Ever gotten sucked into watching the TV by just walking by one.
There IS a reason why.
It appears TV, with its "soothing and monotonous...sensory stimulus"
coupled with "the fixation of the eyes" and repitious sound, is a
perfect instument for producing a light hypnosis and thereby
"causing highly increased suggestibility in the subject"(New Age
Bible Verisions, pp. 426).
Brain researchers disclose:
The brain is composed of innumerable groups of nerve
cells, all more or less closely conneted with each other by
means of
nervous links or path of variable resistance. Excitement of any
of these groups , whether by means of
impressions recieved
throught the sense organs or by the communicated activity
of other groups will, if
sufficiently intense, occassion the rise into
cosciousness of an idea.
In normal waking state the resistance of the nervous
association paths is fairly low so that the activity is easily
communicated
from one neural group to another. Thus the main idea which
reaches the upper stratum of
consciosness
is attended by a stream of other subconsciuos ideas, which have the effect of checking the
primary idea preventing its complete dominance. Now
the abnormal dominance of one particular system of
ideas---that suggested by the operator---together
with the suppression of all rival systems, is the principle fact
to be explained in hypnotism...the essential
passivity of the subject raises the resistance of the associated path...
One neural disposition is thus issolated, so that
any idea suggested...is free to work itself out in action without being
submitted to the checks of the sub-activity of other
ideas...a comparatively slight raising of resistance in the neural
links suffice to secure dominance
of the idea suggested by the hypnotizer
(Encyclopdia of Occultism and Parapsychology, pp.
453).
The sensory stimulus of television's pulsation flash of twenty frames
per second, coupled with its unnatural and
intense sound level, when experienced by a person who aproaches its
viewing in the typical passive relaxed state, creates nueral
suppression of the 'idea checking' pathways. for example, the viewer
recieves and stores the thought, "You deserve a break today," uncoupled
with factual thoughts that normally might accompany its storage in the
brain. The suggestability caused by this state commends one to extreme
caution given the renegade unregeneracy
of most TV 'programming'.(Why do you think they call it
'programming'?)(New Age Bible Verisions, pp. 427).
How many can quote the Monday 6:30 line from their TV guides?
How many can quote Mark 6:30 "And the apostles gathered themselves
together unto Jesus,..." not unto their TVs.
