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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 07:19:05 EDT
From:         MKLINE%VDH.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      New Age in Schools #9

Subject: New Age in Schools #9

    New Age Views in Public Schools - John Ankerberg Show. 09/27/92

    Part 9 ------------------------------------------------------------->

    Dr. Twente: ...and then we continue.

    John: Imagine that a picnic basket is next to you on the ground. Can
you see the basket? What color is it? How big is it? This is your picnic
basket, and you will always bring it with you when you come to visit this
special place.

    Dr. Twente: So what we've done... They'll say, "Well I'm teaching a
child to use their imagination." Well, this is not the child's
imagination. You're creating a mind picture. This is guided imagery.
Hypnosis.

    John: Also, next to you on the ground. is a little pile of rocks,
just the size that you can pick up very easily, and wrap your hand
around. These rocks have words written on them, that say how you might
feel. Some of the rocks have words for a good feeling. Others have words
for a bad feeling.

    Dr. Twente: Now you're getting a suggestion that you can have
control over your feelings because your hand, you're able to encompass
this object, it's going to give you power. So it's like fully within your
grasp and you can take control because your hand is big enough to grasp
it.

    John: You can pick up the rocks one at a time. The first rock you
pick up has the word "Happy" on it.

    Dr. Twente: Is that the child's imagination, or are you suggesting a
reality? Do you want to feel that way? Well what is a child thinking in
their mind as you give them this possibility?

    John: If you want to feel happy, keep the rock and put it into your
picnic basket. If you do not want to feel happy, throw the rock into the
stream. Here's another rock. This one has the word "Safe" on it. If you
want to feel "safe", keep the rock and put it in your basket. If you
don't want to feel "safe", you can throw the rock in the stream. The next
one you pick up is the "Awful". Decide what you want to do with that
rock. If you want to feel "awful", keep that rock. If you don't want to
feel "awful", throw it away.

    There's one more rock left, but it doesn't have anything on it. YOU
decide what feeling this rock will say. When you have decided what you
want the feeling to be, decide if you will keep that feeling or not. YOU
CAN CHOOSE ANY FEELING YOU LIKE, and either keep it, or throw it away.
You may take a moment to think of that feeling for this last rock, and
what you will do with it. As you do what ever you're going to do with the
last feeling, get ready to go, because now is the time to leave your
special place by the stream. If you like, you may take your picnic basket
with you, or you may leave it here. It is YOUR picnic basket and the
feelings in it are YOUR feelings, so YOU CAN DO WHAT EVER YOU WISH with
them.

    When you're ready, you may start wiggling your fingers. And then when
you're ready, you may begin to move your arms around a little bit. Next,
you may begin to open your eyes, and repeat aloud with me in a clear,
stony voice. Repeat with me. "I can choose how I feel. I Can Choose How I
Feel. I CAN CHOOSE HOW I FEEL."

    Dr. Twente: If this was only imagination, you would NOT need sensory
input to take you out of it. This is a classical technique to bring a
person out of hypnosis. And here we have a post-hypnotic suggestion to
reenforce what you were doing in this hypnotic state. It says "Repeat
with me in a clear, strong voice. "I can choose how I feel. I Can Choose
How I Feel. I CAN CHOOSE HOW I FEEL."

    So I think if you'll just look at this program, step back, if it
works what have you done? If it is successful, the child can feel however
they want no matter what's going on in their life. So basically, you've
taught the same thing you'd teach one if you gave them heroin, that even
if your house is burning up, or your mother is dying from a stab wound,
you feel okay, you're all right. You can choose to feel okay.

    Another scary thing about this example is that it uses the word
"rock", that by the use of a "rock" you can feel anyway you want to feel.
Well "rock" is the street name for crack, and when you start using this
as a hypnotic suggestion, you're planting the seeds in that child that if
I can't do this with this mind technique, my mind, it's like it's been
charged with the word of "rock". That I can feel however I want to feel,
with using "rock". So basically you're encouraging a child to use "rock",
to feel good, and that's scary also.

Maks
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