I’ve been studying the mind manipulation techniques used in religious settings for over twenty years. They are very common. I trained as a stage hypnotist in order to identify the process and know how to select the most suggestible individuals for demonstrations. It’s very easy to learn. I will never use the techniques and actually teach workshops on how they work and how to identify them.
I was very upset when the New Chapel Dean at Duke University who was formerly a professor of homiletics at Princeton started using these same techniques. I stopped attending his services.
The manipulation techniques are very common in black theology. Rev. Wright, Obama’s pastor is excellent at using them.
The difference between the real born again process and the fake one is the direction of surrender. In the fake process, the person surrenders externally to the suggestions of another individual. In the real process, they surrender within themselves to God.
Emotional manipulation is an excellent description of the process. The secret to trance induction is to first emotionally destabilize a person.
Interesting. Have you ever heard of a deciever named Rodney Howard Browne? He induces trance states also,in the name of Jesus.2 Peter 2
Excellent response. These techniques are pretty obvious in the penecostal, slain in the spirit scenarios. I have seen people go down just by being pointed at. Then I’ve seen people who won’t go down at all when they are nearly forced by the Pastor. Very embarassing.