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Just a hypnotic induction. It is as simple as leading somebody through. Hypnosis at its core is organized fantasy. You're having somebody come along into a land of make-believe with you by talking them through it. And that can be extremely powerful. We think it's not something that could partition people off memory-wise and all that, but absolutely can. And it was figured out.
Just a hypnotic induction. It is as simple as leading somebody through. Hypnosis at its core is organized fantasy. You're having somebody come along into a land of make-believe with you by talking them through it. And that can be extremely powerful. We think it's not something that could partition people off memory-wise and all that, but absolutely can. And it was figured out.
They figured it out in the 1700s. There's Marquis de Poisegier figured it out in 1784. He published a book about how to hypnotize somebody and have them remember things in their somnambulistic state and not their waking state. And they've been doing it ever since. Oh, yeah. Whoa. 200 years.
They figured it out in the 1700s. There's Marquis de Poisegier figured it out in 1784. He published a book about how to hypnotize somebody and have them remember things in their somnambulistic state and not their waking state. And they've been doing it ever since. Oh, yeah. Whoa. 200 years.
They figured it out in the 1700s. There's Marquis de Poisegier figured it out in 1784. He published a book about how to hypnotize somebody and have them remember things in their somnambulistic state and not their waking state. And they've been doing it ever since. Oh, yeah. Whoa. 200 years.
I never watched that. Is that what it's about?
I never watched that. Is that what it's about?
I never watched that. Is that what it's about?
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Only that is real. That literally exists. They were using it, James.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Only that is real. That literally exists. They were using it, James.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Only that is real. That literally exists. They were using it, James.
Talking to people, just hypnosis. So what it was, was back in the 1700s, you had Mesmer, Franz Anton Mesmer. And he was doing mesmerism. And we think that that's silly and hokey and old timey. In the 1840s, they changed the name from mesmerism into hypnotism, Dr. James Braid.
Talking to people, just hypnosis. So what it was, was back in the 1700s, you had Mesmer, Franz Anton Mesmer. And he was doing mesmerism. And we think that that's silly and hokey and old timey. In the 1840s, they changed the name from mesmerism into hypnotism, Dr. James Braid.
Talking to people, just hypnosis. So what it was, was back in the 1700s, you had Mesmer, Franz Anton Mesmer. And he was doing mesmerism. And we think that that's silly and hokey and old timey. In the 1840s, they changed the name from mesmerism into hypnotism, Dr. James Braid.
And he was using it to do surgery and amputations on people where they wouldn't remember their leg getting amputated in a war or something because they didn't have the medical facilities where he was deployed out. I think he was in Southeast Asia for the British.
And he was using it to do surgery and amputations on people where they wouldn't remember their leg getting amputated in a war or something because they didn't have the medical facilities where he was deployed out. I think he was in Southeast Asia for the British.
And he was using it to do surgery and amputations on people where they wouldn't remember their leg getting amputated in a war or something because they didn't have the medical facilities where he was deployed out. I think he was in Southeast Asia for the British.
he could hypnotize a person do the surgery bring them back and they wouldn't remember the hard part the bad part where they had their leg cut off and it worked and it continued on literally from the 1840s as part of medical medical hypnotism until the 1920s and 30s but there was always a another layer on that that when people were in their somnambulistic state they had psychic ability you could take a person sit them in a chair in one room take a person to another room another town another city
he could hypnotize a person do the surgery bring them back and they wouldn't remember the hard part the bad part where they had their leg cut off and it worked and it continued on literally from the 1840s as part of medical medical hypnotism until the 1920s and 30s but there was always a another layer on that that when people were in their somnambulistic state they had psychic ability you could take a person sit them in a chair in one room take a person to another room another town another city
he could hypnotize a person do the surgery bring them back and they wouldn't remember the hard part the bad part where they had their leg cut off and it worked and it continued on literally from the 1840s as part of medical medical hypnotism until the 1920s and 30s but there was always a another layer on that that when people were in their somnambulistic state they had psychic ability you could take a person sit them in a chair in one room take a person to another room another town another city