Changing Images of Man by O. W. Markley and Willis W. Harman (editors)

Changing Images of Man

This is a REPRINT of an exceedingly difficult book to find. 

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Note: This book is a reproduction of the historical text for academic, historical, or collector purposes.

1982 edition printed in 2026

6" x 9" / 255 pages

Book description

By the following staff of and consultants to THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL POLICY/SRI INTERNATIONAL: Joseph Campbell, Duane Elgin, Willis Harman, Arthur Hastings, O. W. Markley, Floyd Matson, Brendan O'Regan, and Leslie Schneider

Changing Images of Man was the culmination of an eight-month study administered by the Urban and Social Systems Division of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Various intellectuals from the fields of social sciences, humanities, engineering and physics collaborated in an attempt to illuminate ways our present society, its citizens, and institutions have been shaped by the underlying myths and images of the past and present.

Within the three hundred page report, the researchers at SRI identified seven different functions of society in which the power of images could be used to acquiesce the population into a state of subservience.

These functions were mainly derived from Joseph Campbell's previous work on mythology and his knowledge of past civilizations. They included: mystical, cosmological, sociological, pedagogical or psychological, editorial, political and magical.

Contained within these 7 functions are the many institutions, government agencies, organizations and groups that serve as authorities in society. While the researchers found the mystical and magical functions to be largely ineffective due to the public's inability to consider the former anything more than superstition, and the latter to be negatively associated with the diminishing power of the church, they did find the other functions worthy of further development.

The research staff at SRI left no stone unturned in their search for ways to inculcate the masses, even considering the viability of telekinesis, bio feedback, telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, hypnosis, subliminal messaging, hallucinogenics and psychotropic drugs.

It is undeniable that prescription drug use exploded in the years immediately following Stanford's report, resulting in some unintended consequences; and these consequences are further being substantiated by an ever growing mountain of corroborating statistical evidence. And now, with the addition of Changing Images of Man as primary source material indicating both intent and motive, it becomes entirely possible that this has been a premeditated, coordinated scheme to drug an entire nation into submission. 

It is interesting that within a decade of publishing the Changing Images of Man, we see the meteoric rise of both Silicon Valley and the world wide web; both originating directly from out of this innocuous private research institute colloquially known as the Farm. Through the use of primary source material, we see the blueprint from which a plan is devised to socially engineer the American public through it's various institutions and agencies, followed by the establishment of the very tools to best facilitate the plan.