The movie “Inception” got it wrong. Planting ideas (inception) is far easier than extracting them, argues Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander, a master hypnotist and NLP practitioner. In this thought-provoking piece, we delve into the constant stream of influences shaping our thoughts and behaviors, from subtle advertising to societal programming. Discover how your subconscious mind’s “critical filter” works, why “all hypnosis is self-hypnosis,” and how concepts from hypnotherapy and NLP can empower you to take control of your mental landscape. Learn about “Hypno Athletics,” a framework for building mental resilience, and take the first steps towards true cognitive autonomy. This isn’t just about resisting manipulation; it’s about consciously choosing the influences that shape your reality.

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Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander’s discourse centers on the necessity of mental defense against external influences, drawing parallels between the movie “Inception” and real-world psychological processes. Here’s a structured breakdown of the key arguments and concepts:

Key Arguments:

1. Mental Defense Necessity:
   • The mind must be actively defended against harmful external influences, akin to the concept of “Hypno Athletics,” which combines mental exercise with spiritual and physical wellness.
   • The movie “Inception” is critiqued for portraying “inception” (implanting ideas) as harder than “extraction” (stealing ideas). Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander argues the opposite: input (inception) is easier due to natural sensory absorption, while output (extraction) is harder due to privacy guards.
2. Hypnosis and Self-Hypnosis:
   • All hypnosis is self-hypnosis, relying on repetition and association. The subconscious mind’s “critical filter” labels incoming information as safe/threatening, influencing behavior.
   • Societal structures (ads, media, education) act as forms of hypnosis, shaping behaviors unconsciously.
3. Perception and Reality:
   • Borrowing from NLP, “the map is not the territory” underscores that mental models (shaped by 9 senses) are subjective and incomplete. Humans naturally absorb sensory input to build their worldview (inception), making external influence inevitable.
4. Call to Action:
   • Proactive mental defense is crucial to resist harmful societal programming (e.g., unhealthy habits, consumerism). This involves recognizing and filtering inputs that threaten autonomy and well-being.

Critical Analysis:

• Inception vs. Extraction: Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander challenges the movie’s premise, arguing that real-world “inception” (e.g., ads, media) is effortless due to constant sensory input, while “extraction” (e.g., hacking thoughts) is harder. This aligns with psychological theories on information processing but oversimplifies complex cognitive dynamics.
• Hypnosis as Metaphor: Societal influences are likened to hypnosis, emphasizing subconscious conditioning. While persuasive, this metaphor may overextend hypnosis’s clinical definition.
• NLP and Critical Filter: The subconscious “critical filter” concept mirrors Freudian defense mechanisms but is framed through a hypnotherapy lens. Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander stresses active filtering to block harmful inputs, though practical methods for this are underexplored.

Questions and Considerations:

• Hypno Athletics: Likely Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander’s term for mental/spiritual fitness via hypnosis techniques. Further context on its principles would clarify its application.
• Defense Mechanisms: How does one practically implement “mental security”? The speaker, Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander, advocates awareness but lacks concrete strategies.
• Scientific Backing: Claims about sensory input’s ease (inception) versus extraction’s difficulty need empirical support, possibly from cognitive psychology or neuroscience.

Conclusion:

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander urges vigilance against pervasive societal influences, framing them as subconscious hypnosis. By understanding natural susceptibility to input (inception), individuals can better guard against manipulative forces. While the argument leans on hypnosis/NLP frameworks, it raises valid concerns about autonomy in an information-saturated world. Future discussions could explore actionable defense strategies, such as mindfulness or critical media literacy, to complement the theoretical foundation.

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Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (00:00)

You have to defend your mind. It is absolutely necessary to defend your mind. Hypno Athletics is exercising your mind towards universal harmony and spiritual wisdom through a healthy living and itself defense, an interesting story that comes from science fiction fantasy is the movie Inception.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (00:30)

And uh, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character was something like a defender of the mind in some ways he taught people what type of mental security so that someone else would not be able to enter their dreams and extract information from me, them, like corporate secrets and different types of Things I might the, for example, combination to a safe and uh, the idea it is based on a technology that the Army developed in which participants multiple participants let’s just say 2 people can share the same dream space, usually it’s one person entering into another person’s dream.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (01:22)

And so yeah, the job here is to learn how to defend against having information extracted from your mind. Now. Here’s what’s interesting number 1 the first thing I’m going to tell you right now is one of the first things that you can do to absolutely defend your mind.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (01:43)

It is absolutely necessary to practice mental psychological self-defense. And what I’m going to tell you right now is one of the steps you have to take and it’s about the movie some time ago I wrote a blog called Inception extraction deception. And the reason why I wrote that is because I immediately realized as a master hypnotist, a clinical hypnotist or hypnotherapist, one who studied at the hypnosis motivation institute, you can find them at hypnosis.edu, 1 of the best.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (02:19)

Hypnosis, schools, I say the best hypnosis school hypnotherapy college on the planet. That’s arguable. Of course, you could say some people will argue with that, but yeah, I immediately saw the problem with something in the movie.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (02:36)

That’s why I called the article the blog article Inception extraction deception, because whether or not James Cameron or whoever it was, that wrote and directed that movie Did what they did intentionally do? We’ll put forward the idea intentionally about Inception. The fact of the matter is that it’s very misleading, and here’s how basically the premise of the movie is that the Inception is meaning to get information into someone’s mind so that they would believe it is their own It was much much more difficult, nearly impossible and much more difficult than an extraction.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (03:17)

And as I previously said, an extraction is getting the information out of a person’s mind, whereas Inception is putting the information in a person’s mind, I’m getting them to believe that it’s their own. And just now, as I was listening to a talk once more with Seth Godin, he talked about how he recently learned about and not recently, till now this, the podcast I was listening to was probably a year or so ago, but he said that he recently learned about the term auto didact. Or autodidactic, which being self-taught and he realized that everyone is self-taught Is it if a teacher or an instructor might tell you something?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (04:03)

But it is up to you, to learn it yourself to make it your own through experience? And this is the same thing that I learned at the hypnosis motivation institute about hypnosis, that all hypnosis is self hypnosis, all hypnosis is self hypnosis. This is why the laws of hypnosis are the laws of cell fitgnosis, which are repetition and association.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (04:28)

And uh, in the movie, the deception, whether it was intentional or not, is that an interesting like that, Inception, it’s much more difficult and nearly impossible than this, an extraction to get information out of a person’s mind. But here’s the thing this happens to us all the time, and this is in fact the way that. We learn anything from our senses from outside of us.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (04:57)

From the time we are born all the senses that we have. And I say that because some people are born deaf, some people are born blind Some people, unfortunately, are born both and some people are born with different variations of sensory deprivation that they don’t have. But yeah, to a fully sensory human being, we have 9 senses, we have sight, we have hearing, we have smell, we have taste, we have touch, then we have proprioception, equilibrioception, thermoception, no CEO ception and equilibrioception.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (05:30)

Let me make sure I got those right thermoception, no CEO ception. Equilibrioception, approprioception and no CEO ception. So oh wait, I think I doubled up, I’m sorry I double up on a couple of lockers.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (05:49)

There’s only 4 more of them. So, there are 5 senses plus 4, so no sea Inception, as the sense of pain thermoception is the sense of temperature. Equilibrioception, there’s a sense of balance, roughly speaking and uh, approprioception is related, but it’s spatial awareness, and uh, so we’re born with those 9 senses and we make up the maps of our world based on those senses and another thing I learned at the hypnosis motivation institute from one of the neurolingusitic programming classes NLP not to be mistaken for a Natural Language Processing.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (06:28)

Which is from the artificial intelligence training world and large language models, Natural Language Processing. But this NLP is neurolingusitic programming for humans, a subset of hypnosis that says the map is not the territory. The map is not the territory because, of course, back in the day cartographers, those people who made maps they could go across the land and draw a map, and it would be different from someone else who crossed that land and maybe it could be, for some really obvious reasons like a tree that was there one year is not there another, or it’s flooded one time?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:07)

When one person is traveling, and it’s dry at another time. Or maybe someone’s just or maybe they’re just using different units of measurement. Right.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:16)

But the map is not the territory and uh, but we make up the world we make up our map, the way we navigate through the world, based on the information that comes in through our senses right so just like a map maker would have to sense and see and feel and touch the things around them. They’d make up the map and the same thing we do throughout life throughout time throughout chronology. Right?

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (07:40)

Chronologically, time, one of the fundamentals of physics, we learn things psychologically, we take that information in my point. Being that Inception is in fact, the easier way that we learn things and it is the way that we learn things. I should say what I’m saying is that it’s the easier way.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:08)

Of information exchange than what the movie the Inception would have us. Believe extraction is actually a little bit more difficult than Inception, because in fact, Inception is the way that we human beings learn my acronym for that, it puts these things at equivalents, which is pitch pitch. Programming influencing training conditioning hypnosis are all equivalent.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (08:37)

I could easily swap out the eye influencing for indoctrination. I use influencing, because now in the world of social media, we have influencers which influence us and stimulate us motivate us to go buy things. All right, which I will see we’ll resist going down that rabbit hole right now, but the point is that Inception is, in fact, the way that we are as human beings are built to obtain information by it coming into our senses by input input is the way Inception is the way that we learn and therefore.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (09:18)

It is the easier simpler way for us to obtain information Now, the subconscious mind has a critical filter. We could call it in the theory of mind learned in clinical hypnosis schools like the hypnosis motivation of this suit and it has a critical filter. Which job is to filter out new and unfamiliar information because most of the new and unfamiliar information is deemed or labeled or tagged By the subconscious mind as being equation as being a threat to survival or non survival unsafe, and so it takes longer for it to be accepted into the subconscious mind, buy the critical filter.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:00)

But that is the main way that we take in information, and when the information comes in, it always comes in, we either it. Label it, I associated with you, what another way of saying I could say, eh it is are we taken the information and we label it or associate it either as being safe or not safe, acceptable or unacceptable. And if it’s safe and acceptable or trusted right trusted or untrusted, we can use so many.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (10:30)

Different adjectives, for that, if it’s trusted, it goes until it passes into the subconscious mind. And there begins to influence our behavior if it’s not trusted, it still influences our behavior but in a different way, it influences our behavior to avoid the untrusted behavior that it would have otherwise guided us to like, for example, the simple case is if I look at the ingredients on some food And I see high fructose corn syrup, I do not trust a food that has high fructose corn set, and therefore my behavior will be not to eat it, whereas other people who don’t know any better.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (11:13)

We’ll eat that food with the high fructose corn soon because they trust it, or just don’t know any better, which is a rough way of talking about how the critical filter works in the subconscious mind, but that’s basically it. How it works. So Inception is actually the easier exchange of information, whereas an extraction which the movie posited it was more difficult or at which the movie the extraction, which the movie posited was easier is actually the more difficult one to get information out of someone because many people myself included we clam up we.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (11:49)

Quiet down, we don’t I really necessarily trust a lot of people so much or at least I used to be that way, but I noticed that it is the behavior of a lot of people, a lot of people want their privacy and to keep secrets and so on and so forth. And so they don’t open up as much and it’s much more difficult to hook up some machinery. To a person’s body and extract their thoughts, whereas you could turn on a TV, you could turn on a podcast, you could open app a book and the input.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (12:22)

The Inception is automatic, because that is, in fact how we learn. So it is absolutely necessary that we practice psychological mental hypnotic self-defense I could say we it is it is imperative that we practice programming influencing training conditioning and hypnotic defense against armaged. It’s against information that is going to cause us to I have to practice behaviors that lead to unwanted outcomes.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (13:00)

To our health, fitness and wellness. And that’s the main thing, the main thing is that the reason why so many people so many men are not in the best physical and mental conditioning they can be in, it’s because they’ve been psychologically hijacked brainwashed. It’s a fool deceived by clever devices that are all around us.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (13:31)

In societal programming, influencing training conditioning and hypnosis, societal pressure, societal structures, regardless of what many people think of as being hypnosis, so much indoctrination education, even It is hypnosis, because the definition of hypnosis is anything that controls our behavior anything that controls our behavior so everything hypnotizes us. It’s just that the way that we behave from those things that we are hypnotized by it’s different in each case. Because sometimes we learn things or are hypnotized by things, meaning it becomes part of who we are our belief system, our behavior and we act a certain way accordingly.

Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander (14:20)

Whether we trust that information or not if we believe an advertisement for a product now that it will give us the result that it says then we’ll buy it if we don’t believe it regardless of whether we got the same information, 2 people can get the same information one will buy the product. And one won’t, because one person will trust the advertisement and one person will not or even the person who does not. If both people don’t trust it, one of them still will buy it because they feel like they don’t have any other option. Hypnosis brainwashing works in many different ways