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

XIX Personal Hypno Dictionary

This little hypno-dictionary does not claim to be exhaustive, but to reflect the usage I have made and will make of certain words, which may not be commonly known outside hypnotic expertise and amateurs. Whatever might be wrong is my misunderstanding, but at least if I misunderstood a term, with this dictionary, one will not need to misunderstand my misunderstandings.

alpha state

See trance.

count-down

A number is chosen from which numbers are counted down to one. Since ine is a non-arbitrary limit, this gives an impression of necessity to what is intended to be achieved:

• into trance
• into sleep
• out of trance (along with appropriate suggestions)

If instead a count-up is chosen, the number one will reach must be told in advance for same effect. Unless it is going to sleep (counting sheep would be an indeterminate count-up).

expectation

The strength of suggestions to alter a state of mind depends at least to some degree on expectation.

This is true when suggestions are used in induction, or when they are used afterwards (deepening of trance, post-hypnotc, therapeutic, etc).

eye-lid glue

Mental image if impossibility in the present of opening your eyes along with a degree of relxation at which the eye-lids cannot in fact be opened - without spoiling at least some of the relaxation.

Verifying the eye-lid glue means subject / self trying to open eye-lids and either feeling a complete block ("excellent eye-lid glue") or at least more effort than usual while awake - or, if just opening eye-lids, one can speak of no eye-lid glue at all.

hypno glue, hypno magnet

See eye-lid glue, but not always for just eye-lids (with "magnets" more like hands, fingers).

hypno glutton

Glutton of alpha state or of trance, due to its being pleasant.

In extreme cases, one could speak of hypno junkie.

hypno video

• A video meant as an induction or series of suggestions in order to hypnotise viewer:
  
  
• or, a video featuring someone getting hypnotised.

The latter can strengthen the expectation (q. v.) part, and empathy with subject involves, esp. in induction (q. v.) a kind of "collateral hypnosis".

induction

Passive or self active process of reaching trance.

Active or self active process of putting a subject other than self or oneself into trance.

May make use of suggestions (q. v.) of hypno glue, especially initially eye-lid glue, and of countdowns and stepdowns.

self, subject

In auto-hypnosis, self is both hypnotist and subject, in hetero-hypnosis hypnotist is putting subject into trance.

step-down

When a count-down is combined with mental image (eyes closed) stepping down in stairs or on a ladder or whatever.

suggestion

A word meant to help induction or to be "received" while in trance.

In the case of hypno videos, you can check beforehand (sound off, image scrolled up so only subtitles show, frequent stopping) what the suggestions are and therefore make an enlightened choice on whether to watch the hypno video or not.

trance

State of consciousness focussed on something and lessening awareness of surroundings, which on an electro-encephalogram (electrodes measuring brain waves, which in nature are among perhaps other things, electric or electromagnetic) would show as a pattern of waves called alpha-waves, sometimes deeper trance involves other patterns for instance I think theta waves (checked : hippocampal theta waves occur while running or in REM sleep) : it means the electric currents run at different frequencies in your brain from "normal", neither like wide awake nor like deep sleep, but closer to (for theta waves identic to) REM sleep. The alpha state is generally present between the full REM sleep when you dream and the full wakening and is helpful in recalling your dream (?).

The states of trance is at least lightly touched when reading a book or in prayer, due to repetitive traits of these actions, and due to focussing on sth which is felt worth focussing on.

It is usually also present right before falling asleep.

visualisation

Any mental image, these are usually stronger and closer to full sensory clarity when in trance.

Step-downs, eye-lid glue and other hypno magnets are visualisations, but not the only ones.

q. v.

Quod vide. Means : which look up / go and look it up.