0:04 that is uh classified as a non-physical
0:07 reality. What happens is that that slit
0:09 opens up opens up more and more and
0:13 more. So you see more and more of that
0:16 reality and we assume that we see
0:19 different realities. They're not very
0:21 different realities but rather a very
0:24 extended broad view of one very large reality.
0:25 reality.
0:26 >> Can we speed that up by doing?
0:29 >> Yeah. Well, you use techniques which
0:30 push the nervous system a lot faster
0:32 than most techniques are available.
0:34 >> Shortly after making that claim, he was
0:37 gone. In 1979,
0:40 Bentov was on his way to Japan to meet
0:42 with leading scientists and share that
0:45 he had cracked the code of reality. But
0:47 his first flight from Chicago to Los
0:50 Angeles never made it. The plane
0:53 crashed. Strange. The man who had spent
0:56 years mapping the hidden architecture of
0:58 consciousness died on his way to reveal
1:02 it. Later, parts of his work surfaced in
1:05 CIA files, quietly folded into their own
1:08 projects. Modern physics now flirts with
1:11 this idea through quantum field theory.
1:14 But Bentov wasn't a physicist chasing
1:17 equations. He was describing the cosmos
1:19 like a giant interconnected hologram
1:22 where every fragment contains the whole
1:24 picture. Think about that for a second.
1:27 If your mind is tuning into a universal
1:30 signal, then death might not be the end.
1:33 It could be just changing the channel.
1:35 >> The soul is the repository of
1:37 information that we gather during lifetime.
1:39 lifetime.
1:40 >> Well, I'll tell you, maybe we should
1:42 draw another diagram. Mhm.
1:44 >> Physical bodies are here and another
1:46 physical body. Another physical body and
1:49 this is Joe and this is Jim and this is
1:51 Sarah etc.
1:53 >> Now clearly on the phys this is the
1:56 physical level. Yeah. Now on this
1:58 physical level we all separate. You sit
1:59 there and I sit here and we're all separate.
2:01 separate.
2:03 Now let's draw another level. This level
2:05 is is slightly higher. And let's call
2:08 this the level of the soul. Yeah. Well
2:12 there will be some mingling here.
2:14 Let's let's draw this person as extending
2:17 extending
2:20 to practically infinity this way. Now
2:23 look what happens at the physical level
2:26 we are separate. We're separate
2:28 and there's this much distance between
2:31 us. Let's say that on the soul level
2:34 this person extends this much and the
2:37 other person gets slightly mixed in with
2:40 him. That is the souls are in a way in
2:43 touch with each other. Okay, they
2:45 overlap these two lines. Now let's go
2:48 now to a higher level and let's call
2:52 this uh say the level of the higher self
2:55 which is kind of the boss of the soul.
3:00 Uh there what we find is that
3:02 this fellow's
3:04 higher self extends this much and the
3:06 other fellows
3:09 extends this much.
3:12 There is more overlap between them. Right?
3:12 Right?
3:14 >> On the very highest level which is the
3:19 high spiritual level we are basically
3:22 over overlapping completely.
3:25 Everybody is overlapping everybody else.
3:29 In other words, everything and everyone
3:31 is everywhere. In other words, we've
3:34 become omnipresent. This is a state of
3:36 highly spiritual perfected beings or
3:39 gods you may call. >> Okay.
3:39 >> Okay.
3:41 >> Okay. And so that we exist on all of
3:43 those simultaneously.
3:44 >> On all of those simultaneously, but
3:46 we're not aware of them
3:48 >> in in in your view. than if when when we
3:49 see each other as separate entities
3:51 that's only seen on one plane of
3:52 reality, could I?
3:55 >> And that was just his starting point
3:58 because Bentov didn't stop at the mind.
4:00 He mapped out how your heart and brain
4:03 physically interact with the cosmos. The
4:06 results were shocking and the evidence
4:09 measurable. But that's where his story
4:11 takes an even stranger turn.
4:13 >> Well, let's take a simple example. the
4:17 family sitting at dinner table and say
4:19 there's a kid maybe 15 years old 16
4:23 years old and he looks up and suddenly
4:25 he says to his mother hey ma look at
4:27 there's there's our dead grandmother is
4:29 standing in the corner
4:32 mother looks around says no then
4:35 psychiatrist says oh young fella you're
4:37 in troubles and then he writes out a
4:39 little prescription for little sorazine
4:41 or electroshock or whatever and pretty
4:43 soon in matter of two weeks Kid is back
4:45 in shape. Very normal.
4:46 >> No longer sees anything.
4:47 >> No longer sees anything. >> Yeah.
4:49 >> Yeah.
4:51 >> So the process has been reversed. This
4:54 is called a psychotic episode
4:56 or acute schizophrenic
4:57 break or whatever it is.
4:59 >> And what you would say is that there's a
5:01 good chance that that kid is seen.
5:03 >> Very good.
5:05 >> The kid has a spontaneous opening of his
5:09 senses. That is
5:11 classified as a non-physical reality.
5:14 The nervous system is that thing that
5:16 gives us the picture of our realities.
5:19 That is our realities. That reality
5:21 which you see all all around you, the
5:23 flowers and the chairs and the
5:26 microphones and the teacup is given to
5:28 us by our senses.
5:30 >> We don't see light which is beyond UV
5:32 and beyond infrared.
5:37 Uh we hear only a limited uh scale of
5:39 vibrations. Like for instance, we hear
5:42 anywhere from 52 to 20,000 maximum.
5:45 >> Mhm. In other words, all our senses are
5:48 limited. So what happens is that that
5:51 slit opens up opens up more and more and
5:54 more. So you see more and more of that
5:58 reality and we assume that we see
6:00 different realities. They're not very
6:03 different realities, but rather a very
6:06 extended broad view of one very large
6:08 reality. Through years of experiments
6:10 and self-observation, he discovered that
6:13 the heartbeat sends a rhythmic wave up
6:15 the spine into the brain. This
6:18 microscopic mechanical motion measured
6:20 in fractions of a millimeter generates
6:23 oscillations that synchronize with the
6:25 body's electromagnetic field. Here's the
6:28 twist. Those oscillations match
6:30 frequencies found throughout nature.
6:32 From the vibration of atoms to the
6:35 rotation of planets. To him, this wasn't
6:37 a coincidence. It was evidence of a
6:39 built-in cosmic feedback loop.
6:42 >> It's Bento, he wrote Stalking the Wild
6:45 Pendulum, is uh probably one of the greatest
6:47 greatest
6:50 works he created so that people could
6:52 understand what a holographic matrix
6:55 field is or a holographic universe so
6:57 you could understand entrainment, so you
7:00 could understand uh the electrostatic
7:03 field surrounding the earth. Yeah. Uh he
7:06 coined these simple crazy little
7:08 phrases, these explanations for people
7:09 that said, you know, we're just all
7:13 raisins in the jelly, in the jello, and
7:16 if one raisin is vibrating at a higher
7:18 frequency, stronger amplitude, and at a
7:22 higher frequency, soon all of the other
7:25 raisins in the in the jello will begin
7:27 to resonate in that way. And the only
7:30 way they can't is if they can overpower
7:32 that the amplitude and that frequency.
7:34 And if they can do that and they can
7:37 have a constructive or a destructive
7:40 wave interference, they can overpower
7:42 the other wave. He illustrated the heart
7:45 as a low-frequency oscillator producing
7:47 standing waves that extend beyond the
7:50 body. In theory, these waves could
7:52 interact with the universal field
7:54 described earlier. Decades later,
7:56 research from the HeartMath Institute
7:58 confirmed that the heart's
8:00 electromagnetic field extends several
8:03 feet outside the body and can influence
8:06 brain activity. A concept he proposed
8:08 long before modern instruments could
8:11 detect it. To him, meditation wasn't
8:13 just about calming the mind. It was a
8:15 precise method of tuning the heartbrain
8:18 system so it could resonate with the
8:20 deeper architecture of the universe.
8:22 When tuned correctly, the body could
8:25 become a gateway to expanded perception,
8:28 a state where boundaries dissolve and
8:30 reality is experienced as a seamless
8:33 hole. This was presented not as
8:35 mysticism, but as a reproducible
8:38 process. If true, it means the human
8:41 body is a finely tuned instrument, one
8:43 that most people never learn to play.
8:46 But this map of the body was just the
8:49 beginning. In 2003, a CIA document
8:52 quietly appeared in the public domain. A
8:56 29page analysis labeled Gateway Process.
8:59 These CIA documents that came out that
9:01 have been unclassified or declassified
9:03 for years. People can go online and
9:05 check it out. But basically what these
9:08 documents show is the power of doing
9:11 mind and heart coherence meditations
9:14 focused on specific intentions and how
9:17 that can expand your consciousness even
9:20 affect reality in a very powerful way.
9:22 It's something that revealed more about
9:24 what reality might be and it's something
9:28 that also really expanded uh their sense
9:30 of the way reality works and how we can
9:32 influence it. On the surface, it was a
9:35 military report on altered states of
9:37 consciousness. But buried in the
9:39 technical jargon was something eerie.
9:42 Page after page describing concepts
9:45 nearly identical to what Bentov had
9:47 mapped decades earlier. It spoke of the
9:50 brain and body as oscillating systems,
9:52 of consciousness extending beyond space
9:56 and time, and of accessing non-ordinary
9:58 realities through controlled resonance.
10:01 Why would the CIA care? According to the
10:03 report, mastering these techniques could
10:06 allow for remote viewing, the ability to
10:09 perceive events and locations without
10:11 being physically present. In other
10:14 words, spying without ever leaving the
10:16 room. It even describes the possibility
10:19 of projecting one's consciousness across
10:21 the universe or into the past and
10:25 future. This was not sci-fi speculation.
10:28 It was treated as a strategic asset. The
10:31 gateway document wasn't theoretical. It
10:32 was part of a larger intelligence
10:35 program. One that blended physics,
10:37 neuroscience, and the very same
10:40 universal field ideas that Bentov
10:42 explored. And just like his work, it was
10:45 measured, charted, and taken very
10:47 seriously, which raises a disturbing
10:50 question. If this knowledge could truly
10:53 bend perception, who controls it
10:56 controls reality. And the CIA wasn't
10:58 about to let that power go unnoticed.
11:00 But the Gateway file is just one piece
11:03 of the puzzle because once you start
11:05 looking, you find a trail of other
11:08 classified projects, each stranger than
11:10 the last. Another file describes
11:13 biological signal entrainment where test
11:15 subjects were exposed to faint rhythmic
11:18 pulses too subtle to consciously notice
11:21 that altered brain waves and decision-m.
11:23 The idea was simple. If you could
11:26 synchronize someone's neural rhythms
11:28 with a desired state, you can make them
11:31 more suggestible without saying a word.
11:34 These were not science fiction concepts.
11:37 Internal memos describe field trials
11:40 where operatives passed coded messages
11:42 across crowded rooms using nothing but
11:45 pre-arranged micro gestures and sound
11:48 frequencies masked in background noise.
11:51 This is the key. Perception control
11:53 isn't just about advanced tech. It's
11:56 about knowing the blind spots built into
11:59 every human brain, then designing an
12:01 environment to exploit them. And then
12:03 there's the strangest controlled dissociation.
12:05 dissociation.
12:07 Select operatives were trained to detach
12:10 their awareness from normal sensory
12:13 flow, entering an observer state where
12:16 time felt distorted and memory recall
12:18 was near perfect. It was the same
12:21 principle Bentov mapped, tuning the
12:23 body's oscillations and stepping outside
12:27 ordinary processing of reality. But here
12:29 it was engineered not for enlightenment,
12:32 but for control. To truly weaponize
12:34 perception, you don't just change what
12:37 someone sees. You rewrite the story
12:39 their mind tells about it. And that's
12:42 where a former US Navy interrogator
12:44 takes the concept to another level
12:47 entirely. Essentially what Elron Hubard
12:49 does is have people read out of this
12:53 book uh of Alice in Wonderland. The the
12:56 verbiage is very confusing and Elron
12:58 Hubard openly wrote about this in in his
13:01 work and then the CIA without even
13:03 attributing anything to him copied it
13:06 almost word for word in an interrogation manual.
13:06 manual. >> Really?
13:06 >> Really?
13:09 >> Oh yeah. So being able to speak
13:12 confusing phrases helps you to be more
13:14 persuasive. They discovered this in the
13:18 50s and 60s that if I can confuse your
13:21 brain, your brain acts as though someone
13:23 who is it's somebody that's falling. So
13:25 if you imagine when you're falling, your
13:27 limbs are flailing all over the place
13:30 and the first solid object that they
13:31 come into contact with, it's going to
13:33 like grab around it no matter what. Even
13:35 if it's a thorn bush or something. >> Okay?
13:35 >> Okay? >> Right?
13:36 >> Right?
13:39 >> So any anything that's solid in that
13:40 moment of confusion is going to get
13:44 grabbed onto. So the correlary the brain
13:46 correlary to this is if a person's
13:49 confused the first logical piece of
13:50 information they hear after being
13:53 confused will be automatically accepted
13:55 or more automatically accepted without
13:57 being screened or scrutinized by the brain.
13:57 brain.
14:00 >> Hughes spent decades training military
14:02 and intelligence operatives in advanced
14:05 influence techniques. His claim is
14:09 blunt. Confusion is not an accident.
14:12 It's engineered. He calls it controlled
14:15 perception. The idea is to subtly
14:17 dismantle someone's mental map of
14:19 reality and replace it with a version
14:22 that serves your objective without them
14:24 ever realizing the swap happened. Here's
14:27 how it works. First, overload the target
14:30 with contradictions. Give them two or
14:33 three truths that can't coexist. The
14:34 brain will scramble to resolve the
14:37 conflict. And in that state, it's wide
14:40 open to suggestion. Next, layer sensory
14:44 cues, symbols, color patterns, even
14:46 specific rhythms in speech that bypass
14:49 conscious filtering. Over time, the
14:51 targets internal narrative shifts, but
14:54 they believe it was their own conclusion
14:57 all along. Hughes warns that at scale,
15:00 this doesn't just change opinions. It
15:02 can create entire parallel realities
15:05 within a population. Two people can live
15:07 in the same physical world yet inhabit
15:10 completely different mental ones, each
15:12 certain they're right. And here's where
15:15 Bentov's influence theory meets modern
15:17 trade craft. If human perception is a
15:20 tunable system, then controlled
15:22 perception is the operating manual.
15:24 Instead of guiding someone to
15:26 enlightenment, it guides them into a
15:29 constructed version of reality, one you
15:32 control. Unlike cold war experiments
15:35 that required labs and specialists,
15:37 these methods can be deployed through
15:40 ordinary media, culture, even casual
15:42 conversation. And once the perception
15:45 shift takes hold, undoing it is nearly
15:48 impossible. But in the digital age,
15:50 these principles didn't vanish, they
15:53 evolved. What once required trained
15:55 operatives and controlled environments
15:58 is now woven into the very platforms
16:01 billions of people use every day. The
16:03 tools have changed, but the objective
16:06 remains. Shape the lens through which
16:10 reality is seen. Google was incubated
16:14 and funded by CIA and NSA and DARPA and
16:18 how the page rank algorithm and um all
16:22 of the propri uh propri proprietary uh
16:24 IP that's used in Google was developed
16:27 first in DARPA and then there was these
16:29 two people that are listed in that
16:32 article from the CIA and NSA who were
16:34 visiting Sergey Bran many times when he
16:38 was developing it and testing it and
16:39 they were funding it.
16:40 >> And this is proven.
16:42 >> Yeah. This is his article right here.
16:43 How the CIA made Google inside the
16:44 secret network.
16:45 >> Good god.
16:48 >> Fascinating. Fascinating deep dive this
16:48 guy did.
16:50 >> The infrastructure they built doesn't
16:53 just answer questions or connect people.
16:56 It quietly maps behavior, preferences,
16:58 and thought patterns on a global scale.
17:00 In practice, this means the digital
17:02 environment can be shaped with
17:05 extraordinary precision. Each search,
17:07 scroll, and click contributes to a
17:10 constantly evolving model of how the
17:12 user interacts with the world. The
17:14 deeper the model, the easier it becomes
17:17 to anticipate and design for specific
17:20 responses. If you use blue light
17:22 specifically, it actually destroys the
17:25 dopamine reward tracks in your brain.
17:28 Just so you know, Meta and Google today
17:31 own those patents. Cruz's observation
17:34 adds another layer. The influence isn't
17:36 limited to what appears on the screen,
17:39 but to the screen itself. The spectral
17:41 quality of artificial light, especially
17:44 in prolonged exposure, affects the
17:47 brain's chemistry. Lower dopamine shifts
17:50 the mind into a state of reduced drive
17:52 and heightened receptivity, subtly
17:55 altering how information is processed.
17:58 Taken together, these elements form an
18:00 ecosystem that doesn't just communicate,
18:03 it conditions. not in the overt
18:06 heavy-handed sense of past propaganda,
18:09 but through gradual adaptive feedback.
18:12 The result is a mental environment where
18:14 certain narratives find easier passage
18:17 and others fade into the background. But
18:19 for the agencies that pioneered these
18:22 methods, influence was never just about
18:24 controlling the present moment. In their
18:27 most unconventional experiments, they
18:29 went further, testing whether perception
18:32 could reach into events that hadn't even
18:33 happened yet.
18:35 >> People's patterns of interaction and
18:38 speech are extremely predictive of
18:40 things like engagement and compliance,
18:42 the pattern of mobility you have during
18:44 the day, the pattern of how you
18:46 communicate people, even from
18:48 accelerometers, how you move. As you
18:50 see, people are exhibiting behavior that
18:53 could be best described as foraging
18:56 behavior. Very ancient biological uh
18:59 behavior whereby people have routines
19:02 and then they break loose in these sort
19:04 of exploratory vignettes and then they
19:06 go back to their routines.
19:07 >> This is where influence becomes
19:10 something more than persuasion. In the
19:12 past, you could only react to what
19:14 people were doing. Now, predictive
19:17 models mean you can act before they've
19:19 even made the choice. Pentland's
19:21 research shows that with enough
19:24 behavioral data, algorithms can forecast
19:27 shifts in opinion, consumption, even
19:30 social unrest, and design interventions
19:32 to steer them. And these interventions
19:34 don't need to be heavy-handed. Change
19:36 the timing of a notification, subtly
19:39 adjust the framing of a headline,
19:42 reorder a list of search results, and
19:44 you've shifted the odds toward a
19:47 preferred outcome. It feels organic, but
19:48 it's engineered.
19:51 >> Your brain does not react to the world.
19:54 Using past experience, your brain
19:57 predicts and constructs your experience
20:00 of the world. The way that we see
20:03 emotions in others are deeply rooted in
20:05 predictions, right? So to us, it feels
20:07 like we just look at someone's face and
20:10 we just read the emotion that's there in
20:11 their facial expressions the way that we
20:14 would read words on a page. But actually
20:17 under the hood, your brain is
20:19 predicting. It's using past experience
20:22 based on similar situations to try to
20:23 make meaning.
20:26 >> This is the real loop. Data feeds
20:30 predictions. Predictions shape context
20:32 and context alters what your mind
20:36 believes is real at scale. It means the
20:38 same infrastructure that serves you news
20:41 or entertainment can also run quiet
20:43 experiments, shifting collective
20:46 perception in ways that feel natural,
20:49 inevitable, even self-generated. Over
20:52 time, the loop tightens. Every click,
20:55 pause, or scroll teaches the system more
20:58 about you, refining the predictions,
21:01 making the nudges smaller, more precise,
21:04 and harder to detect. The better the
21:06 model knows you, the less it needs to
21:09 push. A perfectly tuned environment
21:12 doesn't force compliance. It makes you
21:14 walk willingly toward the path it's
21:16 already drawn. And because it operates
21:19 on probabilities, it doesn't need to be
21:22 right about everyone. just enough people
21:24 enough of the time to shift the
21:27 trajectory of an entire society. But if
21:29 reality itself can be bent through a
21:32 predictive feedback loop, then the
21:34 question isn't just who's controlling
21:36 the present, it's who's already written
21:39 your next move before you even knew
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