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by Douglas E. Richards

Contrary to fiction, you can’t hypnotize someone to commit armed robbery, or jump off a building, against their will. A person can only be hypnotized to do something they would already be willing to do otherwise. Same with this. We can strengthen a tendency, put a thought into your sleeping head, but it can’t contradict how you feel consciously.”

An Lushan Revolt in China

Bring us together. Instead of turning us into their puppets, they’ll teach us how to tame our destructive impulses, the demons of our nature, as they learned to do.

the longer the life-span, the more stagnant and ossified a species would become. There was something to be said for experience, but youth brought fresh blood and bold new ideas. A dose of much-needed vitality.