A popular school principal in Florida has been placed on administrative leave after a student who he hypnotized committed suicide. George Kenney, principal since 2001 at North Port High School, had been using hypnosis for years and made podcasts on reducing test anxiety and improving sports performance through the technique. He also has a website that promotes hypnosis to “banish fear and insecurity from your life.” But his use of the practice came under scrutiny after Kenney acknowledged he had hypnotized Wesley McKinley, 16, the day before the teenager killed himself in April.
How very odd of a principal. Very odd indeed. And isn’t it passing strange that hypnosis is accepted without blinking but if the principal had prayed with the kid there would have been a riot.
Our culture is weird. Weirdness is commonplace and embraced and Christianity is despised and denigrated.
Zwinglius Redivivus 
Only God gets to touch the mind and the subconscious! Because of some PTSD, a few years back, I allowed a so-called doctor to try and hypnoptize me.. he could not! My hard-headed Irish person is to blame it seems? 😉 Thank God it apppears! I will not try that again!
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Actually, when my wife was training and practicing as an Educational Psychologist there was good evidence that used sensibly hypnotism can help many people. There was little evidence for the wilder claims. If the principal was trained and principled their seems to me no reason to condemn him of anything but failing to recognise just how seriously the lad was disturbed. And that is a failing that is all too common among priests and ministers as well as teachers and parents.
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Jim, while I agree with the overall point Christianity has its fair share of weirdness (and weirdos)….take the Catholics for example…
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lots of catholics are awesome! and not all of them are relic worshipers!!!! it’s always the jerks that get the news headlines.
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