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                            AS MAN                       BECOMES MACHINETitle and most of the contents of this article are taken directly f
rom David Rorvik's book published by Doubleday & Co., 1971. Other comments are written by Al Pinto.In my last article, CYBORG.UFO, I had sai
d that the material presented, is "watered down". That article was meant as an introduction to what you are about to read. In his book, whic
h by the way has nothing to do with UFO's, Rorvik supports what I have presented to you before. He supplies us with valuable technical infor
mation into a technology that seeks to make man evolve into machine. Some of the concepts have already been presented to you in my last arti
cle. An overview you might say. This article will go more into detail on the subject of ESB, or electronic stimulation of the brain, and par
ticipant evolution. This comes from Mr. Rorvik's book; Page 151:ELECTROPROSTHESIS   Somatic functions have yielded even more dramatically th
an the autonomic to ESB. These are the motor functions, movements of the body and it's extremities, which can be controlled by stimulating v
arious parts of the cerebral cortex. In Dr. Delgado's experiments animals were induced to "move the legs, raise or lower the body, open or c
lose the mouth, walk or lie still, or turn around." He found that the animals took all of this very much in stride, seemingly unaware of out
side interference. Cats stimulated in such a way as they would suddenly have to raise a hind leg would go right on purring. Nor would they s
tumble or fall. "However," Dr. Delgado observes, "if we tried to prevent the evoked effect by holding the hind leg with our hands, the cat s
topped purring, struggled to get free, and shook it's leg," indicating that the stimulatory command is a powerful one.   A number of researc
hers are working to put this sort of motor control to practical effect. ------------------------------------------------------------------So
, if ESB is effective on animals, could it be just as effective on Humans? Rorvik writes:   To understand fully the impact ESB may have in t
he very near future, it is important first to understand something of the actual technique of implanting electrodes in the brain. Thousands
of laboratory animals, including rats, dogs, cats, dolphins, bulls and even crickets, have been wired, some with more than one hundred elect
rodes. Dozens of humans, most of them suffering from serious diseases or mental disorders, have been similary wired- some with scores of ele
ctrodes and for periods in excess of a year. ------------------------------------------------------------------What is the history of this t
echnology? How far back does it date too? Is it possible that this science could explain at least that possibility, in which the occupants o
f UFO's may not be extraterrestrial? That it is indeed possible that the abductees ARE under a mass hallucination imposed on them by their a
bductors? Rorvik again provides us with more answers:      "Recent rapid development in ESB technique follows upon what was a rather slow st
art. Direct electrical stimulation, in fact, dates back nearly two centuries to the experiments of Volta, Galvani, Du Bois-Reymond and other
s , who discovered that the brain was more suceptible to electronics than to obscure chemical forces ("animal spirits" they were called) tha
t were in vogue up to that time."   That came from page 141-142. He continues to tell us that electronic stimulation of the brain was used i
n 1870 by battlefield brain surgeons. Then he says:   "This medical 'technology' lay mercifully dormant for decades after the war-until Dr.
Walter R. Hess, a brilliant Swiss neurophysiologist, devised the modern technique of electrode implantation in 1932, demonstrating in the pr
ocess that nearly all of man's functions and emotions can be influenced by electrical stimulation in specific cerebral areas." -page 142
Here we are again. Nearing WWII, and humans have already learned about and demonstrated this technology. You will recall that we also had sa
ucer technology back then. What if Hitler and his brilliant scientists got hold of this technology? Rorvik doesn't say whether or not this r
elates to that situation. He does offer us some scary scenarios, however. He writes:GOVERNMENT BY "ELECTROLIGARCHY"   The incredible power t
hat one can exert over an individual's actions and emotions with ESB has given rise to some alarm.What works for lower animals in this realm
 can also be made to work for man. Most scientists assume, of course, that this technology, will remain in (their) benign hands, ushering in
 a new era of "electrical nirvana." But if the technology should fall into decidedly unscrupulous hands (and this must certainly be consider
ed a possibility), then a strange and fearful world could result.   An electrical engineer named Curtis R. Schafer alluded to this very poss
ibility in a paper he presented before the National Electronics Conference in Chicago some years ago. Half in jest, he proposed computer-con
trolled electrodes be implanted in the brains of babies, a few months after birth, robotizing them for life. "The once human being thus cont
rolled would be the cheapest of machines to create and operate," he pointed out. "The cost of building even a simple robot, like the Westing
house mechanical man, is probably ten times that of bearing and raising a child to the age of sixteen." Other scientists have admitted the p
ossibility that governments could try to control citizen behavior by techniques of ESB.          The vision of a society controlled by such
a government is not pleasant to contemplate-yet it is certainly as "realistic" as that envisioned by Aldous Huxley in his famous novel "Brav
e new World", in which the masses were bio-chemically stratified via the sort of genetic engineering that is already becoming possible in la
boratories around the world. An electronically contrived Brave New World, however, might actually be easy to achieve. The stratification her
e, of course, would be somewhat different, as the following scenario would illustrate:     To begin with, let us imagine a conspiracy partic
ipated in by a small group of powerful men who seek to "optimize" society. Noting the fantastic potential of ESB, they invision themselves a
t the top of an electronically sustained socio-structure that might be called the Eletroheirarchy. The conspirators, let us say, are leading
 figures in the military-industrial complex who want to run society in the same way that they run their factories and armies. But now, inste
ad of having to worry about personal incentive programs, waste, time consumming inter-office bickering, in house pilfering, and philandering
, insubordination, the costly ritual of hiring and firing and so on, they need only punch buttons and transmit the appropriate signals to ac
hieve every general's, manager's, president's, premiere's dream of the efficient society.                                          -page 145
-146Rorvik goes on to explain details of how such a government might operate by groups known as the masters, who are only about 50 people sp
ared from electrode implants; The next rung down would be the Electrons, who are somewhat implanted, would be the poets, thinkers, scientist
s, scholars, etc.; Next, The Positrons would be more heavily implanted and would be the positive thinkers, the ones who put the plans into a
ction. The "white collar" workers; At the lowest level might come the electrons or the most heavily implanted, which would be engaged in the
 repetitive, often menial tasks. All would be cheaper and more reliable than automatic equipment and mechanical robots. They would be roboti
zed so that they could do their tasks all day, and love every minute of it.      I find it more than interesting that this scenario fits in,
 almost too well, with what the Nazi's were trying to do. If they somehow had access to this technology, which is entirely possible, they wo
uld use it similarly as depicted above.------------------------------------------------------------