Hypnosis

By Carujo

Work that contains important elements about Spiritism. How it was born and projected. The types of trance: psychic, physiological and cultural. Official means of experimenting with Spiritism in Brazil have been rare. The theoretical efforts of great spiritualists are plausible. But, for the effective observation of the phenomena – discussed here – impartial experimentation is necessary. The study, contained in this book, also addresses the Theory of Spiritist Knowledge, Past Life Therapy and Reincarnation. The psychological structure of the human being today is better known than it was 175 years ago, when the precursors of Spiritism emerged - the Fox sisters. The Author outlines the boundaries of the boundaries of Science and Spiritism.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clube de Autores
• Release date: Feb 19, 2024

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HYPNOSIS

Carujo

HYPNOSIS

Spiritism

Reincarnation

Trance

2024

© 2024 Carlos Araujo Carujo

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Copyright © 2024

By Carlos Araujo Carujo

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Edition published in February 2024

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C257m   Carujo, Carlos Araujo

HYPNOSIS, 2024.

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Hypnotism 2. Spiritism. 3. Mediumship. 4. Trance. 5. Past Lives. I. Title.

ISBN  978-985-11-2201-7 CDU 000

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SUMMARY

Introduction

History of Hypnosis

Chapter 2

The Mysteries of the Brain

Chapter 3

Metapsychology, Parapsychology, Spiritism

Chapter 5

The birth of Spiritism

Chapter 6

Psychic, Physiological and Cultural Trance

Chapter 7

Past Life Therapy and Reincarnation

Chapter 8

Frontiers of Parapsychology and Spiritism

Chapter 9

Spiritist Science in Brazil

Chapter 4

From the Study on Spiritism

Chapter 10

Part of the Solution

Chapter 11

Theory of Spiritist Knowledge

Chapter 12

Biographical Traits of the Author.

Carlos Araujo Carujo

Chapter 13

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reading Suggestions

Introduction

History of Hypnosis

Hypnotism or, as we say today, Hypnosis is an exclusively therapeutic art.

The history of Hypnosis began in a period before the existence of any account of human history. In ancient religions, especially in healing sessions, there were strongly thematic elements to induce participants into a trance. With ceremonies, in the religions of primitive people, still existing in Africa and Australia, inductions were carried out through songs, incense, and drum beats. These elements promoted catalepsy in people, inducing them into an artificial physiological trance.

Such ceremonies reached an essential point, in the brain, with the central focus of attention on neurological areas of inhibition – factors responsible for 95% of trance induction. It is not relevant, for the induction of trance in people, that such ceremonies are called religious, that there is an associated act of healing. The phenomenon of trance exists, similar to the hypnotic state, even though the word hypnosis was never used before James Braid created it in 1842.

Viewers are familiar with scenes of magicians who induce cataleptic states in themselves and others, through staring, passes with their hands, and other techniques. When the subject is in this state, they are capable of performing physical prodigies and extraordinary performances, as well as overcoming pain.

The modern history of Hypnosis begins with a priest, Father Gassner, who was an exorcist. He said that the sick were being invaded by demons and that they should be expelled.

When the doctor Franz Anthon Mesmer learned about Father Gassner's work, he refused to accept the demon hypothesis. But he observed that, somehow, the shiny metal crucifix that the priest held was perhaps responsible for all that magnetization to which the patient was subjected.

From this initial observation, Mesmer developed the theory of Animal Magnetism, which was first tested on patient Franziska Osterlin in 1773.

In 1777 a young blind pianist, Maria Theresa Paradis, regained her sight after treatment with Animal Magnetism. This was a moment of amazement, related to Mesmer's work, with international repercussion, because the pianist was a favorite of the Empress of Austria. This was more surprising because the girl had already been treated by the greatest eye specialist in Europe, Dr. Von Stoerck, for ten years, without any improvement.

Work continues on Hypnotism with other researchers, such as the Marquis de Puysègur, who described three fundamental characteristics: concentration of the sensory senses on the operator, acceptance of verbal suggestions given without any questioning and amnesia in relation to what happened during the state of trance.

Another contribution was that of Abbot Faria. He declared that the phenomena obtained by Anton Mesmer were not due to animal magnetism. He attributed the states obtained about the patient to the suggestion.

On this same occasion, James Braid appeared, who became known for creating the term Hypnotism (from the Greek Hypnos, sleep) which, little by little, was replaced by Mesmerism.

But the so-called "Father of Modern Hypnosis is the therapist