Thrillers are a very strange feature of human culture. They are largely American, but they have roots in old English culture. Much of English literature, even very old literature and folklore, are of dark type akin thrillers.
Some people love thrillers. I experimented with thrillers only a little, but do understand the energizing effect of them. By nature, I dislike thrillers and even action in movies. When I was small, I used to run away from television, when there was something bad happening or about to happen. I couldn't stand scenes of suffering even in benign forms. I clearly stood out of other members of my family and majority of people who I knew. To this day, I do the same: even at very benign scenes of Star Trek, I chose to walk away and to block my hearing with loud happy music from speakers while my ears are additionally blocked by noise canceling headphones. This way I stay in peace loving all. I use to say that I love the humanity, but people interfere with my love.
For same reasons, I avoid watching the news and choose to learn about them from my family and friends. If I need to learn about the current human affairs, I watch "The Daily Show by Jon Stewart, listen to channelers, check out RMN news, Alex Jones and listen to Radio Liberty in Russian.
Most of humans can tolerate news, but many understand that the news are largely distorted and "are not good for you", meaning poison our health. Bulgakov joked: "Don't read Soviet newspapers before lunch", implying the poisoning.
In Soviet Union we were not exposed to Thrillers at all. Our life was a thriller, but our movies were produced by the state and demonstrated out success and heroic past. Movies were supposed to end well and to demonstrate the victory of good (in Soviet interpretation). This censorship and distortion has long roots and was there even at times of Tsar Pavel, some 130 years before the revolution.
By 1987, the border became more transparent and Western movies leaked to Russia with Western video players. This was a beginning of cultural transformation of Russia, largely Americanization of it. Mandelstam sensed this transformation back in 1937: "А теперь в Париже, в Шартре, в Арле государит добрый Чаплин Чарли" (And now kind Charlie Chaplin leads in Paris, Chartres and Arles).
I was strongly influenced by "Once Upon a Time in America", not a thriller, but a movie with much violence to my standards. This is actually a very talented movie, revealing much about America, its history and human nature and even the nature of MIC leaders. Check it out. This is where they are coming from and this is how they think.
Another movie you should check out is "Scent of woman", again, not a thriller. It is good and beautifully explains many things at once: integrity, aggression, mind control and escape from it.
Check out also "Good Will Hunting (1997), not a thriller. It is a less loaded movie, but it depicts well modern youth, mind control in high education, and escape from the mind control.
Back to 1987. My friend's older brother assembled a good collection of thrillers and my friend liked them much. He showed me some of the best ones. I found it difficult to watch them at first, but then was sucked in. I felt the drive and the energy they gave me. The negative violence in the thrillers was far from sense of happiness, but it gave me some sort of liberation. This was purified evil, the death, and it sort of liberated me from the fear of death since there was so much of it, you couldn't fear it much more.
Nonetheless, thrillers are not compatible with me, they made me physically sick and I stayed away from them ever since.
Among movies I like, closest to thrillers is Stalker by Tarkovsky. It has no violence, but it has suspense and implied danger. Nonetheless, the book Picnic on Roadside by Strugatsky brothers and the movie by Tarkovsky based on the book are among best. They talk about the idea of mind control, aliens, spirituality, inner truth, awakening, and even human hybrids and new species of humans appearing. Interesting is that the book and the movie came out long time ago, in 1970s. At the time Strugatskys and Tarkovsky were already aware of many things which humanity has trouble grasping now in 2013. I wonder if Strugatsky brothers and Tarkovsky learned the idea in "2001: A Space Odyssey" move of 1968. Tarkovsky as a movie maker would likely have been exposed to the Space Odyssey, although other people in Russia were blocked from American movies until about 1987.
I don't know what is the mechanism behind the energizing effect of thrillers. Sapolsky would explain this in terms of materialistic neurobiology, but my guess would be that the effect is supernatural. I believe the people become connected to dark energies of destruction and this somehow energizes them. There may be some surge of energy from lower densities. I certainly feel that I don't want to be connected to these energies more than necessary. I realize that we function as multidimensional bodies and part of our design is rooted in lower densities. But I believe, in norm, our bodies of different densities are largely insulated from each other the surge of energy which happens in thrillers is an unhealthy one and it opens channels incorrectly. It is really hard to explain more from the 3d prospective.
I also noted that not all people like thrillers. Some people like them and this says much about these people. I suspect that an astrological design of the people is influencing much their preference for thrillers. Also how much their mind is fragmented, how much of restricted anger do they keep inside. I noticed many times that after I have been subjected to harm physical or mental by others, I was attracted to violence in movies. Watching movies with some action and violence felt pleasant and healing, especially if there was a positive resolution. I don't really know if this was really healing long term, but there was a sense of recovery right away. Also alcohol helped much to tolerate harm done by others and by the system. I stopped using the alcohol because I realized that it messes up my energies. After learning Reiki healing I realized that alcohol is interfering with my healing and self-healing abilities. Even smoking seems to remove some protection and expose me to negative energy influences, so I don't do alcohol and smoking anymore.
On other hand, it really depends on the work, level of trouble and needs. Smoking tobacco certainly helps short term, it increases my attention span and helps tolerate unpleasant work. I used to smoke when writing grant applications: I smoked every time I wrote a grant application. Now, I know better to avoid smoking since it harms me middle term bringing strange sicknesses and disbalancing me, especially when I quit.
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Chapter 13
MIND CONTROL
MIC = military-industrial complex