10 Ways to Avoid Brainwashing

If we don’t own our minds, we’re like pawns in a game where we’re not the player. We’re being played. Corporations, governments, advertisers and even religions have gone to great lengths to control your mind. Sometimes their tactics are obvious, but most of the time they are downright sneaky.

If we want to ensure that we’re living for ourselves and not serving some corporation’s agenda, we have to put on our mental armor. We have to arm our minds so we can first know when their is an assault on our sovereignty.

Here are 10 tools you can use to avoid brainwashing and retain the ownership of your mind:

 

  CIA Project MK-ULTRA      Source
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The United States government funded and performed countless psychological experiments on unwitting humans, especially during the Cold War era, perhaps partially to help develop more effective torture and interrogation techniques for the US military and the CIA, but the almost unbelieveable extent, range and duration of these activities far surpassed possible interrogation applications and appear to have been performed from a fundamental monstrous inhumanity. To simply read summaries of these, even without the details, is almost traumatising in itself.

  How to Deprogram Your Own Mind     Source: Orange Papers
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How To Deprogram Your Own Mind by A. Orange is a provocative guide to recognizing and dismantling the subconscious beliefs and societal conditioning that shape our thoughts and behaviors. The essay argues that from childhood, individuals are "programmed" by parents, culture, peer pressure, and media, inheriting both useful knowledge and harmful misinformation. To reclaim autonomy, Orange outlines practical steps: cultivating a relentless pursuit of truth, rejecting self-condemnation, and identifying manipulative tactics used by cults, advertisers, and political entities. Key strategies include questioning irrational beliefs, diversifying information sources, and observing one’s own mental habits—such as fear-based reactions or ego-driven conformity. The text warns against cognitive dissonance, self-deception, and the allure of certainty offered by dogmatic systems. Emphasizing critical thinking and emotional awareness, Orange encourages readers to "pull out the arrows" of flawed programming without guilt. The essay serves as both a warning and a toolkit, urging vigilance against external control and advocating for intellectual independence in a world rife with hidden influences.