I must preface this article with the fact I haven’t yet seen American Ultra. I’m sure I will at some point, but I’m in no hurry. I think I get the gist….
hypnosis
For the first time an experimental hypnotic bar will take over a real bar, Toronto’s legendary Monarch Tavern, in an attempt to prove that alcohol and drugs can be replaced entirely by…
A new ad causes people to hallucinate simply by staring at it. Playing the video full screen will usually cause visual hallucinations that last around 10 seconds then go away. (Do not…
What if all drug and alcohol states are actually in the mind? A performance by a Hypnotist at Toronto’s Idea City suggests just that. It would make the trillions spend on alcohol…
Is the key to your mind safe? Via the New York Daily News: German cops are hunting a pair of hypnotist robbers who put their victims into a deep trance before stealing…
When mindlessness is idolized, hypnosis to dim the brain becomes a method of cosmetic improvement. Via the Huffington Post: A California woman who describes herself as Barbie-obsessed says she uses hypnotherapy sessions…
(Unfair warning: If you seek to gain anything from Dr. Hyatt’s work by your own willpower and mental processes, then do not read this article, for it defeats the entire purpose of…
A couple of years ago, I realized that thanks to social media, I could start hunting down authors I was interested in like dogs, hounding them with questions I’d never been able…
Amway, traveling magazine sales, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and others arguably blur the line between door-to-door sales and cults. The Neurocritic presents an unusual psychiatric report from Japan describing a door-to-door salesman’s use of…
Author and personal development coach Steve Barnes begins a series of posts discussing the “Mastermind” concept–a technique of gathering and consolidating resources necessary for attaining goals. He starts off with describing a…
Ever feel as if you’ve been enveloped in a trance for your whole life? Via Russia Today: A hypnotism show at a private girls’ high school went strangely awry after a young hypnotist…
Be careful whom you talk to in the city streets, because something like this could happen. Anti-hypnosis sunglasses may be worn as a preventative measure. 93.9 MIA reports:
Boston’s Chinatown has been on edge since a 57-year-old woman claimed three women used hypnosis to get her to fork over $160,000 in life savings, police say.
The victim was food shopping April 15 when the women tapped her on the shoulder and began asking her questions. The victim says one of the suspects spoke and her henchwomen handed her a plastic bag. She was told to go home and meet them several hours later on Boston Common.
The victim filled the bag with a necklace, a jade bracelet, two gold rings, her passport and $160,000 in cash. She then went to the meeting spot and handed over the fortune. The incident has Chinatown on alert, with two similar shakedowns reported since then.
Many people are skeptical of hypnosis, believing it to be a pseudoscientific practice based on some combination of relaxation/image visualization/the power of suggestion, et cetera. However, a group of Scandinavian scientists say…
Marijuana won’t be legalized anytime soon. But that’s OK. Because what I’m about to tell you is going to make weed look like the cheap high it is. When everyone catches wind…