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Aurora (comics) – Fictional character biography

Jeanne-Marie Beaubier was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She and her twin brother Jean-Paul were separated in infancy after their parents died. Jean-Paul was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Martin, who were cousins of his mother. The Martins could not afford to adopt Jeanne-Marie as well and arranged for Jeanne-Marie to be raised at [...]

Long John Nebel – Biography

Youth and young adulthood Nebel was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He dropped out of school after the eighth grade, but he was an avid reader throughout his life, and he was conversant on many topics. Rumor had it that he was the son of a physician and ran away with a circus as [...]

Mind control in popular culture – Introduction

Mind control has proven a popular subject in fiction, featuring in books and films such as ”The IPCRESS File”, and ”The Manchurian Candidate”, which has the premise that controllers could hypnotize a person into murdering on command while retaining no memory of the killing. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Mind control in popular culture, under [...]

Narrative of the abduction phenomenon – Skeptical response

Repressed Memory

Role of hypnosis and investigators in shaping the narrative Skeptics Robert Sheaffer and Phillip J. Klass agree that individual abduction researchers appear to exert influence on the characteristics of narratives retrieved during hypnotic recall. This influence tends to shape recovered abduction narratives in a way that reinforces the preconceived biases of the individual researcher. Klass [...]

Mind control – The Korean War and the origin of brainwashing

Stage Hypnosis

The Oxford English Dictionary records its earliest known English-language usage of “brainwashing” in an article by Edward Hunter in ”New Leader” published on 7 October 1950. During the Korean War, Hunter, who worked at the time both as a journalist and as a US intelligence agent, wrote a series of books and articles on the [...]

Known Space – Introduction

Highway Hypnosis

Species In the process of exploring space, humankind encounters several intelligent alien species, including the following: * Kzinti: Large and very aggressive felinoid aliens with whom humans fight several brutal interstellar wars. Kzinti tactics are somewhat cat-like in nature, “scream and leap” being the primary mode of declaring a challenge. The first Man-Kzin War ended [...]

The Magic Bullet (Angel) – Plot

Highway Hypnosis

Thanks to the events of “Shiny Happy People,” everyone in L.A. is happy and cheerful. The first scene opens with the Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice?” playing behind a montage of harmonious street scenes of pedestrians and drivers in the city, until Fred runs into a car at an intersection. She’s pursued by Wesley [...]

Steve Eichel – Introduction

Hypnosis

Steve K. D. Eichel (formerly Steve Dubrow-Eichel) is a psychologist known primarily for his work on destructive cults, coercive persuasion, mind control, brainwashing, and deprogramming. He is a former President of the Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the 2006-07 President of the American Academy of Counseling Psychology, the national membership academy comprising American [...]

Alien abduction entities – Plausibility and veracity

Hypnosis

Hypnosis as an influence on abductor descriptions Regarding the various types of reported abducting beings, folklorist and abduction researcher Thomas E. Bullard says “The small showing for monstrous types and the fact that they concentrate in less reliable cases should disappoint skeptics who look for the origin of abductions in the influence of Hollywood. Nothing [...]

Satanic ritual abuse – History

Hypnosis

Historical precedents Adapted from the Wikipedia article Satanic ritual abuse, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Dracula (Marvel Comics) – Powers and abilities

Hypnosis

Dracula gained the powers of a vampire from his transformation into a vampire by the bite of the Vampiress Lianda, and gained additional power by Varnae. Dracula possesses far greater powers than most vampires. He is superhumanly strong (to the point of standing toe-to-toe and defeating Colossus in single combat), and also possesses superhuman speed, [...]

Experience – Types of experience

Hypnosis

The word “experience” may refer, somewhat ambiguously, both to mentally unprocessed immediately perceived events as well as to the purported wisdom gained in subsequent reflection on those events or interpretation of them. Some wisdom-experience accumulates over a period of time, though one can also experience (and gain general wisdom-experience from) a single specific momentary event. [...]

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