How To Hypnotize Through MentalismContinuing on from our previous chapter on the real way to hypnotize someone - Excerpt:
Words are of little value to explain the condi- tion of a "hypnotized" subject or "normal" man. I shall try to draw a sight picture to make you comprehend. You have seen a typewriter. On the keyboard is a pin marked "G" ; fastened (asso- ciated) to that is a lever, to that, two more. On the end of the last is the type "G." When the pin with the letter "G" marked on it is touched, three actions take place, and "G" is reproduced on the paper on the cylinder of the machine. (Analyze the action of lifting or taking hold of an object.) Until those three levers are properly fitted (associ- ated), it will be impossible to get an impression on the paper by striking "G," but the moment that they are properly associated, every time you strike "G," "G" is reproduced on the paper and nothing else can be. "G" equals the energy exerted (sug- gestion) on the pin "G." If we hit a space on the keyboard that has no lettercap, there is no response on the paper. Man is like a typewriter ; when we hit the cap of a letter that has the proper actions associated, there is a response on the paper ; when we offer him and he receives (he don't receive), a suggestion of which he has no associated ideas, there is no response because there is no action to respond. This is the key to hypnotize someone.
A hypnotized subject does not hear me, cerebrally. He only responds to me. A "normal" man both hears and responds. The consciousness of realiza- tion of seeing, hearing, et cetera, is only in the cerebrum. The brain that retains the impressions and responds, is the Abdominal Brain — the Sympa- thetic System.
As a hypnotized subject is but as the keyboard of a typewriter, played on by and through his aroused memory of environment, so also must man be played on by and respond to his actual environ- ment. In inspiring subjects with any condition, if we fail to emphasize or draw particular attention to less than two senses, the effect will be un- satisfactory.
Among the masses there has been a great objec- tion offered to my work, inasmuch as the people remark that they could not tell if Santanelli's sub- jects were hypnotized except by seeing them doing things that they knew would not have been done were they not hypnotized. Whereas, with all other operators they could see that the subjects were hypnotized because their faces and eyes showed it. Why? A comprehensive thought must express itself in the face and eye — a compre- hensive and intelligent expression ; but where the subject lacks a comprehensive thought he has that "dopy," hypnotized (?) expression. Being a master of suggestion and thoroughly understand- ing how to build. I make my subjects thoroughly "normal," subservient to their pictures. When they had the thought of "fly" it was so definite, all sense-pictures having been emphasized (aroused), that the man or the subject was in identically the same position or condition of "mind" that he was when an actual fly was on his nose. The secret is this: The other operators tell the subject that when he wakes up, equaling my "When you open your eyes," he would find a fly on his nose ; some- thing very indefinite. "Normally," how would you know there was a fly on your nose? You would feel it. Is that enough ? No. It might be a mosquito, it might be an ant, it might be a wasp. You look at it and then you know that it is a fly, and by-the-by, let me state here that man knows nothing, but believes much; for if the senses are im- perfect, what he knows, he doesn't know. I say to a subject, "When you open your eyes you will see a fly on the end of your nose," covering two senses, the object itself (sight) and the place (feel- ing) which is irritated ; "you will feel it bite and cannot brush it away." Now, I have covered three ( ?) senses : The subject first feels the fly on the end of his nose, he sees it to be a fly, and he feels very comprehensively its irritation. Hence, he has no doubt. Could his "mind" be more ac- tive, could he be more positive if he were "nor- mal?" No. "Dopy" subjects are the result of improper inspiration. If you say to a subject, "When you open your eyes you will find the chair is hot," that is very indefinite. But if you say to the subject, "When you open your eyes you will feel the chair you are seated on is red hot," he will get out quick. In the lesson I told you that if you left out your "and's," "as's" and "but's," you would fail to get a good inspiration.
There are some ideas or thoughts which cannot be correlated or associated. If you tell a subject he cannot let go a cane, it necessarily follows he must hold on to it ; hence, cannot drop it. If you tell him it is red hot he will drop it, because it is against nature (?); i. e., experience, to grasp a red hot object, and not be able to drop it. If you tell him that he cannot let go the cane and it is getting warmer, hotter, you can produce an effect up to a certain degree ; there will be a certain contraction of the muscles and a certain expression of pain in the face, but the moment that you make the heat dominant he will drop the cane every time if he is a man of ordinarily good correlation. If you have a thick-headed subject, there is no telling what the result will be. Man is wonderfully compounded and you will meet combinations some days that no man could build a philosophy on. The exceptions to the foregoing are the isolated cases where the subject has never experienced being severely burned. Perhaps dulled nerve-ends. (See De- generates, pages 15 and 159.)
I unhesitatingly assert that I (which also includes my pupils) am the only operator who ever dis- missed his subjects actually awake. If hypnosis is the thought of sleep, the antithesis to that must be the thought of being awake, and when we tell the subject he is awake he has the thought of being awake, just the same as we tell him there is a fly on his nose. The snapping of the fingers is of no value. To awaken, we must startle him, and if he is awakened properly, a post-hypnotic ( ?) sugges- tion is an impossibility. So I reiterate that any inspiration given in ''hypnosis" can only take place in "hypnosis" never minding what the quasi "au- thorities" tell us. Which if of course, is the way in which we can hypnotize someone easily.
If the subject has never been led into and pain hypnosis it is impossible to hypnotize him the first time if he is suffering from the headache, inasmuch as No. i, "Easy position," cannot be acquired; the suggestion of pain forces a thought which cannot be faded away through the eye, and no thought offered in substitution is forceful enough to over- come it. But if he has learned how to take on hypnosis, it can be done so quickly that if the thought of pain is not too severe, it can be readily overcome. If the pain be extremely severe, hyp- nosis cannot be induced. I tell the subject that when he opens his eyes he will have no headache and be wide-awake, and he is now in the condition of believing himself to be awake with an idea of "no headache" — awake as in a looking-glass — but if he were actually awake, the cause that produced the headache, being still present, would get its natural response and he would feel the headache. Waking Therefore, it can be readily seen that the subject is
state not himself truly. Yet, having the thought of
being awake, he necessarily has all the attributes of the thought, and as far as one can perceive, is awake. Stand in front of a mirror. You see your- self? No, a reflection — a thought of yourself.
If I said "All right" and clapped my hands, the subject would be in the identical condition as when he came to me ; i. e., feeling the headache. Two awak- I teach you to awaken the subject two ways;
one is to hypnotize the person of course, and you already know how to hypnotize someone, the other by saying, "All right" and clapping my hands. Now, my dear pupil, if I should clap my hands first, then say, "All right," would the sub- ject awaken? No. Why not? Because that is not the way you told it to him (?). If I was per- sonally giving you the lesson, I would say "rats." What rules the subject? Your voice. If I clap my hands, could he hear it? Yes (?). If that be true, he could hear every sound ; that constitutes being wide-awake. You mean "No." He could not and cannot hear the clapping of my hands, but when I say, "All right," as my voice rules and is his environment, the associated action is to listen for the clapping. But must I personally clap my hands? Yes (?). How can he distinguish the clapping of my hands from those of some one who is standing beside me? He cannot; anyone be- side me could clap his hands, or a pair of clapsticks would be just as effective. He must be startled; and cannot be startled until I have used the words, "All right."
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