The original post: /r/ufos by /u/Crazy_Jacket4253 on 2025-01-04 11:08:03.
Coming from someone that have experienced severe mental challenges: mind control might feel real, but nor have I seen or experienced any conclusive proof that it’s possible against your own free will.
So I thought about it and I decided to chip in here sharing my personal experience that might be somewhat relevant to this topic. Now, I’ll give some context but leave a lot of details off because I only want to make a point based on what’s relevant to this topic.
Background: From the NL - Parents divorced when I was 1,5 - mother troubled with serious mental health issues like Schizophrenia - Because of this I have been seriously mentally neglected and abused by her throughout my whole childhood - In my adolescence started to hang out with (however good people) the wrong friends on the streets - Started smoking marihuana at 15 till ~23 - Because of this combined with stress from my study at that point, I got stuck in a Psychosis (non-recurring as of now) - After recovering from that and after quitting cold-turkey on drugs I got depressed and suicidal - After recovering from that I’ve decided to turn around my life 180 degrees and I’ve been dedicated to building on my mental strength ever since. I’m 32 years old now, clean for almost 10 years, over 5 years in a stable relationship and as of recently bought our first house.
Now, because the last thing on earth that will happen to me is falling back on drugs when I’m over-stressed, I was forced to look for alternatives that are more constructive. This is where the “Gateway experience” came around the corner, which is tight to the Monroe institute.
First of all: because unfortunately half of my genes are from my mother, I have never been diagnosed with anything (and I have been mangled by the system, lol), but however, I do have a higher risk in certain spectra of “the mental health chart”, like being sensitive to addiction, paranoia and anxiety.
That being said, in order to like recover from stress in a more constructive way, I have been using the principles of the gateway experience for almost a year. And despite me being slightly more sensitive to the mental health aspect as stated above, I have never ever experienced something explained as in the twitter posts above. To me, it has just been a very good way to get back in touch with your self, to ground yourself in the here and now and to seriously relax every cell in your body on almost a meditative way. I can even state that it feels slightly spiritual as well in a way. But I have never ever found any hard evidence for myself that I can for example “remote view” a cipher combination in a sealed enveloppe where there is no way I can possibly know the combination of, for example. Neither have people I know to have done it for months and neither has anyone on the internet shown me conclusive prove it is possible.
I mean, “who knows?”, right? But in my experience, that’s not really what the gateway experience is about. In my experience, it’s about restoring or creating a deeper connection to your soul and it’s place in ,,space”, by learning to ,,shut down” the senses of your body so you can truly experience how the soul is tied to a deeper form of connection keeping our shared place and reality in this universe together. In my experience, it’s extremely special, and in a way necessary to be aware of it’s existence, but not in any way about mind control or what more.
I do understand how this can feel like it is for people that experience a high level of stress or feel slightly mentally unstable. I mean, whatever feeling or idea you can create in your mind is more powerful then any argument or even fact for that matter. As long as your feelings absolutely 100% back up the ideas or thoughts you are creating for yourself, regardless if they’re factual or not. And I do not reproduce this as an outsider BS, I have literally been there myself, to a point I literally lost my mind and to a point that I literally almost killed myself out of desperation.
Now, one might counter-argument that while I was in the gateway, whatever higher entity decided for me that at this point in time, this would be the maximum experience I would be able to handle, and I had to quit on a high note. Granted, I am open to most things so that might be the case. At the same time, having explained my experience above, I would just only want to ask you to take into consideration my point of view in this recent events and claims about “being mind controlled”. If your counter-argument is a possibility, my argument above surely should be one as well.
Lastly: I want to emphasize that people that are in a challenging place mentally, are not always ,,crazy”. Like I said, I haven’t been diagnosed with Schizophrenia like my mother, not even in my most vulnerable moments back then, however, there is that kind of “place in my head” as I call it, that I can feel being there that absolutely gives recognition of what my mother experience during “episodes” of her schizophrenia, as well I can relate to total strangers being troubled by it. These people are not always crazy. It’s important to not fuel their irrational parts by plain conformation but at the same time it is equally important not to dismiss their beliefs every single time, because like I explained from their perspective it’s not their “idea” you’re dismissing, but their feelings backing it up in (from their perspective) the most convincing way. Imagine your whole social circle doing that to you every time. It would make it necessary for you to re-arrange the very foundation of your believe-system over and over again to a point you’d never be able to create a healthy “equilibrium” between what’s “factual” and what’s “believable”.