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- From: mayer@owlnet.rice.edu (Christopher Francis Mayer)
- Newsgroups: alt.hypnosis
- Subject: Re: Interesting Hypnosis Talk
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 20:33:19 GMT
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- In article <512@heimdall.sdrc.com>, crgruen@sony1.sdrc.com (robert gruen) writes:
- |>
- |> I have an interesting hypnosis idea that I read about but I belive that others
- |> may be interested in trying to verify or idsprove it.
- |>
- |> The story goes: Say three people are sitting aroiund and one of them happens
- |> to be a hypnotist. The hypnotist (we'll call him John) hypnotizes the subject
- |> (we'll call him Mike), and says "Mike, you are in a trance and from now on you
- |> will not be able to see Joe, he will be invisible" (Joe is the third person).
- |> Now, Mike is hypnotized and he stares straight forward the hypnotist then tells
- |> the observer (Joe) to stand in front of Mike. The hypnotist asks Mike if he
- |> can see Joe. Mike replys that he cannot. The hypnotist then proceeds to stand
- |> behind Joe (who is invisible) and puts an object in his hand, he then asks
- |> Mike what object he is holding. Mike immediately identfies the object that is
- |> being held up.
- |>
- |> In the book that I read "The Holographic Universe" the subject is able to
- |> identify a wathc that is held behind a person. Apparently the person is
- |> "invisible", if this is correct what does this say about reality as we know
- |> it? If this is incorrect (and I have no reason to belive it is) then it
- |> was a good idea anyway!?!
- |>
-
- Sounds pretty good, but the whole thing just doesn't make sense. We
- pervceive things physically from the light around us entering our eyes.
- Hypnosis may alter our perception so that our mind refuses to believe an
- object is there, but it cannot change the physical reality that there IS a
- solid object blocking our line of sight. The light simply cannot reach our
- eyes even if we don't believe there's anything there. Now metephysical
- believers can argue against this by saying that our "spirit" can look beyond
- the normal laws of physics and hypnosis can help us get deeper into touch with
- our "spirit", but I somehow doubt this is the case. But if these stories are
- true, then there are other senses that we have over looked...however, if you
- believe this, I encourage further, first-hand research and experimentation.
-
- Just another $.02
-
- Peace and Happiness...
-
- --C
-