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- From: SL500000@brownvm.brown.edu (Robert Mathiesen)
- Newsgroups: alt.hypnosis
- Subject: Hypnotism and Motivation
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:11:47 EST
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- On the question of whether hypnosis can be used to enhance motivation, I'm
- inclined to recommend a very old classic by Charles G. Leland (the folk-
- lorist and gyspy-lorist) originally published in 1899 under the somewhat
- hokey title "Have You a Strong Will," and later issued as "The Mystic Will."
- (It's still in print under the latter title.) He has a *very* ingenious
- method for using one's own suggestibility [which he recommends enhancing
- by self-hypnosis] in a step-by-step, round-about fashion which eventually
- effects motivation and will-power. For a term project last semester, one
- of the students in my course on "Magic in the Middle Ages" undertook to
- test Leland's method on himself, and reported that he was able to make it
- work. (He thought suggestibility was one of the means by which a Medieval
- magician might have obtained empirically verifiable results from his magic.)
-
- (Robert Mathiesen, Brown University, SL500000@BROWNVM)
-