What an excellent post!
As you wrote

As I previously said: "This is what politicians do with their sophistry and rhetoric to lie and manipulate people's consciousness into certain behaviors. The entertainment industry, television, media, "gurus", politicians, priests, and more, can all amaze, mesmerize, hypnotize, induce, summon and invoke images, beliefs and altered states of consciousness to entrain us into specific modalities of living."

This is the real magic of the way words are used. I think we cannot think anything without uttering words in our own mind (of course we don't realize it always). Whatever we think comes from the words which we had learnt. This fact can be used for manipulating and exploiting other persons. Successful people like politicians, gurus, religious leaders etc are well aware of this fact and so they plays with words which ultimately attracts people towards them and brings success for them.