was looking into some stuff about schizophrenia and found this wild story about the first recorded case a man named James Tilly Matthews.
He was involved in some political scheme (1796ish) and was thrown in a mental ward in after he claimed he knew about an elaborate mind control scheme to influence politicians.
TLDR he said there was a small group who operated some weird huge machine located hidden in some basement. https://www.theairloom.org/mindcontrol.php the machine was some crazy steam-punk esc pipe organ that magnetised gases that could be aimed at targets.
its seems to be a mix of 1700th century Pneumatic chemistry and early electro magnetism
it could do varies things like allow the operator of the machine to implant thoughts, cause mental distractions, make targets forget things or make them more influenceable and loss all emotion.
https://archive.org/details/b22042271/page/n9/mode/2up heres a book written in 1810 about him, goes into detail.
they locked his ass up in the mental ward even after he was declared sane.
Your first link kind of disputes that it was actually real.
tbh im not sure what to really make of it yet the story is kinda wild, but there are some things really interesting about it
Maybe this is the reason for chemtrails. To get the magnetic gasses into us to be susceptible to this technology. Probably been improved since 1810.
What a fucking nutter. Kill yourself, faggot. You are a waste of flesh.
Bring it stupid bitch
Did you go thru all my posts? Is this the one that you disagree with? Did you look at the article that this post was about?
Yes, you are a dipshit. A high-order dipshit. Lol
I remember my surprise when I heard of James Tilly Matthews' case, because no matter how you look at it, it indicates that there's some underlying truth to this delusion. back then I thought it lends itself nicely into panpsychism, assuming that we all operate on a common consciousness frequency, and the schizophrenics have a broken "receiver", that catches too much noise, creating patterns that overwhelm them. now, I'm not so sure any more. maybe James Tilly Matthews did actually stumble upon what he described? the closer you look at the history and current events, the more you turn into the archetype of the fool. in renaissance literature court jester's laughter had an underlying note of knowledge, that came from his closeness to the king. he was one of the courtiers, but unlike them, he was in a position that made him able to voice things, no one else would have dared to point out. perhaps a few centuries back James would have become a jester in some nobleman's court, on the account of his endearing straightforwardness? understanding historical depictions of madness can be quite eye opening, and I'd recommend to put more trust in studying them than in reading the current DSM
Our ancestors were all raving schizos:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in_the_Breakdown_of_the_Bicameral_Mind
nah, our ancestors were fine. if we talk raving schizos, from a cursive look at the book summary and its excerpt, it's more likely that the author was larping as one