The positive audience response sparked a "hypnosis war" on the airwaves. A hypnotist from America, Tom Silver, went on television to "get people to relive their past lives." When the show's producer put a small notice in a newspaper about looking for volunteers to be hypnotized, all the places were filled within just two days, and many people expressed regret about having missed the train.
在大眾的熱烈迴響下，「催眠戰爭」熱線拉上螢光幕，美國來的心理師湯姆．史立佛接著在電視上讓許多人「回到前世」，當時製作單位在報端發佈了一個小新聞稿，徵求自願被催眠者，結果不到兩天就額滿，還有許多人因未搭上催眠列車而扼腕興嘆。