Little tidbit

Hello there,

Just wanted to toss in my little 'tidbit.'

I am a third year undergraduate, Bachelor of Arts (English).

I've spent over a year engulfing my brain into every bit of information I can find on hypnosis. Anything I've found on Erickson seems to me to be of the most "common sense"--I don't know what that will mean to you, the reader, but the phenomena for me is this:

...finding myself frequently nodding my head when beholding the "simplicity" and discrete "magic" of the Ericksonian wisdom. And yet I don't really believe in magic. Albert Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge.

On another note, but not so much a tangent, I decided to take the introductory psychology courses at my university. After all the private studying and learning I had done, pushing my face into books and what not, regarding hypnosis, particularly Erickson, and feeling like I've barely scratched the surface, I found myself disappointed in the very inadequate and brief discussion on hypnosis by the lecturer.

It seemed impossible to me that when a lecturer was to enlighten students on hypnosis, she ought to have at least mentioned a rather prominent figure in hypnosis (Milton H. Erickson)--she didn't at all. Also, I was amused when she said she had never been hypnotized before, but that one time she had taken a course in relaxation. She went on to describe her friend, who taught the course, and how he gave what, to me, sounded extremely similar to a hypnotic induction--but she was quite strong in saying that there was no way she had been hypnotized. I found that she was quite dismissive of the matter, and I think the students there were given a poor description. And you know what?--in all other areas in the course she was satisfactory--but I was disappointed in what she didn't seem to know of what I wanted to learn more about in that setting.

Just wanted to set my ramblings into action! Just kidding, of course. Hope to hear from some of you.

Kind regards,
Steven Stewart
o6t6i@unb.ca

Replies:

Error, by S. Stewart, 03/28/02 Re:no-Error, by Steve Lankton, 04/18/02 A question then, by Steven Stewart, 04/22/02

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