The most despicable, oft-repeated lie about hypnosis is that one cannot be hypnotized to think what is untrue or to act against one's own free will. That is flatly untrue. Skilled manipulators have known it forever. The manipulators have guarded this secret carefully, partly by repeating the lie that such influence is impossible. It is not safe to regard hypnosis as a harmless parlor game, or to remain oblivious to how it works. Without awareness of how hypnotic influence works and of how to counter and reduce its influence in oneself and others, even people living in supposedly free societies will become increasingly enslaved to influences largely invisible to them-while simultaneously being hypnotized to regard themselves as free and in charge of their own lives. Based on the author's discoveries about hypnotic influence gathered over more than 60 years, this book seeks to show you how to become less susceptible to past and present hypnotic influences and thus more able to live in true freedom, drawing your energy from what is real and right so that you are fully alive in a healthy sense. Freedom from hypnotic influence, even from influences seeking to get you to do what is right or think what is true, is essential if people are to be able to escape an unhealthy dependence on their manipulators, caregivers, experts and leaders (even the well-meaning among them). Reading this book, watching the hypnosis demonstration video and practicing the recommended exercise will awaken within you a spiritual center from which you will be impervious to improper influence and able to influence the world for the better-as effortlessly as the most skilled martial artist can deal with an opponent.