It appears self-evident that whatever can be done in the normal waking state by means of ordinary suggestion, can also be done in the hypnotic state. Suppose you are told-in the normal waking state, mind you-by a person you have no grounds to distrust and may even respect: "Bring my pocket-book, please, do you mind ? It is in the side pocket of my coat, in the next room." Might you not go there and bring the pocket-book, even if it does not belong to the person asking you to do so (which fact is, of course, unknown to you) ? Can't you thus be made an innocent accomplice of a theft? The history of criminal law is replete with acts of larceny, burglary and fraud, in which people are mixed up as innocent victims of suggestion. If suggestion has sufficient power to lead men to unintentional crimes apart from hypnosis, don't say it cannot be done in a trance.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
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