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Uri Geller hijacks the New York Times, An Interview with Michael Shermer

World's Greatest Con

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The Importance of Absorption in Hypnosis

There is a spectrum of people who are able to be fully in state at any time. There's this thing called absorption where there's an absorption scale. If you score pretty high, these people are more likely to hear voices or sense presence. They have sleep paralysis or hypnopompic hallucinations. And some number of those are going to be the type of people who can instantly put themselves in any state that they're given.

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