Bruce Michael
Well-Known Member
Dear Friends,
What is hypnotism? What is actually happening when one is hypnotised?
Blavatsky likened it to Black Magic:
Max Heindel was unequivocal in his condemnation:
The trained hypnotist uses their will to control the processes of thought in another. And this can take place just by eye contact- beware of the breath also.
Dr. Steiner says the end result is that folk become easier to hypnotise and their etheric body hangs out of their head like a broken sack of potatoes.
We must always remain "the captain of our ship". Diminution of consciousness by any means is dangerous.
The big concern with hypnotism is that under normal circumstances we are in control of our acquired concepts and can deal with them and call them up for review. When a hypnotist has implanted concepts in us we no longer can seek them out- they are "hidden files".
The Elder Brothers explain:
All in all a dangerous, malicious practice.
-Br.Bruce
What is hypnotism? What is actually happening when one is hypnotised?
Blavatsky likened it to Black Magic:
"Such is the consequence of public "Hypnotic" experiments which thus lead
to, and virtually are, BLACK MAGIC."
Max Heindel was unequivocal in his condemnation:
"To control others by the exercise of will power is mental assault, and even more reprehensible than assault on the physical plane of action. It is this mental assault which is called "hypnotism" and it is graded in its effect just as physical assault is.
"The crime of the determined hypnotist is in fact a phase of what the Bible describes as "sin against the Holy Spirit," spiritual evil, and hypnotism may well be said to be the greatest crime on earth and the greatest danger
to society. "
The trained hypnotist uses their will to control the processes of thought in another. And this can take place just by eye contact- beware of the breath also.
Dr. Steiner says the end result is that folk become easier to hypnotise and their etheric body hangs out of their head like a broken sack of potatoes.
We must always remain "the captain of our ship". Diminution of consciousness by any means is dangerous.
The big concern with hypnotism is that under normal circumstances we are in control of our acquired concepts and can deal with them and call them up for review. When a hypnotist has implanted concepts in us we no longer can seek them out- they are "hidden files".
The Elder Brothers explain:
"In the case of hypnosis and hypnotic suggestion, we have individuals who incorporate that of their own fixed perspectives, adhering them artificially to another. Animal magnetism was the process of sympathetic adherence of stationary concepts.
"In this, the individual being worked upon has frozen the aspect and ability of motivating the concept for himself. With fixed point of thought dictated, the concept is highlighted, and imparted to him and imposed. This is why it can be conducted through the eyes, from man to man (if the scurrilous hypnotist is well practiced enough), and needs not words to be passed, or conscious acknowledgment on behalf of the victim.
"And victim they are, for it is curious enough to say, that when one has certain concepts imposed in this way, and thus inspired with a point of reference, they are essentially characterised and motivated by their owner and creator, even though imparted and implanted in another. There can be little or no control on behalf of the adoptee, to shift the said concept or work through it with governing motivation. There is no personal correspondence. Because if there were, we should all interfere directly with each other's thought so continually, that there should be no thought."
All in all a dangerous, malicious practice.
-Br.Bruce