George Estabrooks
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Oct 17, 2026
Laura Knight-JadczykGUEST
I mean, the closest thing to anything really interesting was what Julian West was doing out in, uh, Oklahoma.
Laura Knight-JadczykGUEST
And he said that he could create a, you know, a, a Man- a Manchurian candidate with hypnosis and so did, um, George Estabrooks.
Laura Knight-JadczykGUEST
He said making a, a split personality was child's play, and this was in the '70s.
Laura Knight-JadczykGUEST
But, but, uh, well, actually, he did it during World War II.
Christopher SandbatchGUEST
You know-
CapitalisimoGUEST
Uh, The Manchurian Candidate would actually be more, more, would more overlap with, um, George Estabrooks' work- Than Louis Jolyon West's, and is a little bit, like...
CapitalisimoGUEST
Okay, so here is...
CapitalisimoGUEST
I, I'm really glad you mentioned that, actually, uh-
Andrea FioreNARRATOR
Recording by Andrea Fiore A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis by Melvin Powers Chapter 3 Is Hypnosis the Answer? Dr.
Andrea FioreNARRATOR
George Estabrooks, professor of psychology at Colgate University and author of the book Hypnotism, made the following two statements in a paper called The Future of Hypnosis, given as part of a program on the nature of hypnosis at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in 1959.
Andrea FioreNARRATOR
It would be well to sound a word of caution against certain attitudes which have become prevalent and which can be well illustrated in the field of medicine.
Andrea FioreNARRATOR
In this respect, direct suggestion is under the ban.
Christopher SandbatchGUEST
You know-
CapitalisimoGUEST
The Manchurian Candidate would actually be more, more, would more overlap with, um, George Estabrooks's work than Louis Jollion West's, and is a little bit, like...
CapitalisimoGUEST
Okay, so here's, I, I'm really glad you mentioned that, actually, uh, because-
Christopher SandbatchGUEST
But you know, like, this is one, this is why-
Chase HughesHOST
And it was written by this guy.
Chase HughesHOST
His name is Dr. George Estabrooks.
Chase HughesHOST
He is a Harvard University graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and Chairman of Psychology at Colgate University in New York.
Chase HughesHOST
And he's the only mind control doctor who publicly acknowledged conducting extensive hypnosis work on behalf of the CIA, the FBI and military intelligence.
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Chase HughesHOST
Yeah, I completely agree with that.
Chase HughesHOST
But there's so much that if you have a good subject and good context, that a lot can be accomplished.
Chase HughesHOST
And I was reading the work of Dr. George Estabrooks, and he's saying he's been doing this since the late 50s.
Chase HughesHOST
And his plan to J. Edgar Hoover was to hypnotize a German submarine captain.
Chase HughesHOST
Uh, so the whole thing stopped in '73 officially, but they were perfecting a lot of this hypnosis stuff for decades and decades trying to do this.
Chase HughesHOST
And one of the guys leading the way doing all this was Dr. George Estabrooks, and he was the one doing all the hypnosis research and, and communicating back and forth to J. Edgar Hoover.
Chase HughesHOST
This is not some theory.
Chase HughesHOST
This is all proven fact.