Hypnotic Augmentation

by Geoff O'Callaghan
ISBN 9781846930560
Published: 2007
Pages: 131
Description
Hypnotic Augmentation

We all want the best for our children - in school, in sport, in society, and beyond. We live in a competitive world where the race of life goes to the swift - the winners. For over a century, Hypnosis has been used as a safe and effective technique for helping people with problems. Now it is better understood, it is being widely accepted as a genuine technique for helping people. It is not a psychic phenomenon. It has nothing to do with spiritualism or demonic forces. It is simply the human brain being used in a different way - to control mental and physical functions. Hypnosis is a training technique to teach the brain how to function better and help people. For years, hypnosis has been used to improve sporting performance. It is not drugs in sport. It is legal and safe. So why not use hypnosis to help ordinary people achieve their goals and beyond? It makes perfect sense. Hypnosis can be used to train the brain to have a better memory, better problem solving skills, and generally enhanced performance. "Hypnotic Augmentation" is a new and developing field of science that improves personal performance. It works especially well with pre-adolescent youngsters between the ages of eight and fourteen years of age.

About the Author

Geoff was born in Jersey, then under German occupation, during World War II. Soon after the war, his family moved to Brisbane, Australia. He was educated at All Souls’ School, Charters Towers – a rather traditional boarding school after the English style. What knowledge one didn’t learn through the ears was well and truly belted in through the rear end, complete with blood blisters. His first contact with the cane was for not running around a sports oval fast enough. He now prides himself on a complete disinterest on sports and knows nothing about cricket. This led to his creative and artistic sides developing. He had a way with words, and was a skilled debater.
After secondary school, he took to teaching, graduated, and then obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Aboriginal Education. For the next thirty years, he lived with remote aborigines in the Great Western Desert, firstly as a primary school teacher, and later as a School Principal and Administrator. During this time, he took up writing, mostly short stories and film scripts. It was a good way to while away lonely hours in the desert evenings.
The development of miniature computers took his interest, and He wrote to the Department suggesting they take a serious look at the use of Computers in Education. Because of the proximity of a U.S. Sigint facility at Alice Springs, many of the students, especially the American kids, were interested in computing. At first they used Tandy Level Ones and Apples. While very primitive compared to today’s machines, Many of the I.T. Community cut their teeth on computing under Geoff’s tutelage. They even built a ‘Dream 8080’ and got it working.
Child welfare was another interest. Juveniles who committed offences were kept in adult prisons. Some of the kids were as young as nine years of age. Geoff fought hard to get decent juvenile facilities built for them, and also did lot of research into mental illnesses in Children. While taking a rest from the Desert, Geoff worked with the Education Department as a District Guidance Officer. He was responsible for getting educational services to handicapped children across the outback. While on Long Service leave in Cairns, his family home, he met up with his old geography teacher, Kevin Burry, who was bringing Trinity Anglican School to fruition. Kevin became ill with brain tumors, and the Bishop of North Queensland appointed Geoff as the voluntary acting principal to bring the school on line, so Geoff spent his vacation from teaching as principal of one of Queenslands largest schools.
Returning to the Northern Territory, Geoff was asked to write 13 episodes of “The Jabiru Trail” for the North Australian Film Corporation, and created the initial stories for “Police Rescue”. He also wrote “Extinct, but Going Home” for Humpty Doo Productions. Retiring from Government service, he founded “Young Actors World” to teach kids to act for commercials and feature films. He also took up advertising and ran “Top End Fliers” – one of the largest advertising distributors in the Northern Territory.
Diabetes and Heart surgery made Geoff retire from active life, and he settled in the mountain town of Stanthorpe, Queensland, where he lives quietly writing science fiction and film scripts for teens and young adults. He remains a committed advocate for children’s’ rights. His stories, which are often rather gritty, are often based on fact. One of his favourite sayings is, “If you treat a boy badly, you will often end up with a bad boy.”