Postby Tarotist » October 31st, 2021, 8:47 pm
It mentions somewhere on this thread that hypnosis is not used in surgery. Well, I happen to know that a renowned Irish surgeon by the name of Dr Jack Gibson used it extensively. Look him up.
Anyway, I used to believe in hypnotism whether on stage or in hypnotherapy but certain things made me suspicious especially with regard to stage hypnosis. No space to explain what those things were but I was beginning to smell a rat. An opportunity came up for me to find out for sure when I was in conversation with a legendary stage hypnotist. I was very eminent as a psychic reader at the time and he said to me, "I hope you don't believe in that psychic stuff. If you do you are dead!" Well, as it happens I DO believe in it but as far as I am aware I appear to be alive. Anyway, I decided this was an opportune moment to ask him about hypnosis. I said, "Do you believe in the reality of hypnosis or are you dead too?"
This extract from my upcoming book on stage hypnosis (The Royal Road to Stage Hypnosis) will give you his response. Incidentally the said literary masterpiece will be on sale in the next week or so.
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"When I first started my hypnosis career I asked a legendary stage hypnotist for advice. This fellow had retired from the stage and
had become a hypnotherapist. I looked him straight in the eye and asked him straight out,
“Are the people on stage really hypnotized? Are they really in some sort of altered state of consciousness or are they just kidding me and themselves?” My guru started to look uncomfortable and become evasive in his answers. However, I persisted and he gave in. He looked shiftily at his receptionist outside in the hallway then closed the door so she wouldn’t hear the conversation. He then looked at me and proceeded in a few sentences to explain the key to stage hypnotism. And it was probably the most profound lesson I had ever heard or will hear on the subject. This is what he said. “Look, I was a pioneer in this field. I was number one for about 30 years. In those 30 years I am quite sure I never hypnotized a single person on stage!” This was quite a shock to me and although I had pushed for the answer, I was nevertheless stunned to receive it. One of themost legendary stage hypnotists of all time had just, in so many words, told me he had been faking it for 30 years! After I recovered I asked him, “Well, in that case, how do you make the people do all those crazy things?” He stared at me and then uttered the key revelation which opened up a new career for me. “You manipulate them, don’t you?” You do, of course “manipulate them” and I’ve been manipulating them ever since"