It’s been a few years since I’ve seen it but what I do remember is that it wasn’t some kind of simplistic positive thinking exercise where you tell the kids they’re “the best sportsball player ever.” Rather, he taught these kids how to toggle their mind into a different state. As I recall, the trigger to enter the state was some sort of blinking sequence.

What’s really crazy is that this teacher wasn’t some kind of PhD psychologist or doctor. He’s just some random dude who bought a Teach Yourself Hypnosis seminar/manual from a magazine ad because he had an interest in the topic.

The documentary was made because his students started dying in unusual ways, and their parents tried to pin the deaths on the teacher, claiming that the kids had been under in a hypnotic state at the time of their demise.