XLV Why Counting Down?

One could speculate, counting down is doing things backward, though, back when I thought hypnosis demonic, this was not one of my arguments.

There are two reasons which are in and of themselves not demonic.

First, entering the hypnotic state is scaling down attentions and tensions. And going to numbers that are fewer and fewer mirrors this.

The other is, whether you use hypnosis to get some relief from stress or fatigue, or you are trying a therapy to change your behaviour - or both combined - you will sooner or later have to try to do hypnosis with no external hypnotist, so called autohypnosis.

What does the counting downwards have to do with this?

There is one degree of confusion where you forget you were counting, and a somewhat lesser one, where you forget what number you were at ... and here it doesn't much matter which way you are counting. But at an even lesser one, you could be aware you are counting and aware where you are, and yet forget where you were supposed to stop. Counting from the total down to one helps with this.

Obviously, in the case of stress relief, the more confused you are (for the moments) the better, since the deeper hypnosis. But the confusion won't remain that deep, unless you do sth to get deeper or remain in trance, you will be gliding soon up from trance (sooner or later, depending on fatigue or prior habit), and this means, you will also be back at where you can do the counting.

In the case of hypnotic affirmations, it is obviously equally useful to start from the total number, if the number is anywhere important (like 21 times).

So, I'll stand against superstitious views (including my past own ones) of hypnosis as demonic, and consider it in and of itself as licit, provided the goal is licit.

The alternative would be to have a kind of rosary, as with the rosary prayer./HGL

XLIV Self Hypnosis Table

577		344		200		111		56		22		1
576		343		199		110		55		21
575		342		198		109		54		20
573		340		196		107		52		18
570		337		193		104		49		15
565		332		188		99		44		10
557		324		180		91		36		2
544		311		167		78		23
523		290		146		57
489		256		112
434		201
345

Follow the columns up to down, taking a deep breath between each number.

Use the text as long as necessary, when you know it by heart, you can close the eyes when you feel like it - or the eyelids can, when they feel like it./HGL

XLIII A Hypno Memory

I was teased and even bullied in seventh or eighth grade, but not by everyone.

There was a girl who didn't bully.

But one day, she considered a certain tease would be OK. A hypnotic one.

Here "look at my finger, follow my finger with your eye, answer me without thinking" ...

She posed question after question, sometimes pushing me back to answering quickly without thinking, and to following the finger, not looking at her but her finger as it waved back and forth as a metronome.

And last question, "what is one times one" while suddenly showing two fingers, waving like a metronome.

I automatically answered "two" - and she triumphantly said "you were hypnotised."

XLII Hypnosis in the Inklings

I am not dealing with Charles Williams or Owen Barfield. I am dealing with the works of the two main ones, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Narnia, by CSL:

• Wood between the worlds - Digory and Polly are obviously in a hypnotic state (just from being there) and have to struggle to get out;
• Digory pretended to feel hypnotised by the injunction at the bell and the hammer;
• Doctor Cornelius would have been very inept as a magician if he had not been able to cast as sleeping spell;
• The Lady of the Green Kirtle, for years, abuses hypnosis on Rilian, and for some minutes succeeds in doing so to the rescuers as well - until Puddleglum breaks the spell by making a scene;
• Tirian is a hunter who knows how to set his inner clock for waking up at a specific time - a species of self hypnosis.

Silmarillion and related, JRRT:

• Melian kind of hyponotises Elwe (Elu Thingol) for quite a long time;
• Luthien hypnotises guards, Beren, Sauron and Morgoth;
• Glaurung hypnotises - abusively - Turin, whose father may have been kind of hypnotised as well by Morgoth into seeing things a certain way.

LotR:

• Hobbits hypnotised by old man willow and by the barrow downs into lying down to sleep at the wrong moment;
• Tom Bombadil does a nice work of "refreshed after hypnosis" suggestions to wake them up.

It is fairly certain that they knew very well what hypnosis was, and perhaps someone of them or both, or another Inkling resorted to it./HGL

PS, forgot Legolas' self hypnosis allowing him to rest while awake, and obviously the druadan had a similar technique./HGL

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.

XL - More Secret Subject

Good while watching, good to revisit in memory, as I note in the "it can be added" extra comments below:

Naughty and Nice Resistance Challenge (Hypnotic Resistance Induction)
The Secret Subject | 10.VIII.2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy-CD4mId6g

I did follow on to 1 and the eyelids fluttered after "you should know I always win my games" ... it was relaxing, that can not be denied, and I did not manage to count along with you.

It can be added, when counting down from hundred next two evenings when going to sleep, "I was in" this video, and it was very calming.

Counting Fractionation File (Hypnosis Countdown)
The Secret Subject | 24.VII.2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKsdw6NSSmQ

Not bad at all.

Came to it from other counting file, 100 to 1, and didn't close eyes much, but definitely needed the relaxation and refreshment.

Thank you!

Nice for a library with head phones. Even if others are looking!

It can be added, when waking up this night, this helped to get back to sleep quickly.

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