Theos-Talk Archives (December 1995 Message tl00532)

>Bee
I was taught from theosophy -scratch that hypnotism wasn't good for you. The
whole thrust of Theosophy is to develop your will intelligence bodies &
etc. & if you give power over yourself to any outside entity live human
dead human or other you're not building up yourself spiritually. As long
as you came near the subject this goes for most channeling too. What I use
as touchstone is that anything that tires you out is sapping your energies &
not good for you. We once had a psychic woman as member of our Study Center.
I noticed that I got tired whenever I talked to her for a while. To me that
indicated that she was pulling on my energy to do her thing. So I tried to
stay away from her.

Liesel

Hi all
>I came across this idea in de Purucker's Studies in Occult Philosophy and I
>would appreciate some comments on it.
>
>"Hypnotic practice is almost always bad because it weakens the will of the
>subject instead of evoking the will from within outwards into action thus
>building up a structure of inner life and power. Every repetition of
>hypnosis renders the subject still more flabby still more negative still
>weaker etc."
>"Auto-hypnosis or self-hypnosis where the subject hypnotizes himself or
>herself by various means known for ages past such as staring at a spot or a
>bright light or a piece of crystal or glass or even looking at the tip of
>the nose concentratedly or at the navel: all those things which are so well
>known are emphatically not good because they mean using the will by the
>subject himself to send his higher will upwards and out of the picture and
>induce in the lower part of the constitution a false tranquillity or quiet
>by what is almost mechanical means. In other words the nerves instead of
>being roused into clean wholesome healthy activity upon which the inner will
>can work are put to sleep hypnotized which means sending to sleep and
>the brain and nervous system sink below the threshold of ordinary
>consciousness into the vibrational rates of the glass or other object stared
>at. Quiet is induced but it is the quiet of death of the mineral kingdom."
>
>I have done this myself when first I began to meditate and I know of many
>people who use something external to concentrate on in meditation. From the
>above it would suggest that it is not the thing to do. Interesting thought.
>
>Bee Brown
>Member Theosophy International
>