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Free wrote: I've decided to opt out altogether...
To hell with TV!
Hugh wrote:Dr. William S. Kroger, co-author of the 1976 book, 'Hypnosis and Behavior Modification: Imagery Conditioning,' one of my most treasured books about hypnosis.
Hugh wrote:Regarding names, I found a book on hypnosis and behavior modification using "imagery conditioning" and "25 standard structured images."
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Hypnosis and Behavior Modification: Imagery Conditioning
by Authors: William S. Kroger and William D. Fezler
Released: May, 1976
ISBN: 0397503628
Hardcover
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In the practice of clinical hypnotism there are standardized images to be induced in the subject rather like a palette of emotions which have apparently been analyzed for their effect on the subject's subsequent post-hypnotic suggestibility.
Consider how this science could be dialed into TV and movies.
#12 of the 25 images for hypnotic suggestion is "Bluebird Scene."
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Image XII
This is the second image for the production of time condensation. It consists of a bluebird flying from a branch to the outstretched arms of the subject. The imaginal time elapsing during the 5-minute description is approximately 5 seconds, a much shorter amount of imaginal time than in the previous clock scene. Again, if the scene seems real, it will appear that less than 5 minutes has passed during the imagery. Time condensation is usually much more difficult to elicit than time expansion.
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So perhaps Operation Bluebird was named by those smart-alecky Ivy League MK-Ultra researchers for a combination of this hard-to-achieve hypnotic threshold and the cloying 'Bluebird of Happiness.'
I have collected lots of books on hypnotism from 1900 to the present and it is an amazing field in which to examine how children are programmed through overt media without adults knowing what is going on.
Edited by: Hugh Manatee Wins at: 10/1/06 9:42 pm
mentalgongfu2 wrote:I suppose I'm already participating in the boycott, but if I had a TV, I'd also want to boycott Showtime for Dexter. I'm no fucking Puritan, but that show crosses every limit of good taste and leaves gratuitous blood splatters all over the line.
bardobailey wrote:Dear Hugh,
You have found the perfect format and tone of response to remind us all of your deeper message and NOT highjack a thread. I applaud your skills.
KEEP IT UP!!
pvt. bailey
brainpanhandler wrote:Hugh wrote:Dr. William S. Kroger, co-author of the 1976 book, 'Hypnosis and Behavior Modification: Imagery Conditioning,' one of my most treasured books about hypnosis.
Wait a minute, am I to understand that one of your most treasured books on hypnosis was written by a CIA doctor involved with MK-Ultra?
That's an odd choice of words. Why do you treasure it? For the accuracy it contains? For the truth it reveals?
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Free wrote:Hugh- Do you happen to know if this:
Hypnosis and Behavior Modification: Imagery Conditioning by William S., M.D. Kroger (Hardcover - May 1976)
edition is basically the same as the - same title- Kroger/Fezler (Hardcover- Jan 1976) edition?
Both are listed on Amazon. May 1976 goes for 2.90 used and Jan. 1976 goes for 60.00.
Book sounds very interesting. I'd like to get it.
I've actually thought dexter was extremely tame for a show about a serial killer, which is one thing that really annoys me about it. It pretty much condones it. Especially considering the commercial success of the Saw movies, and the fact that they've made like 20 of them, as well as the surge in mainstream appeal of graphic horror movies, i don't see how anyone can be offended by this show more than any of the other slew of crappy, ultra-gory movies coming out these days.
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