Learn How To Hypnotize Someone
Continuing on from our previous chapter on how to hypnotize someone and make them forget it
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Now, as you know how to induce hypnosis, A hypno-
know how to handle the subject by building an tlst ( ? )
environment around him, taking care to name all
of the senses necessary to enforce a response to
the environment, you are a hypnotist (?). No. I
have taught too many, and feel that you still fail
to comprehend me.
You have a hypnotized subject in your room.
We will assume it is up one flight of stairs. What
will you say to him when you desire him to go to
the postoffice? Now, mind, he doesn't know the
way to the postoffice, he is a stranger. Why, you
would say to him, "When you open your eyes, you
will go to the postoffice and get me a letter," and
the subject will fail to move ; because, remember
this, a hypnotized subject is a blind man. He
doesn't take in impressions, he throws out pictures ;
but the other senses are of such greater impor-
tance, forcing through actions already acquired,
that man, failing to comprehend the value of this
law of attributes, overlooks the importance of the
other senses. Treat a hypnotized subject as a
blind man. He is now sitting in the center of my
room up one flight of stairs, and I say to him,
"When you open your eyes you will find yourself
in my room. There is an important letter for me
at the postoffice which I am desirous that you, as
a good fellow, will go and get for me. The mo-
ment you stand up you will walk five feet to your
left and you will come to the door, on the left side
of that door is the knob ; the door opens towards
you. Passing out of the door for two feet you will
find the head of the stairs ; by putting your hands
on the banister at your left, you can follow down
the stairs. To your right is a door with the knob
on the right, which opens towards you. You pass
into that room four feet, then turn to the right, go
three feet and you will find another door with a
knob on the right, which opens towards you; go
through the doorway and you will turn to your
left ; you walk two feet, then turn to the right and
walk eight feet, when you will come to another
door with the knob to your right. You will open
that door and step on to the porch. After walking
four feet you will come to three steps. By walk-
ing straight ahead eight feet, you will come to two
more steps. You will then be on the sidewalk.
You will walk twenty feet to reach the corner of
the street, turn to your right and cross the street,
et cetera."
Again, my pupil, you have a subject sitting in
the center of the room, and wish him to go to the
radiator on the opposite side of the room to comb
his hair at an imaginary looking-glass. What will
you say to him ? Why, you will say to him, "When
you open your eyes, you will go to the looking-
glass just across the room from you and brush your
hair ( ?)." The subject opens his eyes, but will not
move. Why? Why do people brush their hair?
Because it is disarranged. Therefore the first
thing the subject must know is that his hair is
tousled ; then he must be told exactly where the
looking-glass is and that on this affair is a comb
and brush ; or, in other words, you must name the
sight for him, because through hearing and sight,
in many cases we reach the identical result. You,
reading this book, are really receiving sound im-
pressions; I am giving you words through your
eye. With a hypnotized subject, we are giving
him sight through his ear. So that is how we
hypnotize someone really. The more sense-pic-
tures we specifically arouse, the more comprehen-
sive the action of the subject ; provided, the things
he comes in contact with do not give him directly
opposite suggestions. This is of course one way
to hypnotize someone.
We will assume that you are giving a parlor en-
tertainment. You have led your subject into hyp-
nosis, and have him back into his chair. He has
the nosebleed. Now, pupil, what are you going
to do? Hypnosis is the spoon with which you
give your medicine. When you are tired of any
action, conditionally awakened in said subject, in-
duce hypnosis again. Say to him, "Close your
eyes, go deep asleep," and now we are where we
started from. We again have hypnosis ; then tell
him, "When you open your eyes, so and so will
happen, or is the case." If the man is standing up
and you say to him, "Close your eyes, go to sleep,"
or, "You are asleep," he will fall over, because one
of the attributes of sleep is the relaxed muscles.
Therefore, when he is doing any action, associate
with that action that it will be more congenial or
comfortable for him to take his seat, then tell him
to close his eyes, he is deep asleep, or you must
step up beside him and catch him in your arms.
Now, the necessity for this may not always be ap-
parent. Many amateurs will say, "Not neces-
sary;" but I am writing of a man or operator who
is working clean-cut and is not allowing the sub-
ject to be "dopy," half conscious (?) of his environ-
ment, half conscious of the inspiration given him.
If the subject is completely lost to his environment,
as he should be if the operator understands his
business, he will drop over every time. Now, I
know that many of these statements amateurs will
deny, but I unhesitatingly answer that if they know
their business and work correctly they can dem-
onstrate every affirmation made here ; that they all
work with "dopy" subjects ; that they do not and
have not ever comprehended the Law of Sugges-
tion ; they do not get perfect or correct work from
their subjects to hypnotize them.
On the stage when I wish to conclude an action,
I thoroughly awaken my subjects, allowing them
to take their seats and enjoy laughing at the
others. As hypnosis is entirely a self-induced con-
dition ; that is, a man with ordinary intelligence
can learn to take it on at once after the first time.
I consequently awaken him. When I want to use
them again, I tell them to put their hands to-
gether, close their eyes and go to sleep; they
readily take on the attributes necessary; I repeat
to them, "Drowsy, sleepy," et cetera, a couple of
times and they are in hypnosis, after which I in-
spire them with any thought I see fit. So if you want to
know how to hypnotize someone, then this sleepy command
is important to use.
As it is apropos, I shall here tell of two occur- Pre-inspira-
rences which will demonstrate the self-induced (pre- tion
inspired, "auto-suggested") condition as to hyp-
nosis. While lecturing through Michigan in 1895,
I preceded every exhibition with an hour's talk on
hypnosis, et cetera, carrying the story from night
to night for the six nights. A majority of the
drummers traveling through the country made it
their special duty to hear and comprehend the
entire six lectures. One of these drummers had a
son fifteen years of age ; his residence, a town in
Ohio. One day he received a telegram from his
wife saying that their son had been a subject for
some hypnotist, who a week prior had exhibited in
the town, and that the son now was in such a condi-
tion that every time she told him to go to school
he fell asleep and could not be aroused, and noth-
ing could be done with him. The father, having
thoroughly comprehended my lectures, wired the
mother not to worry, that he would go home. He
did so. After getting off the train, he went to a
harness shop and bought a buggy whip, arrived
home and asked John why he didn't go to school,
and John told him that the professor had left him
in such a condition that he could not go to school
The father said, "Well and good ; I will remove the
effect of the professor," and gave the boy a good
horsewhipping; ever since he has attended school
without the least sign of hypnosis. This is another way
to hypnotize someone of course.
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