XLI - Catholicism and Hypnosis

Is Hypnosis Evil? w/ Dr. Gerry Crete
26th of June 2021 | Pints With Aquinas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNn0IYtLfWw

1:57 "if you feel safe with the person, it should be fine"

Thank you very much.

In other words, if I take hypnosis for relaxation, through videos with labels like "power nap", "fractionation for calmness" and things like that, and avoid "past life regression", "slave hypnosis" and anything that's either directly superstitious or demeaning of the own liberty, and also avoid erotic hypnosis setting out to be such, I should be safe.

Now, Gerry Crete is not a theologian, but a Sedevacantist - who obviously doesn't trust decisions from residents of the Vatican after 1958 - took the trouble to find out the first decree of the relevant dicasterium, and it was, twofold:

• hypnosis is a physical / natural means and trying to achieve natural results with it is (with due cautions) licit
• trying to achieve strictly supernatural things by hypnosis is however a horrid superstition.

In other words - a power nap or quitting smoking or speaking to people with more confidence : licit ends. And for these, hypnosis is licit means. Peeping into a supposed previous life in your supposed cycle of reincarnations - superstitious and illicit.

"I think if you are doing hypnosis by yourself, I would worry about that"

Not what the dicasterium said back in 1800's and somewhat interested in the sense that he's a t h e r a p i s t and therefore interested in getting people to them.