Where did hypnosis come from? – Brain Software Podcast (Ep 213)

Where did hypnosis come from, and where are we now? Stay tuned to find out…

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Introduction for Episode 213

It’s all about hypnosis! It’s everywhere, and how the heck did we get here?

Welcome to the hypnotic grassy knoll!

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WE ARE NOT WITCHES!!!

So let’s bring it on, Scro…

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Think Tank Words for This Episode

  1. HOMEWORK
  2. COMPETITION
  3. RADIUS

Show Notes for Episode 213

  • The power of negative heteroaction!
  • Autocorrect can lead to hilarious jokes…
  • ADAC shirts from James Harrison have arrived!
  • Everyone has competitive ego states…
  • People who say that trance and hypnosis are different are incorrect…
  • Naturally occurring trances include watching television, driving, reading, drumming, etc.
  • “When drumming comes and juju…a hand comes from the hall…”
  • Even storytelling can be a trance inducer…
  • Sleep temples began in about 1000BC in the temples to Isis Serapis. Then the Greeks copied them a few hundred years later with their temples to Aesclepius…
  • 1773 Franz Anton Mesmer begins his work in “animal magnetism”. Trance induction begins…
  • Mesmer loses the picture and thinks that he’s got the Power! He didn’t.
  • He’s washed up and dies in obscurity in 1784…
  • Puysegur works with Victor Race and discovers the somnambulistic trance…
  • James Braid thinks eye-fixation is the key. He’s credited with the word hypnotism, but he didn’t invent the term…
  • Why are people in modern times promoting mesmerism? We don’t know.
  • James Esdaile removed 80 lbs testicular tumours with mesmerism as anaesthetic! But it didn’t work when he brought it to London…
  • John Elliotson was completely deceived by the Okey sisters…

Hypno North Update from Brado!

  • Liebeault and Bernheim create the Nancy School of hypnosis in France. They use DSiH exclusively!
  • A real scientist follows the evidence wherever it leads…
  • Charcot (who might have been a dick) attempts to revive mesmerism.  Freud trains with Charcot for about 5 months…
  • Freud was a crap hypnotist who packed it all in and created psychoanalysis…
  • World War 1 saves hypnosis! Detraumatization is needed for PTSD…
  • Abreaction is used to fix them…then back on the shelf with hypnosis…
  • Then World War 2 shows up and hypnosis is used again…
  • In the 1940s hypnosis is approved as a medical modality by the US, Britain, and Canada! Huzzah!
  • 1900 Emile Coue becomes the father of autosuggestion…
  • Trance-logic is introduced by M.T. Orne at U of Penn. and worked on MK Ultra with George Estabrooks of Colgate University…
  • Psychopath Ewin Cameron of McGill University tests unsuspecting patients’ response to LSD, shock, etc.
  • Dave Elman does phenomenal work in hypnoanalysis, although doesn’t always reach cause…
  • Gil Boyne brings in Gestalt Therapy to hypnosis…
  • Milton Erickon arrives on the scene and Ernest Rossi picks up the mantle, which with Richard Hill leads to Mirroring Hands…
  • David Cheek and Leslie LeCron work with ideomotor signals…
  • Raphael Rhodes creates theory of PRE, or Psychic Relative Exclusion…One mind moves forward and one recedes…
  • John Overdurf co-authors Training Trances…
  • Bandler and Grinder create NLP and codify hypnotic language in the Milton Model…
  • Igor Ledochowski specializes in conversational hypnosis…
  • Today we have James Tripp, Larry and Cheryl Elman, the Jacquins, etc.!

Empowering Questions: What will you do today…to increase your hypnotic powers…and become even more hypnotically powerful?

 Metafive: Not Today Folks!

Ending: Reverse Engineering

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