 Joe Nickell, writing in the "Skeptical Inquirer", observed the use of slaying in the Spirit during a Benny Hinn healing crusade in 2001.He compared the practice to hypnosis, writing that participants "merely engage in a form of role-playing that is prompted by their strong desire to receive divine power as well as by the influence of suggestion that they do so ...In short, they behave just as if 'hypnotized.