I dont think he actually died from the LSD; 100 micrograms injected IM wont kill you I dont believe.. he just wanted to end on a high note. I am not too familiar with Eriksons work, but if it is anything like NLP (neuro linguistic programming) then its going to be powerful stuff. will check out his work.. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming On Friday, January 16, 2015, doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx');>> wrote: > Hi Shaun, > > Have you ever had a look at Aldous Huxley and his "Doors of Perception" ? > > see url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception > > Life story...he died from an overdose of LSD and laryngal cancer on the > day of Kennedy's assassination. > see url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley > > He was the first person to put on a television programme organised by the > BBC on the use and effects of illegal drugs. Not a lot of people have > managed to do that since. They had laws against it in them days too, > still, anyfink goes in the name of science :-) ...and I am still trying > to work out how he managed it...and got away with it...perhaps it was the > respect for his father as one of the worlds leading scientists of his > time... :-) . Perhaps he hoodwinked all the judges, law enforcers and > politicians and board of guvnors at the same time...or they were all on > LSD. It took me, as a naive young Scot, a long time to realise that LSD > was not only a unit of currency, prevalent at the time. > > Even better than that....did you ever watch "The Manchurian Candidate" a > fictional film based on experiments carried out by some leading western > democracy or other, it might have been the Soviet Union...on whether a > human being could be psychologically programmed with a sub-conscious remit > to commit an assassination on some leading person and then forget all about > it afterwards? It was in the era when the science of "brainwashing" of US > prisoners of war in North Korea came to the fore, and some bright spark > thought that one could use Milton Erickson techniques mixed up with a few > illicit drugs to make the assassin more suggestible, and then a post > hypnotic suggestion to make him forget he had done it. Spent quite a few > bob on it I understand, and it came up with a lot of unintended > consequences...c'est la vie... :-) > > There is a rumour that Frank Sinatra had the film pulled after the > assassination of President John Kennedy... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra > > > Actually, used properly hypnosis can be of great help to patients who have > suffered some kind of mental and physical trauma. Many patients, > particularly those who suffer from shock or loss of blood, find that their > recall of past immediate events cannot be reclaimed due to loss of memory. > Depending on the state and depth of shock it is sometimes possible to > recover that memory, and many patients over a period of time recover full > recall. > > Erickson did a lot of experimental work using hypnotic techniques, he was > a past master at it. He called his experiments, "pantomimes"...funny eh... > :-) . Because he was colour blind, and could only see purple, he did > a lot of experiments on colour perceptions. He also used time distortion, > and amnesia and self production techniques of pain killing hormones, to > help people who were suffering a lot of pain from terminal cancer. It was > the mastery of such skills that apparently got the CIA interested.... > see url:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Erickson > > ATB > Dougie. > > > On 15/01/15 22:16, Shaun O'Connor wrote: > > next step, hire a hypnotist to change the juries viewpoint subliminally > a la Milton Erickson ( of course he only used hypnosis for therapeutic > treatment of course) > OH wait they already hire forensic hypnotists to "elicit key details" from > a traumatized witness. The mind indeed works in strange ways when trying to > determine what one saw or did not see at a scene of crime. > On 15/01/2015 21:54, doug wrote: > > > http://www.wired.com/2014/12/prosecutors-powerpoint-presentations/ > > The use of the subconscious in the Art of Deception.... > > Guilty as charged your Honour...The power of Power Point...I remember it > well...:-) > > > Enjoy. > > ATB Dougie. > > > > > -- > * PRIVACY IS A BASIC RIGHT - NOT A CONCESSION * > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/when-time-comes-we-need-be-ready-fight-tpps-secret-anti-user-agenda > > >