How can stage hypnotists make people do those crazy things?
Anyone who volunteers to work with a stage hypnotist first makes the conscious decision he/she will go along with the hypnotist’s suggestions- if not too dangerous or immoral -before they volunteer or take a front row seat from where they know volunteers will be chosen. The important point is that: If the Subconscious can be enlisted to incline people to do silly, funny, or embarrassing things, it should be clear that the Subconscious can even more easily be enlisted to do healing, positive, confidence-improving, or performance-enhancing things. 9. Am I vulnerable during hypnosis? If hypnosis produced the vulnerability that some people claim, simply because the Conscious Mind and Critical Faculty are less active, then that would be true of sleep and all the other times [as in road hypnosis] that the mind was in that natural state. This has not been seen in my practice or documented in the hypnotic literature dating back over the last 200+ years. I believe this is either because it’s ve
