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Hypnotism is just the newest and most advanced form of rhetoric, and very evolutionary.
Is Barack Obama using NLP techniques? Not a sheep 2008
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"Hypnotism" to the use of hypnotism in medical practice, and for further interesting details the reader is referred to that able work.
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Moll in his "Hypnotism" (London, 1909) states that, after Gabrielle Bompard's release M. Liégeois succeeded in putting her into a hypnotic state, in which she re-acted the scene in which the crime was originally suggested to her.
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"Hypnotism," after recounting various experiments showing the effect of the imagination on the body, says, respecting the _stigmata_ of the
A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Alfred Wesley Wishart 1899
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"Hypnotism," Mr. Archer tells us, "is the first and last word of the dramatic action"; perhaps thought-transference more exactly expresses the idea, but I should not have stated even this quite so strongly.
Henrik Ibsen Edmund Gosse 1888
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Two of these factors, viz.: Consciousness and Will, enter into all psychological phenomena such as Hypnotism and Mediumship, and into every form of mental alienation, insanity, obsession and the like.
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We are disposed to pursue the same line of argument a step further, and to apply it to the case of "Hypnotism" or "Clairvoyance."
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws James Buchanan 1837
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I thoroughly enjoyed the DVD of The Secret Hypnosis Trance Inductions of Ormond McGill with plenty of never before seen techniques . . . well, the cover blurb says never before seen but that's not completely accurate . . . while quite a number of them have not been publicly demonstrated before, a few of them are described in McGill's incredibly comprehensive The New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism which is pretty much THE classic for those interested in stage hypnosis therapists and anyone else interested in hypnosis should have it too, it's that important and that comprehensive.
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“Hypnotism only works if you agree that what you have is beautiful.”
Everything I Had Amy Butcher 2011
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Hypnotism could be the cure for a final request that is not moving toward completion.
Last Request Meg Pokrass 2011
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