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The term "brainwashing" is a relatively new term in the English language. Before 1950, it did not exist. Earlier forms of coercive persuasion had been seen during the Inquisition, the show trials against "enemies of the state" in the Soviet Union, etc., but no specific term emerged until the methodologies of these earlier movements were systematized during the early decades of the People's Republic of China for use in their struggles against internal class enemies and foreign invaders. Until that time, descriptions were limit ...

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Brainwashing - Studies of the Korean War. The Communist Party of China used the phrase "xǐ nǎo" ("wash brain") to describe their methods of persuasion in ensuring that members who did not conform the Party message were brought into orthodoxy. The phrase was a play on "xǐ xīn", (洗心"wash heart") a monition found in many Daoist temples exhorting the faithful to ...

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Many people have come to use the terms "brainwashing" or "mind control" to explain the otherwise intuitively puzzling success of some methodologies for the religious conversion of inductees to new religious movements (including cults). The term "brainwashing" is not widely used in psychology and other sciences, because of its vagueness and history of being used in propaganda, not to mention its association with hysterical fears of people being taken over by foreign ideologies. It is often more helpful to analyze 'brainwashing' ...

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Avasthas (Sanskrit) States, conditions, positions.

 
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Sthula (Sanskrit). Differentiated and conditioned matter.

 
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Baddha (Sanskrit). Bound, conditioned; as is every mortal who has not made himself free through Nirvana.

 
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Anthropology. The Science of man; it embraces among other things: - Physiology, or that branch of natural science which discloses the mysteries of the organs and their functions in men, animals and plants; and also, and especially, - Psychology or the great, and in our days, too much neglected science of the soul, both as an entity distinct from the spirit, and in its relation to the spirit and body.
 
In modern science, psychology deals only or principally with conditions of the nervous system, and almost absolutely ignores the psychical essence and nature. Physicians denominate the science of insanity psychology, and name the lunacy chair in medical colleges by that designation. (Isis Unveiled.)

 
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Will-less A condition of beings who have not yet evolved forth free will, hence without initiative or self-determination. A specific instance is the case where will-less may be applied to the gods in heaven against whom Satan rebelled (as narrated in Milton''s Paradise Lost). In theosophical literature, used in reference to mankind in its early stages before manas (mind) became awakened, hence to the first and second root-races and early third root-race. Even among these early races the will was not absent, but it had not yet come into functional activity.

 
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