Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy can produce a light trance - useful in obtaining past perceptions, to a deeper trance useful in obtaining well buried perceptions you need to confront, and then on to even deeper trances used in healing and anaesthesia. A hypnotist entertains, but a hypnotherapist heals and it is healing we seek, which means the person must be trusted and known to you. The website entry for this activity - https://allaboutheaven.org/suppression/hypnotherapy/124/main provides numerous methods of hypnosis many of them invented by Milton Erickson , who is also on the site. Hypnotherapy provides almost complete suppression of any intellectual activity or input, as well as removal of threats and obligations.

The real disadvantage and the danger is that it works just a little too well. Michael Nash in Scientific American when writing about the ‘The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis’ found that using hypnosis, scientists have temporarily created compulsions, certain types of memory loss, false memories, and delusions in the laboratory.

According to a Dr Hartland, in 1971, a patient who was terrified to go into the street because of the traffic was once told by a hypnotist that when she left his room, she would no longer bother about the traffic and would be able to cross the road without the slightest fear. She obeyed his instructions so literally that she ended up in a hospital.