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that might have been explained by the fact that Tommy was color blind.
Hypnosis is astonishing enough on its own, without being made even more astonishing by a linkage
with psychic phenomena.
Although the ancient sages knew what hypnosis and the power of suggestion would do, they didn't
have any idea what it was.
We have seen how Mesmer retired to obscurity when ideas, the forerunners of modem hypnosis, were
repudiated.
In 1842, before anesthesia was discovered, a Dr. W. S. Ward demonstrated that surgery as radical as a
leg amputation could be performed, with the patient feeling no pain, while under hypnosis. His report
was stricken from the records of the Royal Medical Society, with the charge of "fraud." The doctors
insisted that even though the leg was being cut off at the thigh, with massive hemorrhaging, the
patient was "feigning" his lack of pain!
Today, over a hundred years later, hypnosis is used in every conceivable medical application. It is
used not only for painless surgery, childbirth and dental extraction, but to cure frigidity; to replace
inferiority complex with self-confidence; to displace guilt; to eliminate rejection of femininity; to
restore lost faith in the meaning of life; to achieve fertility; to cure homosexuality; to cure painful
menstruation; migraine headaches; compulsive eating and drinking as well as smoking; stuttering;
allergic disorders and practically every other ailment that would have a psychosomatic origin.
Hypnosis has been defined as an "altered state of awareness associated with physical relaxation,
mental concentration, narrowing or focusing of attention, and is characterized by hyper suggestibility
of behavior."
It has certain unique qualities. The subject invariably wants to please the hypnotist to the point where
it is sometimes difficult to draw an accurate line between what the subject really feels and what he
thinks the hypnotist wants him to feel.
Almost everyone can be hypnotized, but the speed with which he responds depends upon his ability to
concentrate, among other factors. Idiots or feeble-minded people cannot be hypnotized, since they live
in a world of their own, and their attention span is practically non-existent. This is very unfortunate
because if an insane or retarded patient could be reached, via his subconscious mind, his underlying
personality might be freed from its prison of a damaged or defective brain.
Once hypnotized, a subject is always more susceptible. While entranced, he is not unconscious but
rather in a super conscious state.
The old theory that no one can be hypnotized without his consent and cooperation is not entirely true.
Not many years ago a weekly televised hypnotism show had to be cancelled; too many of the viewers
complained of drifting off into trances in their own living rooms and following the screen hypnotist's
suggestions!
Another fallacy that has been exploded is that the subject will not do anything, under trance, that he
would not do under his own free will. A skillful hypnotist can get a subject to do just about anything,
if he phrases his suggestions properly.
If he abruptly told a prim young lady to shed all of her clothes in full view of the assembled multitude,
she would promptly wake up from her trance.
If, however, he suggested persuasively that it was a very warm day, that she had come home hot and
tired and that she should go into the privacy of her bathroom, close and lock the door, shed her clothes
and have good, refreshing shower... it is quite possible that the prim young lady would go through all
the motions of doing just that!
Some years ago, with the publication of Morey Bernstein's book, The Search for Bridey Murphy the
public first became aware of the amazing capacity of hypnosis to regress subjects not only back to
earlier periods in their lives, but to earlier lives.
We have seen how every experience, no matter how minute, is filed away in the memory bank of the
subconscious mind: hypnosis is able to draw upon that memory bank at any period, at the will of the
operator. Regressed back to any given age in his childhood, the subject will speak in the language and
voice of that period, and his handwriting will duplicate his earlier childish scrawl.
Regression back to the time spent in the womb before birth becomes a bit more nebulous. When we
get into regression back into former lifetimes, we get into a complex field pitting reincarnation
theories, on the one hand, against telepathy (memory of long - forgotten stimuli) and the desire to
please the hypnotist and sometimes out - and out fraud.
The champions of the reincarnation theory, admittedly have a great deal going for them. Joan Grant, a
very remarkable woman, claims vivid memories of numerous earlier reincarnations, even without the
aid of hypnosis, and she has written a number of historical books, rich in colorful detail about her
various other lives.
Some of the veridical information gleaned from the regression trance sessions supports the "other
lives" theory and in fact, presents no acceptable alternative.
A Mrs. Helene Smith was regressed back to what she claimed was a life on the planet Mars. She built
up to this slowly, with preliminary regression to the Kanara province of Hindustan, where she said she
was married to a Prince Sivouki. During this regression she sang ancient chants in Hindustani, wrote
in Sanskrit and frequently scolded her pet monkey in the vernacular and idiom of her century.
During her regression to Mars she sketched scenes of the planet, drew pictures of strange dwellings
and even produced a "Martian alphabet" which defied all language scholars who tried to identify its
origin on a terrestrial plane.
Helene Smith in her unhypnotized state was a simple uneducated woman with scant knowledge of
even her own language. This brings us again to the same tantalizing question if the foreign tongues
she employed so skillfully under hypnosis didn't come from Hindustani or Mars - where did they
come from?
One of the most intriguing of all hypnotic adventures occurred on September 19, 1961 on a lonely
country road in New Hampshire after a short vacation in Canada, when all of a sudden they
encountered a flying saucer!
The craft zeroed down on them and they could clearly see the L.G.M. aboard. Then they both
experienced a simultaneous blackout.
When they came to, they found themselves two hours later in time and thirty five miles distant in
space. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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that might have been explained by the fact that Tommy was color blind.
Hypnosis is astonishing enough on its own, without being made even more astonishing by a linkage
with psychic phenomena.
Although the ancient sages knew what hypnosis and the power of suggestion would do, they didn't
have any idea what it was.
We have seen how Mesmer retired to obscurity when ideas, the forerunners of modem hypnosis, were
repudiated.
In 1842, before anesthesia was discovered, a Dr. W. S. Ward demonstrated that surgery as radical as a
leg amputation could be performed, with the patient feeling no pain, while under hypnosis. His report
was stricken from the records of the Royal Medical Society, with the charge of "fraud." The doctors
insisted that even though the leg was being cut off at the thigh, with massive hemorrhaging, the
patient was "feigning" his lack of pain!
Today, over a hundred years later, hypnosis is used in every conceivable medical application. It is
used not only for painless surgery, childbirth and dental extraction, but to cure frigidity; to replace
inferiority complex with self-confidence; to displace guilt; to eliminate rejection of femininity; to
restore lost faith in the meaning of life; to achieve fertility; to cure homosexuality; to cure painful
menstruation; migraine headaches; compulsive eating and drinking as well as smoking; stuttering;
allergic disorders and practically every other ailment that would have a psychosomatic origin.
Hypnosis has been defined as an "altered state of awareness associated with physical relaxation,
mental concentration, narrowing or focusing of attention, and is characterized by hyper suggestibility
of behavior."
It has certain unique qualities. The subject invariably wants to please the hypnotist to the point where
it is sometimes difficult to draw an accurate line between what the subject really feels and what he
thinks the hypnotist wants him to feel.
Almost everyone can be hypnotized, but the speed with which he responds depends upon his ability to
concentrate, among other factors. Idiots or feeble-minded people cannot be hypnotized, since they live
in a world of their own, and their attention span is practically non-existent. This is very unfortunate
because if an insane or retarded patient could be reached, via his subconscious mind, his underlying
personality might be freed from its prison of a damaged or defective brain.
Once hypnotized, a subject is always more susceptible. While entranced, he is not unconscious but
rather in a super conscious state.
The old theory that no one can be hypnotized without his consent and cooperation is not entirely true.
Not many years ago a weekly televised hypnotism show had to be cancelled; too many of the viewers
complained of drifting off into trances in their own living rooms and following the screen hypnotist's
suggestions!
Another fallacy that has been exploded is that the subject will not do anything, under trance, that he
would not do under his own free will. A skillful hypnotist can get a subject to do just about anything,
if he phrases his suggestions properly.
If he abruptly told a prim young lady to shed all of her clothes in full view of the assembled multitude,
she would promptly wake up from her trance.
If, however, he suggested persuasively that it was a very warm day, that she had come home hot and
tired and that she should go into the privacy of her bathroom, close and lock the door, shed her clothes
and have good, refreshing shower... it is quite possible that the prim young lady would go through all
the motions of doing just that!
Some years ago, with the publication of Morey Bernstein's book, The Search for Bridey Murphy the
public first became aware of the amazing capacity of hypnosis to regress subjects not only back to
earlier periods in their lives, but to earlier lives.
We have seen how every experience, no matter how minute, is filed away in the memory bank of the
subconscious mind: hypnosis is able to draw upon that memory bank at any period, at the will of the
operator. Regressed back to any given age in his childhood, the subject will speak in the language and
voice of that period, and his handwriting will duplicate his earlier childish scrawl.
Regression back to the time spent in the womb before birth becomes a bit more nebulous. When we
get into regression back into former lifetimes, we get into a complex field pitting reincarnation
theories, on the one hand, against telepathy (memory of long - forgotten stimuli) and the desire to
please the hypnotist and sometimes out - and out fraud.
The champions of the reincarnation theory, admittedly have a great deal going for them. Joan Grant, a
very remarkable woman, claims vivid memories of numerous earlier reincarnations, even without the
aid of hypnosis, and she has written a number of historical books, rich in colorful detail about her
various other lives.
Some of the veridical information gleaned from the regression trance sessions supports the "other
lives" theory and in fact, presents no acceptable alternative.
A Mrs. Helene Smith was regressed back to what she claimed was a life on the planet Mars. She built
up to this slowly, with preliminary regression to the Kanara province of Hindustan, where she said she
was married to a Prince Sivouki. During this regression she sang ancient chants in Hindustani, wrote
in Sanskrit and frequently scolded her pet monkey in the vernacular and idiom of her century.
During her regression to Mars she sketched scenes of the planet, drew pictures of strange dwellings
and even produced a "Martian alphabet" which defied all language scholars who tried to identify its
origin on a terrestrial plane.
Helene Smith in her unhypnotized state was a simple uneducated woman with scant knowledge of
even her own language. This brings us again to the same tantalizing question if the foreign tongues
she employed so skillfully under hypnosis didn't come from Hindustani or Mars - where did they
come from?
One of the most intriguing of all hypnotic adventures occurred on September 19, 1961 on a lonely
country road in New Hampshire after a short vacation in Canada, when all of a sudden they
encountered a flying saucer!
The craft zeroed down on them and they could clearly see the L.G.M. aboard. Then they both
experienced a simultaneous blackout.
When they came to, they found themselves two hours later in time and thirty five miles distant in
space. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]