Thanks Corboy,
I really need to do a lot more reading on hypnosis.
I read the link at the bottom of your post, all about Byron Katie. It is so fascinating. Unfortunately, the link to the woman's blog that The Anticult posted no longer works, as that blog is now "privacy protected" or whatever. I wonder why?
Anyway, it seems like, from what The Anticult posted, that this woman was very deliberately targeted by Byron Katie in order to manipulate her and use her to do BK's bidding. It's so sad, that someone could be so ruthless as to use another person in that way.
I really would have liked to read that blog, as I could have probably drawn some parallels with my own life and how I was unknowingly drawn in with hypnosis techniques, what might have happened to me, etc.
I actually have a one of BK's books on my shelf! I thought it was not a helpful book, it was very repetitive and just kind of tried to convince people that their problems didn't really exist, which is pretty pointless.
As for Rajneesh, I guessed that there was something up with his stories, within stories, within stories. I have even found an explaination for this in his own words somewhere... Rajneesh explains that his talks are really meditations and that you don't actually need to understand them on a rational level!
Pretty clever, calling hypnosis by the name "meditation"! Mooji actually does the same thing...he calls some of his YouTube hypnosis "guided meditation". I think the ploy is to suggest that it's going to be a relaxing experience for the viewer, because you need to relax in order to be hypnotised.
Very cunning.
I really need to do a lot more reading on hypnosis.
I read the link at the bottom of your post, all about Byron Katie. It is so fascinating. Unfortunately, the link to the woman's blog that The Anticult posted no longer works, as that blog is now "privacy protected" or whatever. I wonder why?
Anyway, it seems like, from what The Anticult posted, that this woman was very deliberately targeted by Byron Katie in order to manipulate her and use her to do BK's bidding. It's so sad, that someone could be so ruthless as to use another person in that way.
I really would have liked to read that blog, as I could have probably drawn some parallels with my own life and how I was unknowingly drawn in with hypnosis techniques, what might have happened to me, etc.
I actually have a one of BK's books on my shelf! I thought it was not a helpful book, it was very repetitive and just kind of tried to convince people that their problems didn't really exist, which is pretty pointless.
As for Rajneesh, I guessed that there was something up with his stories, within stories, within stories. I have even found an explaination for this in his own words somewhere... Rajneesh explains that his talks are really meditations and that you don't actually need to understand them on a rational level!
Pretty clever, calling hypnosis by the name "meditation"! Mooji actually does the same thing...he calls some of his YouTube hypnosis "guided meditation". I think the ploy is to suggest that it's going to be a relaxing experience for the viewer, because you need to relax in order to be hypnotised.
Very cunning.