I have a couple of thoughts on that part.
If you take a person, and subject that person through extrordinary, systematic programming, who, through the manipulation of their environment (including sleep and food deprevation), and produce a person who is stripped of their sense of 'self', I can see where it is possible to, a)- achieve hypnosis in the 'new' state, and b)- introduce and reinforce a command, or suggestion or directive, to kill, once that extreme level of trust=survival is reached.
You are not programming a person who is self-aware. Remember the psychological training of soldiers for example. What is there, is broken down, bit by bit, and rebuilt, to be totally dependant on the 'one think', and one goal platform. What is eventually produced by rebuilding the very psyche of a person, is a different person. Radical Islam is no different, and their results depend upon the control of every natural function of a human being. Perception, thought patterns, belief systems, goals, visions, all of it. Whether it be underwritten by religion, or military, the goal is to have many people who's behaviour is predictable, to achieve the goals of those programming them.
Take that person out of this programming, they will need to relearn (or learn) who they are.
Hypnosis to produce a killer would require the breaking down first, the programming at the most extreme levels uncomprehensible to most. If the ultimate goal is to produce a killer, and the total survival of that person depends upon following orders and/or instructions, hypnosis would still be voluntary, but the permission is given by the individual, because the old person, no longer exists.
In this case, that permission is based upon who they have become, and trust had long ago been established to a degree that survival depended upon unconditional trust without question.
Post traumatic stress includes this element of the 'one think' consequence. Eventually soldiers go home and most of us think their suffering after returning, it is the aftermath of seeing war- death and destruction, but a huge part of that is the fact that death and destruction has also been caused by them, and the 'cause' was shared, designed, controlled, and executed by those that 'trained' them. It goes far beyond 'a cause'. Returning to normal SHOULD require the same degree of de-programming, as it did in programming, but it does not.
So, we are left with knowing that human beings can indeed be programmed, and we see the results of this everyday. There is always a purpose behind it.
So, for mainstream hypnosis used to assist in uncovering past trauma in order to function better in life is one thing, or hypnosis used for entertainment purposes is yet another. They are tools used, as one method of achieving simple goals, with permission of the one receiving.
But used as step 258 of a 300 step program to produce a person who is capable of killing another by suggestion, over a long period of time, under extreme, controlled circumstances, is, in my opinion, entirely possible.
Tim
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