In article <337e99fa.489821@snews2.zippo.com>, kingsword <kingsword@greenheart.com> wrote: >"....... I think the issue we are dealing with here (and that I dealt >with in my 1978 article *Magick and Hypnosis*) is that the magical >evocation and invocational processes, if successful in any visionary >sense, ARE HYPNOTIC. The point I am making -- and I think my colleague >Phil Farber would agree -- is that conjuration to visible appearence, >or psuedo-auditory communication, is essentially a hypnotic >phenomenon. my first reaction is 'So what?'. what you call what is happening seems to matter very little. josh [end of message ... text also available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=3266440&hilit=HYPNOSIS> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&3266439 Score: 78 Subject: Re: Cult hypnotism