Reddit mentions of The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life

The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life is a great introduction to affective neuroscience, if you're curious. Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain is also a good textbook for a general introduction and review of the subject.

When taken purely metaphorically, I somewhat agree with your theory.

From a spiritual/emotional perspective there is a (neural) war going on between "enlightenment" and emotional repression, between love and fear, between freedom and oppression.

In an emotionally repressed person, the cortex is constantly repressing impulses from the more "primitive" parts of the brain. (See for example "The Emotional Brain" by LeDoux.) Ultimately these repressed emotions and traumas will effect a persons behaviour without them realizing it. This makes a repressed person easier to control. It also makes them less effective at a lot of things, because the brain wastes a lot of energy on repressing emotions and memories.

Facing your traumas and embracing your emotions makes you more effective at a lot of things and more aware of why you might act in certain ways, making it easier to regulate your own behaviour. IMO this will also make you less susceptible to any form of mind control, ranging from coercive persuasion as done by cults to electronic forms of brain washing and influence. It also makes wiping your memory, which I believe to be possible to some extent, much harder.

I think many TI's are being targeted because they have strong natural tendencies towards "enlightenment", towards not being emotionally repressed. The powers that be want a world where people can be controlled. This means keeping them as fearful as possible. They perceive enlightenment as a threat to their plans and wish to eradicate it completely. They also don't want anybody involved in electronic mind control to find out how resistant and effective enlightened people are, which is why they have to be repressed and kept debilitated 24/7.

If you'd like to deal with childhood traumas or repressed emotions in a constructive way, I'd personally recommend the Past Reality Integration (PRI) techniques by Ingeborg Bosch, or some other form of therapy based on primal therapy.

Going to check these out, thanks!

Have you read The Emotional Brain? It seems to be popping up in looking up the other two and may be a nice one to add, but I haven't read that one either.