By Artour Rakhimov

National security agencies perform many exceptionally important and useful social functions, including protection of airports, chemical, bacteriological, viral and other weapons, including nuclear bombs and explosives, transportation, factories, etc. These are the activities which the agents themselves are proud about and will not mind their recording for future. This paper addresses the psychological roots of those activities of some agents, which they try to hide even from their colleagues, and which traces are never found even in their own classified literature. Hiring and work in many national security agencies is influenced by social implications attached to the notion of secrecy or secrecy forever, and practically, can be expressed as a “hiding villain” effect, when the unconscious goal of the agent is to get involved in such activities and situations so that to generate the need to hide from other people later and live in constant fear.

Q: During the process of recruitment of a new agent, he is informed that in case of hiring, his activities and many other parameters of his life would be “secret forever”. What are the possible reactions of the new agent?

A: Since the NSAs (national security agencies) are searching for smart, educated, and gifted people, who normally have some aspirations or even life ambitions, this idea of secrecy forever can produce strong emotions since the past life plans are now to be changed. Likely, many agents would experience emotional torments or angst when making a choice to join the NSA.

Existence of emotional angst indicates that there is something else, on a deeper level, going on. In normal situations, when there is nothing to be fearful about or when people experience or find something positive or emotionally uplifting (mutual love, great job, winning a contest, making a discovery, creating amazing pieces of arts, etc.) there are no psychological torments, just a pure uninhibited thrill. Hence, presence, degree, and duration of the angst in the agent can tell us something about unconscious decision of the agent to have such goals and behaviour so that they will result in fear.

If the angst is present, it is likely that the agent makes a shift from the previous life plans/ideas/projects (with the socially useful goal to excel in sciences, business, arts, hobbies, etc.), to a new mode of behaviour based on historico-social perception of secrecy. There are many components in this spiritual change: for example, past aspirations were based on win-win outcomes (so that both he and others would benefit from his accomplishments in science, art, business, sports, social work, etc.); the new aspirations of the agent would relate to modern popular implications attached to understanding of secrecy.

Q: What would be the new ruling principles for these agents?

A: This depends on degree of angst, modern popular perception of secrecy, wisdom of the agent to feel or see it, confidence of the people who hire him, and many other factors. Modern social life, movies (e.g., Star Wars, westerners, and suspense movies), ancient Greek stories, and most other sources provide situations where secrecy is usually a feature of villains, scoundrels, liars, etc. with corresponding behaviour. Thus, during an ordinary life, a person hears thousands of stories about this type of secrecy and little about positive secrecy in a spiritual sense. (Secrecy related to technological processes, which is normal in science, corporations, patenting, finances, military affairs, etc., is not discussed here.)

Q: Are there many spiritually positive examples of secrecy?

A: They are exceptionally rare. There were some stories, popular during Soviet times, about some Soviet pioneers, about 12-14 years old school boys, who would secretly visit others with special intentions. They would choose, for example, an elderly woman, who had no one to help her and secretly weed her garden or chop her wood, and disappear so that she would not be able to see them near her house. Hence, there are people and behaviours when a person does something good to another and the doer does not seek any rewards and even withdraws so that the receiver of goodness does not know whom to thank. It is also a stunning example of personal modesty and good will.

Sometimes, rich people can provide anonymous donations, but (often?) these people could be driven by guilt or shame about the methods of getting those riches. Volunteers are usually on the surface (they get public attention) so their situations are different. Hiding Jews during WW2 genocide had some similarities in relation to secrecy for the outside world, but the Jews of course knew their saviours. Hence, we see that generally positive secrecy is exceptionally rare personal quality or trait. Some situations among family members do have some similarities, for example, when parents prepare a Christmas gift for a child “blaming” Santa Claus later.

Q: What are modern or popular implications of secrecy?

A: Traditional secrecy is associated with hiding from other people due to some unpleasant or negative motives, e.g., crimes, theft, revolutionary plots to take power, avoidance of responsibility (with fear and guilt), etc. Possibly, there are many other groups of people (some sects, Jesuits?) who were also developing in similar conditions, as secret agents, after accepting a special Oath that includes secrecy elements. It could be interesting then to study what are the effects of this factor (“secrecy forever game”) on their behaviour. Hence, the modern social norms imply that secrecy belongs to villains (or scoundrels).

Q: When the new agents are hired, what happens next?

A: The supervisors are likely to emphasize other aspects of the job: special nature, vicious enemies, availability of huge info about the society, technological discoveries, etc. These factors and their emphasis on secrecy, without dealing with the implied public perception of secrecy, trigger the unconscious program of behaviour that is based on social dogmas and attitudes. Hence, the new agent, by default, can take these popular standards of own future actions for granted. Presence of emotional angst is the direct and clear confirmation that the new pre-programmed behaviour is in action. Let me call this situation the HV (hiding villain) effect. Obviously, it is not the huge amount of technical stuff, or super knowledge but spiritual implications which will shape the future of the agents and their ability to deal with real life challenges.

Any signs of suspicion, mistrust, or discomfort from the to-be-hired candidate would be understood as hostility or unsuitability for the job, although the roots of this psychological discomfort are in the HV effect. Hence, only “suitable” candidates, who were socially programmed by the HV effect, are accepted as new secret agents. Moreover, if there are pathological scoundrels or villains, they can experience enthusiasm and zeal when the rules of the game (“secrecy forever”) are explained. The interviewer then may get an impression that this candidate is most suitable. Hence, hiring new agents can become a game: fishing for scoundrels and villains.

Hence, in future, the minds of agents unconsciously choose such behaviour so that it would indeed be necessary and sensible for them to hide from people around them. This idea “you are to remain secret forever” is another initial situational factor that drives the agents in certain direction, disregarding their initial differences and personal traits.

Q: Is it possible to analyze the HV effect mentally or in practical settings?

A: One may consider various relevant scenarios. What would be the likely spiritual developments of the agent, if he is told during the process of hiring and/or informed later?

Scenario 1. “Everything that you do, who you are, your real name, relatives, etc. will be forever unknown to others, even to future agents. You will have full and absolute protection.”

Scenario 2. “Everything that you do will be video recorded for future purposes (for other agents to learn from and our internal purposes). However, you will be physically totally protected: your name, whereabouts, relatives, etc. will be forever unknown to others, even to future agents. You may even later get an identity of the some deceased person. Thus, everything that is done by the person on this particular position will be either the pride, or shame, or so-so of the agency and our nation”?

Scenario 1 is obviously based on theatrical melodramatism since it is implied that the current inventors of the secrecy-forever idea have such super-brains that they are able to predict all future historical developments and know what will be secret in future.

These are probably 2 extremes, while the life can offer many other variations since, likely, NSAs of different countries use different approaches and it could be interesting to investigate the relationship between these typical initial words and future behaviour of the agents. This paper suggests that there is an effect of sensitive dependence in initial conditions.

Q: Which activities will be normal for the “hiding villain”?

A: The HV effect robs the agents from these goals providing them with goals that are typical for scoundrels and villains. Hence, they unconsciously accept similar standards, pastime, and pleasures. It can be expected then that instead of having meaningful life and be in control, the agents, in the psychological or spiritual area, become “free artists” where goal is to have entertainment (if nobody watches and salary is flowing, why not to relax?). The objects and subjects of the entertainment will be other people, various human groups, machinery, electrical and mechanical devices, helicopters, planes, drugs, poisons, viruses, toxins, sleep deprivation, theft and manipulation of electronic communication, emotions and feelings of others, their health, jobs, housing, families, social isolation, or everything which the agents can reach within their territorial area, plus some extracurricular activities, or activities outside the own territory.

It would be a daily mental challenge for the agents to generate such fantasies and act accordingly so that it would be necessary to hide from other people and live in fear in the future. If there is no fear, then there is no need to hide. Hence, formation of fear, at least on unconscious level, is a necessary factor of the HV effect and corresponding actions.

Dr. Artour Rakhimov (http://www.normalbreathing.com) is one of the leading world experts in self-oxygenation, breathing and the Buteyko oxygenation medical therapy. He is the author of books and the educational website http://www.normalbreathing.com devoted to natural self-oxygenation, breathing education and breathing retraining.

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