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hypnosis

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Supervention of sleep.

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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis. Umberto Eco

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis. Miranda July

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. Theodore Sturgeon

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. Deepak Chopra

It is only from the perspective of the outlaw ... that we are able to see that mythically informed normality is a form of mass hypnosis. Sam Keen

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia. Betty Hill

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