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- From: dlb@fanny.wash.inmet.com (David Barton)
- Subject: Re: Interesting Hypnosis Talk
- In-Reply-To: curt@access.digex.com's message of 21 Jan 1993 02:08:27 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:37:05 GMT
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- In article <1jl0irINNdf2@mirror.digex.com> curt@access.digex.com (curt
- williams) writes:
-
- But first, an informal poll.
-
- 1) How many readers of alt.hypnosis believe that a person can be
- compelled to do something against their will, or something they
- would not ordinarily be willing to do, because of post hypnotic
- suggestion?
-
- The question hangs on what a person would be "ordinarily" willing to
- do. I have brought up the Milgram experiment several times here, and
- I think that it is still a good one to look at with respect to this
- whole question. If ordinary people are willing to administer shocks
- to a stranger until he is apparantly dead, then I think there is
- nothing that a person can be "compelled" to do by post-hypnotic
- suggestion (I do not see this suggestion as "compelling") that he or
- she would not do given an appropriate situation.
-
- Milton Erickson's investigation of the antisocial uses of hypnosis is
- interesting. He came accross several examples of ordinary but
- frowned-upon acts (violating the privacy of a friend, small thefts,
- etc.) that he attempted to induce without a "safety net" that a person
- would commit when in a normal state which they categorically refused
- to commit in a trance, after considerable persuasion and hypnotic
- changing of the scene.
-
- 2) How many readers of alt.hypnosis believe that a person under
- hypnosis or following a post hypnotic suggestion can fool a
- polygraph?
-
- People in a normal state can fool a polygraph. I have no doubt that
- someone in hypnosis could also fool a polygraph.
-
- Dave Barton
- dlb@hudson.wash.inmet.com
-