On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:58:55PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > At 07:00 PM 11/25/2002 +0000, you wrote: > >On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: > > > >>The Russians reputedly used sensory deprivation as a means of > >>convincing western spies to talk. 24 to 48 hours in a tank broke > >>nearly anyone. > > > >The effects are supposed to be a lot worse than you would imagine while > >also allowing some degree of denial by a so-called civilized state. > > > > "we keep them awake a bit .. big deal its not supposed to be a holiday > >camp". > > > >Yet it's one of the simplest and most effective ways of psychological > >torture. > > I should think that a bit of practical training in self hypnosis could > thwart sensory deprivation. I read some books in my youth on SH and found > I could put myself in a self-induced altered reality state from which I > could not be easily awakened. I imagine you could make yourself lean up > against a wall until your muscles failed without much of a problem. I've > heard surgery without anesthetic is possible, so physical abuse might be > thwarted as well for the well conditioned.
Practioners of yoga should have a ball. Just another yogic meditation exercize. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com "War is just a racket ... something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small group knows what its about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses." --- Major General Smedley Butler, 1933 "Our overriding purpose, from the beginning through to the present day, has been world domination - that is, to build and maintain the capacity to coerce everybody else on the planet: nonviolently, if possible, and violently, if necessary. But the purpose of US foreign policy of domination is not just to make the rest of the world jump through hoops; the purpose is to faciliate our exploitation of resources." - Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html
