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In article <512@heimdall.sdrc.com>, crgruen@sony1.sdrc.com (robert gruen) writes:
|> 
|> I have an interesting hypnosis idea that I read about but I belive that others 
|> may be interested in trying to verify or idsprove it.  
|> 
|> The story goes:  Say three people are sitting aroiund and one of them happens 
|> to be a hypnotist.  The hypnotist (we'll call him John) hypnotizes the subject  
|> (we'll call him Mike), and says "Mike, you are in a trance and from now on you 
|> will not be able to see Joe, he will be invisible" (Joe is the third person).
|> Now, Mike is hypnotized and he stares straight forward the hypnotist then tells 
|> the observer (Joe) to stand in front of Mike.  The hypnotist asks Mike if he 
|> can see Joe.  Mike replys that he cannot.  The hypnotist then proceeds to stand
|> behind Joe (who is invisible) and puts an object in his hand, he then asks 
|> Mike what object he is holding.  Mike immediately identfies the object that is 
|> being held up.  
|> 
|> In the book that I read "The Holographic Universe" the subject is able to 
|> identify a wathc that is held behind a person.  Apparently the person is 
|> "invisible",  if this is correct what does this say about reality as we know 
|> it?  If this is incorrect (and I have no reason to belive it is) then it 
|> was a good idea anyway!?! 
|> 

	Sounds pretty good, but the whole thing just doesn't make sense.  We
pervceive things physically from the light around us entering our eyes. 
Hypnosis may alter our perception so that our mind refuses to believe an
object is there, but it cannot change the physical reality that there IS a
solid object blocking our line of sight.  The light simply cannot reach our
eyes even if we don't believe there's anything there.  Now metephysical
believers can argue against this by saying that our "spirit" can look beyond
the normal laws of physics and hypnosis can help us get deeper into touch with
our "spirit", but I somehow doubt this is the case.  But if these stories are
true, then there are other senses that we have over looked...however, if you
believe this, I encourage further, first-hand research and experimentation.

Just another $.02

Peace and Happiness...

--C