I began hypnotizing people in 1964 when I was still in high school. After high school my hypnosis sessions slowed considerably, however I continued to read a great deal about hypnosis on a regular basis. I was, and continue to be, on a mission to discover the reason we are all gathered together (seemingly) on this round ball we call earth.
When reading, I constantly endeavor to “connect the dots,” attempting to detect what I call “The golden thread” which connects truth to truth to truth in the written world. I have traced a good many threads in my life and one of the most interesting threads has to do with hypnosis and the purpose of our earthly lives. Edgar Cayce. Of the many fascinating ideas I have read that came from Edgar, one of the most intriguing is: “The most heinous crime you can possibly imagine is closer to God than you would ever know.” Upon reading this sentence I was bewildered. After turning it this way and that for quite a while (years) I began to feel more comfortable with it, deciding that it was somehow related to Jesus’ admonition that we should “Judge not, lest we be judged.” We will revisit this statement later. Bob Monroe, Bob, the founder of “The Monroe Institute” and “Hemi Sync,” wrote in his book “Far Journeys” about his adventures in an altered state of consciousness achieved through his “out of body” exercises. The more Bob explored, the more adept he became at traveling to new and interesting places and as a result, the more guidance he received from the beings he encountered. Bob eventually came into contact with a group of entities which he called “inspecs”, short for “Intelligent Species”. They took Bob on many adventures and eventually began to teach through re-creations of events from earlier in Bob’s life. Bob would re-live the event as if it were as real as when it happened. During this playback the inspecs would monitor Bob's emotional reaction. If Bob experienced an emotion or took an action that the inspecs determined to be not the highest course, there would be a “click” and the entire scene would be replayed from the beginning. The Inspecs would patiently replay as many times as necessary until Bob learned the lesson from the experience and subsequently made the correct decision. As an example, one such event was the time a big mean dog came into Bob’s yard and killed his little dog, Steamboat. CLICK! (The beginning of the session) A huge white dog, three times the size of our beloved Steamboat - what a name for such a nice little dog - has him by the neck, the massive jaws firmly shaking Steamboat back and forth in quick jerks, Steamboat’s body already swinging limply. (No No!) I can’t let it happen? Is it Steamboat? It is! He’s dead, Steamboat is dead? I’ll kill that big son of a bitch, he’ll never… CLICK! RESET. A huge white dog, three times the size of steamboat has him by the neck in massive jaws that are swinging Steamboat from side to side, Steamboat hanging limply. (Steamboat is dead! Dead! What a tragedy! I’ll miss him. I’ll miss him. Let go, big dog, so I can take what’s left and… CLICK! RESET. A big white dog much larger than Steamboat has him by the neck and is swinging Steamboat back and forth, Steamboat hanging relaxed, eyes closed. (Well, little fellow, if that is the way it is, thanks for staying around as long as you did. We had fun together. You gave me a lot of rote that will always be part of me…) Still in the jaws of the big white dog, Steamboat raises his head slightly, opens one eye, winks at me and grins. CLICK! What appears to be an evil act turns out to be not as bad as we might have thought. However, this “new understanding” was not available to Bob until he processed the event sufficiently to be able to view it without fearful emotion. Dr. Irene Hickman After graduating from medical school, in order to affect the healing Irene dreamed of as a youth, she would frequently use hypnosis in order to regress an individual to the past life incident which was the causative factor for the dis-ease. Of this method she said: “Rare is the person who does not at some period of their life suffer from an allergy - a reaction to some substance usually harmless to others.” People who have a special sensitivity to a food or other substance, or to an animal are usually advised to avoid the allergen if they can or are given a long series of desensitization shots. I have not found - even after lengthy search - any reference in the medical literature that mentions an attempt to find the reasons that those persons who manifest allergic reactions react as they do. I used the same approach to the allergies of my patients that I used for other kinds of illness. I would help them into a state of hypnosis and then ask them to tell me why they were reacting in this manner. Answers were usually promptly given, the initial causative event was lived through until the emotion was expended and then the allergy would be relieved.” Irene took the approach that the patient’s higher self always knew the appropriate action to be taken and always used it as a resource for treatment. The cause of disease frequently was found to be a traumatic event from an earlier life or earlier multiple lifetimes. After discovering the source, Irene would direct the patient to re-live the event until the angst had dissipated completely. At this point the event could be re-lived without the slightest trauma. Having reached this “fearless” state the illness or allergy would cease to exist. Irene described this method as “expending the emotion,” while many hypnotherapists describe it as desensitization. Both descriptions are adequate for describing the apparent events, however, I believe both descriptions miss the actual mechanics of what is transpiring. Irene had a female patient who was terribly allergic to cats. So – she hypnotized this patient and asked where the cause originated. The young woman found herself in a rural setting a considerable time in the past. She was only around two or three years old. On her family’s farm, cats were kept in order to control the rodent population, they were not pets. This young lady, one day, made her way to the hay loft where the cats cage was kept. She saw a cute litter of new kittens inside. Fascinated she let herself in and played with the kittens. This was so much fun, she went back the following day. This time, the mother cat returned and rushed to the defense of her kittens, clawing and biting the young woman to death. The first time the patient related this event she was understandably mortified but with each repetition the angst diminished until, the final time, as the cat was ripping her physical body she commented “What a beautiful cat!” When she awoke, the allergy was gone. The Course in Miracles I began studying “The Course” in the 1980s. I found it to be rather complex and not terribly easy to digest. I would lay it aside for a spell then resume the study several times over the years until it finally began to make sense. Some of what I believe I have learned includes:
Freud was onto something when he developed his “Repetition Compulsion” theory, although I do not believe he explained fully what was taking place. It did, however facilitate improvement for many patients. If an event transpires at some point in an individual’s sojourns that causes significant trauma and that trauma is not resolved by exorcising the fear, then the soul's desire for a resolution will cause inappropriate behavior to surface again and again. The repeated surfacing is intended to lead a health practitioner to discover and then assist the individuals to resolve the original trauma. Sadly, this does not often happen in our world. It could and I believe it will be commonplace in the not too distant future, through trans-personal hypnotherapy. Fred Fisk The next dot came to me as a radio program on American University Radio, WAMU 88.5FM out of Washington DC. A fellow by the name of Fred Fisk had a nightly talk show during which he would create a program about anything he considered interesting. In the mid seventies I was traveling from Rockville, MD to Raleigh, NC as part of my work. I tuned the radio to WAMU finding Fred just starting his evening program. His show that evening was made up of a panel of seven psychiatrists who had several things in common that I found absolutely fascinating. They were:
The acts perpetrated by the Nazis during the holocaust were not what most people believed them to be. It appeared that they were possibly more helpful than harmful to the soul of the individuals. One can not come to this conclusion without simultaneously realizing that the Nazis were not evil beings but volunteers who came to assist people in the completion of some cycles. Now, this is just a personal view BUT Since I believe that the Nazis would not receive a “get out of jail free” pass for the acts they committed during this time, I conclude that they were brave souls indeed because they were signing up for not only “committing the acts” but were also signing up for the “karmic payback” that would logically follow! With the victims of the holocaust the remedial treatment is exactly that used by Irene Hickman. Repeated reenactment of the heinous deeds which elicited the terror until such time as terror is replaced by kind and gentle thoughts as the Nazis are committing noxious deeds. Courageous Souls In Robert Schwartz's book, “Courageous Souls” this scenario is described over and over again. The book opens with this Prologue: “On February 25th 1969, Christina, a twenty year old administrative assistant in the department of political sciences at Pomona College in Claremont, California, went to the department’s basement mailbox to pick up her employer’s mail. As she touched a package in the mailbox a bomb detonated, hurling her across the room. Dust and soot filled the air; six foot splinters of wood shot like arrows into the concrete wall behind her. Flames from the explosion scorched Christina’s face, leaving her temporarily blind. The blast severed two fingers from her right hand and ruptured both eardrums. Christina planned this experience before she was born. And, she knows why. Conclusion Where is all this going? Are we all here to experience grief and tragedy over and over until we pass from the earth? Or are we being presented opportunities to learn unconditional love, which is another way of saying that we can eliminate fear from our soul pattern if we seize the moment. Clearly, to me, the latter is the case. If, as The Course in Miracles states, our ego creates fear to keep us separated from our Lord then we should ask “How does our ego accomplish this task?” I believe the Ego can only create illusions. Our illusions certainly appear to be real to us as we bleed and die as a result. Who's to say that bleeding and death are actually real. Albert Einstein stated that the entire universe was an illusion. He went on to state that it was, however, a VERY persistent illusion. To make things more difficult for us the ego has had lifetime upon lifetime to cultivate our fear and hone it to a razors edge. Where are we to turn having been conditioned so? The Course in Miracles tells us that we can “step out of our illusions” when we are ready. However, this is not possible as long as the ego has us consumed with scenarios which arouse our fear. Where is the escape hatch? This is where the magic of hypnosis comes in! Hypnotherapists can facilitate the elimination of fear for each individual encountered. They have the capacity to visit as many lifetimes as required in order to exorcise the entirety of fear from their being. Hypnotists have in their toolbox, the gift of the plasticity of time! They are indeed time travelers who can traverse millennia in pursuit of the purity of love for each of their clients. By visiting traumatic events and re-playing them over and over until individuals are “desensitized” we begin the process of allowing love to blossom, unimpeded by fear. Once an individual has been freed from the lifetimes of “programmed fear” by the ego, the soul transforms into its true state, fulfilling its true destiny. To love unconditionally! Each person freed from fear, becomes a beacon unto others until the entire globe becomes a beacon unto the vast universe!
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Fred Burks
4/2/2021 02:03:59 am
Great summary! And a big yes to the power of hypnosis to rewire our trauma histories.
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Hal
4/2/2021 08:07:53 am
Thanks Fred!
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