Hypnotize Someone With Covert Hypnosis

Continuing on from our previous chapter on how to hypnotize someone covertly -

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If one should go into the kitchen and tell Words Bridget, who is not afraid of losing her position, mean noth- to remove the tea kettle, she would ask, "Why?" Were it boiling over she would remove it, not be- cause you told her, for you simply forced her to look at it ; when she did so, seeing it boiling over, the removal of it was due to the conditions forcing themselves upon her through the eye. Had she no ideas associated as to a kettle boiling over, that its removal would stop it, there would have been no action. Understanding this is a key concept to learning the ways to hypnotize someone.

I say to you, "Jump out of your chair," and you remain seated. I ask you what was said, and you will reply that I said, "Jump out of your chair." I deny saying any such thing. I said just what you did, because a thought is simply the transforming of energy. Thus an energetic wave affects the eye which is immediately transformed into the action associated with the expression perceived, or in this case, sound. If you had thought to jump out of your chair, the action would have taken place and you could not have avoided it.

When I spoke the words, "Jump out of your chair," the tone con- Tone veyed the opposite action ; the expression on my face conveyed the opposite action, and the two senses affected put into action the thought of re- maining in your seat. But, if with an expression of fear on my face and a tone of fear in my voice, I called to you "J um P'-" y° u would have been out of the chair instantly, then looking at the chair and seeing no reason for jumping, you would have asked why I told you to jump.

Everything in life is positive. Your hand is not "not up," but is down. A man who is seated is not "not standing up." If I say to you, "You can- not take your hand from your face," I am really making the affirmation that you will keep it there. I start a party of hypnotized subjects at spinning their hands, and then tell them that they cannot stop. What do they do? They spin the faster, because if they cannot stop they must go faster. There is where I learned it. Every statement must necessarily convey and can only convey an affirmation.

If everything in life is a combination of attrib- utes, sleep also must be a combination, but can man artificially induce sleep? No. Man never went to sleep, but sleep gathers round him. No two things in the world are the same, many things are similar. There are two matches on the table. Are these matches the same ? They have the same form(?), the same name, the same use, but the material of which they are made is not the same. If it was, they would be one match. Therefore, real sleep can only be produced in one way, that way I do not know. What is called sleep I can pick apart, and find: First, that under ordinary circumstances, a person to be asleep must be in what is to them an easy position. Next, I find that in sleep "mind" is inactive. Next, the eye is either rolled up or converged, and then the eye is closed. The bringing together of these four at- tributes will result in what ?

If a thing is made up of four parts, and we bring the four proper parts to- gether, we will have the whole. If we bring but three together we will accomplish but three- fourths. This is the key to hypnotize someone. An inactive "mind" I want ; therefore, I must have a very "small" thought, and as thought is all action, if I can pre-supply the action of the thought and have the subject maintain it, I then will have an inactive thought. As all of the at- tributes of a thought are certain to take place, and I am trying to induce a condition similar to sleep, the thought of sleep is the thought required. Consequently, if I could lock in the "mind" the thought of sleep, I would be able to accomplish my purpose.

Note. — I call the thought of sleep and the thought that pain has ceased, blank thoughts, as they give forth no perceptible action.

If I tell you to sit up, the thought of sitting up is active to the extent of "sitting up," after which the only action is that of holding or retaining the muscles in their present tension, which action is imperceptible.

The dimmer a sound grows to the ear, the dim- mer will be the thought of it. The dimmer an object grows to the sight, the dimmer will be the thought of it. Therefore, if I place my subject in an easy position and hold an object for him to look at in such a location that his eyes are either turned up or take the proper converged position, I will have two attributes of sleep. If I hold the object in such a way as to tire the nerves of accommoda- tion, and not the eye (because I would then be losing the easy position), the thought of his environment would pass out of his "mind" through his eye as the nerves of accommodation failed to perceive the object gazed at.

While that thought is fading away through the eye, if I would supplant it through the ear with the thought of sleep, the moment that I have succeeded in doing so, and have brought together an easy position, upturned eye, closed eye, the thought of sleep, we will have a simulated sleep, differing from real sleep only in this : In real sleep there is no thought ; in hypnosis there is the thought of sleep, which nothing but the operator's voice can change. This is an example of a way in which a person can be hypnotized.

To show the mental difference between hypnosis and sleep, I have drawn a wheel (See Fig. i) to represent the "mind," each spoke representing a thought, which is made up of ideas (actions asso- ciated). When you are doing one thing you can- not do the second until you stop the first, otherwise you would continue doing the first all your life. The moment you stop the first, just before begin- ning the second, your muscles are positively inac- tive. This point in mechanics is known as the "dead center." The eye can distinguish (compre- hend) no object in motion. There must be a point of rest, or the eye must move with the object which relatively produces a point of rest. This is dem- onstrated by the moving picture machine. If you want to know how to hypnotize someone, then understand this concept.

Our scientists tell us that a wheel never stops in making a revolution. I always have and do still maintain that one-half of the wheel must stop go- ing down before it can go up, and vice versa. If we will take a sixteen foot fly-wheel and lay off on it a square, we can see it stop. The piston of the engine that moves it stops, and I maintain that when we can see the spokes of a bicycle wheel as it revolves slowly, is when the eye can measure the stoppage, but when the stoppage is so brief that the eye fails to perceive it, we fail to see the spokes. When you are thinking of one thing you must stop thinking of that before you can think of the second, for no man can do or think of two things at the same time.

By referring to the wheels you can see there is a blank on either side of every thought. When a person is asleep the "mind" is empty, the thought having faded away and the two blank spaces hav- ing merged into one, and the "mind" is free of thought. Assuming that in sleep the two merged blanks on either side of the thought will occupy a space of six inches, in hypnosis we have a blank space on either side of the thought, occupying two inches each, and an inactive thought occupying two inches, making up the six inches required ; but in three parts — a blank, an inactive thought, and a blank. The subject is in this mental condition :

First, the inactive condition of being awake — he has a thought ; second, this thought being inactive (but of sleep), he has seemingly all of the attributes making up the condition of sleep, with the excep- tion that the "mind" holds the thought ; hence we can readily see that all action must necessarily be part of a thought, and will define hypnosis to be a simulated sleep, yet the subject has the most im- portant attribute of being awake, he can accept and hold a thought.

His condition is actually this : He cannot receive impressions but can respond with those already possessed. Thought will not respond to its environment and by my method thoughts can only be made responsive through the operator's voice. If he were actually asleep and we attempted to arouse a thought, he would awaken. In hypnosis we can force the thought to remain at pleasure, therefore are enabled to deliberately study it and to find what attributes are necessary to force an action. Another key concept to hypnotize someone.

To recapitulate: In hypnosis there is the dummy thought of sleep, holding the space of an active thought; the key — the operator's voice. The subject is free from his environment, therefore no shifting of thought, thus illustrating my previ- ous statement that man does not choose his thoughts (action), but has them forced on him by environment (suggestion).

One is not asleep when dreaming, there being a thought in the mind ; one is rarely over half asleep. A dream is the passing through the conscious mind (cerebrum) of a thought usually without the action taking place in the Sympathetic System — the cylinder of a phonograph going "zip" instead of running at the usual speed. I might state here to the amateurs that if the subjects take on hyp- nosis through the suggestion of so-called magnetic passes, the operator's touch will force into play cer- tain actions if previously comprehended (associ- ated) by the subject. Suggestion means anything that arouses an action.

This is the law: Sur- round a man with every suggestion or attribute of sleep and he will be asleep; surround him with every suggestion of virtue and he cannot help be- ing pure, and no credit is due him. Surround him with every suggestion of vice and crime and he will be a criminal, and in no manner should he be held responsible. Remember, though, that every sug- gestion has two positives, one for and one against, and the body is the closest environment (sugges- tion). We're not saying that if you want to know how to hypnotize someone that understanding this is essential, instead, it will just help.

The subject holding the thought of sleep, and that thought being made up of a series of attrib- utes, all of which I do not know, has every appear- ance of being asleep. First, he is relaxed. Why relaxed ? Is the contraction of the muscles a vol- untary unconscious or an involuntary unconscious act? The babe must learn to draw up its limbs, to sit, to crawl, to stand, to walk. Therefore, it must be acquired, and is the result of a feeling suggestion. Is man conscious of it? You sud- denly pull a chair from under him, he seems to be very conscious that the chair is going. Therefore it is an enforced, acquired action, unconsciously done in response to the suggestion of the environ- ment.

But a sleeping man is of little value to us. So we tell him that when he opens his eyes he will see a fly on the end of his nose, he will feel it biting, cannot brush it away, and to open his eyes. Is the man now in hypnosis? If hypnosis consists of an easy position, the thought of sleep, an upturned eye, a closed eye, he is not. As the subject has none of these attributes now, he cannot possibly be in hypnosis. He is now in a condition that I call "inspired," meaning that the condition he is in was forced on him through the operator's voice, instead of the natural suggestion of his environ- ment.

The man believes there is a fly on his nose ; he sees it and is trying to brush it away. Per- fectly rational, perfectly consistent. In fact, does he differ from the so-called normal — a word I can- not understand ? If there was a fly on his nose and he felt it biting, he surely would think of it and try to brush it away. That is what he is doing now. Wherein does the subject differ from the ordinary? If the fly really alighted on his nose, the sense of feeling and sight would arouse the thought. Through hypnosis, that old thought is aroused through my voice ; and, as his senses fail to arouse a thought, there is nothing to contradict my affir- mation.

The result thoroughly consistent, the man being in identically the same condition as when he held that thought, aroused and put into action through the proper senses. Understand this to hypnotize someone easily. Therefore, it can be readily seen that the hypnotized subject is in a perfectly "normal" condition; save that he has had a thought aroused through hearing and emphasized through hearing which his environ- ment would have aroused and put into action through sight and feeling.

Memory is the registration of ideas. A hypno- tized subject retains no memory of what has taken place in hypnosis ; we have only turned off from the cylinder what was already there, and that condi- tionally. Why is it impossible to put any thought in the "mind" of a hypnotized subject? Because it is impossible to register through one sense that which the economy of man is made to receive through another. It is impossible to describe color to a man born blind ; or sound to one born deaf. The comprehension of the girl, Helen Kel- ler, in Boston, to me is quite an interesting prob- lem.

I unhesitatingly state that the girl is a mere automaton; she has no ideas, no thoughts in any manner, shape or form similar to those of her teachers. So she would know how to hypnotize someone her teachers in particular. We associate color with a stimulation of the nerve-ends of the eye and sound with a stim- ulation of the nerve-ends of the ear. Therefore, anyone lacking the ability to receive these two sensations can have no conception similar to the one who does. Sight is the least trained of all our senses. A child or even an adult has to learn to read a picture.

To one never having seen a pic- ture, it is simply a blur of colors. A missionary in South Africa, showed the photograph of a cow to one of the native chiefs, who was the owner of vast herds; he looked at it and saw nothing. It took the missionary three days to make him com- prehend. When he did, a smile illumined the chief's face and he sent for other chiefs, showed it to them, and because they could not compre- hend at once what he failed to, he zvanted to behead them, a proof positive that he was becoming civi- lized.

A man born blind and suddenly given his sight has no perspective. Perspective must be learned. The use (correlating) of the senses is acquired — must be learned.

Force No man does anything because he is told to. Understand this concept to know the true way to hypnotize someone through covert hypnosis.

Nothing that we tell him to do can mean anything to him unless there are two ideas associated to give him conception, three to give him comprehension. The soldier whose officer commands to "shoulder" or "present arms" does so not because he is told, but because he knows that if he refuses or fails to do so, he will be punished; or he hopes for a re- ward. These are the incentives that force the ac- tion, the mere telling him to do a thing would not cause him to act.

The general public believes that all that is neces- sary to get a hypnotized subject to do something is to say to him, "Jump out of your chair," and he will do so; but he will not. If his cerebrum was active, he would ask you why he should jump. But if we put the force there he will respond in- stantly. Therefore, if we say to him, "When you open your eyes, you will find the chair you are sitting on is red hot," believing it to be hot, the action of getting away will take place at once, and he will jump out of the chair, not because we told him to, but because of the natural action to do so, forced by the suggested environment. In hyp- nosis the senses fail to convey ideas, therefore they do not contradict the statement that the chair is hot.

Let us now look at the mental condition of the subject : First, in his so-called normal condition he sits on a hot chair; through the sense of feeling he has the thought forced on him, and he jumps because of his first associated action. The thought of heat is transformed into the action of getting away from it. If he had no previous experience with heat, the action would not have been there to be forced into play. I now hypnotize him, and tell him that when he opens his eyes he will discover that he is sitting on a hot chair; to open his eyes, he does so, he jumps and repeats everything he did when he actually sat on the hot chair. In what way does the man differ from the so-called normal ? Normally, there was a chair, heat, the man, a thought and its action. In hypnosis we have the chair, the man, the thought of the coming into contact with the heat, and its action.

What is wrong? The man or the environment? It is the environment. The difference is this : There is no hot chair. Therefore, nothing to force the thought of such and accentuate the action of jump- ing. As I have forced such a thought through the ear and that not being the proper channel, it makes no registration and consequently can only be a thought re-used, and hence no memory. I main- tain a man is perfectly normal in body and mind, and will only do what he would have been forced to do had he received the thought through feel- ing, the result being identical with "normal."

The automatic action of man is registered on the cylinder of the phonograph regulated by the pic- ture taken. Man is also like a camera taking a photograph of his surroundings, which forces the cylinder of the phonograph into operation. In hypnosis the process is reversed and he becomes like a stereopticon, throwing out registered pic- tures. As it is impossible to light up a plate which is not there, we have another proof that nothing new can be introduced into the mind of a hypno- tized subject. I can light up any plate upon which an impression has been recorded, but in no way can I change the detail. (Plate I.)

I shall next endeavor to show how one is ruled by environment (suggestion).

We will assume that there are present three ladies of the following turn of mind : one who never overlooks an opportunity to dance, to attend a ball, a party; number two, who was of the same disposition at a former time, but who now has the thought that it is a sin, and number three who has no conception of what a ball or party is like. We ask number one, while normal, to please get up and dance ; she refuses(?). No, we have failed to force her. Being ruled by her surroundings she says, "This is no place for dancing." She is here to listen to a lecture and she refuses(?). We hyp- notize her and tell her that when she opens her eyes she will get up and dance. Will she? No, she will repeat the first answer, she refuses be- cause, as yet, she has the same surroundings. She does not refuse, but responds to her environment which has all the suggestions positive against dancing. We can make her dance. How? By taking her to a ballroom.

When she is in hypnosis, the process can be reversed, bringing a ballroom to her. Normally the thought should be aroused through the eye and accentuated through the other senses. We will revive the thought through the ear by telling her "when she opens her eyes she will find herself in a ballroom, will see her friends dancing, will hear the music and will see her partner standing beside her." When she opens her eyes, she throws out a picture of a ballroom on her present surroundings and is perfectly normal, subservient to the picture thrown out. She seemingly sees, hears, smells, feels and tastes normally as to all things that per- tain to the ballroom she has pictured. She has a ballroom thought placed there through her ear in lieu of through the eye, no other could she have were she in a ballroom. Seeing a partner by her side she accepts his arm and dances.

If this a form of covert hypnosis that she learned in order to hypnotize someone? Perhaps. If she should dance against a chair she would not see it, as it is not part of the picture, but through the sense of feeling she would respond to the suggestion which would force an action of apology as though she had bumped into another couple. (This com- pletely exemplifies the action of man.) She is per- fectly capable of carrying on a conversation and no one could tell she were not normal as to her in- spired environment. She will do or say only what she would, were she in an actual ballroom. Even- idea that is engraven on the cylinder will respond if forced. When no action is recorded there is no reflex to respond and the action is omitted.

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