Boston police have put out a warning about three young Chinese women who it is claimed walked up to an elderly woman who did not know them and then hypnotized the woman to go to her home and put US$160,000 cash into a plastic bag and hand it over to the women. At least...
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This is important . . . any good hypnotist who understands history and technique can tell you this sort of thing has been around for some time . . . seriously, there are huge books of doctors performing surgery with no anaesthetic on folks as far back as the 18th and 19th centuries ....
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Amy Norton has been reporting for Reuters on new developments in the world of scientific research into hypnosis, old news for some of us but good to see new work is confirming it. Her story can be found at http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/05/07/us-smoking-acupuncture-idINBRE84601X20120507 and provides the nutshell that smoking . . . and other treatment modalities ....
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Martin Johnston of the New Zealand Herald speaks with Jenni Abdelnoor who was so happy with the hypnosis she used for the birth of her second child that she would happily have it for surgery. Her son Stanley, now 2, was born by emergency caesarean. When she was pregnant with her daughter Sage, now...
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I know you’ve seen ‘em . . . in the bathroom at night, looking into the mirror and you notice the reflection looking back at you doesn’t seem right . . . there’s something off about that face, it’s staring at you . . . and the eyes aren’t your eyes, they’re the eyes...
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A lot of people have a hard time trusting lawyers as it is, but what about one who claims he was part of a secret government time travel program when he was a kid? Since 2004, Seattle attorney Andrew Basiago has been publicly claiming that from the time he was 7 to when he...
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Some fascinating research into brain stimulation and problem-solving has found a significant increase in certain types of creative problem-solving when certain areas of the brain are stimulated via an electric circuit thingie. From a nine dot problem with no solutions to stimulation and forty percent solutions is a pretty damned big jump. See the...
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For those with an interest in eye movement patterns – that includes folks who’ve learned the patterns in their Neurolinguistic Programming training – here’s an abstract for a study on the subject: The saccadic eye movements that people make when thinking have been largely ignored in the eye-movement literature. Nevertheless, there is evidence that...
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Smokers are more worried about the stigma of their habit than their health, with research showing they are increasingly likely to hide their addiction and feel guilty about it. This finding, after Cancer Council of WA research into the emotional and social aspects of smoking . . . "Smokers who are still at it...
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Please note, this is NOT hypnosis. Not at all. An Emirati boy was admitted to hospital with fatigue and momentarily memory loss after his friend tried to hypnotize him by using what he dubbed as “magic hand” involving stopping the boy’s breath. Some people see hyperventilation or sleeper methods online and assume they are...
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Human nature is one of those things that everybody talks about but no one can define precisely. Every time we fall in love, fight with our spouse, get upset about the influx of immigrants into our country, or go to church, we are, in part, behaving as a human animal with our own unique...
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The Australian Government has created a Quit Now program (http://quitnow.gov.au/) to encourage folks to quit smoking complete with a worthwhile slogan: “Every cigarette you don’t smoke is doing you good.” The program has embraced hypnotherapy as a means of helping folks give up smoking and their success stories are wonderful. See http://www.thesatellite.com.au/story/2012/03/12/giving-up-ciggies-through-the-power-of-suggestion/ for the...
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Giants manager Bruce Bochy has used hypnosis to kick a 36-year addiction to smokeless tobacco. “I never did it during interviews,” Bochy said the other day in the Giants’ dugout. “At least, I don’t think I did, but there could have been times I craved it too much and did it anyway.” He had...
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Despite what some folks may tell you . . . bodice rippers have always held an appeal for adult women who enjoy reading. Recently, Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James has been selling a LOT of copies and women’s book clubs are going crazy with how engaging her story of submissive sexuality is...
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So, Anderson Cooper has jumped on the exorcism bandwagon and hosted Bob Larson and his teen exorcists . . . the same ones we’ve discussed before in regard to a teen exorcist reality television series. Cooper is a bit out of hid depth here but he gives it a go. How the Teens Got...
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