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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Newsgroups: alt.hypnosis
- Subject: Re: nonsence and truth
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.170930.23928@unocal.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:09:30 GMT
- References: <8672@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
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- In article <8672@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> ygoland@edison.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester) writes:
- >First, anyone who says you won't do things under hypnosis that you
- >wouldn't normally do, is wrong. When I was in junior high and high
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- People in this society believe they can drop their inhibitions under
- hypnosis, so they do. I conjecture if one called it something else than
- hypnosis, it would be harder to get people to follow suggestions.
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- Belief is powerful. There are some religious practices in the USA and other
- cultures that hold when one is in a certain state of mind, they are allowed
- to do certain things not normally allowed. And they do it.
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- Some people like Kreskin hold that people are normally incredibly suggestable
- and you can get then to do unusual things without hypnosis.
-