Triggers of Alternate Personalities (Anointing)

Triggers of Alternate Personalities (Anointing)

Steve Hassan in his book, “Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves,”distinguishes between the Cult Self and the Authentic Self among those who are under Mind Control (Chapter7). In Pentecostalism, the situations are analogous to cults, but in most cases the churches are not cults, with the exception of some extremist holiness Oneness Pentecostal churches. Therefore, I will change his terms and make the distinction between the Robot Self (instead of Cult Self) and the Authentic Self (the same term Hassan uses).

Pentecostals learn code words and phrases. They are constantly hypnotized into an altered state of consciousness where they become robotic, repeating the programmed responses of their indoctrination. They have their Authentic self, the human side of them that operates rationally. The Authentic Self is the normal, humanly mode that we can speak to rationally. The Robot Self (Cult Self in Hassan’s terms) is the automatic responding personality that is usually stimulated by particular stimuli. The stimuli can be the thought of a backslider, the thought of the “anointing” coming upon them, and many other things. When we are speaking to loved ones in this Robot Mode, we must try to disengage the Robot Self, and try to engage the Authentic Self. Sometimes it is different for each person, but we must learn what triggers them into this Robot Mode, and try to avoid it. We can never reason with them while they are in Robot Mode; we can only reason with them in Authentic Mode.

Why does this happen? They are programmed with though-stopping techniques so that when they hear information that threatens their belief system, they are programmed to reject this information, to blank it out with various blocks, or thought-stopping techniques. When the blockages and thought-stopping are triggered, their minds are not in a receptive mode, but in an altered state of consciousness mode to prevent “bad information” from entering their mind.

Let us illustrate how someone can be speaking normally and rationally to a Pentecostal, and then suddenly, the personality changes and they are in Robot Mode, spouting off strange sayings and making strange gestures that will sometimes frighten us or anger us. Imagine that you are talking about food and recipes to a loved one. You can be having fun talking about making coffee, tea, or your favorite dish. Then suddenly, you might slip and say that fine wine can go with the cheese or the chicken. If they are tee totaling Oneness Pentecostals, they might pause for a second. Their faces will change and their demeanor will change, and they might launch into an attack about alcohol opening your body up to demonic attack. They usually will begin ranting about their doctrines against alcohol. You have inadvertently TRIGGERED them from their Authentic Self into their Robot Self. You cannot reason with the Robot Self. Try to bring them off of this altered state by silence or changing the subject.

Sometimes Pentecostals will think of the Robot Mode as the “anointing” coming upon them where the “spirit of God” takes control and they preach to you about wickedness. Remember that this is not God’s anointing; this is a programmed response to religious conditioning.

It can be frustrating at times to deal with a loved one under Mind Control, but the better we understand, the better we can cope, and maybe help them.

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