This stuff has been discussed here in depth by a denizen of the message board named The Anticult. We learned a lot from TAC while discussing by a commercial transformation teacher named Byron Katie.
Introduction - double meanings in sublminal trance persuasion.
The Anticult showed us how these messages can be used to dull our response to genuine danger, compromise our boundaries and - instill fear.
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The Anticult analyzed a narrative.
It was a tiny story told by BK - a story how she used a washing machine.
The Anticult showed us just what was embedded in the story.
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Anticults analysis begins here. Read this and see if it resembles anyone else's material.
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(Very small excerpt - please read everything The Anticult has written on page 41)
Introduction - double meanings in sublminal trance persuasion.
The Anticult showed us how these messages can be used to dull our response to genuine danger, compromise our boundaries and - instill fear.
[forum.culteducation.com]
The Anticult analyzed a narrative.
It was a tiny story told by BK - a story how she used a washing machine.
The Anticult showed us just what was embedded in the story.
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Anticults analysis begins here. Read this and see if it resembles anyone else's material.
Start here and read down. If you want, just read what The Anticult has written.
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More here:
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(Very small excerpt - please read everything The Anticult has written on page 41)
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whenever you hear someone like Katie constantly telling little weird "Stories", that is generally this brand of hypnotic symbolic persuasion. For those who have been exposed to the technical literature, it just LEAPS out instantly. Its totally blatant.
No different than for someone who knows a little about music, Mozart and Bach can be distinguished in a few seconds, but for a non-musical person...all classical music sounds the same...
the way Katie contructs those sentences shown above, betrays exactly what Katie is doing. Even though some of the Stories are strange and ambiguous, the sentence construction of double-binds, false-choices, embedded commands, and leading questions is hard evidence. That is being done very technically by the book, and at a very high level of skill, by Katie.
and as noticed, Katie is constantly telling sad-sack Stories about her various illnesses, they are listed above.
Again, this is done as it impacts on numerous levels, one of them being it builds emotional sympathy and Rapport with her female and loving followers. Katie goes on and on about her "blindness", and her treatments and ultimately an operation she had for her eyes. (...was blind, but now I see...). But notice she also added in one of her followers literally offered her his corneas while he was ALIVE!! So that fits perfectly with her program of Giving Katie EVERYTHING. Even offer her your EYES...heavy stuff..
Dr. Milton Erickson did very similar strange Stories like that, but in an ethical way. Patients would come into his office with some problem, and he would go into these long strange "stories" that did not seem relevant, or even make sense. (he was doing what came to be called Ericksonian Hypnotherapy), and by all accounts it got excellent results. (but he was an ethical hypnotherapist, who helped people like a good therapist would).
So this type of Laundry Story is classic. It works on the conscious level, it works as a Distraction, it works beautifully on the Unconscious level when you hear her vocal delivery,and the way she ends it, and it also possibly works on a meta-level, as a type of arrogant in-joke.
Katie also uses certain patterns like saying "I'm baffled by technology". Then her next sentence tells you to go to her website and go "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" your SELF!. (Reboot the Self).
Its a terrific diversion to put people at ease, and make them feel more comfortable.
So these types of Stories sound absurd and crazy to the conscious mind, which is their INTENT, but to the Unconscious they make perfect sense. Its a type of Dream-Language, of symbols and processes.