His hypnotic exploits reportedly occurred by telephone as well as in person. At least one victim began to piece the circumstances together due to her fragmented memories of her interactions with Fine, who she hired to represent her in a child custody case. She would have trouble recalling what the two discussed by telephone, and in person she would find her clothes disheveled and similar disturbing discoveries after departing from meetings. She eventually alerted police who covertly recorded the beginning of one such meeting, stopped the interaction, and built a case involving five more women reportedly exploited and abused by the now permanently disbarred attorney.The case carries a lot of implications from a number of perspectives. Obviously, the UFO community should give a great deal of consideration to not only the use of hypnosis as a memory enhancer, but the activities of the so-called experts it's willing to promote - but that should have already been clear long ago. It's not as if we should need a police investigation in Ohio to tell us there's a problem when an amateur hypnotist talks to hypnosis subjects, during hypnosis, about his sexual interests and activities, but it indeed appears ufology can't or won't acknowledge it. See the mishandling of the Emma Woods case by David Jacobs and its rationalization by Peter Robbins and Richard Dolan, among others.
Let's hope that changes. Better yet, let's demand it.
We might also consider the extent hypnotic states may be induced, and the ways vulnerable people may be manipulated. Hypnosis no doubt effects people differently, depending on a lot of factors, but it's a pretty big deal when a case such as Fine's adds to the legal precedence.
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Recommended:
Hypnosis as a Criminal Defense
Classified Science: The Search for 'Truth That Works'
Hypnosis and Memory, an excerpt from The Greys Have Been Framed
Jeremy Vaeni on David Jacobs and Supporters: 'Time for Some Answers'
Emma Woods Files
Although we have always been told that a person under hypnosis will not do anything contrary to their personal moral code, Mr. Fine appears to have found a way around that.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that this precedent has been set. People who use hypnosis for personal gain can cause a lot of harm to those who are susceptible to hypnosis.
ReplyDeleteI think that hypnosis could be used to make a susceptible person do just about anything. When you are in that state your normal critical faculties don't work the same way. Your memory can also be wiped so you do not know what happened.
I think the ideas that hypnosis cannot affect you, that you are in control at all times, and that it is just a form of relaxation can lure a person into a false sense of security. I was told those things before having hypnosis, and they could not have been further from the truth.
This same thing happened to my wife. I cant get anyone to take me seriously and help. Michael Fine was originally charged with Human Trafficking for sharing the women with his friends. I witnessed this happening with my wife and I didn't understand it at the time.
ReplyDeleteMy wife cried to me for several years that she was having blackouts and she couldn't explain it. She also thought she was being raped and couldn't explain.
There are a few corrupt government employees taking part in sex slavery that my wife was in. My wife was hypnotized by several people, including the man she ended up with. I knew this man 24 years ago and he was doing it then.
Can someone teach the international human trafficking resource center that a woman doesn't have to be physically missing to be kidnapped. This was proven in the Michael Fine case.