In hypnotist Taylor Starr’s “Underground Hypnosis” course, he teaches what he calls the most powerful of three major “secret” hypnotic techniques: the No Cleaver.
With the No Cleaver, you can drop someone into a trance right in the midst of a “normal” conversation and make it virtually impossible for them to disagree with anything you say. Starr calls it “lethal” and says it “should be illegal”.
The question, of course, is does the No Cleaver really work? Yes, it does. We know it works because that’s just Starr’s patented name for long-known arts of Conversational Trance.
Now, the No Cleaver, or Conversational Trance, may not be able to be mastered by everyone. You won’t master this overnight; it will take time, dedication, and practice. That’s because this kind of hypnosis is very complex and requires a great amount of mental preparation to pull off.
However, as with all complex things like this, once you do have it mastered it really is “magic”, and its effects can, indeed, be deeply powerful. (Although calling them “lethal” is hyperbole).
In essence, the No Cleaver is about making the minds of those you are speaking to malleable so that you can implant your own ideas into those minds. I’ll assume that this is the root of the name “No Cleaver”: this stops the other person from cleaving to their ideas, and also stops them from cleaving in half yours.
With these conversational hypnotic techniques, you’ll implant “future memories” (they’ll “remember” things that have not yet happened). “Future memories” are used in hypnotherapy to overcome harmful memories such as memories of being terribly hurt by someone as a child. The “future memories” create powerful expectations about what is supposed to happen and therefore what will happen. It is sometimes alleged that when psychotherapists “uncover” allegedly repressed emotions in the subconscious, what they really do is implant “future memories”.
Indeed, hypnotherapy pioneer Dr. Milton Erickson made no bones about constantly implanting future memories in his clients. Used in this way, people are led by you to tell you how they would realistically solve a proposed dilemma, real now or imagined, in the future; then you implant the suggestion that they have already solved it, so that when that future dilemma comes they already “remember” its being resolved by them and they act accordingly.
You will also be able to influence the listener with something known to hypnotists as “stacking realities”. When you stack realities, you tell a story within a story within a story within…and soon the person’s conscious mind becomes lost in juggling all those story lines and details while you plant your own ideas into the ever-attentive subconscious mind. This technique makes use of hypnosis basics “overloads” and “pattern interrupts”.
So, is Starr’s “No Cleaver” no good? No, not at all. It’s very good and highly effective. But remember: it’s his new name for old knowledge, and you’ll need to practice, practice, practice to get it right.