In most of my discussions in this blog, which I have also discussed at length in AMORC Unmasked, I have focused on the hypnotic conditioning in regards to using Mind Control to create various hallucinatory phenomena- on one level or another- to confirm the initiatic advancement of the Rosicrucian adept. In my opinion, seeing auras, feeling energy “influxes,” experiencing certain feelings like “heat” or “cold” after certain types of hands-on healing or self-energizing exercises, having flashes of “past life times” or Akashic record visions- can be the result of hypnotic conditioning in a Mind Control environment. This doesn’t, however, mean that such phenomena do not exist or that people can’t experience such things in a truer, more valid context. I do not rule things out.
Not to commit myself- at this point in the discussion- to any one perspective- but, if one assumes the reality of mediumship, a real medium could contact the actual dead- but an hypnotically conditioned cult member could think they were talking to the dead, but in actually they might be having an hypnotically-induced hallucinatory back-and-forth with an object of their imagination.
Now, although all this hypnotic conditioning and its hallucinogenic reality may exist in a cult’s program for its members, the cult, in this case, is not just interested in creating hallucinations or imaginary experiences. It really needs to do more to the cult member than just that. It must provide a coherent framework for such experiences and, to this end, it must infuse into the disciple a wide-ranging belief system to provide a context for creating ever greater depths of obedience and conformity to the Mind Control agenda.
To this end, cult dogma is used to back engineer the personality. They not only must alter perception, but they must tinker with belief- progressively, often in small increments, so as not to disrupt too much of the already shell-shocked human personality they are already recreating.
You would think that this dogma would need to be absolute and self-consistent to function to further deepen a member’s allegiance to the cult. But I disagree. I think this dogma can sometimes function quite effectively if it is somewhat internally dissonant- actually confusing- but still somewhat of a belief system. Cognitive dissonance, which involves confusion in the mind- because of inner contradictions in beliefs or thoughts, according to hypnotic pioneers like Ericson, actually can help induce trances. I explain this in my book, AMORC Unmasked-
-confusion is one way to amplify or even cause hypnotic induction. Milton Erickson pioneered this type of hypnosis, featuring his famous hypnotic handshake. In this case, by using an incomplete handshake, as the hypnotist, he could throw the subject into a powerful state of confusion. According to Erickson, this confusion would throw the subject into a spontaneous hypnotic trance without knowing he was in one or knowing how it was induced.
As I further explain-
Cognitive dissonance is a mental confusion, which can be caused by the implicit, problematic nature of the words, their meaning and intent used in certain phrases and descriptions. One way of engendering a state of hypnosis is to engender confusion so the mind’s inability to cope with a flawed or illogical statement which will encourage the subject to retreat into a different state of consciousness, one of enhanced suggestibility and submission to the author of such statements, as often made by political or religious cult leaders.
Let me give you one example from the Initiate Series of Monographs, Degree 3, No. 1, when it says, “Although some scientists are still pondering the questions of extraterrestrial life, the Rosicrucian teachings have affirmed for centuries that life may be present on other planets.”
I will examine this seemingly, simple- but rather bold affirmation- in my next blog- to show how it may function in hypnotic conditioning.
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