Ra Knockout Blow!
Monday 5:20 p.m.
I checked out a couple of George Dillman videos on You Tube. Very interesting. There's one with one of the folk he'd trained doing the knock-out tapping on folk. Same thing as old George was doing. But this boy was getting advertising on this teevee show, so the teevee folk were wanting to check it out. They got a sceptic who did the same thing to folk with suggestion. Well, they were unconscious too. This guy said he didn't use hypnotism, just suggestion. What? Anyway, there's a bit where he's making everyone go to sleep. So he says the karate joe is using suggestion.
The karate joe tries to tap on this boy's head and knock him out and it doesn't happen. Neither did it work with the presenter. They cut to the man, George Dillman, himself and he says if you move your tongue or your toes in certain ways, it won't work. This doesn't sound as stupid if you've been paying previous attention to stuff about acupuncture, pressure points, etc.
Some of us are a bit more suggestible than others of course.
So the joe says it's not chi the boy is using, it's suggestion. Well, if you buy that, okay, but how does suggestion work? What is suggestion, especially when the joe says he puts people out without hypnotising them? More mere words and labels, methinks.
It seems you can make folk flake out with suggestion alright (I've seen hypnotists doing that one). Anything else? I've seen pastors in churches doing the same thing. They put their hands of people's head and they fall down.
However, I emailed David Lumsden about his documentary and then I found out that he'd made a documentary on becoming an amateur boxer (I would like to see that!). So he knows what it's like to get hit. I mean, he knows the effects of taking a punch to the head, so I emailed him and asked him what it felt like, since he told me George Dillman knocked out the whole crew while doing the interviews. Here's what he emailed me back:
I checked out a couple of George Dillman videos on You Tube. Very interesting. There's one with one of the folk he'd trained doing the knock-out tapping on folk. Same thing as old George was doing. But this boy was getting advertising on this teevee show, so the teevee folk were wanting to check it out. They got a sceptic who did the same thing to folk with suggestion. Well, they were unconscious too. This guy said he didn't use hypnotism, just suggestion. What? Anyway, there's a bit where he's making everyone go to sleep. So he says the karate joe is using suggestion.
The karate joe tries to tap on this boy's head and knock him out and it doesn't happen. Neither did it work with the presenter. They cut to the man, George Dillman, himself and he says if you move your tongue or your toes in certain ways, it won't work. This doesn't sound as stupid if you've been paying previous attention to stuff about acupuncture, pressure points, etc.
Some of us are a bit more suggestible than others of course.
So the joe says it's not chi the boy is using, it's suggestion. Well, if you buy that, okay, but how does suggestion work? What is suggestion, especially when the joe says he puts people out without hypnotising them? More mere words and labels, methinks.
It seems you can make folk flake out with suggestion alright (I've seen hypnotists doing that one). Anything else? I've seen pastors in churches doing the same thing. They put their hands of people's head and they fall down.
However, I emailed David Lumsden about his documentary and then I found out that he'd made a documentary on becoming an amateur boxer (I would like to see that!). So he knows what it's like to get hit. I mean, he knows the effects of taking a punch to the head, so I emailed him and asked him what it felt like, since he told me George Dillman knocked out the whole crew while doing the interviews. Here's what he emailed me back:
however i didnt feel
knocked out it was a daze feeling, when i was boxing
and i got cracked on the chin id feel numb. This was
unusual i went down so quick with the joint lock i
sort of felt sleepy and only remembered waking moments
later sitting on a chair which we cut out the film, i
did get up and walk away but i felt god awful for
about two hours, it was quite a horrible feeling but i
did see some of the guys looking terrible and very
shaken up.
That's not suggestion, is it?
Put in a quote and the bloggy goes AWOL!
posted by Hotboy at 5:22 PM
1 Comments:
I too know what it's like to get hit. But in-house, not in public. We bourgeois try not to outsource.
I don't need hypnotism, Cap'n Kev was in port this week, smoking his home-grown medicinal leaves, and just the smell seems to do homeopathic things to the brain.
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