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Secret, Don't Tell : The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism

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I was drawn to read this book not only because of the author's other (life's) work - but because I have had some tangential experience in law suits involving post-tramatic stress.

Expecting a good encyclopedic overview of the topic and writing for readers, I got a lot more. Make no mistake, it is an exhaustive discussion of the topic of unethical hypnosis, and it is well written - but it is a good deal more than that to be sure.

Readers of Emery's "Encyclopedia of Country Living" learn to be prepared for lively writing, and details, with a surprise on nearly every page. Well, you get the same experience here - with the advantage of knowing that disseminating this work as widely as possible will only serve to better humanity.

The book deserves the widest possible audience, and not merely those folks who have a professional (or even passing) interest in the topic. Of special interst to the professionals noted in the blurbs from the publisher - it is exteremly timely information, and presented in such a readable and entertaining matter that even readers with no interest in tales of hypnotism will be riveted from the outset.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Read it, and share it with friends. You will not be disappointed!

It is true. It is happening to me. Do read the book and understand that this must be happening to more people than can be imagined. Doctors won't tell nor will the police. Talk about what's happening with everyone. Share information now.

At first glance, this book seems to be a arid catalog of the history of hypnotism, exciting only to professionals. On the contrary, Carla Emery weaves exciting tales of hypnotic abuse and mind control through her,anything but dry,facts. She describes true cases of government mind control in chilling detail and also gives a first-hand account of the horrifying and dehumanizing process that results in a "hypno-robot." I encourage anyone who has ever been in, or who is contemplating, hypnosis first to read this book. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

I know a woman who used to be married to a man in the CIA, and she confirmed what Carla says in her book. That makes this book all the more chilling. The average person does not know the sinister experiments that the CIA is involved in.

The basic message of this book is to explain certain principles within hypnosis and that of mind control. i have researched mind control for some years and feel that this book sticks far closer to the truth than others will even dare to go. I consider the book useful for gaining a better understanding of hypnosis but not to take it to the step of hypnotising others. For that there are simply other, better books. A good read none the less so i give this book 4 out of 5.

This is an excellent book by Carla Emery. I was drawn to this book by my need to understand how one can have so much control over another as it is something i have experienced and now understand.Read this book and let your eyes be opened.

Read this book and pass it along so that others can learn the truth also! I am a survivor of abusive hypnosis and was amazed at the truth Carla Emery put together within these pages. Truly, it is possible to be a victim for many years (15 years of bondage for me) and not know it with the conscious mind. Perhaps if I had read this book many years earlier, the perp would have been unable to ever start his enslavement. Speaking from experience, I KNOW this book contains the truth and highly recommend it to every sincere person. More than captivating reading, this book contains warnings, which if taken seriously, should help protect the reader from any "wolves" who would seek to control and destroy.

While reading this book last year, I looked up the author's references and found that she either accidentally or deliberately misconstrued a number of her sources. As I recall, her source for there being a large number of studies of hypnotism by the military actually cited a large number of studies of psychological warfare, only one or two of which had to do with hypnotism. That kind of sloppy research is troubling. It is possible that some of Emery's claims are true, particularly her exposure of the fact that you can, indeed, be persuaded to do things under hypnosis that you would not do if you retained access to your rational mind. Her evidence for this appears to be a summary of the research of a mid-twentieth century Danish psychiatrist who argued this very proposition. When Emery relies on research like his, she is on sounder footing than when she goes off on the trail of electronic hypnotism and mind-reading devices being implanted in NSA agents who move among the general population looking for dissidents to brainwash back into the NWO fold. This is too fantastic. Emery is a true American eccentric, though, and God bless her for it. If you keep plenty of grains of salt handy, this book will keep you on your toes, trying to separate fact from fancy.

This is an excellently informative book! There's a reason this information is kept under wraps. You are in a war for your mind, and probably don't even know it. Knowledge is power. Find out how to break free from the manipulation that permeates cultures all over the world, especially American culture. This book will be well worth your time to read it. You will never look at the "entertainment" industry the same. Order today and wake up from the trance of hypnotism!

I've actually read some of her sources -- Estabrooks comes to mind. Saying, for instance, that he says you should establish a "stable" of hypnotic subjects is true. Of course, he's talking about learning hypnotism and doing basic, noninvasive, voluntary, harmless stuff, too. His advice isn't any worse than if a beginning masseusse was to establish a "stable of massage victims". Call it what you want, but it's really not that bad for the people involved -- and if you don't think being hypnotized can be enjoyable, you've never done it right.

One thing about becoming a decent hypnotist is that involves being hypnotized many, many times -- so her talk about hypnotists having utter contempt for good hypnotic subjects is pretty far off-base, too. Any good hypnotist *is* a good hypnotic subject. You *have* to be.

Another of her big examples is Svengali. For the record, he's fictitious. Entirely so. Saying that the hypnotist community has attempted to "suppress the facts" of Svengali and Trilby's case is a little like saying the British government has attempted to "suppress the facts" in the book "1984". They don't claim they're doing that because they're not. It sounds very ominous. Their denials may make it more so. But in fact it's just that the original source is fiction, and doesn't claim otherwise.

Still, if you can get past the fact that she intentionally misconstrues a lot of sources and sees goblins in the woodwork everywhere, it's pretty readable. Better yet, she quotes a lot of very obscure work by very good hypnotists. I had no idea that the government had Milton Erickson demonstrate hypnotic recall, for instance. Pretty cool!