“We no longer want to be freed”
…An Experiment in Releasing the Chthonic Mind
The following account chronicles a true experiment
conducted in the late 1940′s. It contains brutality, violence, and
extremely graphic depictions of self mutilation.
The experiment was designed to see what would happen if the human mind were kept awake for extended periods of time. The experimenters wanted to release the most depraved and debased aspect of consciousness, the chthonic mind.
Reader discretion is advised.
Soviet researchers from the late 1940s kept
five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental
gas structured stimulant. They were kept in a sealed environment to
carefully observe their oxygen intake so the Nikolayev gas didn’t kill
them, since it was toxic in large concentrations. This has
been before the existence of closed circuit cameras therefore they had
only microphones and 5 inch thick glass porthole sized windows into
the holding chamber to monitor and keep track of them. The holding
chamber was stocked with various publications, cots to sleep on but no
bedding, running water and toilet, and adequate dried food to last all
five for upwards of a month.
These test subjects were political prisoners deemed as enemies of the soviet state during The second world war.
Protected Entrance to The Experimentation Chambers
The First Five Days
Everything was running smoothly with the sleep
experiment; the subjects hardly complained having been
promised (falsely) that they would be freed if they submitted to the
test and did not sleep for experimented days.
Their interactions and routines were monitored and it was noted that
they continued to discuss increasingly traumatic incidents they’ve
experienced in their past, and the overall tone in their
conversations took on a darker aspect following the 4 day mark.
After five days they started to protest concerning
their circumstances and events contributing to where they were being
held and all commenced to show signs of intense paranoia.
They ceased conversing with one another and began instead to
whispering to the the microphones and their one way mirrored portholes.
Oddly all of them appeared to think they could win the trust of the
experimenters by snitching over , the other subjects in captivity with
them. At first the researchers suspected that this was indeed as result
of the experimental gas itself…
The Ninth Day
The first of them started off screaming. He
ran along the chamber consistently screaming at the top of his lungs
for Three hours without pause, he continued attempting to scream but was
only capable of producing infrequent squeaks. The
researchers postulated that he had physically tattered his vocal
cords. Probably the most surprising thing about this behavior is how the
other captives reacted to it… or rather didn’t react to it whatsoever.
They carried on whispering to the microphones up until thesecond of the
captives started to screaming. The 2 non-screaming captives took the
books apart, smeared page after page with their own feces and pasted
them calmly over the glass portholes. The screaming promptly ceased. So
did the whispering to the microphones. The Porthole windows have became
un-viewable.
The Twelfth Day
The researchers checked the microphones hourly to
make certain they were working, since they thought it was not
possible that no sound could be coming with 5 people on the inside. The
oxygen intake in the holding chamber indicated that all 5 must still
be alive. The fact is, it had been the volume of oxygen 5 people would
consume at a very heavy amount of strenuous exercise. On the early
morning of the 14th day the study did something they said to the
prisoners that they would not do. In order to obtain some sort
of reaction from the captives, they used the intercom inside the
chamber, aiming to trigger any kind reply from the captives that they
were afraid were either dead or vegetables. They declared: “We
are opening up the chamber to test the microphones step away from the
door and lie flat on the ground or else you will be shot. Consent will
earn one of you your immediate freedom.” To their surprise they heard
but a single phrase in a very quiet voice response:
“We no longer want to be freed.”
Debate broke out among the research workers and
the military forces funding the study. Not able to provoke any
more replies via intercom The Researchers had finally decided to open
the chamber at midnight on the fifteenth day.
Fifteenth Day | Midnight
The chamber was purged from the Nikolayev gas
and filled with fresh air and instantly voices from the microphones
had begun to object. 3 different voices began pleading, as though they
were begging for the life of loved ones to turn the gas back on.
The chamber was opened and soviet soldiers sent in to retrieve the test
subjects. They started screaming louder than ever before, and thus did
the soldiers when they had the chance to see what was on the inside.
Four of the five subjects remained alive, despite the
fact that nobody could rightly call the state of the test subjects as
‘living. ‘ The food rations past day 5 hadn’t been so much as touched.
There was chunks of meat from the deceased test subject’s upper thighs
and chest stuffed into the drain down the middle of the chamber,
obstructing the drain and allowing 4 inches of water to amass on to the
floor. Exactly how much of the water on the floor was actually blood
never was determined.
All four ’surviving’ Russian Sleep experiment subjects
also had significant portions of muscle tissue and epidermis torn far
from their bodies. The destruction of flesh and exposed bone on the
subject’s finger tips revealed that the wounds were inflicted manually
by hand, not with teeth as the research workers initially considered.
Closer study of the position and angles of the wounds
revealed that most if not all all of them were self-inflicted. The
abdominal organs underneath the ribcage of all four test subjects have
been removed. While the heart, lungs and diaphragm stayed in place, the
skin and the majority of the muscle tissue attached to the rib cage had
been ripped off, exposing the lungs in the ribcage.
All the arteries and internal organs remained intact,
they had just been removed and laid on the floor, fanning out about the
eviscerated but still living bodies of the subjects. The digestive tract
of all four could be seen to be working, digesting food. It quickly
became apparent that what they were digesting was their very own flesh
that they had ripped off and eaten throughout the course of days and
nights.
Most of the soldiers were Soviet special operatives in
the facility, but still many refused to revisit the chamber to remove
the test subjects. They carried on to scream to be left inside the
chamber and alternately begged and demanded that the gas be turned back
on, lest they fall asleep… To everybody’s surprise the test subjects put
up a fierce fight while being taken out of the chamber. Among the
Soviet soldiers, one perished from getting his neck punctured by a test
subject, another was gravely injured by having his testicles ripped off
and an artery in his leg severed by one of the subject’s teeth.
In total: 5 of the soldiers, following the incident
took their own lives after being witness to their comrade’s deaths. In
the struggle one of the four living subjects had his spleen ruptured and
he bled out almost immediately. The medical researchers tried to sedate
him but this proved impossible. He was injected with serum DMT using
more than ten times the human dose of a morphine derivative and still
fought like a cornered animal, kicking to breaking the ribs and arm of
one doctor. When heart was seen to beat for a full two minutes after
he’d bled out to the point there was more air in his vascular system
than blood. Even after it stopped he continued to scream and flail for
an additional 3 minutes, struggling to attacking anyone in reach and
just repeating the word “MORE” repeatedly, weaker and weaker, until he
finally fell silent.
The remaining three test subjects were heavily
restrained and transferred to a medical facility, the two with intact
vocal cords continuously begging for the Nikolayev gas demanding to be
kept awake…By far the most seriously injured of the three was taken to
the only surgical operating room that the facility had.
In the process of preparing the subject to have his
internal organs placed back within his body it turned out that he was
effectively immune to the sedative they’d given for him to prepare him
for his surgery. He struggled furiously against his restraints once the
anesthetic gas was brought out to put him under. He managed to tear the
majority of the way through the 4 inch wide leather strap on one wrist,
even with the bodyweight of a 200 pound soldier holding that wrist as
well. It took merely a little more anesthetic than normal to put him
under, and the instant his eyelids fluttered and closed, his heart
stopped.
In the autopsy of the test subject that deceased on
the operating table it was discovered that his blood had triple the
normal level of oxygen. His muscle tissue which were still attached to
his skeleton were badly torn and he had broken 9 bones in his fight to
not be subdued. Most of them were from the force that his own muscles
had exerted on them.
The second survivor was the very first of the group of
five to start screaming. His vocal cords messed up he was unable to beg
and resist surgery, and he only reacted by shaking his head violently
in disapproval once the anesthetic gas was brought near him. He shook
his head yes when somebody suggested, hesitantly, they try the surgical
procedure without anesthetic, and did not react for the whole 6 hour
operation of replacing his abdominal organs and attempting to cover them
with what remained of his skin. The surgeon presiding stated repeatedly
that it should be clinically feasible for the affected prisoner to be
alive.
One terrified nurse assisting the surgery stated that
she saw the patients lips curl into a grin several times, whenever his
eyes met hers. Once the surgery ended the subject looked over at the
surgeon and began to wheeze loudly, attempting to speak while
struggling. Assuming this must be something of drastic importance the
surgeon had a pen and pad fetched so the patient might write down his
message.
It was simple. “Keep cutting.” The other two test
subjects received the same surgery, both without anesthetic as well.
Although they had to be injected with a paralytic for the duration of
the operation. The surgeon found it extremely hard to execute the
operation as the patients laughed continuously. Once paralyzed the
subjects might only follow the attending researchers with their eyes.
The paralytic cleared their system within an
extraordinarily short period of time and were soon looking to escape
their bonds. As soon as they could speak again, they were again
requesting the stimulant gas. The study attempted at asking why they had
seriously injured themselves, why they had ripped out their very own
guts and why they wanted to be given the gas again. Merely one response
was given: “I must remain awake.”
The three subject’s restraints were reinforced and
they were placed back into the chamber awaiting conviction in regards to
what ought to be done with them. The researchers, facing the wrath from
their military ‘benefactors’ for having failed the stated goals of the
project considered euthanizing the remaining subjects. The commanding
official, an ex-KGB instead saw potential, and wanted to see what can
happen if they be put back on the gas.
The study strongly objected, but were overruled.
In preparation for being sealed in the holding chamber
again, the subjects were connected to an EEG monitor and had their
restraints padded for long term confinement. To everyone’s surprise the
three stopped their struggling as soon as it had been let slip that they
are to be going back on the gas. It was obvious that at this point all
three were putting up a great struggle to stay conscious.
One of subjects that could talk was humming loudly and
consistently; the mute subject was straining his legs against the
leather bonds with all his might, first left, then right, then left
again for something to concentrate on. The remaining subject was holding
his head off his pillow and blinking rapidly. Having been the first to
be wired for EEG most of the researchers were overseeing his brain waves
in surprise. They were normal more often than not but sometimes flat
lined inexplicably. It looked as if he were repeatedly suffering brain
death, before going back to normal.
As they focused entirely on the paper scrolling out of
the brainwave monitor only one nurse observed his eyes slip shut at the
same moment his head hit the pillow. His brainwaves immediately changed
to that of deep sleep, then flatlined for the last time as his heart
simultaneously stopped.
The sole remaining subject that could talk started
screaming to be sealed in now. His brainwaves showed exactly the same
flat-lines as one who had just died from falling asleep. The commander
gave an order to seal the holding chamber with the two subjects on the
inside, as well as 3 researchers.
One of the named three immediately drew his gun and
shot the commander point blank between the eyes, then turned the gun on
the mute subject and shot his as well… He pointed his gun on the
remaining subject, still restrained to a bed as the leftover members of
the medical and research team fled the area.
“I will not locked in here with these things! Not with
you!” he screamed at the man strapped to the table. “WHAT ARE YOU?” he
demanded. “I have to know!” The subject smiled. “Have you forgotten so
easily?” The subject asked. “We are you. We’re the chaos that exists
within you all, begging to be free at every moment in your deepest
animal mind. We have been that which you hide from in your beds every
night. We’re what you sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to
the nocturnal haven where we cannot tread.”
The researcher paused. Then aimed towards the
subject’s heart and fired. The EEG flat-lined whilst the subject weakly
choked out.
The Chthonic mind is the part of human
consciousness that is released when we do not sleep. It is powerful,
uncontrolled, and extremely violent. It yearns to be free and is
restrained by the events of our daily lives. When our lives are
disrupted, abused, and controlled to extreme levels, this part of the
mind can erupt. A very important part of our spiritual work resides in
evolution that works to restrain and secure the Chthonic mind so that is
does not take over the body, and eventually the soul. It is the true
source of insanity. In this way, we all share the same struggle against
the night. In this way, as in many others, we are one.
Dr. Mitchell Gibson is the author of The Enlightened Perspective. He is the
bestselling author of Your Immortal Body of Light, Nine Insights for a Happy and Successful Life, and The Human Body of Light. Gibson received his medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed his residency training at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. More than
3.4 million people have downloaded his YouTube videos and millions of people have visited his website http://www.tybro.com The Enlightened Perspective was launched in late January 2013 and in a few short months has grown to attract almost 200,000 views.
3.4 million people have downloaded his YouTube videos and millions of people have visited his website http://www.tybro.com The Enlightened Perspective was launched in late January 2013 and in a few short months has grown to attract almost 200,000 views.
