Students left in ‘mass hypnosis’ after demonstration goes awry

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Submitted by alkieanon on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 21:19

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Students left in ‘mass hypnosis’ after demonstration goes awry.

A group of young students at an all girls school were left in "mass hypnosis" after a demonstration from a fledging hypnotist reportedly left them locked in a trance. Maxime Nadeau was forced to call on his mentor for assistance after the hypnotist could not reverse the condition of several 12 and 13-year-old girls at the Collège du Sacré-Coeur private school in Quebec. One of the girls was reportedly left in a trance for five hours. "Being in a trance is a state of well-being," Nadeau told the CBC's French-language service. "I wasn't stressed. I knew they would get out of it."

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JR Harris

Wed, 06/20/2012 - 03:49

The ritual chanting of the 12 Steps, 12 Traditions, Chapter 5 "How it Works" and the ending prayer done during the Alcoholics Anonymous ritual ceremonies does have a possibility of leaving the participants in a trance like state. What is even more disturbing is that many of the Evangelists for the AA circuit speaker type of prospect hunting have "hypnosis" classes on their resume'.

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