Hypnosis

DRAFT.
FOR I AM EXHAUSTED AND MUST REST.
People are so proud of their hypnosis certifications and practices..
There are enough spells over people.
In youth, just as I did not like the results of intoxicants on adults,
 I did not like hypnosis when I heard of it.

I have more to express on this if ever I must.
On Mesmer and Sigmund too.

Some years ago I read that Paramahansa Yogananda also had something to say on hypnosis.
(Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda)
I was happy to read that little bit in his book.



https://www.indiadivine.org/content/topic/2169158-hypnotism-hypnosis-by-paramahansa-yogananda-swami-vivekananda-hp-blavatsky/

Hypnotism has been used by physicians in minor operations as a sort of psychical chloroform for persons who might be endangered by an aesthetic. But a hypnotic state is harmful to those often subjected to it; a negative psychological effect ensues that in time deranges the brain cells. Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization. (Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda)

Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda mentions hypnosis in his commentaries, "think of the mind like a team of wild horses, and rather than controlling them through muscular strength and taking hold of the reins, you ask another to hit them on the head to stun them into a submissive state for a short period of time. Each time another stuns the horses into submission the person loses an amount of their own mental energy. From continued regular sessions of hypnosis from another person, entering into this docile state, instead of gaining power and better control, the mind can become a shapeless powerless mass eventually leading to the mental asylum