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Method Used by Subject to Handle Others | Hypnotic Level | Ability to Experience Present-Time(45) Pleasure | |
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4.0 | Gains support by creative enthusiasm and vitality backed by reason. | Impossible to hypnotize without drugs. | Finds existence very full of pleasure. |
3.5 | Gains support by creative reasoning and vitality. | Difficult to trance(43) unless still possessed of a trance engram. | Finds life pleasurable most of the time. |
3.0 | Invites support by practical reasoning and social graces. | Could be hypnotized, but alert when awake. | Experiences pleasure some of the time. |
2.5 | Careless of support from others. | Can be a hypnotic subject, but mostly alert. | Experiences moments of pleasure. Low intensity. |
2.0 | Nags and bluntly criticizes to demand compliance with wishes. | Negates somewhat, but can be hypnotized. | Occasionally experiences some pleasure in extraordinary moments. |
1.5 | Uses threats, punishment and alarming lies to dominate others. | Negates heavily against remarks, but absorbs them. | Seldom experiences any pleasure. |
1.1 | Nullifies others to get them to level where they can be used. Devious and vicious means. Hypnotism, gossip. Seeks hidden control. | In a permanent light trance, but negates. | Most gaiety forced. Real pleasure out of reach. |
0.5 | Enturbulates others to control them. Cries for pity. Wild lying to gain sympathy. | Very hypnotic. Any remark made may be a "positive suggestion".(44) | None. |
0.1 | Pretends death so others will not think him dangerous and will go away. | Is equivalent to a hypnotized subject when "awake". | None. |
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Footnotes
43. trance: 1. a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which
ability to function voluntarily may be suspended. v. 6. to put in a trance. 44. positive suggestion: suggestion by the operator to a hypnotized subject with the sole end of creating a changed mental condition in the subject by implantation of the suggestion alone. it is a transplantation of something in the hypnotist's mind into the patient's mind. The patient is then to believe it and take it as part of himself. 45. present time: the ground, sky, walls, objects and people of the immediate environment. In other words, the anatomy of present time is the anatomy of the room or area in which you are at the moment when you view it. |
1982