Awakening Your Psychic Powers: Open Your Inner Mind And Control Your Psychic Intuition Today (Edgar Cayce Guides) by Henry Reed

Author:Henry Reed [Reed, Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1996-06-14T22:00:00+00:00

HYPNOSIS AND PSYCHIC PHENOMENA

Hypnotic induction through telepathy is a little-known phenomenon now. In the late 1800s, however, it was a subject of much discussion, especially in France, where it was called “lucid sleep.” It was considered sleep because the normal personality vanished and later had no memory for what transpired. It was called lucid because the hypnotized person was capable of talking, walking about, and engaging in normal behaviors. Yet this lucid sleep had some other strange characteristics, which ultimately led to the “discovery” of the subconscious and superconscious mind. Most important was the discovery that subconscious minds seem to be in telepathic contact with one another.

Hypnotic suggestions do not need to be delivered verbally to the person in lucid sleep. One of the early French investigators, Puységur, demonstrated this by thinking of the lyrics of a song. The person in trance would simultaneously sing them. In his demonstrations, he could help one of the observers get en rapport with the hypnotized subject, and then this observer could get the subject to perform actions simply by visualizing the desired action. Later researchers discovered similar phenomena, dubbed “the community of sensation.” Two people were placed en rapport by having one hypnotize the other. When a substance such as an orange peel was placed in the mouth of the hypnotizer, the hypnotized subject experienced the taste. When the hypnotizer was pinched, the hypnotized subject cried, “Ouch!”

Other French researchers discovered that the entire hypnotic procedure could be accomplished through telepathic rapport. A notable case was that of Madame Léonie, who was the subject of much investigation. Dr. Pierre Janet, the noted hypnosis researcher, would mentally “send” a suggestion to Léonie that she fall into trance and perform some act. Observers dispatched to her house peered into the windows and watched. She was seen to fall asleep while in the sitting room; in one case, she suddenly got dressed and emerged from the house and went over to Dr. Janet’s house, but with no understanding of what she was doing there at that time of night.

Lucid sleep also evidenced clairvoyant ability. In early research, the hypnotized subject could be blindfolded and yet read words and perform other such “seeing” tasks. Soon this “eyeless vision” was found to function over great distances. Hypnotized subjects could find lost objects and describe events occurring at remote locations. Some of these subjects became employed to perform these tasks, including locating lost children. This ability was termed “traveling clairvoyance.” There seemed to be no limits to this supersensory power. It became commonplace to assume that a good hypnotized subject could read an object belonging to a patient and perform a medical diagnosis, prescribe a treatment, and in some cases telepathically heal the person of the malady. There were doctors who used the assistance of clairvoyant subjects to aid in the diagnosis of their patients. In this Golden Age of hypnosis, Cayce’s psychic abilities in trance would have seemed almost normal.

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