Speed Hypnosis / Rapid inductions Speed and Danger?

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Permalink Reply by Sean Michael Andrews on September 10, 2008 at 2:21am

Justin:
Timing the speed of the induction is of course a problem, as you mentioned. As soon as the volunteer knows you are a hypnotist, is that the start of the induction?. You know we can never get a definitive answer on this. If we could all decide what the starting point is, our next problem becomes how to determine hypnosis has ocurred. If we use producing hypnotic phenomnenon, someone will find fault with that. Does eye-lock count? Some will demand amnesia or positive hallucinations. Gil Boyne says that many of his former students (I'm one) have claimed to be "The World's Fastest Hypnotist", but one student decided to try something different. He claimed to be "The World's Slowest Hypnotist". :-) He even had his briefcase lettered with the title.

FYI, I checked the web, and the address www.WorldsSlowestHypnotist.com is available, just in case someone wants to snap it up. BUT www.WorldsFastestHypnotist.com is TAKEN! :-)

-Sean Michael Andrews

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Permalink Reply by Lee Darrow on September 10, 2008 at 3:54am

Thanks for the kind words, Ken and your point on allergies is dead on target, too. I suffer from contact allergies to several plants and my allergies to certain types of "hot" peppers is well-known to all of my friends as they range into the "he will die if he bites into one" levels of severity.

Any fall from a standing position, is potentially a liability, regardless of whether injury is incurred or not, especially if the is a person who is perceived to be "in control" of the "experiment" or demonstration. That person, under the laws of most states, now has an assumed liability and requirement to keep the volunteer safe. Should it become demonstrable that the volunteer was not kept safe, th situation could be actionable under many of the statutes that cover things like "reckless endangerment" and the like.

It is an unfortunate fact that we live in a litigious society and, to be honest, there are times when I feel like I am standing in a crowd, yelling at the top of my lungs and being completely ignored while the roof is starting to fall in on certain portions of the crowd (not all, just some).

Folks like you, Ken, understand. It's too bad that the ones who really need to, refuse to even listen a lot of the time.

Thanks for the support and the kind words, again. They are deeply appreciated.

Lee Darrow, C.H.
www.stagehypnosissafetyclass.com
"The Stage Hypnosis Safety Guy"

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