Zitat des Tages über Hypnose / Hypnosis:
In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.
The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get.
I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those instructions in all kinds of ways.
There's a lot of different styles of hypnosis. There's conversational hypnosis, which, even though we joke about it, politicians use conversational hypnosis. I've been hired back at home in Ireland by certain politicians to assist them in specific language patterns that will just tip people over into their, you know, into their zone.
I mixed hypnosis and magic together to try and create a new area. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.