7/30/2019 Hypnosis, animal magnetism and zombies in Ancient and Realistic Worlds

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From 'Here Be Dragons'

Animal magnetism

Magnetism is more significant in the biology of Ancient and Realistic World organisms than in

World Zero and Midgard. This has been seen as animal magnetism, and the Atlanteans saw it

as a fluid which was separate from mineral magnetism, a view shared in the early modernperiod in both worlds and present in World Zero. It was later established that animal andmineral magnetism were two manifestations of the same force. The Realistic World

establishment denies the significance of magnetism in biology or medicine on the wholealthough they use it secretly, while it is openly known in Ancient World.

Hypnosis in both worlds is a state of consciousness rather than a non-state. It is

neurologically distinct from the brain's normal working and can be induced by magnetic fieldsgenerated by certain people. It can also be generated by a machine. While hypnotised, a

subject has no willpower and their brain can be programmed. Anyone can be hypnotised.Ancient World hypnosis can also be induced by sensory stimuli which somewhat resemble the

scitalis pattern visually, and auditory and tactile analogues also exist there. In Realistic World,the stimuli are different and hypnosis is harder to induce by such means because humans

there lack the basilisk vulnerability, although patterns do exist. Hence the establishment ofrapport between a hypnotist and their subject, although it makes the process easier, is

completely unnecessary. Hypnosis is more effective than here, and can be used for the likes ofpain relief, psychotherapy and relieving addiction. In Realistic World it is also used for social

control and assassination, and there is a crowd control device which induces the state ingroups of people to disperse riots, demonstrations and the like, and in battlefield situations.

This device is disguised as a sonic/strobe technique.

Zombies

Zombification: A form of brain damage which leads to permanent loss of consciousness

combined with a permanent hypnotic state, induced by a poisonous plant. Theability of the brain to switch back to wakeful consciousness is destroyed. As such,

their existence provides support for the arguments that logical behaviourism is nottrue in Ancient World and that type-identity physicalism is not true. The Mary's

Room argument could be resolved by an actual experiment - "Interview with thezombie".

In Southern Africa, there are groups of zombies which operate trains which are not

in use and run them through stations in the middle of the night. When passengersboard these trains, which obviously do not show up on timetables, they are

poisoned and join the zombies.