Eromain wrote:Hypnotism doesn’t for me mean something dirty or sinister. But as to your question as to whether cults use hypnotic techniques yes they do, as do many if not most forms of mass communication – tv, cinema etc etc. Read a book about hypnosis and you re-position it from being something associated with the alleyways of cults and mind-control to one of the main and common thoroughfares of life. Hypnosis is everywhere we do it all the time – it is one of the most natural and common faculties of the mind.
Yes, I fully agree with this ... but where is the difference between hypnotism and strong daily influence ... OK, you could say strong influence is like brainwashing, but as you say it goes on all the time with all sorts of things, so in that case is not a perculiar event to Yoga.
if I meditate and have an intense experience of being say an Angel how is that true for me? I am assuming that you don’t just mean that it feels authentic or feels true and therefore it kind of is. I realize that this might seem pedantic, but I want to understand exactly what you are saying.
Well, if someone has an intense experience of being an angel is it true?
Actually I can only answer that with an opinion as so can you. When Brahma Baba had a vision of being Vishnu, was that true ... For me, in some ways yes and some ways no ... Was he going to grow four arms in the future? ... No ... but is he going to become a perfect being as depicted by Vishnu? Then I believe, yes.
Now, as to me in a state of Yoga, experiencing peace and happiness, yes for me that is true...whether it means I'll always be in that state I don't know, but it is an example to me of the possibilities.
People have so many different experienes in Yoga and even in religious mystical experiences, can they all be true? Logic tells me they cannot all be true, but I think some of them are ...
What about hypnotic regression? I don’t know –what about it, you’ll need to explain what you mean.
Yes, sorry I should have explained further I meant past life regression under hypnosis.