiencing anxiety and feel like I’m someone different from who I really am? Are they bringing out the best in me, parts I want to grow and develop, or the worst, parts I want to transform and let go of? Am I growing in desirable ways, or am I shrinking and losing contact with myself, becoming someone I’m unfamiliar with?

Notice how you feel when someone starts flooding you with what seems like sincere compliments, being overly polite or cordial, or starts flirting with you, even if it’s in a fun way. Some people use these techniques as a way of breaking the ice or trying to be social and start a conversation, while others use it as a form of seduction and coercion. While you’re in social settings, stay tuned into how the different people make you feel by how they look at you, talk to you or treat you. If you stay centered in your body and feel the energy being projected or building between you, without being swept away by it (sometimes it can feel really good), you can read the person’s intentions and you can tell where the conversation is heading. Charisma, seduction, and persuasion are very effective forms of mental manipulation. Be especially aware if they start leading you into doing something you don’t want to do, or don’t feel comfortable doing. In these types of situations, your conscience and intuition are always your best guide.

As a general rule, you only want to maintain and continue to participate in relationships that grow you by bringing out the best parts of you. Where you become a better person and form an admiration and respect for yourself. Where you really like who you are and enjoy the activities and conversations you share. Relationships that invoke negative emotions and bring out the worst in you, making you feel bad or angry and judgmental, or where you realize you’re becoming someone you despise, you should end as soon as possible. By becoming aware of how you’re constantly being shaped by others and the world around you in a completely natural (unconscious) way, you can begin utilizing your will in making decisions that will intentionally direct and rightfully determine who you become and what you do. You can begin directing the course of your life and shaping your destiny in a more purposeful and meaningful manner.

Likewise, anytime you engage in social media, or media of any kind, pay close attention to what it stimulates in you in terms of how you feel, what emotions it invokes, and what attitude you take on, and how you start becoming as a result. As you join in, you take on the same mental attitude and posture, begin saying the same things and using the same words, acting the same way, and participate in co-creating the reality it implies. Notice whether an idea or event is discussed in a rational and practical manner, or if it’s delivered with strong emotions as a form of criticizing, name calling, yelling, and ranting and raving about something. It doesn’t matter if you’re “for or against” something, such as hatred, division, or aggression, because both perspectives (for or against) focus on the same thing (idea), and are born out of the same feeling and type of reality. Instead focus on and interact with what you want to experience, what you want to see happen in the world, and what gives you a strong sense of yourself as being the type of person you want to be. Where your thoughts and how you present ideas to yourself internally generate positive emotions and lead to enjoyable and more meaningful experiences.

The number one-way mass mind control is being systematically conducted right now is through the media – whether it be social media, TV, news outlets, talk shows, podcasts, music with lyrics, videos, movies, blogs, or articles. Any message or idea delivered with strong emotion acts as a suggestion and is a blatant form of coercion and manipulation. It’s designed to trigger you into the same emotional state attached to the same narrative, attitude, and behaviors. Again, it doesn’t matter if you’re for or against something (a central idea), because both sides still produce and promote the same activity and reality. It’s not about protesting something or acting out against it, it’s about introducing and promoting what will transform and replace it. It’s the idea itself that becomes the suggestion and serves as the seed for reality and correlated activity. As you introduce or express something you’re for, infuse it with positive emotions that make it seem compelling and desirable. Positive emotions are constructive, whereas negative emotions are destructive.

Emotions, especially when amped up and intensified, always cause chaos. Always. Just look around at the state of the world. It’s nothing but massive emotional reactions that’s producing total chaos, violence, stress, and destruction. This will ultimately lead to and result in self-annihilation if not curbed. It’s not about being against something and caught in an emotional temper tantrum that goes on and on and on about it . . . or trying to decide which side or band wagon you want to jump on, it’s about what are you for instead? What do you stand for as a human being? What are your moral values and virtues, and what are you acting on a constant basis to initiate, promote, and help establish in the world? What is your moral code of conduct and standards that you hold yourself to and demonstrate in everything you do, down to the most seemingly insignificant act? If you want peace and compassion, for example, then only talk about, post or interact with what represents peace and compassion. Create peace through a feeling of compassion and understanding in all areas of your own life.

We’re being trained to live a meaningless existence. Where we’ve become isolated, cut off, and disconnected from who we really are as divine, intelligent beings, tasked with our own creation and salvation. We post memes of what we consider meaningful or profound saying or quotes, always borrowed from other people, cute little videos, or videos designed to enrage us and fill us with hatred and a sense of hopelessness, while silently surrendering to a slow death. We’re being reduced and made insignificant, distracted and kept busy with meaningless content and entertainment, losing touch with reality, where we don’t know what to believe, or what’s true anymore. We’ve become more invested in virtual reality than tangible reality, illusions in place of facts, and have become content in numbing ourselves and tuning out altogether so we don’t have to feel the grief that’s eating away at our soul.

If we simply turn off our TV, shut off the news, quit social media, and engage in real activities, talking to the people who are actually apart of our life, participate in community events and activities we enjoy that invigorate us, we not only experience reality in an entirely different way, but we begin participating in creating something real, fulfilling, and tangible. Connect with the people around you who you talk with and relate to on a daily basis, while embracing the attitude and emotions you want to stimulate and bring out in others and promote as a shared experience. Perform daily acts of kindness, be considerate of others, have manners, lend a hand to those who need help without expecting anything in return. No matter how small an action is, it creates a ripple effect. Saying something nice, smiling, being friendly and polite to a cashier or someone you don’t know in your daily activities, can make their day. It puts them in a good mood, and they act kind and considerate to everyone in their life, and so on. Be what you want to see more of in the world. Demonstrate your ideals in every way you can through your daily actions and attitude.

Learn how to mediate conflicts and misunderstandings or differences, rather than taking sides and amplifying them. By remaining emotionally neutral in any situation, where you resist taking on the emotions being expressed, you act to deescalate and neutralize the emotions. As you neutralize them, you serve as a mirror that allows them to see their own delusions. Whatever energy you don’t absorb and take on, you act to reflect and project back to the person sending it. You reflect back to them the illusion formed out of their emotions, allowing them to see them through a different lens. When you absorb and take on the emotions of others, you participate in their illusion (drama) and validate it as being real, making it true for you also. We’re always looking for others to validate our emotional dramas by convincing them to see things the same way we do, agreeing with us as a result. When they don’t, it forces us to question them and consider the possibility that they’re not true or real, and instead are something we’re making up based on an emotional reaction.  

Just allow yourself to self-reflect and become aware of how you’re being influenced by everything around you, or by whatever you engage in mentally and emotionally. Recognize how you’re being stimulated by others or by other people’s ideas, and what it brings out in you as a result. Just by forming an awareness around how you feel and what you’re sensing, you have a choice as to whether you want to participate in it and become “like it” through your participation or disengage and ignore it altogether. By remaining aware of how you feel in any situation, whether actual or virtual, you can not only realize how you’re being subliminally influenced and mentally controlled, but you position yourself in being able to make a clear decision on how to proceed.  If you engage, whether for or against, you participate in establishing and amplifying that idea, turning it into your reality, creating yourself to be of the same character and likeness.

If, however, you contrast how it makes you feel with how you want to feel or how you truly feel without the emotional charge, and who you are as a person, then a choice becomes involved. Focus on who you are in terms of the best version of yourself (your ideal self), remove your attention from anything that’s not that, and then . . . be that way in everything you think, say, and do. Anytime you’re being pulled away from living the best version of yourself, notice it, and redirect your attention and focus exclusively on who you are, and be that in every situation and relationship across all areas of your life. Learn how to exercise control over your own mind and emotions, and direct your behavior with a sense of clarity, confidence, and purpose.

Dr. Linda Gadbois

Transpersonal Psychologist, Personal Transformation Coach, and Spiritual Teacher