One thing that popped out of all my research was the fact that the phenomenon and practice of hypnosis is essential for understanding the movement. Its origins are in the work of Franz Mesmer, in the late 1700s. He theorized that there was an energy in the body (which he initially called “animal magnetism”). A medical doctor, he pursued treatments using magnets positioned near the body, to influence and correct the flow of energy in the body. As his practice progressed, he found that THE RAPPORT WITH THE PATIENT was key, THEIR BELIEF in the cure was key, and no magnets needed be involved. Even the therapist’s hands near the body were not needed. The word “hypnosis” was introduced by one of his followers (de Puysegur), who described patients as being in “a sleeping trance.” Essentially, the treatment entailed a GUIDED TRANCE STATE. In modern times, hypnosis has led to thousands of practitioners who have uncovered zillions of accounts of “hidden realities.”
Many books have been written by presenting material from hypnosis sessions, often verbatim. For example, Dolores Cannon, Michael Newton, Mary Rodwell, Brian Weiss, Helen Wambach, Raymond Moody. (In my book, page 322 ff.) Dolores Cannon developed her own method, called Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique℠ (QHHT®). See https://dolorescannon.com/about-qhht/ Now, you can watch an actual hypnosis session. ALBA WEINMAN has a YouTube Channel where she and her clients share a session almost every week. (She states that her method is not purely QHHT.) Here is a session DURING WHICH THE SPIRIT OF DOLORES CANNON SPEAKS thru the client!
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Pythia was the mouthpiece of the god Apollo, in classical Greece. Various women served as Pythia, priestesses in the temple. Pythia sat on a tripod, in an ecstatic trance state. It is speculated that there were vapors coming up from a chasm in the rock beneath her, that caused the frenzied state. The Oracle at Delphi was a powerful religious institution from the 8th Century B.C. until the late 4th Century A.D. Many leaders travelled far to visit her for prophesies and answers to their questions. Her answers were often in the form of poetic metaphor and had to be interpreted. Here is an illustration by Manning de V. Lee in 1929. Two modern oracles are on YouTube today. They are not sitting on a podium over any vapors coming up from below. STERLING PSYCHIC MEDIUM receives his questions on the Community page of his Channel, and then goes over them (30-50!!) in about an hour’s video, usually on Sundays. He handles political and spiritual questions, advised immediately by his guides and extraterrestrials. There are no divining tools. Very cordial, matter-of-fact, and no metaphorical talk that needs to be “translated.” He also offers individual readings via his website. I will call him “The Oracle of Sterling.” Another immediate oracle is CASH PETERS, also on YouTube. He does a lot of political questions, and receives answers in the form of crude sketches. They are highly metaphorical: paths, hills, caves, fields of glass, dark clouds on the horizon. He interprets his sketches. He does not claim prophesy—how things will turn out—but rather tells the current environment around a political individual, or a pair posed next to each other. He also does “transition pictures”—“going into the energy” of famous people recently departed, as they first arrive to “the tunnel to the light.” He is a former journalist and very expressive and entertaining. Here is LILY DALE, founded in 1879 as an adult spiritualist summer camp.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lily-dale-spiritualist-community Summer spiritualist camps were very popular at the end of the 19th century, because death was prominent (Civil War, WW I). Overwhelming grief in many families. This current, rural community in upstate New York has about 250 residents, of whom 36 are registered mediums. They offer daily and weekly services during the summer only. However, the registered mediums are able to give readings all over the world using Zoom. In my book, I tell you that John E. Fetzer’s first encounter (in early 1900s) with the paranormal was via spiritualism. His Christian mother “confessed” that she had “yielded to temptation” and gotten a reading, during which she “talked” to her deceased husband. Fetzer and his wife then visited Camp Chesterfield, a spiritualist summer community like Lily Dale, and they were hooked. Fetzer went on to create the John E. Fetzer Foundation/Institute to research the science of spirituality and to seek to reconcile science and religion. His biographer says: “Fetzer’s intellectual trajectory hit nearly every mark on the road to the New Age.” (The book is very cheap, supplemented by the Foundation. 2018) A flurry of best sellers in the last 70 years knocked our mind-socks off. You may have been "hit" by one of these. If any are new to you, dive in. (Yes, I've mixed metaphors here, but the message is GO THERE AND BE AMAZED.
You may be shocked at all the things that are under the umbrella. Do they all go together? Yes, they do, in deep ways. Their "conjunction" and "confluence" is a mystery that many thinkers are addressing. This is the BIG PICTURE.
Paul Brunton took a trip to India in 1930 and then wrote: A Search In Secret India. The popular book introduced Yogis, Yoga, Meditation, and Gurus to the West in a way they could digest—through an adventure story. It followed on the adventure stories of David-Neel, on Tibetan Buddhism. Brunton later worked on a “perennial philosophy” that integrated East and West. A number of explorers sought out the mysteries of the East, especially India and Tibet. Alexandra David-Neel stole into Tibet when it was closed, bypassing British, Chinese, and Tibetan authorities. She brought out manuscripts and wrote 30 books about Tibetan Buddhism. They were voraciously received. Her Journey to Lhasa is considered one of the best adventure stories of the last 100 years, according to Outside Magazine. |
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