Jacques Vallée - Messengers of Deception - hypnotic regression

Getting real tired of your portrayal of hypnosis Hollywood

I've no idea who'd wanna watch this shit, and I'm again furious at the retarded portrayal of hypnosis by Hollywood. Ok we've put you in a trance, feel relaxed? Yes. (Like anyone would say "yes I'm hypnotized") Now put your fist in the fire, oh sure! That wouldn't startle me at all!

Hollywood takes another giant dump on hypnosis...

Trailer for the movie Trance which seems to portray hypnosis very unrealistically... Rosario and James, why, why, why?

Energized Hypnosis

Energized Hypnosis is a collaboration between Christopher Hyatt and Calvin Iwema. Very fun to read as the text is very highlighted and uses NLP language patterns. I thought since I didn't get much out of the Undoing exercises I still might give this a try and didn't regret it. The book is quite short and you go through it in a breeze.

I also really enjoyed the audio hypnosis change session by Calvin Iwema which brought me quite deep (though I was already quite high from other meditations before so will see how another session goes tomorrow and let you know.) It also features a HILARIOUS mp3 of Israel Regardie's Guru Hymn to the Grinning Giggling Monkey-Faced Guru!

NLP: The Milton Model

The Milton Model is a model for indirect interpersonal communications inspired by psychiatrist and pioneer of medical hypnosis, Milton H. Erickson. The model was created by linguist John Grinder and Richard Bandler, the co-founders of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).

It is described by the authors as the reverse set of the meta model. Whereas the meta model sought to specify distortion, deletions and generalization in a speaker's language, the Milton model intentionally utilizes those patterns.

It is general, ambiguous and metaphoric. The Milton model and meta model of NLP were the first two models of NLP. Bandler and Grinder met with Erickson on a regular basis, and modeled his approach and his work over many months.

The Milton Model lists the key parts of speech and key patterns that are useful in directing another person's line of thinking by being "artfully vague", and in principle the model states that larger chunks (more general use of language) can lead to more rapport, while smaller chunks, (more specific language) is more limiting and has a greater chance of excluding concepts from a person's experience.

The patterns of the Milton Model can be used to

• pace another person's reality to gain rapport.
• access unconscious resources of another person to gather information or to lead them into an altered state.
• distract the conscious mind.

You will find politicians and the media using these speech patterns a lot.
Unfortunately the names for the speech patterns are a bit overly complicated and silly, therefor I wouldn't advise you to try and learn them by their names, but just be aware of the patterns and perhaps try using them when it seems appropriate. These are taken from the wiki article and a Chris Howard training program.

1) Mindread
Claiming to know thoughts and feelings

I know that you're wondering
I think you would agree

2) Lost Performative
Valued Judgements with performer left out, not saying who says it

It's a good thing to wonder...

3) Cause and effect
If... then

As you go deeper into trance you feel more relaxed

4) Complex Equivalent

The fact that you're sitting there means that you can go into trance

5) Presupposition
Assumption

You are learning many things.
Before you go into trance, I'd like you to sit comfortably in that chair as we talk about your outcomes for today.
When you go into trance, you may discover many resources that you did not realize you had yet.

6) Universal Quantifier
Generalization using all, all the things, every, any, everyone,...

You can always improve your language skills with every conversation you have.

7) Model operator of Possibility

You can learn, one can learn, want to.

8) Model operator of Necessity

Have to, must to, need to,...

9) Nominalisation
Using nouns, process words, that are frozen in time, nouns that are no objects

Relationship, love,...

10) Specified verb
Unlinked verb
And you can, can you not?

causes you to wonder what the verb relates to

11) Tag Question
Question added after a statement to ease resistance:

and you can understand that, right?
you're coming, aren't you?
do listen, will you?
let's have a beer, shall we?
you're developing a deep state of relaxation, aren't you?

12) Lack of referential Index
Phrase that dosn't pick out a specific portion of the listeners experience

one can you know

13) Comparative deletion
comparison is made but not specified as to who or what it was made

more or less the right thing to do (compared to what?)
better to do it that way, would it be best if i come around 2 o'clock

14) Pacing current experience
verifiable experience described in undeniable way
yes-set

you're listening to the sound of my voice, and you're going through these audio series

internally they are going yes, you can include something plausible and because they're on a yes-track they accept the plausible statement

15) Double bind
statement that gives the illusion of choice

Would you prefer finishing this portion of the audio series now or later?
Would you like me to stop by on monday or tuesday?

Triple binds are less obvious

16) Conversational postulate (Indirect Suggestion)
Normally a yes/no response - causes person to take action

Can you close the door?
Can you just take a moment to take a deep breath and relax?

17) Extended quote
delivering message in form of a quote but inducing trance, displaces resistance

the other day I met... who said: 'you can understand this information easily

18) Embedding Questions & Commands
Rather than directly asking: "What are you thinking about?", one might state:
"I'm curious to know what you are thinking.", or
"I'm just wondering what you are thinking."

An embedded command is typically distinguished or marked out using a subtle shift in voice tonality or non-verbal cue.

You may begin to feel a sense of comfort, as you begin to develop these skills in your daily life.

19) Negative Command
Don't think of an elephant - what just happened, you probably thought of an elephant.

Don't go into a deep state of relaxation just yet, just sit down on that chair and get comfortable first.

20) Ambiguity
Homophones:
you're = your
merry = marry = mary

Oronyms:
ice cream = i scream
depend = deep end
the sky = this guy
delight = the light

21) Metaphors in general

Derren Brown: Car Crash

Youtube link, no embedding. Vid info: A woman is made to witness her own death in a car crash with a surreal out-of-body experience...

Warning for sensitive viewers. Way over the top, that was not entertaining at all.

Tell-Lie Vision

Tell-Lie Vision part 1

and the other parts here.

Milton Erickson in Action

Milton Erickson: Hypnosis Interview Demonstration

Richard Bandler: 30 years of NLP

"I don't have patients, I have students, so far I haven't found anybody that's mentally ill. Been looking seriously for 35 years I haven't met anybody who's mentally ill, met a lot of people that are very stupid. Especially when I went to Washington DC, place is filled with 'em."

"A lot of people have accused me of being a Guru, I'm just not that fucking sociable. Excuse me. I go off and do stuff by myself and I report back, that's the way I do things. Lots of people wanna follow me but they discover that's really difficult to do."

"How do you deal with habits, you use the truth! That's how you do it. How do you get people to change, you tell them the truth, and then you give them only the alternative of remaining the same and going into unbelievable pain and discomfort. For example: You can keep your bad habit, but I always add 4 or 5 more with it, you wanna keep smoking? That's fine but you're gonna be impotent until you quit, you'd be surprised how many guys change the habit right away. Huhuhuh."

"They brought me into this mental hospital, this guy was into one of the dayrooms. He was walking around, acting pretty weird. But of course they gave him bad drugs to start with. If you want people to be sane don't give them bad drugs, Thorazine is never gonna help anybody to get a firmer handle on reality, it's not gonna teach you to be happy, it's an anti-happy drug. Elleville(?), takes all the highs and all the lows away...
If you want people to be happy, you get the drugs out of their system and give them something to be happy about. The first thing they have to do is to practice. Most of every single day, this is what I found out, all these years and all these clients I found out everybody's practicing everyday to see how bad they can feel."
Richard Bandler

Finally a download of good video and audio quality of Richard Bandler (after a few years of terrible barely incomprehensible uploads!). Thanks Mani!

The Difference Between NLP Dedroidify Therapy and Conventional Psychology/Psychiatry

With gracious permission of one of my clients, J. who I am helping out of a depression and making the shift from pessimist to optimist, to illustrate the difference he experienced between my NLP and conventional therapy:

"I've seen therapists for the last six years, but it's more of a listening session than anything else, therefore, no help at all."

This is what has motivated me to start NLP therapy, I felt I was good at it, and I haven't heard a single positive review of convential psychologists/psychiatrists, who charged a lot and are not helping their clients. Let's see how J. compares his former therapists to how I helped him:

"Whoa! You covered a lot in this session. Again, these are incredibly new therapies for me. Usually I'd go to a doctor and he'd just sit there and look at me, writing illegibly on some yellow legal pad. What great help that was. Did wonders. I'm kidding of course. The kind of lessons and ideas you present give me a kind of new paradigm to work with in my life."

I know psychologists and psychiatrists learn a lot of theory, and then when they start their practice, they basically have to wing it. Most of them make plenty of money, but little change, therapeutically they crash to the ground instead of soaring with that winging.

The difference between conventional talking therapy and Neurolinguistic Programming, is NLP actually modelled psychologists who knew how to do their job and effect change rapidly and effectively, like Virginia Satyr, Fritz Perls and Milton Erickson. On the difference Richard Bandler, one of the founders of NLP, hilariously said this:

"It's not a therapy group, it's a training session - if you want to go to therapy, well, we can recommend some therapists who are very reliable, why some of their clients have seen them for 20 and 30 years."
Richard Bandler

NLP is a sort of practical training. Often one session is all what it will take to get you confident enough to take care of your own consciousness from then on. I asked J. what the psychologists/psychiatrists he went to see for six years to no avail actually specifically suggested:

"As for my therapy sessions, they suggested once that I get angry. One doctor said, get angry, you should be mad, he told me. I said I wasn't very angry at anything, not very angry person. Then he dropped it. They tried to get me to date girls too, saying I needed someone to keep me "occupied". I wasn't having it."

"Get angry, do some random dating. Time's up, see you next week." Geez. How has this paradigm not collapsed yet? Another example:

"The hypnotherapy might be something of interest to me. I've never had that kind of experience. One of the methods of my former psychiatrists was to put me in a chair and tense up my muscles and then release the tension. He gave me a cassette tape with his voice relying instructions. I guess it was his way of recreating meditation practices. It didn't help very much.
This was a guy who when I was talking about my problems would literally yawn with his mouth closed. Ever seen anyone do that? It's really annoying, especially when your spilling your guts to some wealthy doctor (and he was, he owns like six houses and has five boats and red mercedes benz I see him cruising around town in). My mom went to see him too for a while. She did not like his methods and stopped. I have since stopped as well." J.

So this guy at least used a short yoga exercise and made a poor Hypnosis/Guided Meditation tape, instead of using the expensive time to actually do a personal session that would have been of some use. When you have six houses and five boats, who has the time to care about their clients?

What happens in Neurolinguistic Programming? Well it's not a listening session! The NLP therapist finds out the core challenges, motivates the client to use his/her own creativity in applying solutions, helps the client immediately to rearrange the inner world and experiencing, teaches the client an entire toolbox of techniques customizable to their own needs, and most importantly: applies everything that might help!

As for my own offered change therapy, I also teach anything what is of practical use and interest to the client, for instance the psychological use of meditation, practical psychology and much more. If you teach the client how the mind works, they can influence it themselves more succesfully. So when the therapy is over, the client has learned an entire range of new information and techniques that improve the rest of their lives and help them to realize they are the driver and not the passenger of their consciousness. As an incentive to people who are considering my therapeutic services, some more chronological kind words from J:

"Great first lesson."

"Thus far, it's been great."

"Tremendous insight. Very helpful, I appreciate it greatly."

"I must say I've read books on self-help and other philosophy oriented texts that have helped. However, I find this more helpful. It's probably because you can relate to my problems and put the solution in words I can understand and respect.
Thanks again for your time and your kind, inspiring words."

"Whoa! You covered a lot in this session. Again, these are incredibly new therapies for me. Usually I'd go to a doctor and he'd just sit there and look at me, writing illegibly on some yellow legal pad. What great help that was. Did wonders. I'm kidding of course. The kind of lessons and ideas you present give me a kind of new paradigm to work with in my life."

"I did the exercise five times and realized I am the one in control.
Thank you for your kindness and understanding. Great job thus far!"

"I'm glad I came to you. I"m very appreciative that you agreed to give me free lessons. "

"I'm looking forward to it. (Next Lesson)"

"I'm glad you took me on as a client. Regardless of anything, this has helped me tremendously. If you ever need a reference, or feedback, or anything along those lines, I'm your man. "

"Thanks so much again!"

Thanks to J again for his agreement to post this and the wonderful and fast progress he's making. E-mail me at Dedroidify at Hotmail dot Com for more information. If you have any challenges consciousness wise, I'm your man!

"There is nothing permanent or compulsive in your system
except what you believe to be so."
Moshe Feldenkrais

Dedroidify Neurolinguistic Programming Therapy!

Note: I am no longer offering these services

I have studied consciousness, NLP, psychology and hypnosis for years, used the techniques succesfully on myself and others, and now am venturing to help people professionally!

What is NLP? Neurolinguistic Programming is a method applied to psychotherapy and interpersonal communication. A theory of language, communication and an associated therapeutic method, derived from the study or 'modeling' how successful outstanding people in different fields obtain their results. It is a toolbox of very effective ways to change thought patterns.

For instance for psychotherapy, the work of notable Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls and Milton Ericson was modelled. NLP holds that people can improve the way they interact with the world by means of certain principles and techniques concerned with their use of language.

The name was coined by psychologist Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder to represent a theoretical connection between neurological processes (neuro), language (linguistic) and behavioral patterns that have been learned through experience (programming). NLP was originally promoted as an extraordinarily effective and rapid form of psychological therapy, capable of addressing the full range of problems which psychologists are likely to encounter, such as phobias, depression, habit disorder, psychosomatic illnesses, learning disorders, etc.

NLP helps to fulfil one's potential, through self-determination learned limitations are overcome towards well-being and healthy functioning. These skills can be learned by anyone to improve their effectiveness both personally and professionally.

If you are interested, and want to really De-droid-ify, please e-mail Dedroidify at Hotmail dot com, we can start as soon as you want. You can donate whatever you want for the help. If you have a question just send me an e-mail!

What I am offering:

• Change Therapy
• NLP Session(s)
• Hypnosis Session(s)
• Meditation help & advice for beginners and intermediates.
• Anything else? Just ask.

What I can help you with:

• From Pessimism to Optimism
• Depression
• Re-Associating (Anything you like)
• Anxiety and Stress reduction
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Anger issues, general or specific, for instance: Road Rage
• Motivation
• Addiction
• Phobias and fears
• the 8 Circuit Model
• Meditation
• Anything else? Just ask

Method:

• Change Therapy: Daily follow up through E-mail. After understanding your core challenges, I will inform you on how the mind works specifically and practically for your situation. Several short and easy tasks and advice will be given each day to explore and fine tune your consciousness the way you want it. Teaching you information and techniques that you will be able to use for your own benefit and others for the rest of your life.
• NLP session: We will work specifically on thought patterns or reactionary habits you are willing to change, the set of tools learned to fit your specific requests will be able to be applied by you in the future for a wide range of other needs! This can be done through Instant Messaging or Skype.
• Hypnotherapy session: You will be guided through a process fine tuned for your specific needs, which will effect immediate change. Hypnotherapy requires you to be able to communicate with me through a mic online using Skype.

Communication:

• E-mail (Dedroidify at Hotmail dot com)
• Instant Messaging (MSN, etc)
• Skype (Microphone needed, no webcam necessary)

Credentials:

• Practical experience of succesful NLP and Hypnosis sessions. I helped people with Anxiety Attacks, Anger Issues, ADHD, Migraines, Stress and Pain Reduction, PTSD...
• NLP Master Practitioner Training through Chris Howard, Richard Bandler.
• Jungian Analytic, Integral, Transpersonal and Quantum Psychology.
• Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy: Milton Erickson, Dave Elman, George Estabrooks
• Expert in Leary/Wilson/Gurdjieff/Alli's 8 Circuit Model (Jung/Freud/Berne/Piaget)
• Immersed in NLP, Psychology, Consciousness, Philosophy, Spirituality for years.
• Linguistics: E-prime, Milton Model, Meta Model
• Meditations: Psychological, Vipassana, Mantra, Visualisation, Pranayama Breathing, etc.
• Hale Dwoskin's Sedona method
• Fluently Spoken Languages: English, Dutch, French.

Practically

To illustrate how one of my new clients is experiencing the therapy first hand and how much better he is off with it than talking (listening) therapy, see: The Difference Between NLP Therapy and Conventional Psychology/Psychiatry and NLP Testimonial from a satisfied client.

Relevant Motivational Quotes

"If what you're doing isn't working, do something different."

"Somewhere inside most people are the resources they need to overcome most problems. Therapy locates and then re-locates them."

"Problems have much more to do with process, with the way experience is organised and structured. If you can change the organising process, you can change outcome more easily, more quickly and more enduringly. Therapy means change."

"All Hypnosis is Self-Hypnosis."

Note: I am no longer offering these services

Don Trent Jacobs - Julian Jaynes & Our Consciousness

Don Trent Jacobs - Julian Jaynes & Our Consciousness

Professor Don Trent Jacobs (aka Wahinkpe Topa) discusses hypnotism, an exploitable vestige of pre-consciousness, noting that our vulnerabilities are being professionally exploited to direct formulate an acceptable collective cognitive imperative.

"When the bio-survival circuit flashes danger, all other mental activity ceases."
Robert Anton Wilson

"Every politician knows how to induce hypnosis, and very damned few people on the whole planet know how to de-hypnotize themselves.
The world is not governed by facts or logic. It is governed by BS (belief systems)."
Robert Anton Wilson

(These aspects were not specifically mentioned in the Layman's explanation post, so don't look for them ;p Obviously the Julian Jaynes approach DTJ takes here is different. Think of interpretations in catma "and" mode instead of "or" mode.)

Secrets of the Occult pt-02 The Scientists

Secrets of the Occult explores the world of the occult from the ancient and modern magicians who practice it to the cutting edge scientists attempting to explain its mysterious claims. This program highlights the advances that have been achieved by innovators who challenged established reality like Newton, Galileo, Freud, Jung, Einstein and many more.

Daily Dedroidify: Mind Techniques

Daily Dedroidify: Mind Techniques

A page I started but never finished about Paraliminal & Binaural tech, Hypnosis and NLP. I'll try to fix that soon and will repost it then.

Here's an interesting text about hypnosis. For more on the above topics (but not that much or useful info, will try to add more soon), please click the article link.


How hypnosis got eclipsed in psychology:
"The young Sigmund Freud studied with Liebault and Bernheim at the Nancy School and initially used hypnosis in his practice. In the end, Freud stopped using hypnosis. The reason declared publicly was that a young female patient had jumped up and kissed him. Freud professed to be shocked and concluded that hypnosis was far too volatile to use. The little known history of hypnosis records a different reason why Freud stopped using hypnosis: his cocaine usage had ruined his gums, and his false teeth did not fit well, causing him not to speak well enough to induce trance easily.

In competition with an excellent hypnotist named Breuer, Freud invented 'talking therapy.' Freud said that his talking therapy would not be a therapy for the poor. It would take 100 to 300 hours to effect a cure. His talking therapy became psychoanalysis and this changed the history of European psychology. Freudian psychoanalysis became the rage in psychology and it became inappropriate to use any other techniques. Consequently, hypnosis was eclipsed."
From Tad James' Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Guide - Producing Deep Trance Phenomena

"All successful communication is hypnosis."
Milton H. Erickson

about NLP: "It's not a therapy group, it's a training session - if you want to go to therapy, well, we can recommend some therapists who are very reliable, why some of their clients have seen them for 20 and 30 years." :p
Richard Bandler

IlluminatiMATRIX - What In The World's Going On?

IlluminatiMATRIX - What In The World's Going On?

Maybe first check out this extensive post about Bryan Kemila and IlluminatiMatrix and of course http://illuminatimatrix.wordpress.com itself.

Prepare for strange but fascinating theories on reality, conspiracy, language and symbols. Wether it's truth, confirmation bias or a combination of it, or just wrong, or just another view of reality that we can make possible, or the many other possibilities I still haven't figured out yet. Informed comments are hoped for (after checking out the vid, post & site :p). I e-mailed Bryan Kemila a few times but it didn't make me much wiser about my remaining questions, to be continued!

BS Detection

"Hypnosis, I don't believe in that crap... and besides, it's dangerous!"

The most common, the most hilarious, and the most ignorant objection to Hypnosis. If you don't believe it works, how can it be dangerous to you at the same time? :p

Daily Dedroidify: Mind-numbing, spirit-crushing IDIOT BOX!

Daily Dedroidify: The mind-numbing, spirit-crushing IDIOT BOX!

Features: # Now available bigger, wider, flatter, clearer, faker, dumber
# Still drains truth, intelligence, morality, attention-span, time, opportunity, fitness
# More lies, more overpriced, more channels, more advertising, more drama, more propaganda
# Oh and... Celebrity dancing & ice-skating, what's next? Televised celebrity pony rides?

Being exposed to stupidity & immorality... turns you stupid & immoral!
Who'd have thunk it!?

Network: TV is a goddamn amusement park

I don't need a box to tell my vision!

"The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." Ray Bradbury

"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye."
Bill Hicks

Sure you can watch tv, but really watch.
See through it.


Terence McKenna on McLuhan: The media is the message

Sure you can watch tv, but really watch.
See through it.

tv is the ultimate tool
to make you lame
to keep you lame
and then when you all are lame
they feed you with a view upon the lame life of others
and then you and your lame friends can comment on them
there is a button on your TV
when you push it 'off'
it turns your life 'on'

"If it is not in the media... it did not happen.
If it did not happen, but is in the media... we believe it has happened."
Charles T. Tart



The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Throw Away Your Televisiontubbies

"Throw away your television. Take the noose off your ambition. Reinvent your intuition now. It's a repeat! Of a story told. It's a repeat! And it's getting old... " RHCP

"I can't watch TV longer than 5 minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust."
Bill Hicks

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." John Lennon

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." Groucho Marx


How Television affects Your Brain Chemistry

"Television incision on the frontal lobe! You know big brother ain't a tv show! It's how we roll with what they know! Reality bites me comfortably, inducing you into watching me, watching you, watching we, methodically!" Coldcut

"Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen Square was fashion the reason why they were there? They disguise it, hypnotize it, Television made you buy it!" SOAD

"I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television." Chuck Palahniuk


Incubus - Idiot Box (live at Red Rox)

"TV what do I need!
Tell me who to believe!?
What's the use of autonomy when a button does it all?"
Incubus

"When I was young, the TV had dignity - it went off, now it's like some prostitute in Las Vegas - it's on all night." Paul Mooney

Television... The more you watch people behave immorally, the more you consider the behavior normal and permissible. This may not apply to you personally, but when the images are presented night after night, year after year, to a population of millions of people, there are effects on that population.

Steven Jacobson Mind control Neuro-linguistic programming

Steven Jacobson Mind control Neuro-linguistic programming

Derren Brown: Voodoo

Derren Brown: Voodoo

Atheist, sceptic & mentalist Derren Brown challenges the beliefs of a New Age believer with the use of a Voodoo Doll. Starts out great with "we all get stuck in our belief systems, however sensible we think they are..."

Free Course at Hypnosis Motivation Institute

A free course with pdf and streaming video lessons on basic hypnosis with free certification too. This is great!

The Hypnosis Motivation Institute, HMI, is a non-profit nationally accredited hypnosis training college and clinic of hypnotherapy that has been serving Southern California for more than 40 years.

HMI was founded in 1968 by Dr. John Kappas. Dr. Kappas literally defined the profession of hypnotherapy in 1973, when he wrote and defined the profession of a "Hypnotherapist" in the Federal Dictionary of Occupational Titles. That definition remains in force and unchanged today.

Celebrating over 40 years of excellence, HMI has earned the distinction of being America's first hypnotherapy training institution to become nationally accredited, by an accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, in Washington, D.C.

HMI's Hypnotherapy Clinic is home to over 50 Certified Hypnotherapists. HMI estimates that it has provided more than 250,000 hours of private hypnotherapy services in its 40 year history. It is this clinical experience that provides the foundation for HMI's Hypnotherapy Certification Training and Internship program.

The Hypnosis Motivation Institute strives to offer the most extensive and thorough hypnotherapy training and internship program available. Become a Certified Hypnotherapist today!