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Sampson's style involves two basic steps. First, he must establish a close rapport with his patient and dispel any tension or distrust the patient may have. Sampson says he can gain this trust just about anywhere--in a coffeeshop or over a drink. But he says he feels this is a critical stage because he must make his patient believe that hypnosis is useful in a practical way, that it is natural and far removed from the talent show or the circus. Sampson then applies one of a variety of hypnotic techniques--he has a repertoire of about seven...
...trust a Siamese to see through a diplomatic front and then retire-not, as you say, to safety, but to a quiet place for reflection and the preparation of a later report...
Censorship founders first of all on a rock that Poet John Milton charted 300 years ago in his great anticensorship treatise, Areopagitica: If there were a censorship law, whom could one possibly trust to act as the censor? As Loory's Sun-Times editorialized, "Who would administer a law like that? A national news censor? Do you really want someone to shut off your news...
...unlawful imprisonment" of Merylee, on the theory that she had lost her free will due to Hare Krishna "mind control." For good measure, the two leaders were also accused of brainwashing another convert, Ed Shapiro, 22, and of getting him to try to extort a $20,000 family trust fund from his father. Young Shapiro had once been worked on by Ted Patrick, the originator of deprogramming, but had also escaped by feigning agreement. "The thing that frightens me," Schwed told the New York Times, "is that a group like this [the Hare Krishnas] can use mind control to create...
Robinson now brings that same independence of mind to his closely reasoned work on chronology, Redating the New Testament (Westminster; $15), and a forthcoming popular paperback, Can We Trust the New Testament? (Eerdmans; $1.95). What drew him into the dating game was the Gospel of John. In the 19th century newly liberated German Bible critics placed the fourth Gospel in the mid-2nd century because of its well-developed theology, but subsequent archaeological finds (e.g., the Dead Sea Scrolls and an early fragment of the Gospel) forced the date back to A.D. 90-100. Robinson, however, felt even that...