It seems to have become fashionable in the current climate of political fervour around the world, though particularly in the US and UK, for hypnosis professionals and authors to write about how politicians are using mass hypnosis, in particular there is a lot of material written about how Trump and Obama before him are apparently manipulating people by using hypnosis.
Let’s be honest; they’re not.
In this video I go into detail explaining the case against such notions and offer some evidence based rebuttal. Enjoy….
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Once again great post Adam!
It is a very fine line even tough there are mayor differences. If as Hippolyte Bernheim said something along the lines of “It’s suggestion that rules hypnosis”, political speaches can be seen as hypnotic some times. As you say political speaches are filled with suggestions. People are suggestible, everything that can be done in hypnosis can be done without it. And if people are there, absorbed by the rhetoric, fascinated by what they hear, focused on the ideas long enough, it must be considered hypnotic.
And then again it can have the complete opposite effect on someone else listening. So it is not wielding hypnotic powers at someone. If the definition of hypnosis is narrow and must include a formal induction in order to be considered hypnosis, political speaches are definitely not hypnosis. Words are not magical, language patterns are not magical, there are no cheating it in, people are not in mass trances but people are suggestible and some more so than others. Follow an idea long enough and it will affect you.