Good luck with your layoffs, all right?
Posted on 06/19/2012 6:32:32 PM PDT by Steelfish
Students Left In ‘Mass Hypnosis’ After Demonstration Goes Awry By Eric Pfeiffer ,Jun 18, 2012
A hypnosis demonstration left several students "spaced out" (AP) A group of young students at an all girls school were left in "mass hypnosis" after a demonstration from a fledging hypnotist reportedly left them locked in a trance.
Maxime Nadeau was forced to call on his mentor for assistance after the hypnotist could not reverse the condition of several 12 and 13-year-old girls at the Collège du Sacré-Coeur private school in Quebec. One of the girls was reportedly left in a trance for five hours.
"Being in a trance is a state of well-being," Nadeau told the CBC's French-language service. "I wasn't stressed. I knew they would get out of it."
Still, Nadeau eventually called in his mentor and trainer Richard Whitbread to reverse the effects.
"There were a couple of students who had their heads lying on the table and there were [others] who, you could tell, were in trance," Whitbread said. "The eyes were open and there was nobody home." In order to reverse the effect, Whitbread says he convinced the girls he was "re-hypnotizing" them and them brought them out of the trance "using a stern voice."
"I don't know how to explain it. It's like you're no longer there," student Émilie Bertrand told the CBC about her experience. "You're spaced out." Nonetheless, Bertrand described the experience as "cool" as said she would do it again, even knowing the potential consequences.
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I believe there were theories or suggestions that O was using Neuro Linguistic Program on his audiences during the campaign.
Having said that, the would-be hypnotist in the article may have a fine future ahead of him if he limits his demonstrations to a single female subject at a time.
You know when people go drunk, they do silly things. Break things, rape etc. I never do those things. Being drunk should never be an excuse in court of law. I’m constantly aware of my action. Those who say, I was drunk as an excuse, are lying about not in control imho
“More than half this nation was hypnotized by an idiot in 2008.”
Too true. And some are still “locked in”.
Hopefully November will be like a big bucket of cold water.
There were hundreds in attendance. Mapes had several dozen including 2 of my close friends up on stage doing very weird things.
I didn't have a twinge of urge to go under...but I do believe many did. Very, very strange experience.
There were hundreds in attendance. Mapes had several dozen including 2 of my close friends up on stage doing very weird things.
I didn't have a twinge of urge to go under...but I do believe many did. Very, very strange experience.
Good luck with your layoffs, all right?
“I feel I’m the type of person that never fall for hypnotism.”
I got hypnotized once to stop smoking. It didn’t work at all. My mother tried it once too, in a group setting. The hypnotist basically sent her away before he even started (iirc).
I honestly don’t know if these fellows were phoneys or if some people are immune to it.
I have no clue if hypnotism is real or not. For me, so far, it’s not real.
Stupid beyond belief - but that seems to be the norm among the student population in so many places these days...
Sounds like the girls pranked him, to me.
Sounds like an 2008 Obama rally.
I was reading one of the comments that said it was probably more of mass hysteria.
Blondes ?
Trances in their pants, methinks a repeat of brats in the witch hunts of yore.
or an Obama 2012 rally
Did the trance make them quiet? This could be a boon for parents.
I'm a believer. I went through a similar experience back in the '50s. I was in a movie house on base when they had this guy come out and say that he would hypnotize people in the audience. He has us clasp our hands together and press hard as he intoned that our hands were locking up and for us to believe that.
Jesu, I could feel my fingers tighten, got scared, and popped them apart. However, about six (out of maybe 100) didn't. He asked them to come up on stage and a few did. He told the rest that their hands wouldn't come apart unless they all came up on stage, so the rest, looking pretty sheepish, came forward.
He then proceeded to put each one under and have them do funny things, like make believe they were soaping up in a shower and suddenly the water went ice cold. The subjects yelled and shivered. One guy, a Coast Guardsman, was completely under but had his eyes wide open and people thought he was faking it, but the hypnotist said that some people were like that.
It was one Helluva scary experience, and I never went near one of those guys again.
That's exactly what happened. Hypnotism is a fraud. Not unlike a Benny Hinn or Oral Roberts healing service.
“The eyes were open and there was nobody home.”
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another product of our mediate culture
His handlers were not the idiots, but the last three and a half yrs of his presidency is proof that he was and is an idiot. He was not presidential material.
Whoever groomes him is a master manipulator.
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