In the maze of online forums, Reddit threads, Facebook groups, Discord servers and conspiracy-laden Youtube videos, one term surfaces repeatedly: gang stalking. But what most people encounter when they search for it is not clarity—it's confusion. Terms like V2K (Voice-to-Skull), DEW (Directed Energy Weapons), and RNM (Remote Neural Monitoring) along with "spiritual warfare" (demons; Satan; good vs evil) dominate these spaces, painting a sci-fi horror fantasy of invisible weapons, brain-reading satellites, and demonic interventions.

Yet the true picture is far more grounded—and far more disturbing.

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These narratives serve a purpose: to discredit, destabilize, and hide a real psychological warfare program built on protocols for surveillance, behavioral control, and manipulation of social environments. Not spiritual punishment. Not futuristic tech. Just modern cognitive warfare disguised as divine judgment, behavior modification, or psychological "experimentation" rooted in social control. The targeting group is seemingly studying and profiling targets for various forms of manipulation.

Behind the fog of disinformation lies something terrifying: a psychological warfare protocol engineered for trauma-based control, operating from targets reactions to stimuli. This article explores it all in eight short and relevant parts, trying to attend to various aspects of targeting found online. Part I: Online Misinformation as Cover for Offline Crimes

When a target discovers the term "gang stalking," it's typically after months or years of harassment, sabotage, betrayal, and inexplicable social events. They turn to the internet for answers and are immediately met with an overwhelming wave of extreme claims: energy beams, telepathic torment, and demonic warfare.

This is not a mistake. It is a deliberate tactic—a disinformation campaign designed to:

        Overload the target's pattern recognition system

    Make the public dismiss the target as delusional

    Prevent deeper investigation into the actual perpetrators


  

Online forums and support groups are weaponized echo chambers. Although they claim to support targeted individuals (TIs), many are seeded with disinformation agents, shills, perpetrators, bots, or manipulated narratives that blend reality with fiction until no clear truth remains. This is informational camouflage.

The aim is also to create distrust among the community members and gatekeep the disinformation by attacking (ganging up) those who counter the narrative of sci-fi weapons or spiritual attacks. Majority of online members are "fake" and most online information is "cooked" by the targeting group and perpetrators who follow protocols. Part II: Protocol, Not Paranoia

Gang stalking is not a crime of passion or a fringe conspiracy. It is a distributed protocol: a structured system of harassment executed through existing societal infrastructure.

Core tactics include:

        Synchronization and synchronicity of stimuli (colors, gestures, word, vehicles, events, sound cues)

    Sensitization through Pavlovian conditioning

    Constant surveillance via smart tech, mobile devices, and online activity

    Covert sabotage of employment, housing, relationships, and finances

    Collaboration between public-private partnerships (e.g., InfraGard)

    Weaponization of psychiatry and stigma to label targets as mentally ill


  

It is not revenge. It is not personal. It is scripted, impersonal, and data-driven. Its purpose is psychological disintegration, not rehabilitation. The targeting main method is to capture the attention and focus on whatever the target is focusing on, and use it in various psychological operations. Part III: Why "They Want You to React—Then Ignore It"

The strategy is layered.

First, targets are provoked into hyperreactivity. They're pushed to confront, film, protest, or document their harassment. This serves multiple functions:

        Testing how long a mind can withstand covert trauma

    Provoking erratic behavior for documentation

    Undermining credibility in public and private spheres


  

Then, when the target uncovers the term "gang stalking" and begins searching online, they encounter a second wave: "Just ignore it. Don't react."

This is the "pacification protocol": a psychological operation disguised as spiritual advice, this creates docility and submission to authority behind targeting. Some targets are even told to spiritually surrender, frame their abuse as a divine test, or detach completely, and then give up on control of their life, their perception and their mind.

Perpetrators (often civilians) then reinforce this message, online and offline, advising the target to "let it go" or "turn the other cheek," even as the target suffers job loss, betrayal, financial ruin, or health collapse. But this only shifts the experiment to a new phase: measuring the effectiveness of trauma-based control in the absence of direct stimuli.

Ignoring is not resistance—it's part of the conditioning protocol.

It is trauma-based mind control. Attention capture is the goal, because wherever attention goes, behavior and thought patterns follow. And the targeting group wants targets to "forget it ever happened" when becoming aware of the targeting protocols online. They try to "cover it up" in many ways: fear from energy weapons, "friendly" advice, insanity claim ("you look insane if complaining") and alike. Part IV: False Moral and Spiritual Framing

One of the most insidious aspects of this program is how it reframes abuse as something noble or spiritual. Victims are told their suffering is:

        A divine test

    Karma or penance

    A form of spiritual refinement - in other words, behavior modification

    Punishment for sins or "wrongdoing"

    A "reborn" period after being traumatized and destroyed psychologically, financially and otherwise


  

This narrative trains the victim to internalize guilt and self-blame, which prevents them from critically assessing the real, systemic, and intentionally engineered nature of their suffering. It converts trauma into theology. Like Biblical figures were persecuted and traumatized, and "refined by fire". Part V: Social Recruitment and Obedience

Perpetrators aren't secret agents. They're everyday people:

        Neighbors

    Family, partners and relatives

    Friends and ex-friends

    Coworkers and strangers

    Social and medical workers

    Staff members


  

They are recruited through psychological manipulation:

        Obedience to authority (as demonstrated by the Milgram Experiment)

    Deceptive claims that the target is dangerous, unstable, or criminal

        The target is a criminal, pedophile, extremist, or mentally unstable

    Incentives like money, status, group belonging, or moral superiority

    Indoctrination into civilian watch programs or moral crusades

        Their involvement is part of a “community watch”, "community policing" or behavioral “intervention".

        They're doing something patriotic or spiritually necessary.


  

This tactic of false framing allows perpetrators to dehumanize the target—making abuse feel like justice or duty rather than oppression. This is how a civilian network becomes a covert enforcement arm of control protocols. It is all unethical and illegal but protected by the government Part VI: The Real Mind Control: Confusion and Collapse

This program isn't designed to hypnotize or control behavior through implants or tech. It works by breaking the psyche through sustained trauma and manufactured confusion.

Core methods include:

        Inducing fear and confusion through persistent low-level sabotage

    Breaking trust in personal relationships

    Creating meaning from chaos (pareidolia, apophenia)

    Introducing absurd explanations that prevent coherent analysis (sci-fi; demons)

    Reciting private or intimate knowledge in public to drive paranoia

    Using religious narratives to obscure human systems of control


  

This is 5th Generation Warfare (5GW): no bombs, no uniforms, no front lines. The battlefield is perception. It uses the brain's natural pattern recognition to exert covert "harassment". Part VII: A Program with Phases

        Initiation (covert and profiling stage) – Silent profiling begins well before overt signs. Friends, family, coworkers, landlords, even therapists may be compromised. Trust is buílt among family and friends months or years before any overt targeting starts. In reality, the social network is trained inn advance to comply and do small acts of "surveillence" believing it's for the good of the target, probably watching for behavioral or psychological change. Most likely, are never told about any overt targeting awaiting the target.

    Sensitization (covert and stimuli stage) – Repetitive cues are used to condition the target to react with anxiety or fear. These cues become triggers. The target is manipulated in secret by proxy, creating difficult life situations and this leads to sensitivity to stimuli over time.

    Exposure (overt and paranoid stage) – The target becomes aware of stalking, surveillance, and social sabotage. It usually starts after a large, traumatic event sometime engineered in a target's life where the target "acts out." It is typically when paranoia, confusion and fear is very high.

    Destabilization (overt and confusion stage) – Any efforts to resist or seek help are used to further discredit and isolate the target by social network, and dismissal of obvious targeting stimuli. Systemic gaslighting, synchronicity events and constant claim of "mental illness" following mimicry, unfair treatment, sabotage and various forms of manipulation. What target writes or says is illegally gathered by spying and used by perpetrators in directed conversation to induce paranoia and to provocate reactions. Target feels gross violation of privacy at home, at work and even in public. This further the trauma creation over time. Some targets are led to the mental hospital (diagnosis of mental illness), prison (from a violent crime) or grave (suicide or murder by confrontation) before finding out the name of the protocol.

    Disinformation Phase (discovery and disorientation stage) – The target discovers the concept of "gang stalking", but falls into online rabbit holes. Many platforms are seeded with spiritual narratives (e.g., "Chosen Ones") or faux-activism (e.g., "Targeted Justice" is now a spiritual hub of "Chosen Heroes" and the Bible) that blur real analysis with moral fiction. The target is mislead about what targeting is aiming to do, and claiming the target is "special" to be abused and traumatized; target belives it did something "wrong"; or is simply mentally ill by observing other "mentally ill targets" who actually are perpetrators pretending the insanity perception - and it also dehumanies the target. Target does not know what is real and what is fake - developes cognitive dissonance. Science fiction weapons narratives are used to put out fear and paranoia while at the same making everyone sound mentally ill. A lot of research is done online and the target becomes docile from the disinformation overload.

    Pacification or Breakdown (overload and realization stage) – The target either collapses mentally or retreats into spiritual bypassing, detaching from reality under the guise of ascension. Or simply by exhaustion or fear from the "state with energy weapons". There are many perpetrators online spreading alarms about being attacked which shows what could happen if a target goes against the targeting group. This further creates paranoia and trauma as no one is safe, not even at home where the weapons can reach. It births docility and passivity either by submission to God, state or survival instinct. The target is led to become passive, and non-violent to forget the targeting ever happened. But this is often impossible since life is often in ruins and revenge against the targeting group is on the menu.

    Continued Surveillance (irritation stage) – Even after withdrawal, the target's responses are logged, studied, and adjusted to test long-term behavioral impact. The target is aware and tries to live a worthy life being irritated by targeting stimuli but give no reactions.


  

Part VIII: Why Your Reaction is the Key; the Trigger They Need

Lastly, to emphasize: one of the most insidious components of gang stalking as a psychological warfare protocol is its dependence on the target's own behavior to escalate the operation. This is not simply harassment—it’s entrapment by design. The system is structured so that without your reaction, they cannot move forward with formal intervention, psychiatric labeling, or legal capture.

The strategy is not just to watch you—it’s to provoke you. Every seemingly minor act of stalking, noise harassment, sabotage, or social manipulation is behavioral bait (and entrapment) that should lead to acting out (provocation). These operations are designed to destabilize you emotionally and mentally until you lash out, report it, or seek help from the wrong source.

Why?

Because your reaction becomes their pretext. It supports a narrative used to (illegally) investigate and surveil the target:

        If you yell at someone: they say you’re unstable.

    If you film people in public: they say you’re paranoid or dangerous.

    If you complain to a therapist or doctor: you’re labeled delusional.

    If you go to the police: your report is dismissed as schizophrenic paranoia.


  

The point is not to help you. The point is to get you to incriminate yourself—socially, medically, or legally. Targeting group studies the reactions and behavior from the stimuli done. Therefore, they must be "invited" or "provoked" to justify retaliation. Whether that’s a metaphorical framework or part of a psychological warfare doctrine, the pattern remains:

They need you to make the first move. They document by your reaction.

That might mean:

        Reacting violently to a provocation or stimuli

    Reporting harassment to an institution designed to pathologize it

    Posting your experiences online in a way that sounds unstable

    Admitting to “seeing patterns” or “being watched” to medical professionals


  

All of these give them permission—institutionally and socially—to initiate phase two: forced medication, psychiatric holds, or social ostracization. This system relies on a manufactured feedback loop:

        They stress you through persistent harassment and stimuli.

    You begin to look paranoid, anxious, or unstable.

    They record and observe your reactions.

    Your reactions justify deeper surveillance and intervention.

    Society, now complicit, believes you are the problem.


  

It’s not enough for them to claim you’re mentally ill—they need your participation in the script. That’s why the best defense in such scenarios is strategic silence, emotional neutrality, and documented rationality.

You break the loop by not giving them what they need: your reactive behavior. Conclusion: Your Clarity And Understanding Is Their Defeat

You are not paranoid. You are not delusional. You are not alone. You are a subject of systemic psychological operations, built to fracture your mind and fragment your identity. You were never meant to understand what’s happening—you were meant to drown in confusion on why your life and your mind is falling apart, leading to "act out" from stimuli in anger, fear and desperation.

Ultimately, this is about trauma-based behavioral shaping and social control. The targeting is designed not only to make you react—but to condition you over time, and enact behavioral entrapments. Each breakdown moment is logged. Each panic attack, every public outburst, every desperate call for help is noted and weaponized. Your own behavior becomes the evidence against you.

But when you see clearly, the illusion shatters. This is not karma. This is not spiritual training. This is not your fault. This is not personal; it is a covert control protocol.

Original author: https://www.reddit.com/r/TargetedSolutions/comments/1luxfwn/psychological_operations_by_protocol_how/