Friday, December 13, 2013

I BEEN HIP-MOTIZED!: IS THERE A DARK SIDE TO HYPNOSIS?

"BLUE" JIMMY:  HIP-MOTIZER

BLIND DOG OZZY:  NEUROTIC CHIHUAHUA

"She got me hip-motized! Brother, I ain't even gonna lie!
 She got me hip-motized!  When she come up in here flashing those thighs..." 
(From the song, "Hip-motized" by "Blue" Jimmy& Blind Dog Ozzy)
"BLUE" JIMMY:  
I come across a chapter in a book entitled "The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved" by Colin & Damon Wilson who are well known writers on the topic of the occult and the unexplained.  The chapter details a case in England which took place at the Brittania Lodge Health Center in Appledore, Devon where a man by the name of Nelson Lintott was tried and convicted to 11 years in the joint for much sexual naughtiness with women and young girls.  He was supposed to be be curing these female clients of various bad habits such as nail biting and overeating with hypnosis and instead, was inflicting his bad habits on them.

BLIND DOG OZZY:  Dun Dun Dun!  I thought when under hypnosis, you're not supposed to do anything contrary to your own moral code.

"BLUE" JIMMY:  That's where our discussion begins.  According to many well-known experts on hypnosis, it is a harmless state of deep relaxation into which you enter several times daily on your own.  Some call this daydreaming while scientists refer to it as a time when on the brain wave scale, you have reached alpha or theta brain waves with beta being your normal, everday state and gamma being the domain of yogis and holy men.

BD OZZY:  And people who listen to Pink Floyd backwards after a hit of some primo hash.

"BLUE" JIMMY:  The idea that someone can "mesmerize" you and make you do things against your will seems to have originated, in modern times, from the 1894 book "Trilby" which describes the escapades of a young, half-Irish woman working as an artist's model in Paris who was known to (gasp!) take off her shoes in the company of gentlemen.  Seriously, this bit of risque' business caused the novel to become the "50 Shades of Grey" of its time although it's likely that many were also drawn to the character of Svengali, a man who seemed to have total hypnotic control over the young Trilby. It was also very delicately implied (not said) that Trilby had become his sex slave.

BD OZZY:  And saw a lot more than her feet!

"BLUE" JIMMY:  Yes, and to this day, the word "Svengali" refers to anyone who has manipulative control over another person.  But again we've been told many times that hypnosis simply allows us to put to sleep the left (scientific) hemisphere of the brain and access the right (artistic) hemisphere of the brain which is the realm of geniuses such as Da Vinci, Mozart and Tesla.

BD OZZY: Hypnotists have been known to allow people to overcome lifelong bad habits, exhibit incredible physical feats and display amazing artistic talents.

"BLUE" JIMMY:  And bark like a Chihuahua.

BD OZZY:  Oh! bite me!


"BLUE" JIMMY:  Yet, stories persist that people have been made to commit unethical, immoral and psychotic acts while under hypnosis or under post-hypnotic suggestion.  Many former cult members swear that hypnosis was an essential part of their induction into the cult.  Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard was a professional hypnotist before he started his Church of Scientology.  Even professional hypnotherapists have a long list of cautions for people undergoing hypnosis.  Did you ever see the movie "Stir of Echoes"?

BD OZZY:  I would hate to be in a situation like that!

"BLUE" JIMMY:  What -- to have horrible paranormal visions under the influence of post-hypnotic suggestion?

BD OZZY:   No, to be as bad an actor as Kevin Bacon.

"BLUE" JIMMY:  Yikes!  So what is happening?  Are unscrupulous hypnotists using powerful drugs or psychotropic plants in combination with hypnosis to gain control over people?  Is it a myth that hypnosis is a harmless, benevolent method to access your subconscious mind?  Or is there a form of hypnosis that is deeper and darker than we ever imagined and is known only by an inner circle of adherents?

BD OZZY:  If anyone knows more about this subject, please comment with more information.  In fact, I  command you to comment ... (holding pendulum) you are getting s-l-e-e-p-y!

"BLUE" JIMMY:  "Sake's Alive!'

BD OZZY:  "Wow!  Wow!" 











Wednesday, April 24, 2013

THE MASTER ... OF DECEPTION?

"BLUE" JIMMY:  HOAX INVESTIGATOR

BLIND DOG OZZY:  NEUROTIC CHIHUAHUA

"BLUE" JIMMY:  I just saw the DVD release of the 2012 film "The Master" starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams and it was a mesmerizing film worthy of all its various accolades and awards but I couldn't help thinking how the film was imperfect and missed a great opportunity to tell the life story of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating and colorful characters in L. Ron Hubbard.

BD OZZY:  According to the film's producers, the movie is simply the story of a drifter in post WWII America who happens to cross paths with a character who is unmistakably, Hubbard under a fictitious name and his movement (known in the film as "The Cause") is every bit the Church of Scientology.  Interviews with the the film's director, Paul Thomas Anderson show that he studied Scientology and the life of Hubbard and intended the film to be about the life of the Hubbard-like character (Lancaster Dodd) before changing the focus to the life of the young drifter, Freddie Quell, whereby the philosophical movement and its charismatic leader became almost incidental to the story.

"BLUE" JIMMY:   The real Hubbard, although astute, well-read and a man of much experience, was a master con man who took a witches' brew of various philosophies, religious beliefs and modern psychoanalysis and created his own religion apparently, to make a whole lot of money.

BD OZZY:  And it worked!

"BLUE" JIMMY:  Damn Straight!  Hubbard claimed to be everything from poet to artist to nuclear physicist to world explorer and every kind of expert you could name.  He once claimed to have banished Satanism from the city of Pasadena, California when he had a run in with JPL scientist, occultist and associate of Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons who was living there at the time.  According to his estranged eldest son L. Ron Hubbard Jr. who in later years, changed his name to Ronald DeWolfHubbard's bulls**t knew no boundries.  In the tell-all book that DeWolf co-authored entitled, "L. Ron Hubbard:  Messiah or Madman?" DeWolf pretty much says his dad was just making it up as he went along like a dude blowing sax in the subway.

BD OZZY:  And some of his jive was just impossible to prove or disprove like the time he claimed to hold a land speed record -- in a different lifetime on another planet.

"BLUE" JIMMY:  And there's where Hubbard really excelled -- making things up.  That's probably what made him such a creative and prolific science fiction writer which was where he made most of his money before the Church of Scientology and was probably the only honest work he did.  In a twisted way, you got to tip your hat to a guy who took his bizarre fantasies added some self-help philosophy and started a church that to this day, has enough money and clout (and lawyers) to deflect any criticism from itself and its founder.

BD OZZY:  Let's start our own church!

"BLUE" JIMMY:  The Blues is my religion and the front porch is my church.  Healings every Saturday night!

BD OZZY:  Send us your money!

"BLUE" JIMMY:  Sake's Alive!

BD OZZY:  Wow!  Wow!