[Aliska]

I checked the forbidden sources and also for dupe. If this is wrong or link only, would the mod please correct it? It is hard for those of us who don't post topics very often to go down that list.

This is of particular interest to me because I don't believe one should turn control of one's mind to another for any reason but I know it's popular for pain, quitting smoking, etc., and the Catholic Church permits it in certain cases, don't know about other churches.

Lots of people subject themselves to hypnotic regression for past lives.

I don't know what went so wrong with this principal or maybe we just don't hear about the downside of hypnotism.

[backwoods-engineer]

A possible explanation for spree murderers? Is there a hypnotist in the wings?

I mean, other than the explanation that THEY'RE JUST EVIL.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

I HATE it when that happens! That’s why you’re never supposed to advertise that you’re hypnotizing folks. Just hypnotize and feign ignorance when the bank heists or double murders go wrong.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I had a psychologist try to hypmotize me a few times. He came to the conclusion that I couldn’t be hypnotized.

[SaraJohnson]

It’s insane for this school official to be playing in this way with other people’s children’s minds. Who hires these freaks of nature?

[Sopater]

One student on the basketball team says Kenney hypnotized him 30 to 40 times to improve his concentration

So did it work so well that he kept coming back for more, or was it just not working and he just wanted to try harder?

Also, how can anyone say that the hypnosis had anything to do with the deaths?

[JediJones]

It says the girl was told hypnosis could improve her test scores, but it didn’t work, and she got low scores and committed suicide. So how is he responsible for the hypnosis NOT working?

The kid coming from the dentist supposedly hypnotized himself. How is he responsible for that person’s own choice? If the kid waited 15 years to do that trick, would his teacher still be responsible then too?

[yarddog]

Hypnotism is a fascinating subject. I am not certain that anyone really understands what it really is.

I once read that Franz Mesmer could hypnotize many people almost instantaneously.

[bgill]

You’ve got to be kidding. That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read all day and I’ve been reading a lot about Hillary and obozo.

[LibertyLA]

This just made me remember an amazing show about hypnotism - it is really scary stuff. I really suggest you watch this to see how weak minded, susceptible people can be programmed.

Very creepy stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC9J6O6soHA

[codder too]

Turning you children over to the public school system puts them at similar mind control risk.

[Bodleian_Girl]

That is so weird!

[cizinec]

In other news . . . students who met tragic ends all ate Doritos over the previous month.

[JoeProBono]

"Among those who were hypnotized were 17-year-old Brittany Palumbo and 16-year-old Marcus Freeman. Palumbo committed suicide in 2011. Freeman was in a fatal car accident after apparently self-hypnotizing, a technique Kenney taught the teenager, also in 2011."

[doug from upland]

Has Hillary ever been hypnotized?

[sockmonkey]

I went with some friends to a Comedy Club where Flip Orley was performing. I thought it must be fake until one of my friends got “hypnotized” while sitting at our table watching volunteers from the audience get hypnotized. At first I thought she was faking it to be funny, then realized she wasn’t.

[TomServo]

Friends say McKinley couldn't remember his own name after hypnosis sessions to improve his guitar playing.

I can't remember my name either!