No Joe, "mind control techniques" does not mean anything you want it to mean and while there may not be an Oxford dictionary definition the phrase does not mean "any kind of mental filter and (sic) either ignores or devalues information that doubts the revered truth."As to the point you were really making: Couldn't have said it better myself except for the comment "Schizophrenic, to say the least". The public deceptions in which Elan Vital, it's associated organisations and it's members are involved in have nothing whatsoever to do with schizophrenia even if you were using the slang meaning of split personality.