I agree with you, Cal, I love to bike also.

I ride a 27" mountain bike though, but it has street tires. I'm not into competitive biking or long distance, I just use it run small errands (low gas mileage and zero emission) or to go to beach and take a dive. But I have to admit, it does me good to do those aerobics. My body says thank you after every ride. Sedentary as I am it is indeed about the best I can do for myself to keep me physically and mentally fit. Love the shower of endorphins and other brain chemicals that engulf me after every ride. I can recommend it to anyone.

Swimming and body surfing in the Ocean is nice but combined with the deep oxygen intake when doing a ride up and down our SoCal hills is the max. I just turned 50 Thursday (going on 30) and do feel the need for that sustained effort to keep fit.

Keep on biking!

Lift the Veil of Hypnosis to experience Bliss of the Other Side.

Maybe it's me, but I see hypnosis as a medium to lead ourselves (auto-hypnosis) and others (hetero-hypnosis) to the Sacred pathway of the inner realm. The realm of the subconscious mind that is in touch with everything. Maybe it's like prayer. Angels and Spirits could be waiting on the other side. It is as if a veil separates us from our true selves and the all knowing beyond this Universe.

Am I spiritually clean enough to do this for myself let alone with and for others? Is there something as spiritual contamination? Could my mental cooties affect their mind and vice versa? Are there consequences?

One thing I know though, veils are sexy!

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This link leads to a very powerful hypnosis demonstration from the 60s. It can be viewed at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=_DkWBGscryA

As far as I know, I always found that French hypnotism is the most powerful in effect. I don't know why? Is it the language perhaps? Remember, F.A. Mesmer, even though he was Austrian, practiced in Paris around the French Revolution (1789). Later there were: le Marquis De Puységur, Jean-Martin Charcot, Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault, Emile Coué, and l'Abbé Faria (even though he was Portuguese, but born in Goa, India) later worked in Paris.

I have a few old French books that give me the exact same feeling when I read them, as when I watched the video mentioned above. Somehow the French (stage) hypnotists have that flair for the dramatic. So many of the French seem poets and perhaps therefore have a closer connection to the feeling mind. Or, it may be a cultural phenomenon. People from warmer climates are more open and have easier access to each other, because they could get out more into the open. They could reach out to one another, as opposed to the people from the cold north, that were more confined to their place of shelter. (Maybe that's why they became clock makers).

Maybe this is typical for the "Latin or Romance language group" (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian,...) where feeling and pathos seem to be stronger, as opposed to the Germanic Language group (English, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish,...), where analysis, abstract thinking is perhaps more prevalent.

There are always exceptions that confirm the rule of course, for example: René Descartes, among many others, was a brilliant French mathematician, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, who also touched many other disciplines.

As technical as we get with NLP and modern day hypnosis techniques, what the Old School showed seems to have to do with feeling with the subject. Also notice that the hypnotist in the video does more touching of the subject than we see in today's stage shows. What's shown is closer to magnetic hypnosis or mesmerism. Sometimes it looks as if he's caressing the subject's Aura. He also calls his technique: "Magie Rose" literally: "Pink Magic", hypnosis of sentiment or feeling, aligning with the subject. Cool stuff!

Victor Sturm, C.Ht.
http://www.hypnoseraph.com/

La magie rose: est celle des sentiments. Elle se rapproche fortement de la magie rouge mais sa pratique est plus vers le bien que le mal, il s'agit souvent de filtres d'amour ou pour augmenter ses capacités sexuelles, ou de remèdes liés à l'amour et la sexualité, mais toujours en utilisant une sorte de magie blanche.

Pink Magic: is related to feelings ("sentir" in French means "to feel" or "to touch" in English). It is closely related to red magic (used by so called: Enchantresses, hypnodom(me)s and the like), but its practice is more for the good than for the bad, often it is used as a love filter, or to enhance sexual capacity, or as a remedy tied to love and sexuality, but always as a form of white magic. In other words for someone else's benefit and not for the benefit of operator.