The Matrix Is Here. Have You Already Plugged In Without Realizing It?

How did everybody end up in the Matrix? 

They plugged themselves in. 

One day they were using it to connect with friends, work, shop online, read the news and watch movies. The next thing they knew, they were trapped and couldn’t get out.

They refused to line up for brain surgery, but happily bought virtual reality goggles, smartwatches that measured biometric data and brain-training “neurofeedback” headsets.

Brain surgery? Never. Non-invasive mind control device? Sure, if it makes life a little easier! Let’s plug in the kids!

They thought that if they weren’t actually plugged in physically, they could leave anytime.

The trouble is, they underestimated the mind-control powers the corporations would have over them simply by monitoring and responding to their brainwaves and emotional states as they learned, worked and played online.

The algorithms played each person like a fiddle, able to accurately predict and then subtly alter each decision, while always keeping up the illusion of free choice.

Most of the “technology” used to do this was the old-school Cambridge Analytica method, the same employed in advertising and confidence tricks.

But, the ability to merge behavioral data with realtime biometrics and brainwaves trained the algorithms to accomplish human goals with machine-like precision. It was like when humans taught computers to play chess; the ability to quickly compute every possibility made them invincible!

So, why are we hearing so much about Neuralink brain surgery? Could it be a psyop?

It certainly got my attention!

My heart broke and a shiver went up my spine when I heard about “Animal 21.” The day after this female rhesus macaque had Elon Musk’s Neuralink drilled into her skull, “she lost coordination and balance, experienced paralysis in both legs and was suffering from ‘depression.’ The day after that, she was seen ‘gasping/retching’ and ‘collapse[d] from exhaustion/fatigue.’ When staff finally euthanized her and conducted a necropsy, they discovered BioGlue was ‘covering and compressing a large area of the left cerebrum’ and blood had built up on the surface of her brain.”

And yet, in May 2023, the Food & Drug Administration approved Neuralink’s request for permission to pursue human trials!

On January 29th, Elon Musk tweeted that “The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well.” 

The news hasn’t been independently confirmed by Neuralink, so Musk’s tweet might just be hype targeted at investors or aimed at making money off a future IPO. 

With all the buzz about this, I was surprised to learn that other companies already implanted brain-computer interfaces in humans long before Musk tweeted, including Synchron, Blackrock Neurotech, Precision and Motif.

According to the Daily Beast, “Neuralink was beaten to human trials by numerous other neurotechnology competitors such as Synchron, which successfully implanted its brain-computer interfaces in a human using a much-less invasive procedure.”

CNBC reports, “During initial studies, Synchron has so far implanted six patients in the U.S. and four patients in Australia. The company will have to carry out additional trials that demonstrate the safety and efficacy of its device before regulators in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration grant approval for broader commercialization.”

A December 2023 Wired article, “The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up,” noted that “Precision Neuroscience placed its brain implant in three people for about 15 minutes. The patients were undergoing brain surgery for other reasons—two were awake at the time—and Precision wanted to see if its implant could successfully read, record, and map electrical activity from the surface of the brain.”

The same article said that Motif “temporarily installed its pea-sized device in the skull of a patient who was having a brain tumor removed. In results that have yet to be peer-reviewed, Motif showed that it could effectively deliver stimulation to the brain without actually coming into contact with it. The implant was over the brain for just a few minutes.”

Blackrock Neurotech (no relation to the BlackRock investment company) has implanted more than 50 chips into people’s brains!

This is actually a pretty old technology. The first brain-computer interfaces were initially installed by Phil Kennedy back in the late 1990s. When the Food and Drug Administration shut his work on other people down, he used himself as a test-subject, traveling to Belize for brain surgery in 2014.

The tech’s secret history goes back to CIA doctors in the MK-ULTRA program, as the must-watch documentary film The Minds of Men explains.

In 1966, CIA-sponsored psychiatrists Vernon Mark of Boston City Hospital and UCLA’s Frank Ervin implanted electrodes into the brain of Leonard Kille. 

Alex Constantine, author of the book Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A., included Kille’s story in his article, “The Hidden History of the CIA’s Electromagnetic Mind Control Experiments”:

“In 1966 Kille suspected that his wife was having an affair. She denied it; he flew into rages. A psychiatrist interpreted Kille’s anger as a ‘personality pattern disturbance’ and referred him to Mark and Ervin for neurological tests. Although Mark and Ervin described Kille’s behavior as ‘dangerous,’ Kille’s most violent outburst consisted of throwing tin cans at his wife (he missed). Hospitalized by order of the psychiatrists, Kille was involuntarily subjected to experimental brain surgery.

“During the touch-and-go operation, electrical strands were implanted in Kille’s brain. Each strand was studded with approximately 20 electrodes. Only after installation of the apparatus was Kille enlisted to sign his official consent to the procedure; the electrodes were already in place, zapping his brain.

“Following the nightmarish operation, Dr. Peter Breggin of the Center to Study Psychiatry, an ombudsman of psychiatric abuses, investigated Kille’s case and found—despite Mark’s and Ervin’s reports of therapeutic success—that the post-op patient was ‘totally disabled and subject to nightmarish terrors that he will be caught and operated on again at the Massachusetts General Hospital.’”

There’s even a Monsanto connection! 

Kille may have been targeted by his former boss Edwin Land who led a CIA front-group that ended up getting absorbed by Monsanto. In 2018, Monsanto merged with Bayer and retired its infamous name, but it is still involved in brain-computer interfaces (the ones that don’t require brain surgery). According to Constantine:

“Kille was a co-inventor of the Land camera, named for Edwin Land of the Polaroid Corporation. A veteran researcher in government-sponsored mind control programs, Land had founded the Scientific Engineering Institute (SEI) on behalf of the CIA. In July 1968 at South Vietnam’s Bien Hoa Hospital, SEI teams had implanted electrodes in the skulls of Vietcong prisoners of war in experimental attempts to direct the behavior of brain-wired subjects by remote control. Upon completion of the experiments, the POWs were shot and cremated by a company of Green Berets.”

I learned from the Boston Institute of Non-Profit Journalism investigation “Lobotomass” that SEI morphed into Searle Medidata Inc., a subsidiary of G.D. Searle, a pharmaceutical giant later chaired by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld:

“In 1985, Rumsfeld helped arrange the sale of Searle to the Monsanto Company.”

Monsanto (now Bayer) has maintained its investments in brain-computer interface technologies through the “philanthropic venture fund” BioGenerator, which has invested in BCI company Neurolutions.

What would an agribusiness company like Monsanto—or, now merged with Bayer, a pharmaceutical company—want with a brain-computer interface like Neurolutions that “consists of a wireless EEG electrode device worn on the head that is used to measure the patient’s brain signals”?

We don’t have to guess, because Monsanto scientists have published how they’ve actually used the technology. 

In one 2016 study, Monsanto artificial intelligence data scientist Ryan Butner “conducted an experiment exploring social media usage during disaster scenarios, combining electroencephalogram (EEG), personality surveys, and prompts to share social media.”

He and his colleagues were able to match personality type to preference for sharing certain forms of content, all while tracking the parts of the brain involved in making these decisions.

Another study by Butner published in 2019 presaged the so-called “Disinformation Dozen” COVID-era psyop. Butner and his colleagues accessed information from Facebook to analyze every post about GMOs from 2014 to 2017. 

They claimed that their “results suggest that a small group of alternative health and pro-conspiracy sites received more total engagements on social media than sites commonly regarded as media outlets on the topic of GMOs.”

Butner marketed the work he did for Monsanto/Bayer to other companies, advising them “to invest in robust social listening paired with true data science.”

In 2020, Butner presented his work at the Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) conference.

The Monsanto/Bayer example demonstrates that corporations have all the tools they need to plug us into the Matrix—without anyone even noticing!

They’re scaring us with Neuralink to give us a false sense of security that everything’s going to be alright as long as we don’t submit to brain surgery.

They’re luring us with VR goggles, smartwatches and biofeedback headsets.

And it’s working.

The saddest thing I saw while researching this article was a picture of a little girl with a headset on and a tablet in her lap—a familiar scene you’ll see in any restaurant, school or airplane. It was the caption that grabbed me:

“Transforming child mental health with AI-powered neurofeedback for kids with ADHD and autism.”

Is this why Bayer soaks our food in neurotoxins like their bee-killing neonicotinoid insecticide? To rattle our nervous systems just enough that we’ll be drive to seek refuge in the Metaverse?

From mind hacking to brain data theft, it’s time to get our legislators to protect us against the threats posed by these technologies.

Brain surgery is not required for electronic devices to have the power to identify the unique signature of specific thoughts, intentions and emotions.

Emotiv has made electroencephalography (EEG) headsets commercially available since 2010.

A 2019 study reported the invention of a “Wearable In-Ear EEG Device for Emotion Monitoring.”

OpenBCI’s Galea headset “is a complete mix of all sorts of sensors: EEG, EMG, EDA, PPG and eye tracking” integrated with virtual reality.

This is the Matrix.

How do they plan to plug us in?

By getting their mind-control headsets into schools (see “Solving the Education Crisis using Brain Computer Interface”) and workplaces (see “What Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Mean for the Future of Work”).

How do we stop them?

By keeping their mind-control headsets out of schools and workplaces—and making sure everyone understands the risks of “non-invasive” tech.

TAKE ACTION: Tell Your State Legislators to Keep Mind-Control Headsets Out of Schools and Workplaces!

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