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Hypnotism By Richard Kieninger When an Ego is functioning
through the brain of his body, he is in a state of conscious awareness. Of
all the animals, only man’s brain affords this ability, which is quite
different from the mere awake state of other animals. Animals operate
entirely according to hereditary drives and responses built into them; and
although some higher animals can solve simple problems to overcome barriers
in the way of their attaining the fulfillment of one of their drives, animals
cannot reason or be fully aware of future consequences. An animal is
protected and guided by its built-in instincts. A baby spider spins a web
characteristic of its species; a bird can build a nest and raise its young without
having seen it done before. Man, on the other hand, has
genuine emotions and will. Most of his goals are determined by his
consciousness of his needs and wants. A man can delay his drives and the
satisfaction of his needs by application of will, whereas an animal in nature
cannot. Man has the faculties of conscience, self-directedness, awareness of
his own responsibility for the directions taken in his life, awareness of the
consequences of alternative choices, and volition dictated by his free will. Man
is also aware of his own impending death in old age. The human being is
concerned with many interests and sources of satisfaction beyond his animal
needs for food, warmth, security, and sex. He has higher aspirations which
are unknown in animals—aspirations to experience joy and to find happiness,
to build and create, to seek order and beauty, to love and be loved, to
explore mysteries, and to emulate the ideal behavior and ways of being that
he envisions in some God-like example of perfection. To allow accomplishment of
all these higher aspirations, man has been granted the power to exercise his
free will and self-volition independently of outside influences. Being able
to act intentionally and consciously in the expectation of gaining
appropriate results is a basic, God-given freedom and right. In order to aid
man in his understanding of and acceptance of personal responsibility for
his acts—so that he eventually learns to behave only in ways which benefit
others and never cause harm to his fellows—there is a universal “echo effect”
that can be stated simply: for every action in human affairs, there is an
equal but opposite action that returns to the initiator. That is, for every
helpful and beneficial action a man initiates, an equal benefit eventually
returns to him; and for every evil, hurtful, or dishonest thing he does to
another person, an equal pain will eventually return to him. When a man
finally understands this universal principle, he knows that whatever he does
to another person, he has essentially done to himself at a future time.
Thereby a man learns to become harmless in the use of his powers of will. As
the Bible says, “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” The worst disaster that can
befall a man or woman is to lose or surrender his or her power of free
will—whether it be through physical or mental enslavement or insanity. The
very core of a human being’s life is his power to make his own decisions
according to his ethics, conscience, and awareness of what is in his best
interests. When he obeys the dictates of others or slavishly follows the
guidance of wise leaders who make all his decisions, then a man effectively
learns nothing. The Creator has provided us with mental and bodily tools as
well as the bounty of our physical environment so we can eventually learn
everything there is to know about the world. God has spread before us a
complete array of things and interpersonal options from which we can choose —and
pay the appropriate price for. By learning cause-and-effect
relationships through your choices and their results, it is possible to
become wise. Your own experiences allow you to truly know yourself and
others. What you are told is merely information which may be true or in
error. What you live through and personally test become knowledge. You know
thereafter the verity or falsity of the information upon which you acted, and
you are not likely to be dissuaded by speculative theories that are counter
to what you actually experienced on a practical level. A human spirit (Ego)
directs his body’s actions through the practiced command of will over his
brain via his mental directives, and this process is identical to the way
that hypnotism works. The brain is the electrical control center for all the
voluntary and involuntary muscles of the body. The brain maintains a
continual electrical charge that flickers over its surface, and it requires
only a slight impulse from one’s Egoic mind, which always acts from the
non-physical spiritual realms, to set off a cascade of electrical energy
through the nerves. The brain is always primed to respond instantly. During
the years of one’s infancy and childhood, an exclusive and unique rapport is
established between the Ego and his brain. Under certain
circumstances, a hypnotist can gain control over another person’s brain. The
hypnotist can either share his control and leave the subject conscious, or he
can completely displace the conscious awareness of the subject, in which case
the subject is totally unable to exercise volitional control over any part of
his brain or body. Varying degrees of hypnotic states can therefore range
from light suggestion and relaxation to a profound level of control over the
subject’s autonomic bodily functions such as breathing and heart beat to the
degree that a condition resembling death can be produced. How does a hypnotist take
control of your brain? Usually, you let him do so by co-operating with him.
Through guided imagery and suggestion or by use of drugs, a hypnotist can
lead you to a state of relaxation bordering on sleep. At that point, your
threshold of will and resistance to being taken over are reduced so low that
your brain begins to respond to the hypnotist’s will along with your own
will. After his mind gains a foothold, as it were, his will becomes dominant;
and the hypnotist can then exclude your will from any brain or body function
he chooses to command. Thereupon, your brain is totally at his disposal even
though he may allow you to remember the things he commands your body to say
and do. The hypnotist may even command you to be unaware of a posthypnotic suggestion
that he may implant for you to carry out at some future date or in response
to a specific cue that you do not remember but cannot resist when the
suggestion is activated. Scientific studies indicate
that the first part of the brain to be taken over by a hypnotist is the
frontal cerebral cortex. As the trance is deepened, the midbrain succumbs,
and finally the brain stem and medulla, which control basic body functions,
are affected if the hypnotist makes the trance that deep. The subject
receives confused impressions through his sensory organs from the very
beginning of the hypnotic process, for his awareness of his environment is
mixed with the suggested images from the hypnotist. The subject’s perception
of reality is immediately warped. He sees, hears, and feels only what the
hypnotist directs. Unfortunately, there are subtle avenues by which a
hypnotist can take over your brain without your conscious co-operation. There
are a few hypnotists who have learned how to capture a person s attention and
induce a hypnotic state almost instantly, yet virtually undetected by the
victim. Each time you let yourself
be hypnotized, you further reduce your ability to resist the next attempt by
a hypnotist to entrance you. Some people become extremely susceptible to the
process and may periodically find their brains inadvertently being taken
over by other people who are not even trained in hypnotic techniques.
Practicing hypnotism is a serious problem for the hypnotist as well, because
he becomes permanently linked to every person he hypnotizes for as long as
they both live. This link is a mind/brain connection that usually results in
telepathic sharing of ideas, thoughts, and attitudes as well as a blending
of the vibrations unique to the bio-electric auras of both the hypnotist and
his subjects. Breaking the link between the two people is practically
impossible without special training. I am personally acquainted
with a physician who used hypnosis solely for anesthetizing surgery patients
unable to tolerate conventional anesthesia. He told me of an elderly patient
whom he had hypnotized a year earlier. The old man contacted his surgeon
several months after his operation in order to give the surgeon a medical
thesis which the patient had written. The patient could not understand the
complex subject matter of the monograph he authored, but the patient thought
he might have received the information from God; and so it could be
important. The surgeon passed it along to the hypnotist since it was his area
of specialty. My physician friend who had hypnotized the elderly patient was
astounded to see that the contents of the patient’s monograph was essentially
the same as a research paper that my physician friend was working on. There
had been no attempt at thought transference between them, yet a channel had
been established simply by the one-time hypnosis. The professor of a
psychology course I took in college invited a guest lecturer who used
hypnotism in his scientific research of the brain. The scientist used a
student volunteer from our class to demonstrate that it is not necessary to
give verbal commands to a hypnotized subject in order to have that person
obey the hypnotist’s will. The hypnotist merely visualized the complicated
routine he wanted the student to execute, and the subject perfectly performed
those activities without any signals being given other than silent,
telepathic orders. Even when the student was blindfolded and his ears
stoppled, he still acted on nonverbal command. This same scientist was honest
enough to advise our class against a popular myth about hypnotism: namely,
the fallacy that a hypnotized person will not carry out a command which is
counter to his or her moral code. The fact is that the subject’s body is
completely under the dominance of the hypnotist and the subject is helpless
to resist doing whatever is commanded. It is only the hypnotist’s code of
ethics that is operative; and regardless of the verbal commands he issues to
the subject, his telepathic images of what is right and moral overrides his
words. There is a much-touted
demonstration where a member of an audience is hypnotized on stage and then
given a loaded automatic pistol, which upon command he fires with uncanny
accuracy at a target on stage. Then the subject is told to walk down the
aisle and stop by any person seated on the aisle. The subject is instructed
to place the muzzle of the pistol at the temple of the seated person, which
he does, and the hypnotist then verbally commands the subject to pull the
trigger to kill the seated person. Of course, the subject is unable to fire.
It is assumed that the subject’s morality kept him from shooting the innocent
person, but in reality it was the hypnotist’s telepathically transmitted
abhorrence of murder that wouldn’t allow the subject’s finger to pull the
trigger. If the hypnotist were a murderer at heart, the seated person would
have been killed had a second bullet been allowed in the pistol. Our guest scientist pointed
out to our class that many stage and professional hypnotists are genuinely
unaware of the dangers and limitless power of hypnotism. Those hypnotists who
are cognizant of the total dominance they can gain over people who they
encourage to innocently deliver themselves into a hypnotic state are the last
to publicly admit to the absolute power of their control. Nevertheless, our
guest lecturer was reluctant to damn hypnotism itself because he found it to
be an irreplaceable tool for brain research and the investigation of
psychological powers, despite dangers to his volunteer subjects and patients.
He was strongly prejudiced toward hypnotism for use in psychiatry and
behavior modification wherein a “moral” physician might remold a patient’s
‘‘sick psyche’’ to conform to the doctor’s views of what a well patient
should be like. That concept, in my opinion, is totally unethical. If everyone were aware of
the true nature of what a person opens himself to by letting himself be
hypnotized, the whole practice would be brought to a halt and be morally
outlawed. There is no good enough reason or justifiable purpose, regardless
how useful it may seem, to expose oneself to the grave risks of being
hypnotized to any degree even once during one’s lifetime. So-called cures of
disease via hypnotism simply do not work. Temporary relief from pain and
other symptoms can be induced hypnotically; but this is just a cover-up since
the disease continues its ravages unchecked while it is unfelt by the
patient. When evidence of further advanced disease emerges months later,
genuine treatment is made more difficult if not impossible. Treatment of psychological
ills by means of hypnotic personality revision, using such systems as
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, amount to temporary masking of neurotic
disorders. The same problems arise later or else appear in disguised form
that are devilishly complicated to untangle. It is crucial that neurosis be
resolved entirely on a conscious level, and usually this requires
professional guidance. Almost everyone has heard of people who want to stop
smoking or lose weight and so seek help from a hypnotist. This can be
effective, but a person can refrain from using tobacco or overeating just by
using his own will power. By relying on the hypnotist’s suggestions instead
of his own will, he has in effect given away his rightful personal power to
the hypnotist. Regardless of whatever benefits being hypnotized may promise,
it always involves the risk of losing a measure of your God-given free will. A person’s most precious
possession is his free will and the full, volitional, self-control that
infers. Without free will, one can hardly be truly defined as a human being.
To surrender one’s free will to a hypnotist, whether the hypnotist is
physically embodied or is a spirit intelligence, is pure folly. It can open
the way to total or partial loss of one’s freedom of choice and, in all too
many cases, can result in an incurable form of insanity. At best, one is saddled
with being bonded to the hypnotist for the rest of one’s life. |
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