A lot of people have been sold a bill of goods about what hypnosis actually is, making it both sound more and less powerful than it is It isn't any kind of magic, it's just a ritual (an altered social context) for pressuring people into thinking and doing things
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So the stuff about how "Hypnosis can't make you do anything you didn't really want to do" is specious Sure it doesn't drug you or hold a gun to your head in any sense To say that's the only way to "make someone do something" is nonsense
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And "What you really believe" or "What you really want to do" isn't this stable, defined thing, as the Milgram experiment or the three-lines experiment or other creepy experiments with social pressure (not involving "hypnosis") all demonstrate
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Derren Brown, who makes a living doing "mental magic", is also a skeptic who's very opposed to paranormal woo and has talked about how it's troubling there's no licensing or oversight of hypnotists and claims like "You can't be made to act against your nature" pass uncritically
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So like a lot of the sleazier end of stage hypnotists have acts that cross the line into just straight up sexually humiliating a woman volunteer in front of a crowd using the old "Hypnosis can't violate your consent" shtick
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And mostly the problem with at-home pseudo-clinical hypnosis is making claims that they can't back up any efficacy But you get into clearly abusive/manipulative shit like this recovered memory scam
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Or, like, the largely unseen underworld of erotic hypnosis as an offshoot of BDSM, which, unfortunately, like other branches of kink, has a pretty big problem with sketchy dudes doing sketch shit
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Vision's patter before his magic act "We are about to deceive you with simple techniques exploiting the human brain's irrational tendency to give credence to appealing falsehoods! Flourish!"
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I’ve recently been looking into recovered / false memories and it seems like the concept has been discreditedhttps://themighty.com/2019/12/false-memory-syndrome-foundation-folds/ …
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