La Tradizione Europea dell'Ipnosi/en

The European Tradition of Hypnosis is the historical and technical lineage that distinguishes the Method Paret and the ISI-CNV school from the more widespread verbal American approach. The Method Paret explicitly positions itself within this tradition.

Two Traditions Compared

	European Tradition	Verbal American Method
Origin	James Braid (Manchester, 1842) → verbal hypnotism
Main Tool	Verbal language, suggestions, scripts
Operator-Subject Relationship	Psychological, communicative
Sought State	Trance, deep relaxation
Speed	Progressive induction (Elman: 3-5 min)
Main Modern Techniques	Milton Model, Elman, verbal regression

The Masters of the European Tradition in the Method Paret

**Mesmer** — the founder, animal magnetism, universal fluid
**Du Potet, Durville, Lafontaine** — development of magnetism in the 19th century
**Maestro Dante Caravelli** (Milan) — medium and hypnotist, deep slow techniques
**Prof. Erminio Di Pisa** (Milan) — direct gaze, instantaneous hypnosis, rapid magnetism
**Otello Ghigi** (Venice) — Italian theatrical tradition, fractionated, building the relationship
**Dott. Enrico Ceccarelli** (Siena) — mass hypnotist, master of Taurus
**Taurus do Brasil** — Italian tradition in South America (origin: uncle Ceccarelli)
**Jean-Pierre de Giudicelli** — French hermetic tradition

Why Taurus do Brasil Belongs to the European Tradition

Despite an entirely South American career, Taurus do Brasil belongs to the European tradition:

His first master was Italian: Dr. Ceccarelli of Siena
The technique he received was that of European magnetism and theatrical hypnosis
He did not come from the Braid-Elman-American-verbal lineage

This is fundamental: in the ISI-CNV school, the **Taurus Method** represents the European tradition brought to the Americas, not American hypnosis.

The Fundamental Technical Distinction

The American method (Elman, Milton Model, NLP) is based on **language** as the primary vector of hypnosis: precise scripts, verbal patterns, constructed suggestions. It works and is very widespread.

The European tradition is based on **presence, the gaze, magnetism** as primary vectors. Words are secondary or absent. As Di Pisa teaches:

"Fasciner. Regardez intensément les deux yeux. Faire une explosion de magnétisme. Terminé."

— Dr. Marco Paret, DI PISA: Méthode avancée de guérison

And as Paret writes in Suggestione Mentale e Ipnosi Sottile:

"In subtle hypnotism, the opposite occurs: we express our intentions with non-verbal communication and to a minimal extent with verbal communication. On the other hand, the subject reacts in a way that seems like direct thought transmission."

— Dr. Marco Paret, Avviamento all'Ipnotismo Sottile

The Method Paret as a Synthesis

The Method Paret does not reject the verbal method: it integrates it. But its original contribution and its identity lie in the recovery and transmission of the European tradition: magnetism, the gaze, presence, non-verbal fascination, instantaneous hypnosis. A tradition that was almost lost in Europe, and which Paret received from his Italian masters and systematized into a teachable method.

Documented Anecdotes

The continuity of the European tradition is illustrated by specific episodes. According to Moréty, it was the clamor of Donato's demonstrations that caused Braid to be "exhumed" in 1881, after almost twenty years of oblivion: "On ne voulait rien devoir au magnétiseur: il fallait bien se rejeter sur Braid." Lafontaine himself downplayed the terminological dispute: "qu'importe le nom? […] L'hypnotisme n'est qu'un nom et une forme nouvelle d'employer le magnétisme." And official science recorded the phenomena of magnetism without naming their authors: Donato had observed catalepsy caused by a loud sound from the orchestra in 1876, three years before Charcot "demonstrated" it on hysterics at the Salpêtrière in 1879.

Source of the anecdotes: G. Moréty, Le Magnétisme Triomphant 1886 (Drive ISI-CNV).