The truth is thought control is real, which by any account is as old as civilization.
How might someone explain or deal with the entanglement of consciousness or occult collectives who navigate and influence the hyper-dimensionality of the mind?
A small subset of the populace are naturally more sensitive (as many as one sixth by some accounts) that some can hear the thoughts of others. The occult power heads spend decades, often under bleak circumstances conditioning their minds for Power. To travel and manipulate minds through consciousness by continuity of will.
Modern thought controls are far more advanced than anything in the past, and well regulated (if not by ordinary society’s refusal to believe, then by pyramid schemes of extortionists who do not want their powers explained.)
We are not alone in our own mind, and cultures of thought controllers have always existed, influencing (and competing for) conventional power.