To the best of my assessment, through twenty years of research, hypnosis
is an advanced state of imagination and memory processing. It is
totally controlled by the listener, and until the listener learns to take
control, it is easily manipulated by persuasion from others. The
best states are achieved by choice or boredom, but can also be reached by
panic, synaptic overload and deception.
1. Is it true that
I can't be hypnotised to do things against my will?
Actually, from my experience, this is the biggest LIE in hypnosis.
YES, actually you can be hypnotised to do things that are against
your will, through three typical approaches.
The first is for someone to lie to you and tell you that you're not
doing what you think you're doing. Hypnosis is all about trust. So,
if someone evades or destroys your trust, they can effectively be totally
honest with you right up to the point of burning your trust. This
is one reason why I tout scrypnosis.You
cannot be made to do something you're not wanting to do IF every word that
is to be uttered to you is disclosed to you in advance of any session.
So, even if someone attempted to use abusive-emphasis, such as having
a script that reads, "You would not want to kill your own mother" and then
the reader says, "YOU WOULD not WANT TO KILL YOUR OWN MOTHER," the fact that
you read through the script in advance and came to sign and contract it
for a specific meaning and a specific course of action, such would probably
find you instantly awakening and punching-out your script reader.
The second approach is through role playing with artificial arms and
then having someone substitute real weapons. I would say that prior
to any role playing games, you want to add a script line that if the weapon
that is handed to you does not feel like one you remember, you will instantly
awaken and reconsider your choice of action. If someone handed you
a real gun after giving you a toy gun in practice would probably find you
pointing the new device at the script reader and saying, "I've decided to
test this weapon on you" and see their reaction. If they could care
less, shoot near them anyway. If it's blanks, it's not going to hurt
them, and if it's real, they're going to get the hell out of the way.
The third approach is through amassed lies. When someone tells
you so many lies that you cannot cope with all the mistruth, it is frequently
a point that a person will go into emotional turmoil and allow their value
structure to be reprogrammed through duress. I highly recommend the
John LeCarre novel or movie "The Little Drummer Girl" for a more detailed
showing of how this process works. In the movie, the process by which Diane
Keaton's character is adapted to the Israeli Mossad operation is quite
extensive and quite accurate. (...or the Bush Administration during
the Iraq war...) 2. Are there people
who can't be hypnotised?
I believe that "Won't be hypnotised" is more accurate with some
people, "can't" is more accurate with very young children who do not understand
the course of language, and "too incompetent" for people of low intellectual
levels, or some children between the ages of six and eleven that have
not matured their imagination. With the exception of those people
who have learning or attention disabilities, I believe most can be hypnotised.
However, I have done sessions with people who had no imagination,
and those sessions were a waste of time. 3. Is it
possible to hypnotise someone in one minute?
What they do in one minute I don't call hypnosis. I call it
induced shock. You see, if you overpower the central nervous system,
you can pop a person into shock and then they have to overcome that situation.
At the instant of this shock, someone typically makes a verbal suggestion,
upon which it is instantly enabled. So, if the suggestion is "You
will sleep NOW," the person sleeps. If it is "God will Heal you NOW,"
the person's body will enable every healing ability in its power to combat
illness ("It is your faith that heals you.").
Of course, one way to do mass hypnosis is to induce a huge amount of
fear and then begin telling lies to persuade one to believe it is true,
such as after several months of Enron and doubts in the Bush Administration,
out of the blue, jets slam into very visible targets, following the course
of the US Military's "Worst Case Scenario" to a tee, and then, out pops President
Bush, telling people what a great leader he is, even though, for some lucky
reason, he wasn't in town at the time. This first-time event now will
be triggered again in 2004 as a way to rekindle your belief in this President
so you'll vote for him, even though, as I see it, it's just a mass hypnosis
toy, and a little too convenient. Besides, of all the targets in
the world, why would anyone blow up the same target twice? Perhaps
it was designed to fall down. Ever build a house of cards?
4. How hard
is it to invoke amnesia?
Typically, all it takes is a person to believe in the word "can't"
and everything else is simple. If someone believes that they "can't
remember" something, the entire belief system that supports the original
memory is moved out of the conscious mind. I'm not clear on exactly
why this is, but it works very well. I've suggested that a great
use for this tool would be so people could watch a movie or read a book
again, for the first time, especially for people doing continuity
work with movies, or directors who wanted to use this application so they
could see a production fresh at the end of each editing session.
5. Do you
teach quit smoking, weight loss or any of that stuff?
No. If you want that type of stuff, there are thousands of boring
little twits that do that sort of stuff and charge for it. I'm far
more interested in the million other applications yet to be discovered. I've
found about a hundred new and very specific applications so far.
If millions of people were using computational communications for active
experimentation just as I have done, there will be a million more applications
in the next decade. I equate the assumed "only two" applications
of hypnosis to what I call the Shovel Syndrome. If you look
at a shovel, you know it has basically two uses and everyone knows what those
are (for digging holes and moving dog poop). However, anyone
watching Whose Line Is It Anyway, or any other improvisation performance
that uses a shovel as a Prop, will discover that it's a flagpole for a lunar
walk, an ogre's toothpick, a rotating radar antenna, an eye patch for a
very stupid pirate, or any number of other things. What I'm saying
here is that you've all seen the known applications, but there are many
other uses that are in common practice of which you probably do not know,
have never considered, and if you did know, would probably be using every
day if only you could... (...and you can, too!)
6. What language
works best for hypnosis?
The language of choice is whatever the language of the listener happens
to be.
7. Can
I use hypnosis to get someone to get naked?
Yes, but not for the reasons you might think. Typically, the
suggestion that someone is "totally hot" will result in them taking off
their clothes. However, the terminology "Hot" is conceived as "too
warm" but not "sexy." If you touch the persons in any inappropriate
manner, you will break their trust of you, and suddenly, I would expect
them to awaken and either call the police or kick the sh!t out of you.
8. What
is the easiest way to seduce people with hypnosis?
Be totally honest. Tell them about scrypnosis, how you're learning
it, and offer to let them experience hypnosis to multiple orgasms without
any physical contact whatsoever. Go to the website, make a scrypnosis
script, print out a copy with a contract, get them to sign it, and run
it. Once that's done, they might be more inclined to other considerations.
Just remember, NO means NO. If you are in a position of authority
(and anyone doing hypnosis is assumed to be in a position of authority),
the laws are written to protect people from abuse at the hands of unappropriate
abuse of authority. If you violate someone, it's likely you will
still go to jail. Thus, if you're going to do hypnosis to multiple
orgasm, either do it over the phone or have a witness that the listener
wants to bring. (You might get the witness interested in trying it,
too!)
9. Will I
remember everything when hypnosis is done with me?
When a person goes to a typical stage hypnotist, you often hear that
hypnotist say to his victims towards the end of the show, "And you find
that you will not remember anything more than having had a really great
time tonight and wanting to do hypnosis again in the future." This
is an amnesiatic suggestion. Personally, I despise it. I prefer
to say, "You will remember what you want to remember and not remember those
things that you choose to not remember," for it places the decision and
responsibility in the control of the listener. So, to answer the question,
both YES and NO are dependant upon if the person reading the script or doing
the stage show makes such a suggestion AND if the listener agrees to it.
What most people don't realize is that they can say to themselves
(while in their own minds and on stage), "That does not apply to me. I
am in control and I say I remember everything," for all hypnosis is self-actuated.
The script is only a suggestion. The hypnotist is only making
a suggestion. It is the listener who is enacting the suggestion.
10. When is
the best time to do hypnosis?
Ideally, hypnosis works best with someone who is fully rested. A
tired person's body is going to want to go into natural sleep rather than
hypnosis, which is why evening hypnosis performances bug the hell out of
me. Ideally, a well rested person is going to do better because hypnosis
is an exercise for the human mind. Thus, the more rested your mind,
the more concentration you can exert because your mind won't be tempted
with the possibility of getting additional rest.
11. What happens
if I don't wake up after a session?
Lucid dreaming is that point where you are essentially awake in a dream.
If you go and do a hypnosis session and you don't officially awaken,
at some point, your mind will tire and drift into natural sleep, but your
consciousness may not realize that you are asleep, and thus place you in
a lucid dreaming state of mind. The other thing that might happen,
and in all my years of hypnosis, this has only happened to me once, is to
awaken into what is called "sleep paralysis," wherein the conscious mind
becomes totally awake and the body remains totally asleep. It's a very
strange sensation, but once the body does awaken, the connectivity returns.
If this does happen to you, don't panic. Having checked on the
internet, sleep paralysis is unbelievably common and extraordinarily unheard
of. The time to learn about it is now.
12. Can I get
stuck in a hypnosis situation?
Well, this goes more into the logic of "how much do you hate your life?"
Some people with emotional problems will abuse the relationship of
hypnosis and use it as a form of adjustment to create permanent delusions.
They are not interested in temporary applications of their mind to
create entertainment. They want to create dream worlds and replace
reality on a permanent basis. The only problem is, this process of
using make believe instead of facing one's problems and overcoming obstacles
is a CHOICE. Therefore, if you want to get stuck in psychosis, the
mental asylums have a place for you. It is just a form of adjustment.
However, I would recommend you try the Basic All-In-One before you
get to that point, and work on changing what you can each day before waiting
until there is a crisis.
13. So, why is
it that I haven't been able to be hypnotized?
In all cases, hypnosis requires trust. Perhaps, no hypnotists
have actively gone out of their way to attempt to put all your fears to rest,
to totally earn your trust, and to offer to deliver exactly the results that
you want from a session. Up to this point, most hypnotists I've met
want to accomplish what they want in the way they want to accomplish their
tasks without having to be restricted to the limitations of using a script.
However, as scrypnosis is contractual, you not only control content,
clarity, and commitment, both on your part and on the part of whoever is running
the script, but as all the person does is read you a script that you created,
learned, demanded run, and accepted responsibility over all changes that
you will experience, you eliminate the uncertainty of the hypnotist and take
over that task yourself.
