Comments on: Ripples on a pond http://www.quintroon.com/blog/hypnosis/ripples-on-a-pond/ New Zealand Hypnotist Reg Blackwood - New Zealand's Leading Comedy Hypnotist based in Christchurch Fri, 14 May 2010 13:28:34 +1300 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Robert Barnes http://www.quintroon.com/blog/hypnosis/ripples-on-a-pond/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Robert Barnes Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:20:39 +0000 http://www.quintroon.com/?p=251#comment-17 Interesting. Reminds me of a book I read recently which used another water metaphor to explain the phenomenon of consciousness. The brain as the surface of a pool, with lots of bubbles rising to the surface and popping. Consciousness is the bubble that the brain chooses for its reality at any one moment. Hence the ease with which we switch off, go into hypnosis, or indeed succumb to hallucinations. Rob in Ascot PS Ripples?! Damn! Must be more careful when I'm doing a google search. ;) Interesting. Reminds me of a book I read recently which used another water metaphor to explain the phenomenon of consciousness. The brain as the surface of a pool, with lots of bubbles rising to the surface and popping. Consciousness is the bubble that the brain chooses for its reality at any one moment. Hence the ease with which we switch off, go into hypnosis, or indeed succumb to hallucinations.

Rob in Ascot

PS Ripples?! Damn! Must be more careful when I’m doing a google search. ;)

]]> By: Jonathan Chase http://www.quintroon.com/blog/hypnosis/ripples-on-a-pond/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Jonathan Chase Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:10:05 +0000 http://www.quintroon.com/?p=251#comment-16 I guess it comes down to the old question Reg. Is hypnosis a science or an art. I feel a blog comming on! I guess it comes down to the old question Reg. Is hypnosis a science or an art. I feel a blog comming on!

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