Comic Book Hypnosis
10/05/2005
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Goddess X and I had an unusual session today. She had ordered something that caught her eye and presented it to me today. It was one of those "How to hypnotize" products advertised in a way so as to appeal to those who used to fantasize about ordering one of those hypno products from the back of comic books – and it even included one of those products!
The cover of the CD was hilarious, mostly because it incorporated as its major themes the two themes that Goddess X and I have recently been pursuing in our regular lives. It was almost as if it had been written for the two of us but in a 1960's Batman and Robin campy manner. It had my phrase, it had her phrase, it had them together, and then it used some of our subphrases.
The product did not deliver to its promises and I think that just about all who order it will feel their money was wasted.
The first part was a general talk about what hypnosis was and was not. For the most part they got it right but they did perpetuate one harmful fallacy. The second was a sample trance and they were reasonably good for this part. Goddess X and I both let ourselves experience it, and as it ended she immediately broke down some of its components to hypnotic pioneers. "That part was Erickson, that other part was the … induction, that arm thing was …".
The next two parts, the ones where it was time to deliver on the two main themes that it so loudly featured on its cover and in its advertisements, is where it took a huge turn for the worse. It was as if they wanted to say as quickly as possible just enough to help them defend themselves in court if they were ever hauled in for a most deserved charge of fraud. No serious attempt was made to transfer knowledge or technique or to leave the buyer with anything useful. Other than yet another trance, the product would be a waste of anybodies money.
Goddess X did have fun playing around with the comic book toy and use it to induce a trance in me, but the effects were much more from her and our bonds than from anything enabled by that toy.
I have always wondered about that particular toy, however, and it was nice to see one.
The cover of the CD was hilarious, mostly because it incorporated as its major themes the two themes that Goddess X and I have recently been pursuing in our regular lives. It was almost as if it had been written for the two of us but in a 1960's Batman and Robin campy manner. It had my phrase, it had her phrase, it had them together, and then it used some of our subphrases.
The product did not deliver to its promises and I think that just about all who order it will feel their money was wasted.
The first part was a general talk about what hypnosis was and was not. For the most part they got it right but they did perpetuate one harmful fallacy. The second was a sample trance and they were reasonably good for this part. Goddess X and I both let ourselves experience it, and as it ended she immediately broke down some of its components to hypnotic pioneers. "That part was Erickson, that other part was the … induction, that arm thing was …".
The next two parts, the ones where it was time to deliver on the two main themes that it so loudly featured on its cover and in its advertisements, is where it took a huge turn for the worse. It was as if they wanted to say as quickly as possible just enough to help them defend themselves in court if they were ever hauled in for a most deserved charge of fraud. No serious attempt was made to transfer knowledge or technique or to leave the buyer with anything useful. Other than yet another trance, the product would be a waste of anybodies money.
Goddess X did have fun playing around with the comic book toy and use it to induce a trance in me, but the effects were much more from her and our bonds than from anything enabled by that toy.
I have always wondered about that particular toy, however, and it was nice to see one.
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