XXXIX - What am I Risking?

If hypnosis is always mortally sinful, which I do not think it is, Hell.

If it is not always but sometimes mortally sinful, which it is would partly depend on what I am risking on earth.

So, am I risking unchastity? Partly, but not more than otherwise when not married. I just went to a third hypno video where the "hypno mistress" after a few seconds or half a minute of pre-talk asked "when was the last time you thought about masturbation" ... well, that was when I turned that video off.

There are more than one thing which can make me sufficiently relaxed or sufficiently irritated to actually fall into that sin, and hypnosis being one of the ones making me relaxed would be a danger, but usually only after as long as would one way or the other drive me to that sin again, as long as I am unmarried. I do not chose the hypnosis videos which would directly tend to arouse me.

Next question, am I risking being controlled by someone against my own will?

My situation features quite a few attempts of controlling me, specifically of preventing me from doing what I try to do. I do not intend to add an abusive relation to a hypnotist to the controls, and in that sense, going to hypnosis videos is an asset, since a video that is meant for millions of people to view over the internet cannot afford to be too abusive.

If they are, they can be taken off the net. And often I go only to videos, where the video has been online long, or with channels that have been online long, and are run by certified hypnotists, one way or the other.

They very well know they can't afford to give a post-hypnotic suggestion which would make drivers fall asleep while running 100 mph on the highway or even moderately close to that kind of mishap. I risk less than I would at a stage hypnosis this way.

Third, there is the question of going so deep one risks a cardial failure or sth like that. Well, I mentioned many of the videos are by certified hypnotists.

I can (not from this computer, but will add at next session*) show a lady getting hypnotist all the way down the Aron scale. She was, safely, in the presence of a certified hypnotist. Even at the deepest level of hypnotic blindness or negative hallucination, she would be "in his hands". Obviously, a certified hypnotist doing things through a video would not try to get one as deep as that and when watching those that are online, I am not risking the levels of negative or even positive, eyes open, hallucination.

One thing I would not risk is getting a hypnotherapy under someone who is not a Catholic and who would regard my religion as so much neurosis and try to get me out of it. Or would I risk that? I would not accept that as a set goal, and I would not even accept a hypnotherapy qua therapy. But as I have anyway a need for quick restoration of the rest that lost sleep (from many external factors) deprives me from, if a pretty girl studying psychology were to offer power nap sessions and ask "analysis" (as investigation) in return, I might even consider that, as some guys seem totally incapable of believing I am honest about what I believe and value and why I do so when answering in a wide awake state.

But I think it would be safer not to, as such a relation would arguably detract from the emotional energy needed to be in love with someone I am seriously trying to marry. Meanwhile, if purely recreational hypnosis is sinful, in the sense of when it's purely for fun, in my case I need the power naps.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Bpi, Georges Pompidou
II Lord's Day of Lent
8.III.2020

* I am now at next session, on another computer. Here is the video I meant:

Elman Induction/Depth Testing with Female Subject
Sanders Hypnosis Center of Maryland | 20.XI.2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kHVAu2t0zo