Hypnosis and Hyperempiria for Improving Psychic Ability

Imaginatively gifted individuals who are also high in psychic ability may be more easily able to exercise or regain these powers when suggestions of a mystical nature are provided for transcending the boundaries of space and time, and which restore a basic sense of trust with the Universe. Now that we are able to induce mystical experiences at will, some striking singularities have been noted by my clients and by others with whom I have corresponded; and this appears to be a fruitful area for future investigation.

Jessica Bergkvist said, "I have known many people (myself included) who remember having some kind of 'supernatural' ability as a child (visions, seeing energy/auras, going out of body, feeling 'bad vibes,' dreams that came true). Many dismiss it as having had an "over-active imagination" because that is what they were told (as if imagination were a bad thing...) by the adults in their lives. Sometimes they dismiss the whole idea of it because they were taught (by religious teachers/parents) that it was 'wrong' or the 'work of the devil.'Whatever their reasons for suppressing their natural abilities, I have seen some powerful changes happen in people's lives when they (through hypnosis) remember that they have these abilities and learn to trust themselves, God, and the Universe. One client I worked with on this was very afraid of her intuitive feelings due to some religious issues. When she finally learned to trust that it was a gift from God, her abilities began to grow quickly. Today, she is a full time psychic reader (and a very accurate and popular one...)."

Trust does seem to provide the key in the lock. The culture is full of warnings about the dangers which we expose ourselves to when our psychic abilities suddenly outstrip the limitations of our intelligence. Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge because, "Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." In Greek mythology, Icarus fell to his death when, exulting in his new-found power of flight, he ignored his father's warnings and flew too near the sun, which melted his wings. Shakespeare's MacBeth trusted in the accurate predictions of the witches, only to be impaled on the sword of his enemy. In Ibsen's classic horror tale, "The Monkey's Paw," each successive owner of this grisly relic was destroyed by the magical powers which it conveyed upon them. And even in the realm of humor, the laughable consequences of what happens when someone finds a bottle and releases the genie trapped inside are too numerous to mention.

Counterposed against this are the numerous instances of people who have overcome the fear of using their psychic powers because they didn't have much fear to begin with, as is the case of little children who frequently score well on ESP tests, or in trivial situations such as "knowing" when you are about to get a parking place, or in occasionally picking the winners of a horse race which you have not bet on, or in a crisis when a loved one is dying and the bond is strong enough to overcome your fear, or in religious contexts where we can trust in the infinite wisdom and goodness of an all-powerful deity not to destroy us.It's a two-factor situation: the fear of using a godlike power is balanced against the fear of the consequences of doing so because of the limitations of human intelligence. But when this basic trust in God, in oneself, and in the Universe can be created or restored through suggestion-enhanced experience in hypnosis, this may be one way to create or restore our psychic potential as well.

Hypnosis for Pain-Free Childbirth

It's easy to learn to use your mind in hypnotic ways if you want to do so and have the proper training, as illustrated by the following video on pain-free childbirth and the other videos that you can click on at the end of this one. (Note the polite skepticism of the male newscaster at the beginning of the piece, and compare his comments with the statements of the women who have actually experienced hypnotically-assisted childbirth for themselves.)

Don't Pay Through the Nose for Information!

When I was in graduate school, I learned that there were over five hundred different types of therapy in use. In attempting to learn as many as I could (in order to try to understand hypnosis, of course!), I discovered that several of these schools of therapy were mutually exclusive and mutually contradictory -- except where they overlapped with each other and said the same thing in a different way. Yet they all seemed to "work," at least with some of the people some of the time, and well enough for a few businessmen and sales types to move to the top of their particular totem pole by putting on a series of high-priced seminars and workshops extolling the virtues of the latest trendy technique.

But this seemingly endless variety in healing rituals is not limited exclusively to Western culture. Similar tactics have been employed by medicine men and witch doctors since the dawn of pre-history, and some contemporary medicine men have even developed reputations which caused occasional Western clients to seek them out.

So what's a body to do? I was at a total loss, until I came across the quotation from Dr., Irving Yalom: "It's the relationship that heals. It's the relationship that heals. It's the relationship that heals. My professional rosary." That did the trick! Finally, I understood.

With the coming of the Internet, we are going through an information revolution which is much more far-reaching in its implications than the ones that occurred when steam power replaced the horse, and electricity replaced steam; and the essentials of almost any technique you might care to mention are freely available, though perhaps by another name. Don't pay through the nose for information. The totem poles are on fire!