Tartaria Decoded: Part 7 - Insane Asylums, Mind RE-PROGRAMMING & Old World Architecture?
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Early in the 19th century, America had essentially no knowledge for treatment of the mentally ill, who were typically housed in prisons or under the insufficient supervision of their relatives. If treatment was given, it was like other therapies used at that period in medicine, such as purgatives and bloodletting.
Since there wasn't much information available at the time on mental health, speculating about it might have even implied dementia. It was simpler to label someone as "mad" or “crazy” than conduct a thorough scientific analysis of them.
The list of reasons why a person could be admitted to a mental asylum were as varied as laziness and even being kicked in the head by a horse. In reality, insane asylums were rather prisons, where patients were content as their families were unwilling or unable to take care of them.
Was there another reason these mental asylums existed? Could they have been used for more than simply housing the lunatics and crazy people of that time? What if some were used to completely reprogram an unsuspecting society? Some online researchers and speculators have developed a theory that these institutions had a darker and more insidious purpose. What do we know about the cultural reset of the 1800’s and the connection to insane asylums?
Worldwide, some of the most architecturally notable insane asylums include The Bethlem Royal Hospital Britain, also known as Bedlam. Ipswich Hospital, Australia, for the Insane. Danvers State Lunatic Asylum, in Massachusetts and Agnews Residential Facility in California, to name a few.
Unknown diseases could have contributed to some people’s so-called insanity as well. In addition to the fact that many people claimed to descend from an ancient kingdom, which for part of society indoctrinated by a questionable narrative, this was a "clear sign of madness".
It is taken for granted that, at the beginning and throughout the 1800's, there was no clear consensus of what "mental health" was or should be. So, we can assume that "being a healthy person" was limited to acting according to the norms of social behavior. This is what most understood as "not being crazy".
By the end of the 19th century, national systems of regulated asylums for the mentally ill had been established in most industrialized countries. At the turn of the century, Britain and France combined had only a few hundred people in asylums, but by the end of the century this number had risen to the hundreds of thousands. The United States housed 150,000 patients in mental hospitals by 1904. Germany housed more than 400 public and private sector asylums. These asylums were critical to the evolution of psychiatry as they provided places of practice throughout the world.
Doctors, and especially ordinary people, did not understand what caused erratic or manic behaviors. So, there was no way to differentiate a person who really represented a danger to himself and society from one who had something different, and it would not be a medical issue. What if some people’s insanity was simply a misdiagnosis of a distant memory of a previous society? Could these people have been re-programmed to forget about their past?
Mental asylums were at first a kindness to protect the sick from the world that would otherwise kill them.
Within the theory of the Cultural Reset of the 1800's, we find that many of the asylums that were around the world and that would house all those who did not "follow social norms", used to be, in the remote past, buildings of a previous empire.