The Instability of Truth
Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion
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Rebecca Lemov
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An acclaimed historian of science uncovers the hidden history of brainwashing—and its troubling implications for today.
Because brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often don’t recognize it while it’s happening—unless we know where to look. As Rebecca Lemov writes in The Instability of Truth, “Brainwashing erases itself.” What we call brainwashing is more common than we think; it is not so much what happens to other people as what can happen to anyone.
The Instability of Truth exposes the myriad ways our minds can be controlled against our will, from the brainwashing techniques used against American POWs in North Korea to the “soft” brainwashing of social media doomscrolling and behavior-shaping. In our increasingly data-driven world, anyone can fall victim to mind control. Lemov identifies invasive forms of emotional engineering that exploit trauma and addiction to coerce and persuade in everyday life. Tracing the word “brainwashing” from deep in the files of an operative of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services in the 1950s to the pioneering research of Robert Jay Lifton, to the public trials of cult leaders and the case of Patty Hearst, Lemov also studies how the idea of mind control has spread across the globe and penetrated courtrooms, secret labs, military schools, and today’s digital sites.
The Instability of Truth offers lessons from mind-control episodes past and present. Truth is always subject to question in more mundane walks of life than most people believe, and Lemov equips us for the increasing challenges we face from social media, AI, and an unprecedented, global form of surveillance capitalism. The Instability of Truth develops a rigorous new understanding of both brainwashing’s paradoxes and its emotional roots, by giving voice to brainwashers, the brainwashed, and third-party observers alike.
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Known for deep dives into true crime, extremist ideologies and fringe subcultures, journalist Leah Sottile turns her investigative eye toward American New Age culture. Today, tarot cards, astrology and crystals are everywhere—from Instagram and TikTok, to upscale boutiques and pricey wellness retreats. Sottile investigates how the recent surge of interest in New Age ideas speaks to a culture that is woven into the very fabric of America, and how self-professed gurus like Love Has Won's Mother God and the mysterious channeler Ramtha have built devout followings because of it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read for those wishing to understand conservative political movement that is rife with spirituality and conspiracies.
- De Toni Flenniken en 06-22-25
De: Leah Sottile
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The Ideological Brain
- The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
- De: Leor Zmigrod
- Narrado por: Tania Rodrigues
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Leor Zmigrod reveals the deep connection between political beliefs and the biology of the brain. Drawing on her own pioneering research, she uncovers the complex interplay between biology and environment that predisposes some individuals to rigid ways of thinking, and explains how ideologies take hold of our brains, fundamentally changing the way we think, act and interact with others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant work!
- De Kevin Rosen en 05-24-25
De: Leor Zmigrod
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The Terminal Man
- De: Michael Crichton
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 412
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 362
Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blacks out when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain's pleasure centers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Ahh.. The Pre-Micro Chip Era
- De Kim Venatries en 09-04-15
De: Michael Crichton
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Brainwashing
- The Science of Thought Control
- De: Kathleen Taylor
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
In Brainwashing, Kathleen Taylor brings the worlds of neuroscience and social psychology together for the first time. In elegant and accessible prose, and with abundant use of anecdotes and case-studies, she examines the ethical problems involved in carrying out the required experiments on humans, the limitations of animal models, and the frightening implications of such research. She also explores the history of thought-control and reveals how it persists all around us, from marketing and television to politics and education.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very beneficial book
- De M. en 03-25-20
De: Kathleen Taylor
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Ordinary Magic
- The Science of How We Can Achieve Big Change with Small Acts
- De: Gregory M. Walton PhD
- Narrado por: Gregory M. Walton PhD, Hattie Tate
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
The emotional questions we face can define our lives. If you’re expecting an interaction to go wrong, that expectation can make it so. That’s spiraling down. But as esteemed Stanford psychologist Greg Walton shows, when we see these questions clearly, we can answer them well. Known to social psychologists as wise interventions, these shifts in perspective can help us chart new trajectories for our lives. They help us spiral up. This is ordinary magic: The ordinary experiences that help us set aside the ordinary worries of life to unleash extraordinary change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So simple and so profound
- De S. Ma en 05-17-25
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Project Mind Control
- Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA
- De: John Lisle
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortment of dangerous—even deadly—experiments. Among them: dosing unwitting strangers with mind-bending drugs, torturing mental patients through sensory deprivation, and steering the movements of animals via electrodes implanted into their brains. His goal was to develop methods of mind control that could turn someone into a real-life “Manchurian candidate.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting and shocking
- De Jennifer en 06-25-25
De: John Lisle
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Ghosts of Iron Mountain
- The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today
- De: Phil Tinline
- Narrado por: Phil Tinline
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
A compelling work of investigative journalism that explores the surprising origins and hidden ramifications of an epic late 1960s hoax, perpetrated by cultural luminaries, including Victor Navasky and E.L. Doctorow. For readers curious about the surprising connections between John F. Kennedy, Oliver Stone, Timothy McVeigh, Alex Jones, and Donald Trump.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Audio quality
- De Chas30166 en 03-29-25
De: Phil Tinline
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Dark Persuasion
- A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media
- De: Joel E. Dimsdale
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very nicely done
- De JohnDoe en 11-06-21
De: Joel E. Dimsdale
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Human Nature
- Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
- De: Kate Marvel
- Narrado por: Courtney Patterson
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
Human Nature is a deeply felt inquiry into our rapidly changing Earth. In each chapter, Marvel uses a different emotion to explore the science and stories behind climate change. As expected, there is anger, fear, and grief—but also wonder, hope, and love. With her singular voice, Marvel takes us on a soaring journey, one filled with mythology, physics, witchcraft, bad movies, volcanoes, Roman emperors, sequoia groves, and the many small miracles of nature we usually take for granted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative but entertaining
- De K. Hall en 07-12-25
De: Kate Marvel
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Psycholinguistics
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Fernanda Ferreira
- Narrado por: Lisa S. Ware
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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This Very Short Introduction to psycholinguistics is an accessible and engaging description of how people use language. Talking and understanding language probably seem like simple and straightforward skills, but research in psycholinguistics has shown that complex computations take place behind the scenes when you communicate with others. Recent debates concerning how AI tools such as ChatGPT work highlight some of these core questions about the language faculty and how it is that humans comprehend, produce, and learn language.
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Ping
- The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication
- De: Andrew Brodsky
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Award-winning professor, management consultant, and virtual communications expert Andrew Brodsky is here to tell you that, yes, that meeting could have been an email. And that email? Maybe it should have been a voice note (really!). And your camera—it’s okay to turn it off; sometimes it’s even better. If you’re crushed under the weight of your inbox or exhausted from back-to-back-to-back video calls, then Ping is here to help workers at all levels and of all stripes—remote, hybrid, and in person—who use communication technologies as part of their jobs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relevant
- De DerekD en 04-11-25
De: Andrew Brodsky
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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age
- A Forgotten History of the Occult
- De: Raphael Cormack
- Narrado por: Dennis Kleinman
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
The interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoners all set out to assure the masses that just as newly discovered invisible forces of electricity and magnetism determined the world of science, unseen powers commanded an unknown realm of human potential. Drawing on untapped sources in Arabic in addition to European ones, Raphael Cormack follows two of the most unusual and charismatic figures of this age.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting…
- De Alexis Perlloni-Raguan en 05-16-25
De: Raphael Cormack
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More than Words
- How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World
- De: Maryellen MacDonald PhD
- Narrado por: Maryellen MacDonald PhD
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
The groundbreaking science of how and why we talk, and how this ability impacts every area of our lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting but the author should not have narrated too
- De johnm en 06-14-25
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The Captive Mind
- De: Czeslaw Milosz, Jane Zielonko - translator, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 9 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 165
The best-known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right. Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of the East, this classic work reveals in fascinating detail the often beguiling allure of totalitarian rule to people of all political beliefs and its frightening effects on the minds of those who embrace it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Every U.S. citizen should read this.
- De Tim Christenson en 09-27-20
De: Czeslaw Milosz, y otros
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Cults Like Us
- Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
- De: Jane Borden
- Narrado por: Jane Borden
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Since the Mayflower sidled up to Plymouth Rock, cult ideology has been ingrained in the DNA of the United States. In this eye-opening book, journalist Jane Borden argues that Puritan doomsday belief never went away; it went secular and became American culture. From our fascination with cowboys and superheroes to our allegiance to influencers and self-help, susceptibility to advertising, and undying devotion to the self-made man, Americans remain particularly vulnerable to a specific brand of cult-like thinking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Depth
- De Robert en 06-28-25
De: Jane Borden
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The Other Ancient Civilisations
- Decoding Archaeology's Less Celebrated Cultures
- De: Raven Todd DaSilva
- Narrado por: Raven Todd DaSilva
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
Go beyond the popular stories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, the Inca, and the Maya, and uncover the rich diversity of people that are often overlooked. From the world's first peace treaty to daring expeditions across the Pacific, learn about twenty ancient and historic cultures from around the world that have had monumental impacts on our modern world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent survey of largely unknown peoples
- De No ya en 05-30-25
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What We Value
- De: Emily Falk
- Narrado por: Emily Falk
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
Amid the many competing priorities of our busy lives, it can feel difficult to make the right decisions―ones that feel aligned with the things we care about. Change can feel almost impossible. In this book, award-winning researcher Emily Falk reveals how we can transform our relationship with the daily choices that define our lives by thinking like a neuroscientist about what we value.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Insightful and interesting
- De EJ en 06-29-25
De: Emily Falk
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The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
- A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East
- De: John M. Allegro
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 265
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 226
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 226
Where did God come from? What do the bible stories really tell us? Who or what was Jesus Christ? This audiobook challenges everything we think we know about the nature of religion.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hated it,
- De Troy Sunde en 12-22-22
De: John M. Allegro
Great research. But too hard to listen to.
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