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ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

erages? the individual case allows some chance to operate, and thus destroys its value quite for us. 575 so that is why i knit my brows and think and find no thing to say or do, so foolish as to pray. so much for this absurd affair52 about validity of prayer. 580 but back! let once again address ourselves to super-consciusness! you weary me with proof enough that all this meditation stuff is self-hypnosis. be it so! 585 do you suppose i did not know? still, to be accurate, i fear the symptoms are entirely strange. if i were hard, i d make it clear that criticism must arrange 590 the sword of song 40 a test. the artist s concentration on his work. yogi but a more vigorous artist. indignation of poet suppressed by yogi and philosopher alike. an explanation different for this particular event

be accurate, i fear the symptoms are entirely strange. if i were hard, i d make it clear that criticism must arrange 590 the sword of song 40 a test. the artist s concentration on his work. yogi but a more vigorous artist. indignation of poet suppressed by yogi and philosopher alike. an explanation different for this particular events. though surely i my find it queer that you should talk of self-hypnosis, when your own faith so very close is 595 to similar experience; lies, in a word, beneath suspicion to ordinary common sense and logic s emery attrition. i take, however, as before 600 your own opinion, and demand some test by which to understand huxley s piano-talk* and find if my hypnosis may not score a point against the normal mind. 605 (as you are please to term it, though! i gather

the the conclusions to which the evidence of its senses would lead it. pentecost 41 objectivity of universe not discussed. preferability of concentrationstate to the normal. destroying passion, feeling, thought, 630 the very practice you have sought unconscious, when you work the best, i carry on one step firm-pressed further than you the path, and you for all my trouble, comment: true! 635 auto-hypnosis. very quaint! 53 no one supposes me a saint 54 some saints to wrath would be inclined with such a provocation pecked! but i remember and reflect 640 that anger makes a person blind, and my own chittam i d neglect. besides, it s you, and you, i find, are but a mode of my own mind. but then you argue, and with sense; 645 i have this worthy evidence that things are real, since i cease the pa

h would of course supply rain automatically. no new act of creation would be necessary; faith, we are expressly told, can remove mountains, and there is ice and snow and especially moraine on and about the baltoro glacier to build a very fine range; we could well have spared it this last summer. 579. so much for this absurd affair.52 about lieutenant-colonel flare. gilbert, bab ballads. 636. auto-hypnosis.53 the scientific adversary has more sense than to talk of autohypnosis. he bases his objection upon the general danger of the practice, considered as a habit of long standing. in fact, lyre and lancet. recipe for curried eggs. the physiologist reproaches poor mr. crowley. this encroaches upon your frail cerebral cortex, and turns its fairway to a vortex. your cerebellum with cockroaches

lly renounce years of normal life to obtain minutes of that dream-life; that his time sense is uprooted as never before, and that these influences are permanent. then, you will say, delirium tremens (and the intoxication of hashish, in respect more particularly of the time sense) afford us a parallel. but the phenomena of delirium tremens do not occur in the healthy. as for the suggestion of auto-hypnosis, the memory of the dream is a sufficient reply. however this may be, the simple fact of the superior apparent reality a conviction unshakable, in puisable (for the english has no word, is a sufficient test. and if we condescend to argue, it is for pleasure, and aside from the vital fact; a skirmish, and not a pitched battle. this dream i have thus described is the state called dhyana by t

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e reach of the general reader_ 340 "pp. crown "8"vo. cloth gilt "abnormal psychology" by isador h. coriat, m.d, second assistant physician for diseases of the nervous system, boston city hospital; neurologist to the mt. sinia hospital_ contents: i. the exploration of the subconscious- what is the subconscious- automatic writing- testing the emotions- analysing the emotions- sleep- derams- what is hypnosis- analysis of the mental life. ii. diseases of the subconscious- losses of memory- restoration of lost memories- illusions of memory- the splitting of a personality- hysteria- psychasthenia- neurasthenia- psycho-epileptic attacks_ most of the investigations on abnormal psychology are widely scattered throughout the pages of medical publications and psychological literature generally. hence

BLUE EQUINOX

eived a special name. besides the original .doris. we find .sick doris .margaret. and .sleeping margaret. and .sleeping real doris. these five personalities are said to have shown varied characteristics (as is invariably the case) and to be essentially different, from the psychological point-of-view. as usual, also, several of them developed as the result of emotional shock, and disappeared under hypnosis and psychological treatment; one by one they were eliminated, until only .real doris. survived,.with traces of .sleeping margaret. persisting, as a sort of undercurrent of reality. these names, of course, apply to the so-called varied personalities which appeared during their shufflings back and forth; that is, their alternate appearances. it must be admitted at once that dr. prince has m

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

ny with nature. we are all one with the gods. in addition to the methods of healing dealt with in this lesson, i would recommend all witches become acquainted with as many other possibilities as they can. it is not necessary to try to learn everything in detail, of course, but it is good to know just what sort of healing can be accomplished with, for example, acupuncture, radiesthesia, radionics, hypnosis, etc. positive thinking whatever method of healing you choose, the most important thing to bear in mind is attitude. you must have a positive attitude. as i emphasized in the lesson on magick, you should picture the completion, the end product, of what you are trying to achieve. this is especially important in healing. if the person has a broken leg, see the leg healed; see her/him jumpin

alers edward bach handbook of bach flower remedies philip m. chancellor alpha brain waves jodi lawrence the science and fine art of fasting herbert m. shelton power over pain without drugs neal h. olshan yogi therapy swami shivananda saraswati the foot book: healing the body through reflexology devaki berkson homeopathic medicine at home maesimund panes& joseph heimlich helping yourself with self-hypnosis frank s. caprio& joseph r. berger healing with radionics elizabeth baerlein& lavender dower theory and practice of cosmic ray therapy d. n. khushalini& i. j. gupta the practice of medical radiesthesia vernon d. wethered acupuncture: the ancient chinese art of healing felix mann helping your health with pointed pressure therapy-roy e. bean now answer the examination questions for this less

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

two populations had soaked up the designer propaganda, they were played off against each other. most of the people who fought that war did not want to be there. they wanted to be at home with their families and to watch their children grow. but because they had given up their right to think, they left their families and children, to kill and be killed. their minds were so overwhelmed by the mass hypnosis, that those who did stand up and challenge the official line were jailed without trial and few raised even a whimper against it. but by then, especially with the first world war and the great depression still powerfully affecting human responses, the collective mind was full of fear. it had lost confidence in itself. it was confused, bewildered, and looking to others to change the nature

f light- an open space surrounded by pillars of light coming from electric searchlights pointed upwards to the sky. if a modern ritual magician of the utmost expertise had designed a ritual intended to 'invoke mars' he could not have come up with anything more effective than the ceremonies used at nuremberg" and what applied then, applies now. the esoteric knowledge used by the nazis for the mass hypnosis on the german people, is being used today to expand the global hypnosis on the human race. symbols, words, colours, sounds, and techniques of which the public are not even aware are being used in the media and advertising to hypnotise us. the propaganda ministry of joseph goebbels was based on the esoteric knowledge of the human psyche. he knew that people will believe anything if you tel

ng the anniversary of the israeli victory. the ad said the event was "this evening, but what sirhan didn't realise was that he had somehow been given a copy of the next day's paper. the parade was actually the following night, the 5th. ignorant of this, sirhan changed his plans for the evening and went off to the parade. of course, he didn't find it. according to the account given by sirhan under hypnosis by bernard l. diamond,59 he now felt lonely and just happened to remember a girl he knew from high school who, he thought, could be found at the ambassador hotel where, purely by 'chance, bobby kennedy's event was taking place that same night. sirhan drifted around the hotel for some hours getting himself drunk. at about eleven o'clock he decided to go home- his last conscious memory of t

ard l. diamond,59 he now felt lonely and just happened to remember a girl he knew from high school who, he thought, could be found at the ambassador hotel where, purely by 'chance, bobby kennedy's event was taking place that same night. sirhan drifted around the hotel for some hours getting himself drunk. at about eleven o'clock he decided to go home- his last conscious memory of the night. under hypnosis, he then described walking out to his car, but he felt too ill and drunk to drive. he noticed his gun on the back seat and, concerned it might be stolen, he hid it in the top of his trousers. back in the hotel he drank coffee with a "dark, attractive (never identified) woman. on the way to buy another coffee, he said he found himself in an alcove with "dazzling lights and mirrors. he felt

be the physical reality. the members of the human race in general want someone else to do their thinking for them, and they have allowed their minds to close to the point where they do not want to discuss anything that isn't superficial or full of mockery and instant judgements of others. hence the media we have today. we have thought that into existence, too. when we change, it will change. mass hypnosis the media's greatest effect on the human mind is not so much its detail, but the mass hypnosis created by the same basic themes occurring over and over. most people don't pick up detail from newspapers, let alone the broadcast media where you get one chance to hear something and there is no way you can go back and hear it again, let alone extract more detail from it. these themes include

learned so much about this process when i was the focus of unbelievable national ridicule in the early 1990s. most of what the media said about me was 100% the opposite of what i was saying and writing, but the people overwhelmingly believed what the media told them and i was ridiculed by millions for things i wasn't saying and didn't believe. this is happening to other people every day. the mass hypnosis has also turned millions into spectators of the world, rather than participants. we allow others to do, while we observe and sit in the stand, watching the few play the game which decides the future of the human race..our human race. this is symbolised by sport and the endless television soaps in which we are spectators of the manufactured lives of overwhelmingly cardboard, one-dimensiona

d of solidarity with us" protocol 13 we think of hypnotism only in terms of a single person lying down on a couch and listening to the words of a hypnotist speaking softly into the ear. or we may think of the stage hypnotist who has a group of people doing silly things in front of a guffawing audience. some even demand that this should be banned because it is dangerous. these are obvious forms of hypnosis. but we don't realise that we are subtly being hypnotised and encouraged to do and think silly things every day of our lives. instead of lying on the couch listening to the soft words of the hypnotist, we sit in the chair listening to newsreaders, film stars, advertising voice overs, and sundry presenters. the messages pound our conscious and subconscious mind and we are programmed to thi

vote for the party and the candidate they want? they can. of course they can. and given what you have read up to now, do you think they would use that potential to manipulate the public mind or would they refuse to do that because it was undemocratic? once the technology and the knowledge is available, there is nothing that can't be communicated to the subconscious through this technique of mass hypnosis. once more, we come back to the esoteric knowledge. the manipulators know how the psyche works and how it is possible to program responses without the conscious level of awareness knowing it is happening. the technology now exists which can be set up near a television or radio transmitter and will send out messages which lock into the wavelength of the television broadcast as a 'carrier w

gear. this puts in a new light the severe damage to the health of soldiers given vaccinations during the gulf war, who are now demanding compensation. the cia funded ewen cameron through an organisation called the society for human ecology, yet another cia front, which was connected to cornell university in new york. cameron and dulles wanted to develop forms of drugs, electronic stimulation, and hypnosis which would remove a person's natural personality and replace it with an 'improved one. another major aim was to preprogram people to carry out assassinations which could then be written off as the work of some tone nutter. this goal was quite quickly achieved. in 1969, the cia psychologist, jose delgado, published his book, physical control of the mind: toward a psychocivilised society

enthusiastic support from california governor, ronald reagan. fortunately the california legislature could see what was happening and labelled the idea "nazi science. west knew all about that because he had been, as confirmed by cia records, a long-time operative on the agency's mind control programmes, including mkultra. dr west's specialities include interrogation using deprivation techniques, hypnosis and psychoactive drugs, behaviour modification through electrical stimulation of the brain, and electronic devices to track and monitor his victims. that is the mentality of one of the main figures behind the cult awareness network (can. so what constitutes a 'cult' in this man's misguided mind? according to his own published papers, they include the following "1: neo-christian cults; 2:

t think why he missed that one. the list confirms what i was saying earlier about the way the elite want to discredit the word 'cult' and then apply it to any group or lifestyle they wish to undermine and destroy. the aim is to marginalise and wipe out all thinking that challenges the desired norm. one of west's cronies, dr martin orne, a former head of the office of naval research's committee on hypnosis, said "even in present day america, when an individual hears god speak to him, it is a toss-up whether he will become a successful leader of a new religious cult or will come to the attention of a psychiatric unit. it was a 'deprogrammer' or, in truth, a reprogrammer with can, called rick ross who tipped off the batf about guns at the waco compound. it was ross who 'deprogrammed' 14-year

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

ke a bat, which could sometimes look like wings, and a "fin-like appendage" on his back. his head was large and elongated like a watermelon. the being had rough, greenish patterned skin, and walden believed there was a tail also. this entity claimed to have inhabited many "human" bodies and he said "my eyes have witnessed the evolution of humankind."3 under serving the dragon: the present (2) 253 hypnosis, walden recalled that he was part of an experimental group of human embryos, which were grown in a test tube. the embryo, he recalled, was implanted into his mother's womb and she had no idea this had been done. could this be an explanation of the legends of merovee, alexander the great, and others, who were said to have been fathered by serpent-like beings? and could this be at least one

light- an open space surrounded by pillars of light coming from electric searchlights pointed upwards to the sky. if a modern ritual magician of the utmost expertise had designed the ritual intended to 'invoke mars, he could not have come up with anything more effective than the ceremonies used at nuremberg."24 and what applied then, applies now. the esoteric knowledge used by the nazis for mass hypnosis on the german people is being used today to expand the global hypnosis within the human race. symbols, words, colours, sounds, and techniques of which the public are not even aware are being used in the media and in advertising to hypnotise us. the propaganda ministry of joseph goebbels was based on the esoteric knowledge of the human psyche. he knew that people would believe anything if

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

cathedral of light- an open space surrounded bypillars of light coming from electric searchlights pointed upwards to the sky. if a modern ritualmagician of the utmost expertise had designed a ritual intended to invoke mars he couldnot have come up with anything more effective than the ceremonies used at nuremberg.and what applied then, applies now, the esoteric knowledge used by the nazis formass hypnosis on the german people, is being used today to expand the globalhypnosis on the human race. symbols, words, colours, sounds and techniques of whichthe public are not even aware, are being used in the media and advertising to hypnotiseus. the propaganda ministry of joseph goebbels was based on the esoteric knowledgeof the human psyche. he knew that people will believe anything if you tell th

hearts in ajar.7 the hearts were placed on the scales in egypt to be weighed for judgement by thegoddess, maat. this is the real meaning of the woman with the sun crown holding thescales of justice which you see on so many court buildings. in the ancient world, thebrahmin fakirs in india and other mystery schools knew of drugs, torture rituals andmagic which created hallucinations. silly fakirs. hypnosis was widely used in thetemples. the demon worshippers of bel/baal/nimrod in canaan, babylon andphoenicia engaged in human sacrifice, cannibalism, and child murder in the name ofmoloch or molech, an aspect of nimrod/baal, as part of their religious rituals.8 baal(lord or ruler, the supreme god of the canaanites and phoenicians, was said to be thegiver of life and moloch was the destroyer of

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

in length. humors: the four elemental qualities that make up the human body according to the ancients. when they are in balance, health results; imbalance creates sickness. hypnagogic state: a state between sleep and wakefulness, which can tend in either direction. in this state, the consciousness becomes intermittently invaded by images and impulses from the unconscious. a mild dreamlike state. hypnosis: according to don tyson, the techniques for inducing a trance state in another person or persons (including oneself) during which the will and judgment are temporarily and partially placed in abeyance and become subordinate to the will of the hypnotist. often it occurs without the knowledge and consent of the entranced individual, the result of a sudden shock or rhythmic sound or gesture

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

to mean the withdrawal of a soul from its body and its replacement by another soul, but i doubt whether this is a true representation of what happens. it has always appeared to me that in obsession we have not got the actual replacement of one soul by another, but the complete domination of one soul by another. it is a hypnotic domination, and we can explain it in terms of the known psychology of hypnosis, the hypnotist in the case being an astral entity. there is an operation in magic known as "assuming the god-form" in which the operator identifies himself in imagination with the god and so becomes a channel for its power. it is one of the special modes of egyptian magic wherein the priest always wore a mask to represent the animal head symbolically attributed to the god he represented

n the priest always wore a mask to represent the animal head symbolically attributed to the god he represented. this imaginative identification is a method well known in occultism and is often employed in order to enter into the inner life of a plant or a crystal as a mental exercise. the effects of it are very marked and very peculiar. i am inclined to think that it is this method, combined with hypnosis, which is used by the obsessing entity, which first identifies itself with its victim and then superimposes its own personality upon his, thus obtaining a vehicle of manifestation. i am also of the opinion, however, that it is only in certain abnormal states, whether induced by disease of mind or body, or by some of the more drastic operations of black magic, that this imposition can take

ted with the intended victim's magnetism, a lock of hair, nail-paring, or something habitually worn or handled. such an object is magnetically connected with its owner, and the sorcerer can work up the trail and thus enter the sphere of his victim and establish a rapport. he then proceeds as does any other practitioner of suggestion who has succeeded in getting his victim into the first stages of hypnosis. by means of the magnetic link he has gamed the psychic ear of his victim, who will hear his suggestions subconsciously. it now remains to be seen whether the thought-seeds thus planted will strike root or be cast out from the mind. in any case the victim is rendered disturbed and uneasy. if a magnetic link cannot be obtained, the practitioner of black magic has to fall back upon other de

im again did i tell him of my own experience "i must add that a friend with psychic power came to see me at this time and said 'this last week, at night, i have seen you three times. you asked me to help you save a young man who was in danger. what did it mean" the above case indicates clearly the deliberate use of mental power by z. his pretence of "spiritual healing" being an obvious attempt at hypnosis. my correspondent says definitely that she has never suspected him of deliberate evil; rather was he acting rightly according to his lights. i maintain, however, that any attempt to dominate others, or in any way to manipulate their minds without their consent, is an unwarrantable intrusion upon their freewill and a crime against the integrity of the soul. how can we judge the intimate sp

peration with the usual ceremonial. i had not much faith in this operation under the circumstances, for my attacker was of much higher grade than i was, and could come through any seals i might set. however, it afforded protection against minor unpleasantness. the method of making these astral journeys is highly technical, and i cannot enter upon it here. in the language of psychology, it is auto-hypnosis by means of a symbol. the symbol acts as a door to the unseen. according to the symbol chosen will be the section of the unseen to which access is obtained. the trained initiate, therefore, does not wander on the astral like an uneasy ghost, but comes and goes by well-known corridors. my enemy's task was therefore not a difficult one; for she knew about the time i must make this journey a

arkable series of investigations concerning the nature of obsessing entities. in dr. moll's book on hypnotism some remarkable phenomena are recorded such as do not find their way into modern books, whether because the investigators are less expert at eliciting them, or more cautious in communicating them, having profited by the experience of the earlier investigators. some of the earlier books on hypnosis and mesmerism yield some very interesting reading to the psychic investigator. dr. t. w. mitchell's medical psychology and psychical research is another book of value to the student, who should be familiar not only with the signs of psychic attack, but also with the signs of pseudo-attack in order that he may distinguish between them and not be misled into some very uncomfortable errors

DONALDTYSON POSSESS

the horrible, shocking and pointless crime in the world is committed by low spirits possessing the bodies of human beings. remember back to the last time you did something during sex for which you will be ashamed for the rest of your life- you were almost certainly possessed at the time. during this type of possession, our consciousness is made passive in exactly the same way it is subdued during hypnosis. however, it is the lower spirit who gives us suggestions rather than a hypnotist. there is a common clich that a hypnotized person cannot be made to do anything he or she does not wish to do. this is not accurate. it depends on the circumstances, and the level of will in the hypnotized person. just as you may be able to resist the directives of a hypnotist when you are given a suggestion

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

the national investigations committee on aerial phenomena. during the course of the follow-up interviews by nicap investigators, unclear parts of the account came to the fore. among these were a missing two hours. the sighting had taken place while betty and her husband were returning home. they arrived two hours later than they should have. eventually the couple went into psychotherapy and under hypnosis described their meeting with a group of beings described as approximately five feet tall, with a large hairless head, greyish skin, large slanted eyes, a slit mouth, diminutive nose and ears, and long fingers. they were taken aboard a spacecraft and examined. a needle was stuck into betty s stomach. before they left, they were told to forget the experience, and as the spaceship left the g

ee s life is interrupted by strange beings and their will to resist is impaired. they are taken aboard a spaceship, sometimes levitation being an instrumental part, and are subjected to an invasive physical examination. generally, the victim is forced to forget the incident and only years later, prompted by troubling emotions possibly manifest in nightmares, the victim engages in psychotherapy or hypnosis, during which the memory of the abduction emerges. the element of memory loss coupled with the intrusive invasion of the body during the examination has given rise to comparisons of the abduction stories with a very similar story of satanic ritual abuse in which under psychotherapy and/or hypnosis, stories emerge of people having been forced to participate in a satanic ritual where they w

the public and those in the field, to bridge the gap between academic parapsychology and the experimental esp participation among laymen, and to stimulate interest in scientific research and encourage public involvement in future research. the foundation offered a complete course in parapsychology, including basic theories, principles, and histories of phenomena involving telepathy, clairvoyance, hypnosis, and sensory awareness, and psychometry, psychokinesis, and the human aura. it maintained a consultation and advisory service and awards a certificate after completion of the prescribed course of study in the advancement of psychic research and human understanding. last known address: po box 5395, 15446 sherman way, sherman oaks, ca 91413. american psychical institute and laboratory a sho

res which he thought of as halloween- like entities. he made a passing note of them, but did not do anything. the next morning, all appeared to be back to normal, except andreasson had a strange feeling that something out of the ordinary had happened. over the next few weeks she had flashbacks of humanoid creatures and an otherworldly environment, but it was not until 1977 when she underwent some hypnosis sessions that the entire story surfaced. it appears that soon after her father saw the creatures, all of the family was placed in a state of paralysis and several small gray beings entered the house and addressed her telepathically. they took her aboard their spaceship, an action requiring andreasson to pass through the closed door of her house and to float toward the disc-shaped craft. o

ike content. as her full story unraveled, andreasson told of a series of encounters with the saucer entities that went back andrae, johann valentin encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 50 to her childhood. following her marriage in 1978 to bob luca, she settled in connecticut, where her home became the scene of a variety of psychic and unusual occurrences. luca himself would undergo hypnosis to tell of a similar set of encounters to those already described by his new bride. new experiences continued into the 1990s. the andreasson affair was integrated into the whole study of abductions during the 1980s, a study that continues. though a number of leading ufo researchers have gone on record as believing the abduction stories, their work has yet to produce consensus or what many

mind of the percipient during the agent s lifetime, but remaining dormant until some particular train of thought aroused them to activity. this view still finds some support at the present day. hallucinations, whether coincidental or otherwise, may and do present themselves to persons who are perfectly sane and normal, but they are also reported by people who are suffering mental disorders, under hypnosis, or in a state of hysteria. hallucinations are also symptomatic of certain pathological conditions of brain, nerves, and sense-organs. as mentioned earlier, myers was of the opinion that an apparition represented an actual psychic invasion, that it was a projection of some of the agent s psychic force. such a doctrine was, as myers himself admitted, a reverse animism. another theory of ap

of views and information concerning these phenomena. anomaly is defined as irregularity, deviation from the common or natural order, exception condition or circumstance, and anomalous phenomena cover a wide field of the paranormal as well as fortean phenomena, including altered states of consciousness, apparitions, electronic voice phenomenon, extrasensory perception, falls, firewalking, healing, hypnosis, levitation, ley lines, metal bending, out-of-the-body experiences, poltergeists, telepathy, ufos, etc. assap, an integrating body with no corporate views, discouraged dogmatism while it adopted a scientific approach at all times. it did not wish to replace existing organizations in the field but rather support and encourage them. it published assap newsletter. its quarterly journal, comm

aura, was about a foot in depth. kilner tried various experiments. he found that the depth of the aura is influenced by a magnet and that it is sensitive to electric currents, completely vanishing under a negative charge from a wimshurst machine, then increasing to an additional 50 percent after the charge dissipates. it is also affected by the vapors of various chemicals and loses brilliance in hypnosis. illness affects both its size and color. impairment of the mental powers causes a diminution in size and distinctness. nervous diseases result in highly observable changes. from all this kilner concluded that the higher brain centers are intimately concerned in the output of auric force. this suggested an identity with the nerve-aura of dr. joseph rhodes buchanan, the first explorer of t

r 150 scientific papers relating to growth and healing electrical control mechanisms, and the effects of applied electrical currents and/or magnetic fields on living organisms. his pioneering research in biological electricity and regeneration contributed to the emerging field of energy medicine, which explores alternative medical treatments such as acupuncture, electrotherapy, visualization, and hypnosis, all of which appear to use an invisible common source.the body s innate electrical systems. becker initiated the first official hearings on power transmission line safety (1973.80, new york state public service commission. he also served as an expert witness in congressional hearings before the house subcommittee on water and power resources. his publications include cross currents (1990

sm& parapsychology. 5th ed. bernard, theos 175 bernstein, morey (1919.1999) businessman and hypnotist from pueblo, colorado, who wrote the best-seller the search for bridey murphy, published in 1956. his book opened public discussion of reincarnation and uncovered a large popular interest and belief in it that had been growing in the west through the twentieth century. the book claimed that under hypnosis by the author, colorado housewife ruth simmons (pseudonym of virginia tighe) recalled memories of a previous existence in nineteenth-century belfast, ireland. in a series of hypnotic sessions, bernstein probed tighe s early memories back to childhood, then as it seemed, to an earlier life as bridey murphy, an irish girl, for which tighe was able to provide many details. bernstein institut

ran in the new york journal american (june 10.18, 1956) and in time (june 18, 1956) and life (june 25, 1956. an amusing and witty expose of the bridey murphy story appeared in fads and fallacies in the name of science by martin gardner. the bridey murphy case highlights the remarkable ability of the subconscious mind to create fantasies of other lives and personalities that can be elicited under hypnosis. the same faculty is present in the creative imagination of novelists, although consciously controlled. since the bridey murphy case was published, there have been numerous cases of claimed memories of former existence under hypnosis, but few have found them evidential, given the inherent problem of hypnotists guiding the sessions and making leading suggestions to the subject. hypnotism c

wo different places. the term is often used in histories of saints, but there are also many secular examples (see double) binah in the supreme triangle of the kabala, the three sides are reason, which is named kether; necessity, chochmah; and liberty, binah. binski, sigurd r(obert (1921) german government official and parapsychologist who experimented with psychokinesis and with psi capacities in hypnosis. born february 18, 1921, in berlin, he studied at the university of bonn (b.a, ph.d) and afterward served in the german army, 1939.65. after deportation, he suffered forced labor in the soviet union. binski, a government official in germany since 1957, has written articles for various journals, including the journal of parapsychology, and was a charter member of the parapsychological asso

phenomena. on sir arthur conan doyle s recommendation, bird was sent to europe to collect observations for a supplement to the report. he sat with john c. sloan, gladys osborne leonard, william hope, ada emma deane, evan powell, and maria vollhardt. in my psychic adventures (1924, he concluded that the phenomena were truly objective, that is, they were neither due to hallucination nor collective hypnosis, and that a good degree of probability existed for the genuineness of some of the psychic phenomena he witnessed. in margery, the medium (1925) bird traced the development of mina crandon s powers from the incipient stage and gave an account of the investigation of her mediumship to the scientific american. though bird was convinced that margery s work was genuine, the committee could not

uted a section to the book abnormal hypnotic phenomena: a survey of nineteenth- century cases in 1967. bjorkhem, john (1910.1963) swedish physician in psychiatry and neurology and a parapsychologist. he was born july 20, 1910, at blekinge, sweden, and educated at the university of uppsala. he tested some 400 subjects for psychometric faculty and wrote and lectured on parapsychology in relation to hypnosis. his book det ockulta problemet (1939) was translated into finnish, norwegian, danish, and german. his other books dealing with parapsychology include nervstralningens problem (the problem of nerve irradiation, 1940; de hypnotiska hallucinationera (hypnotic hallucination, 1942; hypnos och personlighetsforvandling (hypnosis and personality change, 1959) and livet och manniskan (life and ma

l, so he became a hypnotherapist and practiced for more than 40 years. during world war ii he again served in the navy, this time as a naval lieutenant, and afterward he settled in cardiff, south wales. here his reputation as a hypnotist gained him a thriving practice. he gave public lectures, appeared on television shows, and cooperated with a dentist to prove that teeth could be extracted under hypnosis instead of anesthetic. hypnotherapy became increasingly recognized by the british medical profession. in 1972 bloxham served as president of the british society of hypnotherapists. the activity for which he is best known took place with the assistance of his wife, dulcie, hypnotizing subjects, regressing their memories to former existences, and making tape recordings of the sessions. some

ries to former existences, and making tape recordings of the sessions. some of these tapes were played at informal meetings with individuals interested in reincarnation or the law of karma (the eastern philosophy of action and reaction extended over several lives. in 1958 dulcie published a book titled who was ann ockenden? about one of her husband s subjects, a schoolteacher whose memories under hypnosis regressed to seven different lives. the regular meetings came to an end soon after the death of dulcie bloxham. the 400 cases that make up the bloxham tapes are of ordinary people who lived humdrum lives and whose memories of previous lives are equally ordinary, although studded with circumstantial information that seemed as if it could be corroborated. for example, the tapes detailed the

bureau, organized to facilitate psychic communication with the afterlife. the president was mrs. bayley worthington. the stead bureau closed in 1936. borderland sciences research foundation organization founded in 1945 by meade layne as borderland sciences research associates, concerned with the borderland region between fantasy and reality, fields of parapsychology, the occult, psychic research, hypnosis, dowsing, radiesthesia, radionics, telepathy, and other phenomena. layne showed a special concern with flying saucers. bsra published many mimeographed bulletins, including flying roll and meade lane s round robin, now known as the journal of borderland research. around 1960, the organization evolved into borderland sciences research foundation, inc. it explores phenomena that orthodox sc

, j. l. e. tycho brahe: a picture of scientific life and work in the sixteenth century. edinburgh: adam& charles black, 1890. kitson, annabella, ed. history and astrology: clio and urania confer. london: mandala, 1989. thoren, victor e. the lord of uraniborg: a biography of tycho brahe. cambridge: cambridge university press, 1990. braid, james (1795?.1860) scottish surgeon who originated the word hypnosis following his investigations into the phenomena of mesmerism. he was born at rylaw house, in fifeshire, scotland, about 1795. he was educated at the university of edinburgh, apprenticed to a doctor in leith, then became member of the royal college of surgeons, edinburgh (m.r.c.s.e. he became surgeon to coal miners in lanarkshire, then practiced with a doctor in dumfries. here braid assist

e encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. cadoret, remi j. effect of novelty in test conditions on esp performance. journal of parapsychology 16 (1952. an exploratory experiment: continuous eeg recoding during clairvoyant card tests. journal of parapsychology 28 (1964. cadoret, remi j, and j. fahler. esp card tests of college students with and without hypnosis. journal of parapsychology 22 (1958. cadoret, remi j, and j. g. pratt. the consistent missing effect in esp. journal of parapsychology 14 (1950. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. caduceus the caduceus, an esoteric symbol picturing two serpents coiled around a rod, is one of the most ancient symbols in the middle east. serpents a

career navy man. she spent the next 20 years as a navy wife and the mother of four children. in 1968 her husband, who was an amateur hypnotist, stumbled across the phenomenon of past lives during a session with a woman who had a weight problem. her husband retired in 1970 and they moved to the ozark mountain area of arkansas. as her children reached adulthood, she used her new free time to study hypnosis and the idea of reincarnation. she developed her own techniques that seemed to be effective in releasing information in those who allowed her to hypnotize them. at one point during the 1980s, an entity began to speak through one of her subjects who claimed to be nostradamus, the fifteenth-century author of a number of prophetic poems. when the woman came out of her hypnotic state she was

ized by cannon and gave her a method to establish contact and to assure her that it was indeed he who was communicating. over the next years he communicated through no less than a dozen people and discussed the meanings of his prophecies. these communications became the basis of a three-volume series, conversations with nostradamus, the first volume of which appeared in 1979. cannon has also used hypnosis to explore past history, and has concluded that much of what is taught as history in the schools is incorrect or distorted. it is also boring and dry. on the other hand, history as treated in novels and movies is so romanticized as to bear little resemblance to what actually occurred. she has offered as an alternative the rich record of experiences that have come through some of her subje

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ntered private practice and became an instructor in clinical neurology at new york university, bellevue hospital medical center, new york. he was a member of the american medical association, american academy of neurology, american board of psychiatry and neurology, and academy of religion and mental health, and a fellow of the american psychiatric association and the american society of clinical hypnosis. his interest in intuition, clairvoyance, and mediumship prompted him to join the american society for psychical research. macrobert published many articles on medical, psychiatric, and neurological subjects, as well as articles in parapsychology, including the chapter something better than reincarnation in the book reincarnation (1956) and the preface to r. dewitt miller s book you do ta

itals of france (1948; president of physiopsychology society (1958; and member of paris medical society. martiny wrote various medical works and co-authored, with alexis carrel, medecine officielle et medecine heretique (orthodox and unorthodox medicine. he also spent many years investigating human bio-types in relation to parapsychological phenomena; parapsychology in relation to psychoanalysis; hypnosis and pavlov s nervous typology in relation to parapsychology; relationships between neurology, cerebral function, and parapsychology; and space-time concepts in parapsychology. his articles on such subjects have been published in revue metapsychique. he also contributed papers to international conferences on parapsychology (utrecht, 1953; st. paul de vence, 1954. he was selected president

l (1927) co-founder with wife, jean houston, of the foundation for mind research, manhattan, new york, conducting experiments in the borderline between mental and physical experience. masters has a background of poetry and sexology and was formerly director of the visual imagery research project and the library of sex research. both houston and masters have experimented with psychedelic drugs and hypnosis, and in their foundation they have investigated induction of mystical experience and altered states of consciousness. sources: houston, jean, and robert e. l. masters. listening to the body. new york: delacorte press, 1978. mind games: the guide to inner space. new york: viking, 1972. the varieties of psychedelic experience. new york: holt, rinehart and winston, 1966. masleh encyclopedia

er eddy, developed her own idealistic approach to healing in the 1870s, embodied in christian science. then in the 1880s some of eddy s students. much to her consternation.began to develop variations on her teachings. one by one they broke away and founded independent movements, which gradually aligned into what became known as mind cure and then in the 1890s as new thought. sources: bernheim, h. hypnosis and suggestion in psychotherapy. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1964. bertrand, alexandre. traite du somnambulisme. paris, 1824. mesmerism encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1028 binet, alfred, and charles fere. animal magnetism. london: kegan paul, 1887. braid, james. magic, witchcraft, animal magnetism, hypnotism, and electro-biology. london: john churchi

mitchell, edgar d. 1043 mitchell, t(homas) w(alker (1869.1944) british physician, psychologist, and psychic researcher. he was born january 18, 1869, in avock, ross-shire, scotland, and attended the university of edinburgh (m.b, c.m, 1890; m.d, 1906. he wrote several books and was the editor of the british journal of medical psychology (1920.35. his favorite topics in psychic research related to hypnosis and multiple personality. he played a prominent part in the society for psychical research (spr, london, and was its president in 1921, the first physician so selected. he was a longterm member of its council (1909.44) and was secretary of the medical section (1911.18. his paper phenomena of mediumistic trance was read to the british association for the advancement of science, 1927. sourc

ommon ground between oriental and western religion. london: j. m. watkins, 1955. esoteric teachings of the tibetan tantra. falcon s wing press, 1961. an evaluation of relativity theory after a half-century. 1953. illumination of jacob boehme: the work of dionysius andreas freher. 1951. the limits of consciousness. journal for the study of consciousness 1 (1968. the politics of psi; acculturation& hypnosis. in joseph k. long, ed. extrasensory ecology: parapsychology and anthropology. 1977. prismatic voices; an international anthology of distinctive new poets. 1958. psychotronic quantum theory; a proposal for understanding mass/space/time/consciousness transductions in terms of a radically extended quantum theory. proceedings of international association for psychotronic research, 1975. muse

out the nroogd. http//www.conjure.com/trine/ nroogd.html. may 1, 2000. the news (journal) see fortean times new sense (bulletin) a newsletter, formerly known as the brain/mind bulletin, published on first and third mondays of the month, dealing with frontiers of research, theory, and practice in such fields as parapsychology, physics of consciousness, perception, dreams, biofeedback, acupuncture, hypnosis, psychiatry, creativity, memory, and humanistic medicine. included news of conferences and workshops, significant trends, books, and journals. edited by marilyn ferguson, author of the brain revolution: the frontiers of mind research (1973) and the aquarian conspiracy (1980. last known address: interface press, p.o. box 42211, los angeles, ca 90042. newsletter of the parapsychology founda

of studies in occultism, a series of reprinted articles by blavatsky. muses s use of noetics has been picked up by edgar d. mitchell for his psychical research organization, the institute of noetic sciences. sources: blavatsky, helena p. psychic and noetic action. in studies in occultism. boston: new england theosophical corporation, 1895. muses, charles a. the politics of psi: acculturation and hypnosis. in extrasensory ecology, edited by joseph k. long. metuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1977. nolan, finbarr (1952) contemporary irish healer who is the seventh son of a seventh son, and was thus, according to folk tradition, destined to begin healing by touch. he was born october 2, 1952, at loch gowna, county cavan, republic of ireland. his mother stated i knew. god would give him the power

family story (1963, the atheist: a novel (1965, marijuana: the facts and the truth (1968, religion: out or way out (1968. he has published a number of articles dealing with human problems and religious faith in such magazines as collier s, reader s digest, true, american weekly, photoplay. oursler died january 7, 1985, after a long illness. ousby, w(illiam) j(oseph (1904) british investigator on hypnosis. ousby performed field studies of yoga and african witchcraft. he was born in liverpool, england, and worked as a journalist then as an industrial psychological consultant; he also studied hypnosis. ousby lectured and taught self-hypnosis in britain, australia, and new zealand. he spent several years in africa, where he studied the methods of witch doctors. in india, he trained in hatha y

england, and worked as a journalist then as an industrial psychological consultant; he also studied hypnosis. ousby lectured and taught self-hypnosis in britain, australia, and new zealand. he spent several years in africa, where he studied the methods of witch doctors. in india, he trained in hatha yoga and investigated fire walking and trance conditions. ousby later practiced as a specialist in hypnosis and self-hypnosis in london. sources: ousby, w. j. a complete course of auto-hypnosis.self hypnotism and auto-suggestion. london& durban, 1950. methods of inducing and using hypnosis. london, 1951. the theory and practice of hypnotism. london, 1967. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. ousby, w(illiam) j(oseph) 1159 ouspensky, p(eter) d(emianovitch (1878.1947) follower of ea

geller. electroencephalograph recordings revealed significant movements toward theta and delta frequencies prior to manning bending metal objects. owen retired in 1988. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. owen, a. r. g, can we explain the poltergeist? new york: garrett publications, 1964. hysteria, hypnosis, and healing. 1971. psychic mysteries of canada. new york: harper& row, 1975. owen, a. r. g, j. p. rindge, and w. cook. an investigation of psychic photography with the beilleux family. new horizons (1972. owen, a.r.g. and j. whitton. proceedings of the first canadian conference on psychokinesis. new horizons (1975. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new yor

research physicist who has experimented in the field of parapsychology. he was born on june 7, 1927, in silver city, new mexico, and later attended the university of new mexico (b.s, 1950; m.s, 1952. after graduation he became a research engineer at the westinghouse research laboratories, pittsburgh, pennsylvania (1952.85. in addition to his work in physics, pack tested a number of subjects under hypnosis for enhanced extrasensory ability as compared with a normal state of consciousness. he believes hypnosis may enable subjects to develop esp. pack was a charter associate of the parapsychological association. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. pacts with the devil throughout history there have been documentations of indiv

february 20, 2000. pagenstecher, gustav (1855.1942) nineteenth-century german physician who conducted important experiments in psychometry. he was born in germany in 1855, and received his medical degree from leipzig university. shortly afterward he moved to mexico where he practiced medicine for some four decades. one day pagenstecher treated a patient, maria reyes zierold, for insomnia by using hypnosis. during treatment she claimed to see beyond the closed doors of her room and could describe accurately individuals and events outside the range of normal vision. with zierold s permission pagenstecher conducted further experiments to test this paranormal perception. he discovered her normal physical senses were blocked by hypnotic sensation; nevertheless, she reported sensations of vision

a stream of consciousness is proved. a stream of consciousness is proof of the presence of a personality. the identity of this personality, however, is inseparably bound up with the faculty of remembrance. with a complete loss of memory a new personality will develop. if the former memory returns, the new personality tends to disappear. it may be resuscitated by another attack of amnesia or under hypnosis, in which case it will act as an independent personality. the case of anselm bourne, investigated by william james and richard hodgson in 1890, is illustrative. bourne suddenly lost his memory in 1887 in providence, rhode island, and eight weeks later awoke in norristown, pennsylvania, as a shopkeeper. he knew nothing of albert john brown, the name under which he lived, nor of the shop or

case it will act as an independent personality. the case of anselm bourne, investigated by william james and richard hodgson in 1890, is illustrative. bourne suddenly lost his memory in 1887 in providence, rhode island, and eight weeks later awoke in norristown, pennsylvania, as a shopkeeper. he knew nothing of albert john brown, the name under which he lived, nor of the shop or the business. in hypnosis a secondary personality came forward and bourne s movements were satisfactorily traced from the moment of his disappearance. this was a plainly degenerative case. bourne suffered from a postepileptic condition. he had fits of depression from childhood and in later life presented symptoms suggestive of epilepsy. such degenerative instances are numerous. in other cases the secondary state i

cretary and treasurer in 1976. he was one of the founding members of the association for the scientific study of anomalous phenomena (assap) in 1981 and acted as the external affairs officer for two years. since 1983 he has been the association s honorary general secretary. among his wide research activities have been mental mediumship, paranormal metal bending, and, more particularly, regressive hypnosis to alleged previous lives. pinto the grand master of malta, who was assisted in alchemical experiments by cagliostro. pio, padre (da pietralcini (1887.1968) italian friar of the capuchin monastery of san rotundo, near foggia, with reputed powers of clairvoyance and precognition, who also demonstrated the stigmata (wounds of christ) from 1915 onward. born francesco forgione, he lived a sim

war ii. also active in the 1930s, was the psycho-physical society in warsaw. its president, p. de szmulro, edited the journal zagadnienia metapsychiczne. as poland began to recover from world war ii, psychical research reappeared with an informal parapsychological network in western europe and north america. psychical research in poland has developed its own terminology. research on radiesthesia, hypnosis, and clairvoyance was conducted by the bio-electronic section of the copernicus society of naturalists, whose president was dr. franciszek chmielewski. the section s activities included investigations of electric phenomena in living organisms, higher nerve activity in connection with parapsychological phenomena and hypnosis, and the influence on living organisms of cosmic and earth radiat

term) in cases when accidental death figured in the paranormal perception. according to legend, the earl of hartington s dream illustrates pseudo-premonitions. in good health, he dreamt of a skeleton that looked like him; it raised the coverlet bedclothes and slipped in bed between him and his wife. he died fifteen days later. premonitions where the subconscious is ruled out may be received under hypnosis, in trance, or accidentally in the dream or waking state. the seeress of prevorst (frederica hauffe, claimed while in hypnotic sleep she saw a spirit anxious to speak of misfortune threatening her daughter. reportedly a few weeks later, the girl was almost killed by a tile falling on her head. if the percipient is positive the event in question is about to happen, the term precognition is

ricas. tomorrow (autumn 1954. prince, morton (1854.1929) physician, neurologist, and psychologist whose career peaked as psychical research was maturing. he was born on december 21, 1854, at boston, massachusetts. he studied at boston latin school, harvard (b.a, 1875, and harvard medical school (m.d, 1879. he was particularly interested in the work of jean charcot and pierre janet in hysteria and hypnosis. he was a physician for diseases of the nervous system at boston dispensary (1882.86) and boston city hospital (1885.1913, an instructor in neurology at harvard medical school (1895.98, a professor of neurology at tufts medical school (1902.12, and subsequently professor emeritus. he was an associate professor in abnormal and dynamic psychology at harvard university for two years at the e

known since the earliest times, when they were attributed to demonic possession, or, sometimes, to angelic possession. by means of the planchette, the ouija board, and other contrivances people were able to write automatically and divulge information they were unaware of possessing. the phenomena are purely subjective, however, and are the result of cerebral dissociation such as may be induced in hypnosis. in this state, exaltation of the memory may occur, accounting for such phenomena as xenoglossis (speaking in foreign tongues with which the medium is not acquainted. cerebral dissociation may also produce a sensitiveness to telepathic influences, as would seem apparent in the case of the medium leonora piper, whose automatic productions in writing and speaking supplied investigators with

his brief contact in 1962 with the brazilian psychic surgeon jose arigo, who died suddenly in an auto accident in 1971. shortly thereafter he went to tel aviv, israel, to meet metal bending psychic uri geller and commenced a series of tests of geller s talents. during these tests geller apparently manifested psychokinetic ability and dematerialization of objects which reappeared elsewhere. under hypnosis, a mysterious voice was heard in the same room as geller, claiming to be a superior intelligence of an extraterrestrial nature. similar messages had been conveyed to puharich by a hindu scholar and psychic dr. d. g. vinod in 1953, and also by dr. charles laughead of whipple, arizona, three years later. these messages are described in detail in puharich s biography of geller, uri: a journa

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ons much discussed a small army of contactees, recounting physical or psychic meetings with angelic space people, has marched onto the world stage to preach a new cosmic gospel. in a secular context, ufo witnesses with no discernible occult orientation or metaphysical agenda have told fantastic tales of close encounters with incommunicative or taciturn humanoids. some witnesses even relate, under hypnosis or through conscious recall, traumatic episodes in which humanoids took them against their will into apparent spacecraft. the early 1970s, the period when most observers date the beginning of the new age movement, saw a boom in channeling again nothing new (spirits have spoken through humans forever) but jarring and shocking to rationalists and materialists. the same decade spawned such p

gly ordinary that their neighbors, unless told directly (which they usually are not, suspect nothing. in the late 1970s, when i lived in a north shore suburb of chicago, i met a likable, generous- hearted family man named keith macdonald. macdonald recounted a ufo sighting (also witnessed by his family) after which he felt that something had taken place that he could not consciously recall. under hypnosis, he described what would later be judged a rather ordinary abduction experience: grayskinned beings took him into the ufo and subjected him to a physical examination against his wishes. the experience, if that is what it was, frightened him severely. for a time i lost touch with keith. when i next saw him, he told me he had been hearing mental voices and channeling messages from a planet

unusually vivid dreams in which beings forced her and her husband into a ufo. she and barney were separated, and betty underwent a medical examination with a grayskinned humanoid, whom she understood to be the leader. in january they sought out boston psychiatrist benjamin simon in an effort to deal with the continuing anxiety they felt about the incident. dr. simon had them hypnotized, and under hypnosis they separately recounted an abduction episode. subsequently, the story appeared in a boston newspaper, and soon afterward journalist john g. fuller wrote a best-selling book, the inter- rupted journey, on the case. a generally similar incident took place in ashland, nebraska, in the early morning hours of december 3, 1967, when police officer herbert schirmer saw a hovering ufo a short d

ent took place in ashland, nebraska, in the early morning hours of december 3, 1967, when police officer herbert schirmer saw a hovering ufo a short distance from him. he originally believed that the sighting had lasted no more than ten minutes, but when he later realized that a half hour had passed, he got nervous, experienced sleeplessness, and heard a buzzing sound inside his head. later under hypnosis schirmer related an onboard experience with short, gray-skinned humanoids with catlike eyes. during a wave of ufo sightings in october 1973, two pascagoula, mississippi, fishermen claimed that robotlike entities had floated them into a ufo. the story received enormous publicity, as did an even more spectacular incident in november 1975, when a forestry worker from snowflake, arizona, disa

e (but not human) entities. a few other stories, now being called abductions as opposed to kidnappings, saw print in the ufo literature but were little noticed elsewhere. the first book on the larger phenomenon of ufo abductions (as opposed to a single case, such as the hills s, jim and coral lorenzen s book abducted! was published in 1977. from the hill incident on, critics focused on the use of hypnosis to elicit re c a l l, pointing out that confabulation under hypnosis is a well-documented psyc h o l o g i c a l phenomenon, most dramatically manifesting in m e m o r i e s of past lives. as early as 1977 t h ree california investigators attempted to demonstrate that volunteers under hypnosis, i n s t ructed to imagine ufo abductions, told stories indistinguishable from those re l a t e

odological and logical pro b l e m s in the experiment, and subsequent efforts by other re s e a rchers to replicate it failed. on e later study indicated that nearly one-third of abductees consciously re m e m b e red their experiences; their testimony, folklorist t h o m a s e. bu l l a rd concluded, was indistinguishable f rom corresponding accounts emerging under hypnotic re g ression. still, hypnosis and its vagaries would play a large and continuing ro l e in the controversy surrounding the abduction p h e n o m e n o n. in the late 1970s budd hopkins, a new york city artist and sculptor, working with psychologist and hypnotist aphrodite clamar, began to investigate the abduction reports. through hopkins s work new dimensions of the phenomenon emerged, including not just little gray

t and hypnotist aphrodite clamar, began to investigate the abduction reports. through hopkins s work new dimensions of the phenomenon emerged, including not just little gray humanoids that would come to dominate abduction reports but also experiences that began in childhood and recurred 2 abductions by ufos throughout abductees lifetimes. some bore scars, the causes of which were mysterious until hypnosis revealed them to have been the result of alien medical procedures. a number claimed that their abductors had placed implants, usually through the nose or ear, inside their bodies. hopkins and his colleagues took their cases to mental health professionals, whose tests of abductees suggested that they were psychologically normal. in his much-read book missing time (1981) hopkins argued for

tter care of each other and the world we live in. mack wedded the contactee message to the abduction experience, to the consternation of hopkins, jacobs, and others who refused to draw larger metaphysical inferences from the abduction experience. jacobs, if anything, went to the opposite extreme. a history professor at temple university, jacobs worked with abductees whose testimony, usually under hypnosis, led him to the radical hypothesis that the abducting extraterrestrials are creating a population of hybrids to replace the human race at some point in the not-distant future. from their interactions with their re a d e r s and other members of the public, hopkins and jacobs came to suspect that the abduction experience, far from rare, was ubiquitous. ho pkins, for example, wrote as early

e y k r i p p n e r, eds. varieties of anomalous ex p e r i e n c e: examining the scientific ev i d e n c e, 253 282. wa s hington, dc: american ps ychological association. bu l l a rd, thomas e, 1987. ufo abductions: t h e me a s u re of a my s t e ry. volume 1: compara t i ve st u d y of abduction re p o rts. volume 2: catalogue of ca s e s. mount rainier, md: fund for ufo re s e a rc h, 1989. hypnosis and ufo abductions: a troubled relationship. journal of ufo studies 1 (new series: 3 40, 1991. folkloric dimensions of the ufo phenomenon. journal of ufo studies 3 (new series: 1 57, 2000. abductions under fire: a review of recent abduction literature. journal of ufo studies 7 (new series: 81 106. c l a rk, je rome, 2000. from mermaids to little gr a y men: the pre h i s t o ry of the ufo

y woods. new york: random house. jacobs, david m, 1992. secret life: firsthand ac- counts of ufo abductions. new york: simon and schuster, 1998. the threat. new york: simon and schuster. keel, john a, 1975. the mothman prophecies. new york: saturday review press/e. p. dutton and company. klass, philip j, 1988. ufo-abductions: a dangerous game. buffalo, ny: prometheus books. lawson, alvin h, 1980. hypnosis of imaginary abductees. in curtis g. fuller, ed. proceedings of the first international ufo congress, 195 238. new york: warner books. lorenzen, jim, and coral lorenzen, 1977. abducted! confrontations with beings from outer space. new york: berkley medallion. mack, john e, 1994. abduction: human encounters with aliens. new york: charles scribner s sons. strieber, whitley, 1987. communion:

en and gods. new york: dutton. ahab on a camping trip through eastern oregon in the summer of 1975, a young married couple identified as darryl and toni m. stopped along the banks of the owyhee river to cool their truck. they spotted an odd object parked on a nearby hillside. the next thing they knew, it was two hours later, and their truck started as if it had long since cooled off. later, under hypnosis, they recounted the experience of wandering into the ufo in a trance state. hairless humanoids with slits for eyes, mouth, and nose, with gray, wrinkled skin assured them via telepathy that they meant no harm. as toni watched, the aliens, who communicated with each other with a buzzing bee sound, subjected darryl to an apparent physical examination by light beam. sometime later toni awoke

in the interest of keeping their activities secret. he recounts the experience of a woman to whom he gives the pseudonym lily ma rt i nson. vacationing with her mother in the vi rgin islands in 1987, ma rtinson woke up in her hotel room to observe the apparition of her dead brother watching her from the foot of the bed. the experience comforted her. l a t e r, howe ve r, when jacobs put her under hypnosis, ma rtinson saw the individual she had thought was her brother as, in ja c o b s s w o rds, a person without clothes, small, thin, no hair, and large eyes. he calls such individuals as ma rtinson u n a w a re abductees. un a w a re abductees explain their strange experiences in ways acceptable to society, interp reting the entities they see as ghosts, angels, demons, or even animals. see

n of highway between jacksonville and callahan, florida, one august night in 1974, businesswoman lydia stalnaker saw a bright, flashing light just above some nearby treetops. a suffocating sensation enfolded her, and she lost consciousness. when she awoke, she was still behind the wheel, but on a different road. soon she learned that three hours, for which she could not account, had passed. under hypnosis in may 1975, she recalled being taken into a spacecraft, where aliens told her that another woman would be placed inside her body. she saw the woman sitting on the other side of a table from her. stalnaker s head was placed inside some kind of mechanical device, and she passed out. when she revived, a spaceman told her she was now one of them. he escorted her out of the ship, and she retu

e from work around 3 a.m. on june 18, 1979, night watchman antonio carlos ferreira of mirasol, sao paulo, was startled to see a ufo land outside his house. three humanoids entered and paralyzed him with red lights that emanated from boxes they carried on their chests. they and he floated into the craft, which eventually took off. ferreira passed out. later he vaguely recalled a mother ship. under hypnosis his memories grew sharper, and he saw himself inside a mother ship, looking at the distant earth through a porthole. approximately twelve different aliens, of two different but seemingly related types, occupied the same room. one group consisted of green-skinned humanoids with smooth dark hair, thin lips and noses, big eyes, and pointed ears. the others looked somewhat similar except they

nd the back are here not to interfere but to warn those who will listen. further reading beckley, timothy green, 1989. psychic and ufo revelations in the last days. new brunswick, nj: inner light publications. bartholomew the channeling entity ba rt h o l o m ew first spoke t h rough ma ry- ma r g a ret mo o re in the mid- 1970s. she was visiting friends in so c o r ro, new mexico, and undergoing hypnosis in an e f f o rt to re l i e ve back pain. su d d e n l y, somebody was speaking through her. for the first year of their association, mo o re feared that ba rt h o l om ew was a dramatic delusion. but over time she became convinced of his wisdom and p rophetic talents. she came to think of him as the energy vo rt e x or the higher and wiser l e vel of energy (mo o re, 1984. during the ne

hayden planetarium. subsequently, webb traced cornell to atlanta. she confirmed the sighting though all she could recall of it was that a big light had approached them, they had fallen down, and some sort of mental block had ensued. webb had refrained from sharing the details lapp provided him; still, cornell s account matched lapp s to the extent that her memory allowed. separately placed under hypnosis, the two recounted an abduction experience. lapp re m e m b e re d standing on the deck with one of the humanoids looking into space and o b s e rving earth, moon, stars, and the cigarshaped craft. cornell was stretched on a table in the lower level as two aliens conducted what seemed to be a physical examination on h e r. lapp was put on a table next to hers and lost consciousness. on re

e craft, and extract blood from it. i watched [as] the blood went into a tube and then into a big tank, the woman reported. the cow s eyes would glaze over. then i knew she was dead. we would fly back and drop her in the pasture with the other cows. the little people do not eat meat. they take the blood home with them (powers, 1994. another abductee, a texas woman named judy doraty, related under hypnosis her alleged observation of a levitation of a calf into a ufo one night in 1973. the gray-skinned humanoid crew cut up the animal while still alive, apparently as part of its study of the effects of pollution on earthly creatures. myrna hansen told a similar story under hypnosis, of an abduction in new mexico in 1980, during which a calf was brought into a ufo and mutilated while still ali

he extreme this led theorists such as john a. keel and jacques vallee to move beyond ufology s venerable extraterrestrial hypothesis (eth) and into quasi-demonological speculation about earthbound elementals and other occult entities. as if to compound the confusion, by the mid-1960s ufologists were confronting a new level of confrontation and contact between humans and ufo beings. in 1965, under hypnosis conducted by a boston psychiatrist, a new hampshire couple, barney and betty hill, turned a consciously recalled ce3 (an observation of figures aboard a hovering ufo one night in september 1961) into an onboard experience, including medical examination by gray-skinned aliens and conversation with the ship s captain. all of this took place during a two-hour period of which the hills had no

nd audiences, macdonald confided his experiences only with family and trusted friends. macdonald became aware of david while undergoing hypnotic re g ression directed by his close friend ron owen. in 1974, ma cdonald, his wife, and two sons saw what they b e l i e ved to be a ufo hovering over a field a c ross the street from their townhouse. fo u r years later, reliving the experience thro u g h hypnosis, he re c a l l e d being taken into the object and undergoing a terrifying abduction at the hands of gray-skinned humanoids. macdonald pursued recalling the experience t h rough further hypnosis sessions until one session suddenly ended with his declaring that they could go no further because t h e y re here right in the room with us( c l a rk, 1986. then an entity who identified himself

g further reading steiger, brad, 1973. revelation: the divine fire. englewood cliffs, nj: prentice-hall. dual reference dual reference is a term coined by massachusetts ufologist joseph nyman. his hypnotic investigations of abductees have led him to the discovery that many believe themselves to be of alien origin. they have no conscious memories of such a personal extraterrestrial link, but under hypnosis they gradually come to understand that the aliens who are abducting them are actually their own associates and colleagues. they eventually grasp that before their human selves were born, their alien selves made the decision to send their consciousnesses into human fetal bodies. in the very first years of their human lives, memories of their homes on other worlds are lost, but over the yea

book published two years later, ma c k told the story of a young man he identifies only as paul, one of an increasing group of a b d u c t e e s. who have discove red that they h a ve a dual identity of an alien (they do not use that word) and a human being. pa u l was convinced that he was on earth to show people how to love and accept love t h i s e ven before he found his alien identity under hypnosis. paul had gone to another psychologist to examine some of his life s problems, including a conviction that he had seen a weird humanoid creature. hypnotized, he spoke of other encounters with other strange beings, including one when he was two or three years old. the psychologist did not know what to make of these stories, and he and paul parted company; paul eventually found his way to m

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

was the thirteenth-century spanish jew, abraham abulafia, who developed a most complex technique of meditation through a system for combining the hebrew letters in endless varieties of permutations and combinations. though cabala is primarily a mysticism, a way of trying to know god, there is also a magic which goes with it, which can be used mystically or subjectively on oneself, a kind of self-hypnosis, as an aid to contemplation, and g. scholem thinks that this was how abulafia used it.3 or it can be developed into an operative magic,4 using the power of the hebrew language, or the powers of the angels invoked by it, to perform magical works (i am speaking, of course, from the point of view of a mystical believer in magic, like pico della mirandola) the cabalists evolved many angelic n

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

amy'sdeath to a stateofdreadful despair 'ahorrorofsoulthatcannot be uttered descended on me on that dim, far-off afternoon in gray's inn; i was beside myselfwithdismay and torment;icouldnotendure myownbeing'(thingsnearandfar,p.134).to escape from this state machenputhis theoretical knowledgeofoccultism to. practical use, and after using a 'process'thatseems to have been some sortofmagical auto255 hypnosis' i may tell you that the processwhichsuggested itself was hypnotism;ican say nomore'11),he achieved 'a sortofraptureoflifewhichhas no parallelthati canthinkof,whichhas, therefore, no analogies bywhichit may be made64a.e.waite-magicianofmanyparts_aswithallofgranville's children (including ludivina, his daughter by dora) she remained unmarried and her only memorial is the figureofthedragoni

efor him, and they collaborated happily for four years from1896to1899.duringthe first year waitewrote devil-ft'orship infrance,9a topical exposeofthe spurious anti-masonic rubbishthenappearing in france, translated levi'stranscendentalmagic,and persuaded redway to issuethelastofthe alchemical translations,theturbaphilosophorum.in the succeeding years he issued a collectionofjames braid's works on hypnosis, edited bad books into readable form,wrotethebookofblackmagicandofpacts(redway chose the title: he knew exactlyhowto appeal to the lowest instinctsofthe reading public, and saw hismostambitiousbookdisappear in smoke and fire. there had been, before waitewrotehis study, no reliableor substantialworkin english on thehebrewkabbalah.butwhenthedoctrineandliteratureofthekabalahwaswrittenfor red

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

lived.forall that he was a public figure brodie- innes made no secret of his interests and never allowed the problemsoftheorderto upset his professional life. witchcraft had always fascinated him and in the courseofa lecture onscottishwitchcrafttrials,given in1891to a bibliographical society known asthesetteofoddvolumes, he publicly expressed his belief in supernatural beings. having argued that hypnosis, auto-hypnosis and hysteria could account formuchofso-called witchcraft, he added:'ofcourse this is far from accounting for the whole range of phenomena; indeed, unless we accept the theoryofthe operation of intelligent powers superior to man, some better and some worse, of an intermediary character, neither wholly goodnorwholly evil, it is hard to see how observed phenomena can be accoun

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

his own to fight in the american war of independence, be able to give authorita255 tive details? i have sought in vain among professional mediums for some communication of afactunknown to me, but demonstrable afterwards. that such communication is possible, however,byother means, was proved in anotherexperience,some years ago i hypnotized a lady for insomnia, and discovered by accident that under hypnosis she became temarkably clairvoyant, with a peculiar power of recalling scenes of the pastanthis way she gave me many details of old world ceremonies, druidic and others. she was keenly interested in these, though absolutely unconsciousatthe time, or perhaps i should say retaining no conscious memory of what she had said. but to prove the genuineness of her power, she asked me to put a test

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

attributes to them a religious unity. that is tantamount to regarding them as satanists engaged in the worship and service of supernatural evil, the directors of the conspiracy must see or otherwise directly perceive manifestations which convince them of the existence and power of lucifer (satan. and since subtle conspirators must be very shrewd men, not likely to be deceived by auto-suggestion, hypnosis,or drugs, we should have to conclude that they probably are in contact with a force of pure evil. this quote illustrates the real focus of the world conspiracy theory. it is not enough to posit the existence of a secret government behind the scenes, we need to ascertain the nature of the forces which govern this secret government. the gnostic handbook page 47 and clearly these forces are

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

ach of the others being of a lesser advanced stage. hypnotism.a subject it is well to approach carefully and in detail. there are two distinct methods of inducing a hypnotic condition. by the use of drugs or by means of mental processes. in either case a condition of sleep need not result, nor is the condition of sleep an indication that the person is under control mentally or physically. whether hypnosis is produced by drug or by any mental (or mind) process there must be certain cooperation on the part of the subject. in the case of mental induction such cooperation is not only essential but fundamental, and without it hypnosis cannot be induced. hence the process of induction is not a contest between minds, the stronger overcoming the weaker, but a case of the stronger mind concentratin

ction is not a contest between minds, the stronger overcoming the weaker, but a case of the stronger mind concentrating its whole attention upon the idea of passivity. unless this is the attitude and the ability of the subject, only a small degree of success will be attained, no matter how competent the operator. a weak mind can rarely exercise sufficient concentration to assist in bringing about hypnosis by any mental process. occasional hypnosis is not dangerous to either the mental or physical organization of the body; continued experiments with one subject make that subject enter such a state more readily as long as [179] the same operator conducts the experiments. no one was ever placed in the state against his or her will and cooperation, for it is impossible (except in some rare cas

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

t with these anomalies. historical research into ufo .flaps. shows that there have been spates of sightings of mysterious spirits, dirigibles, aircraft, submarines, and of course, flying saucers, throughout history. also, numerous reports from individuals who have been .contacted. by extra- terrestrial entities show similar structural features in the accounts which have been .remembered (often by hypnosis being used as a recall technique. in dealing with such phenomena, there is obviously a great many factors which need to be taken into consideration, but i would like to discuss some of the possible processes which are occurring, with the aim of weaving them into the discussion later. perhaps i should begin by making a declaration; that i do not believe that consciousness is a purely inter

nknown. and can be present as .memes (units of information) in the subconscious mind of the individual, thanks to our information-rich culture, with its vast networks of media for the transmission of information. investigation into such experiences suggests that people, given some form of unusual stimulus, such a strange light, will elaborate all kinds of 32 information. recall techniques such as hypnosis are fallible in that the psychological tendency to confabulate information (an unconscious defence mechanism) tends to yield up a great deal of information which investigators are expecting to hear, which can again be drawn from information stored in the unconscious about what is commonly associated with this type of experience. another example of this process is the reports of so-called

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

lay a prominent part in its superficial form. the gaps of information which the alienists noticed were all related to modern matters, and were invariably offset by a correspondingly excessive though outwardly concealed knowledge of bygone matters as brought out by adroit questioning; so that one would have fancied the patient literally transferred to a former age through some obscure sort of auto-hypnosis. the odd thing was that ward seemed no longer interested in the antiquities he knew so well. he had, it appears, lost his regard for them through sheer familiarity; and all his final efforts were obviously bent toward mastering those common facts of the modern world which had been so totally and unmistakably expunged from his brain. that this wholesale deletion had occurred, he did his be

ds by minds in various regions of the past had been known and carefully rectified. in every age since the discovery of mind projection, a minute but well-recognised element of the population consisted of great race minds from past ages, sojourning for a longer or shorter while. when a captive mind of alien origin was returned to its own body in the future, it was purged by an intricate mechanical hypnosis of all it had learned in the great race's age- this because of certain troublesome consequences inherent in the general carrying forward of knowledge in large quantities. the few existing instances of clear transmission had caused, and would cause at known future times, great disasters. and it was largely in consequence of two cases of this kind- said the old myths- that mankind had learn

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

be wanted, then you have to suppress the first loading in the reversed order with the help of imagination to dissolve the light, sending it back into the universe. you can exert an influence on other people with rays, but in this case the desired loading has to be led to the mirror directly out of the universe with the imagination. so it is possible to accomplish all kinds of experiments such as hypnosis, magnetic sleep, mediumistic conditions, a fact that the magician wil find quite natural. he will therefore arrange his practice accordingly. 7. the magic mirror for room impregnation& treatment of sick people a similar procedure is followed in the impregnation of rooms with the help of the magic mirror. load your mirror with the fluid corresponding to your wish such as light, biomagnetis

mentally cause the acceleration of the healing process, but this influence on the material ailment is not sufficient, especially if the patient is already lacking such an amount of internal strength that the fluids necessary for the healing cannot be renewed. therefore the success would only be a very trifling one and the recovery subjective. to this category of healing methods belong suggestion, hypnosis, self-suggestion, faith-healing, and so on. the magician will not exactly under-rate these methods, but on the other hand he will not rely on them, using them merely by way of a makeshift. by no means will these methods represent to him so high a value that it is described in numerous books. more spectacular will be the work of a true magician who has got a great surplus of vital magnetis

ther hand he will not rely on them, using them merely by way of a makeshift. by no means will these methods represent to him so high a value that it is described in numerous books. more spectacular will be the work of a true magician who has got a great surplus of vital magnetism by occult training and a corresponding line of life. he neither needs the patient s faith nor any kind of suggestions, hypnosis nr an aureole. a magnetizer like this loads his vital power with the help of his own surplus into the astral body, if necessary even against the patient s will, and all this accomplishes a faster recovery because his magnetism has a stronger stimulus, thus strengthening the astral matrix of the patient. therefore, a magnetopathist can very successfully treat a child who cannot contribute

ly with the help of his magic powers. i am convinced that no scholar or magician will degrade himself with any kind of misuse. naturally the thoughts also can be suggested against the will of a person. mastering the elements, the magician can wipe out the thoughts of the subject who is to be influenced by way of telepathy, suggesting to him thoughts that might appear desirable to the magician. 4. hypnosis another field very similar to telepathy and suggestion is that of hypnosis, by which a person is sent to sleep forcibly and deprived of the free will. from the magical point of view hypnosis is reprehensible and it would be better not to specialize in this line. this does not mean that the magician is not able to lull people to sleep. the practice is imaginably simple. the magician need o

revert to it unless to give his subject good and noble suggestions with an extremely strong effect. even though the test subject should insist on being hypnotized by the magician, he should avoid doing so if possible. the true magician will always keep away from satisfying the curiosity of others by hypnotic experiments. at times of great danger, a well-trained magician may induce a sort of shock-hypnosis by paralyzing the spirit of the opponent with a flash of the electromagnetic fluid, a method that is only to be followed in an emergency which i hope will never happen in the life of any magician. it has been proven scientifically that animals can be hypnotized too. if a magician wants to do so, he will hit the instinctive side of the animal, so that even the biggest and strongest animals

onent with a flash of the electromagnetic fluid, a method that is only to be followed in an emergency which i hope will never happen in the life of any magician. it has been proven scientifically that animals can be hypnotized too. if a magician wants to do so, he will hit the instinctive side of the animal, so that even the biggest and strongest animals are immediately knocked senseless. 5. mass-hypnosis of the fakirs the mass-hypnosis induced by indian fakirs and jugglers that meets with so many admirers is no problem at all to the magician. the fakirs engaged in these performances generally do not know themselves how such phenomena are brought about, their secret being a matter of tradition handed down from one generation to the next. supposing a certain spot or room is loaded with the

being a matter of tradition handed down from one generation to the next. supposing a certain spot or room is loaded with the akasa principle, all the bystanders are likewise pervaded by the akasa too, and this principle will prevail in all of them. whatever has been induced in the akasa principle necessarily has to be realized, since akasa is the ultimate cause. in the light of this law, the mass-hypnosis produced by the fakirs performing their shows in front of a crowd can be understood without any difficulty. the magician can do exactly the same things. with a traditional word or a formula, the fakir calls akasa into the room and transfers into this principle the pictures he wants the audience to see. by repeating this experiment so many times, it has already become automatic, so that th

based on an unmistakable materialization, although such things are extremely rare. but whatever planetary and extra-planetary intelligences may be able to perform also can be done by the magician who is acquainted with the universal laws and has made good progress in his development. there is still one more method of making invisible: the deviation of the senses which is practiced in all kinds of hypnosis and in that form of suggestion in which entities produce a number of vibrations corresponding to that of the light in the physical body, thus effecting invisibility. some more instructions referring to this problem will be found in my book the practice of magical evocation. 14. practices with elements a great number of possibilities are offered to a magician who wishes to specialize more

INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN FACES OF DARKNESS

es a talisman to effect control of the hidden aspects of life as well. thus magicians will enter a phase where none of their actions are random or accidental, and learn to watch themselves as a great source of mystery, from which even more being can be gained. fear of the future we are compelled to act, but not know the consequences of our actions. as humans we deal with this with a form of auto -hypnosis called cognitive dissonance. we learn to justify our choices. so each movement towards freedom actually becomes a movement toward binding one's life on the outer-directed notion of one's history. given the abilities that have been obtained by this stage of being, the initiate can now actually abandon cognitive dissonance and take full responsibility for the future by admitting that it is

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

value to you. as you know one who is hypnotized cannot lie and one who is both hypnotized and given "truth serum" as it is colloqually (sic) known, could not possibly lie, at all. to boot, my memory would be thus enabled to remember things in such great detail, things that my present consciousness cannot recall at all, or only barely and uncertainly that it would be of far greater benefit to use hypnosis. i could thus be enabled to not only recall complete names, but also addresses& telephone numbers and perhaps the very important z numbers of those sailors whom i sailed with then or even came into contact with. i could too, being something of a dialectician, be able to thusly talk exactly as these witnesses talked and imitate or illustrate their mannerisms& habits of thought, thus your p

his prime prerequisites (ahem) yes, some such skulduggery (sic) would have to be thought well out& done. the ultimate end will be a truth too huge, and too fantastic, to not be told. a well-founded truth backed up by unobfuscative proof positive. i would like to find where it is that these sailors live now. it is known that some few people can somehow tell you a mans name& his home address under hypnosis even though never having ever ment or seen the person. these folks have a very high or just a high psi factor in their make-up that can be intensified under stress or strain or that usually is intensified under extreme fright. it also can be re-intensified by hypnosis, thus is like reading from the encyclopedia britannica. even though that barroom-restaurant raid was staged by invisible o

gically effective manner. i feel sure that man will go where he now dreams of being--to the stars via the form of transport that the navy accidentally stumbled upon (to their embarrassment) when their exp. ship took off& popped-up a minute or so later on several hundred sea 21 travel--trip miles away at another of its berths in the chesapeake bay area. i read of this in another newspaper& only by hypnosis could any man remember all the details of which paper, date of occurrence& etc, you see? eh. perhaps already, the navy has used this accident of transport to build your ufo's. it is a logical advance from any standpoint. what do you think? very respectfully carl allen 22 part one_ the case for the ufo's "if it waddles? if it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, s

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

one-pointedness) v. defining the goal: form vs. essence vi. working with the power a. confining it (casting the circle) b. raising it c. sending it (channeling it. for imediate effect or into storage d. earthing the excess (grounding it) vii. systems and techniques a. spellcraft b. words of power and affirmations, charms and incantations c. dance, postures and mudras d. meditation, trancework and hypnosis, fascination e. stone magick f. candle magick g. amulets and talismans; power objects or "psychic batteries" h. healing 1. psychic (visualization, laying on of hands) 2. herbal 3. energy channeling iwht auras and chakras 4. color therapy the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 3 5. other systems listed above i. divination 1. scrying 2. astrology 3. tarot 4. runesticks

for universal energy. others think the force originates some way directly within the magician. the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 6 the subconscious postulated by freud and others, the concept of the subconscious mind is an important one. basicly, this is the idea that part of the mind normally operates below or outside of ordinary consciousness and awareness. dreams and hypnosis are examples of this. also subconscious are the many automatic functions of the physical body such as respiration and digestion. why do magick? magick encompasses many things- science and art, philosophy and metaphysics, psychology and comparative religion. magick is an adventure at the borderlands of the unknown. it can fit the pieces of the puzzel of life into a meaningful whole _magick

ull' of the model when you strive for changes within yourself. the model is, after all, a collection of 'habits, some of which must be unlearned for permananent change to occur. there are two ways to do this: direct, through will power and awareness alone- observing and acting out in an unattached or indifferent manner; and indirect- through conditioning such as affirmation (explained later, self-hypnosis, and magick. meditation may help too, by relaxing tension and conflict. emotions follow physical expression: smile and act happy and you will tend to feel and be happy. the same is also true for other emotions. also, emotions can be purposely used (or programed) to replace other emotions. using this technique, a magician is somewhat like an actor in that he learns how to turn his emotions

this technique, a magician is somewhat like an actor in that he learns how to turn his emotions on and off at will. note that this is not 'fakeing it; the magician is probably more in touch with his true feelings than most people. and for these reasons we say that happiness is being happy. systems of magick the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 9 magick always involves self-hypnosis. however, it is more than that too. for one thing, there are objective forces involved (or so it would seem. deities, spirits, and cosmic force can have an independent existence. and the repetitive physical movement sometimes involved in ritual can itself generate pk force. on the other hand, it could be argued that all of this is subjective to the magician. perhaps all magical effects co

more than that too. for one thing, there are objective forces involved (or so it would seem. deities, spirits, and cosmic force can have an independent existence. and the repetitive physical movement sometimes involved in ritual can itself generate pk force. on the other hand, it could be argued that all of this is subjective to the magician. perhaps all magical effects could be produced through hypnosis alone. but the effects are certainly real. great complexity is not necessary in magick. although basicly magick is a medieval system of symbolism (in a modern context, any cosmological system will work from cabala to star wars. we usually use the medieval one in magick because it is convenient and traditional, and because it seems to fit our thought processes well. what really matters is

s a microcosm is thus connected with the macrocosm. there is an intimate relationship of energies between you and everything else. the universe is reflected within us and we are projected into the universe. this is an important theory behind magick and astrology. magick white and black 'personal magick' is that magick used to affect the self; often involving affirmation, self-suggestion, and self-hypnosis 'active magick' is outer directed magick (as in pk) used to affect someone or thing, or to bring about an event 'passive magick' is to be affected (as in esp) by an outside non-physical cause. everyone possesses some magical (and psychic) potential. some are especially gifted. usually people are better at one kind of magick (ie. active or passive) than they are at the other kind; only rar

of meditation are the concentrative type. one simply focuses his attention upon a single physical object (such as a candle flame; upon a sensation (such as that felt while walking or breathing; upon an emotion (such as reverence or love; upon a mantra spoken aloud or even silently; or upon a visualization (as in chakra meditation, see below..concentration meditation is, simply put, a form of self-hypnosis. a mantra (or mantrum) is one or more words or syllables which are repeated- often chanted- aloud..a simple yet powerful mantra is to vibrate the mystical word 'om. this mantra has long been associated in india with the godhead/unity. use it to aid in tuning into universal vibrations which promote feelings of harmony, peace, and well-being. use it before magick ritual to 'get into the moo

es/vibrations per second: delta- 0.2 to 3.5 hz (deep sleep, trance state, theta- 3.5 to 7.5 hz (day dreaming, memory, alpha- 7.5 to 13 hz (tranquility, heightened awareness, meditation, beta- 13 to 28 hz (tension 'normal' consciousness. as you can see, some form of physical relaxation is implied in the alpha, theta, and delta consciousness. these states are in fact reached through deep breathing, hypnosis, and other relaxation techniques. oobe occurs during these states, and delta is probably the most important for it. the problem is really, as we have said, one of maintaining mental awareness and alertness while experienceing these altered states. experimental subjects hooked to an eeg do not show a discrete change from drowsy to sleep; it is very gradual. at the threshold between sleep a

are to be avoided. over-eating should be avoided. and no food should be eaten just before an oobe attempt. if you intend to practice during sleep, for example, allow 2 to 4 hours of no food or drink (except water) before bedtime. in general, we see here the same kind of dietary restrictions advocated for kundalini yoga. 2) progressive muscular relaxation- this is one of the basic methods used in hypnosis and self-hypnosis. the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 33 physical relaxation can assist one in attaining the requisite trance state. these techniques involve beginning at the toes and tensing, then relaxing the muscles, progressively up the entire body. 3) yoga and breath- yoga, mantra, and breathing exercises similarly aim at physical relaxation. the practice of

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ion foul and abusive language (when manifested in a voice different from the individual s normal voice) cogan notes that playing with ouija boards, dungeons and dragons, and other role-playing other games can lead to possession. he further asserts that certain actions, roles, and tasks attract possessing spirits: illicit sex homosexual sex the viewing of pornography the use of mind-altering drugs hypnosis listening to rock music, especially if the musicians are themselves possessed leading a religious cult worshiping satan astrologers psychics finally, cogan advocates a multiphase program for overcoming possession, only the first step of which is becoming saved. the possessed must: be saved and filled with the holy spirit pray to god for the power of jesus s blood seek a counselor for help

lloween season programming. it has been said that this special was watched by more people than any other previous television documentary. in her 1987 book prepare for war, one of 244 satanic ritual abuse rivera s guests on this important program had listed numerous potential doorways to demon possession and satanism, such as fortune tellers, horoscopes, fraternity oaths, vegetarianism, yoga, self-hypnosis, acupuncture, biofeedback, fantasy role-playing games like dungeons and dragons, adultery, homosexuality, judo, and karate. rock music is described as a carefully masterminded plan by none other than satan himself. rivera was careful to confine his questions to this particular satanism expert so as not to elicit comments on these surrealistic aspects of the satanic threat. eventually a ha

e united states as the great satan. in the british parliament a protestant leader called the pope the antichrist. in a book titled prepare for war (1987, rebecca brown, m.d. has a chapter entitled is roman catholicism witchcraft? dr. brown also lists among the doorways to satanic power and/or demon infestation the following: fortune tellers, horoscopes, fraternity oaths, vegetarianism, yoga, self-hypnosis, relaxation tapes, acupuncture, biofeedback, fantasy role-playing games, adultery, homosexuality, pornography, judo, karate, and rock music. dr. brown states that rock music was a carefully masterminded plan by none other than satan himself (p. 84. the ideas expressed in this book may seem extreme and even humorous. this book, however, has been recommended as a serious reference in law en

nsciousness (alcohol or other drugs, group influence (particularly hearing vivid accounts of events occurring to others with whom one identifies emotionally such as occurs in incest survivor groups, reading vivid accounts of events occurring to others with whom 312 appendix ii: 1992 fbi study of satanic ritual abuse one identifies emotionally, watching such accounts in films or on television, and hypnosis. the most efficient means of inducing pseudomemories is hypnosis. it is characteristic of pseudomemories that the recollections of complex events (as opposed to a simple unit of information, such as a tag number) are incomplete and without chronological sequence. often the person reports some uncertainty because the pseudomemories are experienced in a manner they describe as hazy, fuzzy

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lter averages? the individual case allows some chance to operate, and thus destroys its value quite for us. so that is why i knit my brows and think.and find no thing to say or do, so foolish as to pray .so much for this absurd affair52 about. validity of prayer. but back! let once again address ourselves to super-consciusness! you weary me with proof enough that all this meditation stuff is self-hypnosis. be it so! do you suppose i did not know? still, to be accurate, i fear the symptoms are entirely strange. if i were hard, i.d make it clear that criticism must arrange marvellous answer to prayer. prayer and averages. are the results of meditation due to autohypnosis? 550 555 560 565 570 575 580 585 590 pentecost 37 an explanation different for this particular event. though surely i my f

ot know? still, to be accurate, i fear the symptoms are entirely strange. if i were hard, i.d make it clear that criticism must arrange marvellous answer to prayer. prayer and averages. are the results of meditation due to autohypnosis? 550 555 560 565 570 575 580 585 590 pentecost 37 an explanation different for this particular event. though surely i my find it queer that you should talk of self-hypnosis, when your own faith so very close is to similar experience; lies, in a word, beneath suspicion to ordinary common sense and logic.s emery attrition. i take, however, as before your own opinion, and demand some test by which to understand huxley.s piano-talk* and find if my hypnosis may not score a point against the normal mind (as you are please to term it, though! i gather that you do n

05 610 615 620 625 a test. the artist.s concentration on his work. yogi but a more vigorous artist. indignation of poet suppressed by yogi and philosopher alike. 38 the sword of song destroying passion, feeling, thought, the very practice you have sought unconscious, when you work the best, i carry on one step firm-pressed further than you the path, and you for all my trouble, comment .true .auto-hypnosis. very quaint!.53 no one supposes me a saint.54 some saints to wrath would be inclined with such a provocation pecked! but i remember and reflect that anger makes a person blind, and my own .chittam. i.d neglect. besides, it.s you, and you, i find, are but a mode of my own mind. but then you argue, and with sense .i have this worthy evidence that things are real, since i cease the painter

would of course supply rain automatically. no new act of creation would be necessary; faith, we are expressly told, can remove mountains, and there is ice and snow and especially moraine on and about the baltoro glacier to build a very fine range; we could well have spared it this last summer. 579. so much for this absurd affair.52 .about lieutenant-colonel flare..gilbert, bab ballads. 636. auto-hypnosis.53.the scientific adversary has more sense than to talk of autohypnosis. he bases his objection upon the general danger of the practice, considered as a habit of long standing. in fact, lyre and lancet. recipe for curried eggs. the physiologist reproaches poor mr. crowley .this encroaches upon your frail cerebral cortex, and turns its fairway to a vortex. your cerebellum with cockroaches

lly renounce years of normal life to obtain minutes of that dream-life; that his time sense is uprooted as never before, and that these influences are permanent. then, you will say, delirium tremens (and the intoxication of hashish, in respect more particularly of the time sense) afford us a parallel. but the phenomena of delirium tremens do not occur in the healthy. as for the suggestion of auto-hypnosis, the memory of the .dream. is a sufficient reply. however this may be, the simple fact of the superior apparent reality.a conviction unshakable, in puisable (for the english has no word, is a sufficient test. and if we condescend to argue, it is for pleasure, and aside from the vital fact; a skirmish, and not a pitched battle. this .dream. i have thus described is the state called dhyana

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(see haarp) are the tools these criminals use in theirattempt to open a gate in the moons orbit. from the sword to the syringe110atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation we see the motif in several movies (see stargate, moonraker, city of evil, war of theworlds, quatermass, nosferatu-the v ampyre, the devil rides out, life-force, things tocome, koyannisqatsi, etc, certain artwork (see hypnosis, rodney matthews, roger dean,and h. r. giger) and other works of science-fiction. some of the movies with themes per-taining to our thesis are commissioned by the hidden masters to provide mankind updateson the progress they are making. of course, the information registers on a subliminal levelonly, but we are still being told, which is the main point. it is in accordance with the pactbet

d griffin) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation111 from the sword to the syringe i do not mind being called a conspiracy theorist by those who don t mind being calledcoincidence theorists (john judge)the individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous hecannot believe it exists (j. edgar hoover)if a man doesn t know what it means to be under psychic hypnosis it is because he is under it.(v ernon howard) when told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception, hence hisdelusion (ibid) from the sword to the syringe112atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation113 chapter 18lambs to the slaughterto play those millions of minds, to watch them slowly respond to

9 level. 1950 john mccone becomes under secretary of the air force. 1950 the korean war begins. william jennings bryan iii becomes the chief of medical survivaltraining for the u.s.a.f. after the korean war, bryan becomes a consultant for the cia relative toprojects concerning behavior modification and mind control. bryan later begins a hypnotherapy practicein hollywood, the american institute of hypnosis, which was functional in the mid 1970's. bryanwas believed by some to be one of the programmers in the famous candy jones case. 1950 attempted assassination of truman by puerto rican nationalists. 1950 internal security act of 1950. 1950 hearings are heard relative to placing the united states under a one world government by adop-tion of a world government constitution. the age of nations

fluorides to water in prison system to maintain subservience in the inmate population,affect the central nervous system, and produce compliance with authority. 1951 north korean brainwashing of american prisoners. 1951 project redlight begins at groom lake in nevada. 1951 cbs broadcasting begins cooperation with cia. 1951 cia project artichoke develops behavior control techniques employing drugs, hypnosis, elec-troshock, and extrasensory perception. 1951 german bundestag passes a law reinstated 163,477 german administrators from the nazi periodback into government. 1951 international geodetic survey to place crystalline resonators at grid points. 1951 u.s. high commissioner john mccloy orders general amnesty and early release for all convictednazi war criminals (jan.-feb. 1951. 1951 german

urnal (see 1960) had aroused considerable attention and criticism, noting, the vaccinationreactions may be regarded chiefly as manifestations of a toxic effect- an individual predisposition ofsome significance. strom reports on 167 cases of severe reactions to the dpt shot in sweden. 1967 sirhan sirhan disappears from home for 90 days. upon his return, he has a fascination with theoccult and self-hypnosis. would eventually assassinate robert kennedy. 1967 robert naeslund is implanted while undergoing surgery in stockholm, where a physician tellshim, young children were also used for these experiments in order to evaluate thought activity andreactions. 1967 china explodes nuclear device. 1967 report from iron mountain released by dial press. re-establishment of slavery discussed as pos-sibl

illion on company acquisitions. 1970 nixon announces united states will destroy all its biological weapons. 1970 carl a. larson publishes an article, ethnic weapons, in military review, november 1970. 1970 u.s. army buries drums of ddt in british columbia (9/94) 1970 psychologist james v. mcconnel writes in psychology today that, the day has come when wecan combine sensory deprivation with drugs, hypnosis, and astute manipulation of reward and punish-ment to gain almost complete control over individual behavior..we should reshape society so that we allwould be trained from birth. no one owns his own personality. 1971 george hw bush joins the council on foreign relations. 1971 r.k. procunier, director of corrections of the state of california, proposes neurosurgical treat-ment of violent in

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long ago. first, i want to thank you for making yourself available to answer questions online, he wrote. i truly appreciate it. here s my situation. i have several health problems i m using an occult ritual to heal. it seems to be working somewhat for me. it appeals to the spirits beings zoroel and sabriel, who govern health, for healing. naturally, i m thankful for their assistance. i do a self-hypnosis/relaxation induction and then perform the ritual. i feel this is helping me. somehow, i intuit that my progress is artificially slow, like i' somehow standing in my own way. i ve tried many things over the past few years to help. my question is: are you aware of any ways of strengthening a ritual? i replied to his email, explaining that the simplest way of strengthening a ritual is to ali

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ince 1972. also a student and teacher of iyengar yoga. she is married to george wilson. they have three sons and plan to emigrate to new zealand as soon as possible where they will continue personal magickal work, writing, and teaching yoga. carl l weschcke, born september 10, 1930, b.s. in business administration, work toward doctorate in philosophy, d. ph. mag (honorary, certificate in clinical hypnosis. lifelong student of the occult, starting with theosophy, several years of work with crowley materials and as a correspondence student with the society of the inner light, study of jungian psychology and yoga. high priest in wicca, and administrator general aurum solis. president of llewellyn publications since 1960. david godwin, born in 1939 in dallas, texas, is a long-time student of e

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health literature. use of the term "integration" to refer to the process by which self coordinates its functions and realities in an evolutionary manner with the goal of differentiation (freedom from others while in harmony with them) dates back to milton h. erickson (19011980, whose theories and practice built upon the work of freud, with much original work of his own, especially in the area of hypnosis "self" has been added to "integration" by various writers drawing from the bulkier "integration of self" i use the concept of "selfintegration" as a possible simile for approaching understanding of the relationship between set and harwer. that is: set relates to harwer as the divergent polarities within self resolve in identity/personality as differentiation or integration. upon following

ited states as the "great satan" in the british parliament a protestant leader called the pope the antichrist. in a book titled prepare for war (1987, rebecca brown, m.d. has a chapter entitled "is roman catholicism witchcraft" dr. brown also lists among the "doorways" to satanic power and/or demon infestation the following: fortune tellers, horoscopes, fraternity oaths, vegetarianism, yoga, self-hypnosis, relaxation tapes, acupuncture, biofeedback, fantasy role-playing games, adultery, homosexuality, pornography, judo, karate, and rock music. dr. brown states that rock music "was a carefully masterminded plan by none other than satan himself (p. 84. the ideas expressed in this book may seem extreme and even humorous. this book, however, has been recommended as a serious reference in law e

ppets of history, substance-induced altered states of consciousness (alcohol or other drugs, group influence (particularly hearing vivid accounts of events occurring to others with whom one identifies emotionally such as occurs in incest survivor groups, reading vivid accounts of events occurring to others with whom one identifies emotionally, watching such accounts in films or on television, and hypnosis. the most efficient means of inducing pseudomemories is hypnosis. it is characteristic of pseudomemories that the recollections of complex events (as opposed to a simple unit of information, such as a tag number) are incomplete and without chronological sequence. often the person reports some uncertainty because the pseudomemories are experienced in a manner they describe as 'hazy 'fuzzy

, gently and without fear, and i shall hear as a friend. do not bend your knee nor drop your eye, for such things were not done in my house at pamat-et. but speak to me at night, for the sky then becomes an entrance and not a barrier. and those who call me the prince of darkness do me no dishonor. conventional religious ritual is a device for autohypnosis of the priest and varying degrees of mass-hypnosis for the audience. the mechanical liturgies have a relaxing, dulling effect upon the mind, placing it in the (alpha-wave) mood most receptive to the conditioning (i.e: the sermon or other main body of the ritual. ritual magic falls into two general categories, white and black. these may be distinguished as follows: white magic is a highly-concentrated form of conventional religious ritual

orms, i would get some kind of results. i did. magister menschel had asked me a battery of questions about my xeper. this is how i planned to bring the reality of my xeper into manifestation. the following working is a result of those questions from magister menschel. certain african religions initiate an adept into their systems by a method of trance induction. the devotee is put into a state of hypnosis whereby his astral body goes into the nether world to seek information of importance to himself. sometimes the god form is brought into this reality by means of drumming or dancing. once the adept is possessed, the god or goddess begins to speak. during the speech the information that is given will guide the adept on the correct path, thereby enhancing his/her xeper. such were the results

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e the necessary background music. it turned out he knew more music and played better than the regular calliopist, so beatty cashiered the drunk and installed lavey at the instrument. he accompanied the "human cannonball, hugo zachinni, and the wallendas' high-wire acts, among others. when lavey was eighteen he left the circus and joined a carnival. there he became assistant to a magician, learned hypnosis, and studied more about the occult. it was a curious combination. on the one side he was working in an atmosphere of life at its rawest level- of earthy music; the smell of wild animals and sawdust; acts in which a second of missed timing meant accident or death; performances that demanded youth and strength, and shed those who grew old like last year's clothes; a world of physical excite

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, a light, and equipment. the room is apart from the activities going on outside, so that others will not be distracted by what we do here "the subject is there, ready to be worked on. another, younger trainer is there to help, and i tell her to administer the medication. we are working on medications to help induce hypnotic states, and are studying the effects of these medications, combined with hypnosis and trauma. the medication is injected subcutaneously, and then we wait. within ten minutes, the subject is drowsy and his breathing is slower and heavier, but his eyes are open which is what we want (i will not describe the rest of the session here, it is too painful for me to describe at this time. i believe that human experimentation is cruel and should be stopped, but the group that i

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part 1. 2nd edition. princeton, n. j: princeton university press, 1981. lane, barbara. echoes from medieval halls. virginia beach, va: a.r.e. press, 1997. stearn, jess. the search for the girl with the blue eyes. new york: bantam books, 1969. sutphen, richard. you were born together to be together. new york: pocket books, 1976. hypnotic regression into past lives richard sutphen (1937) began his hypnosis and past-lives regression work in 1972 and was probably the first to develop a technique whereby a hypnotist might regress large numbers of men and women to alleged former lifetimes at the same time and in the same room. sutphen began fine-tuning his style in his phoenix, arizona, home with a roomful of people at a time. he continued perfecting his technique in area colleges and high scho

technique whereby a hypnotist might regress large numbers of men and women to alleged former lifetimes at the same time and in the same room. sutphen began fine-tuning his style in his phoenix, arizona, home with a roomful of people at a time. he continued perfecting his technique in area colleges and high schools and at metaphysical gatherings in the southwest. in 1973, he founded and directed a hypnosis/ metaphysical center in scottsdale, arizona. the convenience of working at an established center provided him with the structure that he needed to experiment extensively with both individual and group techniques and the opportunity to amass a large number of case histories for comparison and contrast. in 1976, sutphen created and marketed the first prerecorded hypnosis tapes through his v

her weight made lying down on the floor with everyone else too difficult. he could see, though, that she was a good deeplevel hypnotic subject, for she had practically fallen off the chairs almost immediately after he had begun the process. during an evening session, sutphen asked barbara to join 11 other subjects on the platform for a demonstration of individual regression work. during the group hypnosis of the 12 volunteers, sutphen instructed them to think about something in their life that they would like to change any kind of problem, habit, or personal situation. as he counted backward from three to one, they would move back in time to the cause of their present problem, whether it should be in their past, in their present life experience or in any of their previous lives. they would

ves, future loves. new york: pocket books, 1978. sutphen, richard. you were born again to be together. new york: pocket books, 1976. bridey murphy to a great number of americans, the name bridey murphy has become synonymous with reincarnation and accounts of past lives. the story of the pueblo, colorado, housewife who remembered a prior incarnation as a nineteenth- century irish woman while under hypnosis made a dramatic impact upon the public imagination. newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals debated the validity of the memory, and the controversy surrounding this alleged case of reincarnation has not resolved itself to this day. william j. barker of the denver post published the first account of this now-famous case in that newspaper s empire magazine. barker told how morey berns

and the controversy surrounding this alleged case of reincarnation has not resolved itself to this day. william j. barker of the denver post published the first account of this now-famous case in that newspaper s empire magazine. barker told how morey bernstein, a young pueblo business executive, first noticed what an excellent subject mrs. s. was for deep trance when he was asked to demonstrate hypnosis at a party in october of 1952. it was some weeks later, on the evening of november 29, that bernstein gained the woman s consent to participate in an experiment in age-regression. the amateur hypnotist had heard stories of researchers having led their subjects back into past lives, but he had always scoffed at such accounts. he had been particularly skeptical about the testimony of the br

ed to have lived there. the librarian also verified bridey s statement that there had been a william farr who had sold foodstuffs during this same period. one of the most significant bits of information had to do with a place that bridey called mourne. such a place was not shown on any modern maps of ireland, but its existence was substantiated through the british information service. while under hypnosis, ruth simmons had remembered that catholics could teach at queen s university, belfast, even though it was a protestant institution. american investigators made a hasty prejudgment when they challenged the likelihood of such an interdenominational teaching arrangement. in ireland, however, such a fact was common knowledge, and bridey scored another hit. then there were such details as bri

ied to the case when reporters for the chicago american discovered that a woman named bridie murphey corkell had lived across the street where virginia tighe had grown up. to say that cryptomensia was responsible for tighe s alleged memories of a nineteenth-century irishwoman is to propose that she had forgotten both the source of her memory and the fact that she had ever obtained it. then, under hypnosis, such memories could be recalled so dramatically that they could be presented as a past-life memory. the attempts to discredit bridey murphy as a manifestation of cryptomensia fail in the estimation of researchers c. j. ducasse and dr. ian stevenson (1918. in stevenson s estimation, the critics of the bridey murphy case provided only suppositions of possible sources of information, not ev

sist that such data could have been acquired paranormally, through extrasensory means, and therefore does not prove reincarnation. skeptics dismiss the evidence of bridey murphy s alleged past-life memories by stating that they originated in her childhood, rather than in a prior incarnation. on july 12, 1995, virginia tighe morrow died in her suburban denver home. she had never again submitted to hypnosis by any researcher seeking to test her story. although she never became a true believer in reincarnation, she always stood by the entranced recollections as recorded in the search for bridey murphy. m delving deeper bernstein, morey. the search for bridey murphy. new york: doubleday and co, 1956. steiger, brad. you will live again. nevada city, calif: blue dolphin publishing, 1996. past-li

t-life recall is pure fantasy or the actual memory of a prior existence. what does matter to the therapists is their claim that thousands of men and women have obtained a definite and profound release from a present pain or phobia by reliving the origin of their problems in some real or imagined former existence. while skeptics may scoff at men and women who claim to recall past lives while under hypnosis, and even question their mental balance, psychiatrist reima kampman of the university of oulu in finland has said that her research demonstrates that people who are able to display multiple personalities or alleged past lives under hypnosis are actually healthier than those who cannot. according to kampman, one of her subjects, a 28- year-old woman, revealed eight different personalities

arnation t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 68 afterlife mysteries acceptable in the western world lies in the culture learning to acknowledge individuals true identities as souls that exist in a multidimensional universe where time is not limited to a linear construction. through the altered states of consciousness available in meditation or hypnosis, one can experience what multidimensionality and simultaneous time feel like even if one does not yet understand what the words mean. a teacher of reincarnation since 1980, binder frequently emphasizes in her classes that individuals don t have souls, they are souls. all of us are souls who chose to become human beings, but our human identity is limited to being in this body, she said. th

discovering your past lives and other dimensions. culver city, calif: reincarnation books& tapes, 1994. binder, bettye b. past live regressions guidebook. torrance, calif: reincarnation books, 1992. moody, raymond a, jr. life after life. new york: bantam books, 1985. sutphen, richard. past lives, future loves. new york: pocket books, 1978. wambaugh, helen. reliving past lives: the evidence under hypnosis. new york: harper& row, 1978. weiss, brian. many lives, many masters. new york: simon& schuster, 1988. whitton, joel, and joe fisher. the case for reincarnation. new york: bantam books, 1984. ian stevenson (1918) dr. ian stevenson is the former head of the department of psychiatry at the university of virginia, and now is director of that school s division of personality. in the more than

cination in which further statements are imaginatively attributed to the subjects. derivation of the memories through normal means with subsequent forgetting of the source. stevenson holds this hypothesis to be most often responsible for the many cases of pseudo-reincarnation. he quotes from the work of e. s. zolik, who studied the ability of students to create fictitious former lives while under hypnosis. these fantasy personalities were the products of bits and pieces of characters in novels, motion pictures, and remembered childhood acquaintances. because of the remarkable ability of the human mind to acquire paranormal information and to create fantasy personalities all its own, stevenson cites another difficulty in serious research into cases suggestive of reincarnation: we need to re

reward. the case for psychic survival. new york: citadel press, 1957. garrett, eileen. many voices: the autobiography of a medium. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1968. uphoff, walter and mary jo. new psychic frontiers. gerrards cross, bucks, great britain: colin smythe, 1975. trance numerous researchers have noted the obvious parallels between hypnotic sleep and the trance state of the medium. in hypnosis the subject is controlled by the suggestions of the hypnotist. in the trance state, many investigators believe, the medium is controlled by autosuggestion a kind of self-induced hypnotic state. good subjects for hypnosis can be made to assume any number of characterizations, from elderly people to babies, and will firmly appear to believe themselves to be the individuals they represent, c

cts by suggesting to them that they are under the control of discarnate entities. a medium or a spiritualist might counter such an assertion by saying that certain spirits may actually take possession of a hypnotic subject when they receive permission to do so, and that the subject may then truly be said to be in the control of the souls of the deceased. parapsychologists who have tested both the hypnosis hypothesis and the possibility of spirit possession have found that, in some instances, it is just as easy to obtain communication from a living person through a hypnotic subject or a medium as from a dead one, and from a fictitious person as from a real one, simply by making the proper suggestion to either entranced agent. when mediums enter the trance state, they enter into a subjective

, it is just as easy to obtain communication from a living person through a hypnotic subject or a medium as from a dead one, and from a fictitious person as from a real one, simply by making the proper suggestion to either entranced agent. when mediums enter the trance state, they enter into a subjective condition that leaves them as open and amenable to the law of suggestion as is the subject of hypnosis. the potent suggestion that the spirit of a deceased person is about to enter their body and control them is ever present in the subjective mind of mediums. such a suggestion has been a part of their educational development, and their religious beliefs are based on the fact of spirit survival and communication. all paranormal phenomena are considered by mediums to be a direct interaction

e past, as in recreating. exorcism the act, religious ceremony, or ritual of casting out evil spirits from a person or a place. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 326 glossary extraterrestrial something or someone originating or coming from beyond earth, outside of earth s atmosphere. false memory refers to situations where some therapies and hypnosis may actually be planting memories through certain suggestions or leading questions and comments; thereby creating memories that the patient or client believes to be true, but in reality they are not. fanatical extreme enthusiasm, frenzy, or zeal about a particular belief, as in politics or religion. five pillars of islam in arabic, also called the arkan, and consists of the five sacred ri

nd planets in the signs of the zodiac, at any given moment, but especially at the moment of one s birth. hypnagogic relating to or being in the state between wakefulness and sleep where one is drowsy. from the french hypnagogique meaning literally leading to sleep. hypnopompic typical of or involving the state between sleeping and waking. coined from hypno and greek pompe, meaning a sending away. hypnosis the process of putting or being in a sleeplike state, although the person is not sleeping. it can be induced by suggestions or methods of a hypnotist. hypothesis a theory or assumption that needs further exploration, but which is used as a tentative explanation until further data confirms or denies it. from the greek hupothesis meaning foundation or base. ice age any of the periods of ext

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e. many believe the greatest adventure is available to those who wish to explore the mysteries of the mind the miracle of consciousness, the enigma of dreams, and the mind beyond the physical bodies. 115 chapter exploration dreams creative and lucid dreaming nightmares sleep paralysis symbology of dreams the mechanics of memory false memories phobias altered states of consciousness hallucinations hypnosis meditation psychedelics the mind-expanding drugs relaxation extrasensory perception: the sixth sense esp researchers clairvoyance out-of-body experience (obe) precognition psychokinesis telepathy introduction perhaps the greatest mystery of the human mind is how the brain gives rise to consciousness. a three-pound mass of spongy tissue somehow makes humans conscious of what they see, hear

work, or personal relationships; c) the symbolic level, which is often characterized by vivid visual imagery of mythical, religious, and historical symbols; d) the integrative level, in which the individual undergoes an intense religious illumination, experiences a dissolution of self, and is confronted by god or some divine being. each of these four levels might be induced by psychedelic drugs, hypnosis, meditation, prayer, or free association during psychoanalysis. through the ages, many of humankind s major material and spiritual breakthroughs may have come from these virtually unmapped, uncharted regions of the mind. there are many reasons why the great majority of scientific researchers remain doubtful about the validity of altered states of consciousness, such as the misuse of hypno

of a loved one sometimes prompts hallucinations of hearing or seeing the relative or close friend. those individuals experiencing psychosis or delirium are also susceptible to the manifestations of hallucinations. while people often associate a hallucination with dramatic circumstances, sleep deprivation can prompt the phenomenon, as can boredom, fatigue, and the frightening experience of highway hypnosis, when people have been behind the wheel driving too long and the monotony of the road causes them to see things that aren t really there. many individuals who suffer from migraine attacks report certain kinds of hallucinations, especially those of colored, shimmering geometric shapes, quite likely induced by changes in the retina or the visual pathway. some researchers suggest that some o

, ronald k. fire in the brain: clinical tales of hallucination. new york: dutton/plume, 1992. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysteries of the mind 143 hallucinations result when certain situations have altered one s brain metabolism from its normal level. starker, steven. fantastic thought: all about dreams, daydreams, hallucinations, and hypnosis. new york: prentice-hall, 1982. tart, charles, ed. altered states of consciousness. new york: john wiley& sons, 1969. hypnosis the process of hypnosis generally requires a hypnotist who asks a subject, one who has agreed to be hypnotized, to relax and to focus his or her attention on the sound of the hypnotist s voice. as the subject relaxes and concentrates on the hypnotist s voice, the

ousness. when the subject has reached a deep level of hypnotic trance, the hypnotist will have access to the individual s unconscious. many clinical psychologists believe that hypnotherapy permits them to help their clients uncover hidden or repressed memories of fears or abuse that will facilitate their cure. in certain cases, police authorities have encouraged the witnesses of crimes to undergo hypnosis to assist them in recovering details that may result in a speedier resolution of a criminal act. increasing numbers of clinical or lay hypnotists employ hypnosis to explore cases suggestive of past lives or accounts of alien abductions aboard ufos. there are also show business hypnotists who induce the trance state in their subjects for the general amusement of their audiences. skeptical

m in recovering details that may result in a speedier resolution of a criminal act. increasing numbers of clinical or lay hypnotists employ hypnosis to explore cases suggestive of past lives or accounts of alien abductions aboard ufos. there are also show business hypnotists who induce the trance state in their subjects for the general amusement of their audiences. skeptical scientists doubt that hypnosis is a true altered state of consciousness and contend that the people who are classified as good subjects by professional or lay hypnotists are really men and women who are highly suggestible, fantasy-prone individuals. while it may be true that some psychologists and hypnotherapists make rather extravagant claims regarding the powers inherent in the hypnotic state, what actually occurs du

sis is a true altered state of consciousness and contend that the people who are classified as good subjects by professional or lay hypnotists are really men and women who are highly suggestible, fantasy-prone individuals. while it may be true that some psychologists and hypnotherapists make rather extravagant claims regarding the powers inherent in the hypnotic state, what actually occurs during hypnosis with certain subjects remains difficult either to define or to debunk. throughout the ages, tribal shamans, witch doctors, and religious leaders have used hypnosis to heal the sick and to foretell the future. egyptian papyri more than 3,000 years old t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 144 mysteries of the mind three students cover the

difficult either to define or to debunk. throughout the ages, tribal shamans, witch doctors, and religious leaders have used hypnosis to heal the sick and to foretell the future. egyptian papyri more than 3,000 years old t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 144 mysteries of the mind three students cover their faces with their shoes while under hypnosis (ap/wide world photos) t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysteries of the mind 145 fate magazine featuring its cover story on hypnotism (llewellyn publications/fortean picture library) describe the use of hypnotic procedures by egyptian soothsayers and medical practitioners. in the early 1500s, swiss physician/ alchemist paracelsus (

ase, believing that magnets, as well as the magnetic influence of heavenly bodies, had therapeutic effects. magnetic treatment theories went through several stages of evolution and many successive scientists. it was during the latter part of the eighteenth century that franz anton mesmer (1734 1815, acting upon the hypotheses of these predecessors, developed his own theory of animal magnetism and hypnosis. according to mesmer, hypnosis entailed the specific action of one organism upon another. this action is produced by a magnetic force that radiates from bodily organs and has therapeutic uses. hypnotism makes use of this force, or the vibrations, issuing from the hypnotist s eyes and fingers. when mesmer reintroduced hypnotism to the modern world, paranormal activities and occult beliefs

e difference is that the one is self-induced, while the other is induced by, and subject to, the control of the hypnotist. the argument therefore presented itself that if esp can manifest under trance, then why cannot a hypnotist so manipulate the hypnotic state as to achieve the proper state of consciousness and, thereby, literally, induce esp? research continued into the extrasensory aspects of hypnosis, despite hostility from the established sciences. in 1876 sir william barrett, an english physicist, presented the results of his experiments in clairvoyant card reading to the british association for the advancement of science. a number of barrett s colleagues rewarded the physicist s extensive endeavor by walking out during his presentation. hypnosis arrived on the threshold of the twen

ncement of science. a number of barrett s colleagues rewarded the physicist s extensive endeavor by walking out during his presentation. hypnosis arrived on the threshold of the twentieth century under much the same cloud that had covered it since mesmer s day; and, in spite of decades of research and experimentation, the great majority of scientific researchers maintain a solid skepticism toward hypnosis at the dawn of the twenty-first century. the stanford hypnotic susceptibility scales, a scientific yardstick by which to measure the phenomenon of hypnosis, was developed in the late 1950s by stanford university psychologists andre m. weitzenhoffer and ernest r. hilgard. scoring on the stanford scales ranges from 0 for those individuals who do not appear to respond to any hypnotic suggest

otic susceptibility scales, a scientific yardstick by which to measure the phenomenon of hypnosis, was developed in the late 1950s by stanford university psychologists andre m. weitzenhoffer and ernest r. hilgard. scoring on the stanford scales ranges from 0 for those individuals who do not appear to respond to any hypnotic suggestions, to 12, for those who are assessed as extremely responsive to hypnosis. most peo- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 146 mysteries of the mind hypnotherapy permits psychologists to help clients uncover hidden or repressed memories of fears or abuse. ple, according to extensive experimentation, place somewhere in the middle range, between 5 and 7. among the results of the studies of weitzenhoffer and hilg

or her personality traits. earlier suggestions that those individuals who could be hypnotized were gullible, submissive, imaginative, or socially compliant proved unsupported by the data. people who had the ability to become absorbed in such activities as reading, enjoying music, or daydreaming did appear to be the more hypnotizable subjects. another objection by the skeptics that the process of hypnosis was simply a matter of the subject having a vivid imagination also proved to be a false assumption. many highly imaginative people tested by the experimenters proved to be bad hypnotic subjects, and there appears to be no relation between the ability to imagine and the ability to become a good hypnotic subject. the stanford experiments also learned that hypnotized subjects were not passiv

re appears to be no relation between the ability to imagine and the ability to become a good hypnotic subject. the stanford experiments also learned that hypnotized subjects were not passive automatons who would obey a hypnotist s commands to violate their moral or cultural ideals. instead, the subjects remained active problem solvers while responding to the suggestions of the hypnotist. by using hypnosis, the scientists at stanford were able to create transient hallucinations, false memories, and delusions in some subjects. by using positron emission tomography, which directly measures metabolism, the researchers were able to determine that different regions of a subject s brain would be activated when he or she was asked simply to imagine a sound or sight than when the subject was halluc

nations, false memories, and delusions in some subjects. by using positron emission tomography, which directly measures metabolism, the researchers were able to determine that different regions of a subject s brain would be activated when he or she was asked simply to imagine a sound or sight than when the subject was hallucinating under hypnotic suggestion. the mechanisms by which the process of hypnosis can somehow convince certain subjects not to yield to pain remain a mystery. many researchers theorize some hypnotic subjects and experienced meditators can allow the altered state of consciousness to bring about an analgesic effect in brain centers higher than those that register the sensations of pain. a 1996 national institutes of health panel assessed hypnosis to be an effective t h e

ations of pain. a 1996 national institutes of health panel assessed hypnosis to be an effective t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysteries of the mind 147 a patient is hypnotized into a state of rigidity (fortean picture library) method of alleviating pain from cancer and other chronic conditions. numerous clinical studies demonstrated that hypnosis could also reduce acute pain faced by pregnant women undergoing labor or the pain experienced by burn victims. in some instances, it was judged that hypnosis accomplished greater relief than such chemical pain killers as morphine. while such experiments certainly indicate that something is going on within a subject s mind during the process of hypnosis, many psychologists, such as dr. nic

t something is going on within a subject s mind during the process of hypnosis, many psychologists, such as dr. nicholas spanos, argue that hypnotic procedures merely influence behavior by altering a subject s motivations, expectations, and interpretations. such influences have nothing to do with placing a person into a trance or exercising any kind of control over that person s unconscious mind. hypnosis, in spanos s view, is an act of social conformity, rather than a unique state of consciousness. the subject, he maintains, is only acting in accordance with the hypnotist s suggestions and responds according to the expectations of how a hypnotized person is supposed to behave. critics of hypnotic procedures during police investigations are concerned that too many law enforcement officers

in spanos s view, is an act of social conformity, rather than a unique state of consciousness. the subject, he maintains, is only acting in accordance with the hypnotist s suggestions and responds according to the expectations of how a hypnotized person is supposed to behave. critics of hypnotic procedures during police investigations are concerned that too many law enforcement officers consider hypnosis as a kind of magical way to arrive at the truth of a case. the american society of clinical hypnosis has certified about 900 psychologists, only five of whom specialize in forensic hypnosis and assist in police work. federal courts and about a third of the state courts allow testimony of hypnotized individuals on a case-by-case basis. dr. william c. wester, a nationally recognized psychol

sychologists, only five of whom specialize in forensic hypnosis and assist in police work. federal courts and about a third of the state courts allow testimony of hypnotized individuals on a case-by-case basis. dr. william c. wester, a nationally recognized psychologist, has used hypnotism to assist victims and witnesses of crimes to remember the details of more than 150 cases. wester agrees that hypnosis is not magic, but maintains that it is an effective tool in police work. hypnosis doesn t always lead to an arrest, wester told janice morse of the cincinnati enquirer in 2002. but it almost always generates some additional investigative leads for the police to follow. since 1991, wester and john w. kilnapp, a special agent and forensic artist with the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firea

to describe minute details of the events, kilnapp works on a composite sketch of the perpetrator of the crime. while the team of artist and psychologist admitted that it was the police who solved the crimes, they estimated that in 95 percent of their cases, they helped expand a brief description of a suspect to fill several pages for investigators to use. the society for clinical and experimental hypnosis has stated that hypnosis should not stand alone as the sole medical or psychological treatment for any kind of disorder, but the society suggests that there is strong evidence that hypnosis may be an effective component in the broader treatment of many physical problems and in some conditions may increase the effectiveness of psychotherapy. while the clinical use of hypnosis has not becom

ent in the broader treatment of many physical problems and in some conditions may increase the effectiveness of psychotherapy. while the clinical use of hypnosis has not become an accepted means of treatment among medical personnel and psychologists, it has gained many scientific supporters and evolved greatly from its occult and superstitious roots. m delving deeper baker, robert a. they call it hypnosis. buffalo, n.y: prometheus books, 1990. bowers, kenneth. hypnosis for the seriously curious. new york: w. w. norton, 1983. carroll, robert todd. hypnosis. the skeptic s dictionary [online] http//skepdic.com/hypnosis.html. 18 november 2002. fromm, erika, and michael r. nash. contemporary hypnosis research. new york: guilford press, 1992. morse, janice. hypnosis proves valuable police tool

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s. avenel, n.j: gramercy books, 1981. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: pantheon books, 1960. spence, lewis. an encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. edgar cayce (1877.1945) according to many, edgar cayce was one of the greatest clairvoyants of all time. before his death at the age of 67 in 1945, the gseer of virginia beach h went under self-induced hypnosis twice per day and gave more than 30,000 trance readings.9,000 of them medical diagnoses. in his lifetime, cayce earned the gratitude of thousands of men, women, and children whose lives he had saved or improved through his diagnoses of illnesses that had escaped the examinations of highly trained medical personnel. always a controversial figure, cayce was derided by cynics who asked how a

past, as in recreating. exorcism the act, religious ceremony, or ritual of casting out evil spirits from a person or a place. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 284 glossary extraterrestrial something or someone originating or coming from beyond earth, outside of earth fs atmosphere. false memory refers to situations where some therapies and hypnosis may actually be planting memories through certain suggestions or leading questions and comments; thereby creating memories that the patient or client believes to be true, but in reality they are not. fanatical extreme enthusiasm, frenzy, or zeal about a particular belief, as in politics or religion. five pillars of islam in arabic, also called the arkan, and consists of the five sacred ri

d planets in the signs of the zodiac, at any given moment, but especially at the moment of one fs birth. hypnagogic relating to or being in the state between wakefulness and sleep where one is drowsy. from the french hypnagogique meaning literally leading to sleep. hypnopompic typical of or involving the state between sleeping and waking. coined from hypno and greek pompe, meaning a sending away. hypnosis the process of putting or being in a sleeplike state, although the person is not sleeping. it can be induced by suggestions or methods of a hypnotist. hypothesis a theory or assumption that needs further exploration, but which is used as a tentative explanation until further data confirms or denies it. from the greek hupothesis meaning foundation or base. ice age any of the periods of ext

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ght, repression was necessary in order for humanity to live within the bounds of civilization. human beings, according to freud, are motivated by vital animal instincts-primarily the sexual drive which he called the libido. other principal elements of psychology uncovered by freud were the ideas of the oedipus complex and infantile sexuality.8 freud's tools for exploring the human psyche included hypnosis, dream analysis, and a new techtuque that he termed "free association" the goal of freudian analysis was to release repressed memories and provide an increase in self-knowledge that would release trapped energies and result in a more satisfying existence for the patient. jung and spiritual psychology the works of swiss psychologist c. g. jung (1875-1961) can be seen as part of the apex of

es apollo and gaea. 1 collective unconscious figure 6: assagioli's model of the psyche. psychology and magic 127 7. the lower unconscious contains fundamental drives, primitive urges, inferior dreams, and complexes. this is the personal unconscious which is the storehouse of hidden memories, repressed psychic content, and the shadow personality. this part of the psyche is accessed by working with hypnosis, trance, and imagery. archetypes of the lower unconscious include all underworld deities, such as the sumerian goddess ereshkigal and the greek divinities hades and persephone. if we were to add anything to assagioli's model it would be the body, or manifest psyche, which must be considered in a holistic psychology. mind and body are interrelated extensions of one another. just as physica

can be, evolving to our fullest potential. various methods and tools are employed in psychosynthesis, just as they are in other transpersonal psychologies. in psychosynthesis, the focus is always on a holistic approach to treatment, and all techmques used are subservient to the health, well-being, and psychc integration of the individual. the keeping of a diary, dream analysis, free association, hypnosis, group analysis, psychodrama, relaxation, meditation, music therapy, autosuggestion, humor therapy, chromotherapy, disidentification, visualization, development of the will, utilization of the symbols and metaphors, transmutation and sublimation of sexual energies, and development of the irnagination are but a few of the methods used to obtain self-realization. one of the goals of psychos

e middle pillar exercise beforehand. keep in mind, however, that this should only be attempted by experienced practitioners. don't rush into becoming "a healer" without 238 theb alanceb etweenm ind and magic first becoming proficient in the various preliminary techniques of relaxation, the lbrp, and the middle pillar. magical methods of healing, like other forms of theurgy, involve a type of auto-hypnosis, wherein the magician is totally focused on the goal of the operation. it also employs the manipulation and movement of energies. usually, the healer extends energy to the recipient, where it works to remove psychic blockages, energy imbalances, or physical injuries/ illnesses. the healer must be able to manipulate the subtle bodies of two people-his or her own and that of the recipient

etweenm ind and magic higher self: a personification of the transcendent spiritual self that is said to reside in tiphareth and mediate between the divine self and the lower personality. sometimes referred to as the holy guardian angel, the lower genius, and the augoeides. higher unconscious: see superconscious. hod: hebrew word for "splendor" referring to the eighth sephirah on the tree of life. hypnosis: a sleeplike state usually induced by another person in which the subject may experience forgotten or suppressed memories, hallucinations, and heightened suggestibility. id: according to freud, an unconscious division of the psyche which functions as the origin of instinctual impulses and demands for instant gratification of primal needs. see nephesh. ida: a primary nadi which starts at l

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have given the same crazy advice to other ufo sighters, always with similar results. sometimes after watching an object their telephones will suddenly ring. and there will be no one on the line. or their doorbells will ring by themselves. obviously these things are manifestations within the electro-magnetic (em) spectrum. the voices, however, seem to come from a more mysterious superspectrum. in hypnosis there is a simple technique called post-hypnotic suggestion. the hypnotist can tell his subject that fifteen minutes after he comes out of bis trance he will suddenly feel an impulse to climb up on a chair and crow like a rooster. when the subject is brought out of his trance he behaves normally for fifteen minutes, then he suddenly climbs onto a chair and crows. he can't explain why he d

a road late at night. he hears a beeping sound and lapses into a trance. as if he had been preconditioned to lose consciousness at the sound of the beep. later, he awakes to the sound of another series of beeps. now he finds he is some distance from his original point and he's baffled about what happened in the intervening minutes or hours for he can't remember a thing. several variations of this hypnosis-inducing tactic occur. some witnesses see an approaching aerial object with numbers clearly marked on it. as they study the numbers they lapse into a trance. in some cases, ancient lettering like greek or chinese appears on the object. the effect is the same. months, even years, later the same percipient may again see the same numbers or letters on an object, or even on a set of license p

a boat (if the event occurs on a lake or river, a flying machine of unusual configuration, or an entity of some sort. what's really happening? the percipient is first entranced by the flickering light. from the moment he feels paralyzed he loses touch with reality and begins to hallucinate. the light remains a light, but his or her mind constructs something else. this can be compared with normal hypnosis (i have been an amateur hypnotist for many years) a hypnotized subject very often thinks he is fully conscious, that the hypnosis isn't working and he is just going along with the hypnotist, but when he tries to move or disobey a command he is surprised to find he can't. the paralysis reported in so many ufo cases is really a form of hypnosis. in the 1940s medical science discovered the f

port bow" in short, a light flickering at exactly the right frequency can place the witness in a hypnoticlike trance. he views this as paralysis since he loses control of his limbs for the duration of the trance even though a part of his mind remains conscious. he views the hallucinations of the trance as a continuation of the reality he was experiencing a moment before. like a normal subject of hypnosis, he loses his sense of time. time can be compressed or expanded, as in a dream. events which seem to span several hours are actually hallucinated in seconds or minutes, or the reverse can occur. when he comes out of his trance and looks at his watch he finds that hours have passed even though he thought he only watched the light for a few seconds. in a religious miracle such as that at ga

conversation, jane's telephone was ringing madly. each time i picked it up there was no one on the line. finally i just left it off the hook. the session ended abruptly when jane woke up by herself. another impossibility. she would have required a suggestion from me before she could awake] in comparing notes with psychic investigator-author brad steiger, he told me he had similar experiences with hypnosis; that is, the control was taken out of his hands by some other intelligence- the predicted plane crashes occurred right on schedule. i was slowly convincing myself that the entities were somehow tuned to the future. i was making other startling discoveries. i had only to think of a serious question and my phone would ring and jane would deliver a message from apol answering it other ufolo

THE STAR IN THE WEST BY CAPTAIN FULLER A CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

s to say. if such be the case why is it that the greatest sages of all times have been able to attract within their focus so many hundreds of millions of rational beings? they themselves being only irrational and pathological mystagogues. if such men as krishna, mahomet, st. augustine, moses, orpheus, pythagoras, buddha, plato, jesus, and a host of equal and lesser names, owed their power to self-hypnosis, then indeed self-hypnosis is the key which in this world will unlock the fast closed corridor of its mysteries. crowley strongly attacks this kitchen-knavery: you weary me with proof enough that all this meditation stuff is self-hypnosis. be it so! do you suppose i did not know? still, to be accurate, i fear the symptoms are entirely strange. if i were hard, i fd make it clear that criti

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a connected whole, and this itself is very useful in magic. it is important that the magus believe with complete confidence that the color he or she is using for a symbol is the right one; therefore, the magus should feel free to disregard any system the moment it seems awkward or unsound. p sychic imagery is sometimes dismissed with the assertion that it is no more than self-deception, a kind of hypnosis that can take on a drug-like attrac- tion for weak, hysterical minds, critics observe that when adepts claim to visit the psychic, or astral, realm, outwardly they close their eyes and slip into a kind of trance, their physical bodies traveling nowhere. from this they conclude that psychic travel is the same as daydreaming. this account given by abraham the jew in the book of the sacred m

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o fly involuntarily shared their astral vision. the ability to see the astral world overlapping the physical world can be contagious, and can be passed through a group of onlookers. it almost seems that the strong belief of the shaman or witch in the reality of the event is able to transform the perception of others who are present, causing them to believe in the experience. it is a kind of group hypnosis, for want of a better term, that takes place under unusual and infrequent conditions. one person seeing a ufo can sometimes pass that conviction on to others present, so that others think they see it also, even when it does not physically exist. similarly, one person witnessing a miracle can convey to others by the strength of faith the ability to see the same miracle. perhaps as a delibe

so makes it convenient to experiment with the projection of the astral double just before going to sleep at night, but this practice has its disadvantage, in that sleep usually comes before useful work can be done. the golden dawn preferred the sitting posture and employed it with good success. most people find that they do not fall out of their chairs, as might be expected. this is also true for hypnosis-hypnotized subjects rarely fall from their chairs. the body automatically maintains its balance. my own recommendation is that experiments of projection be done lying on top of a bed. you may, if you wish, practice while seated, but better results are usually gained by those who lie on their backs. i do not recommend that you practice while in bed under the covers, as a general rule, only

s head, he could see nothing of the crystal, or at most its dim outline in whatever trace of light may have filtered through the cloth. my mother, who often watched her father scry when she was a little girl, assures me that he could not see even a trace of the crystal ball under the cloth. this would seem to inconvenience the popular scientific theory that the crystal ball works by inducing self-hypnosis through prolonged staring at reflections of light in its shiny surface. my grandfather saw no reflections of light. he held the crystal in his mind 190 soul flight as well as beneath his hands, and any brightness it possessed existed only on the astral level, since to his physical eyes it remained invisible in the darkness. my grandfather's crystal globe was not crystal at all, but was ma

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

if you count the reports of the so-called 'foo fighters' seen by pilots on both sides during world war ii. but within the past 20 years we've been hearing more about a more frightening side to these visitations- abduction by aliens "the most famous case was that of barney and betty hill, two new englanders returning home from vacation and unable to account for a large block of missing time. under hypnosis, a very frightening and detailed account of alien abduction emerged. later there was betty andreason, who told of aliens who took her through walls and closed doors "then came budd hopkins, who made a study of such abductions and chronicled one case in 'intruders-the incredible visitations at copely woods' next came the 'gulf breeze sightings' in florida, and most recently author whitley

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