There is the good. There is the bad. And then...There is the ugly.

Tomorrow will be my 8 year anniversary of being
Isis The Enchantress. I remember when I first
started doing this erotic, hypnotic "thing" I
thought it would be an awesome blend of the
sensual and erotic with the hypnotic.

I thought it would be fun.

I never imagined what I would find out along the
way. I never imagined the things I would learn,
and te experiences I would be exposed to. I
never imagined how I would be as a version of me
that now it sitting here, writing this to you.

What I was taught as a hypnotist is nothing in
comparison to what I have been taught in the
real life experiences of those I interact with.
What I suspect - even though it might seem
controversial to say this - is that oftentimes
the hypnotists are hypnotized.

It is difficult for me to reconcile the elements
of experiences of those who have gone in undesirable
directions with the things I was told in the course
of my courses. It is difficult for me to discuss
the "ethics" of responsibility, as where does the
responsibility ultimately lie? I have attempted
to discuss this topic before, and it is not an
easy one.

I remember a lawyer once telling me that experts,
by law, can get into trouble if they do not use
their expertise properly...or something like that.
In other words, an expert often should not be able
to claim to be innocent if there is in some way
s/he was able to say or do otherwise. I remember
thinking I wasn't sure that was entirely fair.

We live in a society that likes to place the blame
for things - on someone else. We will do whatever
we can to blame another for our issues. Why take
on the responsibility when it is so much easier
to point the finger?

I saw an article about a woman in Michigan who won
a million dollars. She thought it would be "OK"
to have the state continue to pay for her food,
as she wasn't employed. After all, the state was
still giving it to her, so why shouldn't she
continue to collect on that benefit? It isn't
against the legal law, but I know that there are
some who certainly take moral issue with it.

Then there is the case of a woman who is a school
teacher who was "caught" by students who it has
been alleged has done porn, on the side. Apparently
that is not against the law either, but what may
ultimately happen if it is found to be her is that
she could get fired for "moral turpitude," which
essentially means (for those who don't know) she
would be deemed morally incorrect in her actions.

I think how morals are treated and received is often
quite relative. Of course in both of these cases,
it would seem the women involved likely thought that
what they were doing was OK. In both cases, people
with similar "opportunities" may have taken a step
back and questioned whether or not the possible choice
to be made was a good one.

In life it seems to me that we are constantly presented
with the question of what we should do. I often think
about how well I might be received in the world if
those who don't know what I do, knew. I have questions
and considerations about what I do because I believe
that we should always have questions and considerations
with what we do. If we didn't, we would likely stagnate,
and run rough-shod over those around us, and maybe even
sometimes ourselves. Sometimes there are consequences
to actions and personally, I am not sure they are all
warranted.

At the same time, I have yet to meet The Perfect Human
Being who knows exactly how ALL humans SHOULD be at all
times. I have met several who think they know how
humans should be, but they are far from "perfect"
themselves. Of course, they are perfectly themselves,
but that is slightly different than being able to be a
model for all others.

So why am I going into all of this? I am discussing it
because once again I have been a witness to some very
ugly things, things that I would tend to believe have
to do with hypnotic suggestion.

I tell people over and over and over and...that they
need to be careful about what they do. Some of them
have already entered the rabbit hole, and already having
difficulty making choices based on what they want, rather
than what someone else has told them they want. Others
come in all fresh-faced, and with a blank, open mind,
with the attitude, "You don't know me. That could never
happen to me."

They are right. I don't know them. But what I do know
is more than I ever wanted to about what can happen when
the mind is played with by those who know what they are
doing. What I do know is of a couple of instances in
which a potential suicide had some correlation to what
had transpired hypnotically. It wasn't everything, but
I am unwilling to let it off the hook totally.

I DO NOT like saying these things. Hypnosis is a wonderful
thing. It can be a wonderful, life changing tool. I
enjoy what it can do, and love to bear witness to the
magic it offers. The profession works so hard to maintain
its credibility and there is a weird dynamic for some outside
of it that hypnosis doesn't work any way, but we better be
careful who gets their hands on it. There are many
misconceptions and skeptics and all kinds of things that
come together in one pot that often can be problematic,
at best.

I don't really know what THE answer is to any of these
things. I often have many more questions than answers.
I think the biggest problems come from when we think we
know things, and stop asking the questions. Whether I
am right or wrong, and whether or not you want to take
issue with what I have said and believe, isn't really
what is important, as what it comes down to is how you
choose to live your life, and the degree to which you
are satisfied with the results. Sometimes knowing
that there are some things you can never amend can make
you stop and think long enough to better understand
something that you perhaps weren't aware of and avoid
something potentially unfortunate and regretable.

Your life is a valuable one. I highly recommend you
guard it unlike any valuable you ever have had, or ever
will have. I highly recommend you consider who you
allow to play with it, and ask questions about how it
will be treated. I highly recommend you get the best
caretakers.

These, of course, are just recommendations, and if you
are a skeptic it might seem like serious overkill.
However, I guarantee that if you were ever in a position
to lose your skepticism you might find yourself in a
situation that leaves you less than satisfied and maybe
a whole lot worse.

If you intend to try out hypnosis no matter what, you
might consider you have nothing to lose by taking my
approach versus an indifferent one. You might consider
that I know a thing or two after 8 years, and thousands
of calls and callers. Oddly enough, I wouldn't want to
call myself an expert, as there is so much I am still
likely to learn, but even without that "status," there
might be a thing or two you could learn from me.

Please play, and STAY, safe
Isis

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