In this book you learn language patterns and covert hypnosis.

Quick rules for field operators

“Drive emotion using fear, regret, sex, fulfillment and social acceptance.”

Always mimic breathing speed first.

Accidental body contact causes immediate, short-lived insecurity in just about everyone.”

The Ellipsis Manual

Deprogram society’s thoughts

“There’s a part of everyone, I guess, that just knows how to let go and enjoy.”

the ellipsis manual

Environmental shifts

“Changing your tie in the bathroom. Correcting a person you’ve just met on your name. Shifting which hand you eat with midway though a meal…Changing types of pens or notebooks in a meeting.

the ellipsis manual

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The book is written with the operative and subject instructions and has rich scenarios with Ericksonian hypnosis flavors and not coincidentally, is the Number 1 bestseller book on Amazon in the Hypnotherapy category in 2021.

“In one study, more than 90% of mothers could correctly identify the smell of their newborns. Fathers, too. In another study, 15 mothers amd 12 fathers were asked to sniff bottles of amniotic fluid and choose the one belonging to their child. Twelve of the mothers, and 11 out of the 12 fathers chose correctly.”

WSJ, Oc. 26, 2021

The article is adapted from a new book, “Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell” by Jude Stewart.

Diseases, Ok, but emotions ?

In a study researchers collected sweat samples from participants who had watched a happy film- Disney’s “The Jungle Book” or scary clips -The Shining” by Stanley Kubrick. When volunteers sniffed the happy bunch they grinned instinctively. When they sniffed the scared samples, they grimaced in fear.

The next time your with a friend…make sure you feel comfortable with what he or she smells. Your smell may just be able to detect a rotten person.

“all the mental effort we’ve mustered over the past year has left many of us feeling depleted and distracted, unequal to the tasks that never stop arriving in our inboxes.”

Annie Murphy Paul, NY Times

“In recent years, I.Q. scores have stopped rising or have even begun to drop in countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France and Britain.” -the so-called reverse ‘Flynn effect.

NY TImes

I’m one of the few people saying that social media has made people dumber.

The article makes some points for extraneural learning or learning outside the brain.

“When we turn a problem to be solved into a physical object that we can interact with, we activate the robust spatial abilities that allow us to navigate through real-world landscapes.”

Annie Murphy Paul

Quote of the day:

There is no “chronological” age at all.

Imagine you are revisiting a place -it can be anything, anywhere- and instead of enjoying yourself anew, your thoughts of having crossed that place come through. They can be pleasant or unpleasant experiences you’ve had. In this case, the thought process taking place is barring perception and clarity. You stop being in the moment and are swept down the memory lane.

Powerful events – those entrenched in memory -must be relieved where you gain some authority over them, without emotion, without judgement.

How ?

I’m going to cite here from Darth Plagueis by James Luceno , a NY Times best selling novel from the Star Wars Expanded Universe series . Darth Plagueis, the Sith Lord, is training young Palpatine, aka Darth Sidious. Darth Sidious is reliving the memories of the crime he committed upon his family.

…In telling and retelling it, in reliving it, he had finally gained a kind of authority over it, the ability to see the event merely for what it was, without emotion, without judgement. It was as if the event had occurred years rather than months earlier, and as if someone else had authored it.”

Darth Plagueis

The emotional imprint of life defining events -positive and negative – is a shackle. You don’t have to be a Sith Lord (or a Jedi) to have formed those attachments. Memory becomes a crutch. Train to unshackle it.

I will be back and tell you how.

I was watching an Eckart Tolle video last night where he says that to get out of over-thinking one must have the spiritual rigor to come out of perception as opposed to thinking. And of course mindfulness. Not following the thought. But I want to go beyond that.

“Only like can know like. So to know God we must become like God. To do this, Hermes advises us to imagine ourselves at all places at all time, to see ourselves as still in the womb and yet already dead.”

The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

It seems that God (if there is one) does something spectacular, he takes time out of the equation. (he also takes the space out, but I’m not going to dwell on that). I wrote about memory and time earlier (see also here).

Q: Max, what happens when we die ?

A: Same thing that happened to you when you were born.

Me

If you want to be like the Big G (God, not gangster here…or maybe ?!) you must constantly recreate yourself. Come out of your own ashes.

Memory plays a funny game. It goes back and forth, back and forth on that line… Timeline that is… But it is only from what it says, is the beginning. So Buddhists have designed this visualization exercise a long time ago, where you see yourself on your deathbed, and work your way backward from there.

So timeline seems vulnerable to mind exploits, but what about time ? Is time that solid we can’t break it ?

Time is clearly a creation of the mind. How come it is that strong and is always referencing you back ?

It is time that crucifies you. For the ultimate freedom is freedom from time. Freedom from the mind. Freedom from thinking.

And it’s not what you’d expect.

Let’s start with old people. Somebody might say: “I’m 35. I’m not old. Old is 45, or 65.” Yes, right. See you in ten years and you’ll just switch numbers.

Everybody is old.

Old people getting old: it’s not just bodies age. The memory data bank is getting larger, too.

“I remember when 10 years ago I was…”

Are you listening to the same music you listened to in school?

We need to dump that cache memory.

How often do you say or think:

“Years ago, there was a gas station in this place.”

Your memory load is getting larger. Pretty soon you’ll be like your old computer: clunky, slow, unresponsive.

You need to do a serious inventory of how much of what you’re thinking is past as in memory.

I know, it’s hard work. Reduce the past to ashes. Reduce thinking.

Whether it was “good” or “bad” it doesn’t matter. There is no good and bad.

Eckard Tolle said : Time is mind. Spend less time thinking. Shrink the cache memory.  Time is a series of NOWS. No more past. present and future. 

Watch yourself. You’re seriously aging when you remember too much.

What you should be doing: For example: spend much time looking for new music to listen to. (doesn’t matter if music is old, as long as it’s new to you).

You’re as good as you’re not remembering often. Because you have no reason to.