Okay. Do I have your attention now?

Continuing from last week’s post where I was looking through the latest NGH Convention catalog, I saw this title from a one-hour lecture: Hypnotism for UFO Abduction Cases! I immediately went into a trance.

I mean, are you kidding me? There aren’t enough hypnotists in this business increasing breast sizes, regressing people to think they were a Pharaoh, calling themselves “doctor”, tapping on drums and working with crystals to create an aura (oh, yes… aura-reading, too!) of charlatanism? Now, we have a lecture to teach these wackos to help people who believe they’ve been abducted by aliens?

First, how do you even market such a thing? Do you put an ad in the paper reading, “Been abducted by aliens from another planet? Come and be hypnotized…” Yeah, I want these people in my office. Sure.

Next, is it even ethical? Who the heck knows if aliens exist? You may wonder if I, myself, believe in extra-terrestrial beings. Well, yes, I do believe there is life on other worlds somewhere out there. The universe is too vast to think we’re the only ones in it.

But, the point is (before I get way too far from the topic)… are they coming here, abducting people… so that these same abductees can come to you for help?

Is this really how one needs to make a living?

Craig Lang (the teacher of this stuff at the NGH), who says on his website:

“Another big interest of mine is conducting research into anomalies. Some anomalies are seen in the sky while others, such as UFO abduction or contact experiences, intrude deeply into peoples’ very lives. I work with people who have had close encounters with the unexplained, helping them to integrate their experiences into their lives, while at the same time shedding ever more light on this mysterious phenomenon.”

This guy really has in interest in this UFO thing. The funny thing is, on the page with all of the UFO stuff on it, he lists “Certified Hypnotherapist” under “Anomaly and Close Encounter Researcher/Investigator”. (So, apparently, we know which is more valuable.)

So, why is this bugging me? Why am I harping on this poor guy’s interest in aliens?

Because, this is the stuff that causes hypnotists to be classed in the same categories as magicians, fortune tellers, ghost hunters and goofballs. We need to clean up the reputation of hypnotists and hypnotism and get it away from the pendulum-swinging, spiral-twirling, eye-gazing movie images that most people have about hypnotists.

And, now, I will choose some of the classes I’ll attend this year. Oh, here’s a good one: Dowsing.

Dowsing? Yes. Very helpful. I can now find water in my reception room.

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