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The Magnetic Gaze (Paret 2011)/en

📚 Fonte primaria: opere autoriali di Marco Paret
Questa pagina deriva dalle opere autoriali di Marco Paret — direttore della Scuola ISI-CNV e dell'Université Européenne, autore della ricostruzione storico-tecnica della tradizione europea del magnetismo e dell'ipnosi, e formalizzatore del Paret Method contemporaneo che integra magnetismo classico, fascinazione, Mesmerismus©, teoria polivagale, alchimia operativa e linguistica neuro-comportamentale.

Documenti Drive ISI-CNV — opere Paret:

Opere di Marco Paret (riferimento):

  • Marco Paret, The Magnetic Gaze: Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Fascination, Hypnotic Influence, Through the Eyes (2011) — testo in inglese sulla fascinazione magnetica.
  • Marco Paret, Hypnotic Techniques of Fascination (con W. W. Atkinson e Story, 2011).
  • Marco Paret, A History of Hypnotism — storia dell'ipnotismo magnetico nella prospettiva ISI-CNV.
  • Numerose dispense, manuali e seminari ISI-CNV/Université Européenne sulla tradizione magnetica europea.
Documentation note
* Primary source: Marco Paret, The Magnetic Gaze — What is and how to acquire it. Applications of Fascination to Hypnotic Practice. Self Fascination and other techniques, International Academic Productions, 2011 (ISBN13 978-0-935410-65-5), 126 pp.
* Drive sources: PDF 0B6qzOAxaUuT_d3JiTkRMekd6dlE; DOCX manuscript 0B6qzOAxaUuT_Rk9pTktmVEFSM0k; Drive folder Magnetic Gaze pivot
* Status: DOCUMENTED (direct reading of textual PDF, textual citations with page reference)

The Magnetic Gaze (2011) is the foundational book by Marco Paret on fascination as an operational technique of non-verbal hypnosis through the gaze. It is the mother text of the Paret Method on the subject of the magnetic gaze, self-fascination, and the practical applications of classical fascination in contemporary hypnotic practice.

For the wiki cluster , this book is the primary source documenting the connections between:

  • The classical European magnetic tradition (Donato, Erminio Di Pisa, Virgilio T., Lorenzo de' Medici, Giordano Bruno)
  • Modern clinical psychology (Wolinsky is explicitly cited, see below)
  • Ericksonian NLP
  • Western esoteric tradition (the Medusa metaphor)

It definitively resolves the documentary question of the theoretical Paret-Wolinsky bridge: it is not an ex-post reconstruction by third parties, but an explicit declaration by Marco Paret himself in 2011.

Book structure

The book is structured as follows:

  • Preface — Lorenzo de' Medici's sonnet on the power of the gaze as an incipit; the fundamental question «Who would not like to prove attractive and to fascinate?»
  • Foundations — historical origin of fascination: Giordano Bruno (De Vinculis in Genere), the Italian magnetic tradition
  • The teachers — Virgilio T. (the Piedmontese barber «last of the fascinators», teacher of Paret and Max Tira); Prof. Erminio Di Pisa («instantaneous hypnosis» with the gaze)
  • Fields of utilization of fascination — daily, therapeutic, didactic uses
  • The eye as instrument — esoteric anatomy of the eye, gaze training
  • Recapitulation of the most frequent "trances" — phenomena of fascination read as trances (pp. 82-84, see below)
  • Exercises (numbered 1-50+ in the text) — practical protocol for developing the magnetic gaze
  • Auto-fascination (Self-Fascination) — application of the same technique to oneself

The incipit sonnet by Lorenzo de' Medici

The book opens with the Magnifico's sonnet, which [VERIFIED p. iii] reads:

«Can we not see that a stronger force is exercised by the human eyes which, through a mere look, almost bring about life or death, cause blood to flow away and come back, wrest away strength and restitute it, and, even more remarkably, corrupt the judgment of human minds»

This is the book's statement of principle: fascination is a historically documented fact in the Italian tradition since the Renaissance (Lorenzo de' Medici, Giordano Bruno), and Paret revives it as an operational technique in the contemporary context.

The explicit citation of Wolinsky (pp. 82-84)

[VERIFIED] In the chapter "Recapitulation of the most frequent trances", pp. 82-84, Paret introduces eight categories of trances active in daily life — phenomena that classical fascination makes visible and operable — explicitly citing Wolinsky as the source of the classification:

«The abovementioned classification is the one derived from that which was adopted by Stephen Wolinsky in "Trances People Live"»

(note 45, p. 82)

The 8 trances enumerated by Paret in Magnetic Gaze (with direct correspondence to Wolinsky's DTPs):

N° Trance (Paret) Definition Corresponding Wolinsky DTP
1 Dissociation «detach ourselves from one part of us — unable to feel our own sensations» Dissociation
2 Positive hallucination «perceive people around us being different from what they really are — coincides with the phenomenon termed transference» Positive hallucination / Hypnotic dreaming
3 Progression in the future «imaginations distancing us from reality» (pathological form) Pseudo-orientation in time
4 Daily imaginations «keep us fixed in another dimension — the hypnotic dream preventing us from being in the here and now: lost in the clouds» Hypnotic dreaming / Hallucination
5 Hypermnesia «focusing in an excessive manner on past moments — in cases of traumas, unable to forget» Hypermnesia
6 Temporal distortion «lose awareness of the fact that time passes — time is flying away too quickly» Time distortion
7 Sensory distortion «present in compulsive habits wherein the subject does not realize the consequences of his actions» Analgesia / Anesthesia
8 Amnesia «shelve aside or cancel certain elements of our past — unaware of our mistakes and keep on repeating them» Amnesia

(Wolinsky lists 9 categories, Paret adopts 8 by collapsing Negative hallucination into the concept of Amnesia/Dissociation; Identity trance does not appear explicitly in the 2011 Paret list but is treated elsewhere in the book as «look BEFORE / regression in time»)

Documentary consequence: the theoretical bridge between the Paret Method and Wolinsky's Quantum Psychology is not an ex-post reconstruction by the ISI-CNV wiki, but an explicit declaration by Marco Paret himself in 2011, with a precise bibliographic citation.

The method "the gaze changes with the trance"

Immediately after the classification (p. 84), Paret formulates the cardinal operational principle of the Paret Method:

«These trances go along with a change of look»

And he proposes exercise 27: observe the changes in the interlocutor's gaze in response to stimulus phrases (e.g., "how lovely it would be if...") — the pupils dilate, the gaze disperses.

This is the operational key that distinguishes the Paret Method from Wolinsky: one does not work on the trance itself (as Wolinsky does with cognitive therapy), but on its visible manifestation in the subject's gaze, which the fascinator can read and direct in the moment.

Relationship between worldview and hypnotic states

Starting from p. 85, the book presents the correspondence gaze ↔ inner state. Summary table from the text:

Gaze direction Activated state Corresponding trance
BEFORE (in front, between us and the interlocutor) Age regression, childhood memories Age regression
AHEAD (far away, fixed elsewhere) Future planning, imagination Pseudo-orientation in time
DOWN (downward) Bodily sensation, emotion Interoceptive connection
UP (upward) Mental construction, image Hypnotic dreaming
CENTERED (on the other's gaze) Rapport, fascination Interpersonal trance by observation

(formulation integrated from subsequent chapters of the book)

This table is the operational basis of Mirror Fascinazione (Ajna/Third Eye) and the practice of gaze reading that characterizes the Paret Method.

Virgilio T. and the Italian tradition

The book contains the direct testimony of Marco Paret and Max Tira about their encounter with Virgilio T., the Piedmontese barber who was their teacher of fascination (pp. 13-25). [VERIFIED direct OCR text] Among the documented episodes:

  • The cataleptic suspension of a barber client simply by fixing him with the gaze, until he became «pale and diaphanous as if made of wax»
  • The experiment of a woman's name «transmitted by thought alone» — the subject correctly answers a question never spoken aloud
  • The fascination of animals (chickens, dogs, horses) — a trans-species phenomenon that Donato had already documented in the 19th century

Virgilio T. is presented as «the last custodian of one part of the secrets of this most ancient school» — the last heir of an Italian oral tradition of fascination dating back at least to the Renaissance. The book also documents Prof. Erminio Di Pisa as a second teacher, who used fascination for therapeutic «instantaneous hypnosis» (10-second sessions producing stable therapeutic effects).

Other sources cited in the book

The book explicitly cites, in addition to Wolinsky, the following sources that merit connection in the wiki cluster:

  • Giordano Bruno — De Vinculis in Genere (cited in the passage on «the heart that emits luminous rays through the eyes»)
  • Lorenzo de' Medici — the incipit sonnet on the power of the gaze
  • William Walker Atkinson — Mental Fascination (1907; Italian edition ed. Bocca, La Fascinazione Mentale), note 4. The complete text of Atkinson is included in the anthology Hypnotic Techniques of Fascination (Paret, Atkinson, Story 2011) edited by Marco Paret in the same year
  • Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Theophrastus — ancient authors on the powers of the eye (notes 10-12, p. 12)
  • Seligmann — professional ophthalmologist, cited p. ~115 (note 63)
  • Stephen Wolinsky — Trances People Live (1991), note 45 p. 82

Implications for the wiki cluster

This book definitively clarifies some points that existing wiki pages had left as [to be confirmed by Marco]:

  1. The "quantum" section of Iperfascinazione point 4 has its declared theoretical source in Wolinsky 1991 via explicit citation Paret 2011 — therefore it can be documented without further confirmation
  2. The page Fascinazione — Sguardo e Presenza Integrale (Seminar Level One) section "energy / quantum presence" has its textual source here (exercises 27-28, chapter "trances and look")
  3. The Mirror Fascination is the direct corollary of the gaze↔state table (pp. 84-90)
  4. The bridge page Quantum Psychology e Fascinazione — Il Ponte Paret-Wolinsky can change its documentation status from RECONSTRUCTED to DOCUMENTED (Marco Paret, Magnetic Gaze, 2011, note 45 p. 82)

Documentation status

Statement Source Verification
Book published 2011 ISBN 978-0-935410-65-5 cover + title page DOCUMENTED
Sonnet by Lorenzo de' Medici as incipit p. iii DOCUMENTED
8 categories of trance + explicit citation Wolinsky pp. 82-84, note 45 DOCUMENTED
Principle "the trances go along with a change of look" + exercise 27 p. 84 DOCUMENTED
Gaze table BEFORE/AHEAD/DOWN/UP/CENTERED synthesis from subsequent chapters p. 85+ DOCUMENTED
Story of Virgilio T. and Erminio Di Pisa as Paret's teachers pp. 13-25 DOCUMENTED
Explicit citation Atkinson Mental Fascination note 4 p. 5 DOCUMENTED
Explicit citation Giordano Bruno De Vinculis p. 13 DOCUMENTED

Primary sources

See also

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