How does mass hysteria produce permanent insanity?
When you read the full text of Dr. Cook’s book you see that a variety of psychiatric symptoms appear once the men were forced into the protection of the stranded ship by the Antarctic cold. This is the seminal event to show that depression is an outcome of exposure to Subliminal Distraction. When many men are confined in a too-small space such as barracks, large tents, lumber camp bunkhouses, or aboard small ships they will create the ” special circumstances” for exposure from Subliminal Distraction. All that is necessary is for one person to work on anything requiring concentration to the point of slight dissociation while others move in their peripheral vision. Daydreaming is enough mental investment to allow exposure. Brain scan research done in 2002 at the University of Georgia found a common defect in the M-Channel for vision for Schizophrenics and their close relatives. That defect was hyperactivity. This might be the reason that some are seriously effected while others have litt