So did it work so well that he kept coming back for more, or was it just not working and he just wanted to try harder?
Also, how can anyone say that the hypnosis had anything to do with the deaths?
Posted on 10/07/2015 2:36:52 PM PDT by Aliska
(NEWSER) – On Tuesday, a Florida school board approved a $600,000 payout to the families of three students who died after being hypnotized by their high school principal, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports. The bizarre case started in 2011 when 16-year-old North Port High School student Wesley McKinley hanged himself after being hypnotized by principal George Kenney multiple times. Friends say McKinley couldn't remember his own name after hypnosis sessions to improve his guitar playing.
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This is of particular interest to me because I don't believe one should turn control of one's mind to another for any reason but I know it's popular for pain, quitting smoking, etc., and the Catholic Church permits it in certain cases, don't know about other churches.
Lots of people subject themselves to hypnotic regression for past lives.
I don't know what went so wrong with this principal or maybe we just don't hear about the downside of hypnotism.
I mean, other than the explanation that THEY'RE JUST EVIL.
I HATE it when that happens! That’s why you’re never supposed to advertise that you’re hypnotizing folks. Just hypnotize and feign ignorance when the bank heists or double murders go wrong.
600k for three dead. 11,000,000 for being kicked off a train. Something wrong with this story.
I had a psychologist try to hypmotize me a few times. He came to the conclusion that I couldn’t be hypnotized.
“600k for three dead. 11,000,000 for being kicked off a train. Something wrong with this story.”
$500,000,000 for two Syrian rebels trained by our military.
It’s insane for this school official to be playing in this way with other people’s children’s minds. Who hires these freaks of nature?
“It worked!”
“No, doc, I’ve *always* bawked like a chicken when the phone rings!”
It says the girl was told hypnosis could improve her test scores, but it didn’t work, and she got low scores and committed suicide. So how is he responsible for the hypnosis NOT working?
The kid coming from the dentist supposedly hypnotized himself. How is he responsible for that person’s own choice? If the kid waited 15 years to do that trick, would his teacher still be responsible then too?
Hypnotism is a fascinating subject. I am not certain that anyone really understands what it really is.
I once read that Franz Mesmer could hypnotize many people almost instantaneously.
I don't necessarily see a direct person-to-person hypnotic element in the recent cases; HOWEVER, anyone that subjects themselves (or is subjected by doctors or well-meaning psych people through meds and such) runs the risk of unintended consequences.
In a worst case scenario under my belief system, it can be opening the door to, I will put it this way, unknown evil entities.
Having said that, there would be few people who never took any legal prescription that could alter one's mine, also anaesthesia, probably other examples if I thought hard enough.
What I'm saying is the good outweighs the possible negative effects sometimes, and I regard anaesthesia as a godsend and would never expect anyone to refuse it. Just an example.
You’ve got to be kidding. That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read all day and I’ve been reading a lot about Hillary and obozo.
So many good comments, can't respond to them all. How can they directly tie the 3 cases to what the principal did? However, he was told to stop and didn't.
From original article:
“Kenney gave up his teaching license in 2013 under pressure from the Florida Department of Education and cannot reapply for another. Documents at the time indicated he lived in Waynesville, North Carolina. A web search revealed Kenney operates a lakeside bed-and-breakfast there and creates stained glass.
“They’re not happy about” Kenney’s lack of punishment, Mallard said of the students’ families. “The thing that is the most disappointing to them is he never apologized, never admitted wrongdoing and is now living comfortably in retirement in North Carolina with his pension.”
The families could not sue Kenney himself because school district employees are considered an extension of the School Board under the law. The only entity families could sue was the school district.
Mallard noted that the $200,000 awarded to each family is the maximum any Florida government agency can pay without getting special approval from the Legislature and governor.”
Hypnotic suggestibility is a sliding scale. About 20% of people can’t be hypnotized at all, about 20% are easily and completely hypnotized, and the rest are suggestible to some degree. Someone who talks or walks in their sleep is usually very suggestible. Sleepwalking is basically hypnosis with a hypnotist. Still, it’s very debatable that someone can be hypnotized into doing something they don’t want to do on some level.
But he kept your money..........LOL!
Who believes this crap?
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