I had a really interesting theory that is similar to another users post on here a few hrs ago related to Intelligence as a possible correlate with being a member of this community.
So I've been pondering how many of you guys and gals in this community have ever had any experience with HYPNOSIS/HYPNOTISM.
I went to Culver Academies up in Indiana for all of boarding school. It was a pretty prestigious militarized, college prep, boarding school. Every spring we would have a really awesome hypnotist visit our school who's name was Frederick Winters I believe.
And he would hand pick about 12-15 amongst the senior graduating class to be a part of the performance. He would always begin by guiding the students (with the entire performance being watched by an audience of maybe 500) through about a 20 minute meditation that was intended to steadily bring them under a deep half-sleep half-wake state.
As this progressed and he guided the selected group through the meditation, he would slowly eliminate members from the group of seniors who he deemed to be not as susceptible to hypnotism as he desired so that by the end, only those most susceptible to the true hypnosis were left as the participants on the stage set.
The performance was ALWAYS amazing. And despite many people being in disbelief as to whether the students that were on stage were genuinely being hypnotized, there was always a huge awe factor in seeing many typically shy and timid students suddenly performing some outrageous, embarrassing or totally out of character behaviors.
Anyways, for the part 5 or 6 months I've been sharing as much content from this site on Facebook (forgive me i know I hate Fuckerberg) to try and combat the left wing echo chamber and to stand up for my conservative friends who have largely been shut down because of their political beliefs.
After several senseless arguments with lefties, (many of whom would be typically very intelligent individuals whose main error was simply not knowing any better and being subjected to the copious amount of propagandist lies from the mainstream media and news publications), ive been trying to pinpoint what it might be that differentiates between those who can see past the propaganda and lies versus those who see a mainstream publication make an error and unconsciously fall into deep cognitive dissonance and dismiss the notion that they mightve been misleading on purpose.
And so just recently it struck me to explore the possibility that perhaps ones susceptibility to hypnosis might be associated with ones susceptibility to Brainwashing (behavioral conditioning).
So when I finally was a senior back in 2012 and participated in the Hypnotism show at my boarding school, I was really excited to finally be hypnotized. However much to my dissatisfaction, it turned out that I had too much of a resistance to the effects of hypnotism and despite the hypnotists best attempts, I was soon weeded out of the participants.
As a Psychology major at a pretty prestigious Texas university, I've always had a passion for studying human behavior, learning social cues, breaking social norms, etc.. so ive always had it as a personality trait to constantly be analyzing my peers and my environment.
So I guess my question is, have you guys and gals ever had any experience with hypnotism? I'm interested to see if its not just myself who found it to be virtually impossible to be hypnotized (i also had tried it several more times from peers who spent a good deal of time learning hypnosis, and at best I was playing along and pretending).
Have you ever been hypnotized? What are your thoughts on hypnosis? Could ones ability to be hypnotized be related to ones susceptibility to Brainwashing?
I'm easily hypnotized, high IQ, not at all easily influenced by the brainwashing attempts. I've been hypnotized in therapy and went so deep, I forgot what I'd said during the sessions. It wasn't due to the therapist telling me to forget anything (had recordings). I also meditate almost daily in a way that is like self-hypnosis.
So I don't think easily hypnotized = easily brainwashed. I think it has to do with innate level of suspicion.
Fascinating. Thanks for the feedback friend!
Wish I got to read these earlier. I'm in Texas and the rolling blackouts began for me precisely after I made my first post :(
Hope you're doing ok
Thank you! Power has been back on for nearly 20 hours straight now. Staying warm thankfully. No running water though. I've been without a shower for 3 days now. That part is getting a bit bothersome lol. We figured out how to get the toilet to flush by filling the top section with water from melted snow--which allows for one manual flush everytime its filled. Rough stuff but we'll manage.
Add baby wipes to your emergency stockpile for freshening up without shower ;)
That's a good idea! I've been rolling around on top of a bunch of Bacardi 151 to make do. But that sounds way more effective lol.
I participated in a psychology study at University that was presented as a test of memory. you view flash cards (images or words), then again several minutes later to see how many you can recall. my result was an anomaly.
the tester told me I was the only subject in over 200 he'd tested that did not have "false memories." meaning, though I didn't recall every item I had seen, I did not claim to see something that wasn't presented.
the reason I bring this up is that I can't be hypnotized either. just conjecture, but both brainwashing and hypnosis depend on the subject accepting a false reality.
And onscreen hypnosis is a deeper and more sinister extension of that. Its routine use by MSM is deliberate, skillful and coercive.
‘Erickson’s Confusion Technique' has also been deliberately adapted for use on virtually every television news network. Their visual/auditory hypnotic 'programs' pitch multiple conflicting/confusing messages to various sensory channels of the body (sight, sound, + touch in the case of in-person hypnotic induction). This in effect dulls critical thinking and renders a person highly suggestible.
So any time you see a screen just crawling with background stimuli - words scrolling around/across the bottom, blue beams and lattices floating and morphing, weather updates popping up, etc., in addition to whatever the presenters are saying - that multi-sensory barrage of diverse stimuli is being used to hypnotize viewers.
Plus staring at any screen that projects light into a viewer’s eyes will also alter their brainwaves. Within seconds of looking at a television screen e.g., the brain will go into Alpha rhythm - which for the purpose of implanting suggestions, is a light trance.
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Here is a sample of articles on Ericsson’s Confusion Technique:
http://lermanet.org/scientology/confusion-technique2.html
"The Confusion Technique by Milton H Erickson, from the Chapter "Deep Hypnosis and Its Induction" / (in a discussian/critique of scientology)
http://ezinearticles.com/?Milton-H-Ericksons-Confusion-Technique-In-Hypnotherapy&id=5315918
Milton H Erickson's Confusion Technique In Hypnotherapy
http://awaken.com/2013/02/the-confusion-technique
The Confusion Technique – Awaken - yoga oriented
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THE CONFUSION TECHNIQUE
by Milton Erickson
Excerpted from Experimental Hypnosis by Leslie LeCron, 1948 from a chapter titled: "Deep Hypnosis Techniques”
For want of a better term, one of these special procedures may be termed the "confusion technique.” [employed extensively for] induction of specific phenomena [and] deep trances … best employed with highly intelligent subjects interested in the hypnotic process [or] those consciously unwilling to go into a trance despite an unconscious willingness.
In essence, it is no more than a presentation of a whole series of individually differing, contradictory suggestions [note: and/or stimuli], apparently all at variance with each other, differently directed, and requiring a constant shift in orientation by the subject.
… As the subject accommodates himself to the seeming confusion of the hypnotist, thereby unwittingly cooperating in a significant fashion, suggestions [are] given …
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I studied NLP quite a bit in high school when I was actively working on breaking myself out of my introverted shell with the hope of growing into an extroverted, social individual.
NLP masters are the closest thing to mind controllers I've ever read about. Literal inception in real life.
Look up Dr. Andrew Huberman. As far as I know so far, it isn't politically leaning. Its simply Huberman explaining the biochemistry of the brain and nervous system and how it works with sleep, meditation, hypnosis, etc. I haven't dug too deep yet, but what I have seen has been interesting af.
https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewHubermanLab
The CIA utilizes more pernicious methods than hypnosis unfortunately.
Unfortunately the CIA has some nasty ways of overriding hypnotism with subjects who are resistant to it. In fact, I think it was never a major part of their tool box.
Utilizing techniques from hypnotism by itself I think is usually harmless as you point out.
Man this is by far the most intelligent, patriotic, fun loving and scholarly online community I've ever been a part of.
I'm continually astounded with how mislabeled the Q community is by mainstream media who dismisses you guys as "fringe and a misguided cult of Trump supporters who can't critically think for themselves."
It's the polar opposite in reality. I've never engaged with so many individuals from all different backgrounds and demographics who simply love America and will come together to research and share information and organize it in a scholarly way--all while still being open minded enough to accept constructive criticism.
Love you guys!
Modern research shows that everyone can be hypnotized. There are just different types of susceptibility. We must all remain vigilant these days. AI knows your weaknesses.