| Starting from the Medusa Greek myth, the legendary | | | | After the initial excitation, under certain circumstances, |
| being capable of turning people into stones with her | | | | the eyes can be "set" and the accommodation (the |
| penetrating gaze, to the Egyptians, who featured the | | | | way in which they adapt themselves to the distance) |
| eyes in amulets and monuments, up to many modern | | | | stays blocked at this resting point. As in the blind spot |
| films, man has always been aware of the legendary | | | | of the eye we do not see anything, under the right |
| power of the gaze. This power has been called | | | | circumstances fixing this point the conscious mind gets |
| "fascination". | | | | blocked. |
| During the Middle Ages people referred to fascination | | | | Sometimes this phenomenon also occurs to aviators |
| as the power of one gaze upon another gaze, while | | | | (the so called Mandelbrot effect); in this case it can be |
| for the Indians this "power to bind" is connected to the | | | | very dangerous. Obviously the aviator does not want |
| third eye, the ajna chakra. | | | | to get in such a state, but if he does not know how to |
| Why are the eyes so powerful? The gaze, when | | | | avoid it, he risks entering it, willingly or unwillingly. This |
| properly used, allows two people to come into really | | | | phenomenon is deeply physiologically wired. |
| deep contact. Eyes are said to be the "windows of | | | | In the Middle Ages fascinators were said capable to |
| the soul". Love, fear and any emotion can be read into | | | | throw "mist" around their victims. And this is exactly |
| the eyes. | | | | what happens to the fascinated person. Practically the |
| Looking into someone's eyes always gives a strong | | | | brain enters this territory beyond ordinary reality, where |
| and persisting impression. This is also backed up by | | | | there is no more knowledge and distinction between |
| scientific research results that have shown how the | | | | far and near. As a result, distance and space |
| infants so strongly react to the gaze of parents and | | | | change, the voluntary muscles change their tonus and |
| how this is important for bonding. | | | | the face assumes a stone-like aspect. And also |
| However, only few people might have seen a true | | | | mind-to-mind communication seems easier. |
| hypnotist using the original secret method we are | | | | But where does the mind go as the eyes go to this |
| describing here. | | | | "dark focus", in this "magic point"? |
| Only using his hypnotic eyes for few seconds, in the | | | | We are physically in the "middle of nowhere". And note |
| 1800s hypnotist Donato stupefied the whole of Europe. | | | | that the same terms were exactly used by the |
| He was able of hypnotizing dozen of even unwilling | | | | famous hypnotist Milton Erickson as he defined the |
| persons. His able performance was often followed by | | | | "trance state"! He used his incredible sensibility and his |
| profound amnesia. He even asked to be defied and | | | | words to bring people there as a mean to create a |
| turned people to resemble statues. He had a secret | | | | therapeutical trance. |
| method for doing it, that seemed to have been lost | | | | If he had ever met a hypnotist using the real |
| forever after his death. | | | | fascination method, he would have been surely |
| The fact that the gaze could be so powerful is also | | | | interested, as it is a lightning fast method. But he did not |
| proved by what is called "hypnotic theft", a kind of | | | | know it, as this tradition was always transmitted in |
| criminal hypnosis diffused in Europe, mainly in Italy and | | | | much closed, non-medical circles. |
| Russia. There are cases where the victims have given | | | | Most of the times this state was used for creating |
| all their money to the robber; afterwards they have | | | | energetic shifts of consciousness or for specific |
| even thanked the robber and have forgotten | | | | initiations. |
| everything! In some cases the robberies were | | | | With eyes fascination we bring the eyes to be "set" in |
| videotaped by VCR washing away any doubt that this | | | | the middle of nowhere. In this way the mind enters in a |
| could only be an urban legend. | | | | profound trance-like state where space gets distorted. |
| How is it possible to avoid this kind of gaze? Or better, | | | | If we give a command to a person in such a state, it is |
| how could we get the secret behind it, so as to be | | | | immediately executed. His conscious mind does not |
| able to use it in a positive way? | | | | even understand what is going on and he will execute |
| In this article we are offering the practicing hypnotists | | | | whatever task he is asked. A curious feat is that if we |
| and the researchers some very rare and precious | | | | don't stop the fascinated person, he will repeat the |
| elements of this ancient knowledge. | | | | action again and again indefinitively. |
| The gaze, when rightly used, instead of harming people | | | | Please also note that the auditory localization of |
| can be used to enrich them therapeutically and open | | | | sounds is influenced by the gaze (as recent |
| new dimensions! | | | | experiment with monkeys has shown). Sounds are |
| Thanks to the profound state that we can create, | | | | well perceived differently; certain sounds can have |
| deep change is facilitated, instant regressions occur | | | | deep impact, thus also symbolic mantras can be used. |
| and it is possible to instantaneously release aches, | | | | If we have a clear key to get into this state, we can |
| tensions, and even healing deeply uncounscious-bond | | | | use it to bring remarkable therapeutical changes and |
| problems with stupefying ease. | | | | wipe away old mental programs very fast as we are |
| As the mind is deeply entranced, strange psychic | | | | accessing the deepest layer of the mind. Practically |
| phenomena can also occur: it seems as if the minds of | | | | any psychological problem can be relieved or even |
| the people involved get into contact. | | | | healed. Healing is achieved by permitting body |
| The method that Dr. Paret and Dr. Tira are unveiling | | | | movements directed by the subconscious mind (this |
| for the first time here, has been long time | | | | was Mesmer's method), or also leading to a profound |
| researched. It is also thoroughly dealt about on the | | | | state of rest after the excitation. We can also bring |
| site It had been always kept secret and only | | | | the person in specific states just moving his body. For |
| transmitted by word of mouth. Some elements have | | | | example, we can give non-verbal suggestions putting |
| been scientifically proven only recently. | | | | the hands of the fascinated and stone-like person in |
| We will call it therefore the "Dr.Paret - Dr.Tira method" | | | | specific positions, thus creating ecstatic feelings or |
| as we apply with incredible success this ancient | | | | others. |
| methodology into which we were personally initiated, or | | | | Third: to get the best results, this phenomenon can be |
| even the "Virgilian" method. Virgilio T. was the Master | | | | further enhanced by moving hands as we excite the |
| of it. And it took him more than twenty years to admit | | | | field of peripheral attention. In this case we have |
| us to his tradition. | | | | something probably similar to what happens in the so |
| It should also be noted that fascination methods we | | | | called "highway hypnosis", when people driving on |
| are now describing are also quite new for the English | | | | monotonous roads can enter trance-like states. On the |
| speaking countries. There are very few testimonials of | | | | highway there is a monotonous stimulus at the centre, |
| the power of the gaze in English books. Historically, | | | | where the eyes are focalized and, at the same time, a |
| when animal magnetism spread around Europe, it | | | | continuous line of movement laterally, where the eyes |
| arrived in the British Island quite later; until the middle of | | | | are not focalized. What happens is that here as well |
| 1800 this country had been considered at the borders | | | | the mind enters a trance-like state. This is also very |
| of Europe. | | | | similar to what happens looking at the centre of a |
| Probably because it was something new, an English | | | | moving spiral, often used to induce hypnosis. The |
| physician of Manchester, James Braid, felt compelled | | | | neurons controlling peripheral visions are linked to |
| to carry out a very first (and very incomplete) analysis | | | | different a zone of the brain with respect to the zone |
| of a gaze-produced hypnosis. Why was his analysis | | | | to which the neurons involved in the foveal (central) |
| incomplete? Firstly because his model (the magnetizer | | | | vision are linked. Therefore if we stimulate them we |
| Lafontaine) unluckily did not use the complete gaze | | | | are stimulating different and non-rational mental |
| method. Secondly because Braid tried to fit it within the | | | | processes. |
| frame of what was known at that time (1800) about | | | | And, as the mind is open, all these physiological |
| the eye. | | | | process are further enhanced through the use of |
| We will anyway shortly expose Braid's explanation. He | | | | Energy. In fact fascination is the Western school |
| said that looking at a bright object at a distance of 20 | | | | corresponding to the use of Prana or Ki (Chi) in Orient. |
| cm (7,87 inches) involved strain of the muscles, so that | | | | We could go even further examining other elements in |
| the eyes closed and a state that he called "hypnosis" | | | | fostering further the power of gaze, but we will |
| occurred. | | | | discuss them in another article to follow. |
| In fact, this is not so easy to be performed according | | | | Now we would rather give you the first five immediate |
| to his method, which is even misleading. Real hypnotic | | | | how-to practical keys to hypnotize your clients: |
| fascination happens with the eyes wide open, not | | | | 1 - move your hands while gaze-hypnotizing, in order to |
| making them close down! Furthermore the goal in | | | | stimulate the peripheral field of vision |
| fascination is not to tire the subject, but to excite his | | | | 2 - ask the person to look at you at the centre (the |
| unconscious and non-logical mind. | | | | third eye of the Indians), where in fact there is no |
| However Braid's method was divulged in dozens of | | | | movement |
| books. But no one of his followers managed to easily | | | | 3 - do not blink (exercise before a mirror to do it) |
| hypnotize with it. They managed therefore to rely on | | | | 4 - move your body fore and back slightly and slowly, |
| other methods, opening the path to a hypnotism based | | | | so it will be easier for the eyes of the person to get |
| on speaking, to tire and to confound the conscious | | | | into the resting point of accommodation (dark focus) |
| mind. This original flaw is still present in the modern | | | | 5 - fix your client and be centered and concentrated. |
| clinical and slow hypnosis. | | | | Think and imagine him to be healed. |
| In fact, with Braid's method and the modern methods | | | | Yet, the above is still not enough to give instant |
| derived from it, in the cases were you produce | | | | amnesia. In order to get amnesia you also need other |
| hypnosis, it takes you minutes and a long explanation. | | | | elements need to concur, but it is however enough to |
| Also with words you cannot hypnotize an unwilling or | | | | start fascination. |
| defying person. Fascination with the eyes is a different | | | | Please remember that this is a non-verbal method. |
| path. A person able to use the gaze is able many | | | | You never need to speak as you use the gaze. You |
| times to obtain deep results in a matter of seconds | | | | are directing yourself to the unconscious mind and you |
| without a word. And for sure during a robbery the | | | | want to excite it. If you speak or try to mirror you risk |
| hypnotic thief does not ask the victim to look at an | | | | waking up the rational mechanisms of the conscious |
| object for some minutes! In fact this is possible only if | | | | mind. |
| you know how to use the right gaze technique. | | | | At the beginning do not try to perform full hypnotization |
| Until recently this was possible only if you knew | | | | using with this method. Only use fascination to "soften" |
| somebody wanting to teach it to you. | | | | the person, then rely on some other methods you |
| What is therefore the secret of the gaze? There are | | | | already know (the best are the non verbal methods). |
| many secrets. | | | | You will also verify that what we call "depth of |
| Firstly, fascination does not rely on relaxing the | | | | hypnosis" will be stronger in relation to the energy that |
| conscious mind as traditional hypnosis. We would like | | | | you will put at the beginning. |
| to give a short explanation about why we have a | | | | Among the other important points we will subsequently |
| "dissenting opinion" with respect to the mainstream | | | | analyze there is the inner part of fascination. |
| hypnotic schools on the best way to induce profound | | | | It is necessary for you to consider that, as you look |
| states. When we look somebody directly in the eyes | | | | somebody directly, you are transmitting a lot of who |
| we always get a strong feeling; even our heartbeat | | | | you are through the eye. In life, often love occurs |
| changes. As our subconscious gets excited, we | | | | through a glance. |
| cannot resist it and its excitation will break and wash | | | | At the same time you also need to know that real |
| away any conscious resistance. Even in love, a glance | | | | hypnotic fascination is not only physiological. It is also |
| can catch the attention. In this way we are brought into | | | | energetic. It taps in what the oriental call Chi or Prana. |
| a different reality. | | | | Additional personal exercises are therefore necessary |
| However fascination is also very technical in its | | | | to be completely congruent and powerful. Please |
| strongest form. There is also a second fundamental | | | | remember that any hesitations would be immediately |
| and very important physical element behind the power | | | | perceived when looking into somebody else's eyes. |
| of fascination, unknown to the physiologist of 1800s. | | | | You also need to awake what is rightly called |
| There is a specific point in space: if you focus this | | | | "personal magnetism" in yourself. This is a prerequisite |
| point, the mind goes still. It is called the "dark focus" (so | | | | to the most powerful hypnotic fascinations. |
| called by physiologist because it is the point where the | | | | Please do not hesitate to email me at if you begin to |
| eyes look when there is nothing to look, as for | | | | try this method, I will appreciate your feedback and I |
| example in the dark). It is something like a "magic point". | | | | will give you many additional hints. |