I just watched a Rajneesh talk on YouTube. It's very hypnotic stuff... Hard to understand, but definitely hypnotic.
At first, it seems Rajneesh speaks so slowly that you feel impatient with him. It's an unusual experience hearing someone speak so incredibly slowly. We are not used to this slow pace in our everyday lives.
He doesn't blink often and he has starey eyes. When he does blink, he blinks very slowly. His voice is always the same monotone- there is very little variation in tone, which has the effect of making you have to concentrate carefully on what he is saying, or else you could miss a word.
There are very long pauses in his speech and he draws out the ends of his words... Making a kind of 'shhhhhh' sound often, or even 'ssssss', like a snake!
It's weird stuff.
Rajneesh rabbles one topic to the next, without explaining what the purpose of the talk is. He doesn't give any clues that he is about to change topics or explain something else... It's really, really difficult to follow what he is talking about!
Most people would say "back to what I was trying to explain" or else "but I am digressing here" or something similar. Rajneesh never gives us the normal conversational clues that you would expect, he just transitions seamlessly from one topic to the next.
It's like a story, within a story, within a story. Pretty soon you lose track of where you are, which is the whole aim of it, I suppose. You kind of zone out.
Then Rajneesh explains that he is your 'friend', but not your master or your 'leader'. He waits until you are in a very relaxed state and open to suggestion before he starts telling you what he is to you, personally, like he knows you or something.
I only watched about 7 minutes of this stuff and I began to feel very, very sleepy. At that point, I turned it off and got up and did something else. I think it's definitely hypnosis or trance induction, not that I am an expert!
At first, it seems Rajneesh speaks so slowly that you feel impatient with him. It's an unusual experience hearing someone speak so incredibly slowly. We are not used to this slow pace in our everyday lives.
He doesn't blink often and he has starey eyes. When he does blink, he blinks very slowly. His voice is always the same monotone- there is very little variation in tone, which has the effect of making you have to concentrate carefully on what he is saying, or else you could miss a word.
There are very long pauses in his speech and he draws out the ends of his words... Making a kind of 'shhhhhh' sound often, or even 'ssssss', like a snake!
It's weird stuff.
Rajneesh rabbles one topic to the next, without explaining what the purpose of the talk is. He doesn't give any clues that he is about to change topics or explain something else... It's really, really difficult to follow what he is talking about!
Most people would say "back to what I was trying to explain" or else "but I am digressing here" or something similar. Rajneesh never gives us the normal conversational clues that you would expect, he just transitions seamlessly from one topic to the next.
It's like a story, within a story, within a story. Pretty soon you lose track of where you are, which is the whole aim of it, I suppose. You kind of zone out.
Then Rajneesh explains that he is your 'friend', but not your master or your 'leader'. He waits until you are in a very relaxed state and open to suggestion before he starts telling you what he is to you, personally, like he knows you or something.
I only watched about 7 minutes of this stuff and I began to feel very, very sleepy. At that point, I turned it off and got up and did something else. I think it's definitely hypnosis or trance induction, not that I am an expert!