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OneX2 -> The Left Hand of Slavery-The Nature of Hypnosis (4/4/2006 7:54:22 PM)
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I have just been asked “What is Hypnosis?”
I think many people really have a good idea what it is. It is more or less stereotyped. Let's look at the nature of hypnosis. That I believe will clarify the question more and open the door to more discussion as well as discovering how each and every one of us touch on this every day.
The mind is a amazingly powerful and influential thing. It creates and connect us to everything around us on the basis of what is perceived and that which is not. Somehow these masses of chaotic impulses and perceptions assemble into something tangible called "reality." Now, in the process of rendering this reality, the mind makes some assumptions: color, shape, movement, all the different properties of an object and assembles it for you to see, touch, smell, hear, etc. Your mind is always process these sub modalities.
Now we get into hypnosis. Let's make a dogmatically presumptive hypothesis that all conceptions of reality are gained by empirical objects as they are originally and by nature. (This has been gone over in many major philosophical works and should not need rehashing here.)
Hypnosis attempts to change your conception of reality on a subconscious level by learning externally and internally the way your mind perceives a certain thing. In effect, this opens a gateway to the nature your brain, your reality, -- anything you choose. You won’t get answers to every question, but the questions we ask certainly change what answers we get. It certainly changes the actions we will take. Your physiology, political views, dietary habits, relations, emotions, and anything else, are created directly and indirectly from external/internal objects, responses, thoughts, etc. You, as you know yourself in a physical sense, are an external object. We are tangible representations of the intangible. No one knows anything, truly, in it's natural, pure sense.
Most people think Hitler was a bad person. What do you feel when you see Hitler speak? Is it indignation, fear, anger? Nature doesn't intend for the voice and appearance of Hitler to be felt in this way. It is not his voice or opinion that angers you, but the conceptions you have formed about him in your mind. Someone convinced you, most likely when you took history class, that Hitler was an evil person.
What if someone could do the same with, say, transgendered people. If someone, a hypnotist, could through rigorous conditioning make a male perception into a female one. Take the anger you may feel in a situation, and turn that into a sensation. Turn the perception, the sensation, of one's chest into the sight of breasts. Turn the mirror image of a male body into a female one. In the same way, if a man were color blind and believed that he saw a red object, but that object was not red, his mind would be telling him, albeit incorrectly, that he is seeing a red object. On the other hand, a man who completely, unaware of the nature of things, believed that he was a really a female, would undoubtedly perceive himself fully as a female. I think this also explains the "woman stuck in a man's body" and vice versa syndromes.
The most powerful mind altering substance on the planet is human experience. Synthesized directly in the brain. If hypnosis hasn't worked for you, it's not because hypnosis is flawed, but because you haven't done it correctly.
Joseph
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