Fascinating. Under what auspices? Were you a teacher, or was this for your own curiosity.
Combination of factors... I was a university professor but also studied religion. People like Rev. Jeremiah Wright fascinate me. They speak hogwash but yet put people in trance to follow them blindly.
The speaker in the video (at the link) talks about the range of vocals of charismatic individuals. This is one of trance induction techniques to destabilize the emotional aspect of consciousness and have people surrender their authority to you.
The first time I observed the technique was with a charismatic evangelist. I can see if a minister is connected to the Holy Spirit by the white light that follows them around as they speak. I had no problem with what the evangelist was saying but could not see the light around him. At first I thought it was just me as I was tired, it was late at night and I had just driven four hours in the dark with it raining.
Soon the evangelist had people falling off their chairs while he proclaimed that they were drunk with the spirit.
He would wave his and and people would fall over. People were speaking in tongues.
I squinted and strained, but still no Holy Spirit. Suddenly it hit me and I became physically sick as I realized that this evangelist was using stage hypnosis tricks in a religious service. People were surrendering their power to the evangelist in a trance, not to God. It was a sick show.
I walked out of the service, still feeling physically sick to have seen this atrocity. As I stood there in the rain, I turned to God and asked, “Why was I led here to see such an atrocity?” The answer came quickly..”This is how the anti-messiah will lead the people. This happened back in the mid 1990’s before I ever heard of Obama. He uses many of these same techniques. It’s why people were passing out at his campaign rallies. I demonstrate the technique with groups in order to teach them awareness. When I hear someone doing it, it’s as though warning sirens go off in my head...BEWARE!