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Are we Hypnotized?
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I was thinking about this altered state of consciousness today, and its a weird one for sure. I first thought about it due to it proving the power of suggestion.

It seems it allows the hypnotist to access ones outer programming, I'd say you would need to be a very submissive person for it to work. I don't understand tho how can someone be controlled like a robot just by a persons voice so easily, are us humans really that venerable? I know it has limits, as you can't go against ones will, and certainly alot of people can't be hypnotized.

The other state it may produce is life like hallucinations, where that person actually "sees" something that is suggested to them. As if they are in a open eyed dream like state. High dose of shrooms, or acid for me doesn't even faintly create hallucinations and they blow suggestibility out the window!......What gets me is how easily under this hypnotized state, a whole world can be created and played out. Tho a person may not have any memory recollection of what happened, as if they were just asleep the whole time.

Maybe we are all hypnotized to some degree?


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"That's the story moving from the NO to the YES. All of life is like, no thankyou, no thankyou, no thankyou. Then ultimatey it's YES i give in, YES I accept, YES I embrace."

Edited by Amethyst (08/09/06 03:07 AM)

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Re: Are we Hypnotized? [Re: Amethyst]
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I think we are all vulnerable at sometime or another to commercial or other advertising techniques.


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Let it not be remembered
That mycelium eats detritus and dies
But that life in all it's glory
Counts mycelium to be on it's side.

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Re: Are we Hypnotized? [Re: soulcircus]
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I think the actor who portrays Sherlock Holmes fits the character to a 'T'. I wonder how much this is due to advertising, or gravitation, which I suppose can be a technique.


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Let it not be remembered
That mycelium eats detritus and dies
But that life in all it's glory
Counts mycelium to be on it's side.

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Re: Are we Hypnotized? [Re: Amethyst]
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The kind of hypnosis you're thinking about doesn't exist. True hypnosis is nothing more then a state of high suggestibility, having nothing to do with submissiveness.

One cannot be controlled by the hypnotist, and one cannot be hypnotized without one's willing participation.

It's a state of mind in which the subject of the hypnosis is consciously aware of what's happening, and going along with what the hypnotist says. One does not forget what happens during a hypnotic state unless one becomes so relaxed that one actually does fall asleep. However, such an act would effectively end the hypnotic state.

Such "hallucinations" as you say depend entirely upon ones ability to visualize things.


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If you don't ask the question, you always get it wrong.

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Re: Are we Hypnotized? [Re: Xanthas]
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Xanthas said:
The kind of hypnosis you're thinking about doesn't exist. True hypnosis is nothing more then a state of high suggestibility, having nothing to do with submissiveness.

One cannot be controlled by the hypnotist, and one cannot be hypnotized without one's willing participation.

It's a state of mind in which the subject of the hypnosis is consciously aware of what's happening, and going along with what the hypnotist says. One does not forget what happens during a hypnotic state unless one becomes so relaxed that one actually does fall asleep. However, such an act would effectively end the hypnotic state.

Such "hallucinations" as you say depend entirely upon ones ability to visualize things.


So that: "When I count to 3 you will wake remembering nothing" is baloney?


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Let it not be remembered
That mycelium eats detritus and dies
But that life in all it's glory
Counts mycelium to be on it's side.

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Re: Are we Hypnotized? [Re: Amethyst]
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I'm a hypnotist (since 1989) certified by the nbcch (www.natboard.com). Feel free to access the site for info, or feel free to PM me. Like a lot of hypnotists/hypnotherapists, we aim at clarifying misconceptions. In fact, clarification is part of my hypnotic pre-talk for every client.

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Re: Are we Hypnotized? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
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Is it true some people are less receptive to hypnosis?

If so, why?


Thx!


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Re: Are we Hypnotized? [Re: nonoman]
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Yes people who use the left side of the brain or is it right?


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Re: Are we Hypnotized? [Re: nonoman]
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Physically, certain drugs - benzodiazepines in particular - prevent people from entering into the hypnotic trance. Psychologically, any amount of fear (trepidation, distrust, etc.) will prevent trance development. Hypnosis is contraindicated for use with people with psychotic disorders since a lowering of ego-defenses may allow an uncontrolled upsurge from the unconscious and a psychotic episode. Obsessive Compulsives with chronic ruminating thought will not easily be able to allow the hypnotist to still the inner monologue - also preventing trance to develop, and paranoids are just not gonna let you 'in.' After all, paranoia is theoretically (psychoanalytically) caused by 'fear of rear assault.' Just some common deterrents to trance.

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Re: Are we Hypnotized? [Re: Amethyst]
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The ones who hypnotize us the most is ourselves. We allow and I think we also find some kind of pleasure in being in that state even if we're not fully aware of it. It must be the only reason we accept suggestions without a "real" reason.


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:bunny::bunnyhug:
All this time I've loved you
And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
And searched this human race
Here is true peace
Here my heart knows calm
Safe in your soul
Bathed in your sighs
:bunnyhug: :yinyang2:

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Re: Are we Hypnotized? [Re: MushroomTrip]
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i dunno.

i think if someone is amped up yelling about things on tv we like to agree with them, then we like to repeat what they say as our own opinion so we can feel like they did.

and so with other emotions and other memes.

it's a lot easier to think MARIJUANA IS THE SCOURGE OF OUR YOUTH
than

Marijuana's main chemical ingredient is THC. It has no known lethal dosage range and is safer than many licit drugs. It has many therepeutic benefits and has been used as a safe medicine for thousands of years. Despite prohibition and an escalation of consequences for crimes associated with marijuana, use has not been significantly reduced. In fact, a majority of Americans have tried marijuana at least once in their lifetimes. Many well researched institutions have long argued for the decriminalization of cannabis for these very reasons.

Which one is more FUN to be a part of? Which one do you PAY ATTENTION to? TV is a kneejerk medium. Now if someone could stand up on a pulpit and read that paragraph, foaming at the mouth with anger, then maybe people would learn true things about cannabis.... but otherwise they'd rather see an angry father screaming at his daughter and then crying because he found pot in her room..... or a kid getting run over by stoned drivers in Wendy's.

this is not hypnosis perse...... but we tend to treat the TV like we would a credible person, and take its suggestions serously. It informs us about the state of the world, relatoinships, it tells us jokes...... pretty zany.

in fact i'm not sure how i got to posting this idea in relation to the content of this thread.

I guess because MushroomTrip said we like to be in such states.


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I am the MacDaddy of Heimlich County, I play it Straight Up Yo!

....I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human......
Om Namah Shivaya, I tell you What!

Edited by leery11 (08/09/06 08:49 PM)

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Re: Are we Hypnotized? [Re: Amethyst]
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Are we hypnotized..perhaps. It would be interesting to see the differences in consciousness between a group of people raised in environments with lots of electromagnetic pollution and group of people raised in environments with little to no EM pollution.

Aside from hypnosis though, trauma and our reactions to it are major factors in how we deal with life. Are we traumatized? hell yes. Hearing about death and destruction every day in the news is traumatic. Yes there's plenty of trauma to go around, no matter what your political views.

Markos, maybe you could speak on the affects of trauma on consciousness?
From what I've read it is well known in certain circles that trauma plus hypnosis is a good formula for creating Manchurian Candidate type personalities.

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Re: Are we Hypnotized? [Re: Clean]
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We've ALL been traumatized - it's called the birth trauma. Otto Rank wrote about it long ago but was not recognized for his insight. Stan Grof's Basic Perinatal Matrices is nothing short of genius.

Hypnotists have to be careful and take safeguards against clients who want repressed memories uncovered. Revivifying a trauma means living through it again psychologically and perhaps retraumatizing. Hypnotists have been sued for doing exactly what what requested by the client. I want to know ahead of the session, and in writing just what the client 'believes' the repressed event was so [s]he cannot claim shock, surprise and damage! Plus, sometimes the abreaction gets so painful as the client nears the 'event-horizon' that I'll stop the induction and emerge the client. Hey, if it's buried deeply enough and causing minimal symptoms (like spent radioactive waste in old salt mines), it is better left there than brought to the surface to do even more harm.

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Re: Are we Hypnotized? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
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whole books have been written on this subject--

so i won't add many words...

human's obviously belive a lot of nonsense--and adults tend to be ridiculouslly serious...

hypnosis? who knows?

anyway the metaphor associated with why people meditate is to: wake up

strangely a person meditating, who is more aware, appears in a trance to observers...

( http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/stress/a/meditatebrain.htm --start of article:
"Meditation Results in Brain Growth--Nov 13 2005
...Do you meditate? We've known that meditation results in reduced stress, improved attention, and increased relaxation. New research out of Yale University has found that regular meditation practice results in increased thickness of grey matter in the cortex of the brain. The increases were found in areas that are involved in sensory, cognitive and emotional processing....etc...")

since we're on the internet --though-- you can find images--
----to highten your sense of wonder...
( Thaipusam is a festival in Bali with "trance" piercings )

http://www.hps.com/~tpg/singapore/index.php?file=vol40

http://www.fergus-macdonald.com/2006/02/

http://www.fergus-macdonald.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=32

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Thaipusam&btnG=Search

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