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From: Gordo_ala_Moore
Date: Wed Feb 13, 2002 12:11pm
Subject: Re: Milton Erickson - My voice will go..
Ormond Mcgill's
"The 'New' Encyclopedia of
stage Hypnotism". I am supposing that is the book you
have been reading.
He does also have an "old"
Encylopedia, which I have not read.
Yes I have
performed a few of his waking hypnosis experiments, i
posted the "red /green apple & potato" trick on theses
boards a while back.
His example of making the
busy bus driver forget his destination, is dodgy to
say the least, there is far more involved than just
the use of suggestion as Ormand McGill seems to
suggest. If you were to deliver it as he suggested, you
would get thrown of the bus for being an idiot, "so
don't try it". He goes into slightly more detail when
he talks about "forgetting your own name" trick. He
refers, to ensuring that the subject's eyes become set.
This is important if you want to get it to work, I am
no expert but can you remember the guy on the train,
who Derren could not get to forget his destination
!!! (I think that might have been the problem). A
nice trick is where you get a person to remember a
picture, watch as they recall it and then using the "Jedi"
hand wave from top right of the persons head to bottom
left you can wipe the image away (it is in an NLP
book, "Frogs" I think). It does not always work
!!!
Hand locking is quite difficult, unless the person
believes that you can actually do it. Eyelid locking is
slightly easier. I think Derren's reputation as well as
the cameras makes his suggestions far more powerful,
than the average guy with his mates down the pub.
If you want to try something. Use an "ideomotor
response" form of waking hypnosis. Use Erickson's hand on
the lap method, i.e. then fingers twitching, then
fingers spreading then fingers lifting, then hand
lifting. If the person does not chicken out (e.g. my
girlfriend), you can then make the floating hand numb, or
induce actual hypnosis, or have the hand floating in the
"breeze". This trick does work down the pub !!!. It does
not make you look stupid, as the persons hand
(notably their index finger) starts to twitch, and they
think that you are actually doing it, and so you have
instilled the belief that you if you can do that you can do
other things.
Cheers,
Gordon
Moore
P.S. using an ideomotor pendulum/pen trick also works.
You know the one where it slips out of your fingers.
You can try it by yourself. Imagine that the pen or
watch or pendulum is slipping and it does
so.
Well these tricks work for me, and I am no master
hypnotist.
