Sorry about the confusion,confusing confucians can be confused it seems. "The father of all this stuff - the greatest mind about hypnosis - and a guy who also worked for the government - was Milton Erickson. When I interviewed him he talked very slowly - you could go into trance just listening to him in a warm room. But I liked him a lot, and of course he is the main model for what is now known as neurolinguistic programming. He had polio so he could not interact with people and he watched how they communicated, and out of that came this beautiful science which is used in computers. It's in the open literature. "Experimenting with the possible antisocial uses of hypnosis" by Milton Erickson. He said there is no problem to it, all you have to do basically is to manipulate context and get an individual to do something against their will and without their knowledge. It was done in a laboratory in a government study where a soldier was made to attack his commanding officer. All they had to say was "this is WWII - this guy is a Japanese guy - it is kill or be killed". My question is whether Ericksons' and Meads'ethnological research for the Government into 'totalistic' cultures and the 'Japanese mind set ' during WW2 is available,and whether it sheds light on working with other cultures whose assumptions about language,meaning ,tolerance/avoidance of ambiguity, Regards, Markus.
The quote is from Walter Bowart.He spoke to Erickson,and also had this to say.
the individual v group,high/low content (re E Halls' The Silent Language) are different from Western ethnocentric models.My particular interest is Japan.
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