Hypnotism and Religion - The production of miracles by mental suggestion
Book Details
PublisherNoon Sun Publishing
ISBN / ASINB00FYAWD0Q
ISBN-13978B00FYAWD02
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
Was Jesus a natural hypnotist? Are the miracle healings in the Bible, and the miracles at Lourdes, the result of simple mental suggestion? More importantly, can we duplicate those miracles at will today, using the modern science of mind power?
When this book appeared in France more than 125 years ago under the title L’Hypnotisme et les Religions, the author, presumably fearing public outcry, chose to have it published anonymously. A classic of freethought and of psychology, it has now been translated into English, perhaps for the first time.
The principles and techniques of the use of hypnosis to help cure not only psychological but also physiological ailments is well understood today. We're also familiar with such concepts as positive thinking, the power of affirmation and visualization, and the Law of Attraction. Are these,and not some deity, the real miracle workers behind the astonishing healings reported across the millennia, in every religion?
Among the topics explored:
* The Jansenist cult whose members, seeking ritual crucifixion, survived hours of being nailed to a cross turned upside down.
* Demon possession, and deliverance from demons: Are both of these phenomena entirely mind-generated?
* Why healings resulting from the performance of religious rituals, and those brought about through hypnotherapy, are identical in nature.
* The raising of Lazarus and of Jairus' daughter in the New Testament, and why it is likely Jesus recognized that these individuals were not really dead, but rather a state of "cataleptic" sleep.
* Which types of physical ailments may be curable by mental suggestion, and which may not be.
The author debunks the belief that miracles are supernatural or God-directed events. Yet unlike many of today's skeptics and mythicists, he accepts that the miracle stories found in the Bible and elsewhere may be more-or-less accurate reports of what witnesses at the time actually saw. His argument is with the interpretation that those witnesses, and subsequent writers, gave to them. Based on the knowledge accorded by modern science, he ascribes them to the power of the human mind rather than to supernatural workings.
Whether you are believer or skeptic, this little book will challenge you to see religion, holy scriptures, and the reality and nature of miracles and faith healing in a new light. The author's optimism about the a future of hypnosis-assisted healing will also make you wonder if, perhaps, the power of mental suggestion has yet to be exploited as fully as it might be by doctors and other health professionals.
When this book appeared in France more than 125 years ago under the title L’Hypnotisme et les Religions, the author, presumably fearing public outcry, chose to have it published anonymously. A classic of freethought and of psychology, it has now been translated into English, perhaps for the first time.
The principles and techniques of the use of hypnosis to help cure not only psychological but also physiological ailments is well understood today. We're also familiar with such concepts as positive thinking, the power of affirmation and visualization, and the Law of Attraction. Are these,and not some deity, the real miracle workers behind the astonishing healings reported across the millennia, in every religion?
Among the topics explored:
* The Jansenist cult whose members, seeking ritual crucifixion, survived hours of being nailed to a cross turned upside down.
* Demon possession, and deliverance from demons: Are both of these phenomena entirely mind-generated?
* Why healings resulting from the performance of religious rituals, and those brought about through hypnotherapy, are identical in nature.
* The raising of Lazarus and of Jairus' daughter in the New Testament, and why it is likely Jesus recognized that these individuals were not really dead, but rather a state of "cataleptic" sleep.
* Which types of physical ailments may be curable by mental suggestion, and which may not be.
The author debunks the belief that miracles are supernatural or God-directed events. Yet unlike many of today's skeptics and mythicists, he accepts that the miracle stories found in the Bible and elsewhere may be more-or-less accurate reports of what witnesses at the time actually saw. His argument is with the interpretation that those witnesses, and subsequent writers, gave to them. Based on the knowledge accorded by modern science, he ascribes them to the power of the human mind rather than to supernatural workings.
Whether you are believer or skeptic, this little book will challenge you to see religion, holy scriptures, and the reality and nature of miracles and faith healing in a new light. The author's optimism about the a future of hypnosis-assisted healing will also make you wonder if, perhaps, the power of mental suggestion has yet to be exploited as fully as it might be by doctors and other health professionals.
