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Were You Part Of The "Mentally Gifted Minds" Program In California Scools back in the 70's?
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[quote:ArmchairObserver:MV85NjMyNjNfMzQwMjUyMjVfQTdCNDA4ODk=] For those who haven't figured out the hint above to access. Fair use and all that. From Hypnosis and Creativity by Dr. Stanley Krippner: [i] His subjects showed drops in originality upon entering kindergarten, fourth grade, and junior high school, which may be regarded as a tendency of individuals to become less creative as they grow older.[/i] It's also noted that as individuals grow older, their hypnotizability declines. I would think that these time periods of originality/creativity degradation would be target periods to arrest that change. Notable is the junior high school one. My hair turned white around age 14. Many of the school shooters began to break down, from reports, between 14 and 15. Whereas it's difficult to imagine this being used on a kindergartener, that adversity would most likely change as the young child becomes more adult and a teenager. I could see a rationalization for it emanating from this. [i]In his experiment Tinnin used three male college students who were able to attain post-hypnotic suggestibility and who reported complete amnesia for the hypnotic experience. The technique of progressive relaxation was used to provide the subjects with the structure of algebraic problems that they would be called upon to solve in the waking state.[/i] Here Krippner gets into the idea of using post hypnotic suggestions in order to assist problem solving. Each one of the three males were able to answer the problem instantly afterwards. It would seem to me that this idea would be basically gearing a mind to behave like a computer. Lends to the idea that, if they put this into practice, that they would have established basic problem solving parameters in which to rapidly come to conclusions? I also find this important as it is suggesting the usability of post-hypnotic suggestion. We looked at an "attitude changing" machine in Bushnell's paper. Again, here's yet another thing that basically could subvert free will. With amnesia. [i] In this instance, it would appear that the "insight" phase of the creative process had been successfully stimulated by hypnosis and LSD.[/i] Krippner uses a case of the benefit of LSD and hypnosis combined to assist drug addicts. All fine and dandy but this is a respectable journal for the education of gifted children. What the hell? Why would they promote this specific idea there? It's interesting to note that here we have three notable things: hypnosis, post hypnotic suggestion, and LSD. What other projects were going on at the same time that involved hypnosis, post hypnotic suggestion and LSD? Not to mention biofeedback usage and experiments on gifted children using biofeedback within the same decade. Was this an educational program or a program to scramble a brain in the hopes of pushing the envelope on genius? Or something else entirely? [i]In general, it may be said that time distortion, and related phenomena, depend upon a high degree of withdrawal, by the subject, into his hallucinated world, with an accompanying lack of awareness of his surroundings as such. This state of detachment, in which the subject becomes completely engrossed in his hallucinatory experience, constitutes the first goal in training. [/i] Hallucination, withdrawal and detachment? Good lord. All for the purpose of "time distortion" for the individual, making perceived time and actual time change so that a thought process that would have taken longer goes infinitely faster because of this altered state. He backpedals on whether or not it is feasible but quotes Huxley, "You can imagine what happens when somebody with a genius IQ is also capable of time distortion. The results are fantastic!" Yeah, fantastic indeed. He suggests that more research is needed. I wonder on whom this additional research would be performed. The entire article, in context with some of our reports of recollecting being made to drink from cups (LSD is most effectively given in a liquid), amnesia and hypnotic suggestions. If they did do this stuff, would they have reported the outcomes? Probably not as these were the same type of tests (but this time under the guise of creativity generation) as another project. Also interesting is that LSD and hypnosis are also reported as ways to enhance creativity by Gowan. Gowan also mentions the case of a young child being developmentally forced and how their conscious overlay prematurely ruptured. Hard to imagine that just hypnosis could wreck a child in such a manner. It is no wonder that so many us fear or hate "new agey" and the seemingly predominant abstinence of drug and alcohol among us. I suspect that they made us hate it and messing with our alertness. [/quote]
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Were you ever removed, many times, from your regular class for "testing"?
Were you shown a series of high speed images on a television, not once, but many times?
Was the school psychologist selectively interested in you?
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