The Dark Art Of Mass Hypnosis

by Clifford Mee & Igor Ledochowski

Hypnosis is powerful. Of that there is no question. Used wisely it offers the fastest and most dependable set of tools to help people make positive changes in their lives. Increasingly therapists and health care professionals are turning to hypnosis to fight smoking and alcohol addictions, conquer weight problems or poor self esteem, dispel anxiety, phobias and other fears, relieve pain or offer a drug-free anesthetic for surgery, combat allergic reactions like asthma or hay fever, overcome depression or a mid-life crisis, improve memory and do better in exams, improve grades, speed recovery from an injury (physical or emotional)... the list goes on and on.

This is the benevolent face of hypnosis: it helps, it heals it opens the doors to great success and happiness. Luckily this is the way that most hypnotists use their skills. But like any powerful tool it can be (and is being) abused. On a rare occasion you might have an individual hypnotherapist abusing his position. As with the rest of the medical profession this is thankfully something that is pretty uncommon. Just like with the "bad apples" amongst doctors - those who take advantage or even purposely hurt their patients - these are soon discovered and punished for their actions. Those kinds of abuses are so infrequent that they are not really worth getting concerned about for the most part. 

What is more worrying is the use of hypnotic techniques to install irrational attitudes, beliefs and feelings in you (and the rest of us) designed to benefit one person or group without giving you anything of value in return. Very often, as we shall see, the "reward" for your compliance comes in the form of pain, suffering and fear.

Welcome to the dark side of "Mass Hypnosis"

Mass hypnosis has been used for centuries by con-men (like the infamous "fake auctions" that you'll find doing "hit and run" strikes all over England) and cults (who have developed a sophisticated set of "recruiting" and brainwashing techniques based on hypnotic principles). They are also now being used by politicians, private lobby groups and large advertisers to control what you think and feel so they can control where your money and/or your votes go.




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