Blog Posts by Susan Egner
Inspirations, thoughts by Minnesota author and flight attendant
Newspaper reporter: I understand you are strongly opposed to hypnosis.
Kit: Not for everyone. Just for myself and anyone else who is highly suggestible.
Newspaper reporter: What do you mean?
Kit: It’s my belief that you should always have yourself under control. The same would apply to the use of alcohol, or, heaven forbid, drugs.
Newspaper reporter: You sound as if you’re speaking from personal experience.
Kit: I once was in a large audience of people attending a performance of a magician/hynotist. You know the kind, where they ask for volunteers from the audience and under a trance, have them barking like dogs or quacking like ducks.
Newspaper reporter: And did you volunteer?
Kit: Absolutely not.
Newspaper reporter: I don’t understand. What happened, if you didn’t volunteer?
Kit: That’s just it, the same commands he gave to the participants on stage, affected me in the same way, and who knows how many others in the audience.
Newspaper reporter: So were you quacking like a duck?
Kit: Something like that. It lasted for days.
Newspaper reporter: Excuse me for laughing, but was that so bad?
Kit: It might not have been, but the hypnotist actually planted two levels of commands. One was a simple one that had me scratching my head whenever I heard certain words. That sounds laughable, I agree.
Newspaper reporter: But it wasn’t funny?
Kit: Far from it. The hypnotist also planted a second, deeper command that made me want to go somewhere, but I didn’t know where. It turns out, the answer would have come from a phone call, his phone call, telling me to go somewhere. I would have been completely out of my own control.
Newspaper reporter: Did you ever receive that phone call?
Kit: No, but others did, and if you’ve read the paper recently, it led to fatal results.
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The word hypnosis comes from the Greek word “hupnos” meaning sleep and “osis” meaning state. Though hypnosis for most is a safe and relaxing form of therapy, to some it can have a dangerous impact of creating false memories. Memory itself is naturally plastic and can be molded, sometimes into false memories. In a deep state, a person can be totally unaware of his surroundings. Here’s an interesting article on GetDoc about hypnosis.
By the way, reading can take you into a similar state without the possibility of danger. Must be the reason I like to read so much.
Casey, like many of us, is fearful of hypnosis, but her friend Kit is a vulnerable subject. She completely loses all sense of her surroundings, her activities or her responses. Read IROP for more.
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In aviation, an IROP is similar to being groundstopped, meaning flights are cancelled or delayed due to weather, mechanical failure or crew logistics. Casey Click learns an IROP can be caused by local anomalies like moose obstructing runways or a cat escaping from its carrier on board the aircraft and dashing beneath the pilot’s pedals in the flight deck, causing a two-hour delay.
Or it can also be caused by something dark.
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